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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1952
Page
3
United Press report from Washington describes a TV appearance on Inga's Angle where guest Harman W. Nichols struggled to answer questions about furs and Miss America as the show with Wardman Park poolside backdrop aired. The segment highlighted fur labeling rules and joked about industry insiders.
The Atomic Energy Commission commissioned several private power companies to explore the use of nuclear fission for civilian electric generation.
Western Europe fears 1954 may mark Russia’s peak for any attack as NATO pledges face delays. Economies slow Britain France Greece Belgium curb arms plans amid hopes new weapons may outdate existing gear and doubt over American delivery. Ridgway warns against complacency.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE FL AP The armed forces launched a third all out hunt for six airmen missing since their B 17 bomber was shot down in secret offshore target practice Navy Air Force and Marine ships and planes rejoined the night long search across rough seas. Col Arthur F Debolt said he did not know his rocket had hit the wrong plane until radio reports of parachutes. A public information officer said the Air Force held a hopeful but cautious view as two survivors were already rescued from the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. The Air Force formed a board of inquiry to investigate the error.
London unveils TV telephone at the annual radio show. The caller and respondent see each other on television screens, enabling identity verification for high level talks. The first model is large like a kitchen cabinet and priced around 2800 dollars.
An outbreak of infantile paralysis in Burke County grows with 13 cases in the Valdese area since Aug. 16. Six more children are hospitalized in Asheville, and health officials ban under eighteen from church services and public events. Notable patients include Icard children of Connelly Springs and Valdese athlete Jimmy Weir.
Utica resident Ruth Rollband proposes using wooden coffins with the slogan Dont Rush to Get In along main highways to slow traffic. She earlier won a 1951 pedestrian safety contest with A Careless Step Is a Grave Matter painted on downtown pavements.
A notice of intent to appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court was filed seeking a new trial for Nathan Corn, convicted of a 1948 Rock Hill murder. The appeal targets Judge Moss’s ruling denying the new trial based on an alleged confession said to be written by Corn’s father before he died. Sheriff deputies served the notice on Sixth Circuit Solicitor Robert Hemphill at his Chester home.
Bryson City North Carolina three people facing U S commissioner's arraignment on charges tied to a Swain County theft ring. William Grady Crawford 28 Her man Lackey 18 and Bob Sherrill 65 are named in a carnal knowledge case and aiding in connection with it. Sheriff I B Jenkins notes additional state charges against the sheriff and his wife Willie 29 and others for operating a house of vice and contributing to delinquency of a minor.
An early morning visitor found a hand and a foot in West Frankfort’s dump. Deputies confirmed the items were from a hospital amputation and reported the case closed. The note adds a historical reference to KDKA's 1920 presidential election broadcast with limited early listenership.
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