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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1967
Page
1
Community column invites readers to share problems questions or worries by calling or writing ACTION LINE c o The Enterprise Readers are urged to seek help and submit concerns for discussion and resolution
The question asks about a Lonely Hearts Club style group for widowed or divorced people aged 35 and up in High Point seeking companionship. The answer presented is no, with sympathy for the issue and a caution to proceed slowly and be aware of potential danger, suggesting no organized matchmaking group exists.
A letter from the U S Department of Labor confirms under re employment statutes that National Guardsmen and reservists cannot be forced to take their regular vacation during training duty. They must be granted a separate vacation if desired. No obligation for employers to pay while absent, though some do as a gratuity. Local vacation timing in High Point is often set by July 4 shutdowns. If any managerial injustices occur, readers are invited to report them for assistance.
Usually yes, and it can be from ten to 30 days. The exact length depends on accrued leave, the sailor's wishes, and other military considerations, with final authority lying with Uncle Sam.
A reader reports waste across from their home on Kersey Road. Our garbage team investigated and found the material is construction debris dumped in an old gravel pit. The pit owner or dumper must stop the dumping or be told to cease and desist.
The war in Vietnam began for the U S with a 1950 Military Assistance Advisory Group to aid South Vietnam. The demilitarized zone along the 17th parallel separated North Vietnam from the South. it was set by a 1954 Geneva plan never signed by the United States or State of Vietnam and has been used as a refuge and base by Communist forces.
A reader asks about cleaning burned grease from cast iron. An expert suggests a powerful oven cleaner like Easy Off to soften the grease, but warns it can burn skin and eyes.
In 1964 three days before their wedding Patricia Christie and Alvin Lownsbury are seen examining an altimeter during a wedding sky dive celebration with the bride in white. The photo highlights a daring pre nuptial moment marking the couple’s union and adventurous spirit.
Rain swept Lake Erie as searchers scoured a 100 square mile area for 14 missing sky divers after 18 jumped from a converted WWII bomber. Two bodies were recovered. seven gloves and four chutes found. The jumpers faced 58 mph winds at 20,000 feet and none wore flotation gear.
In Arlington a preliminary hearing for John C. Patler 29 accused of murdering Commander George Lincoln Rockwell was postponed to August 31 after a disruption when a man yelled you filthy assassin. Judge Embrey ordered three psychiatrists to examine Patler and sought an old psychiatric report from Morrisania Hospital.
Wenberg, a blond youth, leaped from a bench shouting the assasin charge at Patter and calling him you filthy swine. He was restrained by six officers and removed from the courtroom as Jackson Embrey ordered the room cleared. Six party members wearing swastika lapel pins sat through the interruption before being excluded. Attorneys for Patter, an expelled American Nazi official, will plead innocent to murder and he remains held on $50,000 bail.
Communist shells struck two Leatherneck bases in South Vietnam killing 10 U S Marines and wounding 106 while destroying or damaging 12 helicopters. The counters followed earlier Sunday shellings that killed or wounded more than 300 civilians. At Can Tho mortar fire killed 37 Vietnamese and wounded 203, with 51 casualties from a hospital strike. Four Americans were wounded.
Bulletin reports 16 year old Fred Harold Bame Jr of Turnpike Road Trinity drowned in a private pond on Finch Farm Road Randolph County just before noon. Witnesses said he went under in about 10 feet of water near the shore and did not surface. Rennie Arnette 19 of Trinity attempted a rescue. his younger brother Doug was swimming nearby.
A Lou Harris survey of 1,600 families finds growing public disillusion with Vietnam policy. Support for sending more troops is rejected 61 to 29 percent, while 83 percent expect the fighting to last years. Public backing for the war falls from 72 to 61 percent in six weeks.
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson launches a broad ministerial reshuffle, planning up to two dozen hires firings and promotions to tackle unemployment near 600,000 and fiscal strains. Expected departures include Michael Stewart Douglas Jay and Herbert Bowden as the Rhodesia dispute looms.
SCITUATE Mass AP All 14 aboard a Provincetown Boston Airlines Lockheed Electra survived a Sunday night ditch in the Atlantic near a Massachusetts beach. The captain Elwood Hallowell 39 Naples Florida ditched after engine trouble. Eyewitness Curtis Schermerhorn praised the pilot as crews and boats plucked all 14 to safety.
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