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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1968
Page
1
Readers asked to identify the senator who quipped about Vietnam as a "nice little war" that keeps the economy up. Paul Harvey reportedly aired it but exact broadcast date is needed for verification.
Readers query traffic timing in Thomasville and compare it with Greensboro High Point and Winston Salem. The city cites railroad crossings as the reason left turn signals have no lead time though possible state remedies may follow.
Charlotte AP report describes Rosalyn Sullivan catching three children from a flaming second story window. The youths Johnny 6 Julius 5 Chestine 4 escaped uninjured after the stove and newspapers started the blaze.
Educators at several large universities protest the end of graduate draft deferments for most students linking the move to reduced graduate enrollments and a smaller future teacher pool. Administrators warn of long term manpower gaps, with officials predicting 150000 or more draftees and shifts toward older, disabled, or foreign students in graduate programs.
Lee Roy Martin a 31 year old textile worker from Gaffney is in custody in Columbia charged with the murder of Opal Dianne Buckson 15 and linked to the killings of Nancy Carol Parris 20 and Nancy Christine Rinehart 14. A wide manhunt involved 100 officers and residents after two bodies were found February 8. Buckson was abducted at a school bus stop Tuesday morning and found later in brush in a rural area.
Arrowood Job Corps Conservation Center run by the U S Forest Service marks three years of basic education and job training for unemployed youths ages 16 to 21 in Franklin North Carolina Rep Roy A Taylor D NC will speak at the anniversary event his district including Franklin.
U S planes dropped nearly 1.5 million pounds of explosives on Communist troops near Khe Sanh as clashes flare along the northern frontier. Marines and Vietnamese forces battle in Hue Citadel with heavy casualties reported.
Police say a man slashed gasoline and tossed a lit match inside a crowded tavern killing twelve as patrons jammed at the back door trying to escape. William Coleman, an ex convict, is to face murder charges after surrendering to police.
Maj. Morris Overly, Capt. Jon David Black, and Lt. David Matheny, the first U.S. airmen released by North Vietnam, were freed after being held since 1967. They spoke briefly, thanked the Vietnamese, and prepared for medical checks and U.S. return from Vientiane via an ICC plane to Clark Air Force Base.
President Johnson defended General Westmoreland and rejected rumors about his competence. He said Westmoreland will stay on in Vietnam and that peace negotiations with Hanoi remain as distant as three years ago, based on over 20 overtures and recent talks involving U Thant with world leaders.
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