07 Aug 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1967
Page
1
Local readers ask about a planned shopping center at the intersection of Hwy 29 70 and Old Thomasville Road. City and county officials have not confirmed the project and report no official permit process in progress.
The city school district line lies east of Gordon, so residents on Gordon attend High Point schools. Dr. Dean Pruette says the Guilford County board allows interdistrict transfers on a motion basis, so Jamestown enrollment is possible but depends on approval. Forsyth has an agreement, Randolph closed the line, and Davidson accepts Guilford students only those already attending.
Sports and reader questions cover all time NASCAR earnings with Lorenzen and Petty noted by figures, then switch to local service concerns in High Point about garbage pickup schedules and can usage. Advice on TV antenna sharing and currency bill portraits follows with insurance licensing guidance and agent recommendations.
Detroit dawn found flames and chaos as organized revolutionaries urged looting. Police used a retreated pursuit, letting looters move between stores while observers noted professionals did not loot. A relief recipient burned a furniture store, vowing to erase a debt, and local business owner Clifford Williams faced CORE pressure over abusive treatment of customers.
About 850 marchers gathered in Atlanta for a two mile trek to a downtown park to protest U S involvement in Vietnam and mark the Hiroshima bombing anniversary. In Los Angeles a clash erupted when two youths in khaki shirts and Nazi armbands attacked an unidentified parade participant during a peaceful Vietnam protest along Wilshire Boulevard toward Lafayette Park.
Detroit prosecutors charged two police officers with murder in the slayings of three youths at the Algiers Motel during the riot. Aubrey Pollard, Carl Cooper, and Fred Temple were found dead July 26 after an earlier claim of firefight with snipers. Officers Ronald August and Robert Paille face arraignment as Governor Romney ends the two week emergency.
Newark police testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee that militants were unofficially told not to arrest or antagonize. Patrolman Leonard Kowalewski, head of the Newark police cell block union, recalls officials at a June 27 meeting urging restraint while violence loomed. He cites a City Board of Education incident with Col. Hassan of the Black National Liberation Front ripping up a tape machine and smashing furniture. The hearing probes police timidity and higher authority instructions amid the Newark riot aftermath.
Senator Hartke predicts a leadership vacuum could tempt a military dictatorship after Johnson may not seek reelection in 1968. He cites pressure from Pentagon officials to deescalate Vietnam and recalls the enclave strategy as a possible fixed-position approach. Hartke notes Johnson’s political vulnerabilities and cites Gavin’s resignation as context.
Jefferson Ga AP Prosecutor Floyd Heard Hoard 40 promised to curb car thefts and bootleg liquor operations in the Piedmont Circuit was killed when a bomb exploded under the car hood as he started for work. Sheriff L G Perry said authorities found no motive yet. Hoard had taken office in December 1964 and served his first term. his wife Peggy Jean 16 and son Dickie 14 survived at home with two younger children elsewhere. The blast left the automobile severely damaged and Hoard dead inside. investigators sifted wreckage for clues with no immediate indications.
The Pentagon plans to order to Viet Nam large chunks of the last remaining combat divisions in the United States and may not replace those units. This would help meet President Johnson's troop authorization for Vietnam raising the U.S. manpower to 525,000 by next summer. Two top White House advisers say allies in Vietnam consider sending more troops to back up the push against the Communists.
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