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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1970
Page
2
The New York Stock Exchange shows declines with the AP 60-stock average down 18 to 2525.15 while advances trail 2 to 1. Mixed sectors include metals rails and oils. rail routes and oil firms show gains. Large trades feature Roan Selection Trust and Xerox with notable shifts.
Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott says President Nixon fully supports a constitutional amendment to elect the president by direct popular vote. Scott cited a White House memo and noted House passage last year 339-70. He predicted two-thirds Senate support if brought to a vote.
In Charlotte Mecklenburg, eight and eleven year olds registered without incident under a court ordered desegregation plan that uses mass busing. White parents threaten boycotts and bomb threats disrupted four campuses while officials report 89 percent junior and senior high attendance and 70 to 75 percent at elementary schools.
The Nixon administration reactivated the 1921 Antidumping Act to curb foreign dumping, arguing it restores fair competition for U.S. producers. Enforcement has intensified, with staff tripling from five to 14 and backlogs cleared, including a major probe into Japanese television sets and capacitors.
The Home Builders Association will hold a membership meeting at 6 30 this evening at the Howard Johnson motel on I 85 near Greensboro. Guest speaker Jack D West will discuss his NFL refereeing experiences accumulated over seven years and prior work in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The High Point Fine Arts Guild convenes this evening at 7 in the Arts Council Building for a business session followed by a workshop. Lexington artist A. Stuffer Meyers will lead the workshop and demonstrate watercolor techniques. Meyers studied at John Pike Watercolor School in Woodstock New York and was appointed by Gov. Scott to head a committee on the North Carolina State Art Society.
A Charlotte couple, Walter Ridenhour Jr. and his wife, were among more than 300 people held after their Trans World Airline 707 was hijacked at Frankfurt. The flight from New York to Athens was diverted to a desert airstrip near Amman. Ridenhour, manager of Diners Fugazy Travel, Inc., and his wife were on the final leg of a four week around the world trip. They are reportedly safe in the heat with food and water provided.
Fighting raged in Amman with guerrillas targeting the airport and royal palaces. Battles spread to Irbid and Jarash as Iraqi forces in Jordan ponder intervention and a cease fire is urged by leaders on both sides.
An Army hearing at Fort Bragg will hear Lt. Col. Bruce Bailey testify about his two week examination of Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald in a case charging the Green Beret physician with three counts of premeditated murder for the Feb. 17 slayings of his wife and two children. The closed hearing aims to decide whether MacDonald should face a general court martial.
A week after the cyclamate ban, major chains A and P and Safeway report no formal FDA notification but pursue withdrawal. Eight Washington stores show five Safeways clear, two suburbs clear, while three inner city stores still stock canned fruit with cyclamates. Some managers plan immediate removal. others hesitate, recalling past FDA actions.
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