Editorial on Hijacking Exacts Toll on Business and Need for Action
Editorial urges direct action as Senate Select Committee on Small Business opens hearings on criminal threats to business. Highlights truck hijacking, cargo theft, high value loot, and Mafia involvement. cites FBI and Kennedy Airport thefts. calls for tighter security and possible federal legislation.
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Senate Select Committee On
FBI
Brooklyn
U.S. News and World Report
Mafia
AFSC Demands End to Vietnam War With Unilateral Cease Fire
The American Friends Service Committee urges President Nixon to order an immediate unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam. The group staged a silent White House vigil, arguing withdrawal could save lives but cautions against abandoning allies. The President is urged to act wisely, considering national duty above any single group.
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Vietnam
American Friends Service Committee
Nixon
White House
AFSC
United States
Inflation Fears Stir as April CPI Due Soon
Editorial notes April consumer price index pending release by the U S Department of Labor, warning of shocks to American households and the Nixon administration. It highlights rising food prices, cattle markets, and persistent demand, with forecasts of volatility and possible meat price shifts.
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U.S. Laker Department
Nixon
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
The
Society of American Business Writers
Iowa
Farm Journal
U. S. Department of Agriculture
K. Gilbert Novotny
St. Louis National Stockyards Co
Novotny
Cleveland
Baltimore
U. S. News & World Report
Chicago
Denver
Otto Eckstein
Harvard University
Evkstein
Thurmond and Douglas Young Wives Revelations Stir Capitol
The piece recounts Strom Thurmond's 1960s marriage to Nancy Moore, noting past clashes with Justice Douglas over age and marriage. It contrasts their fitness routines and public images, then shifts to a travel junket by Congress members to study coal dust in Britain and Wales, highlighting attendance gaps and a veteran Bureau of Mines adviser joining the delegation.
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Old Strom
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Senate
South Carolina
Nancy Moore
Aiken
D. C
Strom
Capitol Hill
Harbour Square
Hubert Humphrey
Paul Moore
Thurmond
Sen
Justice Douglas
Jean Crouch
Douglas
England
Wales
Jethro Gough
British Isles
Welsh National School of Medicine
Gough
John Dent
Pennsylvania
Patsy Mink
Hawaii
John Erlenborn
Ilinois
Dent
Atlantic
Roman Pucinski
Illinois
Augustus Hawkins
California
Louis Stokes
Ohio
Bill Clay
Missouri
Earl Kandgrebe
Indiana
Orval Hansen
Idaho
Erlen Born
Europe
Stokes
Pittsburgh
American Mining Congress
George W Sanders
Britain
National Coal Board
Bureau of Mines
Washington
Congress
Bureau
Frank C. Memmett
Earle P. Shoub
Marcus Key
W. D. C. Morgan
Public Health Service
Hingland
Henry Doyle
Good Old Days as High Point celebrates A and P plant
Descriptions of Nell McFberson and family chores give way to High Point coverage of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ground breaking for a milk processing plant. The $40 per square foot facility promises automation and a regional distribution base from Roanoke to Atlanta, with plans for ice cream later. Community leaders praise corporate citizenship, Jaycees project leadership, and local clubs, fairs, and youth programs amid civic funding debates and restoration efforts for historic sites.
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
High Point
Roanoke
Atlanta
Elton Edwards
John Haley
James P. Armstrong Jr
High Point Historical Society
Robert Davis
Cam Criddlebaugh Jr
Senator Edwards
Jim Armstrong
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Iredey
North Carolina
Kennedy International Airport
O'Hare
High Point Enterprise
Moe Po Boint
Erbipas, Inc
North Main Strai Bowe N.C
D. A Rawley
C. H. Lockwood
David A. Rawley, JR
Joseph F. Rawley Randall
B. Terry
Joe Brown
W. Patterson
Associated Press
Cartier
N.C
N. C
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Tease Vita Presidens
Mallay "Erect Hor
Agger
Iee
Vee
Peeres
Moon
Drew Pearson
Sen. Strom Thurmond
Nancy
Nell McFberson
Ami
Charles &. Hayworth
Southern Furniture Exposition
Southern Furniture Club
Green Drive
Jaycee
Jim Pearce
Greensboro
High Point Jaycees
Friends Meeting House
Peta Armstrong
Fellowship For Christian Athletes
FCA
Black Mountain
Cheerio
American Humanics Foundation
High Point College
Humanics
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