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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1959
Page
7
Frederick Dick, 32, towed a new motorboat to Hove England for a day at sea. A wind and breakers toppled him into choppy water. A passing dinghy rescuer pulled him from the sea. He returned to shore soaked and found his car keys still inside the motorboat drifting in the Channel.
The Senate Labor Management Committee will publish a delayed 1958 findings before House labor bill action. It centers on alleged underworld influence in Teamsters affairs, naming James R. Hoffa and Chicago broker Allen Dorfman. Hoffa denies the charges as Kennedy notes no remedial recommendations.
Washington reports on the risk of accidental missile launches. Officials note an intercontinental ballistic missile cannot be diverted in flight, but safety devices exist to destroy or self-destruct a misfire before it reaches prearmed targets. The concern persists despite testing and safeguards.
Five teen boys were arrested after a white gang attacked a Brooklyn tenement housing a Black family moving into an previously white area. A Black youth defender threw rocks. an officer fired a warning shot. The Black youth faced felonious assault charges. four white youths faced unlawful assembly charges.
The term Chinook has a century long usage in the Pacific Northwest as a spoken fusion of English French and Indian languages. It reflects a historic linguistic blend used by regional communities.
Five Americans including Malcolm Rivkin of Cambridge were briefly detained by police in Vienna during a Communist sponsored World Youth Festival peace parade for handing out newspapers. Police also removed a controversial placard and a British tourist, Charles Karrigan, was beaten by Reds before being helped by police.
The Newsprint Information Committee reports rising labor costs make stable hands and large feed supplies uneconomical as tractors replace Old Dobbin in Eastern Canada’s pulpwood forests. A 1950 horse census counted 20,000 horses. current estimates suggest about one third fewer are in use.
In West Covina California on July 18 a murder tied to a love triangle unfolds. Barbara Finch 33 is killed by gunfire as Dr Bernard Finch 41 and his former secretary Carole Tregoff 22 face murder charges amid a tangled marital scandal. The case centers on a long affair and a dramatic sequence involving a murder kit and a confrontation at the Finch home.
A 38 year old soldier, Sgt Nay Yow of Monroe North Carolina, was killed by lightning during a company picnic near a pontoon bridge over the Chattahoochee River linking Fort Benning to Alabama. Three others including Sgt Charles Landers, 37, Sgt Donald Butts, 30, and Mrs Butts were injured slightly while Mrs Yow was not harmed.
The electric catfish of African waters can deliver a painful electric shock, a fact cited in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The entry highlights the species' electrical abilities and potential danger to humans and other animals.
A hearing is set Monday in Middle District Court on Caswell County School Board objections to answering questions in a school desegregation suit. Judge Edwin M. Stanley will hear the case where about 500 Negro children seek a court order to end segregation. the board argues questions about records and procedures outside the 1957 58 year are not relevant.
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