Fete Se Me 5 and Community Call for Input
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19 Feb 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1970
Page
1
A call to action invites readers to share thoughts and problems with ACTION LINE at The Enterprise. Readers can call or write to the ACTION LINE address to have concerns addressed or questions settled.
Letter asks for highway crews to fix dangerous holes on N C 66. District 2 official says repairs have begun and will continue as needed. The rest discusses wages for laundries and pollution groups with contact details and library eclipse viewing plans.
The column explains the high volume of reader requests makes it impossible to answer or acknowledge each one. It invites continued engagement and notes the editors select the most interesting items for publication.
After a key Senate victory they push an Ervin amendment to strip courts and federal agencies of authority to order school desegregation busing. The Stennis plan creates a national policy while aiming to slow Northern integration and curb local dual systems.
Richard G. Fitzpatrick, 22, of Bisbee, Arizona, a combat correspondent for a U.S. Army division newspaper in Vietnam, says he is forbidden to write about snipers, napalm, tear gas, or allied casualties. He holds a copy of Tropic Lightning News in Saigon as he claims soldiers distrust the papers.
Sen Barry Goldwater urged Congress to remove residency and absentee voting barriers in presidential elections He testified before a Senate panel arguing every able bodied citizen should vote wherever they are on Election Day He proposed a universal residency rule to replace parts of the House voting rights bill and did not address extending the 1965 act nationwide.
In Chicago the government wins a split verdict in the 1968 Democratic Convention incitement case. Five defendants were convicted of crossing state lines to incite rioting while seven were acquitted of conspiracy. Froines and Weiner were cleared of conspiracy and incendiary devices. Sentences and contempt penalties loom, with appeals planned to challenge the federal anti riot statute.
Lt. Ronald Harrison said he and Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald discussed the Sharon Tate murders two days before the MacDonald wife and two children were killed at Fort Bragg. Harrison, a Green Beret officer from Columbus, described their pre dawn talk about drugs, satanic cults and the Tate case.
The House prepared for a confrontation with the Nixon White House over a large education and welfare funding bill. The House Rules Committee rejected a compromise giving the president broader spending latitude, raising the prospect of a veto for the second time on the $19.7 billion package aimed at Health Education Welfare and Labor.
Rep Morton says the nation is moving toward solving racial problems and eradicating George Wallace as a 1972 presidential candidate. He notes Nixon era policies should reduce segregated patterns and predicts a national, not regional, push on desegregation. He cautions both parties must reinvent their missions amid growing independent registration.
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