Goldwater Heads to Sea Before Campaign Push
Senator Barry Goldwater sails aboard the Sundance off Balboa California for rest before a busy campaign run. He plans to return to Washington for speeches to Republican senators House members and a candidate school. He fielded questions on Viet Nam policy and President Johnson’s pick for vice president amid broader campaign talk.
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Goldwater
Washington
House
Bob Wilson
California
White House
State Department
Johnson
Robert Kenner
Bobby Baker
Billy
Sol. Estes
South Viet Nam
U.S
Grand Jury Concludes 17 Month Probe of Va Club Slaying
Suffolk Virginia AP reports a seven man grand jury convened in March 1963 will present findings on the February 8 1963 killing of Meyer Jacobson a Portsmouth bondsman gunned down after entering a private gamblers club near Driver Nansemond County. The jury may indict those linked to the slaying or to alleged gambling at the club. Police raids preceded the killing and Sheriff James Knight had urged an open door ordinance. The grand jury has met many times and questioned several gamblers present but has not released their names. Investigators and Nansemond County officials were also questioned.
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Suffolk
Meyer Jacobson
Jacobson
Portsmouth
Nansemond County
Driver
James C. Godwin
James Knight
Grand
Urrutia Links Castro to U.S. Racial Violence
Former Cuban president Manuel Urrutia accuses Fidel Castro of stirring American Negroes and cites Radio Free Dixie broadcast by Robert Williams from Monroe North Carolina. Urrutia, who broke with Castro in 1960, plans a new anti Castro party named Fighting Democratic Unity.
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Miami
Fla
Manuel Urrutia
Fidel Castro
United States
Urrutia
Castro
Havana
Radio Free Dixie
Robert Williams
Monroe
N.C
Cuba
Buildup in Savings Reverses Earlier Trend
AP reports summer savings growth reverses earlier slowdown. Consumers spend more while saving rises, aided by tax cuts and lower rates. Retail sales stay up as debt payment declines and big-ticket purchases rebound. Manufacturers invest, profits rise, and the economy appears to gain momentum.
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AP Business News
New York
Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeants Install New Leader
In Richmond AP Members of the Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeants Association conclude their convention with officer installation and an outgoing president’s report. Nansemond County Sheriff James C. Knight Jr. becomes president succeeding Harry B. Hartman Jr. The group also endorsed reflector license plates for Virginia.
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Richmond
Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeants Association
Nansemond County
James C. Knight Jr
Harry B. Hartman Jr
Virginia
Coed Clocks 10 000 Miles In Her 100 a Week Job
Patricia Ann Lamb Ithaca student and Cornell hotel administration major spends summers as a roving restaurant inspector for the New York Thruway Authority. She visits 26 franchised service areas along 559 miles, clocks about 10 000 miles in six weeks, and inspects food, service and facilities while maintaining her figure.
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Coed
Albany
N.Y
New York State Thruway
Patricia Ann
Trish
Cornell University
Thruway
Norman Lamb
Bolton Landing
Lake George
Cornell
Trish) Lamb
Bell Named Williamsburg School Superintendent
Maurice Harold Bell, 56, longtime Harrisonburg school chief since 1947, was named superintendent of schools for Williamsburg and James City County. Bell, a Virginia Education Association past president and Lynchburg College graduate, will assume duties after Rawls Byrd’s July 8 resignation due to illness. Bell previously worked in Hot Springs, Pittsylvania County, Lexington and Salem before moving to Harrisonburg 17 years ago.
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Williamsburg
Harrisonburg
Maurice Harold Bell
James City
Bell
Rawls Byrd
The
Virginia Education Association
Lynchburg College
Hot Springs
Pittsylvania County
Lexington
Salem
Rooney and Van Dyke set TV ratings battle in fall
Veteran actor Mickey Rooney faces Dick Van Dyke as ABC pits Rooney against the top CBS program The Dick Van Dyke Show. Rooney stars in a family sitcom about a couple, two children, and a resort hotel inheritance. Hollywood sets blend fantasy with realism as 20th Century Fox constructs Peyton Place themed façades for publicity.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Dick van Dyke
ABC
Rooney
20Th Century-Fox
Peyton Bee Abe An
Peyton Place
Fire Department
Peyton Place Fire Department
Husband Held as Bullets Cut Down Mother of 4
Covington police arrested James Griffith 38 after his wife Annabelle Kern Griffith 42 was shot to death in a restaurant near the police station. Officers found 14 spent cartridges. Griffith kept a 22 caliber rifle wrapped in a blanket. The couple, parents of four children aged 15 12 7 and 9, had a 15 year old son.
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Covington
Annabelle Kern Griffith
James Griffith
R. H. Balser
Griffith
Griffiit
Oe Griffith
Hercules Powder Co
Hee
Judge Refuses to Order Closing of Negro Schools
Federal Judge Oren R. Lewis bars Fairfax County from racially assigning pupils but declines to abolish its six all Negro schools. He notes progress since a 4th Circuit ruling and says state law governs transport and teacher placement while de facto integration advances. The decision cites elimination of one all Negro elementary, transfer of 55 pupils, and phasing out Luther Jackson High School.
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Alexandria
Fairfax County
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Lewis
4Th Circuit
Fairfax
Fairfax School Board
Luther Jackson
Supreme Court
Sailor Bound Over in Virginia Beach Strangulation Murder
A 21 year old sailor Dale John Celenza of Philadelphia was bound over to the grand jury in Virginia Beach on a murder charge for the July 18 strangulation killing of 42 year old Phyllis Minnich. His defense sought to suppress a signed police statement during the preliminary hearing conducted yesterday by Commonwealth's Attorney Robert.
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Virginia Beach
Phyllis Minnich
Dale John Celenza
Philadelphia
Celenza
Commonwealth
Robert
Court hears defendant chose to testify in SIMPSON case
Celenza, assigned to the helicopter carrier Okinawa, testified after being advised he was not required to speak. Mrs Minnich of Kingsport Tennessee was killed during a Virginia Beach motel stay by strangulation.
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L. Simpson
Celenza
Minnich
Kingsport
Tenn
Virginia Beach
Oinawa
Chinese Official and Early Paper Invention
A medieval or ancient account attributes the invention of paper to a high Chinese official about 2,000 years ago. It states he used beaten mulberry inner bark fibers pressed into a white sheet.
Child Drowns Wade in Lynnhaven Lake Near Home
The four year old Debra Lynn Brothers, daughter of Air Force Sgt. R. G. Brothers of Langley AFB, drowned in Lynnhaven Lake near her Hampton apartment complex. Firemen found her body shortly after her father called for help. rescuers believe she drowned while wading, in about ten feet of water.
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Langley Air Force Base
Lynnhaven Lake
Debra Lynn Brothers
Air Force
R. G. Brothers
Debra
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