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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1972
Page
8
Associated Press reports a Raleigh shopping center shooting near Senator B Everett Jordan as he campaigned. Opponent Nick Galifianakis, Gov. George Wallace news, Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor, and candidates Bowles Holshouser Gardner react with shock and calls for federal and state action to protect campaigns.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine doctors used acupuncture needles to anesthetize a patient's legs for a skin graft, marking the first such use in a U S hospital. The 65 year old Manhattan bank employee recovered after the minor operation as skin was transplanted from his right thigh to his left foot.
Sen. William Proxmire blasts Transpo 72 as a waste of five million dollars while his daughter CiCi, working at the Canadian Department of Transport exhibit, defends it as worthwhile and appealing to youth. She notes her father has not visited the expo, having been in Wisconsin. Bird of Kaiser Industries is cited over an expense account.
Atlantic and Gulf coast residents are urged to take precautions as hurricane season opens. National Weather Service and Commerce Department issue Mobile Home Tie Down Month to protect homes. new evacuation maps from the National Ocean Survey cover coastal areas from Savannah to Charleston and Galveston.
Greensboros anti busing advocate Joe Brown the third place finisher in the May 6 Democratic U S Senate race endorsed Sen B Everett Jordan in the runoff between Jordan and Rep Nick Galifiankis Brown who leads the Wallace for President drive met Jordan Sunday at his Greensboro home He had previously signaled toward Galifianakis saying Galifianakis showed interest in his support A meeting with Galifianakis was planned but did not occur leaving Brown to back Jordan in the contest
The first workable ball-point pen was patented by Laszlo Jozsef Giro, a Hungarian living in Argentina, with patents dating to the late 1800s and widespread acceptance by 1944 according to Britannica.
The House weighs updating and renaming the 22 year old Subversive Activities Control Board or abolishing it and writing a new law. Debates hinge on constitutional questions after hearings split the Internal Security Committee over how to handle the boards role in identifying subversive groups and excluding federal job applicants.
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