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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1965
Page
7
Waltham Massachusetts mayor Austin D Rhodes entered politics at 72 after retirement in 1958 to seek a fourth term. He funds plans from city finances and favors practical libraries, hiring an architect for home style libraries while keeping campaigns low profile.
Rhodes, a widower who left school in the eighth grade, built a career from lumber work to a machinist at J.L. Thomson Co. in Waltham, rising to a leadership role before retirement. The article notes his decades of service and the planned testimonial dinner in his honor.
Pentagon said Secretary McNamara and Rep Hebert would face press questions at a Saturday morning news conference on Capitol Hill. Hebert’s Armed Services subcommittee has pressed hearings on merging Army Reserve units into the National Guard amid controversy.
In Jacksonville the body of a man shot by officers in Nahunta Ga is held for positive ID. Capt R B Whittington said the man tentatively identified as Walter Lee Allen 22 alias Walter Lee Pearce was shot in the head while fleeing Monday. Nahunta police say he had stolen a motorcycle in Daytona Beach and later a motor scooter in Nahunta.
American evangelist Billy Graham addressed 7 500 people in Copenhagen at Forum Hall after a torchlight parade. He warned that many confuse love with lust and proclaimed an age of atheism, declaring there is no true atheist. The audience observed a peaceful gathering.
Charles Lynch notes how in Chinese cities like Shenyang Changchun and Harbin rickshaw crews endure grueling work. He compares human powered freight in urban China with revolutionary ideals and questions whether such toil reflects progress or enduring hardship.
Police searched the home of School Supt. Alex Jardine after an anonymous call threatened to blow up the building if he fired the city’s striking teachers. No explosion was found. Jardine met with lawyers to notify all 360 striking teachers their contracts were terminated. The teachers’ union president said the issue was no longer about money but the firing of teachers. Police called the threat a probable hoax.
Norman Gradwell battled a wounded 30-foot black shark off Durban and rammed his empty spear gun down its throat to escape. He towed the shark ashore and clubbed it to death after the struggle.
Carolina rural electric cooperatives oppose the Blue Ridge and North Carolina Electric membership groups at a Charleston hearing to dismiss a request by Appalac to build hydroelectric facilities at the Bluestone Dam on the New River at Hinton. The case questions rate impacts, economic feasibility, and public convenience and necessity. Additional co-ops from Virginia and West Virginia joined in the protest.
State Senator Tom White of Lenoir, head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, vows the controversial Communist speaker ban law will not be amended or repealed. He argues the law protects state institutions and counters academic freedom threats, warning amendments are unlikely this session.
If a U.S. president resigns, the formal process requires notice to the secretary of state. The constitutional path hinges on a transfer of power and official communications to the designated officer.
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