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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1956
Page
16
Phoenix launches a citywide mass vaccination program to curb polio among youths. Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury says 5 000 students at Phoenix Union High School will receive free shots first, with about 15 000 more at 23 schools in Phoenix and Maricopa County eligible.
A UNC junior Leslie Gilliland Jr. 20 of Pinehurst died when his car hit a tractor trailer at an intersection of highways 54 and 55 ten miles south of Durham. Sandra Murray 18 of Tarrytown N Y suffered head injuries and is in hospital in good condition. The truck driver Roy Shahan 32 of DeLeon Florida faces manslaughter charges after bail set at 1000 dollars and a pending Recorder's Court hearing.
Santiago Chile The Chilean government will allow foreign investors to share with Chilean capital in exploration for and exploitation of oil resources Mines Minister Osvaldo Sainte Marie says this move is necessary to expand the Chilean petroleum industry.
Henry Pittman Allen 48 former Lumberton Tobacco Board of Trade president died yesterday in Alexandria Virginia after a stroke as he left a church. He was visiting a son at Episcopal High School Alexandria. Funeral services set for tomorrow at First Baptist Church Lumberton where he served as deacon vice chairman. Allen owned Smith Dixie tobacco warehouses in Lumberton and Gate City Virginia and was NC Farm Bureau director and former Lumberton mayor. Survivors include his widow Elliott McLean, a son and a daughter.
Forsyth County health officer Fred Pegg said an elderly babysitter was found to have an advanced tuberculosis case on routine X rays. Six children she cared for were tested. one active TB, three with germs, two negative. Parents urged to ensure health checks for sitters and domestics.
Charles Kennedy a six year old leukemia patient in Kinston NC was meant to have an early Christmas party at 4 pm yesterday but died at noon from the blood cancer. Santa Claus sent a telegram the day before promising gifts and saying he could not attend.
Worth Bacon 55 editor of the Winston-Salem Journal suffered what physicians described as a heart attack in Chapel Hill while attending a weekend meeting of the North Carolina Associated Press News Council, of which he is president. He was taken to Memorial Hospital where his condition was listed as satisfactory.
The Rev. Md. Rightor resigns from Christ Church in Charlotte to become rector of St. Thomas Parish in Garrison within the Diocese of North Carolina. Christ Church is noted as the largest Episcopal congregation in the area with about 1,000 members. A separate brief in El Paso states Mountain Time usage. A San Francisco Bay Area earthquake is reported felt as far south as 75 miles away.
Tobacco leaders told Congress the rise in flue-cured leaf production straining quotas. A House Agriculture subcommittee planned a special session to probe the 20 percent quota cut and the 1957 allotment of 712,600 acres versus 887,600 in 1956.
A homemade bomb exploded in the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn last night during a War and Peace screening injuring six people. Police say the device resembles the work of the so called mad bomber who has planted more than 25 explosives in New York since 1940. The crude device used metal pipe black powder a small battery watch parts and wiring. About 1500 patrons were in the theater when the blast occurred near the rear of the orchestra causing metal fragments to fly across rows and leaving three people briefly shocked. The film resumed after a short pause.
Lt. Gov Luther Barnhardt said the Tax Study Commission recommendations are good in principle and the Legislature will study them thoroughly. He noted the State Commission on Legislative Representation proposal would raise House seats to 130, cap Senate at 50, and limit counties per senator. He also cited prison separate from highway, state budget, and agency reorganization as major issues with possible salary raises for state workers.
U S soldiers have given over 500000 dollars to charities in Japan and Korea this year. Most funds assist orphans and underprivileged children. The 1st Cavalry Division alone supports 21 Japanese orphanages.
Reports from Budapest say armed Hungarian freedom fighters operating from Mecsek Mountains and around Lake Balaton strike Soviet units at night in southern Hungary near uranium mining areas. Russian commander sent to subdue insurgents, but a news blackout and broken Budapest Pec telephone links hinder details.
Riverside County air pollution district rules no burning in Hell without prior approval. The Hell California community, though not listed in the postal guide, hosts a service station and cafe as a hearing reveals applicants used the Hell 1 telephone number.
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