California GOP Platform urged repeal of Rumford Act in housing debate
In Sacramento the rival campaigns of Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Ronald Reagan clashed over the John Birch Society and open housing. The Republican platform urged repeal or amendment of the Rumford Act while Reagan backed repeal and Brown pressed repudiation of the Birch Society.
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GOP
California
Sacramento
Calif
John Birch Society
Edmund G. Brown
Ronald Reagan
Brown
Reagan
The
Birch Society
Demonstrators March Through Chicago White Neighborhood Clash
About 1,500 civil rights marchers faced some 2,000 jeering whites on Chicago's Northwest Side. Police protected an integrated group as they returned to Cragin for a third time, amid rocks, firecrackers, and arrests. Clergy urged peaceful action, while King attended a conference in Mississippi.
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Chicago
Cragin
St. Genevieve’s
God Bless
George C. Wallace
Alabama
National States Rights Party
al 'Raby
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
James Bevel
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Jackson
Miss
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bevel
King Friday
Harry Smith
St. Elizabeth Episcopal Church
Beatle Records Burned by KKK Rally
The Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Farmville on Sunday night and burned about $60 worth of Beatles records instead of cross burning. Michael Desmond, the principal speaker, urged attendees to bring more records to future rallies and said the Klan would dispose of them similarly, in response to John Lennon remarks about the group being more popular than Christ.
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Farmville
Ku Klux Klan
John Lennon
Michael Desmond
Cancer Claims Life of Accused Embezzler in Radford
Mrs. G. Floyd Dudley, 65, former head cashier of the Radford Utility Department, died in a Radford hospital after a cancer illness. Indicted in March on three counts of embezzling $32,500 from 1960 to 1965, she was suspended last November and never tried due to illness.
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Radford (Ap
G. Floyd Dudley
Radford Utility Department
Radford
Dudley
Utility Department
Three Alarm Fire Strikes Vacant Washington Apartment Building
About 25 pieces of fire and rescue equipment responded to a three alarm fire that swept the vacant top floor of a four story building at 1929 14th St NW Sunday night. A passerby, J A Norris, ran in, rescued two unidentified children, and brought them outside. The second and third floors and a first floor store were damaged. One person injured. Battalion Chief Elmer L Hall, 54, suffered a cut nose and smoke inhalation.
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Washington (Ap
14Th St
J.A. Norris
Elmer L. Hall
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Braddock St
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Berryville
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Continental
Austin He
Loudoun Sr
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Navomende Bell System
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