Adventists Launch Drive Against Obscene Literature
The Potomac Conference of Seventh day Adventists announced an every church member campaign to curb pornographic books and magazines sold at newsstands drug stores and transit hubs in Virginia Maryland and Washington DC. Led by the youth department the effort aims to enlist church youth to talk with peers refuse to read smut and urge shop owners to stop stocking such material. The campaign unveiled at the 10 day summer meeting at Shenandoah Valley Academy expects over 3 000 attendees and notes a $500 million annual mail order business under merchants of riches.
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New Market
Potomac Conference of
Seventhday Adventists
The
Church For
Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
Potomac Conference
Shenandoah Valley Academy
United States
Canada
Edmund M. Peterson
Takoma Park
Columbia Union Conference of Adventists
Peterson
Princeton Citizens oppose Norfolk and Western Virginian merger
A Princeton group railed against the Norfolk and Western Virginian Railways merger calling it a sale of southern West Virginia into slavery. An ICC hearing is set for Princeton June 29 30 and Roanoke June 24. The ad accuses Pennsylvania Mellon interests of dominating coal and rail profits with potential job losses in Princeton.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Princeton
Norfolk and Western and
Virginian
West Virginia
Bluefield Daiy Telegraph
Pennsylvania
Graf
ICC
Kyle McCormick
Pennsylvania Railway
Daniel Hale
M.D
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Roanoke
McCormick
Union Busting Charge Hurled At Gov Hodges
William Pollock of the Textile Workers Union of America accuses Governor Luther Hodges and his administration of openly backing anti union tactics in the Harriet Henderson Cotton Mill strike that began November 17. State police and National Guardsmen were deployed to Henderson with costs totaling 111287 from May 2 to June 7.
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Henderson
N. C
Luther Hodges
William Pollock
Textile Workers Union of America
Pollock
TWUA
Charlotte
Harriet-Henderson
New York
North Carolina
Luther H. Hodges
Henrico School Board Faces Budget Change Pressure
Henrico County moves county budget to a monthly cycle starting July 1 creating a funding issue for the school board. Board chairman Earl J. Shifter says yearly contracts have aided attracting good teachers and Superintendent George H. Moody will meet with the county manager and commonwealth's attorney to clarify the board's financial position.
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Richmond
Henrico County Board of Supervisors
Earl J. Shifler
George H. Moody
E. A. Beck
Commonwealth
W. F. Parkerson Jr
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Rayons
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