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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1968
Page
2
News Tribune notes show William H. Weldon as publisher and Robert Blosser as president. The page carries a Jefferson quote about fearing truth and tolerating error, urging free reason in public discourse.
The piece argues Cuba under Fidel Castro exploits hijackings to Havana as a bargaining tool. It urges a total economic squeeze, suspending trade and Freedom Flights, and pressuring allies to cut Cuban trade until hijackers are returned for prosecution. The author links Congress laws as insufficient and calls for decisive U.S. action to stop aerial piracy.
A Vacaville California public school district teachers group votes to forgo salary improvements to secure more teaching materials and programs for 6,000 students. The superintendent called the move unique noting uncertainty about past or future raises. The WSJ provided the excerpt.
Everett Herald notes more than 500000 high school dropouts yearly later rejoin education. Some enroll in other schools and adult programs, many graduate. others earn diplomas during military service, underscoring gaps in earlier studies.
The piece surveys a global shift to strict policing and firm leadership, highlighting San Francisco State College under acting president Dr. S. I. Hayakawa as a focal point. It notes 800 police called in, 80 arrests in four days, and support from Governor Reagan and Mayor Alioto. It frames the era as a decisive test of liberalism versus authority.
Congressional Quarterly reports the incoming Nixon Administration could gain about 6,500 federal patronage jobs with minimum annual salaries near 1.064 billion. The jobs, mainly top policy making posts, exceed Civil Service covered positions and depend on presidential appointment, agency rules, or noncompetitive examinations. the trend toward career service continues though exemptions remain for elite postings.
Washington notes recall many famous quips from 1968 that officials wish they could take back. A parade of advisers, politicians, and executives delivered sharp lines to De Gaulle, Lindsay, Nixon, Rockefeller, Humphrey, and others as the era’s tumult deepened.
Robert E. Slaughter of McGraw-Hill Inc. argues at a motion pictures and television engineers meeting that computers will revolutionize learning not by direct instruction but by inventorying a student’s achievements and suggesting the next steps. He notes current learning level judgments are broad and arbitrary, and a computer’s precise individualized determinations could constitute an education miracle. From Dallas, Texas, Nanco.
Henry Taylor argues Defense Secretary Melvin Laird inherits deep budget pressures from the McNamara era. He claims inflation and inflated war costs, hidden from Congress, strain U.S. forces worldwide and threaten naval and Army readiness while highlighting rising personnel and equipment expenses.
Preliminary work on the two phase Highway 50 expressway will run from the West End Fire Station east to the Moreau River Bridge, district engineer Virgil Saville said today. The item appears in a Jefferson City Almanac column noting December 30 1853 events and future plans.
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