Congress power struggle over Cambodia war ends and government
A reflective editorial warns that anti war forces in both chambers push to end U S bombing in Indochina by attaching the Eagleton Amendment to funding bills. It notes President Nixon faces congressional resistance and calls for bipartisanship to avoid a government shutdown while managing policy toward Cambodia Laos and Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Legislative
Executive
U.S
Indochina
House
Senate
Cambodia
Vietnam
Laos
Eagleton
Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Executive Department
Melvin Laird
Mayors elect Roy Martin president in San Francisco meeting
In San Francisco the U S Conference of Mayors chose Norfolk mayor Roy Martin as president and heard optimistic remarks from Graham Watt, agent for revenue sharing funds. Delegates discussed how five year sharing revenue is spent, noting limited social welfare use and urging prudent budgeting to curb rising public service demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Norfolk
Roy Martin
Graham Watt
Danville
Watt
Pittsylvania County
Manna
Washington
Left Wing Plot Theory in Big Budget JFK Film
A major film in early development stars Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan. The project promotes a controversial view that John F. Kennedy was assassinated not by Lee Harvey Oswald but as part of a broader plot involving unnamed conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burt Lancaster
Robert
Ryan
John F. Kennedy
Lee
Harvey Oswald
Atomic energy and political meddling in energy policy
AEC delays in expanding uranium enrichment and private centrifuge investment draw fire. Authors Abajian and Fishman argue foreign rivals modernize gas centrifuges faster, threatening U.S. energy independence while politics and ecologists hinder oil, gas, and nuclear plans. a shift toward private, rapid development is urged. The piece also critiques fictionalized history in cinema linking energy and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtry
Alaska
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Edward Yeller
Vincent Abajian
Alan Fishman
Physics Today
Abajian
Electro-Nucleonics
United States
Mr. Fishman
Gerhot Zippe
U.S
Fishman
Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation
A&c
Almelo
Netherlands
Washington
Education Left and Right in Davis and Welch
A Washington reviewer contrasts Angela Davis and Robert Welch as embodying education left and right. Davis, a Birmingham native linked to militant black nationalism and controversial trials, is paralleled with Welch, founder of the John Birch Society and author of The Romance of Education. The essay cites Justice, political prison notions, and cultural decline, arguing Western civilization has been warped by communism and conspiratorial forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolf Hochuth
Pope Pius
Winston Churchill
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Inquest
Donald Freed
Washington
Bd.c
Angela Davis
Robert Welch
Miss Davis
Birmingham
New York
William Howard Melish
Howard Marcuse
Europe
America
Welch
John Birch Society
University of North Carolina
U.S. Naval Academy
Harvard Law School
Will Durant
Western Island
South
California
Marin County
J. A
Jay) Parker
Arlington House
Mr. Welch
Parker
Elisberg
United States
Durant
Bertrand Russell
Sinclair Lewis
Pearl Buck
Jay Parker
Paper Jungle of Red Tape Blights Business Costs
A Washington dispatch reports five billion new federal records are created yearly, costing three dollars per square foot to store. The burden extends to small business, adding at least two billion dollars in information demand. A Hoover Commission style reform is urged to curb the growing paper trail and looming paper shortages amid pollution-driven mill closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Dispatch
Washington
Hoover Commission
Eisenhower
Bureau of the Budget
Congress
Reader Letter Questions Danville Course On the Supernatural
A local reader urges scrutiny of Rev Barber and Danville High School literature course titled The Supernatural and Science Fiction. The letter questions course origin, electives, graduation requirements, and the motives behind Barber's campaign while defending exposure to varied ideas as part of education. It urges administrators and teachers be consulted and cautions against turning private concerns into a public religious controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register
BR. J. Barber
Danville
Barber
Danville Register Subscription Rates Notice
The Danville Register lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions. In city and suburbs by carrier 50c per week. single copies 10c. Sunday only 20c. by mail one year 20 dollars, six months 10.50, three months 5.25, monthly 1.75. notice mailed 10 days before expiration. renewals should be promptly renewed.
Also Mentioned on This Page
White House
Jeffrey Hart
Grey
John Chamberlain
Texas
C.sa
Warren Commission
Oswald
Albert H. Newman
Rosenbergs
Donald ‘Freed
Invest
Dalton Trumbo
Hollywood Ten
Mark Lane
Herbert Magdison
Los Angeles
Dr. Strangelove
U.N
Julius
Ethel
Seoul
Movement
Holmes al Os Alexander Stories of
Monroe
News-Star
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!