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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1959
Page
2
Dr William H Muller Jr reports the first complete heart valve replacement with a plastic substitute. A female patient in dire straits shows progress almost a year after the operation, marking a potential advance over the Hufnagel valve.
In San Sebastian France and Spain marked the 300th anniversary of the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees on the Bidassoa River island Pheasants. Foreign ministers urged greater European cooperation and solidarity after honoring Louis XIV and Philip IV as signatories ending three decades of war.
Flash floods swept the Neuse and Tar rivers with crests around 20 feet a day after heavy rains. A five Negroes car was carried off a culvert near Clayton but rescuers saved all aboard and reported their condition satisfactory. Water covered highways in Johnston County while U.S. 264 traffic resumed Saturday morning.
A Frankfurt court convicted five Germans on charges from an attack on a Jewish restaurant owner. Six others were acquitted. The heaviest sentence, four months in jail plus a 59.50 dollar fine, went to Heinrich Weidman for assault and related offenses.
The Southern fall furniture market opened in Western North Carolina with heavy buyer traffic. Showrooms from Lenoir to High Point report optimism. manufacturers like J. E. Broyhill Jr. predict a record market, while new lines appear and staff sales efforts intensify across towns along the furniture highway.
Stockholm journalists name Dr. Owen Chamberlain and Dr. Emilio Segrè as likely 1959 Nobel physicists for confirming the antiproton and helping advance particle physics. The Expressen list adds James Van Allen and Hermann Oberth as candidates. Awards total $42,606 each.
A $34 million bond issue faces a Tuesday vote to fund higher education and mental health facilities. Funds would expand college capacity by about 2,120 graduates annually, support Asheville Charlotte Wilmington community colleges, and aid state mental hospitals, retarded-children schools, correction and training centers, and historic site restorations.
Today's outlook warns scattered showers over the lower Lakes area the central Appalachians and the extreme north Atlantic states with cooler readings along the Atlantic and east Gulf coasts and northern Plains. Warmer temperatures are expected in the central and southern Plains and the middle Mississippi Valley as Lakes area and Ohio Valley stay cool.
A behind the scenes dispute grows as West Germany faces suspensions on becoming a major West weapons producer. Ties to NATO and WEU arms bans from 1954 loom while diplomats assess potential easing next spring.
Francis Stilley reports the congressional subcommittee resumes hearings on rigging in TV quiz shows. Charles Van Doren and Hank Bloomgarden face questions over large payments from Twenty-One while grand juries and NBC deliberations loom. CBS halts quiz shows and drops canned laughter, stirring producer resignations and Edward R Murrow’s critique.
New York man Jack Lustman 46 of Baltimore a self described financial consultant faced grand larceny charges after allegedly living on luxury nights out and avoiding payment prosecutors said Lustman used a Park Avenue tele phone answering service as a drop for purchases a mute retired Army colonel was falsely claimed to collect packages Lustman demanded 25000 bail arguing it was too high and was ordered to post it by Magistrate Edward J Chapman authorities said he had been sought for four years.
A 55 year old scholar criticizes Churchill prose saying a margin note reads This sentence is far too long. The remark highlights concerns about length and clarity in the era's writing style.
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