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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1970
Page
5
The state enjoys sunny to partly cloudy skies with cool nights. A Gulf high and a New York low keep a southwesterly flow, while western NC may see variable cloudiness. Highs reach 60s Sunday, lows in the 40s, zero precipitation here.
North Carolina sees mild weather through Sunday with highs in the upper 60s to low 70s and partly cloudy mountains on Sunday. South Carolina remains sunny and mild with highs in the lower 70s, cooler nights in the 30s to 40s along the coasts, and mountains. Virginia tonight is fair with 30s to low 40s and Sunday clouds and cooler highs in the 50s to 60s. Georgia stays fair to partly cloudy and mild tonight and Sunday with mountains around 32 and Sunday highs 69 to 77.
The National Guard faces dwindling veteran enlistments as Vietnam vets return and draft calls end. Officials warn Guard strength may sag unless incentives rise, with July 1973 as the draft cut date looming. Proposals include higher pay, reenlistment bonuses, state-emergency pay, better retirement benefits, and tax exemptions.
Guilford County Board of Education will receive bids Saturday for equipment at a new Western Guilford Elementary School and for the Southern Guilford High School. The 10 a.m. meeting at the Board of Education Building in Greensboro will also cover routine business items.
Law students from Duke and UNC, playing inmates for a Duke Center study, tell a prison panel that inmate bitterness blocks rehabilitation and that reform schools breed future criminals. John Livingston cites lack of due process and court-appointed lawyers as key frustrations.
A study by the North Carolina Penal Study Committee, formed by Gov. Bob Scott and including State Bar Association members, reviews prison conditions. Duke law student Tripp Sizemore describes Morrison and Jackson training schools as breeding grounds for crime, citing overcrowded, harsh, and unhygienic conditions and overworked social workers.
Reform schools are criticized for providing third rate education and failing to improve attitudes of youthful offenders. New reading laboratories are praised as progress while law student proposals urge tighter court center interaction, precommitment screening, more social workers, staff attitude change, and better post prison employment to reduce the 70 percent adult reoffending rate. an alternative to solitary confinement is urged.
Mary Evelyn Porterfield a 19 year old Negro coed from Columbia DC was named homecoming queen at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She won by vote of 13 300 student body, first time a queen chosen by popular vote, with runners up Margaret Mann and Teresa Koont. Porterfield is a sophomore majoring in speech communications and active in campus life.
A South Vietnamese general said U.S. combat troops may be withdrawn from the southern half of the country next year. He also indicated forces could push into Cambodia to pressure North Vietnamese units and back Vietnami zation, as large Cambodian and South Vietnamese task forces operate across border areas.
A rundown of NBC CBS and local programming from 6 to 10 P.M. featuring Newsmaker news The Most Deadly Game Petticoat Junction Mission Impossible Adam 12 Lawrence Welk My Three Sons Mannix and a late movie.
The lineup lists Al Hirt at 10 30 with weekend coverage followed by News Sports Weather and a late night cinema and movie blocks including Shock Theatre and Political Telecast noted in the sheet.
Television listings show Eyewitness Weekend Journal 8 30 and 10 30. Programs include Mission Impossible with Phelps, My Three Sons, Arnie, Mary Tyler Moore amid a blizzard episode, plus sports with Carolina Cougars vs Nets in Charlotte and Mannix subplot at a hospital. Featured musical guest lineup with Al Hirt at 12.
J P Stevens & Co reverses its earlier stance and says hourly paid employees will receive wage increases effective Nov 30. No amount disclosed. Company notes improving schedules and a move toward normal operations after layoffs and furloughs. Net nine month earnings total 6.1 million, cents per share after previous year’s 20.6 million and 3.38.
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