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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1959
Page
6
Livermore physicist Edward Teller urges optimism about humanity’s future in the nuclear era. He argues preparedness buys time for peaceful aims, promotes international cooperation, proposes a year abroad for youths, and calls for press focus on global developments to avert war.
AP reports relief supplies for the hurricane area in Colima and Jalisco as death toll rises to 1452. Manzanillo graves scene. Minatitlan evac likely. La Pareta wiped out. 60 percent of Manzanillo homes destroyed. vaccines given for tetanus and typhoid. crops and livestock losses about 280 million dollars.
Lt. Gen. Edwin A. Pollock retires as commanding general Fleet Marine Force Atlantic after a 38 year career. Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Burger succeeds him and will be promoted to lieutenant general. Pollock earned the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal among top decorations. Burger, a Second Division veteran, hails from Washington DC and Maryland alum.
Wake Forest College hosts an annual novice debate tournament with over 110 students from 19 colleges including Webb Georgetown Howard Mars Hill Pfeiffer Richmond South Carolina and Randolph-Macon. Six rounds run Friday and Saturday ending with a banqet at 6 p m Friday.
A Phoenix man returns to a two story house ransacked, with 20 doors 16 windows and other fixtures missing. Loss estimated at 4000 dollars.
Bermuda authorities arrest 19 year old Wendell Willis Lightbourn for murder and attempted murder in a case tied to the shark mangled body of Miss Rawlinson found at Southlands Beach. Scotland Yard detains suspect as Bermuda grapples with a string of killings and assaults amid FBI assistance requests.
Two former South Daytona police chiefs C H Futch and Edward Collatti faced warrants for unauthorized acceptance of compensation in a scheme selling bogus traffic tickets and pocketing appearance bonds. Futch posted bond and was released. Collatti resignations preceded charges sparked by a Connecticut retiree who flagged a speeding ticket and alerted Governor Collins. Local officials investigated tickets printed years earlier by a local firm.
82-year-old Thomas R. Chandler Sr. died in a Lenoir hospital after being wounded in the same Caldwell County home where his wife, 77, was killed. A $500 robbery and double slaying investigation continued as suspects were questioned. A double funeral was planned for Chandler and his wife at Bethany Baptist Church.
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