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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1971
Page
3
On the first day of summer heavy rains hit North Carolina with Asheville at 1.5 inches Greensboro 0.75 inches and Charlotte just over 0.5 inches. Showers and thunder showers were forecast statewide with activity shifting east and south Wednesday. Highs expected in the 80s.
A severe thunderstorm in Piedmont North Carolina caused two homes in the Charlotte area to be destroyed by lightning and damaged a delivery truck in the bus terminal. Power failures struck Charlotte and Statesville, with floodwaters three to four feet deep at intersections. No injuries were reported.
London sources say Anatoly Fedoseyev, who defected May 27 at the Paris Air Show, is an electronics engineer not a key space scientist. Some officials regard him as an important Soviet aide, prompting Britain to downplay his defection to avoid straining East West ties. He is kept under guard in the London area while authorities question him.
Forecast calls for showers and thundershowers across North Carolina with highs mostly in the 70s to low 80s in the mountains and mid 80s to low 90s elsewhere. Tonight varies between cloudiness and showers then showers likely mainly in central and southern regions with lows upper 50s to low 60s in the mountains and upper 60s to low 70s in the southeast. Wednesday brings scattered showers and thundershowers mainly in the afternoon and evening with highs in the 80s.
North Vietnamese forces repulsed in an early attack then launched a heavy mortar barrage against Firebase Fuller four miles south of the DMZ. More than 300 mortar rounds hit the base atop an 1800 foot peak. casualties among defenders were light.
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