25 Nov 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1969
Page
1
A brief notice invites readers to share their concerns or worries with ACTION LINE. The message provides a contact path via The Enterprise and encourages callers to write about their issues for possible assistance.
Readers discuss juvenile delinquency and Wisconsin prison reform from the 1950s. A reader appeals for information on the correctional system, praising reforms since 1956 and urging youth centers, while also noting local by pass routes, sports scores quirks, and map search humor.
North Carolina Attorney General Robert Morgan urged the Milk Commission to abolish market controls he said keep milk prices artificially high. Rep. Sam Johnson warned that prices could soar beyond today’s levels if controls end, advocating modifications before any change. The commission opened a hearing on Fair Trade Order No. 10 to decide whether to continue, modify, or abolish the regulation.
The Associated Press reports a Thanksgiving outlook of fair but cool weather for North Carolina. Early temps were below Monday morning across the state, with readings from 32 at Asheville to 37 at Wilmington. Mostly upper 40s to lower 50s elsewhere, with Outer Banks as an exception.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he will vote reluctantly against Byrd's amendment to kill the six month extension of the 5 percent income tax surtax. President Nixon supports extending the levy to $3.1 billion to aid the budget as lawmakers debate a 585 page reform package.
President Nixon renounced germ warfare and pledged to destroy existing stockpiles, saying the U S would never use biological weapons even if attacked. He called for research to focus on defensive measures and immunization serums while urging Senate ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol banning first use of poisonous gases and bacteriological methods. The report notes Senate votes on oil and gas depletion rules and a tentative plan to vote on amendments next week.
Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean Charles Conrad Jr and Richard Gordon Jr rest in quarantine aboard the recovery ship off Hawaii. Medical official Dr Clarence Jernigan confirms all are in excellent health. Bean was promoted to captain on Monday becoming the Navy's youngest captain at 37, with a chest of lunar samples flown to Houston.
The three astronauts Conrad Gordon and Bean endured minor injuries from a 16mm camera that popped free during splashdown and an ear inflammation likely from the Yankee Clipper habitat. They began biomedical checks and tape-recorded mission highlights as they entered quarantine at 3:44 am on December 11. They remain isolated with limited staff as lunar rock shipments await processing at MSC.
Washington AP reports John Newton Mitchell, former Wall Street lawyer and Nixon's attorney general, rejects labels like Mr Tough or Inquisitor General. He calls himself a softie while acknowledging his influence on urban affairs and the Vietnam War, and cites longing to return to Wall Street and municipal bonds.
Pennsylvania historians note early Thanksgivings ranged from merry to ribald. A 1746 Philadelphia proclamation by Gov. George Thomas urged public thanksgiving with prayers and sermons while prohibiting drunkenness and immoral acts, prefiguring the later national Thanksgiving proclamation of 1789.
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