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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1970
Page
4
A Cuban defecting pilot flew a Russian MiG-17 toward U S airspace near Nixon's Key Biscayne residence while Home stead tower staff briefly allowed it to land. An F-4 pilot then landed first to alert guards and the MIG was secured.
Costly crime needs more public support for law and order. Pepper says federal spending could reach a billion plus in year one to fight street crime, with ongoing yearly increases. The Nixon administration seeks 480 million under an aid act, while Baltimore will study youth crime as the committee travels to major cities.
The piece surveys how ethnic identities influence U S foreign policy focusing on Israel and the Israel lobby. It notes pressures on Nixon's balanced Middle East stance and cites Jewish groups backing Israel while others oppose its policies. It mentions payments by the Jewish Agency and Israeli bond purchases as context.
Washington column reveals a December secret meeting among Senators Hruska Fong Dodd and Hart to approve sending an investigative report by Bernard Webb to the Wisconsin Insurance Commission. The session aimed to hush a scandal despite press leaks and industry influence on Capitol Hill.
The Webb report alleges a scheme by high Republicans including Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Froehlke to convert Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance of Wisconsin with $86 million assets into a stock company. It would shift control from 341,500 policyholders to John Jeanis, Froehlke, and 31 associates, with a $10 million potential gain. The plan drew support from Wisconsin regulators and a $4.5 million loan promise from Chase Manhattan Bank. Public disclosure was resisted to protect the takeover and policyholders.
The Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association rolls out a 95 page Who's Who directory under Edwin Hyde with member lists across 14 states. NAHM opens Charlotte offices as hosiery shipments hit a 1969 record of over 240 million dozen pairs. President Wendell Patton of High Point College invited to Apollo 13 launch on April 13. A new medical facility at Westwood and Pine streets will house obstetric and gynecology doctors and an ophthalmologist with space for an associate. A Russian factory worker conceives a baby carriage by assembling parts and joking about a machine gun.
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