Joe Brown Debuts as Ice Press Editor Monday
The ice era opens with Joe Brown taking the editor role as of Monday December 13 1976. The new editor aims to steer the paper through changing times and reporting.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1976
Page
4
The ice era opens with Joe Brown taking the editor role as of Monday December 13 1976. The new editor aims to steer the paper through changing times and reporting.
The High Point Museum now presents a personal look at the city’s past through donated items from early residents. Exhibits include antique shoes daguerreotypes a church organ a turn of the century buggy and a dry goods store scene with a stiff clerk offering relatable reminders of life before mass transit and power outages.
Washington reports a broad crisis in handling defensive and civilian nuclear waste with no permanent disposal plan after more than 30 years. Candidates for storage include deep geologic burial in salt beds near Carlsbad New Mexico, ocean floor burial studies, and transmutation, while reprocessing faces regulatory and financial hurdles. Experts warn disposal requires sustained human effort and policy choices beyond technology.
A conservative writer defends editor Norman Cousins in the Sat urday Review dispute over John Hersey's Inaugural Address piece. He argues Hersey has free expression but no guaranteed publication and notes corporate power and editorial judgment shape print. He credits Cousins with editorial authority to kill an imbalanced piece while acknowledging Hersey's right to express views elsewhere.
A rift erupts within the Justice Department as strike force chiefs clash with U.S. attorneys over control and guidelines. Thornburgh tightens rules, closes forces in New Orleans and St. Louis, and shifts oversight to local offices, while defenders warn of weakened anti crime efforts. Carter transition teams monitor the dispute.
Washington writer argues Cyrus Vance should become secretary of state while Henry Kissinger faces private life. The piece jokeingly proposes keeping Air Force One and his Secret Service detail, plus a large State Department office to stay ready for Henry’s potential diplomatic recalls.
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