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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1972
Page
1
The city traffic engineer explains the Johnson and Oakview intersection flashing lights result from a controller sent to Atlanta for overhaul. Several faulty electronic components were found, and while repairs proceed some signal heads flash until full installation is completed.
Extension nutritionists Mary Thomas and Sallie Brooks describe a potato yeast recipe. Boil eight Irish potatoes mash smooth add water sugar salt and yeast knead into a starter, jar and ferment for hours, then refrigerate. Use within a day or keep cold for several days and reuse starter to make more bread flour.
The response explains that spouses are treated equally without a will. The husband pays the wife’s debts from his share, with a widow’s tax exemption of 10000 versus a widower’s 2000. Inheritance taxes depend on property value and the recipient. Without a will, the surviving spouse and children share the estate. with a will, debts and taxes follow the will’s directions. A lawyer should be consulted for specifics.
The 1971 Please Almanac lists New York City with 31,578 police officers serving 7,771,730 people, while Los Angeles reports 6,970 sworn personnel for 2,941,000 residents. Army recruiting notes selective re enlistment for qualified prior service soldiers.
Soviet party chief Brezhnev in Moscow says talks with President Nixon in May will be businesslike and realistic with aim of improving Soviet U.S. relations. He vows no harm to third countries and reiterates support for Vietnam, calls for end to bombing and Indochina withdrawal of interventionists. He also notes readiness to improve ties with China but says it is up to Beijing.
North Vietnamese forces with tanks and heavy artillery hit the Long Cheng base near the Plain of Jars in Laos. Thai and Laotian defenders were routed from multiple positions as the enemy seized Skyline Ridge overlooking the airstrip, with reports the situation is critical and air strikes by US forces increasing in support.
The Interior Department released a nine volume environmental impact report on the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, noting a Canada route would be far less destructive. No decision will be made for at least 45 days on the oil pipeline applications, though denial could prompt exploration of alternative routes.
In Cabarrus County a compact car was struck by a tractor-trailer on U S 601 near Midland. Mrs Ossi Love and Samuel Hopkins died. A 6 year old boy and his mother Shirley Love were burned and hospitalized. Driver Daniel Christian of Lancaster S C was lightly hurt. A second fatal crash in Davidson County killed James Avon Johnson and Ronald Curtis Roark when their car struck a second vehicle on NC 49. Seventy six other people were injured in the region over the weekend.
President Nixon urged strong tough prosecution to curb dangerous drug traffic during a three hour New York visit with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and law enforcement officials. He called drug trafficking the most reprehensible crime and supported uniform penalties for marijuana.
In Illinois the three Democratic rivals campaign in the windup of the third heat of the presidential primary season. Muskie seeks big wins in two contests while McCarthy and McGovern aim to blunt Maine front-runner’s campaign. Voters choose 160 of Illinois 170 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Daley backs his candidacy for the vote as McGovern runs 104 delegate prospects in 19 Maine districts while Muskie endorsements cover 17 districts with 161 Democrats listed as committed. Republicans vote on 48 convention delegates, most pledged to Nixon. McCarthy spends on TV in his first 1972 bid, Muskie criticizes Democratic rifts after Florida’s poor showing. Humphrey leads Muskie 35 to 28 in a Gallup poll from March 3–5.
Shirley Chisholm denounces Nixon economic policy and foreign policy grandstanding in a Raleigh stop at Meredith College as part of a two day North Carolina tour for the Democratic presidential nomination. She says the bill would tax wealth to fund broad redistribution and jobs at or above minimum wage with welfare limited to the incapacitated and supported by daycare and job training for recipients.
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