10 Feb 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1966
Page
1
The President proposes a limited crop acreage rise for 1954-55 focusing on reserve stocks. Rice would rise about 200 000 acres and soybeans about a million acres with wheat and livestock feed also adjusted. The program largely follows the old Food for Peace Public Law 480 framework.
Governor Dan Moore said the UNC speaker ban was not censorship or political interference. He argued the trustees’ policy lets the university decide on each speaker, with no outside interference.
A civil rights change is proposed to head off racial conflict. The act aimed at conciliation and mediation with local officials and representatives of all races.
Showman Billy Rose, 66, died of lobar pneumonia in Montego Bay Jamaica where he was recuperating from heart surgery in December. Impresario, producer, columnist and songwriter of That Old Gang of Mine and Without a Song, he built a fortune on extravaganza and show business. He left New York for Jamaica with sister Polly Gottlieb and awaited news from Beverly Hills.
Former diplomat George F. Kennan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States should liquidate its military involvement in Viet Nam as soon as feasible without harming U S prestige or conditions at home. He warned against precipitous withdrawal and cautioned against seeking a decisive victory that may be unattainable. Kennan, described as a foremost observer of Soviet and Chinese politics, noted grave misgivings about expanding hostilities and stressed limitations of military success in achieving political aims.
Graham officials faced a property issue this week while dealing with tangled naming and record keeping. The council aimed to resolve the matter efficiently, avoiding further mix ups in local records and ownership listings.
The Senate again blocked filibuster limits on the union shop measure as 50 voted for cloture and 49 against, 16 short of two thirds. Democratic Leader Mansfield signaled the bill’s death for this Congress and suggested resting in peace on the calendar. The AFL-CIO and President Johnson suffered a political setback as the 14B provision allowing states to ban forced union membership contracts remained unresolved.
Moscow AP reports Luna 9 found hard porous volcanic soil on the moon able to bear humans moving about. Soviet Academy president Mstislav Keldysh cautioned safety of returning cosmonauts remains unsolved and that unmanned lunar movement was not planned this year.
Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuri Daniel faced a Moscow trial for anti-Soviet works published abroad. Both pleaded not guilty as Western reporters were barred. Tass signaled a likely conviction with possible seven year prison terms and five year exile.
The Senate approved a permanent education and benefits program for veterans serving over six months, with a key change granting eligibility to those who did not graduate high school. Johnson backs the measure as the House also passes it, retroactive to Jan 31 1955, replacing earlier programs.
Associate Justice Susie H. Sharp of North Carolina and Judge J Braxton Craven of the Western North Carolina District Court were recommended for appointment to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Senators Ervin and Jordan urged President Johnson to consider them for the post covering North Carolina South Carolina Virginia West Virginia and Maryland.
An 8 year old pilot on a cropduster trip from Lock Haven Pennsylvania to Montgomery told State Highway Patrolman D B Wilson he was flying with two other pilots. He said they were transporting three new cropdusters and ran low on fuel during the journey.
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