14 Mar 1959
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1959
Page
1
President Eisenhower will speak Monday night from the White House for 30 minutes on all networks about the Berlin crisis. He is expected to reaffirm American resolve with allies while signaling openness to negotiations to ease tension and resolve the German issue.
London reports describe Prime Minister Macmillan as a statesman hero after Bonn talks with West German Chancellor Adenauer. Newspapers say he achieved a diplomatic victory on his peacemaker tour from Moscow to Paris to Bonn. He is said to have won Adenauer over to a system of steps by Supermac. He returned to London pale and tired, and will meet President Eisenhower in Washington Friday.
The Rev Woodrow W Robbins urged church workers to help finish census card processing at the Youth Center of Green Street Baptist Church. The Rev W G Weston will conduct a series of services at High Speak with special music by John Bullock. The Central Association Executive Committee will meet at Emerywood Baptist Church with Rev Clyde H Tucker presiding.
The 11 am worship at Jamestown Methodist Church will feature Rev. T. A. Summey Jr. as guest speaker. He is associate minister at West Market Street Methodist Church in Greensburg.
Haig K. Mekhalian secretary of the Jerusalem YMCA will present a slide program made in Palestine at Calvary Methodist Church tomorrow evening at 7:30. The event highlights the YMCA mission and regional history.
Revival services will be conducted at Carroway Baptist Church below Hillsville by Rev Woodrow Robbins pastor of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church in High Point. Services start at 7 30 each evening and are held in cooperation with a program of simultaneous revival as stated by the pastor and Rev Stanley Karomirski.
Pascal of Sea Dyaks Penghulu Nanta Anak Itar, 73, says headhunting ended as costly. He notes changes from head feast traditions to Christianity and farming, recalling two dozen skulls in the chief’s home and a past bravado recounted by Engkamat, leader of 36 families.
Eleven GE workers at the Bloomfield plant remained chained inside the factory protesting an April Fool's Day shutdown and a plan to move operations south. Some left overnight, others stayed to demonstrate with minimal restraints and to use the chain to lift food and supplies from the street. Local 442 leader Charles Ziegler frames the action as defending the right to work as GE says it will not interfere unless workers are forcibly removed.
A Worcester policeman will be asked to drink six ounces of alcohol at the State House next Monday as part of a test by the Legislative Committee on the Judiciary to gauge insobriety after a known liquor amount. The officer’s identity was not released.
Reid Anderson, blind, reported a Braille dial watch missing after a visitor left his hotel room. Police recovered the watch in a property envelope among items turned in when Carl C. Cupples was jailed on a drunk charge. a theft count was added.
General Maxwell D. Taylor warns the Soviet threat could trigger a final showdown only if Washington is prepared to fight for Berlin. He argues the United States should not retreat at any point and that the Berlin airlift may have been a mistake by failing to challenge Moscow’s blockades earlier.
Chong P. Y., 62, immigrant founder of Lau Yee Chai and other Honolulu eateries, died after a life of ups and downs. He boasted as the No 1 cook and noted his failures came from giving away too much. Survived by widow five sons and a daughter.
The Sunday Enterprise previews tomorrow's feature by city traffic engineer E L Walker Jr on downtown parking facilities. It also highlights a profile of Miss Minnie Hayworth of Abbotts Creek Baptist Church and Braxton Younts’ portrayal of her 50 years teaching Sunday School.
Paris reports that President De Gaulle seeks a larger role for France in NATO commands by keeping control of the Mediterranean Fleet even in war. The move risks signaling a rift among Allies, with Algeria as the flashpoint and U S and British fleets remaining the main striking forces.
In Olympia Washington an AP report details a cafe wreck when rail cars crashed through a brick depot and thundered across the city street. Kenneth A Dilly a 36 year old railroad telegrapher was killed as cars plowed through Union Pacific cars and toppled autos during switching at Tumwater two miles south.
North ampton County Sheriff E. Frank Outland said an 18-year-old negro youth, Robert Earle Jacobs, admits shooting Raymond E. Parker 62 at Parker's combined state gas station near Rich. Parker was found dead Feb 27 with a shotgun wound. About $45 disappeared from the cash register. $18 was recovered.
In Cleveland a festive Shamrocks event for Gaelic football started with high hopes as Mick Delahunty's band planned to perform. Singer Carmel Quinn explained the band could not play since the International Musicians Union approval was only valid in New York, leaving the night without music.
Japan's air force was ordered to machine gun attacking walruses hindering North Pacific fishing. Fishermen claim 55000 dollars in losses from nets and fish last year. Attacks planned this month and in April target Todo-Iwa Walrus Rock, with four F6F Sabrejets per sortie making three passes each.
Washington AP Libby notes October Soviet tests caused the greatest rise in radioactive debris in the atmosphere, suggesting a potential greater global fallout hazard from polar region tests. An Air Force scientist at the University of Washington outlined uncertainties about fallout distribution and descent rates.
Partial note reports non-sucrose content available for processing into molasses like product. Indicates factory reporting on feedstock for sugar or syrup operations and potential yield considerations. No further names, dates, or organizations readable in the fragment.
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