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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1968
Page
4
A page from a Lubbock Texas issue dated Tuesday June 18 1968 shows a pledge dedication and publisher note. The section is identified as Page 4 Section A ga CHAS A GUY fidnor and Publisher OUR PLEDGE. It asserts allegiance to the flag and to the nation with the motto one Nation under God indivisible with Liberty and justice for all.
Senator Byrd calls for the camp at West Potomac Park to be cleared from Federal property by a June 23 deadline. He urges Ramsey Clark and Stewart Udall to seal off the site, arrest violators, remove protesters, and tear down the shantytown if the group refuses to leave. The camp faces health and safety issues, with limited cleanup turnout and rising tensions.
In a rare compliment, Justice William O. Douglas is lauded for leading the dissent in a 6 to 2 ruling applying federal wage and hour laws to state education and hospital employees. The piece argues the decision intrudes on state sovereignty and fiscal policy under the 10th Amendment, while praising Douglas as vigilant in defending federalism.
The Justice Department secured a conviction against Tom T. Collins for violating the Federal Firearms Act. He allegedly sold over 1,250 guns to the Chicago street gang the Blackstone Rangers, amid concerns the group was not planning a rabbit hunt.
The Federal District Court found Dr. Benjamin Spock and Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. guilty on a narrow conspiracy charge to counsel avoidance of Selective Service. The jurors held the conspiracy proved and warned dissent does not excuse illegal acts while noting the lawfulness of the government’s war authority. The verdict will be appealed, but punishment should follow.
A Washington subcommittee meeting on violence degenerates into chaotic banter as members chase unrelated topics, joke about murders and politics, and threaten adjournment. The session ends with a plan to reconvene tomorrow for more reading.
Washington reports the Supreme Court upholds police power to stop and frisk individuals at public gatherings when a reasonably prudent person would fear for safety. The ruling states officers need not have probable cause to arrest to conduct on the spot checks for weapons.
West German student leader Dutschke vows violence to free individuals from bureaucracy while seeking tacit support from organized labor and the military. The piece notes the fragile cross ties with Big Labor and the army, and warns of a potential shift in German politics amid calls for gun control and police powers.
State Superintendent L A Woods orders elimination of segregation of Mexican and other Latin American descent in all grades higher than first in Texas public schools. Also notes atomic plane predictions, Gromyko remarks, a $1000 reward for a bombing case, a chest X-ray center anecdote, and a light quote from Robert Sylvester.
Nelson Rockefeller faced pressure from New York labor and civil rights circles to name a Black civil rights leader to replace the late Robert Kennedy. Possible picks include Roy Wilkins or Whitney Young, with James Farmer as a GOP option. Rockefeller risks blunting GOP unity if he crosses party lines.
A guest editorial mocks a London protest by 20 flower children who stripped costumes in a washroom. Police order the group to begonia while leader Nick Flowerdew calls the move ranunculus, and the piece argues for lenient treatment of demonstrations and broader human rights.
The 14 year old Robert L Walters of Russell Kansas has won the National Spelling Bee and spends spare time reading dictionaries. The piece notes dictionary reading can be an intellectual diversion and mentions a Scotchman’s quip about stories in dictionaries.
Howard Mills, a Middletown builder, replaced a hated water tank by selling land for a new million gallon tank and surrounding office space topped by a revolving restaurant. The city now taxes a $750000 complex, earning $10000 annually while hiding the tank behind a five to eight foot spacing and a cantilevered top floor that rotates hourly.
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