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84th YEAR —NO. 257
THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
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Spelling Bee
Q. My Social Security card spells my name
different from the way it is spelled on my birth
certificate, and I wonder which one I should have
changed and how to do it. B. G.
A. Your friendly Social .Sccurily office over on
N. Wrenn will be pleased to provide the form
for you to fiil out and request a change in your
records. Any incorrect information or actual
change of name, as when a woman marries,
should be reported at once so records can he
kept neat and nice.
We learned that many youngsters applying for
SS account numbers and cards will neglect to
give their complete and proper names, offering
instead whatever monickers used by friends. Do
be more careful, kidlets — you’re fooling around
with the account that may be buying all your
bread and butter one of these days.
I noticed in the paper tonight the messag." from
the person wanting to get .some kind of loan to go In
a business college, f am a member of Ihe High
Point Altrusa Club, and we have a fund set aside to
help women finance their educations. If your
inquirer happens to be a woman, the club would be
glad to consider her eligibility for such a loan. She
should contact our president, Mary Elizabeth Blair,
who is head of the social workers staff at tlie
Mental Health Clinic, a part of the Public Health
Dept, out on Montlieu. Just thought you would be
interested to know there is something available for
women needing educational help.
Dr. Eldora Terrell
Note: Lost in the shuffle, this call was in response
to an Aug. 21 item. It’s still thnely and vahiable
info, and we can personally recommend tlie
program as an educational lifesaver. Tlianks again,
you smart and generous Altrusas.
HIGH POINT, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1968
90 PAGES
DREW PEARSON
Makes Men Honest
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Once Rocks & Hills
Q. Some people hereabouts may remember that
the section on Quaker Lane that had to be
blasted to get through the rock was in the late
1800s a rock quarry. Can you find out who op
erated that quarry and when the operation
ceased?
Some may also remember Green Hill, a de
lightful wooded hillside near the quarry that was
a joy to youthful sledders of that era. V. C.
A. The quarry was operated by Dennis II. Hall,
a concrete paving man who needed a source of
rock, and the operation ceased about 1910, we
think, when the diggings proved unsuitable for
concrete-mixing.
Your memory displaced the location a bit, for
the site is just east of Dale Montgomery’s house
on W. Ray. The quarry pit was filled in the
early 40.s and now may be seen as a landscaped
depression on Uie five-acre homeplace, all that
Mr. Montgomery retained of 12-15 acres of the
rock quarry tract bought from the Council estale.
That transaction was part of a larger one where
in he and Delos Hedgecock also acquired an ad
joining 25-30 acres, all disposed of long ago.
Mr. Montgomery notes that Creen Hill is now
occupied by the Medical Center, totally dispell
ing the woodsy romance dear to so many of our
middle-aging hearts. Sweet nostalgia I
Poetic License
Q. Where is the Swanee River located? Y. Z.
A. Way down in southeast Georgia, far away
through northern Florida and into the Gulf of
Mexico, hidden under the spelling Suwannee which
offends our Southern showboat sensibilities.
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Am I Registered?
Q. Please tell me if you voted in the last presi
dential election, if you have to register to vote
this year. Mrs. S.
A. Don’t think you’ll get away with a simple
answer on this one, ff there's anything the elec
tion laws aren’t, they aren’t simple.
If you voted in the last presidential election
and still live in the same precinct as you did four
years ago. you are registered to vote this time.
In fact, if you’ve registered anytime since 19-19
and haven’t moved, that is the case—unless, be
cause of extended failure to vote, your name has
been purged from the books, and if that had hap
pened you would have received notification.
If you have moved you have between now and
Oct. 14 to get your registration changed to re
flect your new precinct address.
And while we’re at it: Oct. 14 is the last day
for new registrants, for changes in registration
or for changing party affiliation, and that in
cludes those people who will reach their 21st
birthday by Nov. .'i and those who will have com
pleted their required year’s residency in the
state by that date.
Had enough? No? All righty. Under new laws,
people who have lived in tlie state for at least 60
days but less than a year by Nov. .'i will be al
lowed to register to vote only for president and
vice pre.sident, not for any of the myriad other
offices at stake.
If you fall in this last category, you’d better
make contact with the elections board office in
the City-County Building for personal guidance.
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Wake Forest's Stadium
Wake Forest University’s new Groves
Football Stadium was dedicated yes
terday during halftime of the N. (.’.
State University-Wake football game.
The aerial view here was taken dur
ing the first quarter of play in which
State emerged victorious.
Dirksen Predicts
Will Not Act On
Senate
Fortas
WASHINGTON fAP) - Sen
Everett M. Dirksen, R-Ill., pred
icted Saturday the Senate will
not act this year on the Abe For
tas nomination or the nuclea
nonproliferation treaty.
With President Johnson calling
the legislative plays, both are
being burnished by the Demo
crats as presidential campaign
issues.
Dirksen, the Senate Republi
can Leader, said in an inlerview
there is no chance that John
son's appointment of Fortas to
be chief justice can be brought
to a vole by invoking the cloture
rule to limit debate.
The nomination of Fortas, a
Supreme Court associate jus
tice, comes before the Senate
later this month.
Several Democratic and Re
publican critics of P’ortas have
thrcaleiied to talk at length to
prevent a vote, in which a ma
jority could be expected to sup
port confirmation.
“As matters stand,’’ Dirksen
said, “at least 50 senators would
vote against cloture even though
a number of them would sup
port the nomination.” Dirksen
placed himself in this latter
group.
Debate limitation can be ap
plied only if two-thirds of those
voting approve of the action.
GOP Presidential nominee
Richard M. Nixon has said ac
tion on the nomination is the
Senate’s business and he would
not interfere.
But Nixon’s added observa
tion that he opposes a filibuster
brought the comment Saturday
from Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-
Mich., that “Mr, Nixon has said
he wouldn't interfere and I wish
he wouldn't.”
Hope
Crew
For Pueblo
Bolstered
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
new North Korean exposure of
tlie Pueblo crew has strength
ened an assessment here that
the Reds will eventually set the
men free. But it produced no
signs of an imminent breakthr
ough in the deadlocked talks at
Panmunjom,
This conclusion came Satur
day from U.S, officials who
combed througli extensive re
ports of the four hour news
conference staged by the North
Koreans Thursday. For the first
time since the Pueblo’s Jan. 2J
capture, some non-communist
newsmen saw the U.S. prison
ers.
What seemed new from the
affair was North Korean disclo
sure of a U.S. intelligence ship
order, expanded allegation of
U.S. spy-boat intrusions aii'l
non-communist accounts indi
cating the crewmen are in rela
tively good physical condition.
The U.S. government has al
ready .sought to demolish the
Red claim that the February
1966 Navy reconnaissance order
carried aboard the Pueblo au
thorized the electronic eaves
dropping vessel to snoop within
three miles of the North Korean
coastline. It made public what it
said were specific Jan. 5, 1968,
sailing orders to the Pueblo tell
ing its skipper, Cmdr. Lloyd M.
Bucher, to steer outside the
Communists’ claimed 12-mile
limit.
As for the Reds’ new claim of
17 Pueblo penetrations inside
the 12-mile limit—previously
they listed only six—the Wash
ington officials noted the North
Koreans produced no more evi
dence for such charges than be
fore. Actually, since the Pueblo
kept radio silence until the day
of her .seizure, neither side has
produced proof of her exact
whereabouts.
The reports by Japanese
newsmen invited to the news
conference with Bucher and 19
of the 82 surviving crew con
firmed accounts from earlier
news conferences attended only
by Communist journalists that
the men appeared to be in good
health.
The pains which North Korea
is taking to portray the prison
ers as well treated, indicates to
U.S. authorities the captors in
tend eventually to release the
men—rather than carry out
veiled threats to sentence them
to death on allegations of crimi
nal espionage.
Since the North Koreans vigo
rously pushed their charges
again at the Thursday exposure
of Ihe crew, the presumption by
U.S. authorities is that no
breakthrough is likely soon in
the Panmunjom stalemate.
El wood
Rises
Heavy Fighting
Griffin lold a news conference
that he doesn’t know yet how
much Nixon’s statement will af
fect the Republican position on
the nomination.
Griffin raised the issue of
whether the acceptance by For
tas of a $15,000 fee for 18 hours
of summer lectures at Ameri
can University had impinged on
the American Bar Association’s
canons of judicial ethics.
He said the money was con
tributed by individuals whose
business interests might become
involved in Supreme Court
cases.
Griffin suggested that Presi
dent Johnson withdraw the nom
ination.
The judiciary Commitete,
scheduled to vote Tuesday on
the nomination, Saturday issued
subpoenas for a former White
House aide and a magazine wri
ter. They are to be questioned
about reports that Fortas helped
in drafting presidential speech
es.
Those subpoenaed are Rich
ard N. Goodwin, former White
House speech writer, and Daniel
Yergin, a New York magazine
writer who wrote in an article
on Goodwin that F'ortas aided in
presidential speech preparation.
However, committee counsel
John Holleman .said it is uncer
tain whether the subpoenas
could be served and made effec
tive before the end of hearings
Monday night. He said Sen. Gor
don Allott, R-Colo., is the only
scheduled witness thus far.
Earlier, committee sources
had said two current adminis
tration figures would be subpoe
naed if they refused to appear
voluntarily to answer questions
about reports that Fortas helped
draft legislation providing Se
cret Service protection for pres
idential candidates.
They are Under.socretary of
the Treasury Joseph W. Barr
and DeVier Pierson, a White
House aide.
SAIGON (AP) - American in
fantrymen killed 50 enemy
troops in sweeps along invasion
routes leading from Cambodia
to Saigon, the U.S. sCommand
reported Sunday, it said this
brought to 700 the number of
Viet Cong and North Viet
namese fatalities in heavy fight
ing near Tay Ninh and I-oc Ninh
since last Wednesday.
Armored trucks from the U.S.
25th Infantry Division, heavily
laden with 50-caliber machine
guns, smashed into an unknown
sized enemy force Saturday
morning six miles ea.st of Tay
Ninh City, 45 miles northwe.st of
Saigon. In a SVi-hour fight, the
American troops reported kill
ing 31 enemy soldiers without
losing any of their own. Six
Americans were reported
wounded.
Fifty miles farther north, on
the northeastern arc of Loc
Ninh, U.S. 1st Infantry troopers
pursued more than 100 North
Vietnamese soldiers through
thick rubber plantations for
three hours Saturday, cutting
down 19. The bulk of the enemy
force managed to slip away.
U.S. casualties were put at one
dead.
America’s heaviest bombers,
the Air Force B52s, continued
their saturation strikes on ene
my base camps and supply
routes stretching from the Cam
bodian border northwest of Tay
Ninh to the eastern coast of
South Vietnam. The B,52s
dropped nearly 2 million pounds
of explosives on the enemy posi
tions in nine missions Saturday
and Sunday. Some of the strikes
were only 22 miles from Saigon.
School Board
Suspended
NfOW YORK (AP) - The
stale commissioner of education
Saturday night ordered the sus
pension of all members of a
community-run school board in
Brooklyn that precipitated a ci
tywide teachers’ strick this past
week. He lold the city Board of
Education to take back control
of the district.
The commissioner also direct
ed the board to transfer, tempo
rarily at least, 10 teachers the
local group sought to oust from
the district, and he urged the
teachers’ union to end its walk
out “immediately,”
The U.S. Command an
nounced only one other signifi
cant ground action.
Troops of tlie U.S. American
Division killed .35 .North Viet
namese soldiers Saturday in two
separate skirmishes near the
provincial capital of Quang
Ngai midway between Saigon
and the 17th parallel. U.S. losses
were put at 13 men wounded.
It marked the third straight
day of sharp fighting around
Quang Ngai. Eighty-eight ene
my troops were reported killed
by allied forces in he area the
day before.
Far to the north along the de
militarized zone, U.S. Marines
uncovered a 10-ton enemy food
and weapons cache six miles
west of the outpost called The
Kockpile. it was the second big
fiiid this week. The latest cache
reportedly included 763 lounds
of rockets and mortars, 27 anti
tank mines, 650 pounds of TNT
and 6'2 tons of rice.
Over North Vietnam, U.S. tac-
tica fighter-bombers concen
trated again Saturday on Com
munist supply routes below the
I9th parallel. Navy pilots from
the carriers Hancock and Con
stellation reported destroying or
damaging at least 12 barges and
supply boats.
'I'he command announced ear
lier that American tanks, war
ships and [ighter-bombcr.s ham
mered enemy bunkers in the
southern half of the demilitar
ized zone for 14 hours Friday in
an all-service blitzkrieg support
ing South \'ietnamese infantry
men.
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Cop Captures 'Gator
St. Petersburg, Fla. police officer W. E. Trappmaii
leads a live-foot alligator, very reluctantly, across
the street by a leash after capturing the reptile by
lassoing it on the porch of a resident near Lake
Maggioro. The officer led the 'gator back to the lake
and turned it loose.
(AP WIrephoto)
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Dates Proposed
By ROBERT MARKS
Enterprise Staff Writer
The Redevelopment Commi.s-
sion likely will advertise again
around Oct. 1 for bids for de
velopment of the Elwood Hotel
site in downtown High Point.
Commission members report
edly are being canvassed this
weekend by Herman Bernard,
redevelopment chairman, about
the Oct. 1 date for advertising
for bids on the property.
If the property is advertised
on or around Oct, 1, opening of
bids probably would be sched
uled for around Dec. 1.
Recommendation lliat I h e
property be advertised again by
Oct. 1 was made Saturday by
members of various organi
zations concerned in downtown
development.
Representatives of the .Mer
chants Assn., the Chamber of
Commerce, the Downtown
Development Committee, and
City Council met with Bernard
and Henry E. Price, executive
director of the Redevelopment
Commission, in the c o m-
mission’s office.
Dick Mcisky, chairman of the
Downtown Development Com
mittee, presided over the gath
ering. Meisky is also serving as
chairman of a coordinating
group working witli the Rede
velopment Commission on de
velopment of the Elwood prop
erty.
BERNARD REPORTED op
five concepts Ihe commission
might consider for the property.
Prepared by Bill Sloan, High
Point architect, the concepts
showed various treatment.s,
some involving Ihe use of
arcades, for department stores,
cafeterias, and large and small
offices on the property.
One bid submitted on the
property lias been withdrawn,
Bernard said. He said a proposal
has been submitted by Leo Kos-
sove of New York for a junior
department store, a men’s store,
and a drugstore on the ground
floor, and a banking institution
on the second floor of a two-
story building.
Ho also said two motel firms,
one in Washington and one in
Roanoke, Va., have indicated
they would send representatives
to High Point to discuss the site
with redevelopment officials.
One Higli Point realtor who
indicated an interest in tlie prop
erty has not submitted .3 pro
posal, Bernard said. Another has
submitted a preliminary sketch
showing a cefeteria and special
ity stores in a Iwo-story
building.
Bernard also stated that Pal
Brown is still interested in con
structing a building for use by a
bank o,i the property. Earlier
this year. Brown submitted a
bid of $75,125 for the properly.
He proposed to construct a
building for use by First Union
National Bank,
The bid was rejected by City
Council in a 5-4 vote during a
regular ses.sion Aug. I.
Since it acquired the Elwood
property, Ihe Redevelopment
Commission has advertised four
times in efforts to find a buyer
with plans for suitable de
velopment of the site.
Restraint
Urged By
Dubcek
PR.AGUE (.-M’) — The symbol
of Czechoslovakia's liberaliza-
lion drive. Communist party
chief Alexander Dubcck, as
sured the nation Saturday night
there would be no return to the
Slalinst terror of the 1950's, but
appealed again that Czechoslo
vaks avoid provoking the So
viet-led occupation forces.
“W'e must really avoid all ex
cesses which could complicate
and hinder our further develop
ment,” Dubcek said.
At Ihe same time, he called on
Czechoslovaks not to flee from
the occupation. “The place of
o\'ery citizen who has honest in
tentions toward our republic
and toward socialism is here in
his native country,” the party
chief said.
Touching on the Ihreat of a
new Stalinist regime like the
one of former Pre.sident Antonin
Novotny, ousted by reformers
last January, Dubcek said that
the “parly and people will not
tolerate any return to the pre-
January conditions in any varia
tion,”
Dubcck spoke on nationwide
radio and television. He gave a
speech that was cancelled on
short notice two nights ago after
it was taped and prepared for
delivery. There were only minor
changes from the original text,
but no explanation for the delay.
“In order to preserve the uni
ty of our people, which decides
everything today, we must con
sistently—even though with de
lays—implement the principles
of the post-January poUcy,”
Dubcck said.
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