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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1972
Page
1
Reader asks about rooting pineapples. Source explains three cutting positions, soil and pH 5.5 to 6, sandy rich mix, 70–90F, drainage, and raised tip. Fertilize monthly, plant takes 12–16 months to fruit, single fruit per stem, mealy bug control with alcohol, outdoor cultivation limited to Florida and Hawaii.
Questions cover primaries write-ins for Democrats like George McGovern, with Mrs. Elva Small noting formal write-ins aren’t allowed in primaries but are possible in general elections via a sliding panel on the machine. Also details on obtaining Olympics tickets from DER in Germany, and Red Cross Youth Volunteer recruitment at High Point Memorial and Salisbury Veterans Hospital with dates and locations.
Apollo 16 faced a brief inertial guidance platform lock and radio antenna trouble as John Young Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly neared the moon. Mission Control reset the system with a backup plan while the crew, awakened early, continued toward a Wednesday rendezvous with the lunar highlands.
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie accuses President Nixon of irreparable harm to the nation and decency as he denounces renewed bombing in North Vietnam. At a $125-a-plate fund raising dinner for his Democratic presidential bid, Muskie vows to withdraw all U S forces from Indochina within two months of inauguration if elected.
Campus strikes to protest North Vietnam bombing gain momentum as Harvard Crimson editors join Ivy League papers in urging a one day moratorium. National Student Association mobilizes 50 top universities for mass action while demonstrations erupt at Columbia University and San Francisco Navy facilities.
U S air strikes shifted to South Vietnam after Nixon ordered a pause above the 20th parallel to assess Hanoi's next move in the offensive. Saigon sources and Pentagon officials offered mixed readings while reports of ongoing North Vietnamese activity and heavy US air support from the South continued.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that negotiating for peace with Hanoi is irresponsible while North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and violate the 1968 understanding. He cites ongoing air, sea, and cross-border actions and urges continued U S military leverage.
Price Commission Chair C Jackson Grayson told Congress the panel is considering extending controls to food products and tightening existing food price rules. He noted a shift toward focusing manpower on large firms while decontrolling much of the economy, with decisions expected months or longer. The prepared testimony cited wage price controls helping inflation toward 2 to 3 percent by year end, drawing sharp criticism from Sen. Proxmire as ineffective.
A volatile Vietnam situation raises the risk the Nixon Moscow visit could be derailed. Hanoi delays a major offensive, prompting Kremlin nerves as May 22 summit talks loom, with both sides fearing costly outcomes if the meeting proceeds.
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