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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1959
Page
2
A man named McLaughlin recounts the April 4 kidnapping of Ben and the subsequent killing. He claims luring a boy into his car, discarding the knife, and setting a burning Scrandle candle to memorialize his victim. Psychiatrists testified to his feeble state and recent recommitment after prior institutional treatment.
The Senate and a House committee included new FHA loan insurance authority in housing bills despite presidential objections. Mansfield said the housing bills will not be pared to satisfy the President. The House Agriculture Committee backed 90 percent wheat supports for two years, but also approved a 30 percent reduction in acreage allotments. Both chambers showed likely rejection of the committee bill in its current form.
Actor Jay Robinson, 29, is slated for sentencing on June 5 after conviction on four narcotics counts. The Bel Air resident, arrested November 13, 196?, denies testimony by fellow actor Robert Lynn who claimed Robinson sold him drugs.
Clemson declined a bye if a three team playoff was needed. Howard and Bill Wilhelm said they must beat Wake Forest and North Carolina to deserve the championship. A Wake Forest NC State draw decided the bye after Wake Forest lost to NC State. The non conference game at Thomasville was canceled and replaced by the playoff opener at Thomasville park.
The Winston-Salem Journal named J. Worth Bacon associate editor for community services and Malcolm F. Mallette managing editor. Bacon joined Jan. 1, 1926 as city editor and has led as managing editor since 1933, with earlier work in Goldsboro High Point Greensboro and Charlotte. Mallette, Syracuse native and former minor league pitcher, came from Asheville Times as sports writer in 1952 and joined as sports director in 1956. Hank Schoolfield was chosen to replace Mallette as sports director.
New York AP report says the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will not intervene now in contract talks between 12 major steel firms and the United Steelworkers. Joseph F. Finnegan indicates no plan for government action as talks pause after a four company team prepared a formal rejection of wage, hour, and benefit demands. Current wages average 3.03 dollars per hour with a 40 hour work week.
Navy divers attempt to recover the bodies of three F100 pilots after a night refueling crash off the Myrtle Beach coast in the Atlantic. Maj. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins leads the investigation as the planes exploded on impact and no parachutes were seen.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP reports the Jupiter intermediate range war rocket lifting off at 12 52 a m EST on its 17th development test. The 60 foot missile aims to verify reliability and accuracy before troop deployment possibly carrying another monkey passenger.
Kurdish-led factions under Barzani flee across the frontier as thousands of Kurds abandon homes in Iraq after revolution and Soviet exile. Amir Aly, an anti Communist imam, recalls past massacres and warns coexistence with Russians is impossible. Refugee families settle in tent camps near the border amid rugged terrain and fertile valleys.
Lewis L. Strauss told the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce that deficits threaten tax cuts and national strength. He warned inflation could erode the military and said the U. S. fights Russia not by arms alone but on an economic front while awaiting confirmation as commerce secretary.
A sparse turnout in Sioux City Iowa marked the return of baseball to the city for the first time since 1947 with only about 95 spectators present for Se Seve ene onete game.
National Guardsmen and a court order calmed Henderson mills after a week of unrest. Eight pickets allowed at gates, 75 feet from entrances, no crowds outside. Violence declined though a car ambush near a lumber yard injured a woman, as workers moved to Louisburg to report the incident.
Lawton Oklahoma AP reports efforts to seat a jury for the Eddie Junior Oxendine trial in the 1958 slaying of a 19 year old Lawton housewife. Oxendine 27 of Pembroke North Carolina faces a third trial after a hung jury backed by a reversal of an electric chair sentence for his co defendant James Spence 30 of Kingston North Carolina.
Crescent Drive-In shows Zorro Rides Again in a color cartoon short, not part of a TV series. Screens across town feature the feature presentation ahead of other attractions at the Crescent venue.
Boyd E. Payton, Carolina director for the Textile Workers Union, tells a Senate Labor subcommittee that most workers in Gaston and Cleveland counties North Carolina earn little more than the legal $1 per hour. He notes some mills pay $1.25 only when required by law and cites widespread chiselers and mills resisting higher pay. TWUA president William Pollock backs the $1.25 proposal as practical and necessary.
Los Angeles Dodgers fan Joe E. Brown reported thieves ransacked his home while he watched the team play Tuesday night. The comedian said the loss totaled $17,653 in money, jewelry and furs as the Dodgers won.
Utah leads the nation in copper production accounting for 29 percent of total output. The report highlights the state’s mining sector and its impact on industrial activity and supply chains.
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