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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1964
Page
3
A reader collection of Dear Abby exchanges updates on telephone etiquette for children and courteous behavior in daily life. The notes mention family events and a request for Abby’s guidance, alongside an offer to purchase her booklet on letter writing.
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson chose a nine hour motorcade from Cleveland to Washington amid rain and fog rather than fly again after a lightning discharge struck a United Air Lines Viscount. She dined at Howard Johnsons and later her Cadillac had quick service for a blocked fuel filter before continuing.
A one day boycott of public schools in Kansas City was called a success by Carl Randolph head of the local Congress of Racial Equality chapter. He estimated about 80 percent of Negro children and 20 percent of white children stayed home. School officials put absenteeism at roughly 40 percent above normal in buildings with large Black enrollments.
A federal jury convicted Robert D. Poitras and William J. Duprez of kidnapping Albert E. Barker. Barker, 61, East Orange N J, was forced to drive them south after being picked up in Manhattan Oct 11 and released unharmed near Fort Belvoir Virginia. FBI captured the suspects Oct 14 in Hope Arkansas.
In Cleveland Ohio the school board largely ignored Monday’s civil rights boycott of city schools with one member blaming subversives. The United Freedom Movement claimed 35 000 to 45 000 attended so called freedom schools while COREL officials cited a 36 000 capacity that was reportedly exceeded.
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