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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1967
Page
1
Readers ask about changing a child's surname through paternal action or adoption, and why elementary school menus aren’t printed. The paper explains legal steps may be needed, and menus depend on federal standards and district availability, with explanation of a baseball play rule when a ball injures a runner.
A Bowman Trucking Co tractor trailer ripped off its top at the Ward Street underpass near English, the seventh such damage this year. The route is guided by a State Highway Dept sign saying truck route to Ward Street, despite costly options like lifting bridges or lowering roads. Officials say the signs will come down only with formal permission, as a stopgap measure until funding allows a real solution.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged the United States with forcing peace talk while pursuing military action in Vietnam. He warned the war could draw new states into the conflict and urged universal condemnation of Washington. He pledged continued Soviet support to North Vietnam and called for united front against U.S. aggression.
Margaret Elizabeth Rusk, 18, wed Guy Gibson Smith, 22, an Army Reserve lieutenant, in a Stanford chapel ceremony prepared in secrecy. The wedding joined a high official’s daughter to an African American husband, amid security concerns and no reported incidents.
West Jefferson AP report says State Highway Patrolman L M Burchette was shot in the back while aiding Ashe County deputies in pursuing a burglar. Burchette, driver for former Gov. Terry Sanford, was wounded with a .22 rifle and is in good condition at County Memorial Hospital. Deputy Carl Miller said Watauga sheriff’s department and FBI joined the manhunt with bloodhounds assisting.
Corpus Christi reports Beulah's destruction isolating nearly one million people across 40,000 square miles. Military rescues, refugee relief, and medical supply efforts focus on Robstown Linton Pettus and Three Rivers while roads and telephone lines fail. Torrential rains flood northern Mexico and the Rio Grande region as Beulah expands toward Laredo and Monterrey.
Isolated area runs from Matagorda to San Antonio and La Tedo as floodwaters force evacuations. Officials in Linton and Victoria plead for food and snake bite kits while snakes flee to high ground. National Guard trucks aid Victoria. Guadalupe River hits 30.01 feet with 31 expected. About 10,000 refugees in San Antonio and more from the lower valley cannot return home. Pettus evacuated as rain causes high water with streets 6 to 9 feet deep.
The House approved a landmark bill by 265 to 91 to back noncommercial radio and TV with a federal plus private funds public corporation. It authorizes 9 million to start and sets up a nine member presidentially nominated board with eight partisans limited, plus 38 million for station construction and a study grant of 0.5 million.
U S warplanes severed the last undamaged Haiphong bridge and likely shot down a MIG defending the city. Red gunners downed a Navy Crusader jet. Hanoi claimed seven American planes downed. Seven Marines were killed and 135 wounded. Associated Press photographer Henri Huet was among the wounded.
Stanford University appoints Harvey M. Friedman to teach mathematical logic as an assistant professor at $10,000 a year, becoming the youngest professor in campus history. He will turn 19 Saturday, is from Highland Park Illinois, and advocates student control over social life and curriculum within academic standards.
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