William and Mary to host Ford and Kennedy in commencements
Rep Gerald Ford will address William and Mary graduates at 5 p.m. June 3 in the Sir Christopher Wren Building yard. Rev Sil er Kennedy will deliver the baccalaureate at 11 a.m. June 9. Honorary degrees will go to retired judge Sterling Hutcheson and Virginia Historical Society director John M. Jennings. Chicago is cited as a top snuff producer.
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Allek
College of William and Mary
Bouse
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Newport News
Sterling Hutcheson
John M. Jennings
Virginia Historical Society
Draftees Refuse Induction Amid Boston AntiDraft Protest
Two draftees refused induction in Boston as hundreds demonstrated in the Common. The Resistance claimed 29 draft cards were turned in. Harold Hector and Gary Quigley refused induction. Frank Poindexter was deemed unqualified. Demonstrators marched to the base and then to Arlington Street Church where William Chase urged refusal.
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Resistance
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Army
Harold Hector
Gary Quigley
Frank Poindexter
Arlington Street
Unitarian-Universalist
Army Spec
William Chase
Dennis
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Chase
Robert A. Talmanson
Talmanson
Halterman Attorneys Seek To Avoid New Trial
Forest L. Halterman’s defense moved to strike the state's evidence in the Bath County murder case. Judge Earl Abbott set June 17 for argument on the motion after a hung jury led to renewed efforts to avoid retrial. The service station attendant faces first degree murder charges for the killing of Diane Wickersham in 1965.
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Warm Springs
Aattorneys
Forest L. Halterman
R. B. Stephenson
Bath County
Earl L .Abbott
Stephenson
Halterman
Diane Brewster Wickersham
Covington
Gordon Haynes
Abbott
Commonwealth
Atty
Erwin
Solomon
Miss Wickersham
Richard Edward Ferris
Decatur
Insanity Acquits Woman in Child Drowning Attempt
Evelyn Olivia Wilson, 25, was found innocent by reason of insanity after a Hastings Court jury acquitted her of trying to drown two of her children in the Elizabeth River. A Coast Guard museum director rescued the two children and the mother, who was deemed mentally incompetent at the time.
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Portsmouth
Evelyn Olivia Wilson
Hastings Court
Commonwealth
Atty. von, L. Piersall Jr
Central State Hospital
Terrie
Ronzo
Elwood Twilley
Coast Guard
Copter Crash Probe Pushed by Officials
Federal investigators searched a pasture and the Los Angeles morgue to determine why a single rotor Sikorsky S61 crashed en route from Disneyland to LAX killing all 23 aboard. The victims included Mayor John Trainor and University of California professor Arden Rudell along with nine Ohio vacationers.
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Calif
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles International Airport
Disneyland
Los Angeles Airways
John R. Trainor
Red Buff
Arden K. Ruddell
University of California At Berkeley
Morris Kromfeld
New York
West Englewood
Jack Garner
Columbus
Ohio
Bankers Will Hear Godwin At Virginia Convention
Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. will speak June 22 to over 700 bankers and their wives at the 75th annual Virginia Bankers' Association convention in Hot Springs. VBA president Thomas E. Sebrell II of Alexandria will preside at sessions and address the first business meeting on June 20.
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Mills E. Godwin Jr
Virginia Bankers’ Association
Thomas E. Sebrell II
Alexandria
VBA
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