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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1959
Page
2
A study of Mikhail Mikoyan portraying him as a vigorous, humorous Soviet leader promoting peace and trade with the United States. The campaign themes include ending the cold war, easing mistrust, expanding contacts, and using humor to bridge relations with Adlai Stevenson cited as open to understanding Moscow.
Gen. George C. Marshall remains in bed at his Leesburg Virginia home where he is hospitalized after a mild stroke like episode. The 78 year old leader, who served as Defense Secretary and authored the Marshall Plan, celebrated his birthday December 31 with visitors as a Ft Bragg band serenaded him beneath his window. A visit by Queen Frederika of Greece occurred last October during his illness.
A Navy carryall collided with a truck carrying frozen orange juice about 12 miles west of Pensacola. Six sailors were killed and three injured. The truck driver, Robert Albaugh of Lynnwood, California, was unhurt. The dead include Richard A. Saah and six others aged 12 to 18, all members of a work party returning from Barin Field to Whiting Field. Injured were Thomas Hatley, Charles Trent, and Chester Sulenski.
J. W. Styers senior vice president of Wachovia Bank will speak at 6 pm Friday at the Forsyth Country Club Winston-Salem on The Bankers View of Accounting. A Duke graduate and World War II veteran he rose through Wachovia to senior VP in 1988 and leads Loan Administration. He led the Carolinas-Virginia chapter of Robert Morris Associates and is active in civic affairs.
John J. Sigerson, general manager of the Lyon Furniture Mercantile Agency, died at High Point Memorial Hospital after a heart attack at the Lyon Agency office. Born August 4, 1880 in Philadelphia, he was married to Nora Plunkett. his body was sent to Philadelphia and funeral plans were incomplete.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson holds firm as majority leader guiding a reshuffle of Senate committees. Democrats assign key posts, enlarging the Appropriations panel to 27 and rewarding Johnson backers including Rep. Byrd on Appropriations and Banking.
Soviet official Anastas Mikoyan urged a Da da da approach to relations, saying the USSR poses neither economic threat nor menace to the United States. He spoke at the Economic Club dinner in New York after meeting business leaders and visiting Macy’s, Wall Street, and a reception with Averell Harriman, amid anti-Soviet protests outside.
Salt Lake City Utah UP officials could not locate the clapper for the legislative bell. Secretary of State Lamont F Toronto used a monkey wrench to open the 1959 session after a delay in convening.
In Chapel Hill fans packed the streets after UNC defeated NC State 72-48 in overtime, reclaiming No 3 national ranking. Fireworks and a bonfire lit the town as students cheered, some flashing lapel pins and old No 1 plates from 1957. A pantie raid scare prompted quick window closures as exam time paused for celebration.
Bloodmobile visit to High Point slowed at noon today. Katheryn Leach says the response was unusually quiet while Allan Mebane's canteen volunteers baked chocolate cupcakes for donors. Jim Greenway stresses meeting the 250 pint quota due to district blood shortages.
In Mineral Virginia investigators probe the vanishing of 29 year old father husband and his wife and two young daughters. The car with keys in ignition was found on a Louisa County country road. A nearby family reported a similar roadside confrontation with an older model car and a young man driving. The sheriff calls the case a probable kidnapping and notes ongoing leads and cold trail status. Priorities: preserve named individuals Mildred Hill Jackson Susan Ann Janet Carrol and Sheriff W E Proffitt and the incident near Richmond area.
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