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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1972
Page
1
Readers are invited to phone or write Action Line in care of The Enterprise for assistance. The paper notes that many requests are received and while every inquiry is considered, not all can be answered or acknowledged due to high volume.
A reader reports extreme heat and fumes at a dye house with many workers affected. Management says a larger air conditioning motor was installed December 29 and is now functioning, while a dye additive error causing odor was corrected. Also notes a festive Christmas party.
Readers ask why officers wear baseball caps with the uniform. Lt. Rich explains caps are part of the Fifth Platoon night watch gear to stay clean and comfortable during security checks near buildings.
The FBI probes leaks of highly classified information to reporters centered on the National Security Council led by Henry Kissinger. Investigators examined State and Defense yet found no source there, while columnist Jack Anderson published verbatim notes from White House conferences on India Pakistan and Middle East policy.
The pay board vetoed its first labor contract by a 9 0 vote against a 12 percent raise for aerospace workers. A later plan to set a standard to guide renegotiations remains possible. IAM and UAW plan a 300 plus member strategy session in St Louis next Saturday to decide next steps.
North Vietnam hardened its terms for releasing U.S. prisoners demanding an end to Vietnamization and a complete US troop withdrawal. Radio Hanoi asserted Nixon must end the war and the policy to win POWs, linking the prisoner issue to a broader settlement and the future of South Vietnam.
A National Airlines Boeing 747 carrying 331 passengers and crew encountered clear air turbulence over Texas. Twenty five people were injured, three seriously, as trays and baggage caused interior damage. The plane resumed to Miami and officials deemed it structurally sound.
Sen Edmund Muskie formally enters the 1972 race in a televised 10 minute appeal calling for a new beginning and a return to Lincoln era ideals. He criticizes the Nixon administration while pledging focus on the nation's future.
Guilford County deputies arrested two men, Donnie Ray Keil and Sterling Legrande, after a Summerfield bank raid. They were said to have fled with about $50,000, abandoned their car in a ditch, and were found four miles from the Central Carolina Bank branch with help from bank employees, a light plane, and bloodhounds.
The US Army will remove guns from all Vietnam medical evacuation helicopters, repaint most white, and issue leaflets and posters urging the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese not to shoot. By Friday, guns will be removed except in the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry.
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