NAACP Passes Public Education Resolutions at Minneapolis
At the national convention in Minneapolis the NAACP approved measures urging integrated schools with accountability, opposing black English as a substitute for standard English, and backing performance contracts for teaching firms. Delegates also rejected federal voucher plans that promote segregation and called for all new job openings to go to Black workers until parity with whites is reached.
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Minneapolis, Minn
UPI
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
U.S
Herbert Hill
Hill
Nixon Aides Concede Economic Goals Were Unattainable
President Nixon's administration acknowledged that its 1971 targets for rapid GNP growth and falling unemployment and inflation are no longer achievable. Council of Economic Advisers chair Paul McCracken told the House Senate Economic Committee that stubborn inflation and recession will persist, though diminish, into the 1972 election cycle.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
House-Senate
Democrats
Econ
McCracken
Paul W. Samuelson
Treasury
John B. Connally Jr
Staggers Accuses CBS of Contempt Over Outtakes
Rep. Harley Staggers accuses CBS and Dr. Frank Stanton of a calculated affront for not releasing film outtakes from The Selling of the Pentagon. The House Commerce Committee forwarded a contempt citation for a House vote next week amid cross party lines.
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Washington
UPI
al West Virginia
CBS
House
Representatives
Network
Harley O. Staggers
Frank Stanton
Staggers
Subcommittee
Pentagon
House Commerce Committee
Congress
Wholesale prices show mixed June changes after adjustments
Wholesale per cent fell 1.7 percent in June after seasonal adjustment. Processed foods and feeds rose 0.3 percent before seasonal factors, then fell 0.8 percent. Fresh fruits vegetables grain eggs and dairy reprocessing rose, suggesting higher grocery store prices, while meat sugar confectionery and other dairy products declined. Livestock prices dipped slightly with cattle down but lambs and hogs up.
Chilean Quake Rattles South American Cities Across Region
A major earthquake centered near the Chile Argentina border shook Santiago at 11 05 p m local time and was felt from Buenos Aires to Mendoza. Seismographs in the United States recorded magnitudes between 7.25 and 7.8 as authorities warn of outages and panic. Foreign Minister Clodomiro Almeyda and reporters fled the 1721 colonial mansion hosting a press conference as tremors hit.
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South America
Buenos Aires
United States
University of California Seismographic
Berkeley
U.S. National
Santiago
Allende
Chile
Valaparaiso
Mendoza
Argentina
Villa Ortuzar Observatory
Clodomiro Almeyda
Temblor
Gooden Counsel Denied Request
Preston B. Gooden's lawyer was told by the State Police Board that no further information will be needed about the trooper's dismissal. The two member board will hear the case in Charleston next Wednesday. The trooper was fired in mid April after criticizing state police handling to a Morgantown civic group. Gooden's attorney had asked for specific charges behind the firing.
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Maruka
Stanley Criticizes Rockefeller Staff Changes In West Virginia
State Labor Federation President Miles Stanley attacks the recent staff move at John D. Rockefeller the appointment of Robert P. McDonough to Rockefeller's private staff in Charleston West Virginia. He says politicians adjust to win elections as a general rule and links the change to Jay Rockefeller's 1972 gubernatorial ambitions.
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Charleston
UPS
Labor Federation
Miles Stanley
John D.rockefeller
West Virginia
Stanley
Robert P. McDonough
Parklersburg
Democratic ‘Party
Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
McDonough
Hett Smith
Pentagon Disbands Strike Command
The Pentagon announced the disbanding of the U S Strike Command, created in 1961 as a fire brigade to rush troops to crises. Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard said its duties will be reassigned to American military headquarters worldwide with the change effective January 1.
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Washington
UPS
Pentagon
U.S. Strike Command
Kennedy
Defense
David Packard
Judge Allows Girl to Reject Cancer Operation
A Cincinnati judge ruled that a 16 year old girl with bone cancer may refuse an amputation that could raise her survival chances. Judge Benjamin Schwartz said it is not the court’s place to thwart the girl or her mother's decision after they understood the risks and outcomes.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Benjamin Schwartz
God
Schwartz
Isolated Stone Age Tribe Found in Philippines
The Philippines government reports discovery of the Tasadays on Mindanao living in stone age conditions. Social workers describe a hunter gatherer people with no salt sugar tobacco known, using bamboo knives and stone axes, isolated for over 500 years.
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Philippines
Manila
UPI
iMindanao
Fox
Galveston
Tex
Beckley Group Home Seeks Furniture Donations Aim $6 000
Raleigh County youths may live in a new Beckley group home operated by Davis Stuart under the Presbyterian Church. A HUD grant of 38 460 will be matched by 6 000 in local donations to equip the home and a Bluefield project. A committee led by Mrs. M A Johnson seeks sturdy furniture and essentials by Sept 1.
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Raleigh County
Beckley
Davis-Stuart Home
Presbyterian Church
Lewisburg
Robert Hawks
Hawks
Bluefield
Davis-Stuart
University of North Carolina
M. A. Johnson
City Ave
Dias Floral
Beckley Group
Five-County Child Care Plan Supported in Rural Areas
Gov Arch A Moore Jr announced $551 251 for a maternal and child health project in Braxton Clay Greenbrier Nicholas and Webster counties under the Governors Inter Agency Council. The plan funds family planning exams immunizations short term acute care and hospital confinement.
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Charleston
UPI
Arch A. Moore Jr
Inter - Agency Council
Braxton
Clay
Greenbrier
Nicholas
Webster
Moore
West Virginia University
Boyle Charges Miners Driven To Accidents
W A Tony Boyle president of the United Mine Workers of America says in a letter to officers and locals that most mine accidents come from the constant drive for increased production. He calls the safety record appalling and says workers are driven beyond human endurance as operators focus on production.
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Washington
UPI
W. A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers Journal
Boyle
N Y Robbery Nets 142 000 in Cash From Brinks Guards
Three armed robbers shot two Brinks guards and an elevator operator in New York City’s Municipal Building and escaped by car with a bag containing 142000 dollars. An off duty officer fired at the fleeing car as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. injuries to the victims were not yet known.
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New York
UPI
Brinks
Brooklyn Bridge
Municipal Credit Union
Iwcamded
Nixon Aide Sees Lower GI Heroin Use in Vietnam
Dr. Jerome Jaffe arrived in Saigon with a three day fact finding mission on drug use among American GIs. He questioned initial estimates, saying heroin use may be less severe than feared, and noted mixed results from urinalysis machines testing soldiers leaving the war zone.
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Saigon
API
Jerome J. Jaffe
Nixon
South Vietnam
Jaffe
Tan Son Nhut
Creighton W. J Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Final rites set for Mrs Edna B Pitzer in Lindside Church
Mrs Edna Belle Pitzer 81 of Greenville dies in Aberdeen while visiting a daughter. Final rites at Lindside Brethren Church Saturday at 2 PM with burial in Keaton Cemetery. Survived by three sons, three daughters, a stepson, 30 grandchildren and 56 great grandchildren.
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Edna Belle Pitzer
Greenville
Lindside Brethren Church
Harold Cox
Leo Kendricks
Raymond Booth
Keaton
Aberdeen
Red Sulphur Springs
Wilson
Rachel Broyles Ballard
Pitzer
Missionary Baptist Church
Alfred Pitzer
George
Robert
Rock Camp
Frank
Ballard
Herbert Pitzer
Lindside
Ruth Pitzer
Margaret Pitzer
Nancy Ford
Beckley
Mary Dillon
Hill Top
Ada Broyles
Stamford
Rose Clyburn
Stephenson
Broyles
Peterstown
Funeral set for Edith Holley of Scarbro
The funeral for Edith Margaret Lunsford Holley 57 of Route 1 Scarbro will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel Oak Hill with Rev. Glen Winston officiating Burial will be in Holley Cemetery Scarbro She died Thursday at 9 30 a.m. in a Beckley hospital of an apparent heart attack Survivors include husband Coy Holley two brothers Bernard Ray Bueford Lunsford a sister Ruby Reed seven daughters and many grandchildren Friends may call 7 to 9 p m Saturday at the funeral home
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Edith Margaret Lunsford Holley
Route 1
Scarbro
Tyree
Oak Hill
Glen Winston
Holley
Beckley
Laurel Grove Baptist Church
Cannelton
Coy Holley
Bernard Ray
Ft. Monroe
Bueford Lunsford
Ruby Reed
St. Albans
Jimmy
Kirtland
Ohio
Junior Holley
Mentor
Audrey Armstrong
East Kingston
Helen Tincher
West Dorsey Thurman Funeral Services Set
Dorsey Thurman West 41 of Beaver dies after long illness in a local hospital. Funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home Peace Chapel with Rev. Donald Meadows officiating. Burial in Blue Jay Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Pallbearers listed.
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Dorsey Thurman West
Beaver
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Peace Chapel
Donald Meadows
Blue Jay
Billy Gene Richmond
James Meadows
Robert Redden
Vernon Pack
Melton Smith
Donald Richmond
Fitzsimmons Named Hoffa Choice to Lead Teamsters
Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Hoffa's pick, re-elected president of the Teamsters for five years amid cheers at the union's 20th convention. He had served as acting head since Hoffa's 1967 imprisonment and received a $25,000 raise to $125,000 annually, the highest pay for a union official.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
James R. Hoffa
Mammoth Teamster
Fitzsimmons
Hoffa
Union
Theodore Daley
Yonkers
N.Y
Daley
Public Service Commission cites two freight drivers in warrants
W. P. Cole of the Public Service Commission issued warrants via Magistrate Lorena Wallace for Thomas Edward Workman of South Charleston and Fredrick K. Stolzenburg of Nebraska. Workman, Perrow Motor Freight driver, was fined 75 dollars for defective equipment and expired inspection. Stolzenburg, Dudleys Transfer driver, was fined 50 dollars for lacking a public service card. Both paid fines and were released.
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W. P. Cole
The
Public Service Commission
Lorena Wallace
Thomas Edward Workman
South Charleston
Perrow Motor Freight
Fredrick K. Stolzenburg
Dudleys
Nebraska
Wallace
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