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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1972
Page
1
A reader asks if a mail order family plan offering up to 100 per day in hospital coverage is reliable. The response urges local agents, warns that too good to be true often is, and suggests checking the fine print and obtaining a sample policy before buying.
Resident Ask City officials and engineers to fix a 100 foot gully at Aberdeen Shamrock and Ivey Lane that holds 2 3 feet of water and breeds mosquitoes. City Engineer Jim Oliver says the lake roadways contractor caused the problem and a $1000 retainage is held pending correction in a March 20 letter.
A police officer may stop a vehicle to check compliance with state laws. Visible contraband may be seized without a warrant, but otherwise a search requires consent, arrest incident search, or a valid warrant.
WGHP-TV Program Manager says professional soccer telecasts draw very low audiences, far below historical TV sports tune-ins. Despite teams remaining in the United States, interest has waned, ending widespread telecasts of the games.
Public Works will enlist High Point College students to clean the Great Divide before the market, as they did last year. Maintenance of banks on the railroad is the railroad’s duty, and Scouts may be challenged by the treacherous banks.
Communist led forces pressed attacks on U S bases with heavy casualties at Cam Ranh Bay and Nui Ba Den relay site near Tay Ninh. An American B 52 was damaged by a missile as reserves marched north toward An Loc in a major push described as the largest since Tet 1968.
Dramatic AP photos show a twin engine RAF plane exploding on takeoff from Siena with four killed and four injured among eight survivors. Separate reports describe U S and South Vietnamese casualties as North Vietnamese forces push toward Saigon with B 52s recalled to halt the drive.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson faced a serious heart attack with an 80 percent survival outlook. Dr. John Willis Hurst described Johnson as reasonably comfortable, with chest pains and lung congestion, while Lady Bird Johnson vowed to help him live more quietly as he remains under hospital care at the University of Virginia.
FBI left Provo after a sheriff said a possible suspect was identified but not arrested. A 200-person search around Provo Lake found no hijacker trace. The United Airlines 727 hijacking suspect may be a pilot, with parachutes and flight plan details cited by the Los Angeles pilot.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew told 700 delegates in Palo Alto that the Democratic party is unfit to govern, condemning emotional appeals and liberal elitism in the press and presidential rivals. He spoke at a California Republican Assembly luncheon and left before planned protests.
Presidential spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler dismissed North Vietnamese peace overtures as a diversion to mislead world opinion about negotiation. He said Washington would bolster air and fire power as needed to aid South Vietnam, while Nixon rested in Florida amid mounting Indochina tensions.
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