22 Oct 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1967
Page
1
A reader asks if a drafted brother who is legally separated from his wife and has two children will affect his wife or children’s eligibility for money. The column explains draft boards consider fatherhood based on cohabitation and full-time paternal ties, and that child support depends on the separation agreement terms and remains due despite military service.
City officials debate welfare in High Point noting state county administration and no able bodied recipients on regular aid. Ralph Sheppard cites four categories: elderly disabled children households with no employed adult and general emergency assistance. Welfare policy aims at self support with job placement services while respecting civil liberties.
A conclave of press and newsroom gunnery experts says hollow point long rifle rounds won’t hurt a .22 barrel. They warn against using ammo not chambered for the gun as it may cause the weapon to blow up in your face.
A reader asks if a woman can be fired for not working 10 hours daily while childcare ends at 5 pm. The response notes 10-hour shifts are legal if amended, warns against broad exemptions, suggests alternatives like hiring care, and says eight-hour shifts are typical.
Enterprise staff writer reports a buoyant mood at the October Southern Furniture Market opening Friday. Panelists including Globe Furniture president Henry Foscue and Stanley Furniture’s Thomas B. Stanley Jr. cite steady improvements since July 11, with optimism for 1968 and beyond. They note shifts in color, texture, and use of plastics, plus a focus on traditional and Italian styling, while urging experimental design and women's influence in choices. Powell adds that Paris designers inspire ongoing trend evolution.
Two U.S. Navy jets attacked a flotilla of six North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin near the Thanh Hoa estuary. Bombs destroyed four boats as pilots Wilmer P Cook and Mitchell Watson described intense anti airfire from the boats and shore. The operation marked one of the war's larger such strikes as South Vietnam held elections for the National Assembly.
Demonstrators and U.S. marshals clashed at the Pentagon in Washington as police used water cannon and tear gas. The protest spread internationally with antiwar marches in West Berlin Amsterdam Copenhagen and other cities. Johnson and aides were targeted in effigy and a broader wave of demonstrations followed across the United States.
At Lincoln Memorial a peaceful infant wearing a Peace Crawler sign on her bonnet romps amid antiwar demonstrators in a Woodstock New York scene. Her parents are not named in the AP wirephoto caption.
Tokyo AP dispatch reported Hanoi's Vietnam News Agency praising the Washington antiwar rally as encouragement and valuable support for the Vietnamese people. The agency noted growing US protests and commended South Vietnam mass organizations for backing demonstrators, naming groups such as the Peace Committee and Liberation unions.
Negotiators pressed through the night at Ford in Dearborn aiming to finalize the auto industry’s richest three year labor pact. UAW chief Walter Reuther pushes for at least a one dollar hourly increase to top seven per cent, potentially making the deal the largest in manufacturing history and boosting auto workers’ pay lead.
The Israeli destroyer Elath, a 1,710-ton ship with 250 aboard, was sunk 14 miles north of Port Said by the Soviet-armed Egyptian navy. Reports say heavy casualties, with rescue operations under way as U.N. observers confirmed the sinking and worked to prevent further incidents.
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