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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1969
Page
1
In a readers’ column, questions cover abortion day arrangements, STP the drug, food labeling symbols, watercress use, neighbor disturbances, mayoral candidacy, and UNC sports info. Officials explain STP as DOM, warn of its danger, and advise legal routes for neighbor disputes.
Sen. J. W. Fulbright heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and says the Nixon administration failed to de escalate the Vietnam conflict after seven weeks of grace. He urges more decisive steps and notes potential grounds for reconsideration if actions shift. Javits urges patience while Gore remains noncommittal on further commentary.
A tense calm returned to North Carolina A T University after gunfire between students and Greensboro police. Two students were wounded lightly. The market owner was beaten after a campus rally supporting striking dining workers. Police reported blasts from guns overhead and shots fired at officers. About a dozen shots were fired and cars damaged by rocks and a shotgun blast. Ten people were arrested, many for carrying concealed weapons. Mayor Carson Bain said no administrative action was planned for now.
President Nixon says Communists in Vietnam have received their last warning and that U S retaliation is possible if enemy offensives cause unacceptable U S casualties. He announced deployment of a modified Sentinel ABM system, dubbed a safeguard, while stressing responses must not derail Paris peace talks.
U S Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is greeted by President Nixon at a White House congressional reception. Thurmond's wife Nancy, former Miss South Carolina 1966, waits to meet the Chief Executive.
President Nixon announced approval of a modified anti missile system to protect the U.S. missile bomber force and deter a surprise Soviet strike. He said the plan costs 6 to 7 billion dollars, would shift focus from city defense to shielding retaliatory forces, and noted a phased development approach without aiming for a massive city defense. The president argued the Soviet Union would see a defensive posture, not an arms race escalation.
Apollo 9 crew Col James McDivitt David Scott and civilian Russell Schweickart flew three helicopters from USS Guad Alcala to Eleuthera Bahamas then Cape Kennedy for refueling. They land Ellington AFB near Houston after a successful six hour Atlantic splashdown and medical checks.
Three leading Ku Klux Klansmen from the South were sentenced today for refusing to produce Klan records and documents in 1985. Federal District Judge Edward M. Curran gave one year terms to J. Robert Jones of Granite Quarry North Carolina and Robert B. Scoggin of Spartanburg North Carolina, with Calvin Fred Craig of Atlanta Georgia fined $1,000.
In Neon Kentucky a small Clarke's Pharmacy co owned by William Clarke Jr received 328000 from Medicaid last year the largest in the state. Clarke notes the store would do about 10000 without Medicaid and says the program helps locals with free prescriptions. He also runs a Jenkins and a Letcher County pharmacy. Jenkins paid 125950 last year. The Economic Security Department seeks a federal review of Medicaid amid broad payments to doctors and dentists.
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