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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1967
Page
1
A youngster travels through college, showing parents how to manage with less. Expect another rainy, cool day with clearing tonight. Highs reach 53 to 59, then a cool low near 40. Monday looks fair and warmer.
Area notes highlight a 1966-67 university year ending in vandalism theft and cheating with exams. A Core couple earns high school diplomas. Three young musicians aid Cancer Crusade. Alumni prep for a big weekend and more community items across pages 3A 4A 7A 10A 11A.
Three U S airmen were led through Hanoi main streets as crowds shouted. A France AFP dispatch says the pilots were later shown to newsmen at the International Press Club in Hanoi. Athens junta abolishes free elections for municipal leaders and disbands local unions in 52 prefectures.
Gregory Calvert, national secretary of the SDS, told a Chicago gathering that the group is actively organizing sedition and building a guerrilla force in urban society as it intensifies New Left radicalization.
Family Weekly presents 21 best comics across 8 pages, plus a 16 page Family section. Features comic strips and related features aimed at households seeking light entertainment and weekly reading.
Louisville police report the 93rd Kentucky Derby completed without incident as civil rights groups held a quiet parade through a near deserted downtown. Authorities had feared disruption from open housing activists, with about 1,500 local and state officers on duty to secure the event.
The Selective Service System weighs how to handle about 31 000 reservists turned over to draft boards for delinquent weekend drills. A random lottery plan will draft 19 year olds first, with some reservists facing two more years of service due to prior active duty. King says protests at the Derby were avoided to protect security, while housing demonstrators pressed for fair housing laws in Louisville.
Notre Dame in South Bend shifts operating control from religious order to lay administrators after 125 years of rule. Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh announces the move, making Notre Dame the first major Roman Catholic university to place governing power in lay hands.
Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance urged a national sense of balance on the Vietnam war at the West Virginia Episcopal convention. He defended U S bombing restraint, criticized communist tactics, and warned against moral equivocation while stressing leadership and a just war aim.
In Richmond Virginia a group of Ku Klux Klan security guards attacked the car of George F Dorset the former chaplain of Imperial Kludd Greensboro NC during a rally marking the 100th anniversary. His maroon Cadillac convertible was rocked and stoned as around 20 guards yelled curses and threats. A shot hit a tire as Dorset and three companions sped away. Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa Alabama refused to comment saying the Klan handles its own problems.
The National Rifle Association calls on its 800,000 members to organize armed civilian posses to deter urban rioting and home intruders. The NRA magazine argues against federal gun control and warns that police alone cannot stop mob violence in cities from Chicago to Los Angeles. It cites 6,700 National Guardsmen deployed for disorders in Omaha, Chicago and Cleveland last July.
Kansas City reports former President Harry S. Truman will spend his 83rd birthday quietly at his Independence home. For the first time since leaving the White House in 1953 he will skip the customary large Kansas City celebration organized by friends.
North Vietnamese forces fired 92 mortar rounds at Hill 881 as U S Marines held the summit after a 12 day fight. One Marine died and six were wounded in the exchange near the DMZ while reports from Hanoi described captured pilots paraded through the city amid anti American crowds.
Washington reports Travis Cross former press secretary to Sen Mark Hatfield joins Gov George Romney campaign for the 1968 Republican nomination. The move marks a significant breakthrough for Romney in securing a high profile aide.
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