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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1963
Page
4
The Birmingham bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church shocks the nation as civil rights protests intensify. The attack follows months of school desegregation battles led by King allies, with state troopers and federal forces clashing over integrated schools and rising violence.
North Carolina apprentice bricklayer and oil painter remains active at 70. He earned 1952 Guilford County Fine Arts Festival cups for landscaping and still life, earned honorable mentions in 1953 and 1954, taught in the High Point Arts and Crafts Workshop, and held one man shows in 1955 and 1961 at the High Point Public Library. He supervised the medical arts building on Quaker Lane, noting its design demanded study to satisfy each doctor. He keeps regular office hours despite a prior stroke and remains influential across High Point.
Sheriff deputies arrested Charlie Alford of Lexing ton Rt 2 on four counts of issuing and passing worthless checks. A nonsupport warrant was served. Bond was set at 400 dollars to assure his appearance in Recorder s Court on October 1.
Lansing Fire Chief Mark Keeney spotted smoke on his garage siding and alerted firefighters. The fire destroyed Keeney's car after burning self out from lack of oxygen. Keeney quipped he smokes but rarely uses the ashtray.
PHILADELPHIA AP Traffic moved slowly on Friday as four gallon jugs of syrup spilled from a truck on the Schuylkill Expressway. Glass shattered and syrup coated the pavement before firefighters covered the spill with sand and began cleanup with burlap mops.
Republican voices urge deficit planning and tighter spending to earn tax cuts. Curtis argues the President avoids clear expenditure reductions and prioritizes programs. Smathers vows prompt hearings to advance the $11 billion tax cut while Byrd links tax relief to reduced federal spending and debt.
Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara flies to Saigon with presidential orders and a personal plan to probe U S and Vietnamese actions against communist guerrillas. He will assess military operations economic aid political and social policies alongside Gen Maxwell D Taylor and Maj Gen Victor H Krulak with a focus on improving Diem regime support and American involvement. McNamara will meet Diem and advisers and will avoid social functions while examining all levels from top leaders to field officers.
The body of 38 year old Charles Lester Pruitt was found near Maxton North Carolina shortly before noon on Saturday. His throat had been cut by an unknown attacker. He was a husband and father of six with family in Lumberton and employment at Waverly Mills in Laurinburg. His wife had picked him up in Laurinburg late Friday night and they drove to Lumberton before he departed to return to Laurinburg and vanished.
North Carolina GOP chairman J Herman Saxon aims for a unified delegation and a strong 1964 campaign. He advocates a united fundraising plan, plans statewide outreach after November, and weighs Charles R Jones as a potential governor candidate. Saxon emphasizes policy over fundraising and notes Goldwater’s appeal in surrounding states.
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