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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1958
Page
3
In Fayetteville North Carolina five women compete in a nonstop chatter contest to win 1500 dollars in home appliances. Viom sets a new record by talking 38 hours 21 minutes with short breaks and a review of more than 600 topics.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro lowers short term loan rate to 3 percent for advances or renewals in one year or less and trims time deposit rate to 1 percent. The board notes the move aligns with providing funds at the lowest possible cost to member associations across 582 districts in DC and seven Southeastern states.
A 15-year-old boy, Lee Settlemyer III, was under observation after a cannonball used in spotout practice slipped and hit his head. The 15-pound projectile fell from a transport wagon 168 years old in front of the Settlemyer home, kept as a family memento. The incident occurred while he played with his brother and friends.
Detroit AP reports auto makers and the United Auto Workers show a wait and see stance in contract talks. Bargaining sessions resume at General Motors Ford and Chrysler with no progress reported. Old contracts expired Memorial Day weekend and plants run normally as 500000 workers face a lack of agreements.
Attorney Knott passed up a call for a second primary in the Superior Court race, conceding the Democratic nomination to Burgwyn of Woodland who led a three man field in the May 31 primary. Burgwyn had 13,074 votes. Knott 7,472. Martin 6,449.
Richard Nelson Haugen of Minnesota was sentenced after pleading guilty to burglaries at the First Baptist Church and the First Methodist Church in Gastonia North Carolina. He admitted a series of robberies and safecrackings in the Southeast after his discharge.
A tri state route committee for North Carolina Virginia and West Virginia was formed by North Carolina Highways Director W F Babcock during a State lane Commission meeting. Chief Engineer W H Rogers and Planning Engineer Robert J Kimley will represent NC to study the Interstate 79 corridor from Canton Ohio to near Elkin with a report due this fall.
In Whiteville North Carolina an 18 year old Hallsboro youth Dennis Edward Richardson is held without bond on a charge of killing his father 41 year old Forest Brantley Richardson a farmer from Hallsboro. The shooting occurred as they were returning from church after an incident where the father reportedly slapped his wife and threatened a child. The father died from a shotgun blast to the heart.
Attorneys for Robert Grundler a Camp Lejeune Marine convicted of rape plan to ask the North Carolina Supreme Court to intervene in his conviction after a Superior Court judge refused to restore an appeal. Grundler and a companion were sentenced to life for raping a fellow Marine's 19 year old wife.
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