06 Apr 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1970
Page
1
Readers ask about sheriff department qualifications and application routes in Guilford County. Answers note high school education, good character, age limit 37 with exceptions for experience, and applications from the sheriff’s offices in High Point or Greensboro or by mail.
The passage notes Oxford and Webster word lengths including flocci paucinihilipilification and pneumonaultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis. It then describes a local spot bid sale at Disposal Building 1116 Camp Lejeune on Thursday April 9 with registration at 8:30 and sale at 9:30, listing items like office equipment and mismatched boots. Similar auctions follow April 17 in Williamsburg and April 8 in Norfolk with odd items such as abrasive vegetable agitators and an impedance bridge.
Senate defeated a motion to recommit Judge G Harrold Carswell’s nomination to the Judiciary Committee signaling a likely confirmation vote. Opponents led by Birch Bayh had sought to delay, while supporters cited Nixon’s backing and recent statements by Senators Percy and Dodd shifting momentum. The confirmation vote was scheduled for Wednesday.
Two gunmen killed four highway patrolmen in a nighttime gun battle near a mountain cafe. One seized a hostage in a house for hours before officers stormed the siege, capturing the wounded suspect. The other gunman fled, was captured after a camper exchange of gunfire, and the second suspect Talbert was wounded and detained nearby.
Dr. Sam Sheppard the former osteopath convicted then acquitted in his wife’s slaying died at his Ohio home after a brief illness. Lawyer F Lee Bailey cited a cancer claim Sheppard confided earlier this year. An autopsy was planned as Colleen Sheppard, his third wife, commented on the death.
Gov. Claude Kirk takes custodial control of Manatee County schools defying desegregation orders. He suspends the school board and superintendent and directs students to attend their prior schools while asserting the action is in the children’s best interest. Judge Krentzman says he will respond promptly and warns contempt for interference.
West German Ambassador Karl Von Sprell was found shot in a roofless mud hut near Guatemala City after being kidnapped on Tuesday. Guatemalan security forces searched the capital as FAR demands for 22 jailed members and 700000 dollars ransom failed. The incident prompted Brandt to urge security cooperation and warned of possible diplomatic repercussions.
Washington based IMF forecast sees wages rising sharply less profit drop and a beginning slowdown in price advances for the American economy in the coming year. IMF, a United Nations agency, promotes trade through currency stabilization with Euro dollars and monitors the U S domestic economy as a key world market influence.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield predicts Nixon’s plan to raise letter postage to ten cents will fail. Mansfield notes first class mail profits under the six-cent rate would be hurt by any four-cent jump. Senator Gale McGee, chair of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, had already rejected the proposal.
McGee signaled a possible one cent raise and a two cent ceiling as hearings proceed on a presidential proposal tied to last week's settlement with seven postal unions. The two step 14 percent boost includes 6 percent for federal workers and mail workers could gain 8 percent after a Post Office reform bill becomes law. Estimated package cost is $3 billion with Nixon’s 10 cent stamp plan adding $2.3 billion. Mansfield aims for midweek floor action and cautions about inflationary risk.
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