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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1964
Page
3
Two explosive events tied Khrushchev’s fall from power to China’s entry into the Nuclear Club. The Kremlin’s spilt with Peking over ideology fueled speculation while officials cite Khrushchev’s age and ill health as the official cause.
In a swift leadership shift, Leonid Brezhnev becomes First Secretary and Aleksei Kosygin premiers the Soviet Union after Khrushchev's removal. The West seeks reassurance as Dobrynin meets Johnson and confirms unchanged Soviet policy toward peaceful coexistence amid global upheaval.
An advertisement invites readers to request transfer pattern 7246 for a turquoise peacock panel and other needlecraft designs. It lists pricing for patterns, mailing and handling, and urges sending name, address, zone, and pattern number to Alice Brooks at the Needlecraft Dept.
A federal grand jury indicted six white Athens men for conspiring to injure and intimidate Black citizens in Georgia. The group tied to the Ku Klux Klan includes Cecil William Myers and Joseph Howard Sims, with others named as active participants. Bond set for three defendants at 10,000 each, one at 1,000 for possessing an unregistered shotgun. Penn, a Washington Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, was slain July 11 on a rural road near Athens.
The county home demonstration calendar lists meetings from Monday to Saturday across Round Hill Valley Mill Highview Stephens City Whitacre and Stonewall 4-H clubs and HDC sessions. Sessions cover Knowing Credit and Using It Wisely with leaders giving demonstrations and completion of accomplishment sheets.
ASHLAND AP A new president of the Randolph Macon College board of trustees to succeed James Mullen of Richmond will be nominated at the board meeting next April. Mullen, 87, resigned from the presidency of the board yesterday because of ill health after serving 14 years. Mullen will continue as a trustee. he has been a board member since 1930.
Rep. William E. Miller, GOP vice presidential nominee, makes third California swing. He addresses rallies in San Bernardino Buena Park and San Diego and reiterates calls for Johnson to explain Walter Jenkins affair. Miller ties Jenkins to Baker and Estes in broader Democratic criticism.
A review notes two Broadway plays this season set in asylums The Physicists by Friedrich Duerrenmatt opens first followed by Peter Weiss The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade Next season previously began with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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