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...Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd oligarchs settled on State Senator Garland Gray as this year's organization candidate for governor. Almond announced anyway, traveled doggedly from county seat...
Single Issue. Dalton, 56, a lanky, loose-jointed state senator from Carroll County in southwest Virginia's Republican-leaning mountain country, won the usually Democratic seat in 1944 by a write-in campaign, has held it since, despite mighty organization efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second time at last week's Republican convention in Roanoke, he found the campaign's blazing segregation issue already forced on him. As a hedge against integration, the Byrdmen -ardent states'-righters on the national scene-centralized all public-school pupil placements in Richmond, withheld state funds from...
Even so, few Virginians believe that Dalton in the general election this November will match his near-winning performance of four years ago. Dalton is already being smeared as an integrationist from one end of the state to the other. And in Harry Byrd's Virginia, few epithets are more powerful...
...Continuing an English legal tradition, Virginia still maintains Hustings Courts in Roanoke, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Richmond, which generally have concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts, normally hear criminal cases arising within each city or the area one mile beyond the corporate limits...
...rapidly moving into foreign markets. Burgeoning Bayer has recently opened plants in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; it is building another in Mexico and, together with Farbwerke Hoechst, will add still another in Pakistan. In the U.S. it owns a 50-50 interest, with Monsanto Chemical Co., in West Virginia's Mobay Chemical Co. (polyurethane plastics), and a 50% interest with Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. in Manhattan's Chemagro Corp. (insecticides...