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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1959
Page
5
In a North-South game Edith Kemp of Miami Beach analyzes a five spade contract. She reasons West will not lead the queen of hearts and plays the ace to force East’s queen to drop, yielding an overtrick for the declarer.
In Los Angeles a cement hole trapped Danny Ferguson and later required firemen after 45 minutes to free him. The incident drew in family, neighbors, and deputies. Earlier a boy named Niles Kinnick had a similar foot mishap. Mexico’s Pyramid of the Sun and Moon are noted as the two largest pyramids.
A compiled crossword style list with across clues and many short definitions covering coins languages rivers and common terms plus several proper nouns and abbreviations. Includes items like Dutch coin gold coin Netherlands and various short cryptic style cues for letters numbers and place names.
Cape Canaveral reports a sequence of three ballistic missile launches in under seven and a half hours. Titan ICBM, Jupiter IRBM, and Bold Orion air-to-ground rockets were tested, aiming for ocean targets with several successful flights and no immediate officials’ confirmation.
North Carolina general fund revenue rose in March with sales tax totaling 6 075 050 dollars and insurance tax at 3 527 918 dollars, while income tax dipped 2 229 718 from a year earlier. Overall March receipts reached 47 926 935 dollars, up 836 104 from March 1958. Currie noted the fiscal year remains in line with budget estimates.
In Raleigh the General Assembly saw reapportionment suffer a new defeat as the House refused to redraw membership per the 1950 census by 61 to 50. A preliminary victory went to a 75 cent hourly minimum wage bill, advancing from a House committee after a tie was broken by the chair.
Federal and state officers hunted two escapees, Charles Bradford and John Odum, after four prisoners fled Cumberland County Jail. Bradford, a bank robber charged with killing a teller, and Odum, charged with auto larceny, were armed as fugitive leaders. Two others, Jeno Bonasi and Zoltan Scaba, Hungarian refugees convicted of rape, returned to jail.
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