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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1971
Page
3
The National Weather Service reports unseasonably warm temperatures through the weekend across the Carolinas. Triad highs in the 50s to 60s with 40s at night and a 0 to 10 percent chance of precipitation. Christmas Day expected to be mild with 60s in parts, while coastal areas reach the low 60s.
The Maryland tug sank in Albemarle Sound after a captain allegedly failed to cut a runaway barge loose. Survivor John S. Williams testified the tug stopped to lengthen its tow line, wind pushed the barge ahead, and an engine stall doomed the rescue. The Mary land went down seven miles west of Powell’s Point, North Carolina.
Explorer Scout Post 94 in Oklahoma City sells Christmas trees to fund a hospital in Agua Prieta Mexico across from Douglas Arizona. Proceeds help build and equip the clinic in a poverty area and total funds range from four to four and a half thousand dollars. The post has sent eight truckloads of hospital beds operating tables hot water heaters and a 500 gallon propane tank.
Paris warehouse cellar stores more than 25 tons of letters and petitions sent to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners via peace talks. Since early last year, five million items arrived from Americans including 10 year old Mary Hendrix, now neglected as crates decay.
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