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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1971
Page
1
Readers are invited to send questions or problems to Action Line in care of The Enterprise. Each request is considered though high volume limits acknowledgment and replies.
Readers ask about lemonade stands and other small ventures. The guidance notes there is no law restricting lemonade sales by children and no license required, with safety and local rules to consider.
Letter writers describe nuisance from park use near Colonial Place and Counciltreet. A parks spokesman notes cleaners address issues but cannot police constantly, suggesting police involvement if needed. A reader endorses alternatives to corporal punishment in schools, arguing paddling misses root problems.
In Phnom Penh battles, U S trained Cambodian forces defend eastern approaches against a Communist division. Shelling, mortars, and rockets hit bunkers in Vihear Suor marshes as hand to hand fighting erupts at Prey Thom. Cambodian claims report dozens killed on both sides and heavy air battles as the 9th Division moves toward Phnom Penh.
Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford says American POWs could be home within a month if the United States set a December 31 withdrawal deadline from Indochina. He claims North Vietnamese and Viet Cong would refrain from attacks during withdrawal. Rep. Leggett cites promises of early prisoner release if a date is set. Nixon aides caution the plan is precipitous and unlikely, while lawmakers push June votes on fund-cutoff amendments.
A legislative subcommittee released a preliminary draft plan cutting North Carolina Senate districts from 33 to 28 to reflect the 1970 census. Sen. F O Neil Jones and a six member panel propose a 101 641 person per senator norm with hearings starting July 15. The plan targets no partisan gerrymandering and anticipates possible court review while the House has already approved its 1973 redis tricting plan.
New York municipal employees end a two day strike that disrupted traffic sewage plants parks beaches and school lunch deliveries. The four point pact requires resubmission of the pension plan to the 1972 state legislature with renegotiation if it fails. District Council 37 AFSCME 7000 workers and Teamsters Local 237 bridge tenders return to duty as Mayor Lindsay notes a rational orderly procedure for the coming years. Investigations into possible sabotage at 25 drawbridges are underway.
The Mecklenburg liquor by the drink referendum bill cleared the House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee 11 to 1, advancing to the floor. The Senate amended it to allow sales in restaurants with 50 or more seats and to submit two questions to voters on mixed drinks and brown bagging.
In Moscow a Russian cosmonaut Lt. Col. Georgy Dobrovolsky performed acrobatic moves in the Salute space laboratory during a televised session with ground controllers. Vladislav Volkov assisted, asking observers if they could see the routine as Dobrovolsky floated and pedaled in zero gravity.
Former State Sen. Lindsay Warren urged the General Assembly to act now on restructuring higher education in North Carolina. He backed the Warren Committee plan to unify 16 institutions under a single board of regents with separate institutional boards, while cautions about transition timing and a 100 member board. He noted the committee split 13 to 8 on the majority plan and expressed concern over implementation speed and board size.
Tricia Nixon, daughter of Richard and Pat Nixon, grew up in Washington amid Secret Service protection and private schools. Now 25, she married Ed Cox in the White House, a life shaped by politics from childhood and public scrutiny from her first days in the spotlight.
A mysterious die-off spreads from Lake Apopka through canals toward Lake Dora, killing thousands of fish and dozens of birds including alligators. Officials monitor the spread, consider lake closure, and study a pesticide link while biologists deploy to Apopka for emergency tests.
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