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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1954
Page
5
Junior Editors travel to Paris and view the Eiffel Tower, a 984 foot steel landmark by Gustave Eiffel built for the 1889 Exposition. The tower features a radio station and weather observatory at the top and offers distant city views on clear days. A craft project teaches readers to make a small four sided model of the tower.
Tokyo reports a claim by the Chinese Agriculture Ministry broadcast on Peiping radio of a record grain harvest totaling 170 million metric tons. Most gain came from wheat up four million tons while rice fell slightly due to floods. A ton equals 2,204.6 pounds. No figures were provided.
Mrs. Olive Peterson faced a spade lead scene in a recent Atlantic City tournament hand. She won with diamonds and ruffed clubs to force opponents to tackle spades, outlining how crude defense and smart play limit losers to two spades even with altered lines.
John Roybal Jr., 28, a construction worker, shot his daughter Aleta as she returned from school and then killed himself. Sheriff says the killings followed tense weeks with his estranged wife and a taunting telephone exchange.
Adlai Stevenson and his lieutenants completed a pivotal campaign to elect Paul M. Butler of Indiana as Democratic national chairman. The selection ends a two year drive to unify the party and restore its strength, with Stevenson gaining influence in both the North and South. Butler won 70 of 105 votes at the New Orleans convention, and analysts weigh whether Stevenson will risk the 1956 presidential nomination to preserve party unity.
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