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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1963
Page
1
Washington AP reports that fallout is expected to increase this year due to last year’s Soviet nuclear tests. Experts say exposure to Americans remains small and would take over 30 years to become a concern, if at all.
The article notes further desegregation in Charlotte affecting about 475 Negro children who will attend school with white students next fall. It also mentions a Mount Airy drug store lunch counter issue and demonstrations in Raleigh with motorists brushing past marchers but no injuries or arrests.
Washington AP. Rep Francis E Walter 69 longtime Pennsylvania Democrat and chairman of the House Un American Activities Committee died Friday after lengthy illness. He was elected to a 16th term last Nov 6 and had been hospitalized at Georgetown University Hospital. The death was attributed to leukemia. President Kennedy issued condolences noting Walters steadfast courage.
The General Assembly approved the Sanford administration's $1.2 billion budget for 1963-65 and moved to speed up legislation while stalled on Senate redistricting under the current constitutional formula. A separate push aimed to raise the minimum wage to 85 cents an hour as part of broader pay and highway safety measures faced a rocky path through the chamber.
Integration leader calls for renewed demonstrations in Jackson after more than 400 Negroes, many teens, are arrested and held in temporary detention centers. Medgar Evers urges continued civil disobedience as Mayor Thompson rejects a bi racial meeting. Police process 327 prisoners for parade without a permit. Bennie Oliver, 26, convicted in a separate sit in and fined $100 with 30 days in jail.
In Washington AP reports the United States threatens higher duties on European imports if the Common Market raises its tariffs. President Kennedy's trade negotiator Christian Herter calls the move shocking and says Washington seeks better access for U S poultry into the six nations. He warns balancing concessions may trigger higher tariffs on Common Market goods. The story also notes U S support for Gen Chung Hee Park's regime in Korea amid the changes.
A Sunday Enterprise story compares the Class of 38 decades after graduation with a nation shaped by war and cold war, asking how far their university ties reach. High Point’s summer recreation program begins next week with games crafts workshops and story hours for children.
Vatican updates say the 81 year old Pope briefly regained consciousness twice, then sank back into coma amid intense pain from a stomach tumor and peritonitis. Doctors noted his strong heart and breathing while cautions about his likely final hours persisted.
In Vatican City crowds grew then settled through the night as hundreds of seminarians, Romans, and tourists gathered around the obelisk in St. Peter's Square. Dawn brought renewed hope as the Pope's window lit and the dome appeared, drawing praise for a pontiff seen as universally loved across faiths.
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