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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1971
Page
5
Rain continues with mild temperatures and a good chance of more precipitation through Monday. Weather officials note considerable cloudiness and a steady chance of showers across the Piedmont region.
Forecasts show intermittent rain and showers across North and South Carolina with cooler nights and mild to warm days. Expect mid to upper 60s in the mountains and lower 70s to 80s in the low country, with wet conditions continuing into midweek and decreasing rain chances Sunday.
Three people died when a car struck a school bus two miles north of Yanceyville in Caswell County. Victims were Thomas Alfred Mitchell 20 James Slade 30 and Coston Eugene Jeffries 21. Jeffries died later in a Danville hospital. The bus driver Charles Weatherford 25 escaped injury.
North Carolina Resources Secretary Roy Sowers Jr. told teachers they have been the helpless victims of a decade of declining public support for education. He blamed broader issues like integration and housing patterns for neglecting reading and math progress and urged restoration of funding and better facilities. The remarks were prepared for a political action rally tied to the North Carolina Association of Educators.
In Belfast early today two women aged 19 and 30 were shot dead by British troops after firing from a speeding car dressed in men's clothing. A fourth woman suffered leg wounds and a third was injured by glass. a nail bomb and shots targeted soldiers from another car in Cape Street. The incident raised Northern Ireland’s death toll to 129 in two years of conflict.
Hugh Jeffrey Ward, 29, a staffer at University Computing Co., is ordered to stand trial for using a codes and accounts to steal a $25,000 computer program from Information Systems Design in Oakland. Prosecutors say the theft involved a memory bank intrusion and ISO printouts used by Aerojet General Corp. Ward is scheduled to appear November 22 and remains free on his own recognizance.
U S District Court Judge George H Boldt, who presided over the Seattle 7 trial, is selected to head Nixon s Pay Board Phase 2. He sentenced the seven for contempt after a mis trial finding and will lead 15 business labor and academic leaders reviewing wage increases. Boldt, a 67 year old jurist, is praised by colleagues for steering through disruptive proceedings and balancing federal duty with public unrest.
Reverend Carl McIntire leads thousands of followers in a March for Victory to press President Nixon on China and Vietnam policy. The anti-Communist preacher from Collingwood New Jersey vows continued protests while communism looms as a threat.
A fire at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis damaged the ninth floor of the Madison West unit and caused smoke on the sixth to eighth floors. Officials moved over 100 patients, including about 70 psychiatric patients, with no injuries reported. First alarm at 7:25 p.m., under control by 7:49 p.m. Authorities do not indicate arson and consider possible links to local racial unrest.
Evening lineup includes wrestling and NBC News at 6 to 7.30. Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw scenes air. Primetime features Tommy Faile, The Truth, and classic films with Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
Prime time features include Good Life at 7 and Mission Impossible at 10 with The Persuaders at 11. The lineup includes a Mystery movie, The Scene Tonight, and ABC News. Colossal: Colossus The Forbin Project and Death Takes a Holiday also surface among the forecasted films and specials.
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