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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1957
Page
13
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Raleigh reports the four year Highway Commission holds its final meeting tomorrow with 8 158 442 24 in road contracts. The session wraps up the first half of the year with bids totaling 54 million dollars. Gov Hodges appoints a new seven member commission to take over July 1 with an executive director separate from the board.
Former North Carolina Governor Robert Gregg Cherry, 65, lay in state at a Gastonia funeral home chapel after dying yesterday from a prolonged illness. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at First Methodist Church with burial in the family plot. Donations to the School for Handicapped Children are requested in lieu of flowers.
J. P. Hobson vice chairman of the Charlotte board says Greensboro and Winston‑Salem boards will attend an informal meeting on the technical and legal aspects of school desegregation. Charlotte has 41 applications, Greensboro nine, Winston‑Salem six. no decisions yet.
Six hundred North Carolina Presbyterians prepared to wind up their 144th annual meeting in Montreat after electing Dr. Marshall Scott Woodson moderator. Woodson, president of Flora Macdonald College, succeeds R. D. Grier as moderator of the Synod of North Carolina. About 100 young Presbyterians from the South attended the joint meeting and the 11th conference on Christian Citizenship.
Ernest Tener Weir 81 longtime steel executive and founder of Weirton Steel died in a Philadelphia hospital. He led National Steel Corp as board chairman and CEO until his retirement last April and helped shape pro business policy. Survived by widow Mary Hayward Weir son David Manson Weir and three stepchildren. He built Weirton, merged it into National Steel, and often spoke for free enterprise.
Philadelphia city meter mechanics say they repair nearly 10 000 vandalized meters monthly but their appeal for higher wages is denied by the City Civil Service Commission. workload has markedly increased over last year with no pay upgrade.
Coast Guard reports Jeanne Crain Paul Brinkman and their four children aboard a 61 foot power cruiser drifted for nearly three hours off Newport Beach before a dramatic rescue. Misa Crain and Brinkman with family aft repaired marital troubles earlier. The ship was towed to safety after engine trouble on a second honeymoon voyage.
Members are selected for the Hall of Fame of Great Americans every five years. Only persons dead 25 years or more are eligible.
In Kiel Germany on June 26 Vice Adm Friederich Ruge says West Germany will join NATO naval maneuvers in the North Sea next month. The force includes sweeper squadrons and small fast R boats.
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