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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1964
Page
1
John Holt argues that most children fail to develop their full learning potential due to fear boredom and confusion in classrooms. He outlines four topics strategy fear and failure real learning and how schools fail, based on his observations of elite private day schools.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson planned to present NATO nuclear force concepts to President Johnson. Talks aimed at outlines for a command and control system with West Germany and allies, with discussions continuing through Tuesday and a Gromyko meeting set for Wednesday.
In Raleigh North Carolina two men Willie Smith Jr 45 and Rudy Clegg Bruton 22 pleaded innocent to first degree murder as trials opened for the slaying of State Trooper W T Herb in the Roanoke Rapids area The four defendants including Albert Reaves and Will Allen face bond and witness stakes as the body of the 34 year old trooper was found beaten and shot in a cornfield near Raeford with testimony detailing a scuffle over a license and the ensuing confrontation
U S Ambassador Maxwell D Taylor and South Vietnamese Premier Tran Van Huong opened planning talks in Saigon aimed at bombing Viet Cong supply lines in Laos. President Johnson reportedly ruled out attacks on North Vietnam, while talks focus on measures to improve the situation and support South Vietnam's war effort amid ongoing fighting and a major Ca Mau Peninsula victory with casualties reported.
At the United Nations Gromyko urged a world disarmament summit and submitted a detailed memo outlining measures for a conference. He endorsed a ban on nuclear weapons, liquidation of foreign bases, and military budget cuts, backing China's heads of state meeting proposal and Cairo’s call for a general disarmament conference.
Thousands suffer cold and hardship as ice cripples eastern New York. Heat and power crews strive to restore service to about 40 000 customers amid freezing temperatures down to 10 below. Three deaths reported. schools closed. evacuation centers operated. Governor Rockefeller tours affected areas.
Louis Harris finds more than seven in ten Americans aware crime rose locally in the 1960s. Majorities across cities towns and suburbs blame lawlessness on teenage restlessness, amid an FBI report showing a 13 percent rise in early 1964.
The Supreme Court unanimously finds a Florida statute illegal for banning mixed race cohabitation, ruling it violates the 14th Amendment protection against racial discrimination. Justices note the case did not address a separate ban on interracial marriages, focusing on the room sharing prohibition. Dewey Mdays cited in support faced jail and a $150 fine.
The Supreme Court will decide if broadcasting the Estes swindle trial violated his rights. Billie Sol Estes, a Texas lender, was convicted in Tyler and sentenced to eight years. The ruling will focus on the decision to televise the trial over Estes's objections.
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