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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1960
Page
2
President Eisenhower issued a new security screening system for defense plant workers. The plan adds a right to respond, a personal hearing, and cross examination of adverse statements with safeguards to protect national security and avoid judging loyalty.
The International Economic Policy Assn seeks permission to set up American automobile agencies in the Soviet Union with installment credit facilities. The group cites a deal for 10 000 Moskvitch cars to be distributed in the United States and argues such sales would raise living standards and foster reciprocity in consumer trade.
The battered body of 14 year old Carol Arlene Feathers was found in a bottomlands dump near the Memphis Arkansas Bridge. Police say 17 year old Jerry Lynn Blankenship admitted killing her after she resisted his advances. He was held in Marion Arkansas after the admission.
Boston AP The state's medical witness testified Lynn Kauffman was beaten and dragged through a porthole before being thrown overboard to drown on the ship Utrecht. Dutch radio operator Willem van Rie is on trial for first degree murder, with the defense offering an alternate theory of death by own action.
The Soviet union’s new travel passes for East Germany threaten recognition of East Germany and probe the Western allies. The United States Britain and France face a choice between accepting toned down exposure or scrapping long standing military missions. France tentatively agrees while the others reject the passes and warn Marshal Zakharov that the moves are unacceptable.
Teachers in Guilford County will sit an April 9 exam linked to research on teacher preparation quality. The State Board of Education study is directed by a committee. Applications close March 18. Exams occur at Woman’s College, High Point Senior High School, and A and T College under named supervisors.
The diary of 2nd Lt. Robert F. Toner from the Lady Be Good crash trek in the Libyan Desert records a bleak trek after running out of gas on a Naples to base mission in April 1943. The notes describe extreme thirst, blistering heat by day and near freezing nights, with prayers and dwindling supplies as the men aimed for Solukh Field, Libya.
Snow is expected Sunday from north and central Mississippi Valley eastward through the Lakes region and upper Ohio Valley to upper New York State and Pennsylvania. Rain is expected over the lower Ohio Valley Tennessee Valley and the south and central Appalachians with warmer readings in Ohio and Tennessee valleys and from the south and central Rockies to California.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Bandung voiced readiness to aid Indonesia in its anti colonial struggle while noting concerns over Dutch led West New Guinea. He indicated Indonesia could align with the United States while dismissing China’s objections to its rural trade policy and told Sukarno to follow its own path.
A Census Bureau report shows four year manufacturing growth in Guilford County. Employment rose from 37 380 in 1954 to 42 211 in 1958 while unadjusted value added by manufacturing climbed from 169 106 000 to 315 634 000.
Vernon R. Taylor of the Putt Putt Golf Course at 1301 Florida Ave leaves for Atlanta to attend the Second Annual Putt Putt Golf Courses Owners institute and convention. The gathering runs Sunday through Thursday.
Light column humor notes that taxes are due as spring returns and bluebirds reappear, reflecting on the season's timing and everyday, ordinary life with a wry wink.
A wartime style appeal urges Americans to support Radio Free Europe to counter Soviet control. It stresses the nyet of oppression, links freedom to sacrifice, cites President Eisenhower, and asks readers to send funds to sustain broadcasts reaching captive nations.
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