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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
2
President Kennedy defends civil rights progress while urging continued effort against race discrimination. He cites executive action and litigation as progress in education voting housing and employment and warns that inequality harms economic growth world leadership and public welfare. He calls discrimination wrong.
The Rock prison near San Francisco shrinks from 260 inmates to 64 as 38 convicts, including Mickey Cohen, are moved to other facilities. The facility is slated to be empty by July 1 with plans under study for future use possibly as a sightseeing site or restaurant.
The article notes an item of 2 million dollars in the budget for community colleges in Charlotte Asheville and Wilmington and outlines a projected system of at least 14 colleges with state share support. Public hearings will be held for interested parties to air views as controversy over new names for university units continues. The bill would name institutions including North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, a compromise McLendon says cannot please everyone.
Mount Holly New Jersey AP Samuel L Poole a vagrant who had been jailed 20 days and twice before faced a third arrest. Municipal Court Judge Wilbur S Lippincott provided a five dollar bill for a one way bus ticket to Atlantic City 70 miles away after Poole asked for public lodging.
The piece notes Khrushchev assuring Cuba of Soviet support and reports a Moscow Beijing dialogue. It mentions Mao Zedong meeting the Soviet ambassador in Peking with Wu Hsiu chuan present. Analysts suggest talks aim at a high level Kremlin-Peking meeting to set terms.
At a Mount Healthy elementary school flag raising ceremony the Star Spangled Banner played as students and Legionnaires stood at attention. Nearby Hamilton County road crew members in bright yellow helmets also paused in respect at the curb.
Fires struck Chocowinity Elementary School, a Washington store, and Pine land College EMI in Salemburg, causing over 600000 in damage. No injuries were reported. Chocowinity School blamed water shortages for hampering firefighting. Pineland College EMI valued losses at 250000 for an auditorium, library and classrooms.
NASA chief James Webb told the House Space Committee the United States remains committed to landing a man on the Moon. He said the $5.7 billion budget request is the lowest needed to keep the lunar program on schedule despite uncertain conditions.
An advertisement touts OdriNex weight loss tablets with a seven day money back guarantee. It claims appetite suppression without exercise or dieting and promises full refunds via Leonard's Drug Store in High Point North Carolina with mall orders available.
Horace R. Kornegay announces ABCD four hour same day local delivery for first class letters under a Post Office Department program. About 275 cities will gain local ABCD service this year with High Point included. Deliveries to downtown points will be completed by 3 p.m. in the local area. The date of implementation will be announced by Postmaster General J Edward Day.
The NEA reports North Carolina near the bottom among states for adult schooling years and 14 to 17 year olds enrolled. NC youths in school stood at 82.8 percent while the national average was 87.4. Only 37.4 percent of selective service registrants passed the mental test, above the national 23 percent. South Carolina ranked lowest at 46 percent.
Ivie Shelton, 36, argued after 16 years of marriage a man may throw two or three punches. Judge John O'Hara found him guilty of assault and battery and placed him on six months probation.
In Atlantic City, N J the AP notes the name salt water taffy originated here though the candy contains no salt water.
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