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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1969
Page
4
A reflective note drawing on Job and Thomas Jefferson to emphasize steering life by hope. It links confidence and protection with safe rest, framing hope as a compass against fear in challenging journeys.
Public Safety Director David W. Craig outlined dramatic shifts in policing expected by 1980. He predicted college training for one third of big city officers, higher pay for detectives, and a move toward investigative specialists. He projected specialized vehicles with teletype and radar, overhead turbine helicopters, non lethal weapons, expanded computers, and growing federal crime grants reaching two billion by 1980.
In Kennedy counsel, Edward Kennedy weighs whether to seek the 1972 Democratic nomination or wait until 1976. With Nixon's Vietnam stance and party dynamics shaping the field, strategists fear a possible bid alongside strong opponents, while some urge a decisive run to shape the party's fate.
Johnnie White his wife Ethel and son Dwayne were involved in the July shooting of two police officers in Washington D C. One officer died immediately and the other was seriously wounded. Johnnie pleaded guilty to second degree murder with intent to kill and awaits sentencing. Dwayne was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to an institution for the criminally insane. Mrs White pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and placed on probation.
A Washington piece argues American team creativity rivals cathedral building and Renaissance art. It links advances in science and industry to collaborative labs, notes knowledge doubles every seven years, and urges educators to teach current techniques as prep for future breakthroughs.
Readers are urged to recall how headlines misread Church practices as Papal changes. The piece defends continued use of traditional head coverings and explains calendar revisions to honor universal saints. It cautions against sensational reporting and notes the value of intercessory prayers.
Russell Kirk discusses California's State Board of Education guidelines on sex education for public schools. The plan emphasizes home responsibility, a school and church supportive role, voluntary courses, trained instructors, parental involvement, and careful materials review.
The Nixon administration moves to replace Kennedy holdovers with Nixon men, aiming for orderly changes at the top. Officials like Blount Romney and Finch push out incumbents while Attorney General Mitschell trims U.S. Attorneys. the purge faces resistance but expectations run high for near full staffing of policymaking posts by year’s end. Kennedy and Gibbons clash over the 10 percent surtax, with Kennedy arguing its inflation control and Europe’s confidence, while Gibbons warns tax cuts may not curb inflation.
The senator notes rising wedding costs since the old days of a license and a ladder. He expects Nelson Rockefeller to return with many facts from his Latin American tour for the President, but hopes he will not overstep and throw them.
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