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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1972
Page
1
Readers are advised to contact Action Line for help with problems. A Q asks about a South Carolina marriage location for a 14 year old and parental access. A counselor suggests considering the welfare and urges medical confirmation and guardian consent. indicates North Carolina may permit marriage at that age with a doctor's note and parental approval.
Q and A discuss base running: inside turn at first base can lead to being tagged out. straight line or outside turn recommended. returning to first quickly matters. Notes on hits to infield vs outfield and potential extra bases. Follow up offer for replay.
Inquiries ask for a second chance of the annual oral cancer clinic. The reply states the event is held only once each year and cannot be repeated.
A taxpayer asks why the annual property revaluation notices mailed by the 15th last month have not arrived by April. Jim Hawkins reported that delays stem from county data processing issues and firm collection procedures in property transfers. Officials say data review is underway and May is the best guess for mailing resumes.
A single hostess currently serves the area Mrs. Sarah H Walker 1413 Fernwood Drive. Her phone is 888 7976 and she can provide information about Welcome Wagon activities nearby.
The Circle K club at High Point College sponsors a walker event on April 29. Sponsors may call the college and leave name and address or use newspaper forms to indicate payment per mile. Cards are returned, miles tallied, and checks mailed. Proceeds support four local groups including the Kindergarten for Handicapped Children and Mobile Meals for the Elderly.
Public Works Director Carl Wills says Greer Street from Highland Place to Cloverdale Dye Works is staked for an engineering survey. Once ground data is gathered, the street department will scrape the road.
North Vietnamese troops overran Dong Ha and pressed toward Quang Tri and Hue. Fire Base Bastogne was reported heavily shelled and partially overrun as U.S. air and naval power supported South Vietnamese defenders. Refugees flooded Hue as the clash widened supply routes and tank battles raged near the provincial capitals.
The Senate Finance Committee voted 10 to 4 to drop Nixon's guaranteed income plan and adopt a workfare system for welfare recipients. It would require 1.2 million parents with school-age children to work for $1.20 an hour in make-work jobs while 1.8 million adults would stay on the AFDC with varying state benefits. The substitute costs about $3 billion more than Nixon's proposal, which itself would have cost more than current law.
With Edmund Muskie out of active campaigning the Democratic race narrows to a McGovern Humphrey contest. Fred Harris and Cliff Larson switch to McGovern while Ribicoff may endorse him. McGovern seeks labor and party leadership support as a three way race potentially shrinks to two. Wallace threatens to complicate states and delegates.
The West German Bundestag deadlocked 247-247 with one abstention on the budget for the chancellor’s office. Chancellor Willy Brandt warned that a general election could follow if deadlock paralyzed the government, as his 22 year regime faced a fragile majority.
Washington sources recount White House decisions before the North Vietnamese invasion. Officials say repeated Pentagon bombing requests were turned down to keep negotiations alive, despite potential delays to the attack from enemy surface-to-air missiles, supplies, and troop concentrations near the DMZ.
Washington AP reports Ed Muskie, once the cinch nominee, faded after misreads of voters in New Hampshire and centrism fatigue within the Democratic Party. Overconfidence and a disjointed campaign bureaucracy hindered a decisive push toward the convention and against Nixon.
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