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THE WIATHER Chance of Rain YEAR--NO. 259 THE fflGH POINT ENTBRPRIiSE HIGH POINT, N. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1967 14 PAGES TODAY'S YOUTH WMfc'i Play See Page 5 DAILY ICk, SUNDAY 20c 88 5-2051 What's on your mind? Let ACTION LINE antwtr tht question, settle the problem or help you worry. Call anytime and tell us about it, or write ACTION LINE, The Enterprise. Nashville Nabobs Q.

Who are the country music artists in the Hall of Fame? And please list them in the order thy were admitted. This shouldn't be too hard to find ort, for there's only a handful in there. R. B. A.

Fred Rose, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, 1961; Roy Acuff, 1962; Tex Ritter, 1964; Ernest Tubb, 1965. If others have joined this elite group, they are not named in the brochure sent us by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, built in 1961, features a Walkway of the Stars saluting individual performers past and present. As of March 1 this year, there were 56 so honored, including Stonewall Jackson and Elvis Presley. Must be more to Stonewall than met the history books.

Egg On Their Face Q. Why does the city not clear weeds from the property it recently acquired in the Lindsay- Parkway area? They are a hazard to navigation, even though Parkway is presently closed from Lindsay to Main. B. Y. A.

No fun like catching this type property owner with its mowing machines down, and Carl Wills unblushingly agreed that the city, just as any owner, is obliged to keep up the strip between curb and sidewalk and as far back as necessary for sight clearance. Public works has scheduled its mowers for this job within the next few days and went so far as to ask Ray Kisiah to look after the traffic island maintained by Parks Recreation. The Little Foxes Q. Is it legal to kill foxes at night with a record player, spotlight and gun? I have killed 46 in Hie past three months, and have heard it is not legal. Please do not give me any fox hunter's opinion.

A. W. A. Since our opinion, too, would curl your hair, we quote Marshall Daniels, wildlife patrolman for Guilford and three more counties. In Guilford, the state law applies; but this could vary in other counties.

Here the season on foxes is open any time other game is in season. Dove season is on through Oct. 14, and this permits shooting from 1 p. m. to sunset.

Oct. 13 through March 1, you may hunt day or night for birds and other game. Since you say you have been fox hunting all summer, then you were in violation of the law for no season was open. Daniels suggests you note Guilford has a new law prohibiting the firing of a gun from any public road, a measure introduced by Rep. Dan Whitiey who appears a better sportsman than some folks we know.

Ever tried shooting fish in a barrel? Interim Report Q. Can't something be done about cars being parked on the street right in the curve on Ardmore Circle? When many are parked, there is room for only one car to pass and this is hazardous. J. R. A.

Bet you thought this July inquiry went into File 13, but it really went straight to traffic engineering, and studies, according to recent follow up, are still being made. Parking revisions are feport coming up soon. To Nail A Fibber Q. If a man goes to court and swears he has been separated from his wife for one when it has only been seven months, and he obtains a divorce on this false statement, how could go about seeing that this man is prosecuted? D. H.

A. To prosecute a man for falsely swearing that he had been separated from his wife for the statutory period and thereby obtaining a divorce from his wife, it would be necessary to issue a warrant for perjury. Charles T. Kivett is the Superior Court solicitor for the Twelfth Solicitorial District for Guilford and Davidson counties and he would pe responsible for such prosecution. Kivett's office is in the courthouse in Greensboro and his office is open from 8 a.m.

until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Racks Navy Suffers Casualties In 2-Day Running Battle NORFOLK, Va. (AP)-Hurri- cand Doria drove menacing i and drenching rain against the Virginia-Maryland- Delaware coasts today. The hurricane slowed to 10 miles an hour on 'its westerly course and was expected to slam into the Eastern Shore around noon today, EOT, according to the Norfolk Weather.

Bureau. The Red Cross reported 2,500 evacuees in 30 shelters in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The Coast Guard at Indian River inlet near the Maryland- Delaware border reported winds of 50-60 miles an hour and tides 5-6 feet above normal. Wind gusts of 60 m.p.h. were reported at Ocean City, Md.

Evacuation centers were prepared to receive thousands of persons fleeing the hufricane, and state police, firemen, National Guardsmen, Red Cross personnel, Coast Guardmen and other rescue units stood by. The storm was one of a trio of hurricanes in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and at the same time a typhoon, named Sara, lashed Wake Island in the mid- Pacific with winds reaching 140 miles per hour. Property damage was reported on Wake Island but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The 2,000 residents had advance warning and took cover. The Miami Weather Bureau said these were the first such multiple storms since 1961 when four hurricanes were swirling at one time.

The last twin Atlantic hurricanes were in 1955, Connie and Dianne. In Wilmington, N.C., two women and three men were rescued after their ketch was caught in Doria while she was still a tropical storm. They were brought safely to shore Friday. The rescued party were William Schnirring, 68, his wife Alice, 54, of Larchmont, N.Y., Schnirring's son-in-law, Lee Van Perk, 24, his wife Suzie, of New York City and the skipper, Ivan C. Fox of Bermuda.

Wind-whipped, rising tides posed a major danger. Some flooding already had begun before daybreak. In the most immediately affected areas, the Weather Bureau expected tides eight feet above normal. Evacuation, though not complete, was the rule on a stretch of Atlantic coastline from Rehoboth Beach, Del, to Cape Charles, 125 miles south. By GEORGE MCARTHUR Associated Prtss Writer SAIGON (AP) A slushy two-day running battle through Mekong delta swamplands subsided today with the U.S.

Navy suffering its highest combat casualties of the war and a battered Viet Cong battalion melting into marshes and bamboo forests. Battle reports listed 70 Viet Cong dead in the fight and said a Navy gunboat force took a beating when it landed Army infantrymen on the Rach Ba River at dawn Friday. Firing from hidden positions on the river bank, guerrillas cut into the gunboats and landing craft with machine guns and recoilless rifles. Three sailors were killed and 59 wounded in the battle, with most U.S. casualties coming in the first furious minutes.

Over-all, the U.S. river assault force lost nine dead and 104 wounded in twisting canals and muddy ground 45 miles south of Saigon, before the crack Viet Cong 263rd Battalion scattered. The fleeing guerrillas hit back at pursuing U.S. troops with mortars and sniper fire. Associated Press correspondent George Esper reported from the U.S.

riverine force headquarters that Red gunfire damaged nine Navy armored troop carriers, three armored Monitors and the command- communications vessel. All were still under their own power when the fight ended, however. Apart from aircraft carrier disasters such fire that killed 132 aboard the Forrestal, the casualties and damage were the worst suffered by the Navy in Vietnam. It was by far the fiercest fight for the riverine force since it began operating in the delta early this year. The riverine force is made up of Navy barracks ships and Army infantry units.

The troops are moved through the delta's myriad waterways in specially adapted, shallow-draft landing bdats and armored Monitors bristling with mortars and small cannons. In the hottest fighting Friday U.S. jet fighters swept down on the Communists, churning the marshes with bombs and rockets. Guerrilla gunfire brought down an F100 Super Sabre Jet but the pilot ejected and was picked up by a helicopter. It was the 207th U.S.

combat plane announced as shot down in the South. On Wednesday GIs pressing the delta sweep, code named Coronado 5, pinned down the Viet Cong's elite 514th Battalion in the swampy region and killed 134. Heavy fighting between South Vietnamese government troops and more Viet Cong was reported today just 10 miles from the Coronado 5 action. Supported by American helicopter gunships, the South Vietnamese reported killing 63 guerrillas in a running fight. The day before the South Vietnamese reported killing 88.

The delta fighting reflects intensified American and South Vietnamese sweeps to weaken the Viet Cong in the marshy areas where they menace the main road south from Saigon through the delta cities of My Tho and Can Tho. It is believed the Viet Cong control half of the delta's seven million inhabitants. U.S. Military Headquarters reported no significant Communist action today along the demilitarized zone far to the north, where Marine outposts have been shelled hard the last two weeks. Anti-Missile System May Be Started Captured In Tall Grass Two South Vietnamese soldiers wrestle a Viet Cong into submission after taking away his weapons during a reconnaissance patrol in Tra On District of Vinh Long Province southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta.

The Viet Cong was captured after a brief exchange of fire when two government soldiers leaped into the tall grass and collared him. CAP Wircphoto) By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. government leaders were reported today to have decided on a start toward building an antimissile system to defend the United States against the kind of nuclear threat Red China could pose by the mid-1970s. Such a "thin" Nike system would involve a screen of missile-killer batteries that would throw a protective umbrella over the country.

Its estimated cost: from $3 billion to $6 billion. The Defense Department replied with a "no comment" when asked whether President Johnson had approved a go- ahead. Pentagon officials were unusually close mouthed about the subject of a speech Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is due to make Monday before an editors' meeting in San Francisco. It was not certain McNamara would make the antimissile announcement at that time.

The administration could hold off to give the Soviet Union one more chance to agree on a mutual Vietnamese Peace Talks 'Possible' Strikers Pleased SAIGON (AP) South Vietnam's foreign minister, Tran Van Do, predicted today that peace negotiations between North and South Vietnam are possible before the end of this year. Do said prospects of talks are "much brighter than a few months ago." Do said in an interview that, a recent statement by North Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Dong "is a slight shift, a little different" from previous North Vietnamese statements about possible negotiations. He added, "We can't entirely interpret what the shift means." Do said, however, there were several reasons why Hanoi might be more willing to come to the bargaining table: think the new elected South Vietnamese government will be more stable. Hanoi can no longer expect its collapse." Vietnam is convinced it no longer can win a military victory. It is convinced of American determination to fight and increase military (the Communists) can't expect Russia to step in to help them more and China has so much internal dissension she is not much help." Amusements 5 Bridge Classified Ads 12-13 Comics 8 Crossword Editorials Obituaries 6 Sports WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's railroads are unhappy and union leaders quietly molli- IT7" fied in the wake of a compulso- ry $158 million wage package Weather Young Living Ik- School Bus Sogo-Ch.

3 Rof ContfOl Bill Might Be Passed I am one of the extra drivers on what they call a "school and I want to point out that our boss is doing the best job he can to move those kids at a fare of ten cents. It take a bunch on each load to even pay the driver. Now if those mothers who are complaining would just go down and see the boss and colunteer to drive those busses, and I means as volunteers without pay, then the company could afford to put on more busses and reduce the passenger loads. M. I am calling about the bus service for school children.

I am one of those bus drivers, driving each and every day, and if those mothers who are complaining about crowded conditions would come down and ride with this school load, they'd see what we endure from these kids' bad behavior. If they would give the children better home training, or if they will give us written permission to impose some discipline on the bus, there could be some changes made (or the better. As for overloading, 50 kids at ten cents each make $5 for oivd trip, and we drivers sure don't drive for that rate of pay. (for Mad) Two Are Killed In Collision BOONE, N. C.

(AP) Two Tennessee men were killed Friday night in a headpn collision of two automobiles in Watauga County. The Highway patrol identified the victims as Edgar L. Heaton, 26, of Rt. 1, Mountain City, and Brice May, 28, of Shouns. The patrol said Heaton was the driver which was struck by another vehicle on U.S.

421 about 12 miles north of Boone. byWoW WASHINGTON (AP) The House, which literally laughed down a proposed rat control proposal earlier this year, appears likely to at least partially reverse itself next week. Indications point to success for a bipartisan bid to add $20 million in rat control funds to a federal health aid bill when it comes up for debate Tuesday. In July, the House refused even to consider the administration's proposal for a $40 million, two-year rat eradication program to be administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Many mem- bers poked fun at the bill. The jocular manner in which the proposal was dismissed angered civil rights leaders, who contended it was an example of how Congress--despite summer slum rioti--cared for the plight of slum-dwellers.

The new proposal by Reps. Henry S. Reuss, and Charles Mathias offers members who have felt the wrath of constituents a second chance to vote for rat control. At the same time it avoids a main criticism of the administration bill--that it Duplicated a program already in effect. handed down by a White House board.

"We conclude that it is clearly inflationary," said chief railroad negotiator John Hiltz Jr. of the two-year package covering shopcraft workers. The wage hikes, endorsed by President Johnson, gave six railroad unions much of their demands. The board announced its recommendations Friday. The board, created by Congress in a special law to halt a nationwide strike, set wage increases of 11 per cent plus 20 cents an hour in extra skill, pay increases for about 100,000 of the workers.

The raises will become mandatory in 30 days unless there is a voluntary agreement, viewed as an extremely slim prospect. The initial two-year cost to the railroads was cut down somewhat by scattering the wage hike over the two-year period. "We're not jumping up and down in glee," said a union source, "but we're better off than we were." The unions remained officially silent. The shopcraft workers now average $2.90 per hour and skilled men $3.05. The sticky case, rife with political implications, marked the first time in history that Congress took a direct hand in setting wages except for general wartime wage-price controls.

Johnson praised the board's recommendations as "one of the finest products" ever to come from a presidential board. Then he slipped swiftly out of the WMte House Fish Room, leaving the explanations to Sen. Wayne Morse, chairman of fee five-man board. limitation on deployment of an antimissile system. Administration officials have indicated they were losing patience with the Soviets and some military officers argued they are stalling.

Johnson and McNamara have been under growing pressure to take the long-delayed step. That pressure became intense after McNamara acknowledged last November that the Soviet Union had started deploying an antimissile system. The Soviet emplacements were reported around Moscow and Leningrad. Congressional demands for after Red China exploded what was believed to be a hydrogen bomb in a test last June. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force all have gone on record as favoring a start on an antimissile defense for the United States.

Republican leaders have shown signs they would make a political issue of the delay and even pro-administration stalwarts in the Senate have prodded Johnson publicly. The reported administration decision comes at a time when the word has gone out throughout the defense establishment to hold down on spending--and to cut where possible--because of the rising costs of the Vietnam war. The administration antimissile move, which opens the door to spending billions of dollars, thus indicates the political pressure was getting too hot--or that intelligence indicates the Red Chinese are making faster progress toward an intercontinental ballistic missile than had been expected some months ago. McNamara has forecast that the Chinese might test an ICBM this year, but that Peking probably would not have a significant number of long-range missiles before the mid-1970s. The Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee has been more pessimistic.

In a report last month, the committee said the Chinese should be able to develop a hydrogen warhead with the blast equivalent of one million tons of TNT by about 1970, and have ready operational ICBMS by 1971 or'1972. Defense sources have estimated a "thin" protective screen of long-range Spartan and short- range Sprint missile-killers, plus their vital radar, could be in place in about five years. For Your Sunday Reading HIGH POINT'S United Appeal for 1968 enters the public phase of its campaign next Tuesday. Some 1,000 volunteers will be working to reach the record goal $407,222. You will find the story in the Sunday Enterprise.

SOD PLANTING is paying off in higher yield from their corn crops for Randolph County farmers. Richard and Harold Beeson, at least, are happy with the results. Their story appears in the Sunday Enterprise. WHOSE WAR is the United States fighting in South Vietnam American troops are certainly doing most of the fighting. The South Vietnamese army performs with a casual indifference.

The report in the Sunday Enterprise..