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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1964
Page
3
A lighthearted column suggests forming Summer Bachelors Anonymous for men whose wives are away. The idea riffs on Nicotine Anonymous, proposing discreetly “out of town” outings like games, movies, and chess to preserve the illusion of staying socially active while home alone.
Kenneth Malcolm Christiansen, a 33 year old tattooed California prison escapee, is on the FBI ten most wanted list after escaping December 24 from Chino State Institution. He is suspected of multiple hold ups across Arizona and California while posing as an attorney to reach managers. He stands six feet five inches, weighs 160 pounds, and bears the tattooed phrase love to.
Terlingua Texas a near deserted town with two residents and several goats seeks to abolish the numbers system and use names for identification The self styled mayor Dave Witts a Dallas attorney says social security and credit card numbers will be rejected and the zip code 79852 may be withdrawn The town’s officials include a California race driver and a Detroit writer all claiming to hold posts while the post office operates as a fourth class unit with mail collection and stamp sales potential Keepers of the town say residents will be identified by family name and then given first or middle names if needed
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Report on President Kennedy assassination will be made public by mid September with officials saying it contains no basic surprises. The commission plans to address European speculation about plots and explain delays despite no new developments since June.
Joseph B Lightburn, a 50 year old West Virginia storekeeper, heads the Constitution Party ticket aiming for a general election berth in Texas New Mexico and Washington. He plans a flying campaign tour from a store office and a hotel suite in Atlantic City near the Democratic convention. He criticizes Goldwater Wallace and labels Dems and Republicans as one party the Demo-Republican party. He rose from local politics to state party leadership and helped draft the Houston convention platform calling for Civil Rights Act repeal a flat income tax and US treaties removal.
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman at a Democratic fund-raiser in Wichita labeled Senator Barry Goldwater a trigger happy President and a threat to world peace. He urged rejection of extremism and support for the traditional American system of government.
In St Thomas England the local council agreed to pay farmer Leslie Drake 378 to compensate for pneumatic drills near his farm that upset his cows and reduced milk yield.
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