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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1964
Page
4
A columnist predicts a dangerous period of racial strife following recent subway and ferry attacks by young Blacks in New York. He critiques civil rights leaders and courts while warning that leaders anticipate a long hot summer that could drive a deeper racial divide.
In Congress the pledge of 12 million dollars in counterpart funds to save the 3,000-year-old Nubian temples at Abu Simbel faced opposition from Rep. Rooney and Rep. Bow. State Department officials explained the project must proceed before rising Nile waters behind the Aswan Dam. The House Appropriations Committee voted against allocating any U S funds to rescue the monuments.
Washington columnist criticizes Rep. Wilbur Mills for blocking Medicare and endorses an Administration plan tying elderly medical care to Social Security payroll contributions. Proposals favor expanded Social Security funded care with three hospital benefit options and a six percent increase in benefits. Congress faces a clash over whether to pass the Medicare bill or keep Mills’ committee hold.
Fifty years ago the Senate passed a $14 million naval appropriation bill. Forty years ago President Coolidge signed an income tax reduction bill. Thirty years ago Consolidated Bus Lines president Jack Craft announced the purchase of Black Diamond Bus Lines and Logan Transit Co.
Twenty years ago an attempt by Nazi paratroopers to capture Yugoslav leader Tito failed. President Eisenhower stated his administration had been effective in removing Red sympathizers from the federal government.
The piece argues that the Bobby Baker affair implicates the Presidency, not just Lyndon Johnson as a political figure. It asserts Johnson must curtail the investigation to uphold presidential duty, condemning political coverups and urging decisive action to avoid a whitewash.
Art Buchwald humorously recounts taking out a loan in Washington and then offering to repay early. Bank officials react with suspicion and talk of free enterprise. guards draw guns briefly as they reinterpret debt repayment as subversion. The twist ends with a quip about buying a big boat.
Russell Kirk argues that violent rhetoric by Malcolm X and Dr. Louis Lomax risks turning white Americans against civil rights progress and may provoke backlash in elections. He urges nonviolent, lawful pressure to secure equality and warns that revolutions devour their own children.
The Department of Justice pursues authority to limit how many newspapers a city may have and who may own them amid a debate on press freedom. The Cincinnati case highlights tensions between antitrust law, unions, and newsroom consolidation driven by economic pressures and potential mergers.
The poem depicts wind shaking woodbine and hemlocks while rain floods the road and lake. A solitary speaker asks a cricket for cheer but sings the grandeur of a summer shower. Nature dominates as crickets sleep under wet stones and birds stay silent.
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