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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1968
Page
1
Cincinnati reports say snipers fired on about 18 officers as they moved into Millvale to quell a disturbance. A crowd of about 500 hurled rocks and bottles. warnings were fired into the air. Two youths were hurt lightly and several arrests followed.
Members of United Steelworkers Local 2116 vote today in Portsmouth on ratifying a contract with Detroit Steel Corp. Both sides reached a weekend agreement on local issues and the company will adopt any economic settlement negotiated for the basic steel industry.
Inside Today reports HERVIN WOOTEN of Point Pleasant Route 1, age 18, killed in an auto accident. A Radford Road home suffered a $10,000 fire. President's Riot Commission ends its work as the year ends, city officials consider Nelsonville water rate increase. Lancaster defeats Athens 8-6 to win American Legion district championship.
Miami Beach Florida Republicans opened 1968 platform drafting with Senate leader Dirksen urging neutrality to avoid barbed planks. He warned a platform tailored to a nominee would not fit if another candidate won. Melvin Laird urged a fresh, aggressive platform to appeal as “young blood and exciting ideas” and avoid obstructionist image.
Pope Paul VI banned the contraceptive pill and all mechanical and chemical birth control for Catholics, signaling that rhythm methods should not be used regularly. He stated every sexual act must remain open to life and rejected easing the ban despite commission recommendations. The decision precedes his Latin America trip, with theologians noting possible nuanced allowances in individual cases.
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy urged diverting most of the Vietnam war budget to city problems, proposing a massive job program and city planned housing and health initiatives as the war de-escalates. He pressed for a domestic focus alongside ending the war.
AP reports top level steel labor talks forced a one day delay in the United Steelworkers Executive Committee meeting. President I W Abel and chief negotiator R Conrad Cooper were tied up as industry negotiations near contract expiry. The Basic Steel Industry Conference may delay again with a nationwide strike uncertain.
Memphis Tennessee AP report on Judge W Preston Battle appointing eight attorneys to study possible publicity violations in the James Earl Ray murder case. Defense counsel Arthur J Hanes called an international Communist conspiracy claim and spoke at an airport news conference challenging jail rights. The judge had issued a publicity order and later narrowed it to prevent prejudicial interviews.
Prague and Moscow opened historic discussions on Czechoslovakia's liberal reforms with about 40 Czechoslovak leaders including Dubcek arriving by train near the border. Soviet leaders Brezhnev and Kosygin traveled to the site as Pravda criticized Western propoganda while Smrkovsky warned against yielding on press freedom.
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