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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1965
Page
2
Winston Salem based AP report states State Senator Gordon Hanes, chairman of the Hanes Corp., will not seek re election. The announcement clarifies he will complete current duties and not pursue another term in the Senate.
A North Carolina judge sentenced Harold William Waters to life imprisonment after Waters pled guilty to raping a girl at her home. Waters, a longtime Methodist minister active in Spindale, died Thursday in Lenoir at age 47 years since retirement in 1964. The Rev Ebenezer Myers, 99, notable for service in the Western Carolina conference, was referenced in related notices.
Washington AP report states that NLRB Examiner Thomas F. Maher recommends three Greensboro area firms stop threatening employees to deter unionization after an NLRB hearing brought by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners against Oattinger Thumber Co Inc Leon Corporation and Elm Trucking Co Inc. The board also recommends reimbursement of lost pay to seven workers claimed to have been fired for union activity.
Gemini 5 and Gemini 9 teams faced postponements as stormy weather and fuel and telemetry issues delayed liftoffs. Despite two-hour holds and a transient telemetry fault, astronauts Cooper and Conrad remained upbeat amid the Cape Kennedy delays and forecast thunder showers.
Dallas report: thirteen graduate instructors at Bishop College defy an eviction order from President Milton K. Cary Jr. to vacate campus apartments by 6 p.m. and depart by 7:36 p.m. Thursday. Administrators say contracts end Saturday after demonstrations over a student newspaper and bookstore charges.
In the Mekong Delta the PF or Popular Forces go out at night to confront Viet Cong in swamps and mangroves. Lt. Col. Donald L. Roberts says PFs are loyal and know the enemy. PFs and RFs, full-time home guards, claim 70.1 percent of Viet Cong casualties in six months as they defend villages and harvests.
Nixon predicts Johnson will be defeated in 1948 by domestic issues, not Viet Nam. He spoke at a Republican rally on Eisenhower’s farm in Gettysburg, saying Johnson’s current praised programs will fail and trigger backlash. He opposes concessions that would neutralize South Viet Nam or cede territory.
The Associated Press reports a continued upward trend in leaf prices across the South Carolina border North Carolina flue cured tobacco belt with gains of 1 to 2 dollars per 100 pounds on many grades. Some baskets sold at 76 per 100 pounds while state totals show North Carolina at 3 020 877 pounds averaging 65 46 and South Carolina 2 881 941 pounds averaging 67 68.
Col Oscar F Peatross a Raleigh native and 7th Marines officer led a major Viet Cong engagement on Viet Nam's Van Tuong peninsula. His mother recalls him as a regular boy who loved hunting and fishing, proud of his service from World War II through Korea and now in Vietnam.
The House approved a sweeping four year farm bill 221 to 172 after three days of debate. It targets wheat, feed grains, cotton, wool and dairying with new dairy programs and a long range land retirement plan to take 40 million acres out of production. Opposition from key farm senators signals Senate clashes ahead.
President Eisenhower pledges support for the President amid crisis and defends measures to protect freedom in Vietnam. U.N. Ambassador Goldberg met Eisenhower at Gettysburg to discuss the United Nations finance decision, with Eisenhower saying he saw no other course and that politics did not influence his view.
Sporadic page 1-4 item notes a true revolution mention for Vietnamese life by an ambassador. It recalls Lodge’s 1963-64 ambassadorship to South Vietnam, succeeded by Gen Maxwell Taylor who resigned July 1984. Reports of Viet Cong attacks include Dak To and Dak Sut incidents with casualties and village strikes near Saigon. The piece also cites a Hammondsport winery winemaker named Richard P. Vine.
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