13 Oct 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1970
Page
1
An inquiry to Action Line asks why louvers obscure the Five Points signal. Traffic Engineer R V Moss says the head was displaced by wind, making it hard to see. After adjustment, visibility should improve.
Public Works Director Wills states the owner is on notice and the property will be cleaned and taxed if not cleared by October 14. City officials had previously contacted the owner over six years with only promises. The piece notes a death in the family and ongoing traffic visibility concerns on Brentwood Street.
The North Wildlife Commission states the statewide squirrel hunting season runs from Monday Oct 12 through Jan 2 in our section. Squirrels are listed as game along with deer and quail with no comment on their status as state mammal.
The blue jay is not protected as a songbird but city ordinances prohibit firing a gun within city limits. If blue jays attack your hand tame birds, seek nonlethal deterrents and local wildlife authorities for advice.
A reader asks for concrete addresses and groups running a large scale Letters to Hanoi campaign. The note cites Mrs. Strom Thurmond's involvement and provides the North Vietnam President Ton Duc Thang office address in Hanoi with guidance to be brief, mention Geneva Convention, and use 25 cent airmail postage.
Ottawa announces an agreement to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp projects exchange of ambassadors within six months as talks conclude after twenty months in Stockholm. Ambassador Yu-chu Hsueh departs amid mixed reaction from Ottawa’s Chinese community.
The Senate altered a proposed constitutional amendment on equal rights to exempt women from the draft. The 36 to 33 vote stunned backers who feared it would end the proposal. The Ervin measure adds two changes and sets a two year effective period after state ratification with a seven year sunset.
Justice Hugo Black condemned efforts to rearrange the country for school integration at a Supreme Court desegregation hearing. NAACP lawyer James Nabrit argued against North Carolina's neighborhood school plan while North Carolina officials urged preserving proximity schooling.
New York reports the midi is failing to take hold as fall stock sits at high levels. retailers note slow midi sales and a move toward longer hemlines while shoppers resist midcalf skirts. J.C. Penney and major shops show little midi interest. only token counts appear at some boutiques.
In Ottawa hundreds of troops and police guard politicians and diplomats as Quebec seeks to negotiate with FLQ kidnappers holding British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. Robert Lemieux acts as FLQ liaison, while Robert Demers is named provincial contact.
The FLQ demands linked to the Cross and La Porte abductions include freeing 23 detainees, halting police inquiries, and in one case a $500,000 ransom plus publishing an informer, reinstating laid off truck drivers, and airing FLQ propaganda. The group warns of further violence if governments remain uncooperative. A radio station at Trois-Rivières is noted.
Nasser named Zakaria Mohieddin as his successor before dying but Soviet leaders refuse to back him. Mohieddin faces house arrest amid power struggles with Anwar Sadat and Air Marshal Ali Sabry, while Heikal pushes for Nasser's liberalized plan. The public reportedly favored Mohieddin, yet the Soviet veto dominates behind the scenes.
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