Black Power Advocates Jeer King at Conference
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr keynoted the National Conference for New Politics in Chicago before about 5 000. A splinter group urged Black Power and a separate Black politics movement while most delegates supported peaceful reform and some floated a third party bid for 1968. King urged opposition to the Vietnam War and urged a referendum on domestic priorities.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Conference For New Politics
King
Vietnam
H. Rap Brown
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Dr. King
Tial
Reevesion
Ossie Davis
Dick Gregory
William Sloan Coffin
Yale University
Train kills Va. woman near Lynchburg
Mrs Rise Rowe 40 wife of Randolph Macon College psychology professor was struck by a westbound Chesapeake and Ohio freight near her Lynchburg home. Police say she ran to a woods area, fell 20 feet to the tracks and was hit after the engineer Robert M. Johnson applied brakes but could not stop. Rowe taught at Virginia Episcopal School.
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Lynchburg
Rise Rowe
Randolph-Macon
Robert M. Johnson
Chesapeake and Ohio Freight
IBM Plant Likely Near Manassas Virginia
Prince William County supervisors heard there is a 90 percent chance a major new facility will locate near Manassas on a 305 acre site west of Virginia 28. The project could employ up to 5000 people for light manufacturing research and offices.
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Manassas
Prince William
Daisy Harriman Dies Pioneer Woman Diplomat at 97
Washington AP Daisy Harriman longtime Democratic figure socialite and activist dies in Georgetown at 97. Born Florence Jaffray Hurst she helped found the Colony Club and Women for Wilson later serving as Norway’s minister and earning a Kennedy merit citation for public service. Survivors include grandson Charles Russell and great great grandchildren.
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J. Borden
Daisy) Harriman
America of My Times
Democratic Party
Florence Jaffray Hurst
Daisy
New York
W. Averill Harriman
Colony Club
New York City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women’s National Democratic Club
Norway
John F. Kennedy
Canada goose submerged feats under National Geographic claim
National Geographic reports the Canada goose can submerge for three minutes and swim one hundred yards underwater, highlighting surprising diving ability and stamina.
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National Geographic
Valley Pike Birthday Celebrated With Cards and Visits
Valley Pike resident marked a birthday with well wishes from Dorothy DeHaven Howe and others in Van Fossen Street. A long list of relatives and friends from Winchester Kernstown Harrisonburg New Market and Dover visited or sent greetings, with several dropping by the Sargent and Copenhaver households. Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg began in 1928.
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Dorothy DeHaven
Howe
van ‘Fossen
Herbert Copenhaver
Diane Copenhaver
Gerald Mace
New Market
Clarke Copenhaver
Harrisonburg
Maude DeHaven
Winchester
Namie Wigginton
Kernstown
Thurman Mayes
Takoma Park
Colonial Williamsburg
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New York Reformatory For Women
Woodrow Wilson
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Wilson
Valley Pike
Janey
Donald Jones
Scott
Carolyn
Dover
Del
Alvin Sargent
Larry Copenhaver
Florence Brill
Sargent
Wilburn Wisecarver
Irene Copenhaver
Onve
Jeepster
Jeepster Commando
Kaiser Jeep Corporation
Kern Motor
S. Loudoun St
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Potomac Edison
Allegheny Power System
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