Editor and Publisher Char. Al Guy Featured on Page 12
Char. Al Guy serves as editor and publisher, with page 12 highlighting his role and contributions to the newspaper.
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1970
Page
7
Char. Al Guy serves as editor and publisher, with page 12 highlighting his role and contributions to the newspaper.
Memorial Day in Lubbock will include a national day of prayer for permanent peace proclaimed by President Nixon with a 11 am to noon hour of united supplication. He also directs half staff all day on federal buildings and vessels. A local memorial for May 11 tornado victims will be added with a 10 am service at City of Lubbock Cemetery involving veterans and citizens.
President Nixon appeared in Knoxville Tennessee at a Billy Graham event to praise spiritual progress and emphasize non political support. The Knoxville audience of about 120000, a college town home to the University of Tennessee, greeted him with evident goodwill and listened attentively as he spoke of unity and national spirit.
The column mocks Senator Fulbright for calling South Vietnam's Nguyen Ky an "Asian Agnew" and discusses his Knoxville trip seen as political ahead of June 2 primaries and November elections. It notes 70 000 supporters and 300 protesters while praising the President's Knoxville appearance and urging restraint from critics.
The New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony fielded teams in a playful baseball game. The Phils defeated the Symphs 16 to 9 after five innings as music director Leopold Stokowski, age eighty, threw out the first ball.
The article argues the main task is persuading North Vietnam and the Viet Cong to negotiate meaningfully in Paris. It notes antiwar protests have shifted focus from Cambodia to ending the war and warns that without Soviet and Chinese backing, peace remains unlikely as U.S. troop withdrawals proceed.
Local talk surrounds June 14 as a formal Flag Day effort in Lubbock. Veterans groups and civic clubs could form a Committee of the Whole to organize a strong Stars and Stripes remembrance, countering attacks on Old Glory and inviting broad public participation.
Marianne Means reports Muskie advisers urge Sen Edmund Muskie to shift from speeches to building a full time campaign network including fundraising and promotion. Jack Valenti joins as a key adviser while church membership trends and church politics frame potential support amid broader political shifts.
An opinion piece railing at the spread of labor strikes and public-sector protests. It condemns sanitation workers in Hell City for an illegal three day walkout after a small pay raise, attacks officials and unions, and portrays a broader national pattern of surrender to perceived bullies. It also notes Muskie campaign planning and a revived Ringling Brothers show with Europeanized production and new stars.
A collage of Q and A jokes and notes covers topics from greyhounds and whales to tadpoles bears and tobacco. It includes trivia on teeth in whales and shingle life spans, plus a quip about 13th century handholding in England and Hollywood street chatter.
A man recalls a friend who humorously describes a woman who cooked for him years ago. Each evening she carried a paper sack with colored scraps and bits from fruit and vegetables, saying she took it home to “put it in my own garbage.”
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