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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1965
Page
1
New York AP report notes sudden marriage rush among young men heading to Las Vegas wedding chapels amid draft tensions and courthouse scene at Las Vegas. Couples seek quick nuptials as legal processes and enlistment concerns intersect.
In Seoul calm returned after five days of protests as authorities disciplined protesters. Twenty five people were jailed and 38 others suspended or placed on probation for organizing demonstrations.
A Kennedy film will be shown as the USIA moves to sell copies to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The step follows a government resolution enabling the transaction and the transfer of copies.
In Craven County Ernul area a 200 student all white elementary school faced nonattendance as Negro families hesitated to send children amid reported white driver cars at the door. Vernon Knight, father, cited fear of trouble and friction while considering future options including enrolling daughters in a separate Negro school. Gov. Moore commented on the evolving situation as reporters were briefed.
Pilot Charles Conrad reported 50 hours into the mission as Gemini 5 received clearance for a 106 orbit flight. The crew anticipated end of the tumbling issue caused by fuel gas and predicted completion by nightfall.
In San Jose a Santa Clara County Jail inmate Leo Estrada Robles 20 faces first degree murder charges for allegedly watching a cellmate Willard Dale Flynn Jr. 30 of San Francisco strangle in an escape attempt while awaiting trial for an aged murder.
A Vietnamese spokesman described further Viet Cong actions as a multibattalion force completed a major road clearing operation in the central highlands. He cited three attacked sites and noted activity near Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot as part of ongoing combat developments.
After a Thursday night clash between demonstrators and Ku Klux Klansmen in Plymouth North Carolina a three day cooling off period was agreed upon. No serious injuries occurred though 27 demonstrators had cuts and bruises according to SCLC. The protest was to resume after a Monday afternoon meeting between Negro leaders and Gov Dan K Moore.
Washington leaders say the capital risks no Los Angeles style riot though pockets of Black residents exist. Sterling Tucker of the Urban League warns a riot here would be a series of incidents, and stresses prevention over prediction.
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