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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1950
Page
2
Eyewitness describes Taegu’s mass evacuation as refugees and police scramble southward while panic and dust fill the streets. By afternoon the frenzy subsides and the city settles toward a fragile calm with families returning home for the night.
Senator Wiley says senate crime investigators will examine reports of ties among national politicians and gangsters. He cites veiled connections via financial contributions and intermediaries for "services rendered" in a widening probe. Tibet is governed by Lamaism priests as state religion.
U S officials oppose a single European defense ministry preferring action through the Atlantic Pact. Names of a supreme commander will come after organizing the allied staff. The aim is to push Western Europe to act more, with $4 billion in new arms aid for ramping up production, not merely supplying stockpiles. France is urged to boost armament effort over luxury production.
Nine Democratic senators introduced an administration bill to carry out President Truman's tightening program. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a McCarran bill by 9 to 3, then left the administration measure shelved, with both measures requiring registration of Communists and Communist-front organizations.
The Nunatagmiut Eskimos demonstrated an advanced culture despite harsh northern Alaska conditions, reflecting adaptation and social organization that supported survival in the Arctic environment.
A. C. Johnson of Turbeville South Carolina was chosen as the souths outstanding Negro soil conservation farmer from 11 state winners. He received 150 dollars in prizes and credited drainage work, pasture expansion, and new crops for doubling his farm size and tripling property value. Johnsons upgrades included a two mile community drainage ditch and 3000 feet of tile. He grows beef hogs crops and adds rye grass crimson clover and pearl millet for grazing.
A frontline account describes a tank battle where one tank toppled over a cliff after enemy fire. Survivors recall sniper positions, a gismo gun disabling a second tank, and soldiers escaping through a culvert with wounded comrades. They fled rice paddies to reach a town about six hours later.
Three men flew from the West Coast to see a local pageant. Ralph K. Davis, president of American Independent Oil, his brother Harold, and Raymond Ickes, son of Harold Ickes, said the trip was worth it.
In Goldsboro on August 18 eastern North Carolina legionaries adopted a resolution demanding eradication of Communist activity at the University of North Carolina system. Mark Lassiter of Snow Hill introduced the motion, calling for removal regardless of consequences. the motion was tabled amid a fiery debate and no formal count was recorded. The proposal would be sent to Governor Scott for presentation to the University trustees.
Lancaster August 18 death in the electric chair was ordered for Edward L Gibbs 25 year old ex GI student convict in the murder of a pretty girl secretary at Franklin and Marshall college. The judge announced the sentence will be carried out at a time fixed by the governor. Lonnie Marcum 30 appeared suddenly in Dr Joseph B Kallenbergs office last night through a plate glass window. He was treated for elbow wounds and police took him to hospital after a street fight with no arrests.
Dr. David Young announces the new camp Butner unit for treating alcoholics will open September 1. Authorized by the 1949 assembly, the unit can handle up to 50 cases, per the state hospitals board of control meeting in Morganton.
The article notes the radar system remains inadequate and could offer only token defense against a moderate force. It recalls a 1949 bill to fund an aircraft warning and interceptor system, funds later authorized, and describes delays in turning laws into weapons. It compares radar, fighter buildup, and timing, warning that even full readiness may not guarantee 100 percent protection.
Coastal Area Development company pressed ahead with preparations to drill a new oil well two miles north of Verona in Onslow county. Executive vice president J. S. McCluskey stated there is oil in Onslow county.
The Geneva based council telegrammed General MacArthur and South Korea's President Syngman Rhee offering prayers for their success in the Korean fighting.
News recounts a claimed Communist toll of over 5,000 U.N. soldiers killed and 1,000 prisoners taken in ten days. Washington says Gen. Collins and Adm. Sherman will visit Tokyo. Turkey offers 4,500 troops to Korea, with other nations’ offers under discussion. U.N. plans relief for 1.5 million refugees as fighting ebbs and flows near Taegu. American and Australian air power, including B 29s, support ground operations against Chinese forces along the Changnyong bend.
A U S heavy cruiser shelled Tanchon and surrounding rail yards 170 miles north of the 38th parallel, destroying about 200 freight cars. The raid extended to Ilsin and Kunsen with three bridges hit, while carrier aircraft from task force 77 provided air cover.
Sidney Salomon Jr. of St. Louis, an insurance executive, is named treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He succeeds Joe L. Blythe of Cheslotte, North Carolina, who died early in 1949 in Washington.
A large hurricane, 350 miles east of Melbourne Florida, moves north northwest at 10 to 12 mph. Winds reach 140 mph near the center with 100 mile gust spread. Florida and Nassau Nassau Bahamas brace as the season’s first storm shifts toward the Bahamas and Florida offshore shipping advised to avoid the system.
A Louisiana mother details how HADACOL vitamin supplement aided her two year old son Mark Wendell Shuff by supplying vitamins B1 B2 niacin and iron. She notes improved appetite weight gain and energy and cites buyer guarantees and trial sizes offered by The LeBlanc Corporation in 1950.
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