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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1971
Page
4
Pleasant above normal temperatures return for North Carolina with mostly sunny, warm weather over the weekend. Sunday highs expected in the upper 60s with a 10 percent chance of precipitation. Clear tonight with mild overnight lows and similar conditions in High Point area forecasts.
Extended outlook Monday through Wednesday shows showers and thundershowers likely turning to fair conditions by Wednesday. Warm Monday turning cooler Tuesday and Wednesday. Lows Monday near 40 in mountains and upper 40s to 50s on coast. Highs Monday near 60 in mountains to around 70 on coast. Lows Tuesday and Wednesday mornings mid to upper 20s in mountains and mid 30s elsewhere. Highs Tuesday and Wednesday mid 40s in mountains and upper 40s to low 50s elsewhere.
NORTH CAROLINA sees showers and thundershowers ending mountains early today with clearing and mild conditions. Highs upper 60s to low 70s, lows upper 30s to low 40s. Sunday mostly sunny and warm with highs in the 60s to around 70. SOUTH CAROLINA remains mostly cloudy and warm with showers possible today. Highs near 70 inland, mid 70s at the coast, turning cooler tonight. Lows mid 40s mountains to 50s coast. Sunday partly cloudy with little temperature change, highs near 70 inland to mid 70s coast.
Cloudy and windy with a chance of showers this morning. Becoming partly cloudy this afternoon and mostly clear tonight. Sunday mostly sunny and warm. Highs near 70 today, upper 60s Sunday. Cooler tonight low 40s. Wind south to southwest 10 to 20 mph, gusty today, shifting west to southwest 5 to 15 mph tonight and Sunday. Precipitation probability 30 percent today, 10 percent tonight and Sunday.
Open hearings on lowering the voting age to 18 were announced for March 3 by Sen. Stewart B. Warren and Rep. Herschel Harkins. The joint public hearing will be at the Legislative Building auditorium at 10 a.m. Testimony should be in writing and filed with the committee by March 1.
Secretary of the Interior Rogers C B Morton told a Senate subcommittee he is far from approving an 800 mile Alaska oil line. He urged a national energy policy and emphasized environmental protection as he weighs whether North Slope reserves are needed amid Middle East tensions. Former secretary Hickel said he faced pressure but acted in the public interest.
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Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife of over 14 years announce they are separated and filing for divorce. A joint news release from Rockefeller’s public relations office says terms of the separation remain undisclosed. prior settlement reports note a $0 million pay out in 1954 to his first wife Barbara Sears Rockefeller.
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