25 Oct 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1967
Page
1
Readers submit questions on dating rituals school term debates re weaving repairs and reporting illegal stills plus an item about a historical marker. Answers from experts clarify ring wearing customs education proposals and proper reporting channels while noting a misplaced marker and plans to relocate it.
The administration backed civil rights bill passed 8 to 7 in the Senate Judiciary Committee after Sen. Hugh Scott flew from England on a White House request to vote. Sen. Sam Ervin Jr. led a substitute that the measure replaced, while Sen. Thomas Dodd was noted as favoring the administration bill though hospitalized.
In New York the Soviet Union pressed the UN Security Council to condemn Israel as aggressor in a three hour Suez Canal artillery duel. Fire and smoke rose from Suez oil refineries as clashes spread near Port Taufiq and the Great Bitter Lake. Israel and Egypt blamed each other for triggering the battle while U.S. delegates challenged the Soviet bid and urged ceasefire violations be condemned.
U S war planes faced MiGs and heavy flak in follow up raids on North Vietnam s biggest air base at Phuc Yen and a second strike on Hanoi s Doumer Bridge. The action involved Air Force fighters from Thailand, with reports of 10 MiGs destroyed or damaged and the Phuc Yen base out of action for days. Mortar attacks in Kien Hoa Province killed 11 and wounded 48 as Viet Cong fire intensified in the Mekong Delta.
The Enterprise launches Whats in Your Name a recurring feature answering origin of family names. The new column appears today on page 6-B and will run at least three times weekly. The piece highlights famous ancestors and how surnames developed.
Mayor Davis presses for the Law Building block as the only site meeting Post Office requirements and proposes Urban Renewal inclusion. City Council must decide whether to honor the commitment or risk losing the project for years, while diversions threaten the central city's rebirth.
Washington officials show sharp disagreements on marijuana risks and policy. Health officials push research at the National Institute of Mental Health to fill data gaps while the administration holds no change in the law, even as Congress weighs legalization questions.
SAIGON AP More U S servicemen in Vietnam are arrested for smoking marijuana than any other major offense Brig Gen Harley Moore Jr said the Army may have several thousand of the 464000 in Vietnam who smoke marijuana John Steinbeck IV son of the novelist who served a year in Vietnam wrote in Washington magazine that three fourths or more of the GIs smoke marijuana Generals Sidle and Moore noted the figure is likely too high but marijuana use appears widespread from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta GIs have been found with marijuana on sentries MPs and inside the Long Binh stockade where many convicted users serve sentences The question of smoking under combat conditions was raised See MORE on Page 2 A
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