09 Jan 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1969
Page
1
A reader asks how to withdraw funds without a lost bank book and to obtain a copy. An advisor says bring identity, sign an affidavit, and a parent if under 16. The column also addresses a funeral casket explanation, road repair authority limits, keeping greenery for Christmas, and halo around the moon with weather hints.
President Johnson awarded Distinguished Service Medals to Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr., and Williams Anders for space flight contributions. He lauded their 20 hour lunar orbit around the moon, circumnavigating 10 times, and hailed them as pioneers expanding mankind's reach into space.
In Washington a 29 year old auto repairman and prison escapee Billie Austin Bryant surrendered meekly in an attic after a city wide manhunt. He is charged with murder in the killings of FBI agents Anthony Palmisano and Edwin Woodlife as police pursued leads following the slayings at Bryant's estranged wife’s home. The two agents were among the bureau’s most recent casualties in a years long toll.
A winter storm lashed the northeast with snow and freezing rain from Wisconsin to the Middle Atlantic, driving arctic cold to below zero in Montana and Minnesota. Blizzard and travel warnings covered 14 states, with isolated heavy snowfall in Wisconsin and lower Michigan, and freezing rain from Indiana to Pennsylvania.
The Wire Service Guild struck the Associated Press at 8 am over wages and a union shop demand. Some guild members and exempt staff remained on duty, overseas operations are unaffected, and federal mediator George Byrnes is involved.
Scholars from across the Bible Belt met in Durham to analyze southern religion at the first academic conference dedicated to studying its faith. Rev Samuel Hill Jr defined the label as tied to regional identity and doctrinal conservatism, noting it shapes southern politics and racial attitudes as a persistent facet of southern identity.
In Guantanamo Bay a 15 year old refugee said about 1,000 people have been killed in the past year as they attempt to cross the base fence for freedom. A large group escaped Monday, with 87 reaching Miami aboard Navy planes. officials describe guards firing and dogs used on escapees.
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