Action Line: Reader requests to contact The Enterprise
The notice invites readers to use Action Line at The Enterprise for questions or help. It notes requests are considered but volume prevents acknowledgments for all inquiries.
30 Jul 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1970
Page
1
The notice invites readers to use Action Line at The Enterprise for questions or help. It notes requests are considered but volume prevents acknowledgments for all inquiries.
The answer explains plums curculio snout beetles attacking cherries. Adults are small brown gray insects. Larvae burrow in fruit causing drop. A tarpaulin on ground and a shaken tree collects beetles, then squashing. six weeks of daily morning shaking during blossom time suffices.
A reader asks for a composer to write music to their lyrics. The note states no composers on file and invites any musically inclined readers to contact so the writer can be introduced to Rogers and Hammerstein.
An audiologist test in a discotheque showed 16 percent of long stay patrons may suffer permanent ear damage. Noise levels are measured in dbA with common references. 80 dbA begins injury risk and 120 dbA causes pain. Excess noise is linked to ulcers heart disease and stress.
Shellback Chow explains feeding a turtle while a woman asks for guidance. One person suggests cat food or worms, another favors tomatoes and lettuce, highlighting differing opinions on proper diet.
The Census Bureau reports 181,369,297 counted so far with 42 states complete and five showing declines since the 1960 census. Central cities lose residents while suburbs grow. New York City struggles to reach nonrespondents as Newark officials tour doors. Major cities and states, except Texas, are incomplete with final tallies due by December to President Nixon.
Governor Bob Scott said the surplus nerve gas train through North Carolina will be escorted by security and medical detachments with limited speed and no populated areas. The 418 containers from Kentucky and Alabama depots are bound for disposal at sea about 300 miles east of Southport.
The Army will sink nearly 3,000 tons of obsolete nerve gas rockets in the Atlantic more than 250 miles off Florida after moving them from storage depots to Sunny Point North Carolina for loading aboard a naval vessel. The project follows a 1969 committee recommendation to destroy gas by sea disposal if safer methods fail.
A Peachy Crop farmers unload a bumper harvest of peaches for a Rome distillery. Growers offer the fruit at as low as 3.2 cents per kilogram while Italian markets mark up costs to at least 32 cents due to transport and middlemen charges.
Washington rises in protest as the largest free enterprise mass transit system raises fares from 32 to 40 cents per ride led by O Roy Chalk. Critics say the increase harms the poor and Black riders while BUF leaders call for public takeover and civil disobedience as lawmakers split on a buyout.
State pollution officials test effluent from 21 firms possibly discharging mercury into North Carolina streams. Gov. Scott sent a letter to Interior Secretary Hickel outlining steps to identify and control mercury pollution and naming rivers at risk including Cape Fear Neuse and Catawba. Agencies compiled the 21 firms from Federal Water Quality Administration lists of mercury buyers.
Preliminary figures show state populations for 42 states with several entries marked unavailable or uncertain. The table compares 1970 counts to 1960 figures, noting totals may change after final checks.
Israeli airmen shot down four Egyptian MIG21s in dogfights over the Suez Canal. Three Egyptian pilots bailed out over Egyptian territory. All Israeli aircraft returned safely. The tally for the week rises to six Egyptian aircraft downed.
AP reports a July 11 head on collision on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge left ten dead. John Simer, 19, of San Francisco died in hospital from injuries sustained in the crash.
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