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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1968
Page
8
Thousands of Muscovites jeered Orthodox priests during an outdoor Easter procession in Moscow. Police controlled the hecklers as worshipers filled churches across the city. The six hour service at Central Epiphany Cathedral was led by 91 year old Patriarch Alexei after he returned to Russia after 43 years abroad.
Arizona Democrats selected a pro Humphrey delegate slate at a four hour convention in Phoenix amid dissension and a walkout by nine delegates. The 19 votes at Chicago are forecast as 12 for Hubert H. Humphrey 2 for Robert Kennedy 1 for Eugene McCarthy and 4 uncommitted with party leaders largely Johnson loyalists.
Seventy five housewives in a show of support picketed the Chevron Oil Company in Perth Amboy New Jersey. They demanded a fair contract for their husbands and planned to pass out literature while blocking customers from buying Chevron products.
The British Conservative Party faced a deep split over immigration policy as Enoch Powell urged drastic cuts and paid returns, calling current flows a funeral pyre. Humphrey Berkeley quit the party in protest as lawmakers argued over the immigration bill ahead of a key vote.
Heads of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church began a 14 day conference to create a new 12 million member denomination. The United Methodist Church will have about 11 million members in the US and Canada and a million overseas. Delegates from 10 church unions attend the Dallas conference.
Shaw University President James Cheek addressed 200 Negro students at a Congress for the Unity of Black Students in Raleigh. He warned that nonviolence or violence could shape America's future, urging a new commitment to civil rights and the formation of a national student group. Willie E. Jones urged unity among Shaw students to form a cross-campus Negro student group.
President Johnson signs legislation extending special benefits to police killed enforcing federal law. The bill raises 850,000 retired federal workers pensions by 3.9 percent starting May 1, with an average $9 monthly increase. Also approves 2.6 billion for the Atomic Energy Commission for the coming fiscal year.
Robert R. Livingston, a leading statesman of the American Revolution, administered the oath to George Washington as he became the first president of the United States.
The 30 voice Virginia Union University choir from Richmond, Va. performs in concert at William Penn High School today at 4 p.m. under the direction of Odell Hobbs, following a spring tour of cities nationwide.
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