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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1967
Page
49
A reporter visits Michael Lee Goins and his family as Mrs Kitty Millar and a Girl Scout troop visit with Christmas gifts for Michael who has muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for six years. The visit aims to evoke sympathy and admiration from readers.
A feature on Michael, 14, his 13-year-old brother Billy, and their mother, as the Girl Scouts Troop 88 bring Christmas gifts and a tape recorder for comfort. The family, living with care needs after the father left, faces a possible move to receive specialized care in January. The Scouts funded gifts through chores, sharing Christmas joy and support.
At Dye-4 near Kap Dan, station chief Chuck Munshaw plans a Christmas Day trek across a frozen lake to greet Eskimos in Kap Dan village. The article recalls the vast DEW Line network from Greenland to the Aleutians, its civilian staff, and a festive Arctic visit including a Christmas feast aboard the Arctic Star and a visit to Dye 2 on the Greenland Ice Cap.
Community items from High Point dated Sunday morning December 24 1967 cover local happenings and notices in a concise news brief format. Names, places, and events reflect the period's civic and social activity with typical small city reporting style.
A stray dog named Stranger confounds two days of neighborhood search as he wanders in a daze with a swollen nose from a street fight and a habit of sleeping 23 hours a day near a basement door. A civic column then lampoons City Councilman Fred Swartzberg for amusingly mispronouncing chemicals like sodium silico fluoride and sodium hexametaphosphate while discussing water plant purification and Calgon-like filtration aids.
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