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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1972
Page
1
Readers question when city engineers will give more green time to North Main than Lexington Avenue. The current cycle is 60 seconds for North Main and 40 seconds for Lexington including left turns. Widening Lexington is under study and left turns have been considered to be removed.
Residents discuss unsafe on street toilets and a derelict cinder block house with broken windows filled with furniture. Building Inspector Freeman Hill notes owners must appear to establish repair plans and code compliance. A North Carolina tax official confirms Indians pay taxes like others, with limited reservation tax relief for certain Cherokee merchants. An inquiry seeks a nurse’s aide contact, and a fundraising wheelchair basketball game in High Point benefits Crippled Children’s Hospital with two disability veteran teams and cheerleaders request.
Miami Beach officials invited the GOP to hold the 1972 National Convention there and urged a federal peace corps of 1 000 armed forces members for security. The council voted 4 3 not to require federal help, agreeing rent free space at the convention center for August 21 to 24.
Indiana results show Wallace breaking through with 42 percent and 22 delegates while Humphrey holds a slim lead in Ohio for 38 at large delegates as Cuyahoga County counting slows. McGovern claims momentum and Muskie finishes poorly. Jackson exits with weak showing.
At least 24 miners died and 58 were unaccounted for as a fire swept through the Sunshine Mining Co. shaft system near Kellogg Idaho. Rescue teams searched 5,000 feet of tunnels while Governor Andrus urged investigation. More than 100 escaped.
Officials gather in the Capitol rotunda to honor J Edgar Hoover as his body lies in state. The casket is carried to the Lincoln catafalque as Chief Justice Burger presides the memorial, with President Nixon delivering the funeral eulogy at National Presbyterian Church. Hoover dies of hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
North Vietnamese troops moved within six miles of Hue after capturing a fire base north of the old capital. They also seized the last South Vietnamese stronghold in northern Binh Dinh Province. A massive U.S. air armada conducted hundreds of strikes across South Vietnam, with 618 sorties in four regions, largely in Quang Tri and Thua Thien, as Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam faced the setback.
Northernmost military region 1 is being replaced. Vietnamese marines abandon Fire Base Nancy about 22 miles north of Hue after a tank battle and pull back to the My Chang River line north of the city. Hue losings worsen as English falls to North Vietnamese forces and Saigon troops retreat toward Qui Nhon.
U S officials warn Hue faces a real danger as North Vietnamese forces advance toward the ancient capital. The 304th Division moves south toward Hue while weather favors future operations and air strikes have battered enemy units. South Vietnamese forces including the 1st Division, a marine brigade, airborne units, and regional troops await a potential stand.
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