Blind Novelist Fights Censors in Supreme Court Case
Mansfield Texas writer John Howard Griffin, blind since a wartime explosion, seeks a legal definition of obscenity as his first novel The Devil Rides Outside faces a Detroit censorship ruling. Griffin, city-born in Dallas, battled Nazi underground in France and later farmed near Mansfield before turning to writing in 1959. His work challenges legal restraints on creative expression while awaiting a Supreme Court ruling this year.
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Underwood Uses V after Debate With Dem Fizales
West Virginia coverage shows Cecil KH Underwood on WSAZ TV in Charleston condemning Democratic nominee Mollohan for missing a governor debate. A vacant chair symbolized Mollohan’s absence while Underwood criticized funding links to the flower fund and state employee campaigns.
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Prosecutor Demands Apology or Mayor Denial
Huntington Mayor George Theurer faces a defiant charge after a Cabell County grand jury indicted him for contracting to spend city funds. Prosecutor Russell N. Daugherty urged Theurer to publicly apologize or deny the statement he criticized as contemptuous of the grand jury. Theurer, who signed a $10,746 street work check, accused the jury of misrepresentation and distortion.
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Mountain State miscellany highlights and local notes
A collage of brief items from West Virginia locales including Bethany College enrollment of Harry Walker, the Kanawha Airport runway extension delay until next spring, a carillon bell dedication at Richwood First Baptist Church, and regional civil defense and education events. Also mentions Capital Airlines staff changes and various church and civic activities in Point Pleasant, Parkersburg, Charleston, St. Albans, Huntington, and Wheeling.
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Beem
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Clacksburg
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Newport News
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Kanin TV Debut on Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV and theater icon Garson Kanin shifts to television with Born Yesterday starring Mary Martin and Paul Douglas on Hallmark Hall of Fame NBC TV. Kanin aims to shape TV storytelling, while his exact directing or producing credit remains unsettled.
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Challenge for Dr Blandin in a hospital intrigue
Two medical interns Jacobsen and Bequette confront Dr Blandin at his home about alleged unethical practices at County Hospital. They claim doctors issue unnecessary biopsies and mislabel reports to profit, recounting a 79-year-old patient case as a chilling example, and hint at a broader racket threatening patient care.
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Hitler's Death Made Official
BERCHTESGADEN GY Adolf Hitler was officially declared dead Thursday more than 70 years after his death by his own action and his body burned in Berlin. An official notice named Adolf Hiller born April 20 1899 Braunau on Inn Austria as dead and set the date of death as April 30 1945.
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Moscow Reports Reactionary Revolt in Budapest
Moscow readers learned that counter revolutionary revolt has broken out in Budapest and Russian troops were called to quell it. Pravda and Izvestia provided dispatches noting a more liberal fate than Poland, including Gomulka’s Warsaw speech and the Polish Parliament session. A Moscow broadcast reported the revolt and said it had been halted, though not carried on the home service.
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Spanish Poet Named Nobel Prize Winner
STOCKHOLM Sweden Juan Ramon Jimenez 74 Spanish poet known for odes to a donkey received the 1936 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy selected him from about 30 candidates by a panel of 18 experts. The $38 000 prize honors Nobel will and is the richest literature award.
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Poultry Market Report From Shenandoah Valley
In Harrisonburg Virginia live poultry market weakness noted for broilers and fryers with fair demand and adequate supply. Farm prices quoted including broilers at 2 4-334 and 16 164, hens around 13-36, and turkeys with small type steady 25-26 and heavy toms at 26-27. Also a separate court note mentions two drivers from Oak Creek Wisconsin and Lenora Kansas convicted of drunken driving and fined $100.
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