03 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1968
Page
1
Fortune 1966 figures show Coca Cola with 979,234,000 in sales and 3.12 per share, assets 664,749,000, while PepsiCo has 604,666,000 in sales, 3.65 per share, and assets 365,837,000. Figures include foreign operations. Also notes a bike returned after being stolen and a baking measurement tip eight ounces per cup.
The piece notes Vice President Humphrey likely does not receive pay for his Mike Douglas Show appearances. It contrasts public figures' PR use with actors who must be paid, mentioning a charity payout option if any compensation occurs.
Readers share methods to polish and clean appliances using chrome polish window cleaner Easy Off Formula 409 and Pan Sparkle. Ammonia water and baking soda also cited as effective. Names S C S H D J W A provide practical tips for toasters stoves refrigerators and washers.
In a Dec. 28 column this letter-writer disputes a prior claim that the south end of High Point is inferior. The writer rejects alleged bias by the school board and defends local residents as friendly, hardworking, and proud of their homes.
President Johnson signs bills expanding Social Security benefits and federal aid to elementary and secondary schools, while also signing a $2.29 billion foreign aid bill. The Social Security increases affect 24 million people with higher monthly checks. the education measure provides a record 9.3 billion for schools. a commission will examine welfare programs for reform. The package includes higher taxes on higher earnings and extended Medicare coverage. Johnson calls the measures major steps for the poor and the great Society era.
Washington AP summarizes key elements of the Social Security bill signed by President Johnson. Benefits rise for current recipients with a minimum increase, higher caps for maximum payments, and boosted survivor benefits. Tax changes raise wage base and rates through 1987 with adjustments for self employed. Medicare expands hospital days and physician billing options. Medicaid participation tightens to lower income families in 1970. Public welfare reforms push work incentives and cap federal aid for needy children.
Cyanide crewmen began transferring 20 000 gallons of a deadly chemical from a battered rail car to tanker trucks. Security was tight and residents were banned from DUNREITH Indiana until the transfer finished amid a volatile danger. Two Pennsylvania trains collided New Year’s Eve causing explosions in ammonia gasoline and oil tankers and prompting evacuations.
In the South End branch of Charlestown Savings Bank a man demanded money with a note. Teller Lawrence Goldman consulted a colleague and replied with a note saying the robber was in the wrong bank. The man left the bank.
Washington reports that North Vietnam and the United States have narrowed differences over starting peace talks but officials doubt productive talks will occur. The issue relates to clarified questions before the next move after North Vietnam’s foreign minister Nguyen Duy Trinh proposed talks only after bombing ends. State Department pressed for confirmation and cautioned that clarifications are part of the process.
Jim Gardner, 34, Rocky Mount restaurant chain owner, announced his bid for the Republican nomination for North Carolina governor. He will remain in Congress and campaign for governor, with John Stickley as his campaign partner and John Hutchins to run the campaign. Gardner travels to five cities to promote his candidacy and aims to be the first Republican governor in 67 years.
A U S Marine with a bandaged forehead lies against a field pack as he speaks to a corpsman waiting for helicopter evacuation to a field hospital. He was wounded in a clash near a village 20 miles south of DaNang during a battalion size operation that faced heavy fire on landing in a muddy rice paddy.
CAPE TOWN AP Dr Philip Blaiberg the world's third heart transplant patient was doing very well today a hospital spokesman said The 58 year old retired dentist regained consciousness Tuesday night and in his first words since the operation said I am thirsty Please give my regards to my wife The heart belonged to Clive Haupt 24 a mulatto but there was no objection from apartheid chief defender Prime Minister Vorster Barnard noted the operation went as well as the first transplant and started without restarting the heart lung machine.
A young mulatto patient died from a brain hemorrhage after a stroke while rugby with his wife and friends near Fish Hoek Beach. The transplant story centers on Dr Haupt and the heart of Washkansky, with neighbors recalling Clive’s hopeful reactions and Blaiberg’s need for acceptance of the donor heart.
Sgt. Mark Ridey and 12 men held a landing zone 450 yards from their lines as 2 500 enemy soldiers attacked in a bloodiest New Year truce violation near the Cambodian border. Four hundred seventy four enemy killed, 23 Americans killed, 153 wounded in dawn assaults lasting into Tuesday.
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