22 May 1968
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Newspaper
The Gastonia Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1968
Page
1
In the Gastonia Gazette readers submit questions on election registration timelines, ambu lance service, road resurfacing, typhoid shots for river swimming, summer math classes, community concert tickets, tax refunds, blue police lights, and selective service deferment. Answers cite county officials and state departments.
American bombers and fighter-bombers pounded enemy positions from Saigon to the Central Highlands and near the DMZ. U S aircraft losses rose to 40, with a Marine intruder missing near Dong Hoi and a Skyhawk rescued after a downing north of Vinh. In the DMZ, B 52 strikes hit artillery positions and supply areas while Navy jets from Kitty Hawk targeted a radar complex northwest of Vinh.
New York AP report describes police clearing a building and arresting 31 demonstrators without incident after dawn, then a wave of students clashed with officers as a thousand police stormed the Ivy League campus at 4 25 am. A stone struck a officer in the face and blood flowed. Police charged, nightsticks failed. Early reports count at least 10 officers and 59 students treated for injuries at campus aid stations.
The Senate kept intact a provision allowing admissibility of voluntary confessions in federal prosecutions and rejected an amendment to bar eyewitness identifications. The vote maintained limited Supreme Court review powers amid a broad crime control push. Senators McClellan and Irvin argued for stronger law enforcement while Tyldings urged protecting the innocent and oppressed.
A U S intelligence map depicts nine numbered NVA divisions and several independent regiments operating in the central highlands. One NVA division, partially obscured for security, is not shown. NVA troops form part of two Viet Cong divisions flanking Saigon, with another NVA division near Cam Ranh Bay.
U S intelligence sources say North Vietnam has sent nine full divisions plus allies into South Vietnam, with the 6th and 5th Viet Cong divisions and hundreds of thousands of troops operating along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The heaviest forces are near the DMZ and northern frontier, while many infiltrate via Laos, Cambodia, and the western buffer zone.
A special committee studied the 1987 ABU referendum in Gastonia and could approve a new Valer registration for local residents. The page note references related coverage on Page 1A. The Lincoln County held start program this summer costs 03,000, per the report on Page 1A. Two prisoners escaped in Cherryville and remain at large, with further details on Page 1B. An agreement between Gastonia and Dallas on waste management is outlined on Page 1B. Luke Grooms of Lincolnton was named co chair of a state task force to review voting methods.
Activities in our area list weekly meetings including Merchants Association Chamber of Commerce at 3 pm and 6 5 pm Kaycees at Carolina Restaurant on Wednesday Rotary Club Elks Club and Dental Assistants Chamber of Commerce Thursday with Poultry Guild Gaston Choral Society at Hirst Baptist Church and Dallas Band Boasters Club at Dallas High Sebuil mudiloriun.
Paris dispatch reports the 2.2 million strong French strike expanding nationwide with major sectors idle while De Gaulle confronts a censure vote. Paris and cities like Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon face street mile anger as public services falter and food lines form amid government opposition.
Gaston County psychiatrists push emergency commitment orders to bypass admission delays at Broughton State Hospital for chronic alcoholics and narcotic addicts. Jail terms of up to three weeks are used as a step to secure immediate hospitalization, with five patients moved after sheriff treks and direct state coordination.
Houston reports the heart of a 17 year old was placed in Louis delon Fierro, the world’s 16th heart transplant recipient, at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital. The 30 minute operation by Dr. Denton A. Cooley's team occurred Tuesday night and Fierro, a Dimont, New York salesman, was listed as highly satisfactory within 30 minutes post operation.
A North Belmont retiree and his daughter were killed in a two car crash in Pascagoula Mississippi on Tuesday around 9 10 am. The Sampler family from Clearwater Lake Road and visiting James T Wilson were in one vehicle. The other car carried two teenagers. Details remain unclear as bodies were returned to Belmont.
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