15 Aug 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1969
Page
1
A reader column gathers questions from Shop managers sponsorship duties dachshund origins and local kindergarten openings. It includes discussion on employee poaching, child sponsorship groups, flying squirrels in attics and local nursery school contact details.
In Seattle University District police used tear gas and night sticks against long haired protesters during a three hour melee. Twenty one people were arrested including two suspected burglars as rioters, estimated at 2000, attacked shops and threw rocks. No injuries were reported. Earlier disturbances Monday and Wednesday led to more arrests and officer injuries.
About 185 Negro garbage collectors and street workers walked out in Charleston causing 33 garbage trucks to idle at 8 a.m. White drivers reported to work. The action occurred during a Southern Christian Leadership Conference annual meeting, which aims to push unionization of low paid workers next year.
British troops moved to Belfast as 15 000 Roman Catholics barricaded behind burning trucks and toppled lamp posts. 600 troops landed at Aldergrove while more arrived by land. Prime Minister Chichester-Clark urged calm and blamed the IRA. Violence left 5 dead and 192 wounded as Dublin saw protests at the British Embassy. Ulster braces for more clashes as troops are deployed and cross-border tensions rise.
U.S. military spokesmen forecast continued Viet Cong and North Vietnamese attacks at 20 to 40 per night, with a rise to a new high before Sept. 2. Reports cite 41 enemy rocket and mortar assaults, eight ground fights, and 78 enemy killed from 8 a.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. today. Casualties: 11 Americans killed, 88 wounded. South Vietnamese injuries described as light. Major fighting centered along the Cambodian border north of Saigon, with 50 B-52s bombing North Vietnamese positions nearby and a helicopter crash killing eight aboard.
SAIGON AP U S Army officials refused a civilian‑led petition to release Maj Thomas C Middleton Jr 90 of Jefferson DC one of eight Green Berets accused of killing a Vietnamese double agent Chu Yen Thai Khac chief of a Special Forces team monitoring North Vietnamese trails in Cambodia Details show the CIA had ordered the man killed after film footage exposed him as a double agent with the order later withdrawn CIA timeline unclear as to whether the killing occurred before or after the order was canceled
President Nixon seeks a national draft lottery with a one year call window for all potential draftees. Senate Armed Services Chair Sen. John C. Stennis says hearings are planned in 1970, while House committee signals further study before any action when the draft law expires in 1971.
Piedmont Airlines restarted limited service after a federal judge ordered pilots to return to work while a trial proceeds. Flight 70 left Winston-Salem for Charlottesville and Newark at 8:05 a.m. as two pilots were aboard.
Banks in Raleigh area say they will not exploit a possible 12 percent limit on short term first mortgages. Officials at North Carolina Natural Bank Branch Banking & Trust Central Carolina Bank First Union and others await Attorney General Morgan's ruling before acting. Mortgage rates remain high but lenders indicate they will avoid 12 percent loans pending clarification.
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