03 Sep 1967
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1967
Page
1
The notice invites readers to contact ACTION LINE at The Enterprise to answer questions, settle problems, or voice worries. It emphasizes availability by encouraging calls or writing to c/o The Enterprise for assistance.
Neighborhood residents complain Merita Bakery discharges foam into Briggs Avenue yards hindering play and laundry. Carl Willson reports public works inspection and state health involvement to resolve the foaming overflow blamed on monsoon season causing yard flooding.
The reply says no local company offers a family tree service. It notes that locating your background depends on personal and family help and established records. It states ancestry research takes time and encourages you to get started with available public records and family cooperation.
Honest John Crowder of Star Cleaners recommends using professional waterproofing at the dry cleaners for about 75 cents extra. A treatment lasts until the next cleaning, with some coats offering permanent options like Scotch-Gard. shoppers should read labels for this feature.
The two projects were named for Clara Cox and the Rev Daniel Brooks, prominent local figures in religion and human relations. Cox led Springfield Friends Meeting from 1918 to 1939 and chaired Red Cross relief, while Brooks, born in 1837 in Cleveland County and died in 1933, was the first pastor of Brooks Memorial Methodist Church and advocated racial harmony.
Publicity centered on the House passage of the SS bill. The bill moves to the Senate for hearings and revisions before a potential enactment by LBJ. If approved and signed, effective dates will be announced. a prompt increase is hoped for but no exact date can be predicted.
A reader asks about ways to reduce facial hair. Suggestions include shaving depilatories tweezing waxing and bleaching. A dermatologist notes possible causes such as hormones and family traits and mentions electrolysis as a last resort. Cultural views vary by region.
Saigon voters braved Viet Cong threats to cast ballots in an election seen as a step toward constitutional government. President Thieu and Premier Ky led the ticket as security concerns and fraud charges clouded the process amid attacks and abductions in Quang Nam and Saigon.
United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther warned Detroit’s Big Three that any new contract must raise pensions for both current and future retirees and index payments to the cost of living. He rejected Ford GM and Chrysler offers for a $1 boost only for future retirees as talks at Ford stalled with four days left before contract expiry and GM Chrysler talks recessed until Tuesday.
Hong Kong reports Britain laying coiled barbed wire along 10 miles of the border as a precaution against a potential flood of refugees from Canton and Kwangtung province amid fighting reports. Rail links to Canton halted and Moscow broadcasts cite eyewitnesses, though no independent confirmation exists.
In Congress a push to tighten the emergency tax rise faces resistance. The debate centers on repealing the oil depletion allowance and the capital gains inheritability tax provision, long opposed by critics.
A Sunday vote will elect a president and vice president and a 60 member Senate. Eleven presidential tickets compete alongside 48 Senate lists, with the top six lists and the winning ticket declared winners. About 80 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters may cast ballots at 8,808 polling places from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
U S bombers again hit Communist targets inside the demilitarized zone while conventional action slackened before the national election. Guerrilla raids struck Tam Ky, killing four and burning homes as five attackers died, including a man with 20 pounds of TNT.
President Johnson, in a Labor Day statement, lauded national progress while urging Americans to address unfinished business at home and pursue world peace. He stressed equal opportunity, urban renewal, and the rule of law as core goals, noting economic growth and social progress yet acknowledging ongoing challenges.
Ilse Koch, infamous for cruelty at Buchenwald, hanged herself in her Aichach prison cell at age 60. Officials said she had been writing poems and studying English, then fashioned a noose from bed clothing and a cord before her death was discovered.
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