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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1959
Page
5
Forecast calls for showers along the Gulf coast and in Florida. Snow is expected across the northern and central Plains.
Greensboro AP reports North Carolina truckers ended a week long boycott of Virginia truck stops. Richmond driver Paul Shores delivered a petition to the Virginia Legislature seeking a revision of the 45 mph truck speed limit, signed by 3 000 drivers as protest against enforcement. Central Motor Lines driver W A Winslow said the organizing committee voted to end the action.
Canned foods drove a 15 percent two year gain reaching 3.5 billion in 1957 with soup fish and juice leading the market, according to industry figures.
In Wilmington North Carolina two white men Walno Wentworth Jamieson and Jimmy Fox Moseley both 19 were found guilty of simple assault after a jury reduced rape charges to that verdict. They received the maximum misdemeanor sentence as a 15 year old girl testified she was lured and raped. The solicitor had sought the death penalty.
Forecasts show fair mild conditions in North Carolina with cooler nights and rising clouds in the west on Tuesday. Georgia will be fair to partly cloudy with mild afternoons and cool nights, highs 70s to mid 80s, while South Carolina turns cooler tonight and Tuesday with 60s to 70s expected. Temperatures near normal across the region with minor day to day changes. The Canary Islands reference appears as a fragment about Playwright O Neill and a 1922 Pulitzer prize.
A capacity crowd of 30,000 cheered convict performers at the Texas prison rodeo in Huntsville. Teenage singer Tommy Sands performed between acts as rodeo riders suffered injuries, with only Leon Abbott hospitalized after a bronco forced him into a fence. Proceeds benefit the prisoners welfare fund.
The 92nd North Carolina State Fair opens Tuesday with a record number of exhibitors and about $60,000 in prize money across 28 competition areas. Officials expect attendance to top half a million over five days, with ceremonies at 10 a.m. in the State Fair Arena led by Agriculture Commissioner L Y Ballentine and others. The fair honors 4 H Clubs on their 40th anniversary and features gospel singing, racing, auto events, and shows including Satellite Revue with the Manhattan Rockets and Jubilee U.S.A. The Everly Brothers will headline starting Thursday, and a folk music festival runs daily under Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The midway is run by James E Strates Shows, whose president died Sunday in Danville Va.
Wisconsin ranked first nationwide in per capita beer and ale consumption in 1958 at 24.5 gallons. Nevada followed with 22.2 gallons, while New Jersey Michigan and Pennsylvania tied for third at 19.9 gallons.
North South vulnerable in a four spade contract. South would have played ace of spades first if all cards were known. West, P Z Sullivan, chose a daring line forcing dummy's king with ten, leading hearts then clubs. East misread and spade lead allowed Sullivan to ruff and set the hand.
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