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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1966
Page
4
Fayetteville leaders visited High Point for a day and saw the East Central Area redevelopment as 500 Acres of Progress. The Fayetteville Observer coverage highlights rehabilitation over demolition and suggests outsiders view the city more favorably than locals.
The piece argues North Carolina should restore air support for the State Highway Patrol to reduce highway carnage. It cites Colonel Charles Speed on air patrols matching many ground officers in effectiveness and warns against treating enforcement as a game while calling for legislative action to reintroduce airborne patrols.
Editorial notes the slow pace of GATT talks and Europe’s economic woes. Britain faces austerity and recession while West Germany plans tax hikes. Slumping steel, rising deficits, and floods in Italy threaten markets. U S exports largely rely on Europe demand.
President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara pursue a US USSR arms control pact that could halt new missiles and allow troop withdrawals from Europe, while the Joint Chiefs favor strengthening missile defenses. The piece outlines the missile types and nuclear weapons deployed in Europe and argues over NATO strategy amid Cold War tension.
John Harden adds 1952 to 1966 to Major General Capus M Waynick’s NC roads saga. The book, published by Superior Stone Company, covers Interstate 40 in Pisgah and the Oregon Inlet bridge, highlighting postwar tech advances and road-building leaders.
A humorous piece about Yuletide cards sent by public relations staff and officials, from an undertaker to a bikini model in Miami Beach, noting the era and the mix of political and personal greetings. It recalls a missing WW II veteran used as a signature mystery by a former court reporter turned executive.
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