Whites, Negroes Clash In High Point Racial Strife
A tense afternoon in High Point saw Negro youths marching downtown and whites taunting them. Police used sidewalks and bridge edicts to separate groups as rocks and bottles flew near Washington and Hamilton. One 21 year old, Jerry C Sanders, was arrested for congregating on a public sidewalk as crowds dispersed amid riot gear and tear gas readiness.
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High Street
Main
Wrenn
Wrenn Street Bridge
Broad Street
Mann's Drug Stores
Jerry Clayton Sanders
Grayson Street
Wrenn Street
Broad
Hamilton
Frenn
Washington
Stander
High Point
Portsmouth
Durham
Jerry Sanders
R. W. Brown
J. C. Myers
Police Warn to End Violent Race Demonstrations
Local police in cleancut crackdown mode warned that they will arrest participants in violent demonstrations as clashes between white and Negro youths over segregation at lunch counters escalated. Police Chief C C Stoker said officers will act to restore public safety, with charges including inciting to riot and carrying weapons.
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C. C. Stoker
Washington Street
Dents
Greensboro
Northerner in South SeeS Both Sides Of Racial Crisis
An Enterprise reporter in Pittsfield reflects after a day of brick throwing violence in a Southern city. He notes tiredness of bigotry and describes Greensboro protests triggering racial tension across North Carolina and the nation.
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Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield
Mass
Enterprise
Eagle
South
Four Sentenced In Superior Court In High Point
Four long term sentences were handed down by Judge Jack Hooks in a High Point Superior Court. William McGraw a 21 year old from Bakers Town received 18 to 24 months plus a two year suspended sentence on seven other charges. Tyree F Grubb 23 of Adams Street drew 18 to 24 months and a three to five year suspended term on five others. Robert F Poteat 45 of Route 5 High Point got six months on three charges. James Robert Pike 35 of Kentucky received seven to ten years for breaking and entering larceny and receiving.
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Jack Hooks
Smithfield
William McGraw
Bakertown
Tyree F. Grubb
Adams Street
Robert F. Poteat
Route 5
High Point
James Robert Pike
McGraw
Carolina Trailways
Ward and
English Streets
Distraught Girl Clings to Window During Court Sentence
An 18-year-old girl, Juanita South, attempted to leap from a second floor window at Guilford County Court House after being sentenced to 18 months in the state women's prison for larceny and receiving in a theft of a $40 coat. Deputy James Skinner restrained her as she hung over the ledge. she cried, was carried from the courtroom, and later restrained in a detention room.
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Guilford County Court House
State Prisons Department
Guilford County
James Skinner
Juanita South
Miss South
Pearl Huffman
Prospect Street
Skinner
Cloudy Weather Forecast From Friendship Bureau
Tomorrow's outlook from the weather bureau at Friendship predicts a cloudy day with a high near 50. Mild conditions will give way to increasing cloudiness this afternoon with temperatures about five to six degrees below normal through Monday. Tonight's low around 33 follows last night's 29. Today's high reached 54, eight degrees above yesterday's 46.
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Weather Bureau
Friendship
Jollies Rehearsals Set for Friday Night Tryouts Included
Rehearsals for the 1960 Jaycee Jollies begin Friday at 7 30 pm in the Kindergarten of Culture at the corner of Richardson and Wrenn Streets. Final tryouts precede the sessions and director Bob Marsh invites interested performers to attend. The 14th Jollies features Dixieland Jazz era themed acts with new lighting enhancing the show beginning April 6 for a four day run.
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Kindergarten of Culture
Richardson and
Wrenn Streets
Bob Marsh
Jollies
Marsh
Jaycee Jollies
Man Charged With Assault After Family Dispute
Carson Ray Simpson, 39, of Pine Street, remained jailed after being arrested on a complaint by his sister Stella Myers. She accused him of threatening her with a shovel during a family argument, leading to the assault with a deadly weapon charge.
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Thomasville
Carson Ray Simpson
Stella Myers
Myers
Simpson
Pine Street
High Point Race Tension Meeting Ends Without Commitments
Representatives from two High Point groups met for about 45 minutes to ease race tensions after white youth demonstrations near downtown. No commitments were made as tensions rose with a nearby counter demonstration, leading to a near riot scene. Covington urged constructive work, offered mediation, and kept open lines with merchants and the chamber as possible help. The five youths involved were Jim Green, 17. Jim Guinn, 18. Chester Woolard, 18. Don Pugh, 17. and Ted Faulkner, 18.
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George Covington
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Clyde Campbell
High Point Merchants Association
B. Elton Cox
Jim Green
Jim Guinn
Chester Woolard
Don Pugh
Ted Faulkner
Woolard
Faulkner
Covington
Main
High Streets
Exmayor
Chamber of Commerce
N. Main Street
High Point
Rawleigh Describes TV Plans in FCC Hearing
James Nestor Rawleigh of High Point North Carolina testified as the sole High Point stockholder in Southern Broadcasters Inc He is a vice president and director and said he persuaded directors to switch the main studio plan from Winston Salem to High Point for a proposed Channel 8 station serving the Piedmont area He expects to work 15 hours weekly for the TV station while remaining president of the J N Rawleigh Co He spends 40 to 70 hours weekly there Earl F Slick a Winston Salem 20 percent stockholder and director said Southern has not bought property in High Point area but has options Witnesses for Southern testified Tuesday.
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Washington
James Nestor Rawleigh
High Point
N.C
Southern Broadcasters, Inc
Rawleigh
Broadcasting Company
Federal Communications Commission
Winston - Salem
Southern
Earl F. Slick
Winston-Salem
Winston - Salem Broadcasting Co
Slick
Southern Broadcast
Kirkman May Tell By Weekend
Sen O A Kirkman a High Point native is expected to say by Saturday whether he will run for governor in the spring Democratic primary. Guilford County Democrats endorsed him boosting his decision while funds remain a hurdle amid other candidates including Sanford Larkins and Kornegay.
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O. A. Kirkman
High Point
Guilford County
Greensboro
High Pointer
Terry Sanford
Fayetteville
John Larkins Jr
Trenton
Horace Kornegay
Democratic Executive Committee
Kornegay
Joseph M. Hunt
State House
Prayer for TODAY Eternal Fellowship in Christ
Prayer invoking fellowship as divine reality and mutual trust. Baker Pearle of St. Louis presides, asking guidance to seek communion through God rather than privilege and to grow as true sons in Christ.
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God
Sons of God
Christ
Amen
Baker Pearle
St. Louis
A.M.E. Church
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Dick Bickerton
Main Street
J. W. P. Mooney
Sere
North Carolina
Grubb
Robert Ring
Taylor Street
Fred D. Grubb
Poteat
Pike
Russell Street
Raleigh
Charlotte
Virginia
South Carolina
Ing
Merchants Association
The
Chamber
Kirkman
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