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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1962
Page
1
President Kennedy sent a hard farm program to Congress proposing acreage allotments and marketing quotas for wheat corn oats barley and sorghum with the government able to dump surpluses to depress prices. The plan aims to save about 5 billion over four years and tie aid to production limits with two-thirds voting referendums.
Washington AP Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg announced January unemployment fell to 5.8 percent with total employment at 65,058,000 and unemployment at 4,663,000. Despite declines, numbers were below expectations and January idle total was 700,000 less than January 1961. President Kennedy cited a vigorous recovery as Goldberg testified before Congress.
Inter-American foreign ministers approved a final report on actions against Cuban communism. A vote directed the expulsion of Fidel Castro's regime from the OAS councils. Cuba abstained or voted no with the bloc delaying expulsion.
DETROIT AP Two Wallendas aerialists died when three performers fell from a high wire during a circus pyramid. Dieter Schepp 23 and Richard Faughnan 29, the lone American, perished. Mario Wallenda 22 and Karl Wallenda 57 were injured, with Schepp a recent East German refugee and Jana Wallenda 17 the only woman in the act.
President Kennedy stirs partisan furor as Congress balks at major 1962 program elements. Republicans attack a universal approach while Democrats split. Senate hearings on medical care for the aged face delay, and House action centers on college aid amid stalled reform plans.
The Guilford College branch of the North Carolina Bank was robbed shortly after noon by an armed white man. He fled toward Greensboro driving a blue and white 1954 Buick with license BE6061. Description: 35 to 40, about six feet, 200 pounds, wearing a western hat and gray overcoat. Authorities set roadblocks as search continues.
In Detroit AP report Richard Faughnan 29 and Dieter Schepp 23 died after a high wire plunge during Shrine Circus in which the Wallendas troupe performed. Faughnan, lifelong circus fan, had married Jenny Wallenda in 1955 as she watched the tragedy unfold.
Washington reports hint at a cooling of East West friction as President Kennedy may see a measured thaw. Pierre Salinger plans a late spring or early summer trip to the Soviet Union following talks with Alexei Adzhubei and Khrushchev ally. The Berlin crisis and new cultural exchange talks test both sides while Moscow and Washington weigh cautious steps forward.
Paris reports suggest France and Algerian rebels may have reached a cease fire and independence agreement in Algeria. A secret Vevey meeting is cited as the source with Paris newspapers noting developments this week. Military reinforcements in Algiers were used as a show of strength amid tensions with European settlers.
In Brooklyn a sweet faced woman, 61, frightened two mid 30s bandits during a store stickup. She screamed until the men fled abandoning $10.21 in groceries. Managers and clerks observed her brave stand as police recorded the incident.
Ray Roberts a Dallas merchant and Texas Senate president pro tem wins the U S House seat long held by Sam Rayburn in Texas 4th district He defeats Robert C Slagle 16147 to 13302 and plans a victory meeting in Washington with Lyndon B Johnson Roberts backs Kennedy era policies but opposes federal aid to education and aid to communist countries
U N troops and Malayan forces push into Kivu Province to protect 12 American missionaries at Kama Protestant mission amid regional violence. U N says no specific danger reported, but acts as precaution as area endures rebel and marauding forces. Military operation details expected soon.
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