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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1964
Page
3
White helmeted police move in on Négrées on Harlem sidewalk amid second night of rioting. Five civilians treated for gunshot wounds and twelve patrolmen injured. Violence follows the fatal shooting of a 15 year old Negro boy by a white officer.
AP reports a boating mishap on Claytor Lake near the dam and Little River. Robert Higginbotham, 45, of Fairlawn, was found dead by Pulaski Life Saving Crew. his unoccupied motorboat was located nearby.
In Richmond, the Sons of Confederate Veterans voted against a proposal to meet with the Sons of Union Veterans in 1966. Allen B. Hicklin of Alexandria was elected the SCV state commander.
Eight Virginia Tech students were arrested after ABC Board agents and local police raided off campus fraternity houses in Montgomery County. Each student posted 500 bond and hearings were scheduled in county court. Names include Wilford Williams Jr., Don Erickson, Roderick Exstan, Kenneth Perry Jr., Jerry Foster, Philip Evans, Alfred Woody, and others in Norfolk, Chesapeake, Harrisonburg, and Falls Church. Tech president Hahn said the students are individually responsible. The fraternities are not nationally affiliated or recognized by the university.
Greenland aims to draw visitors with a Norse themed site. The island has no forests and about 706,000 square miles of ice buried in its 340,000 square miles total area.
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