05 Sep 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1966
Page
1
Louis Harris survey shows 54 percent view the anti poverty program as not very successful or a real failure. Blacks in urban ghettos back the effort by five to one while low income whites are split and whites overall tilt skeptical about easing racial tensions.
In Cicero Illinois a 192 person open housing march faced 3000 police and National Guardsmen with bayonets and billy clubs to maintain order. At least 40 arrests occurred as rocks and missiles flew and hecklers taunted marchers. Police intervened preventing clashes between marchers and spectators.
President Johnson hit Detroit and Battle Creek promising to curb inflation while pledging to pursue a guaranteed annual wage and to seek repeal of Taft Hartley Section 14B. He pressed labor restraint on wage gains and warned higher prices hurt prosperity.
Greta, the season s seventh tropical storm, could reach hurricane strength as scientists decide today whether to seed her winds with silver iodide. Located about 385 miles northeast of San Juan Puerto Rico and 1 200 miles east southeast of Miami she moves northwest at 10 mph with winds near 55 mph and gales 150 miles from center.
The National Safety Council warned the 78 hour Labor Day weekend toll could set a record after a series of crashes killed 495 people. In Michigan on U S 12 near Coldwater eight died. near Clearwater Florida seven perished. in Colorado four were killed. on the Ohio Turnpike nine died. A spokesman cautioned the count could reach about 630 unless conditions improve.
Red China charged U S planes attacked and sank a Chinese boat in the Gulf of Tonkin while U S officials offered no comment beyond a Navy communique. The exchange accompanied news of North Vietnamese aircraft losses and a major ground offensive in the Mekong Delta as Korea reinforced allied strength at Nha Trang.
In Moscow the liberal magazine New World marks its 500th issue with a defense of artistic freedom. Critic V Lakshin attacks limits on writers revering reality and defends Solzhenitsyn against Poltoratsky of Izvestia. The piece cites Khrushchev era censorship and the 1963 party crackdown on dissent.
A cool front from the Great Lakes region moves east of the mountains into Virginia and toward the Carolinas. By Tuesday night cooler drier air will reach the coast as temperatures drop. highs reached 94 in Goldsboro and Charlotte, lower 80s in mountains, upper 80s at the coast, with overnight lows in the 70s and scattered thundershowers fading eastward.
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