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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1968
Page
3
Harris poll shows Johnson’s overall job rating up to 57 percent after he quit the race. A 57 to 24 percent edge backs a pause in Vietnam bombings to seek peace talks, with 40 to 31 percent doubting success of negotiations.
London BOAC Boeing 707 with 126 aboard lost an engine that fell away and left wing burning after takeoff to Sydney. Five killed, 22 injured as the pilot, a New Zealander, landed safely in three minutes. Survivors praise his skill, while investigators probe why extinguishers failed.
Washington mayor lauds press coverage of civil disorder in the capital where six people died and more than a thousand were injured. He credits a responsive press and a night news conference as key in addressing the unrest.
Federal officials and police, with troops on duty, maintained order in Chicago on Monday. The day saw only scattered incidents of minor looting and limited unrest amid a tense security situation downtown and across the city.
Dr. James E. Davis of Durham is elected president of the University of North Carolina Medical Alumni Association. He succeeds Dr. H McLeod Riggins of New York City at the annual meeting held this weekend in Chapel Hill.
Campaign workers for Dr Reginald Hawkins the first Negro candidate for governor in North Carolina say college students on Easter vacation will start a registration drive this week. Aides report students from colleges in several states will help register Negroes and poor whites from Charlotte to the coast.
Senior U.S. officers credit overwhelming air power with breaking the 77 day siege of Khe Sanh. From Jan 21 to March 31 U S warplanes dropped 95 430 tons around the base and flew 21 901 sorties. B 52 bombers accounted for 59 542 tons. The general said the area was leveled.
Tens of thousands joined a mournful silent march on Main Street Memphis led by the King family widow and Ralph Abernathy. Police counted about 19 000 mourners eight abreast as National Guardsmen secured the route near Temple Beale Street and City Hall. The march followed the slain leader’s last protest and shifted focus to the garbage strike negotiations paused for funeral services in Atlanta.
J. D. Help sought in Warren County by attorney T. T. Clayton who asks the U S Justice Department to intervene in alleged literacy test violations by local registrars. Clayton notes his wife runs for the Democratic nomination for the district congressional seat and argues tests are being administered orally in violation of federal law.
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