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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1961
Page
3
Households may face a penny rise per loaf as baking costs grow. E. E. Kelley Jr of the American Bakers Association hints a near certainty of higher bread prices, with demand around 15 billion loaves annually and a $120 million impact from a one cent rise. The federal $2 wheat support price and farmer withholding of hard wheat push costs higher.
The Associated Press notes today’s sun will set at 7 12 p.m. and tomorrow rise at 5 38 a.m. The forecast provides no additional regional details beyond these cadence times.
Forecast shows partly cloudy and warmer conditions for both states tonight through Wednesday. North Carolina ranges from around 60 in the mountains to near 70 along the south coast, while South Carolina sees lows in the 60s to low 70s with a chance of scattered coastal showers.
Raleigh reports a surge in Civil Defense activity after Kennedy's Berlin address. Brig. Gen. Edward Griffin notes thousands of fallout shelter plans distributed and a flood of inquiries. Shelters are being built statewide with federal funding, including 100-person sites in Greensboro and 50-person sites in Wilmington.
The 101st Airborne Division was described as in an orderly but hasty retreat during Exercise Swift Strike at Ft Bragg and surrounding areas in North and South Carolina. The operation involves 40 000 personnel and features airlift drops of 850 paratroopers and 65 tons of equipment with bridges contested and routes blocked as Allied forces attempt to outflank the retreating enemy.
San Leandro California City Council voted to lower the tax rate for the 14th consecutive year. The rate dropped from $1.20 to $1.18 per $100 assessed valuation, continuing a trend since 1948 when the town had 26 442 residents, now growing to about 70 000.
Nearly 200 convicted Freedom Riders will begin appeal trials next Tuesday in Hinds County Court Jackson Mississippi. Judge Russel Moore set arrangements for three additional riders after 188 others pleaded innocent of breach of peace charges.
Chrysler Corp rejects the United Auto Workers demand to pay 60 000 production and maintenance workers a salary rather than hourly wages. The company deems hourly pay proper for such work and declines to back broader social legislation with the union. Ford and the union set the Leland Hotel in Detroit as a neutral bargaining site for next week.
A new tiny tablet named Primatene provides minutes to hours relief from asthma spasms and hay fever. Marketed without prescription in many states, it opens bronchial tubes loosens mucus and eases nasal congestion using a three medicine combination.
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