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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1968
Page
5
The text recalls 1868 newspaper ads praising galvanic batteries as cures for partial paralysis of the optic nerve and neuralgia, and magnetic garments claimed to cure all diseases without medicine. It notes public belief in electric therapy and battery-powered shock devices hawked as cures, with early uses of electricity in daily devices and machines.
More than 200 Negro college students from Orangeburg forced abrupt adjournment of the South Carolina Senate to press Gov. McNair for a hearing on demonstrations that left three dead. Police arrested two dozen in the gallery as shouting broke out. students marched around the State House carrying signs blaming the governor for a police riot and the Orangeburg Massacre.
Nixon warned of possible cooler summer in troubled cities as he urged preparations to meet racial violence. He called for swift retaliation against perpetrators, pressed for nonmilitary measures, and said private enterprise must help rebuild cities while arguing for a broader peace beyond Vietnam. He spoke on NBC radio amid NH primary campaigning.
In northeast Florida the hunt continues for five missing airmen after two light planes vanished. A Comanche 260 wreckage was found in a marsh between Jacksonville and Fernandina Beach. The plane carried John Hawkins, owner of Gateway Aviation, and flight instructor Philip Griffin, who departed Craig Field Wednesday. A Civil Air Patrol crew of three Jacksonville officials flew Tuesday night from St Augustine toward Jacksonville. Names include Hershell Wood, Bob Hill, and Emmett Smith, all of Jacksonville.
Virginia senators Byrd and Spong joined the Senate majority to back an amendment by Sen. Byrd to narrow coverage of the open housing section of the civil rights bill. The vote stood 48 to 45.
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