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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1957
Page
5
A drizzle is forecast for the Washington Oregon coast with cooler conditions in the northern Plains and warmer weather in the central Plains and middle Mississippi Valley.
In Raleigh, Joseph Hiram Holt Jr. a 14 year old Negro boy was denied admission to a white high school by the Raleigh City School Board in a 5 to 1 vote. The Holts may request a hearing within five days and can appeal to the Supreme Court if the board again denies.
Columbia J H Pete Fleming South Carolina commercial manager for Southern Bell Telephone Co. follows company policy to not call from memory. In the Columbia State newsroom he asked for a telephone directory to locate his office number before checking in.
The school board rejected a plan for racial segregation breakdown with five votes to one. Dissenting member Fred J. Carnage, the Negro lawyer on the board, called the decision unfair to Holt and warned that the strain would persist five years after the first admission of a Negro student to white schools.
Low tonight 56 degrees and high tomorrow around 84. High today reached 84 with a last night low of 53. Sunset today at 7 19 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 5 21 a m.
The Associated Press reports a cooling trend in the northern Plains while central to western Great Lakes warm. Most areas see little temperature change with scattered showers in the southern and central Rockies. Clear skies prevail from cool dry Canadian air over the eastern U.S. Overnight temps span 40s to 70s, with Gulf Coast highs in the 70s.
Harvard football coach John Yovicsin was located by family via a telephone call from Allentown after a two day disappearance. Mrs. Yovicsin said he spent time in the Pocono area en route home to Gettysburg, with no indication of harm. Pennsylvania State Police had issued a missing persons alert.
The forecast shows fair mild conditions across the region with a warm Thursday. North Carolina values top near 80 in the mountains and mid 80s elsewhere with lows around 50 in the mountains and 56 to 62 Piedmont. Coastal Plain lows 38 to 65. South Carolina remains fair and mild through Thursday with today’s highs around 86 to 89 and tonight’s lows 62 to 66.
Cyril S. Clement was ticketed in Denver for a cleaning violation. He sent a $2 check with a note claiming no sign or warning lights were visible and questioning the reason for the ticket.
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