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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1953
Page
2
Former President Truman toured the AP headquarters meeting staff in the news divisions. He observed the wirephoto operation and transmission setup for a national network linking about 125 newspapers. He joked about a Kansas City call and chuckled at backstage moments during the tour.
New York stocks advanced with broad gains in steel, oil, copper, rubber and radio stocks. Major losses appeared in motors, railroads, chemicals and aircraft as volume rose to 1.58 million shares. leaders included RCA and Zenith while Studebaker United Aircraft and Dow Chemical lagged.
Union leaders say only members can approve a strike settlement as 22 000 workers idle across seven closed papers. The Herald Tribune suspended publication in sympathy while photoengravers press for higher wages, shorter work week, more holidays, and a one-year contract starting last November. Charles J. Lewis warns the strike threatens press freedom.
A one day term of Municipal Court heard mainly divorces with fourteen actions granted in the morning session all uncontested. The sole criminal case resulted in a guilty verdict for Benjamin Franklin Powers Sr. in a drunken driving charge. Judge Archie Myatt will render judgment Friday.
Secretary of State Dulles defended administration policy amid McCarthy critiques. He dismissed "perfumed notes" to Communists in Korea and called some actions by allies as ineffective. Dulles announced a new security review for John Paton Davies within a month, while avoiding further comment on McCarthy’s fear of party purges.
The testimony cites an FBI report identifying a scientist known as X as a contact of Y and notes X’s links to Frieda in College and a path from McGill to the Office of Scientific Research for Soviet handlers. Officials say X is a U.S. citizen zoologist questioned at a New York post hearing on February 28.
Government pursuit of Keith M. Beaty for alleged income tax evasion for 1945 to 1947 proceeds with 196 witnesses subpoenaed and 21 testifying at opening. Beaty allegedly earned income from Beaty Bros and related firms including Beaty Service Co and Carolina Distributing, with deposits and bill exchanges questioned by investigators.
The Technical Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization voted yesterday to establish Bangkok as the permanent site of FAO's regional office for Asia and the Far East, reinforcing the agency's regional operations in the area.
Radio schedule note explains that Eastern time becomes Mountain time by subtracting one hour and mentions Seemra at two hours. It adds that some local stations relay to fit local schedules and that last minute changes cannot be included.
Geese serve as warning agents in Malay villages facing threats from Communist guerrillas. A TV and radio lineup lists programs from 6:30 pm to midnight across channels WTOB WSdIS and WSDIS with news sports weather dramas and variety shows.
U N explainer views show limited gains as less than 3 percent of 2 500 Chinese and Korean views were received. Delegates discuss a two point basis for talks while US delegate Dean warns against Russia attendance as a third party and a built in filibuster. Negotiations resume at 9 p m Wednesday.
The Durham Life Insurance Co. seeks to cancel a policy taken out by Haywood H. Jernigan on July 2. A false information claim alleges totality of policies and applications amounting to $151,948,000. Jernigan's wife Alberta is co-defendant. He died after a Wrightsville Beach fishing pier incident during a hurricane, his body never recovered.
Two ex military policemen become patrolmen under Chief C C Stoker effective yesterday. Ralph Odell Davis and William Cecil Chasteen, both married with one child, bring ten years in Air Force and Navy. Stoker delays plainclothes hires until after holidays to prioritize uniformed officers. Rumor links J E Staley to detective ranks. Morris addition reduced vacancies to two. The Nat Geographic Society notes Cotopaxi in Ecuador as an active volcano.
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