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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1969
Page
1
Allied commands announce scaled military operations to match Viet Cong actions during the three day cease fire memorial for Ho Chi Minh. The communique notes a defensive posture while patrols intercept enemy efforts near bases. Bombing shifts to North Vietnamese trails via Laos as talks decline.
Reader requests where to buy a Rebel flag to send to a brother in Vietnam. Conder Flag Company in Charlotte offers flags and can mail price lists. Also included are notes on telephone peak load 431 numbers, mildew prevention tips, a re weaving source, Vietnam call rates, and a no age limit park football program starting late September.
Tropical Storm Gerda formed 350 miles south southwest of Cape Hatteras with winds near 55 mph and potential intensification within 18 to 24 hours. It was centered about 125 miles east of St. Thomas at noon EDT, posing no major land threat south of Wilmington, NC unless its course shifts left.
U S Ambassador C Burke Elbrick was freed after four days of captivity by masked attackers tied to the National Liberation Action and MR 8. He called his captors intelligent fanatics and said he was grateful to Brazil for securing his release in exchange for prisoners. Also, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 73, was eulogized as a forceful, stylish leader. he died after lung cancer surgery and the Senate held brief tributes and planned services in Pekin Illinois and Washington.
An Associated Press profile portrays Everett McKinley Dirksen as a powerful, fluent speaker blending Shakespearean cadence with camp meeting fervor. It highlights his deft use of putdowns and praise, comparing his delivery to a Chautauqua act and noting his Lincoln Gettysburg quip and critique of the era’s fear literature. It also recalls Adlai Stevenson’s early Eisenhower era jab calling the administration dreary.
Dr James A Pike former Episcopal bishop of California died after his car stalled near the Dead Sea. Pathologists cite multiple possible factors including head injury thirst heat or exhaustion. Police rule out foul play and say he fell from a cliff two miles from where his wife Diane left him. The 56 year old was to be buried at St Peters Cemetery in Jaffa after his body was recovered Sunday from a deep canyon.
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