03 Mar 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1969
Page
1
Readers ask about a Lucy Stone stamp and her history with suffrage. The Enterprise explains Stone’s activism and 19th century rights work, while readers seek help on local parking rules and a Parkway Lindsay intersection timeline. Authorities note tow-away zones and project schedules with a summer completion target.
Apollo 9 rode the Saturn 5 into earth orbit after 11 minutes, reaching 118 to 119 miles up, to qualify the lunar module for manned moon landings. McDivitt Schweickart and Scott monitor complex systems as the mission proceeds, including a planned spacewalk and rendezvous tests, with goals to validate the spider lunar module and Gumdrop main ship during a 10 day Earth orbit.
East Germany spurned a new talks bid as West Berlin election tensions rose. A US Army convoy was delayed about an hour by East German obstruction though Western air corridors remained open. Soviet warnings endangered Western airline flights amid ongoing maneuvers near Berlin.
Apollo 9 astronauts McDivitt Scott and Schweickart plan a 10 day earth orbit mission. They launch in a three spacecraft stack with the command ship LEM and third stage. Highlights include docking, LEM deployment and a moon descent test sequence, followed by a lunar rendezvous rehearsal and a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
President Nixon, back from a European trip, set a 9 p.m. EST Tuesday news conference on foreign policy only from the White House East Room. The one hour session will be carried nationwide on TV and radio with no questions on domestic matters.
Red Guards and workers demonstrated around the Soviet Embassy in Beijing after Chinese and Soviet troops clashed on a disputed river island on the Manchurian border. Moscow and Peking reported many killed or wounded.
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that Southern state laws affecting Negro voting rights even in minor ways must be approved by the U S attorney general or federal judges. Chief Justice Warren led the decision blocking changes in Mississippi and Virginia. The ruling signals heightened federal scrutiny of election machinery in the South. The court also agreed to hear arguments on strict guidelines for breaking down segregated faculties and extending one man one vote to school boards, while rejecting a bid to alert taxpayers before audits.
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