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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1967
Page
1
Patricia Sheehan, 33, widowed mother of three, was elected mayor of New Brunswick with 6149 votes, ending 27 years of Mayor Paulus's rule. Alderman Copper Jr became the city’s first Black commissioner in a council on a non-partisan slate.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr displaying a rock hurled at his car during a South End march in Louisville. A rally of about 400 followed, as King pledged to return in a few days to lead another march and urged persistence against injustice amid tense confrontations with hecklers.
Senate critics press for end to universal conscription while Pentagon alerts July Army call of 19 900. Hatfield Young and Gruening propose limits and review steps. Russell seeks four year extension. Hershey backs college deferments. tests to end not offered this fall amid deferment questions.
The American Federation of Teachers halted picketing of Baltimore public schools as the city agreed not to press charges against more than 100 teachers arrested for violating a court injunction. The union then resumed negotiations at 3 p.m. with City Solicitor Joseph Allen.
Antiwar demonstrators reentered the Defense Department at dawn after sleeping overnight outside the Pentagon. Police kept a corridor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices open while officials weighed next steps. Two dozen officers removed demonstrators, including women on stretchers, for refusing to leave.
In Chicago Cassius Clay led a day of inquiry rally opposing U S involvement in Vietnam at the University of Chicago 1 600 gathered as lectures and a nationwide telephoned teach in from Harvard and USC voiced antiwar views Clay cited refusing induction as peace of mind and respect while others like Hans Morgenthau Henry Steele Commager and John Galbraith urged course reversal and restraint in war policy
Cassius Clay’s Texas oil venture comes in at 4770 feet producing 114 barrels daily. The well near Stockdale is listed as H. & J. Co. No ATU on LAT Harin farm. Harin firm is San Antonio based with no financial stake. Production expected to grow to full capacity in days as Clay plans more test wells and maintains 100 percent working interest.
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