09 Apr 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1969
Page
1
A reader asks about teen parties and reservations at Blair and Goldston Park clubhouses with two week advance bookings and compares prices to City Lake gym. The column also covers sewers, locksmith training, fishing, Cape Kennedy brochures, rhubarb sourcing, and knotty pine cabinet cleaning with practical local advice.
Employment Opportunities Commission chairman Clif ford L. Alexander Jr resigns citing White House pressure and lack of support for enforcing Title VII. He criticizes Attorney General Mitchell and civil rights head Leonard, notes Cannon Mills suit as lone action, and urges stronger administration backing for anti discrimination efforts.
Virginia Knauer, 54, director of Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, was named by President Nixon as his special assistant for consumer affairs. The Republican will earn 28000 dollars a year and replace Betty Furness. She has led Pennsylvania's consumer protection bureau since 1968 and is the only woman to administer such a public consumer protection bureau.
In Raleigh the North Carolina House voted 68 to 38 to reject a bill abolishing capital punishment. Rep. Daniel Lilley urged retention, highlighting murder victims and rising crime. Proponents argued capital punishment is unChristian, ineffectual as a deterrent, and biased against the poor and minority groups.
The Justice Department sues Cannon Mills Co. for discriminatory employment and housing practices in North and South Carolina, while NAACP files suits against Defense Secretary Laird Labor Secretary Shultz and Deputy Defense Secretary Packard over defense contracts to three Southern textile firms. Cannon employs 24,000 at 1 factories and owns 2,000 rental houses.
The Senate Highway Safety Committee unanimously approved a bill to renew driving licenses without a written test for those with safe driving records. Col. Charles Speed of the Highway Patrol called it a step backward, while Sen. Julian Allsbrook defended the measure as rewarding safe driving. The panel also killed a rival bill proposing mandatory five day jail terms for drunken driving convictions.
Senator George D. Aiken predicts North Vietnam would pull back about 3,000 troops if 50,000 U.S. soldiers return home this year. He notes behind the scenes talk of a division force withdrawal, while stressing the lack of a face-saving formula slows disengagement and a possible settlement.
Washington AP reports the administration will offer only limited tax reform recommendations to the House Ways and Means Committee after Easter recess. Treasury plans to present April 15, ahead of hearings on reform, with possible focus on foundations exemptions and securities used in conglomerate mergers and a potential petroleum tax.
Relman Morin of the Associated Press, a longtime Ike observer, writes Eisenhower: A Gauge of Greatness. The handsome biography, tied to Morin’s North Africa and presidential campaign access, is selling through AP newspaper members and orders direct to The High Point Enterprise.
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