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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1969
Page
1
Residents discuss opportunities for eighth and ninth graders to take next year’s subjects during summer school at Central High. The program includes English, algebra, science, history, civics and typing at various levels with $25 to $50 per unit.
Consumers Union told the Senate antitrust subcommittee that many new cars arrive in a sorry state with 25 to 40 defects per pre test inspection. About a third of 50,000 subscribers report year after year dissatisfaction with car condition. Other witnesses urged training, franchised service facilities, and mechanic licensing.
A four part civil rights bill was introduced led by Sen. Hart with Senate colleagues Kennedy Javits and Scott. It would give EEOC power to issue cease and desist orders against employers and unions, extend the 1965 voting rights act five years, authorize suits against states over juror discrimination, and raise CR Commission funding beyond the 1968 cap.
Former premier Georges Pompidou announced his run for the presidency vacated by General de Gaulle. He received enthusiastic Gaullist backing in the National Assembly with ovation and unanimous approval. Pompidou cited duty, continuity, stability, and future preparation as core aims. No other Gaullist contenders emerged.
Winston-Salem mayor ordered a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. until Wednesday as rioting continued. Snipers fired near a housing development while fires burned in a Negro district. Police reported arrests, property damage, and a critical injury to James Beasley, a 22 year old who fled from jail and was shot by a Negro policeman.
Violent clashes erupt as police clash with Negro demonstrators in San Francisco near the Black Panther headquarters. A TV cameraman is hospitalized after assault. In Cairo Illinois gunfire and arson disrupt a Negro district amid racial tensions linked to a bail hearing for Huey Newton. Police seize weapons and records from the Panther building as tear gas is used. Fire bombings hit two homes and a tavern in Des Moines.
NE gro activist Howard Fuller was arrested on the campus of Belmont Abbey College in Belmont N C as eight Negro students climbed the science building roof to dramatize protest demands. The campus group demanded active Negro student recruitment and greater financial aid plus 13 other demands. Father Jude Cleary, college president, defended the administration while Fuller was held by Gaston County deputies.
Washington AP Selective Service chief Gen. Lewis B. Hershey says antiwar protesters who discard draft cards will keep losing deferments and be reclassified for immediate induction until courts halt the procedure. He says such protesters are not punished, and notes the Supreme Court will hear next fall challenges to their reclassification by Gutknecht and Breen.
Former Republican congressman James Gardner, 34, from Rocky Mount, states he does not expect to run for any political office again. Speaking at Duke Law School, he says he will remain interested in politics but will avoid Republican races in 1972 and has had enough of Congress. He plans a public relations firm with Jes se Austin and Yates Nagle, grows a quick food venture, and remains owner of the Carolina Cougars ABA team.
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