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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1958
Page
2
New York AP dispatch reports drugs showing gains in an uneven market as trading stays active. Early movements range from fractions to about a point with a slight upward tendency but overall hesitation persists.
A 31 year old Johnson Street resident was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay $500.60 to Pearl Doss for medical bills after his case was reduced from felony to misdemeanor. Henderson Jr was also fined $25 and jury costs and jailed for 12 months suspended if he avoids the Doss premises for five years. Other sentences included Quinn alias Whitley 23 with 18 months on two counts, Woodward 26 with two one month terms, Baker 53 with six month suspended sentence and $100 fine, Lackey 19 with one month suspended and $10 fine and costs.
WSJS-TV Winston-Salem lists a 7:15 fashion show followed by 7:30 Win With Winner and a 6:00 segment on May 18. The lineup outlines programming blocks and times for viewers.
The Dow Jones averages reported by Bache and Co show the industrials at 508.60 at noon, 508.51 at 1 pm, and 508.28 on the close. Rails advanced from 192.72 to 152.85, Utilities moved from 77.85 to 17.97, and Stocks held at 174.52 to 174.54 with volumes of 530,000 at noon, 1,060,000 at 1 pm, and 2,610,000 at close.
Industry expands civilian atomic interest as ships surfaces and reactors move from talking to building. Companies like North American Aviation Westinghouse General Electric and Curtiss Wright plan reactors and power plants across the United States with tests and civilian uses expanding.
Moran leads the St. Louis bomb and arson squad as the committee probes Teamsters and President Hoffa. The panel accuses Local 688 officials of selling the local to Gibbons, while Camie denies sale and claims severance pay of 36 000 dollars. He says an es crow agreement paid three 12 000 installments and notes no severance clause. The chair cites 78 410 dollars to remove officers and lack of treasury funds to cover Camie’s severance.
The U S Supreme Court will hold an emergency session on Little Rock integration while Arkansas Governor Faubus seeks extended delays. The State School Board moved Central High reopening from September 2 to September 8 to ease legal pressures as three more Negroes apply to white schools. Virgil Blossom notes continued admissions applications and protections for returning students.
Charlotte City School Board denied transfers for 23 Negro students and some white children to desegregated schools. Parents have until next Tuesday to appeal under state law. Eighteen of the 23 had also been denied white-school reassignment last year.
Carolinas tobacco growers see better prices than last season with lifts of 1 to 3 dollars per 100 pounds in Eastern and Border Belt markets. The Market News Service reports top baskets up to 72 per 100 in Eastern Markets with two days of sales totaling 17.27 million pounds at an average 57.58, and season totals near 23.79 million pounds at 57.43.
In Burlington Ontario neighbors say skunks are better pets than cats because they hunt mice and stay clean. The skunks are deodorized to reduce odor concerns.
Police across the Carolinas search for a stocky bespectacled gunman who robbed the State Bank of Laurinburg on Roper Street of 10 698 dollars. No customers were inside. The robber wore a Panama hat and striped shirt and may have used adhesive tape as disguise.
The note outlines Portugal as a small nation with nine colonies across the world. It emphasizes its overseas possessions and suggests a historic global footprint of Portuguese influence.
A promotional ad notes a power readers already have that can boost success and happiness. It promises stories of famous individuals overcoming great odds and urges starting now with September Reader's Digest on sale.
Real estate transfers include E. G. Luther to R. A. Proctor and wife of Henderson Heights, Vola Myrick to William C. Suggs and wife, and multiple chains within John David Ross subdivision. Transfers also cover J A Mizell to S Pope, Robert A Herring to Robert R Burden, Gary A Yakley to Fred H Loflin, and other parcels such as College Park and Hickory Chapel Road properties.
Los Angeles AP Sterling Hayden faces a custody dispute as his four children, living with him since a 1955 divorce, are at risk of a long sea voyage without the mother's consent. Betty Ann Hayden seeks a court ruling to settle custody. a hearing is set for September 16.
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