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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1967
Page
1
Louis Harris surveys show 40 percent accept smoking as a major cancer cause while a majority doubt science or call it minor. Public supports warnings but not conspicuous placement. Smokers decline 18 months to 43 percent, heavy smokers up to 13 percent as industry reports high sales with more filters.
President Johnson denounces leaks from the 20 member draft commission set last July. Although final recommendations arrive after January, previews have spread nationwide via columnists and wires. Leaks point to a lottery to select caves from those classified as 1 A.
A CARMICHAEL report says uniform standards will aim to remove inequities in draft deferments across 4 088 boards. It says universal training and a national service corps will not be recommended, with the draft likely changing only administratively as hearings loom in 1967.
U S jet pilots returned to North Vietnam’s Red River Valley after a two day truce and shot down seven MIGs in a major aerial battle near Ha Noi and Haiphong. Four F4C Phantoms and F105 Thunderchiefs claimed the kills as B 52s bombed positions in the neutral zone. U S destroyers Ingersoll and Manley traded fire with a shore battery offshore near Haiphong. details remain sketchy.
Rex M. Whitton, retiring federal highway administrator, says there will be no end to highway building but future focus will move from major new interstates to improving feeder and primary roads. He notes people prefer driving and mobility.
Ronald Reagan was sworn in after a late midnight ceremony under the Capitol dome, using a 400 year old Bible. He pledged to "try very hard" to tackle California's fiscal and social problems, recalling Franklin and briefly joking with Sen. George Murphy while thousands watched on TV.
Frank Robinson, 38, of Windsor Locks, lost radio and navigation about 12 miles from Bradley International. With 200 foot visibility and freezing drizzle, he sighted a house as landmark and landed at Hyde Field after town residents illuminated the strip. No injuries reported after a 30 minute landing ordeal.
Chiang Ching, wife of China’s party chairman, called Liu Shao-chi a Khrushchev-like figure and said his October confession was a hoax. A Yomiuri-compiled Peking report noted Liu would be pressed to confess again, as Red Guards push a purge amid Mao and Lin Piao.
Two Republican senators predict the Vietnam War will shape 1968 politics. Sen. Jack R. Miller says Johnson may not be the Democratic nominee if end isn’t in sight by mid 1968 and suggests a Kennedy candidacy to save the party. Sen. Karl Mundt calls the conflict contradictory and says it could boost GOP chances despite complexities.
Police chase two gunmen who fatally shot a gas station attendant and Deputy Dean Foster in Lansing Michigan. Foster and Harold Peterson, both dead, were identified as victims. Witnesses described the suspects and the getaway car abandoned with the cash register intact in the back seat.
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