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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1959
Page
8
A weather forecast covers sectors of the Rockies and the Plains. Showers are expected in Idaho Montana North and South Dakota Nebraska and western Kansas.
Troy W. West Jr., 37, robbed an Asheville branch of 5340 dollars then killed himself with two pistols under a tree. His car nearby held the loot and dark glasses. federal agents noted the items. West, Clemson graduate and WWII veteran, left an undisclosed note.
About 400 enlisted scientific personnel at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood Maryland were ordered to fall out in civilian clothes to identify about 60 men who attended a beer party there last Thursday. Civilian witnesses aided in identifying revelers amid complaints of obscene songs and statements about the Army. The clash echoes a similar court martial 11 months earlier over perceived disciplinary failures and lack of recognition for work in Army laboratories.
North Carolina shows partly cloudy skies with heat and humidity and scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms mainly in the mountains and southern areas. Highs reach 90 to 95 inches, some 85 to 90 in mountains and coast, with tonight’s lows in the 60s to low 70s. Georgia and South Carolina forecast similar warm conditions with isolated thunderstorms.
The report notes sunset at 7 04 p m and sunrise at 5 43 a m. It cites a 3.5 percent higher February birth rate than last year and states dairy advertisers spent over 17 million dollars on daily newspaper ads last year.
yn G Aiken Taylor pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Alexandria Louisiana is elected editor of the Southern Presbyterian Journal replacing Dr Henry B Jendy of Weaverville. Taylor was chosen at a Wednesday meeting of about 500 supporters from seven Southeastern states as the biweekly publication adopts a $100000 budget for the next year. Offices will move from here to near Asheville and Dendy continues as managing editor.
Federal and state agents say more arrests are pending after moonlight raids in Cumberland and Wake counties. Nearly 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of bulk marijuana valued in the millions were seized, with 25 pounds found in Wake County. Eight suspects from Raleigh and Fayetteville areas were charged and bound over to federal court in Raleigh. Bonds ranged from 2,500 to 20,000 dollars. The operation linked Raleigh nightclub operator Leo Pryor as a ring kingpin with prior narcotics conviction.
In the 1960s projections, 30 million more people would spend about 170 billion dollars extra. Daily newspapers boosted household fixture advertising by 117 percent last year to inform and capture the expanding market.
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