30 Jan 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1970
Page
1
The Q and A note a state license exists for vending on city property but no city license for machines. Bottled drinks sold outside machines incur a $2.50 city license with a separate $10 fee for peddling sandwiches tied to $10,000 in business. Confederate soldiers are exempt from fees.
The budget shows a new inspector hired in November. Starting salary is 600 dollars monthly with a 25 dollar raise to 625 on May 1 if performance is satisfactory. Travel allowance is 75 or 90 dollars based on travel distance.
Tenant asks how to compel landlord to fix a failing private well and pump or drill a new one. Seeks action from real estate board or health department but health official says issue is between tenant and landlord like any other property problem.
A 15,000 ton Soviet helicopter carrier Moskva is photographed 200 miles southwest of Land's End by an RAF reconnaissance plane. The missile-armed ship, one of two such carriers, had entered the Atlantic from the Mediterranean for the first time and then turned back toward the Atlantic at the English Channel entrance with two escort destroyers.
A reader questions bond rules for drunk driving and a capital crime. The answer notes DUI bonds often set around 300 dollars, while capital cases vary by judge. It emphasizes no fixed bond rule across all crimes and that setting bonds depends on evidence and circumstances.
Kerr Scott was elected governor in 1948. The North Carolina Republican chairman is Jim Holshouser, a Boone attorney. The exchange notes that addressing women as Mistress, Ms, or Hey You is a personal choice and may evolve over time.
A landlord cannot enter a rental home in the tenant’s absence without consent. The tenant’s permission is required for entry.
General Electric and two unions announced a tentative contract ending a 95 day strike. The deal includes a pay raise over 40 months and a cost of living clause. Ratification by union members and board approvals follow before workers return.
U S Army Engineers spent 342358 to build a 150 foot square helicopter landing pad off Nixon's waterfront Key Biscayne compound. Edmund Thornton of Atlantic Foundation Co said pilings and sturdiness drove the expense.
President Nixon will ask Congress for a 1971 budget totaling 200.8 billion dollars with a 1.3 billion surplus. Defense cuts of 5.8 billion and trims in space agriculture and veterans benefits are planned, with hints of looser monetary restraint and a push for spending priorities.
Senate Judiciary Committee recessed after testimony labeling Judge Carswell damaging to his Supreme Court nomination. Rutgers professor John Lowenthal urged rebuttal though Bayh avoided recall. Lowenthal accused Carswell of hostility to a habeas petition in 1964 Tallahassee, while other witnesses described several obstructive practices.
President and Mrs. Nixon greet guests with Red Skelton in the White House receiving line after the comedian performed in the first of a series of theatrical evenings. Rules barred photographs of the entertainer with the First Family.
Comedian Red Skelton opens President Nixon's Evenings in the White House with pantomime and puns before about 275 officials. Nixon praised Skelton's long career and humor, while Skelton noted the inclusion of the phrase under God in the Pledge of Allegiance and quipped about a recent operation.
Bishop Thomas A. Fraser of the North Carolina diocese says Malcolm X Liberation University in Durham is an unrealistic experiment with a dubious future yet the $30,000 Episcopal grant serves to spotlight the church’s failures to reconcile differences. He notes separatism is sinful but says the noise over the grant is overstated. A controversy and financial crisis marked the diocese annual convention.
The North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the murder conviction and death sentence of 16 year old Robert Louis Roseboro for the stabbing of Mary Helen Kendrick Williams at her towel outlet in Shelby. The decision followed an automatic stay during appeal and a dissent argued life imprisonment would be more appropriate.
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