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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1959
Page
2
New York stocks show a moderate gain with active trading led by higher quality issues. American Telephone, DuPont and Chrysler post gains while U S Steel eases and U S bonds drift lower. Major names like General Motors and General Electric advance, with varied moves across the list.
Channel 2 15 Capt Kangaroo. Channel 12 Devotions and related listings appear in the evening guide.
Dow Jones averages show gains and losses across sectors with figures for industrials utilities and rails at noon and 1 pm. The report lists closing values and intraday shifts with volume tallies for each interval.
In Camden County a 200 man Marine and Forest Service team mopped up a fire that burned 8000 to 10000 acres in the Dismal Swamp between Moyock and South Mills. Regional Forester Winkworth said mop up and holding should wrap up if held today. He noted heavy damage and possible arson with much of the burned area being valuable timber.
An Air Force pilot abandoned his jet fighter near Ingold North Carolina after the engine flamed out. 1st Lt. Frederick G. Pulman of Portland Maine parachuted to safety, hitchhiked a ride to Ingold, and was picked up by a helicopter for a flight back to Seymour Johnson AFB. He is married with two children and was part of the 334th Fighter Squadron.
D Harold Oliver reports ADA elects Harvard economist and longtime liberal ally as national chairman. Beer, a 1943 Harvard professor and Rhodes scholar, will delay active duties to finish a book on British politics. ADA outlines a decade program stressing full employment, civil rights, and increased foreign aid.
Italian director Roberto Rossellini attended a Cannes Film Festival showing with his companion Mrs. Das Gupta. The pair, not entered in the competition, drew a large crowd as they left the theater. she has lived in France quietly while he pursues film projects.
Lt. Kurt Rossmeisl, a 52 year old balding former German army officer and POW who fled in 1945, told FBI agents and Cincinnati crowds that he never intended to be Nazi. He admitted disguising himself as Frank Ellis while living in Chicago and working in several jobs before surrendering to authorities in Cincinnati.
Billy Glenn Newhouse 22 escaped the St Francois County jail on Mother's Day with three accomplices after prying a wall and digging a tunnel. He surrendered nine hours later with his mother and two aunts. He faces murder and kidnapping charges for abducting Linda Rawlins and Archie Moore and later taking George Tubbs as a hostage before fleeing south. The other escapees include David L. Moyer Eric Linden Montgomery and Joseph Federick.
Foreign ministers Selwyn Lloyd and Andrei Gromyko failed to set a start date for the conference as talks stalled over German participation and seating. The four power group to define the table size remained deadlocked with Poland and Czechoslovakia seeking inclusion. West German and French ministers met briefly with Lloyd to discuss a compromise on German roles.
The piece discusses potential vice presidential picks with Senator Kennedy as a front runner for the top nomination and Governor Brown seen as a Catholic balance if Kennedy falters. It notes Catholic ticket considerations, religious tensions, and the likelihood of a governor as second on the ticket to avoid an all-Senate slate.
Crowds jeered police as Claude Rumely was arrested for showing movies outdoors in defiance of blue laws. He had been arrested a week earlier on the same charge and posted a $50 bond. Also seized were Carl Waldrop for a fishing lake and C A Tollison for a Sunday riding academy, each disputing violations as crowds of about 500 gathered at the outdoor theater.
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