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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1956
Page
3
In Miami Florida about 400 Black residents and NAACP leaders adopted a resolution rejecting bus boycotts and urging legal action to desegregate buses. NAACP attorney G E Graves Jr said he will file suit in federal court to challenge Miami bus segregation laws aided by E L Davis.
In court today Howard Surratt disputed what he told a State Highway Patrolman after a speeding stop near here on May 28. Patrolman Phil Strong testified Surratt called a fellow trooper crooked and appeared wobbly though not drunk. The judge suspended a 12 month sentence with a $50 fine and 30 day driving ban. Other cases included Orlinde Lilly drunken driving with six months and $100 costs. Joe Dunn hit-and-run and reckless driving with 90 days suspended. Carl Lane fined $15 and costs for prohibition violations.
Wisconsin's Democratic convention urged the national party to take a firm civil rights position. A unanimous resolution called for a clear and unequivocal commitment to full and equal rights for every citizen. Senator Estes Kefauver and others commented favorably as the convention also discussed foreign policy and party unity.
The Southern Textile Association convention in Blowing Rock North Carolina will discuss an appeal of a quota on imports from Japan as part of its annual meeting. F E Grier of Greenwood South Carolina will speak at the event which runs Thursday through Saturday. Abney Mills and Erwin Mills Inc. president will close with The Challenge to American Textiles. Delegates from five states are expected and other speakers include Earl Cocke of Delta Airlines Newell from NC State College and Frank Constangy.
An eight week summer recreation program began at city playgrounds today with nine locations open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Armstrong School Daniel Brooks and Washington Terrace Park. Activities include pre school and primary programs softball for boys under 12 track and field scavenger hunts and arts and crafts. City Lake Park pool drew over 3000 weekend visitors with 1576 in the afternoon and 1448 all day Saturday. Washington Terrace Pool saw 273 weekend visitors.
Policeman C J Simpson tried to enforce a city ordinance against stray mules. The mule stayed out of reach during a lengthy chase and finally crossed the city limit line, leaving Simpson unable to pursue. He reported, When said mule off the city, I stopped.
The Ford Foundation will mail 33 North Carolina hospitals $713 200 this week, half of a 200 million dollar grant announced last December. Amounts include North Carolina Baptist Hospital 81 100, James Walker Memorial 65 750, Randolph Hospital 21 000, St Agnes 27 450, Raleigh, and many others across Albemarle Asheville Fayetteville Greensboro Thomasville and Wilmington.
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh became parents of their first child a baby girl born yesterday at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica California. The mother and child weigh six pounds both are reported to be doing fine Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer joined the couple later in celebrating the birth. Curtis called it a perfect Father’s Day gift.
Winston-Salem police report a discharged soldier from Fort Jackson described being fleeced out of $700 in a heads or tails coin matching scheme at the Union bus depot. Fred Morris, 20, said he stood with a companion who helped the other man win the money then vanished with his cash.
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