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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1961
Page
1
The United States will raise annual interest to 3 percent and extend the maturity of about 10 million Series E and H savings bonds by 10 years. Issued 1941 to 1949, these bonds would otherwise mature in coming years, affecting roughly 15 billion of the 43 billion outstanding.
Four autos collided on the U S 301 bypass at dusk injuring 11 and killing W H Frye 49 and Lottie Frye 48 of Mt Airy Md and Simon Osburn 50. In the Frye station wagon five others were injured and a third car carried 34 year old David Mahoney and family. Four students in the fourth car escaped injury.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield promises a fight to pass a wage bill close to Kennedy's request after the House rejected key provisions. House action would raise minimum pay from $1 to $1.15 for about 24 million workers with staged increases and selective coverage. Mansfield aims to have the Labor Committee prepare a bill after Easter.
Gastonia North Carolina. Paul Stewart 41 a home builder and candidate in the May 2 election was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing and distributing unsigned smear literature against candidates for elective office. He posted a $100 bond and denied the accusation.
Explorer X launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Thor Delta rocket to study Earth's magnetic fields and solar winds. The 78 pound satellite, orbiting up to 123000 miles, aims for a 42 day run with data analysis spanning months. NASA expects initial findings within a week, full study later.
At the Hi-Fi Lounge on North Wells Street a blast injures about 40 people and tears a hole in the floor. Doctors amputated the legs of two women, Martha Jackson and Charlene Frazer, as investigators probe a basement detonation and suspected bomb wiring.
The Senate Election Laws and Senatorial Representation Committee will examine a redistricting measure Tuesday as the powerful Joint Finance Committee starts hearings on eight new tax bills to fund Gov. Sanford's education program. The House approved reapportionment with little debate, and the Senate committee led by Claude Currie of Durham will consider the bill amid town versus country dynamics.
A Delta airliner pilot A B Pendleton guided a nearly empty fuel plane carrying Norma Stella 16 from Clarksdale Mississippi to Searcy Arkansas then to Little Rock after Stella became lost on a cross country trip. Stella said she was scared as the plane landed with less than a gallon of gas.
President Kennedy en route to Laos talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and conferred with Lt. Thomas Trapnell commander of the 18th Airborne Corps who returned from Laos. Also aboard were Lyman Lemnitzer Charles Bohlen McGeorge Bundy Fay Kohler Pierre Salinger.
SEATO foreign ministers convene in Bangkok to decide likely actions in Laos amid Communist advances. The bloc weighs strengthening defenses and potential military aid as Soviet responses to peace proposals remain awaited.
A small boat capsized in the Little Sunflower River near Rolling Fork Mississippi drowning five occupants including Rev. Benjamin L Magers 35 and his children Randy 9 Cora 12 Sandra 11 and niece Shirley Palmer 10 He was pastor of Zion Missionary Baptist church at Anguilla ten miles north of Rolling Fork. Neighbors heard screams but could not save them.
The Soviet Union launched another space dog named Zvezdochka and safely recovered her, confirming the mission as a test of spaceflight life support. Tass and Moscow radio reported the dog survived and felt normal after an 88.42 minute orbit with a 247 kilometer high maximum, 178.1 kilometer low point.
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