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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1966
Page
2
Wichita funeral director Claude DeVorss declined a civic club membership drive gift of a motorcycle. He said he might end up doing business with himself and refused to ride it from the presentation. The item was part of a club event in Wichita, Kansas.
Two Democratic senators pressed for continuing pressure while critic Hickenlooper argued the suspension has no clear gains as the other side regroups. Ernest Gruening, a persistent Johnson Vietnam critic, said the pause has produced no clear results and may even reduce casualties.
The unit advances into a plantation area and discovers an underground camp beneath the surface. They encounter four additional linked trench tunnel networks forming smaller defense lines on the landscape.
David P Reloth, a 61st fulltime alcoholism counselor for Charlotte and Mecklenburg, begins Feh 1 at Recorder's Court. A 1-year-old former Fayetteville police captain, he resigned after 12 years to serve as court counselor and rehabilitation officer under court authority but not as a probation officer. His main duty is screening offenders linked to alcohol offenses and pre trial investigation.
The Harris survey shows Democrats leading Republicans 43 to 17 nationally, with a 26 point gap, but uncertainty remains as some 1964 Democratic voters may not back a Democratic Congress. Voter splits over Congress pace, Viet Nam War impact, and regional shifts suggest the key battlegrounds are the suburbs in the West and the coalition of Republicans and independents who backed Johnson in 1964.
Prof Staughton Lynd Thomas Hayden and Herbert Aptheker returned from a trip to North Vietnam saying negotiations require an honorable solution from all sides. They met Premier Pham Van Dong who urged the United States to demonstrate seriousness through concrete steps. The travelers, who defied a State Department travel ban, were greeted by about 60 people at the airport and face possible jail or fines for unauthorized travel. Their trip was funded by Viet-Report, a magazine critical of U.S. policy.
In U S Middle District Court Greensboro the civil suit against 19 corrugated box makers for price fixing in the Southeast was continued to May 24. The government alleges price information exchanges since 1955 to restrain trade. two North Carolina firms Carolina Container Co of High Point and Dixie Container Corp of Morganton are named among the defendants.
U S troops from heavily armed helicopters attacked a riverine target moving along a tarred river route. A large houseboat sped away as machine gun fire ripped the water, three bodies fell into the muddy current, and a helicopter was shot down. Marines advanced to a deserted rubber plantation facing a hidden six foot trench with snipers ready.
In Messina Sicily mechanic Nicola Spada claims a new suction pump harvests olives by sucking them from trees. He says the device can harvest up to 12,500 pounds of olives in a single hour.
Five North Carolina projects are among 218 educational centers and services funded by the Office of Education under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The NC sites include Asheville Buncombe County Board of Education expansion of instructional material services, Goldsboro Wayne County Board of Education supplementary education center, Lumberton Robeson County Board of Education supplementary educational center and services, and Hackett Mount city schools supplementary educational center and services.
Violence echoed through the city as a strike backed the provisional government's order to oust military leaders while opposing rebel leadership removals. Government offices closed, northern high school students blocked traffic with barricades and rocks. The strike drew support from the Marxist 4th of June movement and the Dominican Communist Party. President Hector Garcia Godoy pledges to exile revolution leaders without deploying the Inter-American Peace Force.
In Wadesboro North Carolina seven children all under seven die in a house fire on the town's outskirts. A kerosene stove explosion or overturn triggered the blaze as neighbors Robert Wall and James Gaddy alerted responders. Sheriff Rayfield said the children lived with their mother Mrs Thelma Rorie and investigators are probing the cause while noting possible suffocation amid some body burns.
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