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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1959
Page
1
The four day old steel strike snarled plans for three Atlas missile sites near Cheyenne Wyoming with completion dates at risk and prewar tanks delayed. Nationwide production losses reach about 300 million dollars weekly, wage losses near 70 million, while federal mediation begins in New York amid stalled talks and political critiques.
Roxana Putnam, daughter of J. C. Putnam Sr., will speak at a 7:30 service on The Wesleyan Work in Puerto Rico and plans to teach at Caparra Heights Wesleyan Academy after flying to Puerto Rico for four years. Also notes recognition for Royal Ambassadors at Lexington Avenue Baptist and Central Baptist Association meeting details with leaders and new pastor Gene Williams.
In Los Angeles police linked a smudged handprint to the 1957 Majorie Hipperson murder. Kemp, a carpenter jailed on assault charges, denies rape but faces charges in the slaying after a two year, 187000-handprint comparison effort.
U S officials fault Khrushchev for speeches they say push for Germany's division while Berlin truce talks stall. A four power meeting in Geneva and separate strategy talks with Gromyko showed Western hopes fading for a quick Berlin settlement.
A demolition expert testified he was approached by a TWUA official to blow Harriet Henderson Mills property but reported the plan to the mill president and SBI after fearing death. He aided investigators in meetings with defendants, implicating seven of eight named, amid a bitter strike ongoing since last November with guards on site.
Governors Luther Hodges of North Carolina and Robert Meyner of New Jersey arrive in Warsaw for a brief Poland visit after touring the Soviet Union. The party includes William Stratton and Cecil Underwood, who left for home midway. They plan talks with President Eisenhower on increased exchanges and a session at the National Governors Conference in Puerto Rico. A humorous anecdote recalls a donkey photo stunt in Samarkand.
The Dallas post office rescued a romance when a stamped letter to a German girl was found with a missing sender. Kenneth Edmiston 27 identified himself and explained an incorrect long envelope addressed to Elfriede Prussing of Hamburg. He planned to meet her in New York and had paid $50 toward a ticket with the rest due by the 20th Monday.
The Sunday Enterprise tomorrow features Doris and Bob Earl, high above the ground on trapeze rings and swivels 80 feet without a safety net, with a history across the United States Central America and the West Indies. A High Point fat stock show and sale is Aug 19 and 4-H cattle work continues ahead of the event. A Terebee television piece explores Japanese fans and the program Superman.
Police in Anniston Alabama say Viola Hyatt killed Emmett Harper 48 and Lee Harper 55 and dismembered their bodies. Investigators found bloodstains near her father’s farm and a blood‑stained ax. Torsos were recovered near U S 11 as officers retraced her route from White Plains to Gadsden.
Fidel Castro ousted Manuel Urrutia as Cuba’s president and named Osvaldo Dorticos as the new leader. Dorticos urged Castro to remain in government as a cabinet meeting was convened. Urrutia, accompanied by his family, left the palace after a tense three hour standoff, while Castro denounced him as anti communist in a TV address.
The Navy tried a Nike ASP instrumented rocket to collect upper atmosphere radiation data. The second stage failed to ignite again, the rocket reached 90,000 feet, then tumbled into the Pacific Ocean.
A flash rain triggered a stampede at an outdoor comedy and music event in Pusan Korea. Police reported 62 killed, 51 children under 10 among the dead, at least 26 dying at stadium gates as 70,000 attendees pressed for shelter. Dozens more were hospitalized or treated at home.
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