09 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1968
Page
1
Readers invited to the High Point Public Library meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday January 9 to share rock specimens and form a mineral club. Officers Don Charlton Hoxie Jones and Leo Lowell welcome attendees and promise friendly reception.
A reader asks if bird killing and shooting within city limits can be charged as cruelty to animals. City codes ban such acts. consult police for enforcement and possible charges under municipal rules. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may pursue court action if warranted.
Billy Johnson of The Billy Johnson Show left WGHP-TV suddenly and is now in Grand Rapids Michigan doing country and western on TV and syndicating his sports productions. Show business moves are common in television.
Snow and ice hit western North Carolina closing many mountain schools across Buncombe Yancey Henderson Haywood McDowell Ashe Avery Alleghany Jackson Madison Swain Watauga Wilkes and Macon counties. Asheville city schools also closed. Three Jackson County factories shut down. Roads required chains or snow tires with hazardous early driving as two inches piled up in Boone and Sylva. The Weather Bureau warned of continued slick conditions with sleet freezing rain and rain turning to rain later. Highs ranged from the mid thirties with lows around the twenties to lower thirties along the coast.
New York AP reports the casualty rate for U S troops in South Vietnam rose significantly in 1967 from 1966. Both overall totals and the percentage rate increased despite expectations of a decline, as troop strength averaged about 448 200 during the year.
Adam Clayton Powell announces a Watts walk to mobilize support amid claims Congress has reversed civil rights gains since his expulsion. He vows further speeches on a black revolution, plans legal action, and urges federal court review free of racism. He will speak at UCLA and other universities.
Members of Congress create a biannual pay raise mechanism via a nine member commission. Automatic salary increase from 30 000 to the recommended figure occurs after 30 days unless Congress acts to reject or cut. The commission is appointed this July and must deliver proposals by year end 1969 for early 1970 submission.
A storefront factory fire driven by paper waste tore through a Brooklyn tenement trapping residents in freezing conditions. Thirteen bodies, including nine children and four adults from two families, were recovered after a 42 hour battle. Police and firemen saved others as 195 firefighters assisted civilians.
Senators push for Johnson as likely nominee while Kennedy says he will not back McCarthy and will support Johnson if he secures the nomination. Hartke flags late decision on Indiana run as war policy debate intensifies, with Hatfield avoiding the Oregon primary stance.
Stanford doctors report Mike Kasperak in critical condition after a Saturday heart transplant. He endured post operative bleeding linked to liver disease and kidney weakness, though heart function remains only slightly below normal. Kasperak watched a news conference from his bedside as his wife Ferne visits.
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