07 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1968
Page
1
A promotional note invites readers to call or write ACTION LINE at The Enterprise to share concerns or questions. It emphasizes seeking answers, settling problems, or easing worries through direct contact.
The reader asks for a market product to clear blemishes affecting dating prospects. The reply urges seeing a dermatologist for treatment including diet and medication, suggests gaining perspective from waiting-room experiences, and advises expressing interest in others to ease self-consciousness, noting popular youths can have poor complexions.
The letter questions long delays in notifying volunteers about enlistment waits. M Sgt Travis Bray and T Sgt Robert Williamson explain monthly non prior service quotas, aptitude tests in four fields, and that local recruiters cannot control timing. They urge reviewing the process with interested applicants to set realistic expectations.
A reader asks the meaning of umgawa used in Tarzan and Jungle Jim films and cites a 1919 silent Tarzan with Elmo Lincoln. Swahili authorities are being consulted, and a Channel 8 screening with piano accompaniment is noted.
President Johnson weighs halting North Vietnam raids against its possible peace talks. Secret inquiries probe Hanoi line on negotiations while advisers demand a real concession and a rock bottom offer from the San Antonio speech.
In Salt River mourners attended Cape Town’s largest funeral for Clive Haupt 24 whose heart was transplanted to Dr. Philip Blaiberg 58, as Barnard and team members attended. Hospital bulletin said Blaiberg's condition was progressing favorably. Mayor Ferry praised the donor’s contribution to science.
Frigid polar air drove temperatures near 50 below zero in parts of Minnesota and across the midwest and plains. Snow sleet and freezing rain spread ahead of the mass while hazardous driving warnings stretched from eastern New Mexico to the mid Atlantic. Chicago saw a snow storm as jet stream patterns push cold into the region.
A mixed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong force overran Tan Uyen village near Bien Hoa air base, burning 11 homes and the market, killing two village leaders and 14 South Vietnamese, including a soldier's wife and her two children. Nineteen Communists were killed and two captured, with 46 Vietnamese wounded as U.S. forces counterattacked at dawn.
In Richmond Virginia negotiators prepared to rename contract talks as four plants remain on strike. Workers walked out after a three year contract expired at the American Tobacco Co plants in Richmond Durham Reidsville Louisville and other locations.
Washington tests show six cent letter rate returning to 1792 prices with broader changes. Airmail rises to ten cents, post cards five cents, and third class mail up about a third. Some increases phased in over two years as Roosevelt stamps replace Washington faces.
A Manchester London express collided with a 125 ton transformer truck at a grade crossing in Hixon England killing 13 and injuring 50. The locomotive and eight of ten cars derailed as rescuers worked through the wreckage and hundreds of sightseers gathered.
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