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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1971
Page
3
Heat and high humidity linger across North Carolina with a weak summer high pressure over the area. Temperatures reach the low 90s in many towns, with Henderson the warmest on Monday at about 95 in Rocky Mount, and a 20 percent chance of thundershowers tonight.
The first 1964 Civil Rights Act discrimination suit against Dillon Supply Co. of Raleigh is settled. Judge Franklin Dupree Jr. enjoined the company from racial discrimination in promotion hiring training and transfers and ordered training and promotion procedures and semi annual reports to the U.S. government.
Forecast shows continued hot and humid conditions across North and South Carolina through Wednesday with widespread afternoon and evening showers and thundershowers. Highs in the 90s, cooler 80s in coastal areas and mountains. overnight lows mainly 60s to 70s.
The North Carolina Senate approved and sent to the House a bill for 46 million dollars in state capital improvement bonds. An amendment to remove a 6.9 million extension education center at North Carolina State University was defeated.
Washington noted Democrat House Banking Committee chair Wright Patman collected a 1500 payment from Sartorius & Co for a private dinner with 34 guests from five New York banks, pension funds, the Ford Foundation and other investment firms. He said the fee buys books for Texas schools and defended the talk as frank, leading hearings on a government guaranteed loan for Lockheed.
The Supreme Court overturned 39 death sentences on Monday including that of James Esther Thomas, a South Carolina man from Laurens County convicted of raping a white woman. The ruling highlights adjustments to capital punishment sentences across multiple cases.
South Vietnamese Gen Phan Van Phu claims Hanoi has 10,000 troops massed in 800 square miles of Quang Tri province NW of Dong Ha and west from the provincial capital toward the Laotian border. He says 6,000 infil traversed the DMZ since May 1, with mortars rockets and antiaircraft fire but no heavy artillery. The base Fuller was abandoned then reoccupied. an F4 Phantom was shot down but crew ejected and rescued.
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