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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1955
Page
5
A&P announces a million-dollar warehouse project near Roanoke in Raleigh area, estimated at 150000 square feet, employing 150 to 200 workers. Executives from Charlotte will transfer to oversee the facility.
Gov Hodges selects a special committee led by R L McMillan to coordinate observance of the third annual National Sports Festival in North Carolina. Vice chairmen include Ralph J Andrews Tom Hines Selwyn Orcutt and Jet Pierce. group to meet at State College on April 15 to plan statewide observance.
The North Carolina Photographers Assn gathers in Winston Salem for its annual three day convention. Yesterday opened with a color demonstration by Maude Elliott of Atlanta and a bridal photography showcase by Jack H. McGrail of Columbia. A General Assembly bill to create a State Board of Photography and certify professionals was discussed at the business session.
A Wake Forest gathering hears Tar Heel EM A chief warn that Hoover Commission REA reforms could wreck rural electrification. He cites doubled loan rates and higher electric bills if REA is reorganized and funded via private markets. Scientists can date skeletons by measuring radioactive carbon in bones.
For the first time science finds a new healing substance called Bio-Dyne that shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain without surgery. Case after case shows actual reduction and patients say piles have ceased to be a problem. Offered as Preparation H ointment at drug stores with money back guarantee.
Tar Heel lawmakers move into a week focused on appropriations and finance with a Ft Bragg trip planned for an all day event. Key measures include caps on cap pistols, highway commission study, refrigeration examiners board, and fuel tax shifts. The Senate mulls tax changes on nuts and corporate acts while the House considers redistricting study and machinery tax. The Joint Appropriations subcommittee eyes budget recommendations for April.
T C Carroll of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes charges Louisville and Nashville Railroad lied about already contracting for a health and welfare program. He cites letters from LAN personnel and a March 31, 17 days after the strike notice, saying the contract is being prepared. Leighty adds no new offers were made in Washington. six demands remain, including cost coverage and restoration of strikers and pickup-line honors.
CHAPEL HILL N C The Second Southern Regional Conference on Hospital Recreation featured lectures discussions and demonstrations. Speakers included Dr Paul Haun Mrs Beatrice Hill Dr Russell Rammage and Dr Edyth Ball with remarks by Dr Alexander Reid Martin on over technocracy and the loss of leisure as a source of creativity. Carl Myers VA Oteen planned to speak tonight.
Lewis E. Fiske of Denver, 74, sues actor Jack Carson for $150,000 alleging a golf ball struck him on February 1, 1954, at Las Vegas Desert Inn Country Club, causing permanent vision impairment, pain and headaches.
In New York Mindy Carson, a top singer, describes rock and roll as a rhythmic feeling rather than traditional music. She says the beat compels dancing and gives a sense of freedom, distinguishing it from jazz and urging readers to feel rather than analyze the genre.
Dr. Charles F. Carroll state superintendent suggests delaying election of teachers principals and superintendents for next year and holding up district school committee appointments. The move tied to pending legislation to end continuing contracts amid a Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation.
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