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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1969
Page
1
Residents report the Washington Terrace Park parking lot near the pool closed to improve evening crowd control. The upper lot is shut while the lower area near the tennis courts is urged for use, with plans for more spaces to ease congestion.
Washington AP report cites Lt. Robert F. Frishman and seaman Douglas Brent Hegdahl detailing torture hunger and solitary confinement in Hanoi prison camps. Defense Secretary Laird accuses North Vietnam of violating basic human decency and propaganda about humane treatment. Frishman says his account is to expose truth for POWs remaining.
Judge Bernard C. Brominski in Wilkes-Barre, PA, rejects dismissal of an autopsy petition for Mary Jo Kopechne but orders Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis to amend within 20 days to show autopsy would resolve doubt. The case involves a Kennedy linked fatal car crash on Chappaquiddick Island and an Edgartown inquest.
Hanoi Radio and SAIGON monitors say Ho Chi Minh, age 79, is in grave and deteriorating condition with officials noting the illness is developing and not stable. Communiques said a team of professors and doctors attend him day and night as speculation grows of a power shift in North Vietnam upon his death or incapacitation.
Saigon experts expect Hanoi power struggles to intensify regardless of Ho Chi Minh illness. They foresee no change in the North Vietnamese aim of a unified Communist Vietnam. Key figures include Le Duan Truong Chinh Pham Van Dong and Vo Nguyen Giap, with Pham Van Dong as potential successor but only No. Four on the Politburo.
AP report says Dr. James Pike former Episcopal bishop of California missing in Judean desert. His passport and wallet were found in a dry bed near his car. authorities fear he may be dead or alive. Mrs. Pike alone walked to safety with guards, while searches continue.
A white patrolman named Chandler and a 15 year old Negro girl Rose McDonald were killed by sniper fire in Camden New Jersey during a night of disorder. In Fort Lauderdale National Guard and police patrolled a 200 block area enforcing a curfew after looting and rock throwing. Police said 113 people were arrested Sunday and Monday nights and 47 were arrested Tuesday night. about 75 injured in the unrest that began with a wounded Negro woman during a brake up of an auto drag race.
Senator Everett Dirksen 78 underwent removal of a growth from his right lung at Walter Reed Hospital. Doctors reported the operation satisfactory with no immediate word on malignancy. The lung nodule was found on a routine chest X ray and the senator, a longtime GOP leader, is in recovering health.
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