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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1974
Page
3
A brief meditation mirrors 1 Samuel 22 2 with a gathering of distressed and indebted men under a guiding leader. A quip credits discontent as a driver of progress, attributed to an American inventor named Erlinan and echoed by Thomas A.
The piece reflects on Lester Maddox and Georgia politics as the era of his bigoted campaign ends. Maddox rose to power in 1967 with an axe handle symbol and a confrontational style. Voters shifted in the first primary, revealing a fading constituency and a changed South.
The Raleigh governor's mansion will undergo a $575000 renovation after approval by the Advisory Budget Committee. Critics note prior calls for modernizing the residence, but officials say the aging building can be made comfortable, preserving a historic link to the state's past.
Reports say Alexander Haig will assume NATO command, restoring his military status after serving as Nixon's chief of staff. Critics note his loyalism to superiors and his role in the Saturday Night Massacre, yet many see the NATO assignment as a fitting honor for a man who has served the nation.
The piece chronicles Evel Knievel's plan to cross Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a rocket powered Skycycle and the high risks involved. designer Robert Truax predicts a safe crossing only if engine valves function, the craft remains stable, parachutes deploy, and landing is level. Knievel rates survival odds at 50 50 and faces potential career ending danger while fans admire his daredevil panache. It also recalls Sam Patch, an early stuntman who jumped Niagara Falls and Genesee Falls Rochester in 1829 and 1830, briefly matching Knievel’s legendary risk appetite.
The article recalls famous Niagara Falls stuntmen from Blondin to Shipwreck Kelly and Annie Edson Taylor. Blondin crossed the gorge in 1859 on a 1200 foot rope, then added feats. Taylor first jumped in a barrel in 1901 and warned others not to imitate. Kelly staged tricks on Friday the 13th, with long hangs and doughnut feats.
Enterprise editor emeritus Steve Kimsey aims to transform High Point's 68 year old Southern station into a lounge type restaurant. National trend rebirths old rail stations into cultural venues with projects from Washington DC to Chattanooga and Indianapolis illustrating the possibilities and investment.
Newark report centers on 36 year old John Tully an Irish American gangster allied with radical leftist rhetoric who seeks to surrender but is felled by FBI raid. He faces indictments for four murders cocaine smuggling and conspiracy. The piece also covers Meade Esposito Brooklyn boss probe and Secret Service training plan for protecting officials with archival film study.
A North Carolina train trip letter thanks Guilford County Emergency Transportation Service staff Don Dalay and assistant, High Point Memorial Hospital Nurse Griffin, an unnamed attending physician, and Sgt. Davis of the Police Department. The writers urge publication to recognize local public welfare helpers and highlight Sgt. Davis’s courtesy with luggage and hotel arrangements. Authors J K Carson, Charlyce Poindexter, and Sarah Jo Poindexter from Ellijay, Georgia.
A quirky note imagines a remote Ecuador valley where inhabitants live 150 years as they refrain from worry. It muses on a theory that people choose house plants matching their personalities, explaining the Office Grouch’s abundance of cacti around the place.
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