18 Jul 1960
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1960
Page
1
The stock market showed mixed moves with some volatile issues down over a point while others advanced slightly. The Dow shed 1.08 to 624.16 as investors awaited a potential rebound from a nearby support level amid scant business news for stimulus and ongoing international tensions.
Roanoke Va AP three men die after a motorcycle crashes into a freight train at a downtown crossing. Bassett Furniture Industries chairman William M Bassett 66 of Bassett Va dies in hospital after the collision. His wife aboard the motorcycle survived, and Bassett Industries announces a shutdown in his memory.
The article reports a dispute over a proposed offer by President Eisenhower to provide confidential national security data to presidential nominees. Kennedy accepts the implied plan, naming Stevenson and Bowles as liaison figures, while Hagerty warns the arrangement is not yet finalized and clarifies that Eisenhower has not formally offered such briefings.
First contingents of U S and world Boy Scout units move into Colorado Springs for the Golden Jubilee Jamboree with 5000 youths expected by Thursday night for seven days of activities. Units arrive from Riggefield Conn and Van Nuys California as 350 Canadian scouts prepare camps.
Roman Catholics at Havana cathedral chant Cuba sí, Rusia no after an anti Communist mass. Crowds vented against the regime’s leftward shift while hecklers were escorted to safety by police. Castro, recovering from a lung infection, remained silent as U.S. tensions rose.
Warrenton attorney James D. Gilliland was fined 250 dollars for contempt of court for failing to appear at the May term of Warren Superior Court. The May juried disbarment case was led by the state bar council and later cleared Gilliland at a special June term. The contempt order followed further hearings after Judge Walter J. Bone signed the fine and Judge Henry A. McKinnon had earlier directed Gilliland to show cause.
Gary Young, 46, planned a charity horse show publicity ride in Omaha. He wore a cocked hat and frock coat but city ordinance requiring a parade permit for horses on streets stopped the planned walk and parade. The horse instead rode in a trailer as heat reached 89 degrees.
A 20 man Ghana unit joins Ethiopian troops and U N planes in a mobilization around Leopoldville and Stanleyville as Lumumba and Kasavubu remain in the north. Soviet support signals potential intervention while Belgian paratroops drop into Kindu. Lumumba warns against leaks as Belgians and Belgian troops face Congo leaders.
On Monday the station lists program blocks from 3 to 6, featuring Tr. Malone Roots and the Thin Man followed by Buckskin and Bandstand. At 8:30 Captain Gallant, then Harbor Command, Weather, Sports, News, Huntley Brinkley, and Beaver at 6:02.
The article notes that a briefing system would place a responsible CIA member with candidates at any location to discuss the international scene. It recalls that Eisenhower planned to repeat the 1952 practice of briefing the presidential and running mate team and likewise in 1956 for the Democratic nominees.
London AP report says Gypsy Jack Smith twenty four shot and killed himself near his encampment home as police closed in after Ethel Collinge was found murdered in a barley field last Tuesday. His mother Violet Smith said he was under an evil spell and bewitched after a past love affair. Police found his body in an outhouse with a shotgun beside him. the same weapon killed Mrs Collinge.
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