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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1952
Page
1
State Highway engineers will open bids tomorrow on 43 road improvement projects in 37 counties. Most projects target county roads and 19 will be financed partly or entirely from the 200 million dollar secondary road bond issue.
The new million dollar Wilkes General opened yesterday signaling a milestone in western North Carolina medical care. The facility in North Wilkesboro was hailed as a major achievement for the region.
Over 450 attended the annual convent session in Winston Salem. Featured speakers included Dee D. Ray Lindley president of Atlantic Christian College and Claude Grizzard advertising executive from Atlanta.
Statesville based McNeer Dillon Shirt Co announces transfer of Easter Shirt Co machinery from Lexington to its Boulevard plant. The move consolidates production and expands Statesville operations.
President Gor don Gray of the University of North Carolina Sen and Rep Deane spoke at the convention opening business session in Pinehurst. Deane introduced Hoey who delivered the luncheon address as part of the same event.
Duke University researchers R. W. Rundies Joseph W. Bead and Frank H. Engel will receive $22 300 in grants-in-aid for three cancer research projects. The awards were announced by Mrs. George E. Marshall executive vice president of the North Carolina Division American Cancer Society.
Stormy weather across Korea kept air and ground battles minimal. Tokyo headquarters reported a crude Siegfried Line across the peninsula since talks began 92 months ago. An army analysis estimated over 750000 Communist troops, mostly Chinese, with more than half of 1500 planes jet powered. Allied air superiority persisted but did not stop buildup.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway is named supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe, replacing Gen. Eisenhower who will step down June 1. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther named to Ridgway’s post in the Far East as Eisenhower pursues the Republican presidential nomination.
Eisenhower supporters predicted a clean win in the Massachusetts primary that will choose 38 GOP convention delegates and possibly 10 of 38 from Delaware. Taft also aimed for a Delaware majority while Kefauver projected gains in Florida and a partial Massachusetts delegate slate. The story notes Humphrey open to a Democratic vice presidential run if a fair deal is offered and references Lodge Jr. and Saltonstall in Massachusetts.
United Nations proposed an all encompassing truce solution at Panmunjom to break the stalemate in Korea. Joy outlined a plan addressing POW repatriation airfield bans and neutral inspectors with Russia rejected by the U.N. The Communists asked for an indefinite recess after receiving the offer and the session moved into executive discussion.
House Republican Whip Arends said mounting protests over steel seizures forced President Truman to admit powers are limited by the Constitution. The open letter from Truman stressed the need to act in an emergency, while lawmakers prepared for a strategy conference and possible impeachment discussion.
In Raleigh the Democratic nomination fight for governor between William Umstead and Hubert Olive appears to sharpen as the campaign nears five weeks. Olive presses charges against Umstead supporters while Umstead shifts to a more aggressive stance, accusing Olive of backing the Scott administration. Endorsing figures like Dr. T. C. Johnson and Royster surface in the exchanges, with party loyalty and past voting records fueling the exchange. The piece notes Olive’s lack of recent voting record since 1933 and hints at broader political maneuvering within the Scott camp.
Marie Cliff 20 improved at Ector County Medical Center after relatives from the Jehovah’s Witness sect were arrested for resisting a blood transfusion. Her father William Cliff and brothers John and Ben faced counts of disturbing the peace, bonded out, as doctors confirmed the patient’s condition improved but still critical.
The Oil Workers International Union prepared a nationwide strike to begin at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday involving about 275,000 oil workers after five hours of talks in Denver. The walkout aims to secure a 25 cent hourly raise plus shift differentials, with negotiation efforts continuing to avert a broader stoppage in Chicago and other areas.
North Carolina Farm Bureau tobacco committee and tobacco leaders plan a meeting in Raleigh tomorrow to discuss dates for the 1952 flue cured tobacco quota referendum.
The carrier Wasp struck the destroyer Hobson during high speed maneuvers 1200 miles east of Boston, sending it to the Atlantic bottom. Sixty-one survivors were rescued, at least 176 crew members were missing, and search efforts were abandoned at sunset. The incident occurred amid a 25-ship task force en route to Europe. Lt Cmdr W J Tierney, Hobson captain, is among the missing, with grief spreading to Charleston families and memorial plans underway.
The forecast lists a low tonight of 48 and a high tomorrow of 14. Today’s high reached 66 with a low of 54 last night.
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