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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1961
Page
1
Governor Sanford stated that North Carolina faces no need for tax restructuring for a generation due to growing economy. He touted a $61.5 million bond issue on the ballot November 7 and said it would not alter the tax rate. He supported the current 3 percent sales tax on food and warned against post hoc debates on newspaper taxes.
Governor Sanford announced a 6 to 7 member highway safety coordinating committee. Drawn from the North Carolina Traffic Safety Council Highway Department and Motor Vehicles Department the group will meet monthly keep accident records and study highway planning. He cited two fatal Highway 70 crashes as motivation.
Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa and Detroit banker Robert E. McCarthy Jr. pleaded innocent to a 16 count indictment accusing them of misusing over 500000 of union funds to promote Sun Valley Inc. in a retirement housing project. Hoffa remained silent in court and planned to travel to Miami then Detroit.
At a regular briefing Pierre Salinger read Kennedy’s prepared statement opposing entry of the Chinese Communists into the United Nations. The note reasserts U S support for the Republic of China as the sole legitimate government and rejects Red China’s UN admission.
Liberian President William V. S. Tubman arrives in Washington for a two day visit and meets President Kennedy and Secretary Rusk at National Airport. Kennedy calls Tubman a symbol of stability and a leader identified with freedom and progress. Tubman will discuss international affairs with Kennedy and Rusk during the talks.
Gov. Sanford appoints Edwin S. Lanier of Chapel Hill as state personnel director replacing John McDevitt who resigns to lead Home Security Life Insurance Co. in Durham. Lanier, former student aid director at UNC, is praised for public service as alderman mayor and county commissioner.
West Berlin officials and commentators speculate Moscow may soon dismiss East German leader Walter Ulbricht to ease direct talks with East Germany. Khrushchev’s Kremlin speech dropped the December 31 deadline for a peace treaty, signaling a shift that could affect Western access routes to West Berlin. The speech prompted Ulbricht to publicly praise his master, drawing Western diplomats' amused notice.
Washington reports diplomatic notes from Moscow renew the Soviet position that Berlin air corridors are for supplying Western garrisons only. The move heightens tensions in the Berlin dispute as Secretary Rusk cautions about Khrushchev’s Moscow speech while noting potential tension relief from his extended peace treaty deadline.
The General Accounting Office cites miscalculations by humans and a faulty calculating machine as causes of multimillion dollar excess costs in Far East military aid. It found $58 million in unrecorded stock at a Japan depot and potential savings of about $235 million from excess or useless spare parts.
In Moscow, former premier Georgi Malenkov and ex deputy Lazarus Kaganovich were denounced at the 22nd Communist party congress. Podgorny condemned Kaganovich for anti party activity and harm to the party, calling him a degenerate. Tass released details of the alleged misdeeds while Western reporters were barred from the session.
Finnish President Urho Kekkonen paid tribute to Herbert Hoover, venerating his relief work after World War I. Hoover, then head of the American Relief Administration, helped Finland with 28 million dollars in aid, later called the Hoover loan, earning enduring gratitude.
The General Assembly Political Committee moves to debate a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing after defeating Soviet plans to wrap the issue into broader disarmament. India led a moratorium proposal while a U S British resolution for international control was approved for debate despite opposition from the Soviet bloc and allies.
Hungarian born engineer Georg von Bekesy, longtime Harvard professor, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries on how the cochlea senses sound. His work in acoustics traced ear mechanisms from 1920s Hungary to Sweden and finally to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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