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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1960
Page
8
Lloyd J. Rittiner, president of the embattled New Orleans School Board, has no love for telephones or mail. His unpaid post places him on the horns of a dilemma as the board oversees Louisiana's first school integration since Reconstruction.
A collage of notes and anecdotes covers dental hygiene with scented brushes, entertainment awards, enzyme digestion, a Niagara Falls joke, a steam bicycle collapse, and a Louisiana school board president facing hate mail over integration. Rittiner weighs open schools against segregation.
Memphis Commercial Appeal editor Frank R. Ahlgren urged Southern publishers to lead progress in the creative South. He cited four gains industrialization, education, agriculture change, and cultural progress, and urged courage to solve problems and elevate the press. Nearly 700 executives from 14 states attended the SNPA's 57th anniversary convention in Boca Raton as ad spending rose 22 percent in 1959 to 18.9 million for daily papers.
A columnist surveys contrasts in American tastes from wartime sauerkraut to vodka and sable, notes feminine forms of names, lists five letter words with four vowels, muses on numbers ending in 0 or 5, and quotes a country editor on manners and big talk in a New York school.
The Thugs, a religious sect in India, murdered victims in honor of the goddess Kali. A target was stalked by three or four members for days, then strangled at a sonali, robbed, and buried. Loot was offered to the goddess, with some kept by the group.
The United Nations Congo advisory committee remains divided over dispatching a conciliation mission to Congo to reconcile rival leaders President Kasavubu and Premier Lumumba. Some favor bringing Lumumba to New York, others seat Kasavubu, with assembly credentials and regional blocs shaping the outcome.
Liquid metals and gases are being explored by industry and the Air Force as potential lubricants for satellites and space vehicles. Air Force Col. W. A. Anderson said fuels may double as lubricants, with maintenance-free operation in extreme space conditions up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
A Los Angeles figure known as The Voice of Two Worlds offers free to the public a 64 page booklet titled Beware of These Days claiming four major prophecies could now come true. The notice urges readers to request the pamphlet from the Institute of Mental Physics at 213 South Hobart Blvd Dept 51 A Los Angeles California with no money needed and no obligation. It notes the material originated from Tibet and promises mind power methods for success and strength.
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