02 Feb 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1970
Page
1
Readers discuss need for benches downtown to aid elderly pedestrians. Replies note prior merchant action, suggest civic club involvement, and discuss recreation staffing requirements and age suitability. Citations include address for North Carolina Geological Survey and traffic signal timing explanations.
President Nixon unveiled a 71.2 billion defense plan for the 1971 fiscal year, trimming overall outlays and cutting active duty personnel below 3 million. The proposal pushes the Safeguard antimissile program, urges allied defense burden sharing, and funds future systems including the B1 bomber and undersea long‑range missiles.
President Nixon pledges a balanced budget for fiscal 1971 with a projected surplus of 1.3 billion on a 200.8 billion spending total. He outlines cost cuts including 5.8 billion from defense and 2.1 billion from domestic programs, with space funding reduced to 3.4 billion.
Allied forces report more than 500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in weekend clashes the heaviest in six months. Twenty one Americans and twenty South Vietnamese dead, with 259 wounded amid over 100 enemy rocket mortar and ground assaults along the coastal lowlands south of Da Nang.
Amid Tet tensions two American helicopters were downed with five U S and six South Vietnamese dead and seven Americans wounded. Allied air power questioned enemy body counts as dueling claims emerged from battlefield reports and communiques. Nixon proposed a 1 2 billion fiscal 1971 tax boost plus user charges and a 100 million Alaska Railroad sale to slim the deficit.
Column notes the high volume of reader calls letters and requests and explains it is impossible to answer every submission while promising continued consideration of the most interesting items for publication.
Navy man Paul D. Hales served as sergeant in Vietnam and spoke his vows by telephone when Phyllis Sheets waited an hour in Atlanta. Justice of the Peace Neill Leach guided the ceremony as reporters watched.
Ernest H. Rosenberger testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that G. Harrold Carswell as a Tallahassee judge advised reducing a jail term for nine clergymen who tried to integrate an airport, wiping their habeas corpus prospects and leaving a permanent record. His account was challenged by senators, delaying civil rights leaders' testimony.
The Associated Press reports Southern districts struggle to interpret the Supreme Court's unitary system definition ahead of February 1 desegregation deadlines. Judges in Georgia Alabama Mississippi Florida set varied dates. some schools closed or limited to faculty integration. Mississippi legislators seek federal help as Tunica registration under a new plan shows racial enrollment disparities. Florida Volusia County attorneys seek court clarification on busing under a new integration plan.
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