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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1961
Page
3
RALEIGH AP The Consolidated University of North Carolina will ask for more funding than the Advisory Budget Commission recommended for the next biennium. President William C. Friday said several B budget requests were omitted from the commission's recommendations and will be urged for restoration along with capital improvement needs. The commission approved only 13 million of the 33 million sought for capital projects.
Police seek Fred Thompson 59 in a nationwide hunt for Edith Goofie Kiccorius 4 who was raped and beaten to death in an $8-a-week room. Autopsy linked fingerprints from a cabaret license to Thompson, who left his family 15 years ago and has a long drunken record.
Sir Carol Reed has withdrawn as director of the film Mutiny on the Bounty, announced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Studio sources cite differences of opinion between Reed and the studio as the cause of the withdrawal.
An appearance by Billy Graham at the University of Miami drew mixed student reactions as classes were suspended for his talk to about 3,000. Police presence topped 30 but no demonstrations occurred during the event, though earlier student uproar and dorm discontent sparked brief alarms and patrol responses.
In Reading Pennsylvania burglars hit the Hamburg Tire Co. safe, sprayed with tear gas, and opened a steel lined vault to take a $10 watch. They then moved to the Hamburg Plow Works, were again sprayed with tear gas, and fled after leaving $35 behind.
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