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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1959
Page
1
President Eisenhower used the Taft-Hartley Law to address a docks strike in Palm Springs, paving the way for a back-to-work court or der operation for up to 80 days.
Washington witnesses including Herbert Stempel testified as the Senate hearing into rigged quiz shows opened. Stempel described coaching and inducements to lose to Charles Van Doren on Twenty-One, while James Snodgrass and Richard Jackman were also named among early contestants questioning manipulation and control techniques intended to favor some participants.
Chicago must beat Sandy Koufax for a title as the Dodgers push for a four game sweep at Memorial Coliseum. Attendance records top 92 thousand with total series gate near two hundred eighty thousand fans and player shares listed.
London bookmakers shifted odds to 2 to 5 on a Conservative victory while Labour stood even money. Prime Minister Macmillan urged a bigger majority to project Britain’s voice to Moscow and Washington amid the East West summit push.
Carthage October 6 Willis Slane of Hatteras Yacht Co sought highway permits to move 40 foot by 130 foot fibre glass yachts from High Point to the ocean. He plans to begin production this month at one boat per week, pending commission approval and special wide-load permits.
The Air Force announced successful performance of an Atlas missile flight over the Atlantic on a 5500 mile test. A new 12 foot white tactical nose cone topped the missile, designed for faster atmospheric re entry. The cone was not recovered after impact in the target area.
Witnesses describe reduced service on the Greensboro to Goldsboro line with one daily round trip. Dining car service is discontinued after losses. A Durham station received the state’s lowest passenger rating, while officials defend cleanliness. Southern faces an annual loss of over $141000 on the two trains.
The Sewanee from the New York Yacht Club burned to its hull and sank in the Intracoastal Waterway near Columbia North Carolina. The crew abandoned ship onto a life raft as Coast Guard patrol boat and plane arrived within minutes and several craft assisted. Survivors' identities were not available.
Soviet watchers in Moscow await first data from Lunik II the automatic observatory on its flight to the moon. Officials expect early disclosures within 24 hours of the craft’s reported view of the far side and its return glide to an orbit around Earth.
The 170-member union vows to keep an 84 day strike alive until justice is done after wage talks with five leading steel firms fail to yield a reply. President Eisenhower threatens taft hartley action and an 80 day cooling off if progress stalls further. The wage policy committee deems the latest offer unsatisfactory, tallying a 10.2 cent hourly increase over two years amid contract language changes.
A 1930s era reform would end recognizing old paper money as circulating. The plan cites gains from freeing two million Civil War shin plasters and pre 1929 large-size notes plus 1934 gold certificates, freeing 103 million dollars in reserves and reducing Treasury borrowing.
Richard Levin of the Philadelphia personnel department notes a debate over wall washing order. More than 80 civil service job applicants seek the wall washer test for five openings, with two methods: top to bottom versus bottom to top, each claiming efficiency and fewer streaks.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Kliment Voroshilov sent a congratulatory message marking East Germany's 10th anniversary. The praise hailed the regime's fight against what Moscow called an obsolete West Berlin occupation. Khrushchev was en route home from Peiping and had been touring Vladivostok in Siberia.
FBI arrested William Joseph Burke 46 of San Francisco on charges he posed as a federal employee and CIA security chief to recruit a traveling companion for the Khrushchevs visit. He allegedly took 20 dollars from a young woman with a phantom job offer. Burke claimed New Jersey roots.
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