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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1971
Page
9
Forecast calls for near 90 degree highs today and Monday under clear to partly cloudy skies. Widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms are possible both days with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Forecast details across two states note clear conditions in North Carolina with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s and a Sunday to Monday warm trend. South Carolina expected partly cloudy afternoons with possible thundershowers and hot days, mild nights, and similar high temperatures.
Illinois粮 requests federal disaster area declaration from the Department of Agriculture for southern counties hit hardest by corn blight. The blight has spread to 35 counties in Illinois, similar to an earlier outbreak in North and South Carolina.
Senate leader Mike Mansfield says President Nixon is accelerating troop withdrawals from Vietnam to make the 1972 funding question moot. He expects withdrawals to reach 17 000 to 19 000 monthly, undershooting the 184 000 December 1 target, while saying passage of end the war amendments remains unlikely. An AP poll shows most senators oppose the amendment with a sizable undecided bloc.
The California Prisoners Union, 300 strong, seeks to organize all inmates to press for reforms. Spokesman J Douglas Halford, a four year Folsom inmate, says the aim is humane treatment, a bill of rights, a minimum wage for prison work, and abolishing indeterminate sentences while uniting about 25 000 incarcerated in the state. The group opened a two day convention to push its goals.
In London on Saturday Queen Elizabeth II rode a black mare named Burmese as jet fighters roared overhead during Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade. The royal birthday spectacle drew thousands of Londoners and tourists despite her actual birth date being April 21.
A national council of churches urged an extraordinary ecumenical assembly, likely this fall, to address moral and social impacts of the Vietnam War. The event would include Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, and Jews, funded by a $100,000 goal by July 15, with a national prayer lead in.
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