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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1976
Page
6
Citywide reorganization in High Point adds a second principal per school to share duties. The plan targets improved student education, reduced dropouts, and better classroom attention, with measurable goals and higher state aid linked to attendance.
Samuel Eliot Morison, historian of naval operations in World War II and explorer of Columbus voyages, died in Massachusetts General Hospital Boston last Saturday. He fused experience with prose, teaching through vivid storytelling about exploration, migration, and naval battles.
In 1975 Big Oil dominates with Exxon Mobil and GM leading sales assets and profits. A new Senate bill seeks forced divestiture of refining and marketing by top crude producers contending vertical integration hurts competition. Industry argues old concentration is not monopoly and refining shares are modest. The bill passed an antitrust subcommittee and awaits full Senate action after a narrow defeat last fall.
A conservative critique denounces Kissinger and Ford for a Lusaka Rhodesia speech calling it hypocritical and dangerous. It argues Rhodesia has kept peace, educated and cared for blacks and whites, while alleging the United Nations sanctions harm only the regime’s enemies. The piece accuses the administration of surrendering to Soviet leverage and supporting a transfer of power to guerrilla terrorists instead of a negotiated, pro Western outcome.
Washington reports Soviet MiG-23 and MiG-25 reconnaissance aircraft briefly overflew the Trans-Alaskan pipeline during Field Training Exercise Jack Frost in late 1975. Rep John Murphy cited sightings by the 172nd Infantry Brigade, noting 12 minute incursion and potential gains in intelligence. Air Force says no record of the overflights. interceptors would have engaged if detected.
Art Buchwald notes the 1976 conventions shift as Carter appears poised to win the Democratic nomination without a fight while Republicans may face a brokered race in Kansas City. He contrasts smoke filled rooms and last minute horse trading with party officials debating room cues and protestations.
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