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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1976
Page
5
This brief reads two quotes: a biblical exhortation from Matthew about choosing a narrow gate and a Beecher remark on accepting life, forcing the choice not of life itself but of attitude in living it.
After the primaries High Point leaders lament low turnout and its impact on county and state representation. Voter engagement lags, with only 32.9 percent Democrats and 15.5 percent Republicans in High Point, affecting Herman Smith’s Board of County Commissioners bid and leaving three local candidates on the November Democratic slate and one Republican.
Environmentalists rally as Kepone pollution from Life Science Products Co in Hopewell Virginia spreads from the James River to Chesapeake Bay and reaches Long Island. The persistent toxin, tied to Allied Chemical, threatens decades of damage, with potential fines and lasting ecological harm.
Congress debates flu vaccination liability while science questions efficacy and safety. Insurance and manufacturers weigh risk as experts disagree on vaccine effectiveness from 20 to 90 percent, with antigenic shifts threatening future usefulness and forecasts of a 1976-77 epidemic.
The public library undertakes a 160000 volume move into expanded facilities from Main to S Wrenn streets with 16 new staff courtesy of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Nonfiction moves to the new unit and adult fiction shifts downstairs as the building adds handicapped ramps and an elevator ahead of a November 1 opening.
U S and Costa Rican authorities blocked a planned assassination of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during his Costa Rica visit last February. Cuban exile Orlando Bosch Avila was named as the would be gunman. Bosch, using a false passport, was detained four days before Kissinger’s arrival, then released after being questioned. The plot, linked to Kissinger’s Cuba policy and anti Castro factions, drew on information from confidential sources and testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.
National Whirligig column examines twenty years of Democratic control and Carter’s cautious approach to tax reform. It contrasts Roosevelt Johnson and Long fights, notes log rolling as the method shaping budgets from 7 to 400 billion dollars, and questions where promised budget logs will come from and who pays.
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