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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1972
Page
1
Readers may call or write Action Line in care of The Enterprise for help with problems or questions. The paper states every request is considered but the high volume prevents acknowledgment of all inquiries.
In a public tips column the paper explains a sample ballot with operating instructions for youths voting with lever machines. It notes you can study it beforehand or carry it as a guide. Registrars are available at the polling place for questions.
City Engineer Aron A Jim Oliver explains Bentbrook area north of Aberdeen Road east of Bentbrook Drive is a permanent Oak Hollow Lake feature. He notes the Aberdeen Road culvert was engineered for drainage at full lake levels and will rely on ecological balance and fish for mosquito control.
Advice suggests checking local newspaper announcements for school registration dates or calling the school administration office, since the specific district or county is unknown.
Building inspectors confirmed nuisance from old cars in a residential 2-A district. The responsible party was ordered to remove the autos by June 1. Public Works Inspector assigned to address accompanying trash and will investigate that portion of the problem.
Washington AP reports a federal district judge voided the 1969 United Mine Workers presidential election of W A Boyle for federal law violations and ordered a new vote to be scheduled after proposals. Judge William Bryant will set details. other officers John Owens and George Titler also face re election.
J Edgar Hoover longtime FBI director dies at 77 from hypertensive cardiovascular disease in his DC home. President Nixon lauds his devotion noting 48 years under eight presidents. Hoover shaped the bureau into a powerful federal agency amid controversy and speculation about his succession and the new FBI building.
North Vietnamese forces push into the coastal lowlands while Samsung Hue. South Vietnamese troops withdraw from a base in the central highlands as Quang Tri Province falls. A heat seeking missile shoots down a U S helicopter. four killed. Hue authorities seize 600 suspected Viet Cong agents as U S and South Vietnamese leaders plan next moves with Bunker and Abrams.
Battered units including the 11th Armored Cavalry Squadron and remnants of the 147th Marine Brigade flee Quang Tri City as fierce fighting pushes them toward Hue. Tanks and armed civilians stream south while wounded and missing advisers raise grim losses. The panic spreads to Hue as civilians load and depart along the crowded highway.
An Austrian Adolf Hitler era rising power triggered harassment of Jews in Fuerth as Kissinger remembers being beaten while a child. The future U S secretary of state and Nixon adviser says his early life was quiet and unremarkable despite the era’s terror. His father Louis Kissinger married Paula Stern in 1922 and their sons Alfred Heinz and Walter Bernhard grew up in a close family in a third floor flat.
In Bessemer City a rookie officer was shot during a routine traffic stop. The hunted suspect Nathaniel Hall killed himself in a wooded house near Gastonia after a standoff. a fire consumed the house as officers retrieved the body.
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