ACTION LINE: reader advisory from The Enterprise
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21 Mar 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1967
Page
1
The notice invites readers to contact ACTION LINE to pose questions, seek help, or report worries. It directs correspondence to The Enterprise and promises attentive responses.
Readers ask if Western Electric planned a High Point plant and was blocked by hosiery and furniture makers. Officials say no such facility existed in High Point and WE leased plants in Winston-Salem Burlington and Greensboro after WWII.
The Willow Creek community plans a privately operated school offering small classes and careful staff selection. Bob Hutchens, board chair, says any child may apply via interview and scholastic exam. Racial integration is not prohibited by policy.
In War Zone C near Cambodia a 2 500 strong Viet Cong regiment attacked U S positions. American forces repulsed the assaults with 30 dead and 109 wounded. The 272nd Viet Cong Regiment suffered heavy casualties and fled toward Cambodia as U S troops pursued.
In February President Johnson proposed direct talks on Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh refused the talks, demanding an unconditional halt to bombing and war actions before negotiations could begin, per the Vietnam News Agency. The U S had pressed for dialogue while Moscow submitted the proposal.
U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge returned from the Guam conference with President Johnson saying there is absolutely no immediate prospect for peace negotiations in Vietnam. He noted Thieu’s claim of a new proposal was not new and described the Guam meeting as a useful stock taking. Thieu said Vietnam invited the North to a peace meeting but Hanoi had not replied.
The North Carolina House voted 73 to 40 to reject a bill that would have let juries recommend the death penalty in capital cases. A sponsor had called the measure a backdoor approach to abolishing capital punishment.
The North Carolina Senate gave tentative approval to a bill creating an intermediate Court of Appeals to sit between the Superior and Supreme Courts. Introduced by Sen. Lindsay Warren, the measure was held for third reading and recommended by the courts commission.
A North Carolina House committee approved a substitute bill for DUI penalties. Second offenses would bring 90 days in jail or a 200 dollar fine with three days in jail, while third and subsequent offenses would incur 90 days plus 500 dollars and seven days in prison with no suspension option. The plan aims to deter repeat drunk driving.
President Johnson described his two days of Vietnam talks on Guam as instructive and constructive but said no momentous decisions were made. He held a surprise news conference before departing for Honolulu and Washington and stated that no military decisions were taken.
AP reports spring arrives as storms and mild spells mark the season. Snow totals pile up in Chicago and the Wisconsin border, while Oregon and California post record warmth. Colorado dries, South Dakota remains light on snow, and March shows mixed totals nationwide.
Senate Democrats say President Johnson cannot trigger Vietnam peace talks before voters in 1968. They expect Guam conference decisions to heighten military efforts and hinder negotiations. Professor Kahin says pacification in South Vietnam fails for lack of land reform, discouraging hopes for a civilian government and peace talks.
A 59 year old domestic worker with arthritis lost benefits until her employers paid back taxes. The Social Security spokesman warns many households with maids cooks gardeners and babysitters may owe taxes with 4.4 percent rates 6 percent interest and up to 25 percent penalty. Households must withhold both employee and employer shares when earnings exceed 50 a quarter. In 1965 about 1.27 million household employers reported 1.46 million household workers.
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