Court Takes Virginia Reapportionment Under Advisement
The Supreme Court considers a 1962 Virginia reapportionment challenge as discriminatory. Norfolk Henry Howell Jr. argues Norfolk is underrepresented with two senators for 152,000 people versus adjacent areas with one senator for 73,000. Attorneys dispute urban rural population balance and military considerations in seat assignment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
Norfolk
Henry Howell Jr
Norfolk County
Robert D. McIlwaine III
Edmund D. Campbell
Arlington
Fairfax Counties
Fairfax
McIlwaine
Howell
Canadian Air Drops Mercury Down in West
arctic air from Canada lowers temperatures to near freezing in Montana North Dakota and Minnesota with snow and single digits in parts of Saskatchewan. Forecasters expect further drops in North Dakota and Minnesota while warmer readings occur across most of the United States. Roy Warner Jr of Hopewell Va is expected to visit Dunn N C to comfort his memory-impaired mother reported by police after she wandered and identified his name in her belongings.
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Associated Press
Montana
North Dakota
Minnesota
Canada
Saskatchewan
Ohio Valley
Southern Plains
Pacific Northwest
Dunn
N.C
Roy Warner Jr
Hopewell
Roy Warner Sr
Danville Councilmen Submit Conditional Resignations
Two Danville Virginia city council members John Carter and W C McCubbins mail conditional resignations to Mayor Stinson. They call for a recall election amid a council racial controversy and plan to run in the special election. A petition seeks all nine resignations and to change the charter for a recall vote.
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Danville
Danville, Va
Julian Stinson
John Carter
W. C. McCubbins
Council
Charles Womack
General Assembly
Negro to be examined before sentence in bombing case
Roosevelt Tatum, 39, pleaded guilty to telling FBI agents that two Birmingham officers planted a dynamite bomb that damaged the home of Rev. A. D. King and a nearby Negro motel, sparking a night of Negro rioting. a psychiatric exam was ordered before sentencing by U.S. Dist. Judge Clarence W. Allgood.
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Birmingham
Ala
Nee
U.S. Dist
Clarence W. Allgood
Roosevelt Tatum
Tatum
FBI
A. D. King
Martin Luther King Jr
Condemned Dog Ricky Changes Ownership In Virginia
Papers show Ricky the German Shepherd no longer belongs to Jim Laing of Pearlsburg. Harold Williams of Pembroke now owns the dog after a Giles County case that sought its execution for sheep killing. Laing appeals a 1000 dollar fine and four month jail term for failing to produce Ricky. The case has reached the state Supreme Court of Appeals after two U.S. Supreme Court appeals.
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Roanoke
Ricky
U.S. Supreme Court
Jim Laing
Pearlsburg
Laing
Giles County
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Harold Williams
Pembroke
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Peace Corps
Washington, D.C
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Theodore Huggins
Mary Williams
NAACP
Martin Luther King
King
Fred Shuttlesworth
Loyal Baptist Church
Thomas
Loyal
Shuttlesworth
DeWitt's Pills
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Taipei
Formosa
South Formosa
le Mans
Pontiac
Kern Motor Co., Inc
S. Loudoun ST
Winchester
Royal Crown Cola Co
Royal Crown Bottling Co
Winchester, Va
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