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07 Aug 1970
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High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1970
Page
1
Fourth Estate: origins and evolving meaning across society
The term shifted from referring to various societal groups to denoting the press. Early uses span 1638 to 1840 with figures like Falkland Fielding Carlyle and Macauley. Carlyle and others credited editors or reporters for creating a powerful fourth estate beyond the three traditional estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Commons
Lord Falkland
Henry Fielding
Board of Commissioners
Thomas Carlyle
Burke
Fouth
Edmund Burke
Carlyle
Thomas Babington Macauley
Edinburgh Review
Magazine sales scandal touches High Point schools
A reader complains about unreliability of school magazine fundraisers and warns of unfulfilled orders. The response advises contacting the sponsoring office for the seller company and gathering receipts, dates, and address details to pursue direct resolution. Another reader asks about fabric imprinting and is advised to use indelible laundry marking pens and suitable paints from stationers or art suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
S. T
Request for song composers and widows group info
Readers seek contact with people offering to set words to music Nancy Percy at 882-1230 and 885-8558 for help. A discussion notes Solo Parents at the YWCA led by Kathleen Harrison 885-6258 with future clubs planned by Julia Sherrill for single adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Percy
Raymond Meyers
Gilbert
Thomas Swanson
Astor
High Point
Solo Parents
YWCA
Kathleen Harrison
Julia Sherrill
The
Vietnam border drawdown plan shifts patrols to South Vietnamese forces
American officers report a strategy change that could permit a larger U.S. drawdown from Vietnam by shifting border patrol duties to South Vietnamese regulars along the Cambodian and Laotian borders. Viet Cong and NVA attacks near Hue still kill and wound troops as Saigon expands police and Popular Forces to secure rural areas. Lt. Gen. Davison says this move aims to place Vietnamese units in border interdiction roles by next June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Saigon
Hue
Michael S. Davison
Germany accepts loss of eastern German territory under new pact
In Moscow West Germany and the Soviet Union initialed a nonaggression treaty in which Bonn for the first time accepts the postwar loss of eastern German territory to Poland and the USSR. The accord fosters Ostpolitik linking Bonn with Moscow and East Bloc nations. The document renounces force and confirms current European borders including the Oder Neisse line, a long disputed frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
West Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
Willy Brandt
Soviet Bloc
Europe
Bonn
Walter Scheel
Andrei Gromyko
Spiridonov
Gromyko
Egon Bahr
Brandt
East Europe
Oder-Neisse
East Germany
Oder and Neisse
Germany
Standstill cease fire agreed by Israel Egypt
The United States announces that Israel and Egypt accept a standstill cease-fire to start at 6 p m EDT and last at least 90 days. U S press officer Robert McCloskey says the agreement aims to spur long term Middle East peace talks under UN mediator Gunnar Jarring. Details on supervision and talks timeline were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Israel
Egypt
U.S
Robert McCloskey
United Arab Republic
United States
United Nations
Gunnar Jarring
Army Details Safety Plans As Nerve Gas Is Loaded
The Army declares its guiding priority safety as it loads nerve gas rockets for shipment from Richmond Kentucky and Anniston Alabama to a burial site off the Atlantic Coast. Col Samuel Burney defends against alarm while 325 rockets are loaded for transport to Sunny Point North Carolina for sinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Richmond
Anniston
Ala
Atlantic
Alabama
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jack Curry
Lexington Blue Grass
Sunny Point
N.C
London
Foreign Office
Bahama Islands
Bermuda
United States
Atlantic Islands
Nixon Gets U S Postal Reform Bill
Congress sent to President Nixon a bill creating an independent U S Postal Service to modernize delivery, set rates by a five person commission, grant an eight percent retroactive wage hike, and allow up to ten billion dollars in bonds. Postmaster General Blount warned gradual changes as the system shifts from congressional funding to a businesslike model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
U.S
Post Office
Nixon
White House
Board of Governors
Winton M. Blount
House
Congressse
Blount
Lawrence F. O’brien
Kennedy cousins placed on probation in marijuana case
Two 16 year olds Robert F Kennedy Jr and R Sargent Shriver III faced marijuana possession charges in Barnstable Massachusetts. Judge Henry L Murphy continued their cases to September 1971 effectively placing them on probation. The Kennedy and Shriver families attended the brief session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnstable
Mass
Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
Shriver
Jobless rate rises to 5 percent in July
The Labor Department reports a July jobless rate of five percent the highest in over five years. Unemployment reached 4.5 million, down 160000 from June on an actual basis but seasonally adjusted up 275500. White and under 25 male workers drove the change with manufacturing and white collar sectors also affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor
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YMCA
Greensboro
Parents Without Partners
Scheel
Bulletin
Middle East
Associated Press
Samuel Burney
Postal Emae
of Governors
Cret
Massachusetts
Murphy
Cohasset
Hyannis Port
Ver Setler
Cape Cod
Setler
Kennedy Cousins
R. Sargent Shriver al
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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