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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1958
Page
3
The Navy's Vanguard rocket failed again late at night after a long countdown. Despite earlier crashes and seven attempts, the weaponized satellite launcher remains the Defense Department’s favored option when it functions.
Gov Hodges allocated 150000 from highway surplus for a four mile link between NC 54 and 55 in the Raleigh Chapel Hill Durham triangle. The plan aims to spur industrial labs near NC State UNC and Duke. The overall 340500 in surplus funds backs five projects citywide and a new bridge at Harvey Point.
In Carolina Beach North Carolina urban expansion and industrial growth revive county governments with the state seen as progressive in county emphasis on industry. Bernard F. Hillenbrand executive director of the National Association notes Ford Foundation grant of 160000 for county planning civil defense and welfare issues. Highway Director W F Babcock urges larger funding to improve Tar Heel roads as construction costs rise faster than revenue and only 5 percent of needed secondary road work can be funded.
Elfrida Von Nardroff and Robert Leicester, tied games and deadlocked 10-10 in a carry-over match on NBC Twenty-One, face a possible $42,000 prize when they resume. Von Nardroff has $253,500 in winnings. a 21-0 win would raise her total to $295,500, while a 21-0 loss would leave Leicester at $211,500 and eliminate Von Nardroff.
The forecast states tonight's low of 60 degrees and tomorrow's high of 85. Today’s high was 8 with last night’s low at 62. Sunset is at 7 40 p.m. and sunrise tomorrow at 5 05 a.m.
North Carolina shows partly cloudy skies with a warmer trend and a chance of light rain in the extreme southeast. Tonight remains mild with partly cloudy conditions. Wednesday brings continued mild and partly cloudy weather with a chance of scattered showers in the western portion late in the day. Georgia sees mild, partly cloudy conditions with a risk of isolated thundershowers in the extreme south this afternoon and highs 84 to 90. South Carolina remains partly cloudy and mild through tonight and Wednesday with highs 82 to 86 and lows 64 to 68.
The Associated Press reports broad storm activity across the nation with showers and thunder storms from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Severe storms produced heavy rain and 60 mph winds in west Texas and parts of Kansas and Illinois. A fatal lightning strike occurred during a southern Plains thunderstorm as rains continued in the mid Mississippi Valley and along the Eastern Seaboard.
Wilson North Carolina AP Delegates at the 123rd annual North Carolina Methodist Conference consider a headquarters site as the event opens Bishop Edwin Edgar Voigt gave the morning sermon and Bishop Fred P Carson spoke in the evening He leads the General Board of Education and the drive for five million dollars to found new Methodist colleges at Rocky Mount and Fayetteville The meeting includes plans to unify white and Negro jurisdictions and address church integration as a vital issue Also notes a dairy cow drinking up to 35 gallons of water daily.
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