28 Apr 1962
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1962
Page
1
In Los Angeles early today a black-suited Muslim cultist was killed and four others wounded along with four police officers during a riot at the antiwhite Muslim headquarters. Police reported 75 officers responded and 19 people were detained for questioning.
In Los Angeles a nurse testifies in divorce court about a "Society of Truly Great Lovers" card found in her husband’s wallet. The judge notes a similar card in his own wallet. Mrs Zavala wins an interlocutory decree, $15 weekly alimony, a Cadillac, and half the $20,000 home. her husband receives an antique car and his own society membership card.
President Kennedy parodied his steel price dispute at a White House correspondents dinner, stealing the show with songs and impersonations by entertainers like Peter Sellers and Benny Goodman. He joked about ticket prices and thanked reporters as the event honored him and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
The Sunday Enterprise highlights the spring Southern furniture market with color and design, plus a special report on how High Point telephone service expands for the event. It also previews the Post Office under Postmaster J Edward Day aiming for faster, cheaper mail delivery.
Buyers at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building express readiness to buy for July and August promotions during the second day of the spring Southern furniture market. The chorus rises with buyers stating we are in a position to buy as crowds anticipate strong trading.
Wake Forest College trustees voted 17-9 with four abstentions to admit Negro undergraduates effective immediately, completing desegregation of all college schools. Negroes already attended graduate, night, and summer classes. The vote followed a Race Relations Committee recommendation amid debated criticism of a trustee and author Brantley.
In Es tampes near Paris, a hit and run raid targeted a police station and a newspaper office. A woman was injured and several officers escaped serious harm as a car mounted machine gun fire and a grenade attack followed by a separate bomb blast at Marseillaise de Seine et Oise. The incident signals possible renewed Secret Army activity amid ongoing Algerian conflict.
Lucius D. Clay, Kennedy's Berlin envoy, criticizes the proposal to include East German and East Berlin reps on a lifeline authority for Berlin. He warns the West would reject any loss in U S Soviet talks but admits considering alternatives short of force. He urges caution on recognition implications and reiterates support for German self determination and future free elections in the Soviet zone.
In Budlong Woods Chicago two men disguised as deliverymen were killed and a third wounded after a staged jewelry raid. Detectives tipped the trap and a fourth suspect was killed as police halted a string of robberies worth about $100,000.
President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met at the White House to discuss nuclear testing and a Berlin settlement with the Soviet Union. Officials said a possible call for an enforceable test ban treaty and a pause in Pacific tests may emerge, with Rusk's Berlin talks described as cautious but hopeful.
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