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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1959
Page
3
Snow will fall in higher elevations of the Plateau region while lower areas see rain. Forecast covers the upper Mississippi valley and the northeast with varying winter precipitation.
Anne Arundel County police pursue a theory that a itinerant sawmill worker may be the killer of a Virginia family of four. Four bodies found after a January disappearance. investigators tie the case to sawmills near Mineral Fredericksburg and Gambrills and probe a gunman described as bushy haired.
The Associated Press reports fires in three distant areas killed nine people, including Bertha Wilbanks aged 42 and her children Donnie 7 Melvin 9 Linda 11 in Dallas. Evan Wilbanks 14 survived in serious condition. In Groton Vermont Mrs Norman Whitehill 18 and another child received superficial burns as firefighters removed the others.
Prof. Gertrude M. Cox of North Carolina State College wins the 1959 O Max Gardner Award for distinguished service to the welfare of humanity. Cox, director of the Institute of Statistics Headquarters at State College, received the honor at Woman’s College. The award carries a $25,000 trust fund established by the late Gov. Gardner.
Regional forecast notes fair conditions in Georgia with a high around 62 to 70 and mild nights. North Carolina and Virginia expect sun and cooler mornings with warming trends by Tuesday. South Carolina sees sunny skies today with highs 58 to 64 and a cool night with scattered frost.
Olga Knipper-Chekhova widow of Anton Chekhov, aged 88, died Sunday in Moscow. A leading actress for over five decades, she remained a key figure of the pre revolution era and part of the Moscow Art Theatre troupe through World War II. She toured the United States with the company in 1923 and received top Soviet honors including the Order of Lenin, a Stalin Prize, and People’s Artist of the USSR.
New York AP report states Senator John F Kennedy of Massachusetts opposes a shorter work week. He tells a meeting of 350 United Auto Workers local presidents that he favors other methods to cut unemployment to keep the United States competitive with the Soviet Union.
A Cincinnati man, asked his occupation during a court hearing, said he was a ...
Four inmates and a woman overpower two guards and flee from Mahoning County Jail in Youngstown Ohio taking a guard hostage then releasing him seven miles away They flee in a guard's car with two pistols and leave guard Downey locked in a cell Jailer Heldman identifies escapees as Robert Herman Joseph Orville Donald Sweet all of Youngstown and Lola Gordon of Toledo The escape ends when guard Driskell is found beaten and left in a ditch near McKinley Heights while the quartet claims to fear cold weather.
Billy Graham, resting at a Broadbeach resort, will forego a medical examination after staff says he has improved. Dr. William Erdman arrived from the United States to visit. the planned exam is dropped and Graham will golf with Erdman. He said a blood vessel spasm delayed his departure. He will preach on Good Friday at Surf Beach and Easter at a Methodist service in a Gold Coast movie house.
The North Carolina Advisory Committee of the federal Civil Rights Commission meets in Greensboro Wednesday to study cases alleging denial of civil rights due to race creed or national origin. Several persons have advised the committee they wish to testify in January.
Rep. Herbert Zelenko urges a numbered receipts plan to force filing of returns by those in high tax brackets. The system would attach a numbered card to each return, reveal only that a return was filed, and require cross agency use to flag nonfilers. He cites an estimated 26 billion dollars in taxable income unreported annually.
Bonnie Levenz a 25 year old Milwaukee mother left a note saying she was terribly mixed up and unable to raise her son Mark 3. She died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a car in the garage while her child died upstairs from unknown causes. Police and medical examiners ruled the death a suicide and noted the boy died of natural causes.
A car carrying five North Carolina men ran off U. S. 23 near Clinchport Virginia, killing Ray Holyfield 26 and Tommy Gray Adams 21 both of Elkin. Samuel Davis Shore 20 of Elkin was hospitalized at Kingsport Tennessee with multiple lacerations. Ronald Scales Southard 19 driver charged with manslaughter and reckless driving. Thomas S. Guyer 19 of State Road NC unhurt.
A small portion of a vast iceberg rises above the sea while the majority remains submerged, illustrating the classic ratio between visible ice and hidden bulk in polar waters. Scientists note the feature underscores the danger and size hidden beneath.
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