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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1959
Page
1
Anxious residents across western Indiana face rising floodwaters from the Wabash River. Ice jams and forecast rain threaten more evacuations as Terre Haute and Peru brace for disaster area designations and federal aid. National guards patrol Peru and the Red Cross runs shelter zones as the flood waters threaten farms and towns along the river.
President Eisenhower urged Congress to approve a 1.575 billion increase in the U S contribution to the International Monetary Fund and doubling the World Bank capital from 3.175 to 6.35 billion. The moves, recommended by 68-nation boards, require no immediate cash outlay and aim to match expanding world trade and demand for investment capital.
Thirteen northern and central Indiana counties are declared in a state of emergency as floods force hundreds from homes. In Ohio, Sandusky River floods ease but Newark loses much of its water supply after a Licking River dam break, disrupting schools and industry as repairs may take a week. Fremont, Ohio reports about 1,500 evacuees. Gov. Handley seeks federal disaster designation. President Eisenhower urged to act.
Lincoln Isham, great-grandson of President Lincoln, declines invitations to 150th anniversary events as his relatives Mary Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith plan quiet observances on their Vermont and Virginia farms. The Vermont village of Dorset sits near the Green Mountains where Isham resides.
The Senate Labor Management Committee aims to pierce secrecy around the 1957 Apalachin convention of 58 gangsters and suspects. Lt James Mooney will testify linking the meeting to charges of gangsters and corrupt labor leaders seizing control of the coin machine industry in New York. Also notes ambush of Milton Green a coin machine operator near Brooklyn and Coney Island over a dispute with operators and Teamsters Local 266.
Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy was honored as Big Brother of the Year in a White House ceremony arranged by President Eisenhower. The International Big Brother Movement cited his interest in American youth and education, noting his 1955 White House Conference on Education leadership.
Los Angeles AP reports Belmont High School vice principal William Condit warns cars hurt grades. He notes no straight-A students own cars while 15 percent of B, 41 percent of C, and 71 percent of D students have them. He cites Idaho data and says upkeep strains budgets and time, urging parental caution.
British sources say a London meeting may open to approve the Zurich plan for Cyprus. Greece Turkey and Britain push to end 81 years of British rule in Cyprus with a three power conference before parliament ratifies any final settlement. Archbishop Makarios supports the move as victims rise toward a swift solution.
Republicans weigh Chicago or Philadelphia as likely 1960 convention host with a late July or early August date. No decision expected before April as Democratic rivals back Los Angeles for their July 11 gathering.
Carl Sandburg lauds Lincoln before Congress in Washington. The ceremony draws Justices, Cabinet members and diplomats as Lincoln’s tomb at Oak Ridge is visited by hundreds. Preston J. Moore urges resolve in the atomic era. Eisenhower attends memorial dinner praising Lincoln’s humanity.
Police hunt a thief who stole a 25 foot high aluminum moon-watch antenna with a 35 foot cross arm and 150 pound weight from a site awaiting erection atop an 80 foot tower. The device, used for satellite tracking and data transmission to moon watchers, had been set as a planetarium exhibit.
A Pennsylvanian Railroad passenger train traveling from Washington to New York derailed about 10 miles east of Baltimore at 7 43 a m. Thirty two people were taken to hospitals and three were released after checkups. Officials differed on the cause as derailed cars scattered ties and ballast along the right of way. Passenger Henry Gardiner of Philadelphia described the dining car chaos and the assistance offered by another passenger.
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