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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1970
Page
6
Washington AP reports the 1940s postwar draft lottery favored men born in later months, especially November and December, with numbers under 195 seen in many late-year days. A second lottery in 1969 used enhanced mixing, but patterns persist without a known 1971 draft outcome.
Army pads for rail transport of 3000 tons of nerve gas coffins from Alabama and Kentucky depots to Sunny Point North Carolina for ship burial 280 miles east of Cape Kennedy Florida. Loading observed by newsmen over several days with disputes in Deep South towns.
Karen Gleason, 17, who had been missing from Charlottesville Virginia for over three weeks, was located in Greensboro by a group described by her father as hippies. She returned with her father Louis to Charlottesville by private plane after a reward of $1,000 was paid. She disappeared following a rock music festival at Love Valley North Carolina last month.
AEC spokesman says a hydrogen bomb could instantly neutralize nerve gas disposal but the commission would not participate. A report last year suggested underground nuclear testing at the Nevada site to destroy gas the Army plans to dump into the Atlantic Ocean.
Linda Kasabian broke into tears and lunged for her chair when Charles Manson attorney Irving Kanarek flashed a color photo of Sharon Tate’s body during cross examination. The display prompted a courtroom recess as Kasabian’s lawyers protested and judges ordered future exhibits precleared.
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