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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1962
Page
1
In Oran Algeria Secret Army commandos stormed a prison killing two Moslem inmates and injuring 30 others in a fire raid. Riot squads held back angry moslems while authorities reported 35 dead nationwide and 130 wounded as leaders moved toward cease fire talks with France.
A small vessel reported sinking off the South Carolina coast but rescue teams and a patrol plane could not locate the distressed ship. The Gweneviere sent a faint call at 8 50 a m. Coast Guard patrols and two nearby tankers searched the area with no results as Papaw and a 95 foot cutter from Charleston prepared to arrive about 1 p m.
President Kennedy will observe Navy and Marine air and sea exercises off the Carolina coast on April 14. He departs Washington on April 13 and will board a ship at Norfolk, Virginia, late that afternoon to sail with a task force for amphibious maneuvers on a Carolina beach that afternoon.
CIA reports Francis Gary Powers complied with his CIA employment terms and acted within his obligations as an American. The House Armed Services Committee released findings from an agency and advisory board inquiry into the 1960 May Moscow crash, noting Powers followed instructions to surrender and cooperate while avoiding disclosure of sensitive aircraft specifications. The report discusses potential self-destruct options, torture risk, and Powers’ inability to reach ejector positions during the doomed flight. Powers testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 2 p.m. on the incident.
Snow began before dawn across western North Carolina causing impassable mountain highways without chains. U S 441 U S 19 23 and U S 25 70 required chains in the west. all northwest counties urged chain use. Low temperatures in the 20s and snow flurries extended to Raleigh and other cities.
South Vietnamese forces with airpower killed or wounded hundreds of Viet Cong in two days. U S Army helicopters aided one operation while U S supplied bombers delivered the knockout blow in the other. A government outpost at Bo Tuc near Tay Ninh was attacked by about 1000 Viet Cong.
A major winter storm battered the East Coast with winds up to 58 mph and up to 23 inches of snow. The system caused travel disruption, coastal tides, power outages, and structural damage including part of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Schools closed and highways restricted as seas battered shorelines.
Khrushchev warned the Communist Party Central Committee that poor management of collective farms jeopardizes the seven year agricultural plan and, citing a deceased agricultural scientist Vasily Williams, proposed plowing up a third of grassland to plant corn sugar beets and legumes to boost food and feed for livestock.
State Department officials identify Enrique Lister, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and former Soviet political officer, as Fidel Castro's military adviser. Welcomed in Havana on June 2, 1961, Lister reportedly oversees military equipment from behind the Iron Curtain and attends Castro's strategy meetings. Officials refute claims he leads Cuba's rocket artillery.
President Kennedy told Premier Khrushchev that Geneva talks must cut sterile propaganda and push real disarmament progress. He welcomed Gromyko’s early Geneva meeting with Rusk and Home, and proposed March 12 for three power talks. Rusk to Geneva. meeting at the White House to set disarmament policy with key aides. Khrushchev denounced the April atmospheric test and pressed for a summit, while agreeing to the ministerial level start and Gromyko’s early visit.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev brands Kennedy’s proposal to resume atmospheric nuclear tests as atomic blackmail and says new tests would derail Geneva disarmament talks. The dispute accompanies a March 3 letter to Kennedy released with Thompson’s delivery to Gromyko during a Berlin meeting.
Workmen uncover three skeletons at the Timme Corporation fabric plant on Castle Hayne Road near Wilmington. County Sheriff Marion W. Millis and deputies investigated with SBI Officer F G Satterfield called in.
An Air Force B58 bomber set three transcontinental speed records on a 4,900 mile round trip from Los Angeles to New York and back in 4 hours 42 minutes 32 seconds. Pilot Robert Sowers navigator Capt. Robert MacDonald and Capt. John Walton led the mission under Strategic Air Command. Sonic booms shattered windows across California to Missouri and drew police calls as generals touted the jet as a strategic warning to aggressors.
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