High Point Municipal Court jury term extends into second day
The High Point Municipal Court jury term continued into its second day after a busy opening with continuances and waivers. Several defendants faced charges from drunken driving to assault, with one sentence handed down and others continuing or noted as not guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Municipal Court
Jack Byerly
Robert Bencini
John A. Gray
Woodbine Street
Gray
Superior Court
Lexington Avenue
High Point
Malden S. Jones
Route 1
High Point men indicted for murder and assault
Guilford County grand jury returned true bills charging Henry Miller 22 and Dean Zimmerman 51 with murder in separate Jan incidents. Ben Inman 48 faces four counts of assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill during a Jan 18 ram page that wounded five, including a High Point police officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford County
Henry Miller
Cliffside Dr
Dean Zimmerman
Hulda St
Ben Inman
Inman
Louise Queen
Larry Gene Queen
Nancy Prince
W. C. Hodges
High Point Police Department
Edwin Taylor
Jammie Mae
Zimmerman
George Elliott Kinsler
Fairview Street
Rev Robbins Talks The American Way Of Life At Civitan Meet
The Rev W W Robbins spoke on The American Way of Life at the High Point Civitan Club meeting held in the Sheraton Hotel. He said the foundation lies in the Constitution and Bill of Rights and Civitan members keep good citizenship before the public. Gerald Winfred introduced Robbins with Albert Leath and Bill Short. Attendance prizes went to Clarence Wagoner and Freeman Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Robbins
High Point Civitan Club
Civitan
Sheraton Hotel
Robbins
Civitans
Gerald Winfred
Albert Leath
Bill Short
Clarence Wagoner
Freeman Hill
Pedestrian Struck By Car On W Main Street
A pedestrian L. C. McCaskill 63 of Sunrise Street was struck while crossing W Main Street and treated at City Memorial Hospital. Driver Walter Garland Shoemaker 53 of Royal Oak Street remained at the scene. no charges were filed. McCaskill crossed against traffic, a car east of him passed, and Shoemaker could not stop in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
W. Main Street
City Memorial Hospital
Walter Garland Shoemaker
Royal Oak Street
L. C. McCaskill
Sunrise Street
McCaskill
Shoemaker
Alligator Found In Yard In Los Angeles Home
Joyce and Marion Tucker found a five foot, sixty pound alligator in their yard upon returning home from a weekend trip. They restrained their dog and called the animal shelter. Two men captured the reptile with a looped rope on a stick. Origin unknown.
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Los Angeles
Joyce Tucker
Marion
Khrushchev Plans Africa Visit After Guinea Invite
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev plans his first Africa trip after exchanging letters with Sekou Toure, Guinea's president. The date will be set by diplomatic representatives as Toure, who visited Moscow last year, strengthens ties with the Soviet Union aiding Guinea's post independence growth.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Africa
Khrushchev
Guinea
Sekou Toure
Toure
West Africa
Soviet Union
Grass Fires Extinguished
Firemen answered two grass fires and a trash fire in the last 24 hours. At 12 36 this morning they reported a grass fire at 2012 Van Buren Street. Earlier a trash fire under a house at 1012 Grace Street. A grass fire of undetermined origin was seen near Sunset and Council Streets at 11 18 p m yesterday.
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van Buren St
Grace St
Sunset
Council Streets
Bomb Hits Home Of Student In Little Rock Riot After Integration
A homemade bomb exploded near the home of Cartelyou Walls 16, a Negro student at Central High, in a new wave of hostility over school integration in Little Rock. Police sealed the area, searched for two cars, and FBI agents joined the probe as officers guarded integrated schools and eight surrounding Negro homes.
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Little Rock
Ark
Carlotta Walls
Central High School
Cartelyou Walls
Gene Smith
Asst
R. E. Glasscock
J. J. Casper
FBI
Smith
Raleigh to Charlotte Negro lunch counter protests spread to Fayetteville
The movement, sparked by Johnson C. Smith University students and other Negro demonstrators, expanded from Charlotte to Greensboro and Durham with sit ins at Woolworth outlets and other downtown lunch counters. CORE plans cross state picketing in New York as protests continue. Police remained on alert and officials warned violators could be arrested for trespass.
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Woolworth’s
Charlotte
North Carolina
Fayetteville
State Teachers College
Greensboro
Gordon Carey
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
South Carolina
Carey
Johnson C. Smith
Sandra Douglas
Woolworth's
S. H. Kress Co
W. T. Grant Co
McLellan's
Liggetts Drugs
Belk's
Ivey's
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Durham
W. H. Murdock
Murdock
Unfinished Play Writer Ted Cumming Found Dead
Ted Cumming 26, a emerging playwright, and his wife Patsy died after ingesting poison in their Whittier cottage. Authorities search the couple’s home for clues amid scattered manuscripts and a touring service startup, Counter Point Travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Ted) Chandler Cumming
Ted Cumming
Ted
Patsy
Europe
Worker jailed for 1958 strike in Oporto cannery
Manuel da Costa, a cannery worker in Oporto, Portugal, was sentenced by a military court to 18 months in prison for promoting a strike in 1958. He received a fine and five years of political rights suspension. Three codefendants were acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oporto
Portugal
Manuel da Costa
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Highway 68
Joe Lewis Wardlaw
Gurley Street
Millis
Taylor Streets
Thurman T. Dugger
Route 7
Billy Scott Jump
S. Main Street
Dagger
Jump
Navy
Letha Pierce
Asheboro
Pierce
Nathan Hunt
John Henry Countee
Martin Street
Bessie M. Caldwell
Kinsler
Nikita
Ralph
Ralph’s TV
College Village Shopping Center
By John R. Starr
Werner Knoop
Gann Nalley
Winston-Salem
Cummings
Rollo
Julie
Italy
Ed Bumgarner
Ted Cummings
Qoint
TCU
Zenith
Sunshine
S.wrenn ST
CT Rupe
MFG. CO
Singer Sewing Center
N. Main St
Maine
California
Dart
America
Phoenix
Fairlane
Savoy
Fairlane 500
Belvedere Seine
Galaxie
Bel Air
Dodge Division
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge
Horace
South Main Street
G. Ilderton, Inc
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