31 Aug 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1967
Page
1
Inquiries explain the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Co. built feeder roads to Salisbury Lexington Mocksville Statesville and New Market linking the Plank Road from Salem to Fayetteville with Burton Street Westchester Drive.
Jake Harris notes porcelain glaze darkens when heated or sunlit, creating brown spots that cannot be restored to original. The reader asks how to remove the blemishes but no effective remedy is offered.
Washington AP Thur good Marshall, great grandson of a slave, won Senate confirmation as the first Negro Supreme Court justice. By 69 to 11 vote, he replaces Justice Clark, with swearing in expected in October as the court reconvenes for its autumn term.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gen. Wallace Greene on prioritizing Vietnam over domestic woes. He calls for stronger focus on urban and rural poor while urging the war effort to proceed with attention to U.S. problems. Other senators express mixed but cautious views on Vietnam and Saigon’s political process.
Thousands of readers attended an old fashioned baked bean supper on Boston Common sponsored by the Boston Rotary Club. Seventeen thousand pounds of beans were prepared, with a menu including baked beans brown bread ham potato salad apple pie cheddar cheese hot coffee and milk.
Communist guerrillas increased pre election violence across the Mekong Delta Saigon area and central provinces. Attackers kidnapped 39 draft age men and shelled a provincial capital as Americans warned to stay off duty. Casualties rose with 125 Americans killed, 1,078 wounded, and 1,350 Communist losses noted.
Reports from Wuhan in Hankow Han yang and Wuchang say renewed fighting grows as Mao supporters clash with Liu Shao chi foes. Sparsely detailed broadcasts urge action while sources in Szechwan and Canton describe flight, paralyzed transport and mass mobilization of rifles to civilians.
Two grandsons of former governor Cameron Morrison told police two men in black entered the Morrocroft estate home at night. They bound and gagged the brothers, stole jewelry a car two pistols and cash while the men claimed to be ex servicemen escaping a prison camp. Police noted torn phone lines and locked closets as the brothers freed themselves and alerted relatives.
Tropical Storm Arlene moved steadily west-northwest across the Atlantic far from land with top winds over 60 mph and forecasters expected it to reach hurricane force soon. Flight and satellite data placed the storm about 1,200 miles southeast of Bermuda at 6 a.m. as ships tracked its course.
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