24 Apr 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
1
Action line invites readers to call or write ACTION LINE with concerns. Encourages messaging to The Enterprise for questions or worries, outlining contact pathways and availability. Provides a general prompt for community feedback and engagement.
A reader asks if her ex husband can claim part of a house she fully paid for during an 18 year separation. The columnist warns the divorce proceeding could favor the husband under state property laws and recommends obtaining legal counsel to protect her sole ownership. A second question about Dean Martin’s address notes stars’ addresses are not public. NBC may have refused delivery and offers options to forward or telegram.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7 to 6 to ban interstate mail order sales of handguns as part of a broad anticrime bill. Absent members may tilt the tally to 9 to 7, with final action soon.
Readers describe sidewalk absence on city rights of way and urge private sidewalk construction. They ask when the Park and E Green signal was installed, and discuss rubber checks with potential charges. A traffic engineer explains the Main Street left turn signal timing during market weeks and advises adaptation to crowds.
A student demonstration at Columbia University expanded from Columbia College to the main administration building. Police arrived around 8 a.m. with no arrests. About 200 students linked the gymnasium project at Harlem Park and a defense program to the protest at Low Memorial Library.
In Budapest the meeting of Communist parties began without Romania and Yugoslavia and with Czechoslovakia urging noninterference and free views. Pravda framed the talks as boosting democratization and equality among parties, while the session at Gellert Hotel runs 10 to 12 days.
The United States says it transmitted another message to North Vietnam as it seeks a site for preliminary peace talks. Washington suggests at least 15 possible locations, with Hanoi pushing for Warsaw or Phnom Penh. President Johnson and aides remain uncertain if Hanoi is serious, while U Thant urges momentum toward talks in Paris.
London dock workers walk out in protest of colored immigration as support floods for Enoch Powell. At Deptford and other docks hundreds refuse to work, while thousands sign petitions and protest at the House of Commons amid debate on an anti discrimination bill.
Premier Oldrich Cernik told the National Assembly that Czechoslovakia may seek Western loans as industry cannot meet foreign trade and domestic demand. He said any aid would require no political strings, with unconfirmed reports of up to 400 million dollars from Britain and France. He named measures including guarantees of constitutional freedom for consideration.
Tornadoes swept parts of Kentucky and Ohio on Tuesday killing 13 and injuring 207, with 700 homes ruined and damage over 2 million dollars. In Kentucky four deaths in Falmouth and one near Augusta. in Ohio six in Wheelersburg and one each in ClerMont and Brown counties. A resident described a ceiling collapse as the storm raged.
Louisiana Governor John McKeithen said at a High Point College event he could run with Vice President Hubert Humphrey but likely not with Senator Robert Kennedy. He praised Humphrey as a unifier and cautioned other candidates lack realism, urging adherence to the law on race issues and stressing ballots as the Negroes’ instrument for change.
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