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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1959
Page
1
An editorial lauds the arrest of a suspect and the effort of Police Chief C. C. Stoker Capt. W. C. Johnson and many volunteers to protect children. It urges citizens to stay vigilant as other threats remain and crime rates rise nationwide.
Twenty of North Carolina’s worst criminals overpowered guards at Ivy Bluff prison and escaped with an arsenal of 17 weapons. A large manhunt stretched from Ivy Bluff toward southern Virginia as convicts fled in stolen cars after leaving the facility near Yanceyville. The breakout, engineered by Charles Stewart, came from Ivy Bluff, North Carolina’s harshest prison, with Stewart recaptured after a prior Raleigh escape.
President Eisenhower and Pakistan President Ayub Khan address about 15 000 Pakistanis in a sunlit rally urging an enforceable global disarmament system. He stresses strength for peace and urges all leaders to participate in settlement of disputes without force.
A 17 year old, Edgar Lee Cox, stabbed his mother Edna Fisher 38 to death and critically wounded his stepfather Don Fisher 28 after waking from what police called a bad dream. He was found with a bloodstained hunting knife and a fishing knife nearby. Edna died after emergency surgery.
Prime Minister Nehru urged India to meet the Communist China threat with austerity and hardship. He called for mobilizing the nation in arms while balancing guns and butter, and praised President Eisenhower as a messenger of peace arriving tomorrow.
Secretary of Labor James J. Mitchell urged steel labor and management to submit their long standing dispute to a third party. He proposed either a fact finding board or the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to make recommendations, or else binding arbitration by an outsider.
IVY BLUFF North Carolina AP report says a 26 year old felon from Concord escaped from the state prison in a mass break led by Charles W Stewart of Wilmington. Christy and Stewart used bed sheets and ladders to scale an eight foot wall and were recaptured near Greensboro ten days later. Stewart, armed, gave up after a deputy fired a warning shot. Christy and Stewart were serving long terms for serious crimes.
A Cuban military tribunal sentenced Frank Austin Young and Peter John Lambton to 30 and 20 years respectively for conspiring against Fidel Castro’s regime. Bertot faced a death demand and 30 years for Young. Lambton received 20 years while Bertot and Young were both given prison terms.
A list of convicts who escaped today from Ivy Bluff camp for incorrigibles includes James Christy of Concord jailed for break in and manslaughter, Clavies Seat of Wilmington for armed robbery, Johnny Miller of Albemarle for arson and manslaughter, and Wiley Cummings of Winston-Salem for breaking entering and robbery. The roster also shows Leslie Gautier, Glenn Hensley, Hilliary Inman, John Kilborne, Grady Stone, Woodrow Stewart, William Vaughn, Douglas Anderson, Ralph Byers, Robert Council, Charles Edwards, Harvey Murchinson, Willie Shaw and Cleveland McNeill with varied charges and sentences including murder, kidnapping, burglary, rape, and escape.
Navy Cmdr. Lawrence E. Flint Jr. soared to 98,560 feet in a McDonnell F4H Phantom II from Edwards AFB, surpassing the TU-431 Soviet mark. He earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and will train others on the record aircraft at Patuxent, Maryland with his wife Betty awaiting his return.
An Associated Press report summarized by Dick Hanson outlines expert views on Soviet agricultural progress. It questions whether the Soviet Union can close the gap with the United States within 10 to 20 years if current improvements continue, based on a recent farm tour.
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