Photographic map details and diving career guidance
Q A reader asks about obtaining a road map from the North Carolina State Highway Commission and where to pursue scuba diving training. The commission offers free travel maps for informational use only through Raleigh. Additional notes mention marine science courses at UNC NCSU and libraries plus Woods Hole catalog on careers in oceanography and a Navy yard diver’s training route.
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Holt McPherson
Lynwood Smith
North Carolina State Highway Commission
Raleigh
B. S
West Coast
Florida
John Schilling
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
UNC
NCSU
Woods Hole
Mass
Navy
Western style square dancing at Blair Park club
Newcomers to High Point are told that M L A Western style square dancing takes place every Wednesday at 8 pm in the Blair Park clubhouse. Lee Marshall runs the activity and invites visitors who can dance, noting the group limits to about 30 couples and that current participation is near that number.
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High Point
Blair Park
Lee Marshall
Plain English needed on school map confusion for Leonard residents
Readers ask The Enterprise to explain the school placement map in plain terms. They want clear guidance on which blocks and grades feed into Brentwood or Thomasville, and to know where children should go this school year. The paper urges contacting the School Administration office for help untangling the map.
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Leonard
Brentwood
Thomasville
How to address Cabinet members and lawmakers
When speaking to a Cabinet member use Mr. Secretary or Mr. Finch. For a senator say Senator Ervin and for a representative say Mr. Preyer. Maintain respectful formality in all official address.
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Secretary
Finch
Senator Ervin
Preyer
Judo Ribs Prone to Crackling Prompt Sports Advice
Reader asks if a smaller rib cage in judo is dangerous when ribs crack during action. Doctor advised to stop if worried. The writer jokes about switching sports to avoid serious injury and staying in the bout.
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L.S. A
Truman defends price control as war ends
President Truman says price control is a difficult but essential task that requires public support as he notes plans to end OPA controls on November 9 1946. He cites widespread saboteur activity by sellers aiming to push decontrol and warn of broader economic threats.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
OPA
Office of Price
Congress
Truman
Price controls undercut popular support and fail to curb inflation
The article notes President Nixon and Truman discussing price controls failing under an inadequate law. It cites public confusion and rising inflation as direct consequences of government interference with the free market. Further remarks indicate ongoing debates on policy effectiveness.
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Truman
Nixon
Michael V. di Salle
Paul W. McCracken
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
McCracken
Will
Cambodia Forces Retake Siem Reap Airfield
Cambodian government forces recaptured the Siem Reap airfield and pushed back Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops from Kompong Thom central area. Sporadic fighting near Angkor ruins continued as reinforcements moved by air and road from Battambang. Two U.S. officials visited Phnom Penh for a briefing with Premier Lon Nol before returning to Saigon.
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John T. Wheeler
Associated Press
Phnom Penh
Siem Reap
Cambodia
Kompong Thom
Angkor
Battambang
China
Norodom Sihanouk
Government of
Thailand
Bangkok
South Vietnam
Nixon
Indochina
Lon Nol
Saigon
White House
Herb Klein
Raymond P. Shafer
Pennsylvania
Klein
Court To Decide If Voters Can Veto Public Housing
The Supreme Court agreed to hear next term whether residents may veto public housing. San Jose City Council appealed after a California amendment blocked housing despite a 1968 vote of 7,896 for and 68,527 against. A federal court struck down Article 34 last April.
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Washington
Supreme Court
City Council of
San Jose
San Francisco
California
Graduates hear calls on rights and dissent at commencements
Humphrey outlined a new bill of rights stressing peace and justice as Muskie praised student dissent and Holt condemned compulsory schooling. Proxmire urged critics over Nixon in Cambodia while Collins backed the president on Cambodia. Officers noted campus unrest shaping graduation remarks.
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Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund
Muskie
John Holt
Wesleyan University
William Proxmire
Dwis
Milton College
Nixon
Cambodia
Michael Collins
Stonehill College
Humphrey
Hamline University
St. Paul
Minn
Southeast Asia
Elliot L. Richardson
University of New Hampshire
Durham
Maine
NATO Reviews Soviet Nuclear Might In Venice Meeting
In Venice Melvin Laird chairs NATO nuclear planning talks with Britain West Germany Italy Belgium Denmark and Turkey. They review Soviet land air and sea arsenal and progress of the Safeguard antiballistic system for European war defense.
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Venice
U.S
Melvin R. Laird
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soviet Union
Laird
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Denmark
Turkey
Brussels
NATO
France
Iceland
Red Gains Foreseen In Italy
Italians completed two days of voting for 15 regional legislatures 115 provincial councils and 6 634 municipal councils Three fourths of 36 million eligible voters cast ballots with calm voting A time bomb was found and disarmed in Nuoro Sardinia before polls opened An election official in Naples was hospitalized after clashes with propagandists near a polling place Officials expect to know by Tuesday morning which parties will control the 15 new regional parliaments
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Patrick O'Keefe
Associated Press
ROME
Communist Party
Nuoro
Sardinia
Naples
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Housing Authority
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Chester Bowles
Red
Shafer
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Dia
Holt
Alliance
Europe
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