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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1964
Page
4
Trial verdict stains Georgia with racial bias in Penn case
Prosecutor Clete Johnson argued the murder of Lemuel A. Penn tests the honor of Georgia as two Ku Klux Klansmen are acquitted. He warned that the state’s sovereignty and justice are at stake, while defense counsel Dor sey urged jurors to aid free men, condemning the electric chair as a sacrificial altar. Georgia faces world opinion over perceived racial bias in this trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Clete Johnson
Lemuel A. Penn
John A. Dorsey
Lemuel Penn
St. Augustine
Goa
Three Coins In The Fountain At The Fair And Beyond
The piece notes Americans toss coins into fountains from Rome to World’s Fair pools, funds from Hall of Industry pools at the Swedish Pavilion, and a real estate office pool. A boy slept under the fair and fed himself with coins for meals. A goldfish death toll rises at Chase Manhattan Plaza pools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Trevi
United States
Hall of Industry
Ulf Nepardt
Hammarskjold Memorial Fund
Washington
Chase Manhattan Plaza
Wall Street
Goldwater Aims to Rebuild GOP from Precinct Up
Bruce Bioss reports on Barry Goldwater’s push to reorganize the Republican party from the precinct level. The plan centers on Raymond Humphreys and nationwide voting quotas to boost GOP turnout, with regional meetings to push targets that could reshape 1964 outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldwater
Republican National Committee
Raymond Humphreys
National Committee
GOP
United States
Humphreys
John Grenier
Iowa
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Charles Jonas
Sunday Driver Aid Highlights Community Help
Oakley Davis, a 56 year old from near Blackberry, traveled to Bethesda to be with his wife during cancer surgery, aided by a $90 fundraiser from Beckley readers. He plans to repay a grocery debt of about $140 and hopes to return home to his wife and 17 children if the operation succeeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakley Davis
Washington
National Institute of Health
Bethesda
Maryland
Blackberry
Davis
Beckley
Verlin Walker
Raleigh County Schools
Oakley Davis Fund Reaches 851.90 From Donors
Readers praise their generosity as the Oakley Davis Family Fund totals 851.90 after a dedicated fundraising week. Contributions include 14.65 from Honey In The Rock cast and multiple donors from Beckley and surrounding areas. Funds will aid Davis on his Washington trip and his wife’s hoped for operation recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Washington
Norman Fagan
American Legion Post
Mullens
Evelyn Hill
Lewisburg
J. W. Arbaugh
Alvin Connard
Beckley
Ravencliff
White Oak
Zip
Fairdale
Bill Cook
Honey In the Rock
C. A. Blankenship
Midway
First Baptist Church
H L. Hendrickson
Romania’s balancing act amid the Sino Soviet split marks its independence
Henry Shapiro reports from Moscow that Romania celebrates 20 years of communist rule while maintaining a wary neutrality between Moscow and Beijing. Bucharest rejects a Moscow led conference unless all invited parties attend unanimously, signaling Romania’s selective alignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Romania
Tito
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Stalin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Peking
Tirana
Bucharest
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Europe
Romanian Communist Party manifesto critiques bloc power
A April manifesto by the Romanian Communist Party signals national self interest and nationalist sentiment, criticizing both Peking and Moscow though not equally. The document reads as a move toward greater independence from the Soviet bloc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Party
Peking
Moscow
Bug Dust Saturday Review Inspired Our Rural Fling
In 1947 a young couple answered a Saturday Review of Literature ad and spent six months on an upstate New York farm. They befriended neighbor Williams and helped with haying while the farm life and wild strawberries fed their growing nostalgia for country work and simpler days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Saturday Review of Literature
New York
Mac
Williams
Step Up Viet Nam War Plans Urge Rapid US Action
Four of the five Joint Chiefs of Staff urge Secretary McNamara to sharply raise US involvement in Vietnam. Proposals include bombing Ho Chi Minh trail routes, blocking North Vietnamese ports, sealing borders to Cambodia and Laos, and expanding special forces. They stop short of invading the North or deploying large US ground troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
NEA
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
McNamara
U. S
United States
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
Chiefs of Staff
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
South
Department of State
North Viet Nam
Ho Chi Minh Trails
U.S
Mao Tse-tung
Red China
Num
Ber
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Barry Goldwaters
Senator Goldwater
Republican Party
Wendell Willkie
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Jesus Christ
Raymond E. Balcomb
Portland, Ore
First Methodist Church
Otnil
Johnson
Saturday Review
Williams Place
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