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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1972
Page
1
The Enterprise invites inquiries and problem help by mail or phone. Readers are asked to understand that high volume prevents answering every item, but all requests are considered and acknowledged when possible.
A reader asks how to handle a neighbor who undresses in view of guests. Advice notes uncertainty about age, suggests notifying parents if a teen, or drawing curtains if indoors. Also discusses the old Harry Jacobs building cleanup and traffic record access through the DMV with prepayment and varying fees.
State Department of Social Services in Raleigh issues and renews licenses for homes for the aged and infirm and Family Care Homes for Adults, led by John M. Syria as Chief of Services to Adults. Guilford County Social Services, directed by L. M. Thompson, is the local contact. Nursing homes are regulated by the State Board of Health.
A lawyer notes there is no fixed age in North Carolina. Child maturity and ability to care for itself determine when a parent can legally leave a child unattended. The reader asks about ICC Rules on safety belts and truck seat belt fines, noting uncertainty whether the rule applies to cars or trucks and a belief that eight year old trucks may not require belts.
A study for the American Enterprise Institute finds state and local governments already run a sizable budget surplus and would gain more under either Nixon or McGovern plans. It estimates 1980 surpluses of 61.1 billion under McGovern and 20.6 billion under Nixon, with distribution tied to need and future needs.
In Copenhagen an overwhelming two to one Danish vote to join the European Common Market sparked a stock exchange boom. Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag announced his resignation in a parliamentary speech, calling it a personal decision.
Washington AP report notes House Banking Committee rejected a full scale congression al probe into the Watergate break in at the Democratic headquarters. Chairman Wright Patman argued against harassing opposition parties while critics termed the move a witch hunt and a risk to the government case. Six Democrats joined all Republicans in voting down the proposal as Rep. Garry Brown urged careful weighing of political gains versus legal jeopardy.
Michael Arnold LaPrade, 24, of Raleigh, was arrested at a trailer park near the scene of the Neuse River killings of Patricia Grimes and Peter P. Williams Jr. LaPrade faced murder charges after authorities traced the slayings to him. Williams’ body was found at Raleigh Beach, with Grimes’s body discovered nearby.
Senator George McGovern escalates claims of White House corruption as his campaign themes condemn Nixon era ethics. He cites ITT antitrust settlement the wheat deal with the Soviet Union and anonymous campaign contributions totaling up to twenty million dollars. McGovern attacks the administration as morally bankrupt while touring New York and Boston and addressing fundraisers at the Waldorf Astoria.
Washington AP reports Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko placed into force accords to curb the superpower arms race. A treaty on defensive missiles and an executive five year freeze on most long range arsenals mark a first step toward broader talks, with leaders urging progress to reduce war danger and lift fear from people worldwide.
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