Weather update with temperatures and sun times
Low temperature tonight 70 matches last night. Highs reach 85 today and tomorrow. Sunset today 7:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 11:00 a.m.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1958
Page
7
Low temperature tonight 70 matches last night. Highs reach 85 today and tomorrow. Sunset today 7:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 11:00 a.m.
Realty transfers list multiple parcel trades including Roy Richard Watson and R. D. Dickson swapping lots in Tise subdivision and in Willenbar Terrace. Alma Meador transfers to E B Meador. Crestwood Church Inc. to H C Simmons. Pilot Life Insurance Co. to William Harmon Keel. and the Voncannon couple exchanging property in T R Voncannon and C C Voncannon deeds.
Harvey Bailey, 71, a central figure in the 1933 Urschel kidnapping, seeks to overturn his life sentence in Federal District Court. Bailey is imprisoned at Leavenworth as his attorney advances claims of constitutional rights violations during the trials.
The Vatican announced the death in Baghdad of Joseph VII Ghanima aged 77, patriarch of Babylonia of the Chaldees. The patriarchate oversees the Oriental Catholic Rite of the Chaldees under the Roman Church.
North Carolina shows mostly cloudy warm conditions with showers and scattered thunder for this afternoon and Thursday. Georgia expects cloudy skies with scattered showers and warm nights. South Carolina forecasts widespread showers and thundershowers this afternoon into tonight with lingering warm, partly cloudy and widely scattered storms Thursday. Highs reach the 80s and 90s across the region.
McLendon bought WGRC in Louisville and had announcers play a single record The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor The stunt drew flood of calls overloading the switchboard and drawing police attention The owner explained listeners switch away then return seeking other programming without lasting impact
In Detroit the city cracks down on aging cornices after a June 24 20 foot section fell from a store on Woodward Avenue killing one woman and injuring two. A second cornice fell June 30 and a tile decoration toppled last Sunday near State Sen Charles S Allen. no injuries then. The chief inspector ordered removals with over 100 notices issued and stiff fines.
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Army’s top civilian missile expert, identifies gravity and paperwork as the major problems of the nation’s space age program. He says we can conquer gravity but paperwork can be overwhelming.
Mrs. Francis Bera of Long Beach California and her co pilot Mrs Evelyn Kelly won the 12th annual transcontinental Powder Puff Derby for women finishing the 2178 mile route from California to Charleston. Ground speed averaged 177 8 mph with 48 planes finishing after handicaps. Second place went to Mrs Pauline Glassom of Lincoln Nebraska.
In Loma Linda California Washington educator says Americans fear the fizz in their gun more than fizzies in rockets. Dr Winton H Beaven dean of Potomac University School of Graduate Studies notes Americans spend ten times more on liquor than basic research annually. He cites 1957 Alcohol consumption figures.
Mrs Emery L. Frazier wife of the U S Senate chief clerk died yesterday of a heart attack. She was born in Bowie Arizona.
A Mann Drug Store employee, 20 year old Daniel Brooks Gardner of Apt. resident Albert Ochs Gardner, was charged with grand larceny after allegedly stealing $380 from his employer. He appeared for a preliminary hearing and was bound over to Superior Court under a $1,000 bond. Investigators noted Gardner bought clothes and a car after the theft and recovered $200 of the missing funds. He allegedly left with a Mann Drug No. 1 cigarette box containing small bills.
Marilyn Monroe is back in Hollywood after a New York visit and appears at a reception in a sheath. She will star in the Billy Wilder film Some Like It and receives 15 percent of the movie’s take, trusting Wilder to deliver a strong project.
Detroit AP notes price hikes in postage and changes to stamp vending machines as the act of Congress prompts a major overhaul. Aug 1 rates rise to 3 cents for cards, 4 cents for first class, 7 cents for air mail, with machine slots adjusted to maintain profits.
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