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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1967
Page
4
High Point hosts the Winter Market focused on regional trade rather than the national shows in April and October. The piece notes brisk regional sales in Chicago and emphasizes the Winter Market’s importance to retailers within 200 to 300 miles, who rely on accessible driving distance and steady participation.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that British economists urge replacing universal welfare with a welfare society offering basic benefits tied to need and funded by cash vouchers. The scheme, supported by the Institute of Economic Affairs, would require personal responsibility from the well to do and possible voluntary contributions for housing and health costs. A national conference on social welfare in April will consider the plan.
The piece analyzes 1960s wage price guidelines and looming major contracts. It notes the Teamsters push for up to 7 percent gains, potential anti strike legislation, and a tense labor market with upcoming railroad and rubber negotiations. It cites Hoffa and Wirtz while forecasting a year of major wage talks.
In a tense closed session the House Democratic caucus voted 122 to 88 to remove Adam Clayton Powell as committee chairman while leaving his seniority intact. Rep. Morris Udall urged discipline and Rep. Multer warned due process concerns. Republicans rejected a harsher defection rule 89 to 23 as Younger sought party discipline for similar votes.
An eclectic column covers a shaken credibility survey for ministers and a quip about reporters. It notes the Wade Cumbys burying mother and child in one casket, Macy’s press party with Thayer Coggin musicians, North Main traffic woes, upcoming local business changes, cerebral palsy drive aims for ten thousand dollars, Hatteras Yacht Company ads and awards, Doris Slane on CBS, Dr. E W Price Jr steering the State Baptist Convention, a new cash only credit card concept, and High Point’s bid for All-America City 1967 with a January meeting to plan reentry.
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