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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1967
Page
1
The United States has reduced its grain surplus from 1.4 billion bushels in the 1950s to an estimated 400 million by harvest. Strong world demand since 1961 and high export figures show U S remains the top grain exporter despite domestic stock declines. Prospects point to a possible 1.6 billion bushel wheat harvest and renewed reserves.
Saigon reports six civilians killed and 26 wounded in Dinh Tuong Province when U S howitzers struck Trung Luong village. A separate Friday strike northeast of Saigon killed one and wounded two from a group of sampans. Lang Vei bombing under investigation.
A U S Air Force F4C Phantom from the 477th was downed Friday night over North Vietnam and its two crewmen are missing. The war reports also note heavy air strikes against enemy shipping and multiple civilian casualties from artillery incidents this week.
A civilian advisory panel defends college deferments for undergraduates noting 60 percent of college students end up in the armed forces versus 57 percent of nonstudents. They urge younger-dirm induction first and ending deferments when degrees are earned or age 24. The panel rejects claims of gross draft unfairness and dismisses all-volunteer, lottery, and universal service proposals as too radical.
Adam Clayton Powell would collect about 13,744.50 annually under the congressional retirement system if higher courts uphold the House action barring him from his seat for two years. Powell, age 58, faced a 1965 66 salary average of 25 500, with a 7.5 percent personal contribution and a 2 5 percent payoff multiplied by years served, minus an age reduction. The special committee found him eligible to receive the pension even while refused a seat.
The Sunday Enterprise notes Guilford County jail facilities are 50 years old and at capacity with occasional fourth floor overcrowding in Greensboro. A companion Hollywood divorce trend echoes Twenties wild days with a new wave of sensational splits. A feature begins tomorrow in the Sunday Enterprise about humanized family pets.
George Lincoln Rockwell's campus speech at Wake Forest College was interrupted by Wake Forest football tackle Bob Grant and teammates who protested his claim that Jews influence a Communist misinformation campaign using Negroes as pawns. End-on-guard Bill Overton carried an American flag as the group walked out. Norman Thomas is slated to speak on campus today as part of a symposium on Prosperity.
Washington AP reports the Johnson administration backs continued Vietnam bombing despite Kennedy proposing a pause to seek talks. Dean Rusk says Hanoi shows no interest in a temporary halt while Kennedy argues bombing could resume if peace talks fail. Senate responses from Dirksen and Percy urge clearer terms and note lack of concrete commitment from Hanoi.
Cortelia Clark, 60, blind, winner of the best folk recording Grammy for Blues in the Street, is back selling shopping bags on a Nashville street corner. RCA recorded his album after producer Mike Weesner championed him. Clark hopes for more recording work while continuing street performances.
U Thant in Rangoon met a North Vietnamese representative amid Soviet and French mediation. Hanoi’s terms demand immediate bombing pause and de escalation of U.S. military actions, conveyed in a personal Ho Chi Minh message.
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