05 Dec 1951
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1951
Page
1
Leslie Gould analyzes the surge in aircraft costs from World War I to Korea era fighters and bombers. Inflation, red tape, and delayed mass production push fighter prices from 53 000 to 344 000, with spare parts often matching or exceeding the plane cost.
Washington reports four American airmen held in Hungary may be freed after serving their use as Communist propaganda. The C-47 was forced down November 19 after loss over Hungary. U S officials denounce Soviet charges as false and note no espionage charges have been filed. Diplomatic protests and pressure are being considered to secure release.
Washington reports that nearly all controls on rubber production will end by year’s end with a January 1 effective date for unlimited output. The National Production Authority cites increased synthetic rubber supplies as the reason, but natural rubber usage will still be rationed. White sidewall tires remain banned due to pigment and crude rubber limits.
A brick building collapsed in Charleston Washington, saving a nine month old baby. A freak of nature shoving a wall against Armando Heffron’s crib diverted bricks away from the crib. Charles Hefron, the father, raced in after a rumbling noise and pulled the child from the debris.
Invin Carter, 31, was charged with larceny and drunkenness after failing to explain to a patrolman why he walked Tuesday night with a pair of boys' crutches under one arm and a city parking meter under the other. The note about copper mines in Montana is tangential.
In a Washington editorial style piece the author urges sharper congressional inquiry into government actions while noting a House subcommittee investigates tax handling by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department. The piece discusses Caudle and Mitchell testimony, pressure from Congress, and calls for accountability across branches.
Four youths including a 15 year old were jailed in Fort Worth after stealing a toy railroad set over three weeks. Detectives Roy Hills and L E Wood said the gang took track signals freight cars and three locomotives. The ringleader lured clerks in downtown stores while accomplices hid pieces under their jackets. The stolen railroad equipment was recovered and to be returned to its owners.
The text traces shoes to ancient Aegeans while noting prehistoric men wore leather foot wrappings. It contrasts early footwear origins with earlier leather coverings.
Eleven large gasoline and oil tanks at the Socony Vacuum refinery near Detroit blew up or burned early Wednesday, sending sheets of fire hundreds of feet high and black smoke over a 10 mile area. No injuries were reported. foamite was used to smother the fires and about 350 workers were at the plant. An automatic pump house was destroyed while flames were contained by dikes separating the tanks from refinery buildings.
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