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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1959
Page
1
The Associated Press notes presidential hopefuls Nixon Kennedy and Rockefeller start formal campaigns. Harriman and Brown meet in Sacramento to critique Republicans as Nixon and Kennedy argue farm policy and military buildup while Churchill parallels frame the current political climate.
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church holds pledge dedication with Sunday School classes meeting at 9 45 A M and pledging for a 75000 budget goal. A noon total will announce each class contribution and a board will display results before the morning sermon.
The budget planning committee led by Carson Stout will start its campaign Sunday to organize fundraising and allocate church funds with details continued on page two.
Gov. Luther Hodges announces North Carolina Europe trade mission to seven cities and six countries achieved strong results. More than 1,000 European business leaders engaged, with six to eight agreements to visit NC and plans for European investment.
Gov. Luther Hodges says the European businessman is capable and ambitious, and the United States must readjust its thinking toward Europe. A North Carolina trade mission visited six European cities and will host six to eight Europeans later, including chemical firms and an industrial research official.
President Eisenhower moved toward a White House conference with management and union leaders to address crippling strikes such as the steel walkout. AFL-CIO President George Meany proposed the meeting and will confer with Secretary James Mitchell on timing and composition.
Local recreation officials unveil an improvement program for Blair Park Golf Course promising a near elite municipal facility. Fred Barber, staff writer, documents the plan in a Sunday Enterprise feature.
An elderly Lexington man shot and killed his granddaughter in law and wounded her companion before shooting himself. William Lee Wright, 69, and Mrs Mary Lee Tysinger Hill, 22, died. Glenn Huff, 22, was hospitalized with bullet wounds. Authorities say the incident followed discovery of the couple together and ruled a murder death by own action with no charges filed.
Arthur Douglas Foster III of Glyndon quietly handed out about $3,000 on Thursday and more on Friday to Baltimore residents in need. Police questioned him as publicity grows over the unusual Christmas gift plan. Foster says his motive is religious and welfare-free aid.
In New York for a weekend of relaxation are seven astronauts and their wives. Capt. Donald K. Slayton said they plan shows and dinners, while Lt. Col. John Powers in Norfolk noted the group has moved to more advanced training with the equipment used in missions.
Wright and Mrs. Huff of 807 Olympia St searched for Huff after a shooting. Huff said he stepped from Wright’s car and was shot in the hand and cheek, the slug lodging in his neck. Mrs. Huff rushed to her husband as he called for an ambulance.
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