New DOJ Guidelines Seek Fair Trial Free Press Balance
Atty. Gen. Katzenbach unveiled five pretrial disclosure rules for federal criminal cases after a six month review by 92 DOJ units. The guidelines permit arrest circumstances and prior federal convictions, bar discussion of confessions or defendant reputation, and allow photos for law enforcement purposes. The ASNE backed the move while urging practical coverage and urging officials to apply the rules to government personnel only.
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William J. Eaton Washington
UPI
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Justice Department
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
Katzenbach
U. S
Justices Department
FBI
Bureau of Prisons
Immigration and Naturalization Service
The
New York Times
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Kanawha Jury Indicts Brown for Stolen Goods Purchase
A Kanawha County grand jury indicted former boxer Norman Natie Brown on buying and receiving stolen appliances from Stover Appliance Center in Glen Daniel owned by Orville Lee Stover. About $2,000 in radio and TV sets were taken Nov 29 1964. $1,400 worth were recovered in a December Dunbar Auction Barn raid run by Brown. Separately Raymond Arvel York, charged with the theft, was sentenced to 110 years in prison by Criminal Court Judge Harry L. McCreery.
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Kanawha County
Norman
Natie) Brown
Dunbar
Brown
Raymond Arvel York
Stover
State Penitentiary
Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Missile Sites in Vietnam Raise Risk of Soviet U.S. Clash
Officials say Viet Nam missile sites threaten danger mainly if Russians man the missiles at first, potentially bringing direct conflict with U.S. fliers. Moscow aims to avoid a major Asian war, with both Moscow and Chinese communists wary that Southeast Asia is worth such a fight.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Moscow
Southeast Asia
Deaths and Funerals Maggie Faulkner
Services for Mrs Maggie Faulkner of Roanoke Va formerly Mullens will be held at 11 am Saturday at Bailey Funeral Home Princeton She died Thursday in a Roanoke hospital from a heart condition She was daughter of the late Louis Hutcheson Prosperity Her husband E W Faulkner died in 1961 Surviving daughter Mrs Sylvia Groseclose and four granddaughters
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Maggie Faulkner
Roanoke
Mullens
Bailey
Princeton
Faulkner
Louis Hutchison
Prosperity
E. W. Faulkner
Sylvia Groseclose
Funeral for Mrs. Etta Shumate at Glen Fork Church
Mrs. Etta Shumate 99 longtime Wyoming County resident dies at home in Glen Fork after months of ill health. Funeral at 11 a m Sunday at Russell Baptist Church with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. she married Diamond Shumate, reared 12 children, and was the Pine Grove Church’s oldest member. Survivors include seven sons, one daughter, 21 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren, 6 great great grandchildren. Body at Evans Funeral Home, Oceana.
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Etta Shumate
Wyoming County
Russell Baptist Church
Glen Fork
Pine Grove
Shumate
Diamond Shumate
Craney
Russell
Lindy Brooks Cook
Pine Grove Baptist Church
Ravencliff
Grover
Salem
John
Matheny
Harper
Huntington
Bryant
Ball
Ott
Finley
Clare
Hattie
Douglas Biggers Funeral Rites Set For Raleigh Man
Funeral services for Douglas Delmar Biggers 63 of Raleigh will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Pentecostal Church of Christ on Maplewood Lane with Elder Willie Schoffield officiating. Burial follows at Talcott Cemetery. He died Tuesday in a local hospital. Survivors include four sisters and five brothers. The body is at Trent and Durgan Funeral Home with viewing after 4 p.m. today. The body will be taken to the church one hour before services.
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Douglas Delmar Biggers
Raleigh
Pentecostal Church of Christ
Maplewood Lane
Willie Schoffield
Talcott
Callie Bowles
Ruth Pussell
Beckley
Lillian Dodd
Allen Junction
Thelma Redd
Berkeley
Calif
Guy
Alderson
Howard
Stewart
Ansted
Lloyd
Dalton
Fayetteville
Trent and Durgan
Rehabilitation Example Paroled From Prison
MOUNDSVILLE WVI Pu I Convicted killer Thomas Cronk walked out of Moundsville Penitentiary a free man thanks to former Gov Barron and a Charleston television station. Cronk was serving a life term for the 1957 slaying of his father in law when WSAZ TV filmed a documentary on the rehabilitation program at the prison using him as a case study. Barron commuted the sentence to 5 to 18 years.
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Moundsville
UPI
Thomas Cronk
Moundsville Penitentiary
W. W. Barron
Charleston
Cronk
Wsaz-Tv
Wheeling
Barron
Ten Die In Worst Idaho Smashup
AMERICAN FALLS Idaho UPI Ten persons were killed when two cars traveling seventy mph collided head on on a narrow highway. A 12 year old boy survived as the only one in the other car. The crash occurred on U S 30N three miles east of Massacre Rocks near the old Oregon Trail. All four in a car from Emmett Idaho died along with six members of a Fayetteville Arkansas migrant family. One son survived.
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American Falls
Idaho
UPI
Massacre Rocks
Oregon Trail
Emmett
Fayetteville, Ark
Millions Mourn Christ Crucified Across Denominations
United Press International reports Good Friday observances as Christians from many denominations gather in diverse services. President Johnson remained at the Texas ranch over Easter weekend as sunrise services and Easter parades planned nationwide travel. Natural disasters struck Palm Sunday with tornadoes killing 242 and floods injuring thousands in Minnesota and Iowa.
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United Press International
Chicago
New York City
Johnson
Texas
National Safety Council
Burlington
New York Central
United Air Lines
Seattle
Wash
Newport News
Honolulu
Hawaii
Midwest
Minnesota
Iowa
France orders closure of U S consulate at Papeete
Paris instructs the United States to shut its consulate in Papeete Tahiti capital and base for forthcoming hydrogen bomb tests. The note from the French Foreign Office cancels the prior agreement in principle for a U S consulate there and moves Tahiti under Suva Fiji for U S diplomatic coverage.
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Paris
UPI
France
United States
Papeete
Tahiti Island
Tahiti
U.S
Papette
Pacific
Suva
Fiji Islands
Bogalusa governor urges reason over emotion in civil rights crisis
In Bogalusa Louisiana Governor MecKeithen calls for restraint as civil rights tensions rise, warning that failure would reflect on the state and community. In Pittsburgh a steel industry official predicts no immediate compromise between management and labor, noting opposing stances are diametric and unlikely to reconcile soon.
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United Press International
Bogalusa
John J. MecKeithen
Pittsburgh
Cornell Prof Casts Doubt on Moon Surface Firmness
Washington report notes Prof. Thomas Gold of Cornell University doubts the moon's surface firmness. He says if piloting an Apollo vehicle hovering above the moon he would not be willing to settle, fearing it might sink.
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Washington
Thomas Gold
Cornell University
Moon
Thant reaffirms UN effort for peaceful Vietnam solution
United Nations Secretary General Thant responds to Communist China's opposition to any UN role in Vietnam by stating he will continue his efforts to pursue a peaceful resolution of the Vietnam problem. The exchange underscores the international search for diplomacy amidst escalating tensions.
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United Nations
Thant
China
U.N
Viet Nam
Floods threaten La Crosse and Twin Cities industries
Flood waters isolated parts of La Crosse Wisconsin as Mississippi rises. Gov Warren Knowles warned sightseers away. Minneapolis downtown airport and railroad station flooded while 800 people displaced. St Paul clogged by water near Riverview Industrial Park. National Guard potential call. Dozens of industries closed as flood walls and dikes fail across the region.
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Iowa
la Crosse
Wis
Mississippi
Warren Knowles
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Twin Cities
St. Paul
George Vavoulis
National Guard
Riverview
Fatality in Tennessee Windstorm Near Crossville
The only known death from the twister incident occurred near Crossville Tennessee when 69 year old Andy Norris went outside his home to feed his cattle and was struck by a wind blown tree.
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Crossville
Tenn
Andy Norris
Tax Return Penalties Rise For Late Filers In 1964
Washington reports the IRS enforces penalties for late 1964 income tax returns. Five percent per month is charged up to 25 percent total. As of Friday, 41.4 million of 65 million taxpayers had not submitted their returns, with many delaying until the deadline.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
National Boys School Work To Start In July
Washington UPI reports construction of the National School for Boys at Morgantown West Virginia should begin in late July with completion tentatively set for July 1967. Senator Byrd says final cost estimates and architect plans near completion and bidding is expected to start in May.
Parole Considered for WV Convict Griffith in Calhoun Plan
Calhoun industrial leaders urge Gov. Smith to parole William Hollie Griffith, a 72-year-old convict with three life sentences for murder, to start a tailor shop, dry-cleaning, and mop and broom business in Grantsville. They cite job creation and local economic need as motives for release. Griffith learned tailoring in prison and previously ran a profitable shop from Moundsville Penitentiary, hoping to employ others locally if freed.
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Grantsville
UPI
William Hollie Griffith
West Virginia
Calhoun County
Charleston
Griffith
Hulett C. Smith
Gassaway
Moundsville
Moundsville Prison
Smith
Murphy March Flops At Logan
In Logan Ohio demonstrations failed to materialize about Alonzo Murphy a Logan High School senior suspended for allegedly keeping a 14 year old white girl out after curfew He was bound over to a grand jury on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor His rights were claimed violated by his parents and the local NAACP Officials warned against further demonstrations and a parade permit was not issued The county school board offered summer school for graduation and college entry pending resolution of the case
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LOGAN
UPI
Alonzo Murphy
Logan High School
Murphy
NAACP
Longtime West Virginia official recalls Kennedy visit
A WV official who served under 17 of 27 governors and 32 Supreme Court judges recalls a near death in 1963 after a cerebral hemorrhage. He vividly remembers June 20 1963 when John F Kennedy visited him. his daughter shook the president’s hand. He plans to retire April 30 and move to Denver with his wife. He will be succeeded by J Alexander Creasey.
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Jackson
West Virginia
Supreme Court
Kennedy
Col
Hubert Jones
Air Force
Denver
Colo
J. Alexander Creasey
State Board of Probation and Parole
Cambodia role in Viet Nam mediation still uncertain
The Cambodian prime minister Than Shwe or Norodom Sihanouk says Cambodia has not ruled out a U.N. arranged cease fire or a peace mission to Hanoi and Peking. China and the Soviet Union have approved the Cambodia conference while Washington has not indicated its view. Than vows to keep seeking a peaceful Viet Nam solution and notes his usefulness until the U.N. Security Council or General Assembly replaces him.
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Viet Nam
U. N
Hanoi
Peking
China
Cambodia
Soviet Union
France
Washington
Than
U.N. Correspondents’ Association
Security Council
General Assembly
U.N
West Virginia’s dry leader targets stripper’s five year plan
The Rev. L. E. Crowson addressed the Charleston Optimist club criticizing Marlane Maclane’s five year plan to boost WV economy through liquor by the drink and legalized gambling. He urged cleaner air, recreation facilities, better anti gambling laws, improved water and highways, and reduced reliance on sales tax while supporting school upgrades.
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Charleston
UPS
West Virginia
Marlane Maclane
Mountain State
L. E. Crowson
Charleston Optimist Club
Las Vegases
Miss Maclane
Crowson
Nevada
Congress and the rights bill face renewed push in 1964
Congress criticizes votes bought by hints of future special plans and renews Civil Rights efforts. Johnson seeks literacy tests repeal and federal registrars, while committees push to end poll taxes and fight discrimination. Senate debate opens April 21 as Great Society bills advance.
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Selma
Ala
Johnson
House
Senate
Steel wage talks stall over interim deal terms
The industry proposed a six month extension of the current contract pushing the strike deadline to November 1, plus an immediate 5 cent an hour wage increase as a down payment. USW President McDonald called the proposal completely inadequate. Negotiators agreed to meet again Monday, but a strike-avoiding accord seemed unlikely.
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USW
David J. McDonald
Chrysler eyes trainee program to ease mechanic shortage
Chrysler regional manager Donald Cundy says the plan would hire one trainee for every five regular mechanics, with starting pay at 3000 dollars per year split between the parent company and the individual agency, shifting to the agency paying all wages after the first year. The move aligns with President Johnson's anti poverty efforts.
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West Virginia
Chrysler Corp
Plymouth
Dodge
Chrysler
Donald Cundy
Johnson
Skyraiders hit North Vietnamese targets in dusk raid
Viet Nam side of the bridge was shattered by a direct hit and the northern approach cut off yet the damage source remained unclear. All Navy fliers returned safely to Coral Sea and Midway after a two hour mission led by Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky. Four Communist boats were sunk and several damaged as the Skyraiders drew fire while patrolling north of Hanoi and near Vinh. A separate day-long strike on a Viet Cong stronghold northwest of Saigon was reported as ongoing with no immediate results.
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Coral Sea
Midway
Nguyen Cao Ky
Saigon
Johnson campaign fleet planes highlight 1964 bid
The World of President Johnson notes the campaign air fleet in 1964. The Huntington District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards a $28.8 million contract to Dravo Corp. of Pittsburgh for high lift locks on the Ohio River in County. Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia will co sponsor a bill to form a Presidential commission to simplify income tax laws.
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Johnson
Huntington
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pittsburgh
Dravo C
Ohio River
Jennings Randolph
D. W.va
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