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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1965
Page
3
Editorial warns that voter apathy threatens constitutional freedoms in North Carolina. It cites a Mecklenburg phone survey showing many have no opinion on the speaker ban law, urging citizens to vote and participate to preserve liberty and individual rights. It stresses the danger of demagoguery and the need for informed civic action.
Forsyth County North Carolina State Senator Gordon Hanes will not seek re election to the State Senate. He remains chairman of the Hanes Corporation formed by the merger of Hanes Knitting and Hanes Hosiery and will devote attention to corporate duties. He will complete his work on the special commission studying the Communist speaker ban and continue serving on the North Carolina Science and Technology Commission directing Research Triangle efforts.
Editorial notes saucer season with Perseid showers around Aug 11 and Jupiter conjunctions triggering sightings across Oklahoma Texas Kansas and Nebraska. It details NICAP investigations Hershey Pa photos and famous scientists like Sagan, plus references to Wan Hoo lunar rockets and ancient myths of space travel.
An independent afternoon and Sunday morning paper published by High Point Enterprise Inc at 08.207 North Main Street High Point North Carolina.
President Eisenhower created HEW in 1953 to bind Public Health Service Social Security Administration Office of Education Welfare Administration Vocational Rehabilitation Administration and FDA into one department. The sprawling agency faced turnover and infighting as it grew with Great Society programs and new laws like the Civil Rights Act and Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Br. John William Gardner, 52, new HEW secretary and Carnegie Corp. president, brings a reformist view and aims to unite HEW’s disparate parts into a single weapon against poverty ignorance discrimination illness old age and despair. He plans to build a strong team, appoint up to eight key posts, and treat the department as the cornerstone of the Great Society. James B. Conant is noted as best man to assess the new leadership.
The piece notes no real split between President Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower over Vietnam. It recalls Eisenhower’s 1954 Diem letter promising aid, Johnson’s use of precedent to justify buildup, and Eisenhower’s later clarification that discussions centered on foreign aid, not military plans.
The article notes Eisenhower backed noncombat aid to Viet Nam from 1954 to 1959 and later expansions in 1961 with Kennedy, while stressing he avoided sending American combat troops. It cites 655 military technicians in 1954 and over 5 billion dollars in aid, and mentions Nixon considering stronger action to prevent a retreat in Asia.
Governor Dan K. Moore spoke at Guilford events praising road bonds and highway aims while touting local appointments. Joseph Hunt Jr. led a push for an 208 million bond package to fund roads over four years, drawing praise from Nat P. Hayes for steering the program.
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