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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1953
Page
3
Ten killed and fifty eight injured when a Bury Manchester electric train and a Manchester Bacup steam train collided head on on a bridge at 7 40 am. The wreck hurled a coach into the Irk River as rescuers reported survivors including a man who pulled a child and others from the wreckage. The crash disrupted morning commutes to Manchester industries.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson pledged to implement the strict marketing quotas approved by wheat farmers for the 1954 crop. Preliminary referendum results showed 361,392 in favor and 53,252 opposed, a record 87.2 percent. If quotas hold, production and sales could fall about 20 percent with price supports near 90 percent parity, about $2.20 per bushel.
At Travis Air Force Base California nine American prisoners of war returned from Korea. Six were carried off on litters and three walked off with Lt Col Thomas D Harrison among them. Harrison lost his left leg in May over North Korea. TB and other illnesses affected several litters. Individuals include Sgt Robert M Wilkins Pfc Edgar J Hinton Pvt William H Hubbard Cpl Lawrence A Buzbee Pfc James T Thompson Sgt James Davis Pfc James H Montgomery and Pfc Eugene W Reid. Harrison greeted by wife and daughter Barbara Anne and parents. He plans to recover at Reed Hospital Washington before return home to Clovis New Mexico.
An enlarged 44 page booklet titled Rheumatism is offered free by The Ball Clinic in Excelsior Springs Missouri. The pamphlet claims drugs provide only temporary relief and presents a non surgical, non medical treatment with 33 years of success. No obligation to request.
President Eisenhower created a nine member Anti-Discrimination Committee with Nixon as chairman and J Ernest Wilkins as vice chairman to oversee equal employment practices in plants with federal contracts. Roosevelt and other prominent leaders join as members, with six government agency representatives to be named later. The move follows the veto of two bills and a signing of 15 others as Eisenhower resumes vacation in Denver.
Western powers prepare for a Paris session early in the week to work out details of Moscow’s Aug 5 note. They aim to demonstrate resolve on German unification and curb Soviet aims while keeping EDC in view and seeking a possible Austria treaty when Big Four talks resume.
The fragment notes Seneca Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes as one of the deepest waters in the state. It mentions great depth but provides incomplete figures.
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