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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1970
Page
4
A compact reflection from Wendell L. Willkie on honesty, hard work, and iron resolution as the path through danger and hardship. The remark emphasizes persistence and determination in pursuit of victory.
Dr. Paul Kotin spoke at the Duke banquet urging action on environmental crisis. Meteorologists link Gary Indiana steel mills to La Porte rainfall decline. LaPorte averages 19 inches more rain than upwind stations since 1946. Similar downwind effects noted near Belleville Illinois. Pollution and forest loss due to SO2 fumes threaten trees across Maryland and California. President Nixon creates White House Council on Environmental Quality to reclaim air and water purity.
Senator Sam Ervin discusses privacy abuses as Holland enacts three new laws to shield private and public life. The measures ban telephone tapping and eavesdropping on calls and prohibit secret photography, with a high fine for violations. An exception allows a house holder to photograph a burglar in the act.
Scientists warn a global cooling trend may lead to colder conditions and more snow as pollutants alter weather patterns. Murray Mitchell notes a potential 240 year path to an Ice Age climate, while researchers observe record sea ice, crop impacts, and shifting rainfall in various regions.
A leaked report by Paul Cornely and Lester Breslow accuses federal and local authorities of medical neglect toward the poor. It documents slum conditions in Houston Chicago and Atlanta, pesticide exposure in Tulare County, polluted Potomac waters, and Indian reservations, urging Medicaid reform and poverty clinics while noting Nixon’s welfare cuts.
The community lauds the YWCA on its 50th anniversary highlighting its evolution from evangelistic roots to civil rights, social action, and religious pluralism. Also profiled is Big Joe Green, famed fiddler born in High Point, his rise via the Grand Ole Opry and USO tours, plus a note on UNC journalism library funding through a donor’s will.
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