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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1967
Page
1
Los Angeles AP: Macias, 36, pleaded guilty to theft from auto after a 17 year old high school boy’s camera captured a man removing a coat from a parked car. Macias was sentenced to 40 days in County Jail though he claimed he didn’t expect the teen would hand the photos to police.
A Orleans Parish grand jury subpoenas lawyer Dean A. Andrews Jr. to appear in a secret session as it launches into the Kennedy assassination inquiry. District Attorney Jim Garrison alleges a New Orleans conspiracy led to Kennedy's 1963 Dallas death. Andrews says he briefly represented Oswald after a call from a man he knew as Clay Bertrand.
North Carolina House Judiciary I approved a bill that would shift death penalty decisions to juries in capital cases. If guilty, the verdict would be life imprisonment unless the jury recommends death, a move critics say effectively abolishes capital punishment.
An Airborne medic from Winston Salem North Carolina received the Medal of Honor from President Johnson. Army Spec 6 Lawrence Joel a 38 year old Negro earned the award for gallantry Nov 8 1965 while with the 173rd Airborne Brigade ignoring two wounds and Viet Cong fire to aid teammates. Joel is the first medic to be so honored in Vietnam. He is married with two children.
Saigon dispatch reports 1 617 U S casualties last week including 232 dead and 1 381 wounded as fighting rises with heavier mortar and booby trap attacks. Communist losses reach 1 736 as defectors rise and Operation Palm Beach proceeds in the Mekong Delta.
A Trans World Airlines DC9 with 25 aboard crashed near Meadow Lake, five miles northwest of Urbana, Ohio. Authorities reported no survivors and a four mile debris field with a temporary morgue, while witnesses heard an explosion. Flight 553 was en route from New York to Chicago with a stop in Dayton.
RALEIGH AP A New Hanover County legislator introduced a North Carolina House bill to legalize brown bagging of liquor. Rep William L Hill II says the plan matches an earlier 1967 idea by Sen John J Burney Jr allowing possession and transport of up to a gallon even with broken seals while barring transport in a car passenger area if the seal is broken.
North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the legality of state authorized city operated alcohol stores in a 5-2 decision. The ruling affirmed a Rockingham County case affirming an Oct 23 1965 Reidsville ABC election and rejected claims it violated the state constitution. Dissenters argued acts were local and unconstitutional citing ABC store profits and designated education and law enforcement allocations.
An AP analysis finds little political support for James Meredith in Harlem as he contemplates a April 11 special election against Adam Clayton Powell. Local residents, GOP leaders, and even Jackie Robinson doubt Meredith can win amid racial tensions and partisan divisions.
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Edwin Lanier endorsed a special commission's plan to double the minimum auto insurance coverage. He cautioned that higher limits would raise rates, while giving full backing to other recommendations including continuing the compulsory program and maintaining continuous coverage rules that have suspended licenses. The stance came before the General Assembly Joint Insurance Committee.
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