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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1970
Page
3
A strong cold front moved off the coast and cooler air spread across North Carolina. Tonight lows reach the 40s with 60s Saturday, coastal areas in 40s to 60s, mountains cold with frost likely. Extended Sunday to Tuesday mostly fair with highs near 60s in the mountains and near 70 elsewhere.
Forecast shows decreasing clouds this afternoon and tonight with colder air and scattered frost in the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia. South Carolina remains partly cloudy and cool with mild Saturday highs, while Georgia trends fair to partly sunny with highs near 60s to mid 70s.
Four 17 year old students from Tuscola High School in Waynesville fight in U.S. District Court in Asheville to wear their hair long. Principal Ratcliff says the dress code bans facial hair and long hair over the ears, collars, or eyebrows. The school board maintains the rule. the students were suspended October 5 for violating guidelines.
Vice President Agnew denounces Hubert Humphrey as a turncoat for attacking Lyndon Johnson. The Florida swing ends in Jacksonville after four days of campaigning for Republican candidates, boosting the party treasury by about half a million dollars.
Milwaukee residents witnessed a biker funeral for Roger Kloman who died in Canada. About 250 cycle gang members from clubs as far as Detroit and Louisiana attended, firing pistols and rifles during the graveside rites. Mrs Kloman, consoling, reluctantly supported the rider delegation. Policemen monitored the procession and the event, which occurred without helmets despite traffic laws.
Buffy Sainte Marie, the Cree singer and activist, champions Indian women's causes and education reform. She has formed the Native North American Women's Association, organized scholarship funds for law school, and staged benefit performances on reservations. She uses her visibility to spotlight issues from treaties to land loss and biased school texts.
Dr Niles Newton a Northwestern University Medical School psychologist challenged the women’s liberation movement as not reflecting most women’s views. She urged abortion and sterilization on demand and urged men to share birth control duties amid a panel on obstetrics and gynecology at the American College of Surgeons congress in Chicago.
Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty in 1846 with an effective date of 1847 for ordinary crimes, while keep ing the gallows for treason against the state.
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