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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1969
Page
3
An OCR fragment presents a misquoted line praising purity before God and a poet’s blurred claim that the actual good surpasses grand praise. The garbled text references a person named Thomas B. Mecsurey, described as an English poet and historian, with misspelled or corrupted wording throughout.
Startling figures show 73,350,968 voters cast ballots while about 120 million adults were eligible. Nixon secured 27 percent of the voting age population. Gallup and other polls note 15 million disengaged and 19 million changed minds before voting. The piece questions democratic participation and minority rule.
Congress required proportional state welfare adjustments to preserve federal matching aid for dependent children. As of December last, average payments were 69.50 for old age 92.15 for blind 82.55 for disabled and 42 for dependent children. 8,892,000 people received relief, including 6,080,000 children and 2,028,000 aged. Mary Switzer supports a national standard to equalize burdens, aiming for July 1.
Editorial notes an $8 billion crisis as the Post Office plans to drop guaranteed same day delivery in major downtown centers across 234 cities. Blount warns of potential nationwide breakdown without reforms and a shift to a self sustaining postal system amid proposed rate changes and restructuring proposals from the Kappel Commission.
Washington coverage explains the IRS will shift from collecting taxes to convicting organized crime figures, citing Al Capone as a precedent and detailing estimates of underworld profits from gambling, narcotics, loan sharking, and prostitution. The piece also notes lawmakers' vacations funded by taxpayers and mixed public reactions to IRS conduct.
A fragment from the 1908 Archdale Enterprise recounts local items including a near burglary at a depot, a woods shooting tale involving Joe Jackson, a street brawl, and a health drive by the Guilford County Medical Auxiliary. It also reprints a humorous moral tale about a mean mother who steered children toward responsibility and achievement.
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