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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1955
Page
2
Police pursue leads after a Queens bank robbery where workers were secured behind a grill and attackers escaped. The FBI notes 517 banks robbed nationwide last year versus 248 in 1953, prompting conferences between banks and law enforcement.
Hanover offered a pared back bill to regulate real estate sales with no exams for licenses and a path for current dealers to obtain licenses by character. Hewlett proposed no exams as well. licenses could be revoked for misrepresentation or improper handling of funds. Committee set to act on substitute measure next Tuesday.
New York CIO Textile Workers Union of America predicts a near unanimous vote to strike against 40 Northern mills employing about 40,000 workers. Victor J. Ganzatto, the cotton director, cites a 10 cent per hour wage cut demand from Fall River-New Bedford manufacturers. Contracts expire April. union seeks renewal without changes amid charges that payroll costs differ from Southern rates.
New York stocks rise on broad front led by chemical shares with notable gains in Union Carbide Du Pont Allied Chemical and Monsanto. Paramount advances after color TV set news while Merchan tile Stores and several oils climb. trading remains quiet with about 1.22 million shares by 1 p.m.
DETROIT The Common Council prohibits wearing dark glasses in the chamber. Councilman Eugene I Van Antwerp stated that increasing numbers of spectators wear Hollywood type glasses and this unsettles him.
Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson began a Superior Court action to recover control of the Holiness Church of Wicker Street in Burlington. He accuses a splinter group led by Rev. Ernest R. Sutton of forming a new congregation in 1951, fueling a long dispute within the Church of God of Prophecy and its Tennessee leadership.
William Berry of Elgin Indiana plans to sing Rose of Sharon on a radio barn dance program for his 103rd birthday. The Highland Avenue Church of The Brethren honored him last Sunday as the choir performed one of his hymns. He lives with daughter Judith Garber and her husband Isaac.
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