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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1957
Page
2
Hay fever patients may find faster relief with Dristan Decongestant Tablets. The new nonprescription tablet claims to open blocked nasal passages stop sneezing and reduce itchy watery eyes while boosting the body's resistance against infection. Available at drug stores for 98 cents, from Whitehall Pharmaca Company in 1966.
A coastal event section lists Waterfront and Broken Arrow programs with times and Atlantic Weather details. The items read as a schedule fragment for the Summer Theatre series including a 14:30 entry and 11:90 time notation.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev shifts from public speaking to private negotiations on his East German visit. He plans discussions with Walter Ulbricht and later with A I Mikoyan and Andrei Gromyko on economic and political issues including export trade, satellite cooperation, and bolstering the unpopular East German regime.
An advertisement offers free correspondence for a high school program by the American School in Burlington North Carolina. It invites anyone aged 11 to 60 who left school to write for a free SS-page high school booklet and provide name address state.
Leroy Shadrick, 32, linked himself to a Beckley West Virginia murder while already charged with a shotgun robbery in Albemarle. He told police he aimed to travel to Missouri to kill former President Truman, claiming Truman caused his brother’s Korean War death. He was deemed mentally competent to stand trial after prior insanity findings and remains in custody awaiting further proceedings.
The campus paper offers UNC students a nine day Bermuda trip for locating the three bank robbers who fled with 42,000 from Durham Bank and Trust Co in Apex. An extra three days in Bermuda await if the bandits are brought to the paper's office.
Myrtle Beach reports Dorothy Brown a 16 year old raised near Mooresville North Carolina as a Nature Girl leaves home for a potential new life on the coast. She visits for tests decide whether to finish high school in private school or live with foster parents and attend public school. Dorothy has offers from modeling agencies and fashion interests while a bank serves as guardian. She emphasizes education as path to becoming somebody and enjoying church going on Saturdays.
Billy Graham opens a week long series at Madison Square Garden addressing juvenile delinquency. He links youth crimes to sin and urges parents and youth to turn to Christ, noting 621 decisions during the service and a cruise totals of 1,494,300 in New York since May 15.
A NC Farm Bureau committee plans to meet Secretary of Agriculture in Washington to seek aid for farmers with mixed tobacco crops. The group endorses the tobacco variety discount program and considers a pool for crops with more than one third discount tobacco, while preserving discount crops in separate stocks.
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