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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1959
Page
16
In Reenville North Carolina AP report a jury selection begins as Thomas Becks is charged with the murder of Helen Edwards his former wife. The case details indicate a fatal assault linked to their troubled marriage and prior domestic conflicts.
A cautious New York stock market in early trading shows minor gains with little decisive movement. Industrials and motors lead small advances while rails and utilities hover mixed amid concerns over higher interest rates and bond activity.
The Council of State appropriated 14 647 from contingency for salaries in the new Department of Water Resources division of navigable waterways for Sept 1 to June 30. Legislature created the division but did not fund it. The council also sold land at Concord to Ann L. McKenzie for 20 000, with proceeds earmarked for religious education at the Jackson Training pecs.
Contractors bid a total of 6,188,904 dollars for 16 road projects totaling over 100 miles in North Carolina. Bid reviews by the State Highway Commission will pick low bids for interstate work including 4.17 miles on I-40 near Statesville and 2.87 miles around Gastonia with fencing on I-40 near the Statesville bypass.
Susan Gayle Jordan two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs L Alex Jordan Jr was fatally injured Tuesday when run over by the family car in the Jordan home driveway Police said both parents were under doctor care and could not explain how the accident happened
A meeting in Wytheville Virginia saw members of a booster group formed by residents from western Virginia western North Carolina and southern West Virginia pressing the Virginia Highway Commission for an early decision on the location of Interstate 77. The group approved a resolution outlining the project goals and pushing for a public effort at the earliest feasible time.
FRONT ROYAL Virginia action delay was decided at a closed joint meeting of the school board and county supervisors held Tuesday night.
Morehead City officials discuss a plan for flight paths and air radar to prevent mid air collisions after a civilian pilot Jesse G. Taylor 28 Beaufort was killed in the recent incident. 1st Lt. William Foley 25 parachuted to safety and Beaufort Fisheries employee Taylor worked under Mayor Potter.
In Gooding Idaho AP Deputy Sheriff Guy Coles reported no gun found in or near Hunt's car. Hunt was shot once in the head and once in the car. His bill and about 150 traveler's checks were missing.
Gulf and Pure Fair Trade Act of 1937 actions aim to curb undercutting prices. Complaint filed in Superior Court last week seeks permanent relief to stop a Troy service station from selling gasoline below company prices. Signs in English and Japanese at railway stations in Japan are noted in the brief.
The adviser explains no special list of convertible debentures exists and notes many firms offer them. He says converts hedge against inflation by enabling stock gains, but warns each issue should be reviewed with a broker. He also criticizes a broker who left a widow with a risky portfolio and urges replacing the broker.
The sun will set today at 6 56 p m and will rise tomorrow at 5 48 a m according to The Associated Press weather summary.
Forecast calls for warmer conditions tonight in northern New England and the northern Plains while the Atlantic to western Lakes region stays warm. Slightly cooler air moves into the upper and middle Mississippi Valley with showers along the western Gulf coast and a narrow band from Ohio to South Dakota and Nebraska, and a smaller band from Montana southward.
Forecasts favor mostly sunny skies with hot conditions in North Carolina this afternoon and Thursday. Highs 85 to 90 in the mountains and upper 90s elsewhere, with patchy fog late tonight. Low temperatures mostly in the 60s to 70s range. Georgia remains hot with partial cloud cover. In Racine Wisconsin, Raymond K. Morin, 26, fell asleep at the wheel causing a collision with a small tree and shrubbery before stopping at a car.
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