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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1958
Page
5
Weather forecast covers northern and central Rockies and southern Plains with warmer conditions in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and the mid Atlantic states.
In Winston Salem civic officials posted a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for false bomb reports at Wake Forest College and Reynolds High School. The three calls are part of a Carolina-wide surge of hoaxes affecting twenty schools and one movie house. City Solicitor C F Burns cited five applicable laws with penalties varying by whether a fictitious or real device was involved.
Flue cured tobacco for the 1958 season is nearing end with four markets Danville South Boston Winston Salem and Reidsville. Danville will hold cleanup sales December 16 17. Week’s sales total 4 998 560 pounds at 51.84 average down 0.52 from prior week. Season total 246 878 716 pounds at 57.36 average, up from 52.31 year earlier. Flue-Cured Stabilization Corp has taken 16.5 percent of season’s sales under government loan.
A forest fire in Washington County, near Phelps Lake and Pungo Lake, has burned between 2 500 and 3 000 acres. State Forester Fred Claridge says crews are holding west of New B Canal as Marines from Camp Lejeune join local rangers and state prisoners in the effort. The peat soil complicates containment and a heavy rain is needed to extinguish the blaze.
The Red River, border of Texas and Oklahoma, formed a new channel near Yuba Oklahoma annexing a mile square once in Fannin County Texas. No residents were in the new Oklahoma area. The Supreme Court has ruled the river’s south bank as the boundary, creating tax collection disputes between the states.
The forecast notes today’s sunset at 5 06 p m and tomorrow’s sunrise at 7 10 a m. These times guide evening and morning visibility for readers planning activities.
A reporter or editor in New Haven asks City Editor Edward Barthelmes about whether a ten quart bucket can hold one thousand dollars in dimes. Barthelmes continues to seek the answer.
Forecast covers NC and SC with clouds and cold trend. North Carolina expects possible sleet or snow tonight in northwest, highs upper 40s southeast with 40s elsewhere, lows 25 to 32 northwest and around 40 on the coast. South Carolina to see rain tonight, mixed with light snow or sleet in extreme northwest, lows 30 to low 40s coast, Tuesday cooler with highs in 50s. Extended outlook: temperatures about 5 degrees below normal. warmer Tuesday and Wednesday, then colder midweek into weekend.
In Lancaster, Missouri three truck drivers from Arkansas died in a bunkhouse after sleeping in their trucks. Coroner Norman cites heart attack for Louis Lee Warden of Little Rock, with autopsies pending on two others. State police will test tissue samples. heater may have released lethal fumes.
In Dunn North Carolina a fire killed four children Annie Pearl McLean six Rosa Nell McLean three Charles Smith two and Mary Smith three months old The parents Charles Smith and wife were away at a store two miles from home Smith a dairy farm laborer was jailed for investigation He was intoxicated at the scene The six room house on Ok River Road burned likely from a fireplace An 11 year old son was not home and a fire investigation followed.
An eight year old, James Boyer, nearly swallowed a coin on the way to church but was not harmed after an ambulance collected him and transported to a hospital following a bump en route.
Clinton North Carolina AP Firemen probed the charred Daughtry Oil Co plant after a Sunday night explosion that may have claimed the owner’s son Lawrence Daughtry. He was last seen fueling a tank truck. four oil tanks and an oil truck were destroyed while a nearby house burned. Two firemen were lightly hurt.
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