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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1968
Page
11
Daily Telegraph asks four Virginians and an Indiana resident about a new surtax and a 6 billion federal budget cut. E. E. McGee supports tax control. Mrs Hawkins Oscar Asbury and Mrs Williams oppose higher taxes, calling for tax relief and different targets.
Paris report describes a growing clash between Communists and student revolutionaries shaping France's left. Young workers are drawn to student tactics while CGT leaders steer strikes, sometimes after action. The piece notes tensions, mutual denouncement, and calls for reform amid a national crisis.
The body of Ronald Sims of Gallipolis Ohio was recovered at Crab Creek near Point Pleasant West Virginia, identified as the 34th victim of the Silver Bridge disaster with 46 dead and two still missing.
The Treasury Department sets a Monday deadline to redeem silver certificates at the New York or San Francisco Assay Offices by 3 p.m. After Monday no more silver will be available on demand though certificates remain legal tender. The move follows a 1967 law ending the redeemable silver certificate era.
Residents of East Orchard Mesa Colorado held their 41st annual ham dinner on a Sunday in peach blossom season. Proceeds funded the community building and equipment with new funds planned for further improvements.
Results list from a county fair division detailing winners in classes eight through ten. Coffee Break ridden by Rena Payne of North Tazewell won class eight, Dapple Darling with Kim Jones of Tazewell second, and Whistler owned by Richlands My ers in third. Melody's Go Boy ridden by Claude Boyd earned top in class nine with Commons Merry Lady second and Revenger third. Dynamite owned and ridden by Clyde Stevenson of Pounding Mill took first in class ten, with Raven Lloyd Alcorn of Pounding Mill second and Thunder Cecil Preece of Grundy third.
Louis Harris survey conducted June 10–17 shows Democrats Humphrey and McCarthy ahead of Nixon in the 1968 White House race two weeks after RFK's assassination. Nixon trails both major Democratic contenders, with Rockefeller fading less than in 1960, and Wallace remaining a third-party factor.
In Trivandrum, Kerala, a Communist coalition minister walked to the office cafeteria to get his own tea after workers blocked his office boy from fetching it. The incident highlights tensions between officials and staff in the state government.
Virginia commission heard from Roy Sutherland and other Southwest Virginians urging end to election secrecy. Proposals include open records and limiting absentee ballots to servicemen students and the disabled. Other recommendations cover registration reform four year terms for delegates and a state court of appeals with longer session periods.
A brokerage wire economist forecasts growth in business activity for the second half of the year at about half the pace of the first half. Forecasts cite steel and auto inventory effects, federal spending cuts, and monetary policy lag effects. Also notes potential stock market volatility, steel union dynamics, and upcoming smoking health studies.
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