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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1971
Page
10
North Carolina sees milder conditions after a midweek snow and ice event. Forecasters call for mostly cloudy skies through Wednesday with occasional rain and daytime highs in the upper 40s to low 60s, then cooler at mid‑40s. Overnight lows hover around the 20s to 40s with a zero to 50 percent precipitation chance.
Forecast calls for sunny skies in North Carolina today with clearing skies tonight and increasing clouds in the mountains. Sunday adds more clouds with a chance of rain west. warmer highs in the 50s, and upper 20s to low 30s for lows. In South Carolina Sunshine and warmth today with mild tonight and Sunday clouds with inland rain chances. highs today upper 50s to low 60s, Sunday 50s to mid 60s, and lows tonight mid 30s inland to around 40s beaches.
New York Citys fourteen thousand three hundred firefighters defied a court order by quitting routine inspection duties after their contract expired at midnight Friday. About half the overnight shift refused overtime to clear seven inches of snow from hydrants and stations, potentially hindering emergency response while police and sanitation workers also faced expired contracts. The Uniformed Firefighters Association faces possible penalties under the Taylor Law, with delegates summoned as wage hike demands linger.
A reflective aphorism asserts that those who achieve their full desires are those who require nothing more.
The Associated Press reports North Carolina counts at least three more road fatalities than the same period last year. Among the victims: David Randolph West, 18, of Columbus, killed when his car skidded on ice and overturned near Columbus in Polk County. Marian Alston Crutchfield, 35, of Apex, killed when her car ran off the road south of Friendship in Wake County. two 14 year old boys struck by sleds in Landis and Pittsboro. Douglas Allen Rowell, which sledding near Landis. William Atwater Clegg Jr., a Pittsboro sledder hit by a car. James E. L. Mitchell, 24, of Fort Bragg, and Jesse James McNeill, 25, of Lumberton, killed when a train hit their car. The statewide death count for the year is 1,741, a decrease of 69 from the previous year, marking a second year with rising fatalities.
A United Arab Airlines flight from Algiers to Cairo crashed near Tripoli airport killing 26 aboard. Libya’s agency said the pilot misjudged distance to the runway and crashed about four miles from the airport. 17 bodies were recovered. Egypt sent a special investigative team to Tripoli.
In Raleigh a 15-year old girl, Lucy Harris Becoat, has been charged with murder in the slaying of taxi firm owner James Palmer Freeman. Freeman, 66, was found dead at 3:07 a.m. in the front seat of a car in the cab company's driveway, shot in the chest with a small caliber weapon.
Veteran Paul Petzoldt leads a four man assault toward the Grant Teton summit as part of a New Year push. He says the team hopes to reach the top today with 19 teen and twenty-something climbers awaiting progress reports from rangers. The party follows last year's attempt and faces 4000 feet of snow ice and rock with moderate temperatures and light winds forecast.
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