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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1971
Page
4
The article critiques four week FCC hearings on television station licenses. It notes the high costs and long battles for license defense and questions bureaucratic and judicial processes. The tone is skeptical about efficiency and fairness and wonders about future outcomes.
FBI preliminary Uniform Crime Report shows an 11 percent rise in serious crimes in 1970. Violent crimes up 12 percent, property crimes up 10 percent, with suburbs rural areas and the South bearing the heaviest increases.
Pan American reports round trip excursion fares from New York to London rising to 322 382 dollars this summer from 300 350. IATA notes the boost varies by route and aims to offset high costs and shrinking demand while illicit cheap charters draw some travelers away from scheduled services.
In October 1969 Hubert Humphrey proposed a standstill cease-fire and halt on new draft assignments. He met with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and issued a confidential memo arguing the public seeks end to the war while urging American initiative toward peace despite political obstacles. His bid stresses reducing involvement and addressing neo isolationism.
The article reports Grabeith urging no draftees for combat in Vietnam, Humphrey praising Nixon’s draft director replacement ideas, and a backstage rift between Nixon advisers Burns and Schultz over wage controls. It also notes discontent among subcabinet officials, and the Army stance on freezing blackbirds near Milan Arsenal.
A major industrial project by Tex-Elastic a division of Adams-Millis begins on the city southside with brick walls extend 800 feet and a building 150 feet wide to house new yarn texturing operations. Plans include a 42 acre tract fronting South Elm Extension for office space and expanded production facilities.
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