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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1959
Page
2
CAB Examiner Ralph L. Wiser recommends a temporary fare increase pending full board approval. If passed, the higher fares would help 12 major U S long haul airlines fund new jet age equipment. The decision came after one of the board's longest hearings since 1956 with no end date specified.
In Greensboro the 10 inch gas line break caused 50 to 60 families to leave homes overnight. Piedmont Natural Gas Co. faced 250 residents told to stay out as a bypass line was built and about 450 schoolchildren were sent home. Authorities warned of asphyxiation or explosion risks if pressure dropped.
In Wilkesboro North Carolina a liquor conspiracy case involving ace driver Junior Johnson his mother and two brothers proceeded with a nine member jury The judge dismissed charges against Junior and Fred Johnson and Mrs Johnson for possessing and concealing illegal liquor citing lack of ownership evidence Public witnesses described stills near the Johnson home and the trial included Franklin Ashley Ralph Rey Lester Spaulding testified about Johnson racing dates last summer and fall
Nearly 3,000 mourners filled the National Cathedral for the Presbyterian funeral of Dulles led by Rev. Dr. Russell P. Barnes. At Arlington, Army servicemen and a six-horse caisson carried the casket to a grave amid military rites as President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon attended under a May sun.
Butler a former Girardville resident with a prior armed robbery conviction surrenders after a pursuit in a wooded outskirts of Pittsburgh. Lauer and Merlin Diehl of Shamokin Pa. drove Butler from Northumberland County toward Western State Penitentiary when Butler grabbed a gun, a struggle ensued, and Diehl stopped the car. Butler, 720 dollar church rectory holdup defendant, faced a petition withdrawal in Sunbury court for release as he was allegedly illegally imprisoned.
Able the rhesus and Baker the squirrel monkey rode in sealed capsules inside a Jupiter nose cone for a 15 minute suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral. Navy recovery teams retrieved the cone near Antigua Island as scientists record minimal effects on heart rate and respiration.
Newsmen sampled remarks as Foster Dulles was referenced in relation to funeral services. Hagerty deflected on Eisenhower summit desirability and whether Khrushchev messages reached the president. Gromyko Lloyd and Couve de Murville left the White House smiling after a tripartite exchange. Gromyko expressed hope for Geneva success.
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