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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1958
Page
14
The former head of the FBI in Oklahoma D A Boyce enters the governor race as a Democrat amid interest at the state prison where The Eye Opener, the penitentiary newspaper, notes his candidacy will be greeted with serious thought.
Berryville George W. Burton awarded diplomas to ten Johnson Williams High graduates. Anna Paige gave the valedictory, Sarah Combs salutatorian. Combs will attend Hampton Institute. Rev Herman Frank offered invocation. Ann Wilson received Junior Chamber of Commerce Award.
In Richmond the state said two 1956 special session acts do not violate the 14th Amendment. The NAACP seeks a declaratory judgment alleging Chapters 33 and 36 breach equal protection or due process. Chapter 33 covers attorney unprofessional practices. Chapter 36 bars nonparties from participating or financing lawsuits.
The plastics industry forecasts higher sales in 1958 with growth in plastics and new uses. SPI reports 1958 sales steady or up to 40 percent over 1957, plastic pipe sales rising from 2 million to 58 million pounds in 1957, targeting 60 million pounds this year. Manufacturers cite demand from automotive, packaging, and new molding designs lowering costs.
The toll rose to 317 highway deaths in Virginia after two crashes yesterday, one in Arlington and the other in Richmond County. Floyd Brown, 50, of Arlington, died when his dump truck blew a tire and struck a tree on State Route 123. John T. Chapman, 46, of Rich- [text cut off]
The Supreme Court will review the contempt conviction of David H. Scull, an Annandale printer who refused to answer questions before Virginia racial investigation committee. He received 10 days in jail and a $50 fine, stayed pending appeal. The committee, set up by the General Assembly in 1956, aimed at groups facing racial litigation and was led by Del. James M. Thomson.
A 24 year veteran compositor for Richmond newspapers Inc. died in a single vehicle crash on U S 360 miles east of Tappahannock in Richmond County.
U S supreme court declines to rule on the validity of a gradual stair step desegregation plan for Hartford County public schools in Maryland. The plan remains in effect after lower courts approved it and its provisions allow qualified Negro students who pass a special test to advance under the program.
Attorneys for Negro students contend a high school admission plan pending desegregation does not meet the Supreme Court 1955 ruling. The plan aims to admit examinations while ending racial segregation in those grades with all deliberate speed.
The Harford County School Board adopts a plan calling for gradual desegregation. Elementary schools will desegregate over two years and high schools over five years.
Forty three major ships of the U S second Fleet leave Norfolk for an Atlantic Fleet exercise with over two thousand Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and Naval Academy Midshipmen aboard. The ships head toward European ports.
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