03 Apr 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1969
Page
1
The event at Fort Braggy, held on Armed Forces Day, May 17, showcases new warfare techniques, helicopters, paratroopers and simulated battles over a Saturday and Sunday. Use any standard road map to navigate to Fort Braggy, with no preplanned shortcut route.
Reader complains that lobby signs in the City County Building still list Municipal Court and solicitors, though the district court and prosecutors are now in effect. Building Superintendent Paul James plans temporary fixes and eventual proper signage to clearly identify magistrate offices and bulletin boards.
A reader asks if seeing-eye cats exist and if the State School for the Blind runs a cat roundup. Another notes bank secrecy rules and IRS proof requirements. Also complaints about parking signs on Cable Street prompt Traffic Division action and a request to call Action Line.
North Carolina lawmakers push a visiting speaker regulation for state colleges citing Stokely Carmichael’s 1963-64 campus visits. The bill would require sponsor applications to campus presidents with appeals to courts, listing nine denial grounds from sensationalism to alleged revolutionary activity. Representative Mohn says the measure follows constitutional guidance and aims to prevent incitement.
Detroit Free Press reports Nixon officials consider unilateral troop withdrawal from Vietnam if Paris talks fail. Up to 50,000 U.S. troops could be home by year end, though no timetable exists. Plan would shift war effort to Saigon, with U.S. combat roles gradually diminishing but war continuing.
Palm Springs police and reinforcements from up to 100 miles away struggled to quell two days of violence and nudist crowds. Nearly 300 arrests were made for drunkenness or disturbing the peace as rock shows drew thousands, with injuries and a reported shooting incident. Police described the troublemakers as a rowdy group, while hospital spokesmen noted 146 youths treated, including overdoses and burns from hot coals.
The widow Mamie Eisenhower, after the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower, visits the chapel near the Eisenhower Center in Abilene Kansas. About 100000 people crowded the town of 8000 for the final tribute as guards and officials secure the grounds. The granite vault holds the late general with a simple GI coffin, a spray of gladiolas marking the resting place.
Atlanta AP report notes a year after Martin Luther King Jr. death the Southern Christian Leadership Conference faces renewed difficulties sustaining impact as a social change force. Factors include growing acceptance of racial change, rise of black separatism, and antiwar activism drawing away energy from Negro rights.
President Ludvik Svoboda led a group of government leaders on a trip to Brno to inspect the nation’s military academy. The move came as Grechko and Semyonov remained in Prague amid tensions over press crackdowns and anti-Soviet demonstrations sparked by the hockey defeat of the Russians.
Mecklenburg legislators push a local liquor by the drink bill that could trigger statewide mixed drinks. Sen. Herman Moore says the plan mirrors past liquor regulation steps, with counties voting in referendums while state control expands later. The statewide measure, backed by the Travel Council, would let municipalities holding ABC stores stage referendums on mixed drinks if 15 percent petition, with licenses to qualifying restaurants if approved. Methodist and Baptist leaders oppose the proposal in likely early debate.
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