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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1965
Page
1
A city reels after a Thursday tornado as rescue teams dig through wreckage looking for others feared dead. A four year old found in a wrecked home cellar and families recount terror as two more victims are reported near Island Park and Mounds View. Local neighbors describe ruined homes and pervasive fear while authorities urge caution.
Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers said Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. 21 of Fairfield will be retried after a mistrial in his first degree murder case tied to the killing of a white civil rights demonstrator Viola Nuzzo. Ten jurors favored conviction. two held for acquittal. Trial expected in September term. two other Klansmen, Eugene Thomas and William Orville Eaton, also face trial then. All three are under federal indictments on civil rights charges and are free on bond.
President Johnson speaks on an Atlantic partnership with France and the Soviet Union as he outlines a six point plan for unfinished business. He calls for accelerating the erosion of the Iron Curtain, pursuing peaceful settlement, and endorsing self determination for Germans while promising to increase trade with Eastern Europe.
Ben J. Fowler warned 100 corporate leaders that March and April payment surpluses are only preliminary signs of a brief respite from seven years of balance of payments deficits. He urged continued diligence to avoid premature optimism and a relaxation of efforts as Johnson asks for foreign investment and lending.
Viet Cong attacks across central Vietnam left a U S Marine dead and several American soldiers wounded in separate incidents. US airstrikes in North Vietnam totaled over 230 tons as 160 plus planes raided numerous targets including a Dong Hoi air base and other airfields near the frontier. A colonial village operation involved Marines and Vietnamese troops with casualties and a man killed by a rifle shot. Two Army Special Forces were killed by a land mine in northeast Proince while another mine obliterated a foot in You Yen Province, with one more American injured.
Los Angeles AP report details a televised incident where car dealer Frank Valenta confronted rival Auto dealer White on White's lot during a live ad. White sued for an insult using the term s o b and won a $7,500 judgment. The appeal argued the phrase could be jovial, but the court ruled the words were not endearing.
Sunday reading section highlights Randolph County near Sophia nicknamed Little Switzerland for its dairy farms. Davis brothers Gilbert and Robert operate a notable dairy until further details from Braxton Younts’ Sunday Enter. The feature contrasts postwar Europe twenty years after V E Day with a current era of peace and growth.
In Santo Domingo the five member military civilian junta named Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera president and invited Col Francisco Caamano's leftist rebels to join in restoring peace. Caamano rejected coalition terms, stating his forces resist any junta alliance. The group includes Julio Pello, Carlos Grisolia, Alejandro Zeller Coco, and Pedro Benoit. US aid resumes with daily airlifts of 90 tons.
Donald Dawson, a 22 year old merchant marine officer from Astoria, Oregon, who returned to the jungle to search for his missing pilot brother Lt. Daniel L. Dawson, is now believed captured by the Viet Cong. A Vietnamese girl student accompanying him is also thought to be in Communist hands.
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