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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1961
Page
2
Moody recounts a Cuban boat returning to Cuba that steered into an inlet and fired on a refugee boat. The crew fired back, leaped overboard, and reached shore as the Cuban vessel harassed the beach for 10 to 15 minutes. No injuries were reported among 21 men 6 women and children.
Virgil W. Houghland, a self-styled king of the parking meters, has moved on after three months of raking grass around meters in Tulsa. He says he collected about 425 dollars from 21 000 meters, a haul he deems his earnings from the unusual scavenger work.
New York cotton futures opened unchanged to 15 cents a bale higher than the prior close, reflecting a small uptick in early trading.
AP by Lewis Gulick reports cancelation of a Western Big Four meeting highlighting Allied strains in bargaining with the Soviet Union over Berlin. France objects to rushing talks while Moscow offers nothing the West can concede. US and UK push for unified positions after Gromyko talks.
Premier Cyrille Adoula vows central Congo will press to retake Katanga despite the UN Katanga pact. Tshombe warns UN prisoners may stay hostage unless the agreement is ratified. UN officials expect advisory committee approval as prisoners head toward Elisabethville.
The disappearance of a B52G bomber with eight aboard during Sky Shield II, a 12 hour NORAD exercise, marred a largely successful continental air defense test. Officials said the drill was 99.9 percent effective and valuable for future aerospace defense. President Kennedy was informed that Sky Shield II was the best test yet.
A force of 22 planes and four surface vessels resumed the search over the Atlantic for an Air Force jet bomber missing with eight crewmen after a nationwide air defense drill. Inland searches extended from New York to Virginia as Coast Guard cutters and Civil Air Patrol aided. Names of the eight aboard the B52G from Seymour Johnson AFB were released, including Capt. Roland Starke Jr and Ist Lt Kenneth Payne.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn 79, ill with incurable cancer, remained in Baylor Hospital Dallas after a weekend of weakness and brief rallies. A Sunday bulletin said his condition was only fair and he showed periods of confusion, with treatment using fluoro-uracil and FUDR completed.
The father of Margery Michelmore 23 a Smith College graduate says her Nigeria postcard describing poverty aimed to help ease world tensions not Publicize. The incident drew African student outrage and calls for the Peace Corps to leave Nigeria.
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