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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1975
Page
1
The Postal Service seeks to cut overtime and outside hiring despite a seven million dollar daily deficit while expecting a peak holiday mail season. Officials say temporary layoffs avoid harming Christmas throughput, with nine billion pieces likely to pass through offices before Christmas Eve.
Allen Zovar and Susan Shepherd spent four days adrift in a rubber raft after their fishing trip blew them into the Santa Barbara Channel. Surrounded by sharks, they drank their urine to survive and stayed afloat without food or water. They were rescued, in good condition, and not hospitalized after rowing toward an island.
The Enterprise Action Line offers wart-removal tips and safety notes while tracing a Christmas lights schedule for McAdenville. The piece also notes a toy drive by the High Point Jaycees with a pickup date and contact number, and includes reader questions about budget stress and tears as coping.
The town of Salley prepares to host the 10th annual Chitlin Strut drawing 20 000 to 25 000 visitors. About 6 000 pounds of boiled hog intestines will be cooked with 4 000 pounds fried chicken and 4 000 pounds barbecued pork. Local cook Terry McMillan notes the strong odor and that Salley’s strut has grown from 500 attendees to well over 20 000.
A three judge federal panel in Atlanta overturned the 1974 abduction case against William A H Williams citing pretrial publicity and prejudicial closing arguments. The 5th U S Circuit sent the case back to District Judge William C O Kelley to set a new trial date with potential DOJ appeal noted.
The Commerce Department reported the leading index fell five tenths of a percent in October, the second straight monthly decline and a possible sign of slowing economic growth. Four of eleven indicators dropped, including liquid assets and building permits, while five rose and two remained unchanged.
In London a Massive manhunt targets an Irish Republican Army execution squad believed responsible for the killing of Ross McWhirter co editor of the Guinness Book of World Records. He was shot at his Enfield home as he answered the door. his wife Rosemary watched the assailants flee in her car.
The Grand Ole Opry marks its 50th anniversary tracing its roots from the WS M Barn Dance to a multimillion dollar enterprise. It began with Uncle Jimmy Thompson and George D Hay, grew through the War Memorial and Ryman venues, and featured stars like Roy Acuff Hank Williams and Eddie Arnold. The 15 million dollar Opryland complex opened in 1974 with Nixon attending the first show in the new home.
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