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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1970
Page
4
The note reflects on a Christmas gospel and a quote from William R. Inge. It emphasizes fearlessness and enduring candlelight in Palestine as a symbol of faith across time.
Governor Scott urges streamlining of state government through a Citizens Conference on reorganization. He seeks a state constitutional amendment to cap departments at 25 and notes 317 agencies now overlap. The aim is modernization and greater efficiency with legislative backing.
The move to raise the FHA and VA loan cap to 8 percent takes effect next Monday. Secretary Romney says the increase is reluctant but necessary amid market realities. The change could add about 6,210 to a 25,000 home loan over 30 years, affecting about half of outstanding insured mortgages.
In the Kennedy inquiry press access clashes with fair trial rights as Massachusetts bars reporters and spectators from the Kopechne inquest. The piece weighs First Amendment press freedom against Sixth Amendment impartial juries amid high profile cases.
The inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne’s death opens as investigators question if Ted Kennedy acted willfully or negligently by not reporting the accident promptly. Diver John Farrar says an air bubble suggests Mary Jo survived minutes after the crash and could have been saved with quicker notification.
A close aide recounts how Joseph P Kennedy dived for Mary Jo Kopechne in the submerged car but could not locate her. He then shifted to shore searches with Gargan and Markham, while Kennedy reportedly prepared a police statement and faced possible perjury if he sign his own version at the inquest.
The piece riffs on football mistakes and life, hints at politics with Nat’s cap joke, and critiques a photo of a politician captioned as a used car pitch. It notes a teen meets a dishpan in a museum and recalls Santa letters asking for toy trains without explanation of sourcing.
Holt McPherson recalls 1969 milestones and envisions 1970s as a transition period marked by rapid change. He cites space achievement, poverty versus affluence, and warns against national guilt as he urges renewed confidence and self reliance to sustain democracy.
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