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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1961
Page
2
The text argues self preservation drives in battle lead to surrender while social instinct compels soldiers to fight with peers. It notes anger reactions in errors stem from childhood insecurity and asserts manners help children make better impressions when meeting others.
A NASA narrated film of Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight shows the launch sequence and weightlessness with four times actual speed, the capsule’s interior lit by sunlit moments, and camera coverage limited by weather and security rules. Rep. Overton Brooks notes outside view obscured by clouds and no instrument panel footage shown.
Actress Leslie Parrish won a divorce from TV actor Ric Marlow in Los Angeles after reporting his resentment of her work and demand for all luxuries her earnings could buy. Temporary alimony of 1 dollar a month was granted with potential full support later. Marlow did not contest. Parrish is 26.
The article notes that long before Europeans arrived, indigenous peoples used available substances to make chewing gum. It cites examples like the Colorado rubber plant and orange sneezeweed roots, and highlights Mexican Indians using chicle, the material still used in gum today.
Rep James Roosevelt urged parole for Adolf Eichmann at a Jersey City Israel Bonds meeting. He argued paroling Eichmann would show democracy and generosity of Israel and help spread trial details to other nations. The Jerusalem trial is cited as a major contribution.
William M. Tugman age 67, a leading Oregon newspaper editor for decades, died Tuesday after a heart attack suffered Saturday. He edited the Eugene Register-Guard from 1947 to 1954 and had earlier worked in Springfield Massachusetts New Bedford Connecticut and for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A 78 year old Detroit area woman, Pearl Snyder of Harwood Lake Caledonia Michigan, died after a truck rammed her car at a busy Salisbury intersection. The truck driver Billy Mack Funderburte 30 of Rockwell was unhurt. She had been driving home from a Florida vacation. Police described the mode of the fatal crash and noted the by pass location on US Highway 601.
At Elgin Air Force Base Florida an Arcas Robin sounding rocket was launched hourly for 24 hours to collect weather data. The 84 pound eight foot rockets carried instruments transmitting meteorological readings from 16 to 45 miles altitude and the record sequence ended at 5 30 p.m. Wednesday.
A motorist died when her vehicle turned left into the path of an oncoming truck. The collision occurred in unclear circumstances and no charges were filed.
The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina chose St Andrews Church Greensboro for the 1962 convention and Christ Church Charlotte for 1983. Delegates approved the A budget at 342 246 dollars, a 10 percent rise, and rejected the 377 980 dollar B budget with added items.
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