17 Oct 1969
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1969
Page
1
A call to readers to contact ACTION LINE with worries or questions. The notice invites calls or letters to share concerns, seek help, or raise issues, framed as an open, responsive service of The Enterprise. It emphasizes accessibility and ongoing support for the community.
The state fair will be open Sunday from 1 p m. Activities include gospel singing on Sunday afternoon and evening. Attractions include Hanniford Circus Hell Drivers Frank and Eve Dupont and Royal Marionettes art displays hobbyists and craftsmen exhibits prime beef auction folk festival Golden Age Party bricklayers competition Children’s Barnyard with farm animals candy fortune tellers rides and more. Monkees Friday night Buck Owens and the Hee Haw Gang Saturday night Bobby Goldsboro Monday night.
Readers seek practical guidance on animal care pest control and safety. A reader asks how to feed a baby alligator and manage street safety around buses while riders worry about horse flies and rider health. The column also covers auto racing schedules eye donation and modeling education.
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said thousands of U S troops may stay in Vietnam to advise and train South Vietnamese forces even after fighting ends. He noted a residual force would be modestly larger than the 6 000 to 7 000 on the ground during Kennedy era and pressed for cautious withdrawal timing. The remark signals potential bargaining leverage with North Vietnam amid phased combat troop pullouts and projected budget cuts.
President Nixon said the nation is on the road to recovery from runaway prices but warned cooling the economy will bring slowing pains. He planned a weekend letter seeking wage price restraint from business and labor leaders to influence future plans.
President Nixon named Arthur F. Burns to replace William McChesney Martin Jr. as Fed chairman with Burns slated to take over January 31 after confirmation. Burns, 85, an Austrian born economist and former Council of Economic Advisers chair, has served as Nixon counselor and is viewed as an economic conservative. The administration aims to slow inflation while managing unemployment and ongoing economic adjustments.
Moscow radio said Soyuz 7 landed in the Soviet Union carrying Anatoly Filipchenko Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Gorbatko after nearly five days in orbit. Soyuz 8 with Vladimir Shatalov and Alexei Yeliseyev remains aloft while Soyuz 6 returned to Earth with Georgy Shonin and Valery Kubasov.
South Vietnamese battlefield deaths in the last five months doubled American tolls, reflecting rising South Vietnamese combat losses as U S troops withdraw. Officials cite more attacks on village militia, a 400,000-strong home guard, and South Vietnamese forces assuming defense roles in areas like the Mekong Delta after divisions pull out.
Washington AP The top aide to House Speaker John W McCormack has been suspended after a charge that he helped arrange a meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift a stock sale ban. Martin Sweig 45, a 24 year veteran on McCormack staff, is named in an SEC suit alleging the May meeting sought relief for Parvin Dohrmann Co. stock.
A South Vietnamese navy ship fired on a Soviet trawler inside the 12 mile territorial waters near Da Nang. After warning shots the trawler refused to identify and took a hit, smoke rising from the forward section as it fled to open sea. U S denial followed reports of United States involvement.
The Nixon administration pushes a draft lottery targeting 19 year olds, with House approval likely next week but Senate fate unclear. The House Armed Services Committee backed 18 year olds’ advance draft notice by a 31 to 0 vote, and floor action was planned for late next week. Senate chair John C. Stennis signals hesitation amid Kennedy led revision efforts including possible college draft elimination.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield favors ending the draft while House actions block measures to remove college deferments. Rep Richard H. Schoed proposes scrapping deferments, Kennedy and Otis Pike criticize, Nixon backs a lottery to rank 18 year olds for next year’s callups with 365 birthdates drawn in fall.
San Francisco police issued bus safety directives after the Zodiac killer, who has claimed five victims, vowed to wipe out a school bus. Drivers were told to keep buses moving, instruct riders to lie on the floor, and use horns and lights to attract attention. Authorities labeled the killer a dangerous psychopath and urged vigilance amid ongoing inquiries into taxi driver Paul Stine’s murder and other savagings in the Bay Area.
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