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The Enterprise notes that readers may write or call Action Line for questions or help. It explains that many requests are received and not all can be answered or acknowledged due to high volume.
15 Jul 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1970
Page
1
The Enterprise notes that readers may write or call Action Line for questions or help. It explains that many requests are received and not all can be answered or acknowledged due to high volume.
Readers request recent postcards of the Furniture Market. the answer notes current postcards are at the information desk and suggests SFEB or Chamber publicity. For unused children’s toys, the Developmental Day Care Center at 805 Fairview may need them and the High Point Jaycees can arrange pickup.
A reader seeks methods to remove fish odor from a Coleman insulated icebox. Suggestions include baking soda for odor absorption, charcoal on newspaper with lid closed for a day or two, and coffee grounds in a nylon stocking as a deodorizing pack.
In High Point Greensboro area readers ask about karate lessons. Jim Moore at the YMCA teaches karate Wednesdays and notes judo and jiujitsu also exist locally. A winter class size has shrunk to 10 15 with a plan for a 10 lesson session at year start.
Washington AP The presidential commission on campus unrest heard that ending the Vietnam War is essential to any success. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott urged action while witnesses including S I Hayakawa Robben Fleming Charles Palmer and Otis Cochran argued the need to end the war and reform campus life amid Kent State and Jackson State deaths.
Blacks youths and liberals secured endorsement for the Hatfield-McGovern end the war amendment calling for troop withdrawal by June 30, 1971. The convention adjourned after the vote amid protests over leadership and a push for broader civil rights measures and voter access.
Scott argues for open doors and new blood in the party while a compromise war resolution sparks a heated vote. Professor John Robbins of UNC Charlotte backs the Hatfield McGovern amendment urging a program to end the war in Vietnam.
A four member House subcommittee charges military and State Department officers concealed evidence of the My Lai killings. It says reports reached 13 command levels but not Saigon, with no clear point of decision on the coverup. The panel cites 152 witnesses and urges reform of military justice.
A three judge federal panel hears a civil rights petition challenging Army jurisdiction over Sgt Esequiel Torres 22 of Brownsville Texas charged in the My Lai killings The action seeks to bar Army court martial or transfer to federal court and follows injunctions in related cases against S Sgt David Mitchell and Spec 4 Robert W Souvas with hearings pending for both.
Raleigh AP reports NC officials question compliance with the new voting rights act raising 18 year olds to ballots arguing it conflicts with the state constitution which fixes the voting age at 21. Attorney General and election officials say states must submit compliance plans by August 3.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved quotas that could lift consumer prices for imports by up to 30 percent, signaling a shift from 37 years of freer trade. The plan targets textiles and shoes with quotas tied to past import levels and allows voluntary limits to avoid mandatory cuts.
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