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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1950
Page
2
Tanks and a South Korean reinforcements move toward the Pohang airstrip as U S and Korean forces fight in the city and surrounding district. General Walker and Major General Partridge surveyed the battle zone amid tense exchanges with Communist forces.
The Army announces officer call ups by Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and other commands listing counts of captains lieutenants medical dental and veterinary officers by region. It details age limits for combat and service arms and notes conditional exemptions and selection priorities for medical and reserve corps. An unrelated note states the ostrich can cover 25 feet in a stride and reach speeds up to 60 mph.
Found in Alaskan waters the giant king crab weighs up to 16 pounds and spans 50 to 54 inches. Its meat resembles lobster in texture and flavor.
President Truman outlines a $5 billion first installment tax increase to fund the Korean war and armament. Withheld pay for service members in hostilities is discussed, while new individual and corporate levies and loophole closures are planned. Senator O Mahoney pushes a $4 billion excess profits tax, with the president delaying the topic until November.
Fifteen year old Lola Jean Fansler located in Poteau Oklahoma after an intense search tied to a triple slaying in Eminence Missouri. She said she rode with Harold Wesley Harris to Poteau and Harris returned to Eminence where he killed her father and uncle and a four year old girl before being shot by a deputy sheriff.
Hollywood August 11. Progressive Broadcasting System announces a coast to coast radio hookup for smaller stations. Larry Finley says top entertainers will headline programs with news broadcasts from Hollywood. Applications total 228 with 300 expected after approval.
Allied officials report in West Germany that major plants including aGoering steel works have had 181000 tons ripped out of 212000 planned as dismantling lowers aluminum capacity and halts critical war production items. Aluminum output runs at about one sixth capacity while rubber and chemical sectors rebound beyond 1936 rates.
President Truman nominated T. Keith Glennan of Case Institute of Technology as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission to fill a vacancy left by Lewis Straus. He also named three new advisors not requiring Senate approval: William Libby Murphree Whitman.
Austin confronts Malik over North Korea in the U N Security Council debate. He accuses Soviet support for the regime and questions who trained the North Korean forces. He argues for denouncing aggression and warns that a cease fire would abandon Korea to plunder.
A North Korean guerrilla was caught near a storage dump at a base as guards reported a near miss from a planned explosion. A soldier remarked that triggering the dump would have sent them eight miles away.
American infantrymen clash along an eight mile front as artillery and air support blast Red positions near Chinju. The 5th Regimental Combat Team widened the gap with 35th Infantry, fighting to prevent a breakout while tanks open the supply road and Brigadier General George Barth surveys artillery and infantry positions under fire.
Quality and prices of flue cured tobacco slipped on Raleigh border belt markets yesterday. Declines mainly ranged from 1 to 2 dollars per hundred pounds, with low and flat primings down 4 dollars and lemon primings 5 dollars.
The report notes Truman would accept without strings a free hand to impose wage and price curbs and rationing, but says mobilization authority is not yet needed. The House bill would authorize scarce-material allocation, defense priority, and possible requisition of private plants, plus a $2 billion loan program to spur defense production and consumer credit controls. It also sets real estate curbs on new building after Aug 3. A Senate vote on a similar measure may occur next week. In New England days, handwrought nails were used for money.
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