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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1975
Page
2
The Danville Crusade launches nightly with Rev Dr Grady Wilson delivering the opening sermon. Ministers from 100 congregations back the effort to spread good news to both saints and sinners within a 50 mile radius, offering spiritual refreshment and moral uplift for the community.
The northern Mariana Islands voters backed a covenant to form a U S commonwealth with 78.5 percent in favor among 4 650 voters and 87 percent turnout under a United Nations observation. If approved by steps to come, the islands would join Guam as a forward base in the Pacific and extend U S strategic reach.
South Vietnamese doctors and families settle in small towns like Loup City Nebraska, where locals pledge support for a year or two while they await legal practice and medical exams. The Van Hoang and Minh Tri families, from prominent Vietnamese cities, praise rural life despite limited social and cultural amenities. Communities hope more such citizens join America's smaller towns.
A columnist jokes about nature shows shaping children and warns against overimpressed views as species kill one another. A magazine claims American youth harbor age prejudice. The piece questions chauvinism in sports, notes proper conduct by a renowned figure, and hints at costs and crew behind amplification and lighting for an event.
Analyzed are Democrats’ failed strategies to stop George Wallace from winning the 1960s race. The piece argues Wallace endures due to elite-populace rift and urges policies addressing crime, pornography, and national power to curb his appeal. It cites Mosca on elite rule and calls for real reforms over hollow ploys.
Chaplain at Furman University reflects on learning to let go in life and relationships. He frames letting go as an art requiring courage, faith, timing, and trust, using examples from family and education to show how people balance goodbye with continued meaning and renewal. He insists that openness to new gifts follows relinquishing the past and that mature bonds endure despite change.
Russell Kirk questions CIA murders plots and assassinations linked to the Kennedy years. He cites Fidel Castro Diem Trujillo Lumumba and other figures, suggesting secrecy and treason in Washington while Kennedy and Kennedy faced scrutiny from Congress.
Barry Goldwater criticizes school ideals as Washington unrest unfolds. Readers blame students and out of towners, while a nonparticipant loses an eye amid the disorder. The column weighs civic responsibility, gun control talk, and the capital’s response.
Rex Partington, Barter Theatre producing director in Abingdon, joined a troupe volleyball game on Barter residence lawn and broke his left leg. He returns to curtain speeches despite crutches and a walking cast, saying he was seeking a cast for his next show not a leg.
A witty remark plays on psychiatric jargon about a man not having his head screwed on right implying his shaving becomes a chore. The line hints at the comical or puzzling nature of mental-health slang influencing daily grooming tasks.
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