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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1956
Page
3
A fragmentary feature evokes childlike dreaming and starry skies inspiring imagination. Vague images of a night scene hint at celestial themes and a gentle call to wonder.
The Economy Ministry reports a February drop in living costs in the federal district for the first time since 1951. The price control board was credited.
North Carolina veteran legislator J Vivian Whitfield declared his bid for lieutenant governor stating opposition to public school integration and support for any means to avoid it. Whitfield, 61, a former state senator and House member, chairs the State Stream Sanitation Committee. He is the seventh candidate to announce, while Stuart Patrick of Farmville files this Friday.
A Nash Jewelry and Loan Co message invites readers to support a trusted High Point merchant and his family, noting shared church, school, and community ties and urging patronage as part of a good, god-fearing neighborhood.
In Montgomery Alabama Reverend L Roy Bennett president of a Negro ministerial alliance urged continued action against bus segregation. At a rally in Cleveland Ohio he said a substrata element fights for survival amid confusion and noted $3274.18 was raised to aid Montgomery Negroes in their legal battles. He declared they will fight until they can sit down where they please.
Tar Heel legal and educational leader Maj. L. P. McLendon warned that maintaining compulsory racial segregation would ruin public schools. His speech read by William Womble at the Carolina Symposium of Public Affairs said white and Black conduct in the next two years would shape efforts to end segregation. Other speakers included Dr. Benjamin Mays of Morehouse College and C. A. McKnight of the Charlotte Observer, who cautioned on race relations and urged NAACP restraint to ease tensions as the South weighs industrial progress. Tonight the program will reappraise the South's industrialization progress.
The Department of Defense will sponsor a technical symposium on shock and vibration in Washington March 27-28. Attendees include scientists and engineers from the armed forces, universities, industrial labs, and other organizations.
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