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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1968
Page
14
The Deckers Creek Valley hosts a multi day non commercial festival from Thursday to Saturday highlighting parades arts and crafts displays and a street festival. The event celebrates local heritage with a focus on community pride and a better tomorrow for the area.
May 1968 brought record rainfall at Morgantown Airport and the Morgantown Lock and Dam with a 2.16 inch gap between them. Climatologist Robert Weedfall notes historical patterns suggesting a very wet summer similar to 1933, urging gardeners to adjust planting for hot months and heavy rains.
The article notes signs the liberal leaning Supreme Court may be edging right. It cites Justices Marshall Black Stewart White and Harlan, highlighting mixed rulings and evolving positions on Vietnam, capital punishment, fair housing, and local government cases.
The court favored issue over personality, upholding police stop and frisk and blocking school desegregation plans as too slow. It curbed loyalty oaths, extended apportionment locally, and blocked firing Communists from defense plants. Chief Justice Warren’s resignation colors a term leaning right to balance individual rights with societal needs.
A humorous Q and A from New York experts on the 1960s presidential race. It jokes about Humphrey as the Edsel of candidates and Nixon as a sales pitch, noting public preference for alternatives and intraparty tensions amid the 1968 election setting.
A New York Times analysis notes President Johnson avoided provoking France and backed a calm approach to De Gaulle. It credits his restraint after the 1966 expulsion of NATO headquarters and his ambassador Bohlen for maintaining Franco American ties amid domestic French concerns.
President Johnson faces a push from conservatives to delay replacing Earl Warren and to let the next elected president choose. The piece compares Marshall’s 1801 precedent and suggests Johnson may nominate Abe Fortas, while noting Johnson and Warren both oppose Richard Nixon.
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