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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1967
Page
5
Washington officials reject any bargaining on President Johnsons 10 percent tax surcharge plan set to take effect October 1 for individuals and July 1 for corporations. The package aims to raise 7.4 billion in the current fiscal year and reduce a budget deficit potentially reaching 29 billion, with continued prosperity and inflation control cited as reasons.
The State Department disclosed a plan to return Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael to the United States and revoke his passport. U S consular officers abroad have been alerted as Carmichael departs Cuba with a passport stamped valid only for return to the United States. Carmichael, SNCC former chairman, traveled to Havana against a State Department ban and observes a Latin American Solidarity conference. The department has not revealed potential penalties beyond passport loss.
Six minors charged with desecrating Memorial Cemetery in Upper Lehigh were ordered by a judge to tend the burial grounds until fall 1968. They were accused of turning over and smashing tombstones and tearing flags from graves.
Gov. Dan Moore schedules a news conference and oath taking events in Wilson, Lumberton, and Raleigh. Naomi Morris will be sworn in as judge on the new court of appeals Monday in Wilson. David M. Britt will be sworn in Wednesday in Lumberton to the same bench. Dr. Leo Gehrig will receive a deed for the Environmental Health Sciences Center site in RTP and Moore will hold a Friday morning news conference.
Raleigh AP service notes the U S Department of Agriculture and state Welfare Commissioner Clifton Craig say first-month food stamp costs drop. Beginning Sept 1 new families pay half the usual amount. a family of four with $100 income would pay $20 for $70 in stamps. Low income families face reduced per-person charges from 2 to 50 cents.
The bookmobile runs Monday through Friday at multiple stops including College Village Shopping Center, Pine Valley Road Marywood and Ingleside Westover, Pine Ridge Green Valley, W Lexington Florida, Brantley Farriss, Hedrick Ashe, English Oakwood, Oberlin Drive, K Mart Center, Austin Player Drive, Franklin Worth, Clara Cox Circle, Graves Harrison, Elwood Wendell, and Daniel Brooks Homes with daily morning 9 30 to 11 45 and afternoon 1 15 to 4 45 service.
Secretary Weaver warns riots threaten cities but says violence can be controlled. In Vietnam at Phu Bai the US 3rd Marine Division base suffered a large munitions dump explosion after a grass fire, with no Marines hurt. Weaver links urban unrest to poverty, urging steady policy action rather than despair.
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