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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1959
Page
18
pany officials were optimistic and union men noncommittal Saturday about reaching an agreement to avert a strike of 1,200 at the North Carolina Pulp Co. plant. Both sides planned to meet through the night to sign a contract before the current pact expires at 8 a.m. Sunday.
Langdon Ammen reports that Jimmy McClain, once known nationwide as Dr. I. Q. on radio’s first quiz show, has moved to High Point to manage WNOL and plan new ventures. He left the show in 1947, later appeared on This Is Your Life, and now leads a local station while staying linked to his famous past.
In this column Dr Molner cautions about cigarette smoke caffeine and poor diet as causes of sinus trouble cough and sneezing. He notes the reader’s rugged constitution but warns continued abuse will not be sustainable and offers a booklet You Can Stop Sinus Trouble. He answers readers questions on cocktails and the TPI test for syphilis and invites mail for copies of his health guidance.
The Associated Press reports North Carolina eastern flue cured tobacco showed a $1.22 drop from 1958 week one as lower quality leaf dominated. Four day opening sales totaled 30.43 million pounds at $56.05 per hundred, with South Carolina and North Carolina leading volumes.
AP News features writer Hugh A. Mulligan surveys oil’s 100 year arc from the Drake well at Titusville, Aug. 27, 1859, to the Grandin dry hole, linking early boom and bust to the rise of giants like Standard Oil Texaco Gulf and fortunes built by Ford GM and Getty. It notes global reserves, production, and a nuclear era optimism amid new drilling tech and petrochemical growth.
In Indianapolis, Charles Cook, age six, pretended to be a goat and ate grass from the family lawn. He began choking and was rushed to a hospital for treatment.
Chet Stewart, a petroleum distributor, was driving his gasoline truck when he ran out of fuel on a highway near Globe Arizona. The incident left him embarrassed as weather and traffic conditions were not noted.
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