11 Nov 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1968
Page
1
The Enterprise invites readers to contact ACTION LINE to answer questions solve problems or share concerns. It encourages calls or letters to discuss issues or worries and offers a direct channel for reader engagement with the newspaper staff.
Reader notes new and old rules on age in hiring. Public Law 00-202 limits age bias but grants occupational, seniority, and benefit plan exceptions. Local Labor Dept. rep Harold L. Cox can advise. contact 882-8826 with name and number. Complaints may be filed under the cited statute, though enforcement is uncertain.
The era at University of North Carolina from 1946 to 1949 is known as The Justice Era. Charlie Justice, All American in 1948 and 1949, weighed 185 pounds and stood about 5 feet 10 inches. He played tailback in Carl Snavely’s single wing, scoring 39 touchdowns and totaling 5,000 rushing yards while averaging 42.6 yards per punt and 18.2 yards per return.
Reader asks for a source on old fashioned johnnycakes once common in the area. The reply recalls hoecakes, early settlers and Indians, with references to johnnycake variants and a nostalgic grocery item. The second letter discusses constitutional succession if a president cannot serve until inauguration, explaining that Nixon is not president elect until electors meet and that the vice president would act as president until January 20.
President-elect Richard M. Nixon lands at Andrews Air Force Base after flying from Key Biscayne to Washington for a luncheon with President Johnson. He discusses possible personal representatives to the Paris peace talks and Saigon, with names like Henry Cabot Lodge and William Scranton floated. Nixon heads to New York for aide meetings on forming the new administration.
North Vietnamese gunners fired artillery and rockets from inside the de militarized zone at U S Marine positions sustaining five attacks near the DMZ. The assault left at least four Leathernecks dead and four wounded as Marine planes and artillery returned fire from Saigon to the buffer zone.
Ray drops lawyer Arthur Hanes before murder trial for King slaying and hires Percy Foreman. Foreman seeks a continuance, aiming to review the case, with Judge Battle indicating possible delay and rescheduling near year end. Ray faces first degree murder charges in Memphis.
The Soviet Union launched Zond 6, an unmanned craft, to explore near lunar space and test systems. Officials gave limited detail, noting only that the mission would test aboard equipment as Zond 5 previously circled the moon.
Three storm systems churned across the north dumping heavy snowfall in New England and the Midwest and driving temperatures toward freezing. The most intense storm dumped up to 11 inches in six hours on top of prior accumulations that stranded thousands of motorists in parts of New England. Millinocket Maine recorded 19 inches by early today as Green remained under winter weather.
New York AP reports Ahmed Namer, a Yemeni-born naturalized American, and his two sons Hussein and Abdo were held on 100000 bail each in Brooklyn on charges of conspiracy to murder, possession of deadly weapons, and criminal solicitation. Investigators probe possible ties to Sirhan Sirhan and broader Arab tensions amid Nixon presidency.
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