04 May 1964
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1964
Page
1
President Johnson pledges U S help to end the Kennedy tariff negotiations as the GATT talks open with 75 nations. Former Secretary of State Herter states the aim of broad across the board cuts and a two year marathon effort begins.
Contestants named World’s Fair as top destination with Honolulu Florida California and Bloomington Indiana noted. Mrs Kennedy praised as admired woman. The Royal Canadian Army Trumpet Band performed for Antique Car Meet attendees as Luci Baines Johnson opened the show and welcomed four Canadian officers.
Public Health Service reports about 326 600 live births in February 1964, 12 000 more than February 1963 due to the extra day. Crude birth rate and marriages rise while deaths increase by 13 000, with February 1964 having a 9.8 death rate per 1000.
President Johnson will visit Maryland Ohio Tennessee North Carolina and Georgia this week. He will speak at Athens Ohio for Ohio Universitys 160th anniversary and spend Thursday night in Atlanta with Lynda Bird Johnson accompanying him.
Lawrence Trout, an English teacher and guidance counselor at Charles Page High School in Sand Springs Oklahoma, travels to the White House to receive the Teacher of the Year award from President Johnson. She was selected from state nominees by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Logic magazine.
Civil rights demonstrators plan to picket GM national headquarters in midtown Detroit from noon to 6 today. NAACP says GM has a lily white personnel policy while GM denies discrimination and cites minority representation across levels.
A 17 year old Strasburg youth pleaded guilty to drunk driving running a red light and hit and run in Martinsburg Berkeley County. He was fined and sentenced to 30 days in jail with two passengers and another driver sustaining minor injuries in a crash at the Rt 51 Rt 11 intersection near Inwood.
Arthur Jones a 34 year old inmate with prior jailbreaks unlocked doors in the District of Columbia jail tied to District General Hospital. He sawed through a window bar and fled through a tunnel linking the jail to the hospital while serving 4 to 12 years for housebreaking and assault with a dangerous weapon.
A Black spectator was ejected from the Senate gallery after denouncing the civil rights bill. Kenneth Washington, 26, of Passaic New Jersey, was taken to DC General Hospital for mental observation. The episode occurred as Sen George Smathers spoke on the measure amid ongoing mortality debate.
In Izvestia Khrushchev urged withdrawal of outside interference as Greek and Turkish Cypriots fight for an independent republic. He said Soviets back Cypriot independence and sovereignty and abstained on the UN peacekeeping force vote.
Harry S Truman turns 80 with a flood of congratulations as President Johnson, Herbert Hoover, Eisenhower and other leaders send telegrams and letters. About 250 old friends will honor him at a Kansas City luncheon Wednesday, with another birthday lunch in Washington Friday hosted by the Senate investigative committee he led.
The State Highway Department invites bids to build 5.6 miles of divided highway on Route 522 from the city limits to near Hunting Ridge with a June bid opening in Richmond and a completion date of August 1 1965. The plan calls a new parallel two lane southbound road and a reconfigured northbound road to ease curves and reduce houses along the corridor. A public hearing was held at Gainesboro May 10 1962. The project is among 16 road and bridge bids statewide.
A New York judge granted a two day adjournment in a slander case against Adam Clayton Powell. The jury awarded Esther James 211500, later reduced to 46500 on appeal. Powell did not appear for court and faced contempt proceedings while being represented by George D. Covington.
Saigon remained tense as the destroyer Lyman K. Swenson arrived for a show of force following the Card sinking. Eight Americans and a Vietnamese wounded when a Viet Cong grenade exploded near U.S. personnel. repairs and salvage on the damaged aircraft ferry ship continued amid heightened security.
A high pressure ridge moving south from New England is expected to bring calm, dry conditions to Virginia for the next several days, limiting any precipitation and keeping temperatures mild.
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