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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1958
Page
5
Bud Gamble notes Labor Day honors workers and marks a three day weekend. He warns of dangers from careless celebrants on highways and calls for a safer celebration as the holiday arrives.
DURHAM AP Some 230 union members from Durham and three other Tar Heel cities walked out at 8 a.m. after a latest overnight bargaining session failed to reach a deal. The strike involves Retail Clerks and Amalgamated Meat Cutters. Durham Greensboro Salisbury Fayetteville have five, five, one and one stores respectively. Federal and state mediators attended the last meeting. The rest of the text notes a Lutheran publication launch in Philadelphia.
A court appointed monitors group and Hoffa allies clash over a Bender commission and calls for formal explanations as tension rises. Witnesses recount 1953 taxi strike violence linked to Harold Gibbons and threats against union critics, including James M Ford, with Adams Walla and Sparks implicated in beatings and abductions accusations.
President Eisenhower discusses the Formosa defense context, noting Nationalist China deployed about one third of its forces to offshore islands. He avoids committing to U S intervention in a Red invasion of Quemoy and Matsu and comments on Congress foreign policy actions and missile priorities. He also comments on Japan Khrushchev and an international pact in good faith.
Alaska races feature Gruening and Stepovich for governor facing Robertson and Butrovich in the GOP slate while Bartlett and Rivers seek congressional seats. Democratic contenders include Egan, Williams, and Rivers with Plummer in the mix. The piece also explains the historical meaning of high seas as public waters beyond three miles.
A California legislative subcommittee will hold an emergency session Saturday to probe a survey by Richard Blum for the California Medical Assn. alleging maladministration and staff dissension in several hospitals. The report cites doctors fighting on a table, doctors armed due to fear, and a dying patient denied treatment over the patient’s group plan.
The globefish inflates its body by swallowing air and floats belly up. It blows across the water guided by the breeze, a behavior noted in the encyclopedia Britannica.
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