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84rh YEAR —NO. 300
THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE
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The Falling Leaves
Q. I moved here from Virginia and am living
where there are lots of trees in the yard. For a
week I have been raking leaves like crazy, but the
garbage cans won't hold them all and I don't know
what I am going to do with them. Will the city pick
them up, or what shall I do? Mrs. W.B.
A. City will pick them up, and you stop right now
putting them in garbage cans because they aren't
official garbage, and what you shall do is this: Rake
the leaves into the street in piles at the curb, and
pretty soon a city vacuum affair will come chuffing
along inhaling leaves. It's a picky machine, how
ever, and won’t touch acorns and rocks and bottles
and stuff, so all such foreign matter should be
placed in containers at curbside, off the street, for
separate pickup. Otherwise, all that trash will be
left in the street and you will look like an untidy
householder until you clean it up.
On Excommunication
Q. Af work wo were discussing Jacqueline Ken
nedy's recent marriage, and wondered about ex-
communication. 1 feel like it takes more than a
priest's barring a person from the sacraments to be
excommunicated from the Catholic Church, but my
friends feel that is all there is to it. We would like a
further explanation of excommunication. E. H.
A. It’s a procedure set up by canon law wherein
an erring member may be officially barred from
membership, fellowship and sacraments of the
church. This marriage is said to be theologicatly
intricate, and although some canon lawyers at the
Vatican insist upon prompt excommunication, the
matter appears headed for the Roman Rota, the
church's highest marriage court, and probably
won’t be settled for years to come.
Only One To A Customer
Q. If it rains on Halloween night, will we get to go
out on the next night after Halloween? R. K.
A. Nope, this is a one-shot deal and there are no
rain checks. Although we have arranged with the
weather witches for fair skies, everybody knows
you can’t trust a witch over 30, and we aren't
guaranteeing anything.
Where Satan Tramped
Q. Where is the Devil’s Tramping Ground, and
how do you get to if? B. A.
A. In Chatham County near Siler City, in rolling
country near the Uwharrie Mountains, and if we
wanted to go there, we would recruit local volun
teers to lead the way at a goodly distance. We’re
told it is a small circle where nothing will grow in
soil made barren by Satan’s taking nocturnal strolls
there. Nobody has bothered to inquire what has The
Devil walking in circles these days, and this lack of
concern may be what piques him to the point of
tossing out any foreign objects placed in his private
circle by teasing tourists. That’s what people claim
happens there, and the one group of college students
wlio spent the night on the spot have never recov
ered sufficiently from their horror to give the facts
of the matter.
HIGH POINT, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30, 1968
Bomb Halt
Reports Persist
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DAILY 10c, SUNDAY 20c
By ARTHUR L. GAVSHON
Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) — Envoys of the
United States and North Viet
nam sparred inconclusively
over a basis for Vietnam peace
making today amid persistent
reports that a U.S. bombing halt
may be near.
The American delegation
blacked out all comment both
on the substance of the ex
changes at the 28th session of
the peace talks and on uncon
firmed reports of an imminent
breakthrough.
An official of one allied coun
try with troops in South Viet
nam, who declined to be identi
fied, told a newsman in refer
ence to a bomb halt: “Every
thing is settled.”
But he declined to elaborate.
In Bangkok, Thailand Foreign
Minister Thanat Khoman told
newsmen on his return from the
United States that the United
States and North Vietnam had
entered the “final stages” of
bargaining on a halt to the air
attacks on the North. He pre
dicted results in the “not too
distant future.”
In the conference, U.S. Am
bassador W. Averell Harriman
and Ambassador Xuan Thuy of
North Vietnam met for 90 min
utes, the shortest session since
the talks began May 13. Harri
man said each side read con
densed but definite and clear
statements. He declined to
elaborate.
An advance party of South
Vietnamese officials flew into
Paris to reinforce the observer
mission representing the Saigon
government on the sidelines of
the talks. One purpose is to set
up direct radio links between
the mission and Saigon in the
expectation that the peace
conference will shortly be
broadened.
Harriman’s deputy, Cyrus R.
Vance, stayed away from to
day's meeting.
“He had work to do,” William
J. Jorden, U.S. delegation
spokesman, told a news confer
ence. He gave no further de
tails.
Qualified sources reported
Vance stayed at the U.S. Em
bassy through most of Tuesday
night. They also said America?
delegates in recent days evi
dently have had several con
tacts with North Vietnamese of
ficials outside the conference
framework. The Americans
were said to have moved around
Paris in rented automobiles and
to have kept appointments in a
variety of undisclo.sed places.
Jorden declined all comment
on this. This policy of secrecy
has been followed equally by the
North Vietnamese delegation.
The reports of early American
action to end the bombing coin
cided with the unannounced vis
it of the U.S. commander in
South Vietnam, Gen. Creighton
W. Abrams, to the White House
for exchanges with President
Johnson.
After the talks, Thuy charged
to newsmen that U.S. proposals
for hailing their air attacks
“are meant for the presidential
election campaign” and he
again called for unconditional
halt in the raids.
But before he went into the
session, Harriman told news
men that “as tar as I am con
cerned, the election is not enter
ing into the discussions here in
any shape, form or manner. We
have been dealing with the
problems of peace for the Amer
ican people and that’s the only
thought we have.”
Harriman during the meeting
lepeated the U.S, offer to quit
South Vietnam as North Viet
namese forces pull out and to
aid the economic development
of North Vietnam alter a peace
agreement. Thuy called this
"the policy of the carrot and the
slick” and rejected it.
Sample
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The Enterprise today is reproducing sample ballots on
pages 4 and 5 in Section E. The entire High Point machine
ballot will be found, and Randolph and Davidson samples
of the district and county races are included.
The ballots are being reproduced as a public service to
help speed voting on election day. Officials have suggested
that you mark the samples according to your own choice.
You may take the marked sample into the voting booth
with you if you prefer.
The Enterprise is also publishing photos and brief
biographical sketches of the various candidates this week,
and we urge their use in familiarizing yourself with the
men and women who seek public office.
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Voters May Not
Decide Election
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JOHNSON AND ABRAMS AT WHITE HOUSE TUESDAY
(AP Wirephofo
Abrams Visits Johnson
By FRED HOFFMAN
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ur
gent, secret talks between Pres
ident Johnson and his military
commander in South Vietnam
indicated today that Johnson
may once more be close to final
decision on ending the
bombing of North Vietnam in a
move to advance peace negotia
tions.
North Vietnam has de
nied for several days through
Hanoi radio broadcasts and
newspaper articles that it had
made or would make any kind
of deal with the United States to
meet U.S. “conditions” for end
ing the bombing.
U.S. officials insisted that this
did not necessarily mean, how
ever, the negotiations between
Washington and Hanoi for an
agreement on dc-cscalating the
war had collapsed.
The White House disclosed
Tuesday night that Gen. Creigh
ton W. Abrams Jr., had re
turned hastily to Washington to
give President Johnson a full re
port Tuesday on the military sit
uation. Abrams attended a top
level policy review session with
Johnson, Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, Secretary of De
fense Clark M. Clifford and oth
ers before setting out again for
Saigon,
It was understood today that
one of the major issues taken up
Parking On English
Q. Why do cars in the 1800 block of English Street
stay parked on both sides of the street most of the
time? You can hardly see to get out from the
service station or the watch shop, and this is
dangerous. Traveler
A. Sure is, and parking on eiUier side of English
will soon be a thing of the past. It was removed
long ago from N. Main to Phillips, and “No
Parking” signs are on the agenda from Phillips to
Westchester. "In the mill,” is R. V, Moss’ term,
and he did not indicate effective date.
Traffic engineering anticipates even heavier
traffic on English when that artery is extended
across N. Main to Washington, the next step in that
plan being field inspection by State Highway and
city engineers who will walk the course with street
design in hand. After that comes acquisition of
right.s-of-way. Parking removal on English is
needed now but becomes crucial in relation to that
strcct’.s new role.
The reader whose home is infested by roaches
should use the very safe and effective method of
control that is recommended by many health
authorities. All you do is fill small containers, such
as jar tops, with borax and place them around in in
conspicuous places frequented by these insects. In a
short time, there will be no more roaches. I don't
know why or how this works, or whether the borax
kills or just repels in some manner, but I can tell
you first hand that it does work, is very in
expensive, and offers no hazards to the people in
the home. Mrs. M. P.
Best thing to kill roaches is to mix borax and
sugar, and pour it around where you expect roaches
to be. Mrs. C. C.
Scuffling, Heckling
Cut Wallace Short
DETROIT (AP) - Scuffling
and heckling forced George C.
V/allace to cut short a speech
Tuesday night in which he told a
capacity crowd at Coho Arena,
“If we’re slipping, we’re slip
ping right into the White
llouse.”
As the crowd left the ll,'20tl-
capacity arena, which had been
filled, police and several hun
dred anti-Wallace demonstra
tors engaged in a melee in
which one policeman received
an eye injury reported to have
been caused by a spray. He was
admitted to Detroit General
Hospital,
At the rally, the crowd
cheered Wallace’s words, often
standing on their seats. His
hecklers were equally persis
tent.
They hooted and jeered and
chanted obscene phrases begin
ning even before he appeared
and while the audience was
singing “God Bless America,”
Tl'cy continued without letup.
The candidate came prepared
to deliver a speech on the na
tion’s economy but gave it up
and made his law and order
speech, cutting it by about 15
minutes when violence erupted
in tlie audience.
The free-for-all was touched
off when a man snatched from
anotlier man’s head a plastic
hat with a Wallace sticker on it,
lore it up and threw the pieces
in his face.
Wallace backers responded by
hurling their chairs into the
anti-Wallace crowd and tlie
hecklers hurled them back. Po
lice rushed into the stands and
dragged off about 20 persons.
Earlier, before Wallace ar
rived, a ruckus erupted when a
Wallace supporter grabbed an
anti-Wallace placard from
someone’s hands, held it above
his head and ripped it in pieces.
Then another person sprayed
a choking chemical at the heck
le' s and the tight was on. Police
restored order and hauled two
of the protesters out.
The candidate, speaking
above the uproar through a
powerrul amplifier, taunted the
hecklers throughout his speech.
in the meetings with Abrams
was the extent of the withdraw
al of North Vietnamese
forces from South Vietnam
as well as the threat of new ac
tion on the North Vietnam side,
where the North Vietnam and
Viet Cong troops have gone, and
what the meaning of their disen
gagement may be.
Considerations of this kind
would be involved in Johnson’s
assessment of whatever cau-
H aw kins
Endorses
Democrats
CHARLOTTE (AP) - Negro
poli'.ical leader Dr. Reginald
Hawkins today endorsed Demo
crats “from the White House to
the courthouse” and cautioned
North Carolina Negroes against
not voting in the Nov, 5 gen
eral election.
Dr. Hawkins said at a news
conference he was "not too en
thusiastic about either guberna
torial candidate” but that his
endorsement includes Demo-
craiic Lt. Gov. Bob Scott.
He said neither Scott or his
opponent. Republican James
Gardner, has “spoken truly to
the issues that concern the peo
ple” out that "we must make a
choice” between them.
Hawkins, a Charlotte dentist
and unsuccessful candidate for
the Democratic gubernatorial
no’Tiination, said North Carolina
Negroes must “seek to solidity
and enhance the gains we have
already made.”
“We as black people cannot
opt out by failing to vote,” he
said. “For to do so would leave
the selection of our political
leaders to those who would deny
us the many things that we liave
fought so long to gain.”
Hav/kins said it the state’s Ne
groes are to make their political
See HAWKINS on Page 2 A
tious, perhaps indirect word he
may have obtained from the
North Vietnam side that the lull
has political significance.
In this connection there have
been reports that North Viet
namese represenattives in Paris
told U.S. negotiators early in
the current series of peace
probes that it Johnson de-esca
lated the war on the U.S. side he
would not be walking into a
trap.
Administration officials have
constantly denied speculation
that the bombing policy decision
was in any way related to the
U.S. presidential election cam
paign.
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Citi
zens going to the polls next
Tuesday thinking they will be
voting for Richard M. Nixon or
Hubert H. Humphrey, or George
C. V2allace, will be wrong.
Instead, they actually will be
voting for a group of people
called presidential electors. The
electors picked will decide who
will be the next president—un
less, for the third time in the na
tion’s history, the issue gets
passed on to the U.S. House of
Representatives.
It’s all because of the indirect
system for election of a presi
dent developed by the framers
of the Constitution.
Originally, the slate legisla
tures picked the electors, but
that was soon changed to give
the job to the people.
In fact, the electors soon be
came rubber stamps, reflecting
the result of the popular vote.
This year, however, because
of the uncertainty caused by a
threevvay presidential race,
there is more chance that the
electors will act independently.
In order to be elected, a can
didate must receive the votes of
at least 270 of the 538 electors.
But with three major candi
dates this year, it is possible
that none will win in enough
states to be assured 270 elector
al votes.
Each stale has a number of
electors equal to its senators
and congressmen. For example,
Maryland, with eight House
members and two in the Senate,
has 10 electoral votes.
The District of Columbia, with
no congressional representation,
was given three electoral votes
by the 23rd Amendment.
In each state, voters selecting
among the various presidential
candidates are actually picking
from slates of electors. In so.me,
they vote for a whole slate, in
others for individual electors.
Whichever candidate gets the
most votes in the state, his elec
tors win. It doesn't matter if he
gets 90 per cent, or receives one
mere vote than each of his oppo
nents.
On Dec. 16, the electors se
lected in the general election
meet in their respective state
capitals to cast their votes for
president and vice president.
With rare exceptions, electors
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Nixon Alters Campaign Style
I
Reginald Hawkins
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -
Richard M. Nixon faced a group
of student protesters, praised
them for their orderliness and
said he would seek a negotiated
settlement of the Vietnam war
—with the Soviet Union sitting
at the conference table.
Nixon altered his campaign
style Tuesday night, prompted
by nearly 1,000 Syracuse Uni
versity students in the audience
of the packed, 8,000-seat Onon
daga County War Memorial Au
ditorium.
Nixon said the students “have
properly presented their case as
they should.’’
ft was a new style protest in
which the students got a permit
to parade to the hall, announced
in advance they would serenade
the Republican presidential can
didate. then sat in silence and
listened to his speech.
Nixon, forewarned by a news
release the students distributed
at his liotel, faced the demon
strators after being introduced
and announced, “The floor is
yours.’’
Then Ihe students sang, “The
Sounds of Silence” by the .sing
ing-composing duo of Simon and
Garfunkel. Nixon partisans
booed.
The nominee, who had retired
to his scat lor the serenade by
the self-styled Nixon Reception
Committee, returned to the ros
trum and said, “Let ’em go.”
They went on without interrup
tion.
When Nixon reclaimed tt.e
floor, he applauded the singers
as “a very unusual group” be
cause of their announced will
ingness to let him have his say
without the disruptive chants
associat'd with youthful protest
ers, He termed it “the very
proper roie of dissent,”
Nixon said he wanted to re
spond directly to questions
posed by the students in the
news release.
One of those questions dealt
with Vietnam and Nixon, went
beyond previous' pronounce
ments to assert:
“The Soviet Union must be
brought to that conference ta
ble. Other interested nations in
Asia have to be brought there,
because by broadening the num
ber of nations and the issues, we
will be able to have a negotiated
settlement.”
A Nixon spokesman, Ron Zie
gler, said later the candidate
was discussing negotiations in a
veneral sense and was not spe
cifically advocating that the
Russians be brought into the
current peace talks in Paris.
Leaders of the protest said
they were pleased Nixon liad
responded lo them. But they
still argued he had not been spe
cific enough on major issues
and had failed to state his posi
tion on the question of televised
debates with his Democratic ri
val, Hubert H. Humphrey.
For an airport rally today at
Rochester, Minn., Nixon issued
a statement taking new potshots
at Humphrey and President
Johnson.
As for Humphrey, Nixon said:
“Humphrey has failed in
many ways. But it is his failure
to dissent during the past four
years, his failure to exercise his
intellectual courage, that has
been his most serious failure. A
man who has been trained to
say 'yes’ cannot be expected to
choose aides who can dare lo
say ’no.’
Humphrey Says Next
Move Is Up To Hanoi
By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Vice President Hubert H. Hum
phrey says there is a "new level
of diplomatic activity’’ taking
place over the Vietnam war—
and “the next move is up to Ha
noi.”
The Democratic presidential
candidate’s ca'iliously-worded
remarks came as Gen. Creigh
ton W. Abrams, U.S. command
er in Vietnam, flew to Washing
ton Tue.sday for a secret meet
ing with President Johnson and
his top advisers.
But if Humplirey knew more
than his questioners about the
meeting, or the latest po.ssible
moves toward peace, he did not
let on. Asked in a Philadelphia
television interview whether a
peace move might take place
before Tuesday's election, he re
plied: "I just don't know, and
I’m not really in a position to
tell you if f knew.”
“I think there has been some
thing going on,'” Humphrey said
as he wound up a long day of
campaigning across vole-rich
Pennsylvania.
“There's been a new level of
diplomatic activity. As I sense
it, I think it is up to Hanoi,” he
said.
If the current flurry is not
successful, Humphrey vowed
again in Philadelphia that if
elected, “I will make peace in
Vietnam.”
Addressing a $100-a-plate
fund-raising dinner, he said he
is “hopeful that that cruel war
will end. and end soon—that the
Paris talks will succeed. It
would be imprudent to say more
about them tonight. But f will
say this: The man who is our
President now is retiring. On
Jan. 20, I will be my own presi
dent. I will make peace in Viet
nam—and f will make it my
own way.”
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