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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1967
Page
2
President Johnson sent a large budget to Congress outlining a Vietnam war funding rise and a total military outlay of 73.1 billion dollars the largest since World War II. The plan assumes war costs rise modestly next year while home programs grow, provoking Republican charges of fiscal misrepresentation.
Reports from Peking Radio and CTK describe a major crisis in China with uprisings near Taiyuan and attempts by pro Mao forces to seize power. Army may intervene. lines blur between rebels and government as leadership struggles unfold amid international coverage and conflicting accounts.
Washington reports four California Democrats attack Clark Kerr firing as UC president and GOP Governor Reagan for ouster. Edwards Cohelan Waldie and Burton call the move a disaster and defend university independence while Younger praises Kerr’s dismissal and predicts calmer campus. The debate ties to political shifts affecting higher education.
President Johnson asks Congress for 12.3 billion in additional war spending to sustain combat operations in Vietnam. The request covers 6.8 billion for equipment and replacements, 3.3 billion for operating costs, 1.4 billion for pay and training, 0.625 billion for airfields and facilities, and 155 million for war-related R and D, with a note that costs will exceed 47 billion by mid-1968. Johnson says negotiations continue but pressure on the battlefield will persevere.
University of California students across nine campuses rallied and boycotted classes after the firing of Dr. Kerr by a 14-8 Regents vote. Protests spread to Berkeley Irvine UCLA Riverside Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz with thousands attending rallies. Leaders planned mass demonstrations and petitions while urging lawmakers to oppose Reagan's tuition cuts and budget reductions.
Four crew members died when a second helicopter was shot down after a guerrilla ambush on a U S Navy minesweeper in the Long Tau channel near Saigon. Two sailors were killed on the minesweeper, and weather hampered further strikes over North Vietnam. U S forces reported sporadic fighting in South Vietnam and ongoing air operations against targets near the border.
General Motors Chrysler and American Motors report continued auto sales declines in the first half of January. Industry wide sales drop about 21 percent from the previous year with GM at 101,444 passenger cars and Chrysler retail deliveries down 17 percent to 39,613. AMC sold 5,062 units, versus 6,590 a year earlier.
In New York a tentative settlement was reached in the strike of Local 365 cemetery workers. About 1,700 grave diggers and relatives walked out January 2, halting burials at 39 metropolitan cemeteries. Some 1,400 bodies were held in morgues and vaults as negotiations continued, with health officials monitoring the situation.
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