Local Weather Notebook Notes Team of Reporters
A brief city weather roundup mentions reporters Frankie Spannorama Doug Edwards Arthur Smith and Dr Hudeor with forecasts from Charlotte and Enfrro Valley Esso Reporter Weatherman.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1957
Page
2
A brief city weather roundup mentions reporters Frankie Spannorama Doug Edwards Arthur Smith and Dr Hudeor with forecasts from Charlotte and Enfrro Valley Esso Reporter Weatherman.
In Raleigh the new Senate and House Finance subcommittees will start work next week on the 1957 59 tax bill. House chairman Rep B T Falls Jr and Senate chairman Sen Nelson Woodson head 15 member panels with open press sessions. After separate studies the panels will meet jointly to resolve differences before reporting to the Finance committees.
The Philadelphia Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers begins a four session course for members nearing retirement. Speakers from union and area industry management will address retirement problems and pleasures as workers approach the end of their careers.
In Lima Peru a new shopping center attracts crowds with a feature American soda fountain offering ice cream sodas and hot pastrami on rye drawing enthusiastic shoppers and locals alike.
In primitive Samoa natives built a double canoe able to carry 500 people while Norseman long boats held about 200, highlighting early seafaring scale differences.
Asheville hosts a three day Southeastern regional conference with remarks from Harold J Weekly regional president of United Community Funds and Councils of America. Weekly says United Fund aims to reduce charity drives not eliminate them while public perception of a single solution is cautioned. John E Canady of Lockheed notes we should guard against presenting United Fund as the sole answer. Ralph H Blanchard of UCFCA adds goals to lessen campaign competition and multiplicity of drives.
Mary Elizabeth Seagraves admitted fatally stabbing James Albert Wilkerson with a butcher knife and received a 46 year prison term in Superior Court. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter after an argument at her residence on March 11. Wilkerson, a China Grove construction worker, was her weekend companion of 18 months.
Divers recovered the body of Marcus Brock Cook age 31 of Asheville after he disappeared while swimming yesterday afternoon at Lake Lure. Cook, a grocery manager, was with companion James Webb who said Cook undressed and swam away before vanishing. He is survived by his widow Belle Cabe Cook and his parents Mr and Mrs M B Cook of Leicester.
Two Marion area residents were killed within 24 hours. Mrs. Lee, 42, was struck on the head by a windlass crankshaft when a chain broke during well cleaning. Michael Keith Biggerstaff, 4, died after a see-saw fall and head injury.
The North Carolina Senate approves a 75 cent per hour minimum wage bill amid amendments. Gov. Hodges backs the measure which now faces a likely rough path in the House. The bill targets about 60,000 workers while excluding several groups.
Commissioners from 16 states gather in Birmingham for the 97th General Assembly of Southern Presbyterians. The body weighs unification with the Reformed Church of America and a record high budget of 7 403 175, plus disputes over National and World Councils of Churches of Christ amid segregation issues. The assembly will also elect a moderator to succeed Dr. W Taliaferro Thompson.
In Lake City a pair of young prospectors aged about six and a older youth forced entry at Knudsen Builders supply. They used a crowbar to pry open doors and damaged eleven doors a sheet of plywood and three tile cartons before fleeing with no injuries reported.
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