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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1963
Page
1
Pope John XXIII's condition worsened as his heart weakened and blood pressure fell. Vatican bulletins described periods of unconsciousness, rising fever, and strong resilience, with prayers from St. Peter's Square and renewed crises as doctors warned of probable final hours.
Editorial notes Wake Forest University salutes Dr Williams for devoting energies to the college’s academic program. His labors and vision have earned support and admiration from colleagues in the community and across the state. The article references Wake Forest’s history with admissions and enrollment figures.
The Supreme Court held Taft-Hartley does not ban agency shop agreements while upholding Florida's prohibition on such contracts. The decision covered two cases: a General Motors Indiana dispute over agency shop status and a Florida Retail Clerks Local 1695 case with Miami Food Fair workers. The court left open whether Florida's courts or the NLRB enforce the ban and urged briefing next term.
Vatican press office reports Pope John XXII has died after a lengthy battle with illness. A noon medical bulletin confirms his death following days of urging resistance and dramatic decline at the Vatican.
A stocky bandit in a straw hat robbed the Lexington Road First Union Bank branch in Winston-Salem of about $7000. He handed a note to teller Miss Jane Marshall, demanded hundreds, and fled in a 1963 Ford eastward as FBI and highway patrol set roadblocks. The man, described as 5'6" to 5'9", 190 pounds, wore green sunglasses and a dirty white shirt, with witnesses noting the gun looked like a toy.
Two white men in streaky blue overalls robbed the Wachovia Bank branch in Bayboro North Carolina around noon. They wore gloves railroad caps and possibly stockings over their heads. No gunfire reported and no immediate loss figure given. Bayboro is the Pamlico County seat about 13 miles east of New Bern.
Dr. Kenneth K. Williams, president of Winston-Salem Teachers College, received Wake Forest College’s first honorary doctor of laws degree amid commencement exercises. Other degrees were awarded to Luther H. Hodges, Carlyle Marney, and George W. Paschal. Williams, a longtime educator and Winston-Salem State College faculty member, has led since 1961 and was the first Negro elected to Winston-Salem’s Board of Aldermen since 1900.
A Supreme Court ruling nullified Tennessee transfer plans designed to ease segregation in Davidson and Knox counties. The decision held the plans unconstitutional, saying they promote discrimination by letting white students transfer only in ways that avoid equal opportunity. Justice Clark announced a unanimous decision, reaffirming Brown v Board standards and stressing that race cannot guide school assignments or transfers.
Skinnay Ennis, famed band leader and former Bob Hope singer, died after a restaurant attack in Beverly Hills. He was 56, with cause of death not immediately determined. Survived by wife Carmine and four children.
A spring storm swept up the Atlantic coast bringing winds 35 to 45 mph and heavy rain. Gale warnings covered from south of Cape May to the Virginia capes with small craft advisories to Myrtle Beach and D.C. The system, centered southeast of Norfolk, was moving north at 20 mph, then slowing. Heavy rainfall and flash flooding were forecast north of the center, with tides up to 3 feet higher and beach erosion along a 300 mile stretch. Norfolk logged a 4 hour June rainfall record of 6.07 inches.
Townsfolk in Huntington New York mark the 144th anniversary of poet Walt Whitman’s birth with Sunday ceremonies. Whitman died in 1892.
An Indian Airlines DC Dakota crashed during a flight from Amritsar to Srinagar killing 29 aboard including University of Illinois associate professor James Clarence Laverty and his family. Laverty, 40, a soil expert, taught at Balwant Rajput Agricultural College near Agra under a U.S. contract. The wreckage also carried an American tourist identified as Miss P Hardman.
In Tuscaloosa amid mounting tensions over racial desegregation at the University of Alabama, community leaders vow to maintain law and order as Vivian Malone plans to enroll at Foster Auditorium. Governors, editors, and local groups urge restraint while anticipating possible demonstrations and federal pressures.
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