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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
11
James Marlow notes voters will struggle to separate fact from rhetoric as Democrats and Republicans push similar programs in a Congress with 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans in the Senate and 230 Democrats and 203 Republicans in the House. Vacancies aside, bipartisan support and internal splits will complicate attribution of credit.
The 1956 Operation Lant raex 1-56 war games open in the Caribbean with Marines sailing from Morehead City to Vieques to set up a base for thousands of troops. Lt. Col. James B. Jacobson leads the advance party under Brig. Gen. Wallace M. Greene Jr. Navy ships including USS Wisconsin and USS Siboney join the amphibious exercise set to climax in early March.
A protest against segregated seating on a city bus ended with 72 Black passengers detained after Xavier University students refused to sit behind a white divider. Bus driver Francis Roux halted the vehicle, called police, and a riot incitement charge was filed against 17 year old Fanny Carver of Dillard University.
Question set asks 7 items on tax deadlines, remarriage rates, college earnings, hockey status, labor vote size, wife age gap, and McGinnis affiliations with Montgomery Ward Knights of Columbus Civil Liberties Union New Haven R R or Irish embassy. answer section noted as Page MA.
New York entrepreneur groups and executives face a Congress where taxes, highway building, foreign aid, farm subsidies, labor laws and more will be debated. Corporate tax rates could fall on April 1, while personal income taxes loom as an election year issue. Opinions vary on aid, regulation and spending as lawmakers address fiscal policy.
The January issue highlights a $25,000 Home Improvement contest open to readers. Entry blanks available in local stores and in the January issue.
Two editors from the Carolinas join 19 journalists named to a panel that will recommend 1956 Pulitzer Prize entrants. The jurors meet March 12-13 at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism to review nominations. The advisory board meets April 26-27 to select winners announced May 7. Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News & Observer will advise in editorials. S L Latimer Jr of The State will advise in editorials.
Jule H. Purvis says he is giving up his $5,700 post as Beaufort County ABC stores supervisor after the State ABC Board voted he violated the spirit and purpose of the control act. The board removed him following hearings and cited noncompliance with regulations and lack of cooperation with law enforcement. Purvis had claimed politics and personal motives drove the action. Allen denied the charges.
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