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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1963
Page
2
Paul Zuber, Harlem attorney and civil rights figure, announces he will enter the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary as an independent. He says the move aims to provide a forum for Negro voters and challenge segregation in northern schools.
Investigators probe what tore an engine from a four engine DC8 carrying 128 aboard after takeoff from Houston. The starboard engine sheared away the tail stabilizer and the plane plummeted before the pilot regained control and landed at Barksdale AFB. Passengers were treated at Shreveport area hospitals as crews traced the missing engine about 45 miles southwest of Houston.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is documented to plunge more than 3000 feet marking a remarkable natural drop. In Ohio Lake County officials report more than 200 plant nurseries operating within the area.
The undersigned qualified as Executor of Charife H. Whitlow deceased of Guilford County. All persons with claims must present them by March 27, 1964 or be barred. Debts should be paid promptly. Dated October 19, 19762. 3300 Centennial Avenue High Point NC. Benint & Wyatt, attorneys. Professional Building High Point NC 10-24-28 11-4-17.
Indianap olis AP report on the Halloween disaster at the Coliseum where 71 people died and 385 injured as a gas explosion, from a leaking tank ignited by a small heater, ripped concrete and hurled bodies into the air during a Holiday on Ice finale. Cecile Hoffer and her husband died of injuries, while Eletora Ricketts also succumbed at Methodist Hospital. Wilbur W. Gauthier, exposed to the blast, described tanks and heated popcorn room details to investigators.
In Ringwood New Jersey AP crews begin dangerous recovery of a 15 year old Harry Van Dunk buried after an earth slide at an abandoned mine shaft caused by rain. He was with two friends Aaron Milligan 11 and Randall Milligan 13 who escaped. Police estimate the youth was buried under about 200 tons of muck.
President Eisenhower said on nationwide TV that Richard Nixon could be a darkhorse candidate if a deadlock occurs at the Republican convention next year. Nixon, Ike noted, is a knowledgeable and courageous man, though Nixon has said he has no interest in running again and lost to Kennedy in 1960.
Greensboro AP report says former Federal Judge L Richardson Preyer selected Newman A Townsend a Raleigh tax attorney to run his Democratic campaign for governor Townsend 50 has broader statewide political visibility and was co manager for Gov J Melville Broughton in Caldwell County 23 years ago Townsend says he aims to assure Preyer's nomination and election and will retire to his Raleigh law office Townsend joined the firm in 1955 after eight years with the IRS and is a UNC Law School graduate Townsend is a native of Dunn and father of two with a storied political lineage through his father Newman Townsend Jr and a reference to the Roman Empire being founded after Julius Caesar's death.
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