26 Oct 1970
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1970
Page
1
A reader guidance notice explains that inquiries to The Enterprise Action Line are welcome but may not receive individual responses due to high volume. It invites questions or help requests and notes they are considered despite limits.
Distraught resident complains about two families with 7 to 8 children who roam the neighborhood after school all summer, harming shrubs and property. Teenyager in charge shows apathy as the writer seeks guidance on possible agencies to intervene. A light admonition to parents and a quip about someday becoming a parent ends the note.
A Cloverdale school will supply an emergency lunch for a child lacking bag lunch or money for up to three days. An application is sent home for ongoing free lunch aid and should be returned the next day. The High Point Lions Club notes vision care aid programs including exams glasses and braille books for the sight handicapped and the blind.
Residents complain of blocked exits on Fairfield Road and Fifth Monthieu and poor visibility at English and Thomasville. The Traffic Engineering Department notes owners cooperated to remove obstructions and will follow up. Moss says no parking signs may be installed on English Road to improve sight distance and reduce hazards.
The lespedera is a forage and fertilizer plant in the pea family, used as shrub clover. It includes herb and shrublike species with small pea shaped flowers in clusters and pods containing one seed.
Dr Henri Bellemare chief of internal medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital in Montreal and FRAP City Council candidate was arrested as one of more than 370 held in 1 600 raids after Canada invoked the War Measures Act Police entered without warrants and searched his home arresting him as part of a sweeping government power regime.
Industry officials in High Point report solid attendance at the fall Southern furniture market with buyers from all 50 states and foreign nations. Executives note heavy traffic, strong showrooms, and purchasing activity matching or surpassing prior markets despite selective buying patterns.
MIT economist Paul A Samuelson won the 1970 Nobel Prize in economics for advancing static and dynamic theory and raising analytic standards. He said he had no idea of the award and would go to his office as usual. The prize, worth 80000, honors his Foundations of Economic Analysis and broad contributions across economic theory.
Senator Sam Ervin urged ethics in the Republican Party and condemned radical liberalism and big spending charges as Democrats prepared for Vice President Agnew's Raleigh visit. He cited Nixon vetoes on hospitals education and sewers as proof of mislabeling by Republicans. Gov. Bob Scott and local candidates joined the rally.
Vice President Spiro Agnew told a Greenville South Carolina rally that Nixon will appoint and see confirmed a Southern strict constructionist to the Supreme Court. He defended Haynsworth as a victim of anti southern bias after Senate rejection and noted Carswell’s earlier tumble amid accusations of racial bias. He pressed the pledge during a six day campaign swing through the South and Midwest supporting Albert Watson in a tight gubernatorial race against John West.
Acting Mayor Mel Ravitz praised patience and discipline as 15 Black youths were charged in the death of Patrolman Glenn E. Smith amid tense protests at the National Committee to Combat Fascism headquarters. Police arrested two others in related vehicle arsons and teargas was used as tearful arrests were completed.
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