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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1972
Page
3
Warming winds lift temperatures across North Carolina with mostly clear skies through Saturday. Lows tonight in the upper 20s and highs Saturday in the upper 40s to low 50s. South Carolina stays sunny and cool with highs mid 40s mountains to mid 50s coast, lows around 30 inland.
California Governor Ronald Reagan announces plans to wind down San Quentin Prison by 1974 reducing inmate population from 2214 to 1500 this year and abandoning the 121 year old facility. Warden Nelson calls the prison infamous and nostalgic as capital punishment debates loom.
Six candidates for North Carolina governor, five Democrats and one Republican, will address editors at the North Carolina Associated Press News Council banquet in Charlotte. They include Holshouser and Hargrove among others. The meeting, postponed by snow, will feature brief talks and tours of local newspaper facilities.
SAIGON AP report says the U S command disclosed the loss of a 12th American plane last month in the air war over Laos and North Vietnam. A helicopter was shot down in South Vietnam's central highlands injuring three. An Air Force OV10 went down Christmas Eve with two crewmen missing. A gunship rocket incident wounded five and one soldier killed, under investigation. B52 bombers pounded northern supply routes as officials fear a major offensive during Nixon's China trip.
Mrs. Nixon arrives in Abidjan for a two day Ivory Coast visit, greeted by President Houphouet-Boigny and wife. Her Ghana stop included a U S Embassy dinner with Prime Minister Busia and other officials where she presented a bronze Lincoln bust and a clock.
Washington officials say the Nixon administration will ask Congress to raise the national debt ceiling again to a near record amount likely by March 1. The 1972 deficit is seen around $28 billion with receipts down and new programs, while the 1973 budget will forgo a value added tax.
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