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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1956
Page
16
STATESVILLE N C A speaker from the Exchange during National Crime Prevention Week urged local action to fight crime. He warned that breakdowns in citizenship enable crime citing Phenix City Alabama as an example and urged citizens to support local law enforcement and ethics in the home school and church.
McKnight editor of the Charlotte Observer joins Harvard Nieman Fellowships selection panel along with Dwight E. Sargent of the Portland Press Herald and Milburn Akers of the Chicago Sun-Times. Harvard faculty members complete the six person committee. about a dozen fellowships are awarded annually with an April 15 deadline.
Wanderley de Cunha Camargo a 20 year old Brazilian baggage handler hid in the nosewheel of a Pan American DC6 in Sao Paulo and rode 5,182 miles to Idlewild. He jumped out Saturday night and wandered near the airport in freezing cold with little clothing. He was detained at immigration awaiting return to Brazil.
North Carolina increases commercial corn counties to 27 with four new counties Wake Bertie Northampton and Washington. State allotment for 1956 set at 858 604 acres compared with 890 177 last year. National total is 43 280 543 acres with price supports pending on the new year.
James Spicer of Mount Joy raced 10 miles at up to 95 mph with his 18 month daughter Jasqueline as she choked on a gum drop. Moments before reaching St Joseph's Hospital the child died. Coroner ruled accidental death from the lodged candy. The parents had tried to help earlier.
Kay, a nine year old with a speech impediment, was left at the Jimmy Willis home by a woman who rang the bell and drove away. The Rudisill family nearby worried over the night until Kay was identified and reunited with her mother who realized the error. The incident echoed a prior Christmas mix up.
In Phoenix, bartender Jim Smith fired several shots at a prowler. The shots cut a main power line, plunging half of north Phoenix into darkness. Smith told reporters he would share details later, but he had a crowded bar to tend and liquor to protect. the prowler escaped in the darkness.
Police say two white youths over 16 admitted participation in ink splattering pie throwing and vandalism at Harding High School and four businesses. Damage included burned records, smashed windows, looted machines and dumped food products. total damage estimated at $500 with $66 in soft drink machine losses.
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