Powell Loses Court Appeal in Contempt Conviction
Former Rep. Adam Clayton Powell loses an appeal over his 1966 contempt conviction, upheld 3 to 2 by the New York Appellate Division. The Harlem Democrat faced jail and a fine over a defamation judgment and face possible arrest without further appeals. Powell was on Bimini when the ruling was issued.
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Adam Clayton Powell
State Supreme Pansiet
Wvuule
Henry R. Williams
Court of Appeals
New York State
Powel
Harlem
Bimini
Bahamas
Powell
Esther James
James
A D King Calls Economic Boycott Against St Petersburg Merchants
Rev A D King urges boycott to pressure St Petersburg officials to reinstate 190 striking garbage workers many of them Black. He targets both white and Black merchants and ministers for failing to support the Black poor while citing his brother Martin Luther King Jr's Memphis murder as context.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
A. D. King
King
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
Tenn
Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church
Big Delay In Spock Case Seen
The appeal of antidraft conspiracy convictions for Dr. Benjamin Spock and three others cannot be heard until January and may move to March. Clerk Roger Stinchfield says filings will take at least 157 days, and appeals judges must be in Puerto Rico in February. The four were convicted June 14 of conspiring to aid draft evasion and sentenced to two years in prison and fines. Spock Coffin Goodman Ferber were fined. Ferber paid 1000 dollars. They are free on bond pending appeal.
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Benjamin Spock
U.S. District Court of Appeals
Roger Stinchfield
Puerto Rico
U.S. District Court
Spock
Yale
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
Harvard
Michael Ferber
Carlisle Man Sentenced In House Breakin Case
Two Butler County defendants James Alexander 21 Carlisle and Harold Ferguson 30 Cincinnati pleaded guilty before Judge Arthur Fiehrer and received indeterminate Ohio Penitentiary terms. Alexander had AWOL status from Ft. Knox and was linked to a June 19 break in at Luther Hale’s Middletown area home. Ferguson faced a bad check cashing at a Fairfield store drawn on the Computer Training Center of Fairfield. He said he agreed to cash for two men for half the proceeds. the $145.86 instrument aided his drug addiction.
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Butler County Common Pleas
Arthur J. Fiehrer
Ohio
James R. Alexander
Carlisle
Harold Ferguson
Cincinnati
Alexander
Ft. Knox
Luther Hale
Hetzler Road
Middletown
Ferguson
Fairfield
Oklahoma Broadcasters Leader Frank Lane Dies at 63
Frank S. Lane, 63, executive secretary of the Oklahoma Broadcasters Association and former KRMG Tulsa general manager from 1953 to 1962, died Thursday after a long illness.
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Okla
Frank S. Lane
The
Oklahoma Broadcasters Association
Lane
KRMG
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