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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1966
Page
2
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In Birmingham civil rights leader Haysa Williams was convicted of reckless driving but acquitted of driving while intoxicated. Judge Harold Knight ordered a $190 fine plus costs and a 0 day suspended jail term, with Williams given until February 14 to pay or appeal. Williams, a staff officer with the SCLC, denied intoxication and red light violations while officers testified to speeding and weaving.
Police investigated a break in at Forest City Northwestern Bank branch. About 1,018.10 in silver was taken from a safe blown open after entry through a back door during the night. The safe, later found in a field behind the bank, was used for change. Authorities from Forest City police and the FBI pursued leads.
New York Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek, after nine seasons with the club, announces retirement. Mayo Clinic reports in Rochester that the one year old injury may press on a spinal cord nerve, potentially affecting reflexes.
President Johnson requests a $112.8 billion budget with North Carolina projects totaling over $11.2 million. Highlights include $2.287 million for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, more than $6 million for North Carolina water projects, and $1.933 million for federal buildings in Wilkesboro, Goldsboro, and Oxford. The Blue Ridge Parkway in NC and Cape Hatteras National Seashore receive funding. regional economic development for Appalachia is set at $155.8 million.
A Soviet defector in Vienna disputes the claim that American Mott killed himself aboard a prison train. He describes strict guard surveillance, cattle cars and cell-style compartments used to transport prisoners, saying escape or self harm would be virtually impossible without special prisoner status.
Long journal reading and filibuster delay Senate action on a plan to repeal Taft-Hartley Section 1489. Senator Mansfield seeks a two hour morning hour to bring the bill up while Dirksen and Bennett press a rule fight. House previously passed repeal 221 to 203.
In Pacific Palisades California Jamison Handy Jr. powered his Detroit electric car from a home extension cord during an 80 minute Los Angeles area blackout that darkened about 209000 homes. The car’s 108 watt battery charged enough to run a shaver toaster and radio until refrigerators and TV could be unplugged. Handy bought the antique vehicle in 1935 in Detroit and says it helps save gasoline rationing while still serving as a shopping car.
Snow and flurries anticipated from the northern Plateau through the Ohio and Tennessee valleys on Tuesday night with rain and showers along the northern Pacific coast and south Atlantic coast states. Colder along the eastern coast and northern Plains, warmer in the Lakes region and central Plateau. AP Wirephoto.
President Johnson asked Congress for a broad program to combat rural poverty. He announced a commission to study rural poverty and report within a year, while proposing extensive planning, federal aid, and pilot projects in selected counties. The plan includes community development districts and grants for districtwide public services and coordinated federal and local planning efforts. The Agriculture Secretary would certify eligible districts.
Regional forecast calls for considerable cloudiness and cold temperatures across North Carolina with occasional snow in the mountains and northern Piedmont, mostly rain elsewhere toward evening. Snow possible in the northwest half tonight into Wednesday, with occasional rain in the southeast. lows range from the middle 20s in the mountains to around 40 in the south coast. In South Carolina, cloudy and cold with possible freezing rain or snow in the northwest and mostly rain southeast, with overnight lows from the upper 20s to mid 40s along the coast.
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