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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1956
Page
3
North Carolina per capita income last year rose to 1236 dollars, up from 1173 in 1954, while the state ranks 44th in the nation. Total personal income reached 5.371 billion dollars, up 8 percent, with farm income at 676 million, a 5 percent rise.
Negotiations between Western Electric Co and the Communications Workers of America resumed after a two hour session. It is the 29th meeting since talks began and the third since the contract expired last Friday. The CWA called a 6,000 member strike in Winston-Salem Greensboro and Burlington. John Walker said no progress was made.
Two NC plane loads of Democratic leaders bound for Knoxville for a campaign meeting with Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Delegations from ten Southern states will join the gathering to back the party's presidential and vice presidential nominees. Gov. Hodges led the North Carolina delegation. 25 were aboard planes provided by Burlington Mills and Piedmont Airlines. Return flights were scheduled for 8:00 p.m. to Raleigh about three hours later.
The Davie County Republican Executive Committee backs the constitutional amendment for the Pearsall school plan to be voted on September 8. Sen. B. C. Brock says the committee sees the plan as best for NC public school problems.
Forrest Chapman 44 admitted beating his wife Dorine 33 to death in a woods near their Drexel home. An autopsy found a brain injury from head and facial blows. Chapman, once hospitalized for mental illness, faced murder charges and was to be held under guard at a funeral in Cleveland County.
Kansas City founders Rich es R. Nelson and Gordon R. Rea launched Canine Shield five months ago, now with about 3,000 agents and several hundred policies. The plan covers dogs six months to ten years old for hospital care up to 75 dollars per stay, with annual premiums around 15 dollars.
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