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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1969
Page
4
A reflection on self deception and personal duty. Galatians 6 3 cautions lofty self views while Josiah Royce urges each person to invest in independent thinking as lifeand death matter.
President Nixon details his narrowed field for Chief Justice, excluding close friends and several top figures. He stresses the choice aimed at court balance, independence from politics, and avoids religious or geographic seats. Fortas is noted as the missed candidate.
Mayor Lindsay urges big city aid through a family security plan costing about 2.1 billion dollars annually, pairing income maintenance with working poor support. Nixon favors Burns’ plan emphasizing job training and revenue sharing to reduce state welfare burdens while promoting work incentives.
A clipping alleges Lyndon B. Johnson after 1964 election hired photographer Yoichi Okamoto to shoot 250000 pictures at a cost of one million dollars to taxpayers. The project included 20 technicians and is claimed to be the largest such collection, stored in Washington with plans to move to LBJ’s Texas ranch.
A brief notice outlines a centrally located sanitary landfill method for garbage disposal. It notes location considerations and the basic approach as a municipal waste solution.
In Rabat U S friendly Morocco is cited as free from turmoil and Moscow backed insurgency. Officials say the Kremlin led network coordinates African guerrilla training and anti U S actions from Kinshasa Brazzaville to Tanzania and Zambia.
Washington note recounts Gen Omar Bradley and other leaders as good natured and humorous figures. Stories portray Bradley guiding a rookie with a rifle joke, King joking with a sailor, MacArthur hiding candy, Eisenhower borrowing a jeep, and Halsey correcting a myth about a victory message.
The piece recounts President Nixon’s rationale for selecting Warren Burger as Chief Justice, noting his obscure background and ties to anti-communist actions. It cites a Washington Merry-Go-Round excerpt describing Burger’s off the record lunch with 12 newsmen to sway opinion, and discusses Peters case and security witness controversy.
Freeman Dyson argues ABM systems could insure against cheating and ease a treaty limiting offensive weapons. He warns Safeguard's Spartan warhead has high fallout and urges reductions. Dyson submits nine point defense to the Senate committee studying Nixon’s ABM plan.
The SDS leadership urges members to obtain factory jobs to mingle with American workers and form revolutionary cadres within industry. George Meany cautions that interfering with livelihoods could provoke swift retaliation, drawing a historical parallel to a 15 year old Flint incident where communist students were expelled from plants.
A wry remark on fashion trends noting that styles deemed ugly will eventually reemerge, highlighting the cyclical nature of design and public taste.
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