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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1971
Page
8
A notice from The Enterprise invites readers to contact Action Line for questions or help. It explains high volume limits acknowledgments and asks readers to understand limited response capacity. The advisory emphasizes consideration of requests and patience.
A reader complains about high traffic speeds at the Nathan Hunt Brentwood intersection and urges a traffic signal for safer right of way. An engineer comments that peak congestion is brief and a signal could delay traffic and possibly raise accidents.
A reader asks when Ward Street from English Road to Westchester will be widened after several wrecks. Officials say the thoroughfare plan includes widening but construction may not begin for four to six years, with only preliminary phase A alignment work done so far.
In a reader note from December 26, 1970, the policy is explained: NC requires 16 for a full license, with a temporary learner permit at 15 for up to 30 days or until the 16th birthday, with a licensed guardian in the car. The piece also addresses long distance rates and direct dialing, noting station to station calls are the same rate as direct dialing and detailing in state and out of state rates and times.
President Nixon, reflecting on his first two years, says he hopes to improve and achieve prosperity and peace by 1972. His notable success is the gradual troop withdrawal from South Vietnam, but he notes home front setbacks and calls for Congress to share responsibility. He projects 1971 as a good year and 1972 as very good, aiming full employment by 1975 and major welfare and health reforms.
President Nixon promised no new tax increases in 1972 and forecast a deficit in the fiscal 1972 budget while pledging an expansionary policy to cut unemployment to 4 percent by 1972. He outlined plans including revenue sharing and welfare reform and denied an immediate move to a value added tax, noting such a tax could be considered later.
Julius Alex Brigman, 48, a Charlotte truck driver, is charged with murdering his wife by tailing her at high speed and rear ending her car on Interstate 85. A passenger in the wife’s car, 21, said a second vehicle flashed its lights and forced the crash. Mrs Brigman died when her car struck a bank and dropped into a hole.
In a ruling by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John J. Gibbons states federal housing programs must study the impact of new projects on racial integration under the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. The decision allows rebuilding racially concentrated areas when outweighed by rehabilitation or minority housing needs.
Consumer groups attack an FDA plan to use industry funded research to shape new food labeling rules. CRI would conduct free field tests costing up to 100000 dollars to gauge nutritional disclosures while denying heat and emotion. Critics say industry funding could bias findings and influence policy decisions.
Washington AP reports a new federal anti crime act doubles penalties for crimes with firearms. First offenders face one to ten years, subsequent convictions two to twenty five years, with gun carrying tacked onto the crime sentence. The measure expands Safe Streets Act and broadens federal protection.
Lauderdale Florida reports a flu outbreak with 13000 cases and 18 deaths in one week. Health Director Dr Paul Hughes says the elderly are most susceptible and 98 percent of cases involve long term heart and lung ailments. He urges vaccination and boosters as preventive measures in Broward County.
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