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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1974
Page
7
A district report shows black students lag white peers on paragraph meaning and Iowa Reading tests. In sixth grade, 52 percent of black students scored 4.8 or below versus 21 percent of whites. Officials seek funding to close gaps amid five-year desegregation.
AP News Analysis notes growing congressional dissent as President Nixon tours the nation to bolster support. Republicans like Buckley and Hutchinson and Democrats like Flowers and Byrd urge cooperation with the impeachment inquiry. Reports say Nixon may surrender tape recordings, while lawmakers insist on House control of the probe’s scope.
Iceland plans to withdraw the 3200 U.S. defense force from Keflavik in four stages ending by mid 1976. The draft calls for NATO aircraft landing rights, no permanent base, local staffing of guard and radar duties, and directed closure of American TV at Keflavik by mid 1975. The cabinet has sent proposals to the U.S. and a Washington meeting may be sought in April.
Enterprise writer reports possible discrimination in black teacher hiring may delay High Point's ESAA funds for next year. A federal inspection last fall examined ESAA practices with concerns on employment. School officials cite the probe as a suspected root cause while seeking about $500,000 for remedial teachers aides and coordinators.
Grosse Pointe attorney John L. Potter, 65, pleaded guilty to failing to report $162,000 in legal fees from 1967 to 1971. He was sentenced to one year on probation and fined $7,000 by U.S. District Judge Charles W. Joiner. As part of probation, Potter must work one day a week for the Federal Defender's Office serving clients who cannot afford counsel.
Former Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson is slated for nomination by President Nixon as U S ambassador to Japan, succeeding Robert S Ingersoll who left Tokyo four months ago for a state department post. In High Point, NC, black board members allege discrimination against black teachers while the superintendent claims policy favors blacks due to teacher shortages. enrollments and staff have declined since segregated schooling ended.
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