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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1966
Page
1
Reports from Da Nang describe a sequence of anti government protests turning violent as a grenade explosion wounded several people. Police arrested 16 Buddhist monks and a woman amid the unrest. In Hue, the central region faced related disturbances as tensions rose.
Guerrillas overran a Hue government enclave for the first time in the war and attacked near the U.S. base as Viet Cong activity surged from Hue to Chu Lai and toward the Central Highlands. Our forces reported heavy clashes with casualties on both sides while Buddhist protests and arrests shaped the political scene in Saigon.
The Beckley Register column answers reader questions on topics from royalty to local governance. Highlights include Duke of Windsor abdication date, Raleigh County population, local laws on surfboarding, YMCA open policy, and police salary notes.
Secretary General Thich Huy en Quang of Vien Hoa Dao Pagoda denounced Tri Quang’s Hue arrest but offered little backing for protests. Quang weak from hunger strike teeters toward possible death as US instigation claims swirl. Hue police had posted rewards for other anti government leaders while violence flares near Da Nang and Hue with tear gas used on student demonstrators.
Sen Everett M Dirksen said he will seek this week to push a constitutional amendment to permit school prayers, moving from a Senate judiciary subcommittee to a Senate floor showdown. A year-long Senate aging study found the Office of Economic Opportunity lacks someone with sufficient responsibility to address the elderly poor under the administered programs.
Evangelist Billy Graham heads back to Earl's Court tonight following two sermons in Birmingham due to overflow crowds. Chinese Premier Chou En Lai toured Romanian countryside mixing sightseeing with talks on ending Western and Communist blocs. Maine primary expected to draw up to 150,000 voters by nightfall, possibly the longest in state history. National Coal Association said soft coal industry is having a good year due to electric utilities and steel demand.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said he would back President Johnson for re election in 1968 and plans to run for the Senate again in 1970. He spoke at Kennedy Airport after returning from a four nation African tour and criticized U S Voice of America for Africa while noting Chinese broadcasts have better music.
Mostly sunny and warm today with a high near 82. Clear tonight with a low around 53. Tuesday remains sunny and warm with highs in the mid 80s. Airport readings show last 24 hours high 75 and low 51, with a 0.00 inch precipitation. Greenbrier and Lake River conditions are normal and clear. Five day outlook calls for statewide normals near 81 to 86, a bit cooler late in the week, with light rain chances midweek.
General Harold K Johnson Army chief of staff says three reserve callup recommendations for the Vietnam War were overruled but he supports the outcome. He notes draft calls supplied manpower and, in hindsight, the existing course served national interests. He argued reservists would have reduced active force turbulence and sped deployment, while Joint Chiefs suggested possible emergency measures.
A noon-time accident on the West Virginia Turnpike injured an Indiana man and his wife. They were hospitalized at Beckley after swerving to avoid a head on collision, witnesses said. No names were released. The same day the Supreme Court rejected civil rights groups push to move more race related cases from state to federal courts.
French President Charles de Gaulle lands at Vnukovo-2 in Moscow amid a historic peace mission. He arrives in a World War II era uniform with a 21 gun salute as Podgorny and Kosygin greet him before top level discussions.
The Air Reduction Co and Gov. Hulett Smith announced two Hancock County plants along the Ohio River southwest of Chester. An $18 million air separation plant will serve Airco Industrial Gases and a $6 million welding wire facility will aid Welding Products. Combined output aims at 2 500 tons daily of liquid and gas.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson told West Virginia Democrats that the biggest November hurdle is voter turnout in off year elections. Speaking at a $25 dinner in Charleston, he blasted Republicans as lacking alternatives and urged re election of Sen. Jennings Randolph and local lawmakers. He praised the current Congress as a forward looking body pushing education advances and a path to a new America over the next 30 40 years.
Washington based Senate subcommittee reports the Communist Party and its front groups organized and exploited spring 1965 campus unrest. Hearings tied CPUSA via the Dubois clubs to anti Vietnam activities, saying infiltration and manipulated student grievances sparked mob actions.
In Belzoni Mississippi a tense confrontation between Negro and white residents arose as about 150 marchers at a roadblock faced a gathering of whites. The protestors, part of the Memphis to Jackson march, swelled to about 2000, with teens among the marchers, chanting for integration and expressing militant views. Police kept the two groups apart while march leaders planned a post office stop to register Black voters.
Supreme Court rejected on a 7-2 vote to apply its new police confession rules retroactively in criminal cases. Chief Justice Warren delivered the ruling, upholding 1959 robbery murder convictions of Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, two men sentenced to death for slaying a Camden toy store owner. The decision rested on whether the new constitutional code on confessions should affect convictions where direct appeals were exhausted.
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