29 Aug 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1969
Page
1
Readers asked about GTI admission and transit. G T I opened a downtown information office near the Center Theater from 11 am to 2 pm, staffed through fall registration, with a Greensboro site in the Wachovia Building.
North Korea says all three American helicopter crewmen are alive after being shot down on August 17 and offers to exchange them for a U.S. confession and apology. Major Gen. Lee Choon Sun stated the men are injured and receiving treatment while U.S. officials confirmed the loss of contact on a routine training flight near Kumchon.
HEW rejected Kinston City and Wilson County deseg plans as North Carolina opens schools. New Hanover County zoning approved, opening Tuesday in Wilmington. Cumberland County parents form boycotts, while Charlotte-Mecklenburg busing plans spark disputes. County hearins allowed to avert $600,000 in potential funding cuts.
In Edgartown Mass Kennedy lawyers weigh an appeal after a 56 minute hearing on cross examination at the upcoming inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. Judge James A. Boyle rejects due process arguments and upholds limited counsel access for witnesses.
Hyannis Massachusetts AP reports Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his wife Joan endured a miscarriage as Joan Kennedy lost the baby she expected in February. She was admitted to Cape Cod Hospital in good condition after minor surgery, remaining for a few days.
Washington AP Nixon administration desegregation policy draws condemnation as confusing amid 17 Southern and border states returning to class. HEW reports 2,994 of 4,476 districts will have unitary schools next year, with 1,107 under voluntary plans and 369 under court orders. Officials say integrated attendance rises to one third, though critics call policy pussyfooting and politically motivated.
AP report states National Airlines Flight 188 with 44 aboard was hijacked to Havana, the year's 41st diversion to the Cuban capital, while a Trans World Airways jet carrying 113 was hijacked to Tel Aviv in Rome. The Miami bound NAS captain reported the hijack and that the crew remained in control, as FAA noted no confirmation of a accompanying woman or children.
Escanaba residents form the Delta County Citizens Committee to Save Our Air to block a Consolidated Paper kraft pulp mill. They warn odor from sulfate pulp could reach 65 miles, while officials promise odor controls. The fight moves toward a countywide ordinance as mill construction slated for 1970.
Lee County School Board chair W R Alexander Jr says a federal court order arrived two days before classes opened, mandating the transfer of numerous Negro students to two predominantly white schools and moving some faculty across racial lines to achieve full integration by fall 1870.
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