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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1957
Page
2
New York stocks show uneven action with aircraft shares advancing on missile spending hopes while rails and steels retreat. Industrials slide about 1.30, rails 0.80, utilities rise slightly as trading activity remains mixed and the Associated Press average slips about 70 cents at noon.
WFMY Greensboro Channel 2 lists breakfast at 9 15 cooking at 9 30 and Glee Club at 8 45 followed by art at 3 30 for the broadcaster’s daytime schedule.
Coast Guard resumes search along the North Carolina coast for four Sea Dog crewmen after the Hamp ton trawler wrecked near Cape Hatteras. Capt Eldridge Holloway Frank Lee Forrest Ralph Gibbs and Henry Abernathy are named as missing crewmen. A Coast Guard pilot reported possible floating heads offshore but could not confirm. wreckage inspection proved fruitless.
In Jakarta three Dutch banks seized by Indonesian workers reopen under army police and Bank of Indonesia supervision after talks with officials and workers' reps. Netherlands faces possible nationalization or return of control as anti Dutch campaign and evacuation of personnel continue.
The Agriculture Department projects 11 910 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight for this year, down 778 000 from November, with a 13 561 000 acre harvested area and a 390 pound yield per harvested acre. Domestic and export needs total 14 million bales, but reserves and surplus stocks cushion the gap. Voters will decide next year on continuing the soil bank program.
At least eight persons died by violence in North Carolina over the weekend. Victims include Miles F. Wooten a 59 year old fruit stand operator shot by possemen after wounding his wife and daughter and four officers. Others killed include William John Weaver 23 in a head on collision Patricia Burch 6 struck by a car Mrs. C H Ceckham 56 killed in Denton collision William Ervin Collyer 14 in a squirrel hunting accident Harold Brown 32 fatally injured when his truck plunged Harold L Murphy 18 found dead drowned in NC State College pool Samuel Clay 70 killed in a street brawl Willie Utley charged with murder.
Patrolman W C Saunders found an opened safe near a picnic table three miles east of Gastonia North Carolina containing about 700 in checks payable to the Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Co The investigation established the safe had been stolen and later recovered about 60 miles away the insurer was unaware of the robbery until the safe was located.
The courtroom crowded as Robert Wetzel was identified by witness Terry and others in the case linking him to the pistol slayings of patrolman Wister Reece and J. T. Brown. Reece died from a stomach wound after a shooting near Ellerbe. Wetzel, transported from California, faces murder charges in the two killings.
Hodges outlined Civil Defense goals with aims to shield government radiological defense against nuclear attack. North Carolina plans a final survival plan briefing after Christmas, the program funded by the federal Civil Defense Administration with Brig. Gen. Griffin presiding.
FAIRVIEW Utah Peter ae 97 and his wife Celestia 96 celebrate their 79th wedding anniversary in the year 1878 St George Utah. They recall a 1913 lightning strike that injured him. The couple has ten children 48 grandchildren 149 great grandchildren and 32 great great grandchildren.
The MBA leaders Theodore Loos Augistine Johnson Edwin Kisser Louis Steinfeld face possible job forfeiture and jail as subway workers threaten walkouts that would disrupt 40 million fares daily. Vincent O’Brien was dismissed after opposing the strike. Attorney Louis W. notes the union views a strike as illegal and aims for legal proceedures. The dispute heightens a long running clash with Transit Authority over craft unions, signaling a TWU victory in upcoming bargaining.
A New York furniture company launched an installment plan marking the beginning of installment selling in the United States during the early 1800s. The move signaled a shift in consumer credit, enabling buyers to acquire goods via staged payments.
The name Kansas derives from a Sioux tribe that called itself People of the South Wind. This attribution links the state name to indigenous heritage and a specific tribal identity.
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