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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1955
Page
10
New York trading shows a modest rise with prices up about 2 points and occasional gains in select issues. Daily volume around 2.5 million shares, with aircrafts leading a market rally while rubbers and airlines lag. onlookers note Auto Lite and Chrysler mixed results and a Chrysler denial of merger talks in Detroit.
Paul A. Redmond 72 longtime Alabama Mills president died suddenly at his Mountain Brook home from a heart attack. He led Alabama Mills since 1930 and held chairs in Anchor Rome Mills and the Southern States Industrial Council. He served as a past president of Alabama Cotton Manufacturers Assn and Associated Industries of Alabama. Funeral in Birmingham with burial in Rome, Georgia. He leaves a widow, one son and five daughters.
In Brockton Massachusetts the champ's car with registration KO was struck by a crash that left Barbara Marciano and a friend with minor injuries. Mrs Marciano, wife of the world heavyweight champ, was teaching Margaret Fay to drive when the other car swerved and hit a tree. Both women received treatment at Brockton Hospital and were discharged. Rocky Marciano was training at Grossingers New York for his September 20 title defense against Archie Moore.
The seven month session ended with a carnival atmosphere and a tribute to lawmakers. Leaders praised the record while Congress passed foreign policy measures, trimmed $1.8 billion in new appropriations, raised its own pay, and supported a bipartisan loyalty and security inquiry.
British scientist Prof. D R Bates says American researchers will attempt to create artificial moonlight 60 miles up using sodium vapor released from high altitude rockets in New Mexico next month. He notes Britain may run a parallel program and discusses technical challenges and potential insights from the test.
Five children ages 4 to 11 from two families drowned in a farm pond near Kannapolis North Carolina while parents unpacked at new rental on the Bayless Ridenhour farm. The victims were Gloria Jean Ervin 6 Ronald Page 10 Janet 7 Milton Lee 11 and Ray 8. The families had moved from Durham to tenancy on the farm five miles east of town.
Fragmentary lines reference train travel Bolivia and Abraham. Mentions new hair styles and scarves for summer wear. Notes period data: five years before 1954, half a million harvesting combines manufactured in the United States.
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