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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1964
Page
11
A cluttered slice of New York gossip and media notes featuring Walter Winchell, police and socialite mentions, and pop culture jabs. The column covers Murphys, patently sensational bits about Newsweek's unsolved murders, Dew, DeGaulle, the CIA, Sinatra, Ruby, Ruby, Onassis, and a Saint Barnabas film nomination.
The report describes Capt. James Thomas Stevens, 45, who died when his boat capsized by an 18 foot wave in Florida. His wife and readers react, noting four deaths overall and a missing passenger. The piece blends sensational midcentury press style with disparate notes from entertainment and social items.
In Candor North Carolina veteran peach grower J L Harris reports no damage to the peach crop after a night of temperatures in the low 30s. He warns the next week is crucial as blooms fall and young peaches, protected by shock sheaths, remain vulnerable until Easter.
Five men are locked in a windowless L shaped box for 25 days testing life support. They eat freeze dried food breathe reused air and drink water reclaimed from wastes as part of a Boeing NASA experiment in Seattle to model future space stations. Only Roger Barnicki weighed 228 pounds at start. he has lost six pounds. Crew includes Barnicki from NASA Edwards, Donald Robinson from Pensacola, and Welker, Swenson, Trush from Boeing.
Johnson seized a cabinet study on aiding the poor after Kennedy’s death to launch a major anti poverty push. The program targets 16 to 21 year olds, focusing on youths, with about 5.5 million in the age group and roughly 750,000 idle and out of school. The effort draws on prior New Frontier ideas and aims to rival Roosevelt’s New Deal in scope.
The San Jacinto, split by an explosion, remains afloat with its stern riding six foot seas about 60 miles northeast of Chincoteague. Tug Mobil Pegasus, aiding from Lambert's Point, aims for harbor by noon Saturday with 35 crew aboard. One crewman, Martin Cotilla, chief steward, died after the blast as the ship carries papers for its master Capt. Harold R. Jonas and radio officer Wilbert Beck.
The record notes Galileo first observed sunspots shortly after building his telescope in 1610, highlighting a milestone in solar study. Separate line: a whimsical remark on money always taking precedence when it speaks.
Washington AP reports an authoritative Kennedy assassination book by William Manchester will span three to five years. Mrs Kennedy selected him and will be interviewed along with Johnson and eyewitnesses. The work opens with a Navy reception and ends with Mrs Kennedy hosting foreign dignitaries after the funeral.
RALEIGH AP A blue rib bon committee of 10 widely known artists was tasked Thursday with recommending a site for a proposed school for the performing arts. Gov Terry Sanford named the advisory board and the group will visit Charlotte Winston Salem Raleigh and possibly other sites in April 2029. The governor urged out of state members to choose the site. A North Carolina Conservatory Committee report urged placement near a metropolitan area near an existing educational institution with about 40 original entrants. Advisory board includes Richard Adler Sidney Blackmer Agnes De Mille Vittorio Giannini Paul Green Jose Simon Peter Mennin Jan Peerce James Christian Pfohl and Julius Rudel.
The nation’s 14 newest astronauts completed a two day study of stars and celestial bodies to guide future space travel. They held a news conference at Chapel Hill then practiced identifying rainbows twilight asteroids comets and meteors at Morehead Planetarium.
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