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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1966
Page
6
Reports say Da Nang remained volatile as 1st Corps officers signaled discontent with Ky while Marines were held in place. Buddhist mobs, led by ascetic monks, clashed with U S forces as protests and antiwar banners spread, with tensions rising across Saigon and Hue.
Rioters pulled DeWitt and four Vietnamese from a motorcycle, beating him before he reached a house and fled rooftops to safety. The mob assaulted several American servicemen in a jeep and set the vehicle on fire. Students danced amid flames as Buddhist clashes with troops continued, with monks seen easing their youthful followers.
The State Department reaffirmed U S backing for the government of Viet Nam and its plan to move toward constitutional processes. Press Officer Marshall Wright noted Premier Ky spoke of a constitutional assembly to be convened in four to six months and urged a peaceful, Vietnamese-led solution free from Hanoi coercion.
The Red River of the North breached flood defenses as residents fled homes in North Dakota Minnesota and southern Manitoba. Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Osler Manitoba faced rising waters with thousands evacuated and estimates of 1700 in North Dakota Minnesota 2800 in Manitoba and 12000 in Morris area.
Tulsa Municipal Judge Luther Lane ruled Billy Ruth Willsey’s bare-bosomed act does not violate law when performed at an adults-only club for an audience. The dancer, 19, performed a Frog and Monkey routine in a Wednesday special showing, with Lane noting the act is popular nationally unless barred and that city officials should decide public morals concerns.
Viet Cong forces pressed operations around Saigon with major attacks 25 miles south and 0 miles northeast of the capital, drawing in U S Army units and South Vietnamese defenders. Air and naval bombers pounded Communist positions as radio contact with a key outpost was lost amid ongoing combat.
Dr Oscar Kinchen retired Texas Tech professor was guest speaker at the South Plains Scottish Rite Association Maundy Thursday observance. New officers were elected: Max Stettner president, Ellis first president, Tullus V. Walker second vice president, Shannon J. Keltz treasurer, JR. Blumrosen secretary, with Dr. Robert McCarty presiding.
London based AP reports from The Times that Ivan Svetichny 41 a Ukrainian literary critic was arrested and deported to Siberia for anti Soviet propaganda. Another writer Ivan Dzyuba 31 was questioned but released due to illness as authorities pursued charges over smuggling verses of Vass Symonanka.
Good Friday events include Miller of St Christopher's Church and Easter of St Paul speaking at respective churches. Rev Washington from St Pats to speak at St Stephen. A combined choir will perform Sir John Stainer's The Crucifixion at First Methodist Church with soloists Mrs Lovett, Bill Blake, Leslie Harrison, John Pugh, and Dr Lee Hewitt under J David Malloch. The piece marks its first post 19 year revival.
Washington AP says a low yield underground nuclear test, less than 20 000 tons of TNT, was detonated Thursday at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Nevada site. It marks the 12th weapons related underground test announced this year since the 1963 atmospheric test ban.
Gov Connally’s response to the TSTA pay dispute is noted as a potential compromise. A survey shows 166 House and 20 Senate candidates support a minimum sick leave plan costing about 25 million dollars annually, which Connally vetoed last year.
In Tilney England a boy wandering from a hotel claimed to be Batman. He wore a Batman shirt and proclaimed I am the Batman as police investigated a nearby bank holdup thwarted by routine work and his dramatic escape attempt.
Two Lubbock men, Paz and Moore, were arrested on counterfeit bill suspicions after a wash marked bill was found in Pazs possession. The pair were questioned in Dimmitt and handed to Secret Service agents who returned them to Amarillo for arraignment. A 22 caliber pistol and large knife were seized from the car. The crackdown spans Amarillo Sugar Land Wichita Falls and other towns with similar bills. Authorities say at least two more warrants were issued. No connection found to another national operation.
Cardinal Ottaviani head of Pope Paul II’s birth control commission indicated a ruling on contraceptive use by Roman Catholics could come within three months. He noted no major revision of the encyclical on artificial contraception but said final decisions rest with the 15 prelates leading an inner council. The commission remains split on the hydrogen fuel issue tied to propulsion plans for moon missions.
The family said the house had 52 years of memories and a 9 800 property value set last year by the pre tag board. A writ of possession was ordered earlier but used after the court action. Toudouze played an impromptu harmonica concert in the yard as deputies and reporters watched. He and his wife left in separate cars and workers began inventorying furniture while demolition started outside and the fence was torn down.
Senator Len Randolph called for a complete Senate investigation starting with the Naval Academy. He urged withholding expansion funds until academic program issues are disproved or fixes are made and proposed remedies for an outmoded system.
Nine unemployed Mississippi men left their four tent camp outside the White House after four days to dramatize their request for 14 million dollars in federal housing grants from the Office of Economic Opportunity. Spokesman Frank Smith said the group planned to return home for Easter and hoped for a presidential reply.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler disputes Interior Secretary Stewart Udall’s charge he opposes a Guadalupe Mountain National Park. Sadler says he supports a park but brief mineral-rights concerns remain. Udall says Texas officials largely support moving forward with park plans.
The article surveys Big Bang and Steady State models, oscillating universe ideas, and Einstein’s curved space. It notes quasars as key clues, with distant light revealing cosmic beginnings and possible future. It highlights ongoing tests and evolving views on whether the universe has a beginning, end, or endless expansion.
Cosmologists debate Big Bang versus Steady State with data from quasars leaning toward steady state. A Space Science Board report notes solar system formation from a spinning gas disk around five billion years ago, with two main theories for planet formation and a suggestion that stars with planets may be common beyond Earth.
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