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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1958
Page
2
In the Spring Nationals open pairs, Leonard Harmon and Dr Ivar Stakgold exploited careful bidding to win both events. A key hand shows Ivar rebidding to four hearts over two spades, enabling a four heart contract to succeed with precise play and discards.
AP reports a mynah named Joe who spoke but would not squeal was stolen May 25 from a city park zoo. He reappeared in a Denver man's home after a $35 sale, underwent questioning, and is now back at the zoo talking freely again.
Channel 2 airings listed with two programs at 11:00 and 11:30 and daytime shows continuing through the afternoon including Love Of Life and a late program at 13 4.
Philadephia AP reports Lawrence Edwin Brown 63 of Buncombe County North Carolina is elevated from first vice president to president of the National Sheriffs Association. Brown led a large sheriff’s department and heads junior deputies’ programs that fund polio relief and deter crime.
Asheville report notes Mrs. Alice T. Perry of Wingate has a reserved seat at the North Carolina Veterans of the Spanish American War encampment. A former Army nurse from 1898 she served as state commander in 1956 and 1957, and has attended the group for more than 30 years.
A federal jury in Wilkesboro hears the largest case in state history involving sugar and other raw materials used to make bootleg liquor. Tal Joe Pearson and 11 co defendants are charged with conspiracy and falsifying sugar sale reports in 1956. Johnson, a former Wilkes violator turned informant, testified Pearson sought the sugar business and used his name and car license number on IRS reports. Pearson allegedly sold about 426 835 pounds of sugar over eight months. Johnson aided in sale and delivery. The case, led by Coley Roby Johnson, is described as second only to a Norfolk Virginia probe in recent memory. Other Wilkes defendants include Curry, Isaac Call, Richard Call, Vestal Johnson, Moore, Jarvis, Church, Gurney Jarvis, Shew, and Walker. Judge Roby GC Thompson presides.
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