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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1972
Page
1
The Enterprise notes that customers must request a credit for 24 hour service interruptions after reporting trouble to repair services. It also outlines nurse aide qualifications including age 18, neat appearance, high school education or equivalent, and supervision by a Registered Nurse with patient care duties.
The contractor who did the roofing is responsible for hauling off the debris not the city. City collects only normal household trash. If six calls to the Street Department failed, contact the contractor to arrange removal.
In reply to questions about wild onions the advice is to feed lawns so grass grows thick and chokes out onions. The note says velvet weed free lawns result from proper feeding and seeding and mentions products that kill broad leaved weeds in grasses and combined fertilizer weed killers available in downtown High Point.
The reply guides the caller to contact the Public Utilities Director with name and address. Staff attempted to locate address 1401 Martin Street to inspect septic drainage issue but could not find that number. The article notes no direct entitlement confirmation and emphasizes initiating a formal inquiry with utilities.
Anon explains that vehicles cannot be parked or driven on any sidewalk or sidewalk area extending from the curb to the property line. Call the police to report violations to help de uglify the streets.
North Vietnamese forces stormed An Loc 60 miles north of Saigon and captured the northern half of the provincial capital as heavy street fighting raged at dusk. U.S. air power supported defenders with AC130 gunships and jet bombers while reports tallied armored losses for the North and casualties on both sides.
After two days under enemy fire within two miles of An Loc, two to three North Vietnamese divisions reportedly besieging the town since last week. The attack group around 30,000 troops. A relief column from Saigon, with tanks and APCs, was pinned down for a third day about 13 miles south. Heavy contact reported two miles north of Chon Thanh. Fire Base Bastogne near Hue endures three days of siege on the northern front.
In Saigon a visiting Philadelphia doctor’s wife finds a city of contrasts where daily life continues amid rumors of conflict. A Davis Cup match and a distant bombing 37 miles away reveal a different war as locals fret Hue departures and looming attacks while the city acts normal on the surface.
Seventeen senators and thirty four House members petition Nixon amid reports of a major escalation in U.S. involvement in Indochina. They request a full accounting of size purpose and cost of contemplated military action and warn of a growing air armada in Southeast Asia.
The United States has sent over 160 war planes to Southeast Asia in ten days as air countermeasures against North Vietnam’s spring offensive. Two Navy carriers with about 100 attack planes are en route, joining four carriers already in position, with more squadrons on standby. The buildup, approved by President Nixon, increases U S strength across Vietnam, Thailand, Guam and carrier groups to about 700 heavy bombers and fighters, but remains below the 1968 peak of around 1,200. Ziegler hints at private channels to push Paris peace talks forward.
Ambassador William Porter said President Nixon sent a secret April 1 proposal to Hanoi through a private channel to resume Paris talks. The reply reportedly arrived as North Vietnamese troops intensified the invasion of South Vietnam after March border losses. Porter refused to identify the channel or justify the secrecy and called for clearing away war talk surrounding the negotiations.
Annette Gilly testified in Washington County Court that the union and a “big man” in Boyle’s circle ordered or approved the Yablonski murders. She described arsenic and arson plots, the $10,000 payoff, and the killings three weeks after Yablonski’s union leadership loss.
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