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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1972
Page
1
The Jamestown Jaycees were allowed to hold a golf tournament at Oak Hollow Golf Course on May 6 and 7 by the City of High Point and Recreation Department. The event was open to all and every fourth starting time was reserved for the general public not in the event, addressing fairness concerns amid limited public course access.
The parks department reports additional summer help has been hired and the City Lake area will be cleaned. Crews will remove garbage cans and debris from the water this season.
Readers are advised to flatten the stomach with sit ups though other options exist. The piece suggests paperback guides on exercise and physical fitness and mentions Slimnastics classes at the YWCA and GTI as additional options.
A reader complains a neighbor’s dog has no water all day and suggests bringing a big pan of water with a note. The pages also note Parks and Recreation in Thomasville offering only daily lake permits while a yearly option may come later to ease angling access.
Lakeside in Virginia opens daily 9 a.m. except Mondays with rides at 11 a.m. and closes at midnight. Admission is 35 cents, parking and picnics included. A $4 wrist tag lets you ride all day. a ride discount sticker saves five cents per ride except Sundays.
The United States ended its ground combat role in South Vietnam on Saturday, shrinking forces to advisers and technicians while air and naval power expanded in surrounding regions. The phaseout cuts 2,590 troops with the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry Division leaving active duty as air and naval strikes continue against North Vietnam from bases in Thailand, Guam, and offshore.
The U S District Court of Appeals required ALPA to poll its international affiliates about postponing a one day world wide work stoppage planned Monday to protest hijackings. Judge Hart noted First Amendment rights while not ruling on a restraining order amid airline appeals. The stoppage could affect up to a million passengers and was organized by IFAPA for stronger airport security.
Miss Constance Ann Dorn representing Kinston captured the Miss North Carolina title at the Charlotte pageant. Miss Wake County Barbara Aretha Ballew was runner up with Miss Hickory Marcia Patrice Burton in third.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Holshouser urged unity at the North Carolina Republican State Convention pledging to run as a team with lieutenant governor nominee John A. Walker. Walker, who backed Holshouser’s primary rival Jim Gardner, joined Holshouser on stage as delegates applauded. Helms, invited to speak, sent word he was ill. Grace Roher cited a fever or flu illness.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is to undergo a five hour laminectomy at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring to remove a bullet from his spine and assess potential recovery from leg paralysis. Doctors hope for at least partial use, enabling attendance at the Democratic National Convention in July. Wallace has been paralyzed since May 15 after a shooting in Laurel Maryland and has faced infection that delayed surgery.
Kinston contractor Frank Rouse was reelected state Republican party chairman at a closed Greensboro meeting. Grace Rohrer was named vice chairman. Rouse had publicly backed Jim Gardner in the gubernatorial race and had offered to resign if Holfhouser won.
A compact page from Inside Reading highlights media and entertainment items with obituaries and classified notices. Cates witnesses coverage of nudie film themes alongside television programming notes and local obituary notices.
A House committee charged the Nixon administration hid a country field submission on Cambodia aid to conceal details of the exchange support fund a $20 million cash grant and related programs. It cited Soviet backed reinsurance of aid commodities and questioned the program’s waste and misdirection while AID defended its actions and denied new allegations.
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