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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1962
Page
8
The House Ways and Means Committee ordered a draft bill to cap deductions for most business entertainment at 50 percent and require proof of expenses. The move signals broad agreement for tighter tax rules, though it stops short of Kennedy’s push to end deductions for most such expenses.
Presidents from 19 colleges in Piedmont and Western North Carolina convened in Greensboro to resume talks on a Piedmont university center. The plan envisions shared library services adult education counseling and testing programs graduate offerings and artist lecturer visits with Col Herbert W K Fitzroy coordinating discussions. Institutions named include Greensboro College Salem Wake Forest Woman's A&T Davidson Catawba Appalachian Belmont Abbey Bennett Elon Guilford High Point Livingstone Pfeiffer Queens Western Carolina Winston-Salem Teachers and Johnson C Smith.
The House tentatively approved a bill raising postage by a penny per letter and boosting junk mail rates. The measure would raise first class and air mail to 5 and 8 cents and add roughly 700 million dollars in revenue if the Senate accepts.
CBS president Richard Salant told FCC hearings that informational programming for children is a perplexing problem. He noted CBS funds pilots on American history literature and the contemporary world of reality and that news programming rose about 40 percent to around 690 hours.
Celia the streamer-tailed hummingbird, hatched in captivity in Cleveland, paired with a Milwaukee male. Their brief union raised hopes for a second generation, but the Milwaukee bird died last July and no eggs hatched. Washington Zoo sent a male hammer to assist, and the pair will be introduced again in hopes of successful breeding.
In Madras three schoolchildren died after consuming a meal made with CARE milk powder. Forty pupils fell ill January 19 in Tirunelveli District as authorities ordered a halt to using the powder pending analysis. A 10-year-old girl and two 6-year-old boys died after the incident.
Evangelist Billy Graham spoke to about 4000 in Maracaibo after slipping out a back door to escape a pro Cuban mob. Officials had to remove him from a legislative hall as rioters gathered outside amid tensions tied to the Punta del Este conference.
A 17 year old prison escapee, Lonnie Edward Greer, was captured after stealing a school bus and attempting to cross the Catawba River bridge on U S 321 in Hickory. He fled from a Catawba County work detail and faced charges of prison escape, larceny of a school bus, and driving without an operator's license.
Secretary of Commerce Luther H Hodges says a tax cut is entirely conceivable if the United States can raise production by 4 percent in the next year. He noted the 52 percent corporate income tax could be cut if growth slows to 4 percent and not the 25 percent recent average.
Liberace threw a party to unveil his Hollywood Hills mansion valued at $275,000. The 32 year old residence on Queen's Road above the Sunset Strip features 29 rooms, five pianos, a rectangular pool, and a gold themed decor with a self built living room valance and French provincial touches.
Mary Tudor, known for persecuting Protestants to restore Roman Catholicism in England, earned the sobriquet Bloody Mary during the reign.
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