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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1958
Page
2
The forecast shows a cooler night in the northeast and Ohio Valley while the north central Plains and northern Rockies turn warmer. Light thundershowers are possible in several areas across the region.
Weather outlook shows cloudiness and warmth with showers and scattered thundershowers east of mountains. North Carolina highs near 80 in the mountains and 84 to 89 elsewhere with cooler nights. Extended trend cooler into Tuesday and late week with rainfall totals of one to two inches near the coast.
An advertising blurb promotes a condensed book on the importance of feeling inferior. It cites Marie Beynon Ray and September Reader's Digest, urging readers to discover and face an inferiority complex and start now.
The sun will set today at 6 58 p m and rise tomorrow at 5 47 a m. The forecast notes precise daily solar timings for the locale.
In Pensacola near Burnsville North Carolina parents oppose assigning 37 Yancey County high school students to the new West Yancey High School six miles away. They demand a hearing before the school board and favor East Yancey High School two miles east of Burnsville. Chair W H Peterson cites equalized student bodies and notes Burnsville students mostly chose East Yancey. Pensacola travel could reach 40 miles daily if sent to West Yancey. The board members disagree on solutions and the State Board of Education may need to intervene.
The Associated Press reports prices in the Border Belt show a continued levelling of flue cured tobacco values with a weekly average of 59.94 per 100 pounds on sales totaling 51,793,207 pounds. In the Eastern Belt openers last Thursday posted higher early averages around 57.58 with gains over 1957, though some grades declined and overall quality varied.
Martha Brannon a Limestone College junior from Bishopville won Miss Carolinas Press Photographers Queen in Myrtle Beach She advances to the Pi Kappa Alpha national contest and may crown Miss Southern 500 She is pledged to Carl Gibson of Greer and has held multiple titles including Miss South Carolina Peach Festival Miss Southern 500 and Miss Limestone
London and Nottingham police faced Britain's worst race violence in years as white, West Indian, African, and Pakistani groups clashed for hours. Dozens were injured, several arrested, and fears of ongoing trouble prompted heavy policing and emergency patrols near Notting Hill and Nottingham.
Sen. John Stennis notes safeguards in the new farm act despite shortfalls for his region. The act sets national cotton acreage allotment at 16 million acres, keeps parity price supports, and adds about 310,000 acres to the total. Rice allotment remains 652,000 acres with southern states’ shares listed.
A bloc of Southern delegates at the National Student Congress approved a declaration condemning segregation as incompatible with education and the American way of life. The measure passed 33-1 in the Carolinas Virginia region and was unanimous in Mason-Dixon, with about 1,000 delegates attending at Ohio Wesleyan University. The declaration aligns with NSA desegregation resolutions and opposes using the issue for political gain.
Ground broke on a college building in Hickory North Carolina funded by Dr. L L Minges and family. The ceremony drew Dr and Mrs Minges of Rocky Mount and their son Dean L Minges of Fayetteville. Rev Dr F L Conrad of the United Evangelical Lutheran Synod gave the keynote address with completion expected September 1959.
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