Pen Pal Requests and Local Affairs In High Point
Reader questions cover a mobile home violation in Ridgecrest, pen pal services, Orson Welles broadcast date, hanging a German tapestry, and a police officer directing traffic at Big Bear. Officials address the mobile home issue, provide pen pal contact details, confirm the War of the Worlds broadcast date, describe tapestry mounting, and explain the officer’s traffic direction authority.
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Big Bear
North Main Street
High Point
Reporting a probation officer for duty concerns
Mrs. H explains the proper contact is Aubrey Strother at the District Court, telephone 882-2591. Strother notes high caseloads limit performance but invites specific complaints to be reported directly.
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H. A
Aubrey Strother
Strother
Tool handles and sharpening services at local shops
An anonymous reader asks where to fit ax handles and shovel handles. Ward's Law Shop at 3607 South Main offers insertion and sharpening services. Another reader recommends Mr. T. C. Sumner on Lowe Avenue for handles on hoes and rakes.
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Ward
South Main
Anon
T. C. Sumner
Lowe Avenue
Tony Boyle Convicted By Jury in Union Funds Case
Tony Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers, is found guilty on all 13 counts in a federal trial for illegally spending union funds on political contributions. Two other officials are acquitted. Boyle faces sentencing after appeal.
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Tony”’ Boyle
The
United Mine Workers
Boyle
Charles Ruff
James Kmetz
Kmetz
Owens
Near Vertical B52 Crashes Into Orlando Homes Killing Crew
A B52 bomber from McCoy Air Force Base crashed in a residential area near Orlando killing seven crew members and injuring civilians. Witnesses report eight homes damaged including gutted and partially roofless structures as the plane burned. Firefighters evacuated residents while fuel remained in one wing.
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Orlando
Fla
Carl Langford
Bart Forster
McCoy Air Force Base
Pentagon
Forster
Air Force
306Th
McCoy
Congress Probes Civilian KP Shift in Army Budget
Congressmen question the Army plan to replace KPs with civilian cooks in the all volunteer force. They doubt $99 million is best spent, suggesting funds could go to cancer research or a new tank. Army generals defend KP replacement citing improved morale and freeing soldiers for core duties.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Michael S. Davison
Europe
Davison
Army
Ralph Haines
Continental Army Command
Chains move to freeze or cut prices on food
Three supermarket chains Grand Union Winn-Dixie and Safeway announced price freezes and cuts on meat and other foods after a White House meeting with Treasury Secretary Connally. Safeway cut beef prices across its Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania Delaware District of Columbia stores while Grand Union froze fresh meat and poultry for 30 days and Winn-Dixie froze all food prices through April. Agriculture Department data showed beef prices paid to farmers falling 20 cents per hundredweight in the month to March 15, signaling a potential consumer price drop in coming weeks.
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Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
Grand Union
Winn-Dixie
Safeway Stores, Inc
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
District of Columbia
Agriculture Department
Safeway
Basil Winstead
Connally
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
National Public Affairs Center For Television
Butz
Secretary Recalls Typing Beard Memo
Mrs. Susan Lichtman said she recalled typing a memo linking former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell to placing the Republican National Convention in San Diego. Mitchell denied the claim and ITT officials disputed the memo’s content. Lichtman also testified about ITT favors for lawmakers and rejected memory of the memo’s source.
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Washington
Susan Lichtman
Dita Beard
John N. Mitchell
San Diego
Mitchell
Beard
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
Jack Anderson
Justice Department
ITT
Lichtman
Toronto
Richard G. Kleindienst
Vance Hartke
Cind
Hartke
North Vietnamese drive South Vietnam bases in northern fighting drives
Saigon reports a swelling North Vietnamese onslaught in the far north forcing South Vietnamese from two more bases today amid the heaviest fighting in four years. A third base may have been abandoned as the onslaught continues along the demilitarized zone. The air war escalates with a MIG 21 downed and the United States losing its second combat aircraft.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
United States
U S Raids Hit North Vietnam as Bases Shelled
U S air raids resume in North Vietnam after a lull. In the central highlands six government bases were shelled with 100 mortar rounds, ground attacks reported, and casualties listed. Saigon region troops were placed on heightened alert and later the order was rescinded. An American F 4 fighter claimed a MIG 21 kill near the Ho Chi Minh trail as fighters escorted bombers.
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U.S
North Vietnam
Dmz
Saigon
Creighton W. Abrams
Central Highlands
Air Force
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Christ's Final Steps Traced in Jerusalem Good Friday
Pilgrims from abroad retrace Christ’s final footsteps along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem during the annual Good Friday march to Calvary. The scene unfolds amid warm spring weather as thousands pass through city bazaars, some bearing two-foot crosses.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Via Dolorosa
Calvary
Israel
Old City
Jordan
Berlin
Wall
East Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Philippines
Violence grows ahead of Easter in Northern Ireland
Belfast AP report notes William Whitelaw assuming post as Britain's Northern Ireland secretary amid rising sectarian violence. Parades and counterprotests threaten to ignite a civil conflict, with 293 deaths in three years. London adds troops to 14 500, while bombs wound civilians across several cities.
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Belfast
William Whitelaw
Britain
Northern Ireland
London
Whitelaw
Ireland
Andersonstown
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