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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1965
Page
1
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach urged swift congressional action on a new Voting Rights Act framework. He argued courts have failed to guarantee Negro voting rights and that Congress must outlaw tests and devices that disenfranchise Black citizens. The bill would shift enforcement to federal courts in Washington DC.
The North Carolina Senate defeated a bill to move primary voting from Saturday to Tuesday while the House killed a revival effort to double motorist liability insurance. The House also began debate on a measure to place North ale.
Soviet Tass reports two cosmonauts launched into high orbit aboard Voskhod 2 with one crew member spending 10 minutes outside the ship. Leonov appears in film footage as part of the mission, with flight commander Col. Pavel Belyayev aboard.
Civil rights workers welcomed a federal judge sanctioning a 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery and setting parade rules in the Alabama capital. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted Governor Wallace would meet a diverse delegation when the march ends in Montgomery.
America’s renowned author John O Hara will write a weekly column titled My Turn for The Enterprise starting Sunday. O Hara, author of 25 books, began in journalism 40 years ago at Pottsville Journal, later reporting for New York Herald Tribune.
Governor Dan Moore said there is no need to switch to yearly legislative sessions and voiced skepticism about making the governor elect a member of the Advisory Budget Commission. He avoided taking a stand on daylight saving time and discussed concerns about state jobs for African Americans, a 10 percent state worker pay raise, and funding two rehabilitation centers via a five cent liquor tax increase, leaving financing to the Legislature.
The House Ways and Means Committee may start decisive votes late today on a draft Medicare bill of over 250 pages. It would cover Americans 65 and older with a hospitalization plan of 60 days in hospital and 20 in a nursing home, with a $40 patient deductible and possible extra nursing care if quotas are unused.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to advance a bill removing the death penalty for all capital crimes except rape. It would abolish the death sentence for first degree murder arson and first degree burglary. Opponents argued the deterrent effect of capital punishment remains strong while supporters frame the measure as moral reform.
Harris survey finds 74 percent of entering students aim for a good job while 79 percent of freshmen seek a broad education for its own sake. The study also shows pressures from parents to excel and a focus on grades and future success among new college entrants.
A powerful tornado hit Pollocksville near New Bern causing heavy damage across Craven County. Officials estimated up to 1 million dollars in damage with 25 mobile homes heavily damaged and one infant dead at Craven County Hospital. State and local relief actions were dispatched as Governor Moore activated the National Guard and Civil Defense sent officials to assess needs.
South Vietnamese forces reported three actions in the northern 1st Army area near Da Nang resulting in 64 Viet Cong killed and 16 captured. A second operation in Quang Tri Province killed 13 and captured 10 with 21 rifles and 24 grenades. In Quang Ngai Province an airlift counted 23 Viet Cong dead and four captured, with four government soldiers wounded.
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