15 Dec 1958
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1958
Page
1
Oswego New York reports 88 inches of snow this month as Lake Ontario squalls add four inches and the city of 23 000 recovers from a week of paralyzing storms. Schools reopen and downtown stores see rushes from weekend shopping as factories work normally.
In Allentown Pennsylvania a gas main explosion and a second blast killed six bystanders including Lester S. Kraft Jr. 29 and six others injured. The hotel tavern on Mountainville Street was destroyed and a three hour fire followed as utility crews shut off the main.
Western Big Three affirmed their resolve to keep access to West Berlin and rejected Soviet plans to hand East Germany control of Allied traffic. Dulles Couve de Murville and Lloyd outlined agreed issues and will seek NATO council input before replying to the Soviet note. Khrushchev proposed a demilitarized West Berlin, while Moscow would grant East Germany control of city communications within six months.
Pope John XXIII elevates the archbishops of Philadelphia and Boston and 22 others to cardinal in a secret consistory at the Vatican. The move raises the Sacred College to 74, breaking the 70 member limit set in 1586. He cites persecution of Catholics under Communist China and calls for clergy and faithful to resist coercion.
Beverly Hills shop opens The Doggery offering custom mink coats and dog accessories for 475 dollars alongside felt wool and gold adorned gear priced from 12.75 to 30 dollars. Dick Grossman and Enid Grossman promote canine party services including birthday cakes and a travel kit.
Army and Navy facilities around Point Arguello near Vandenberg Air Force Base prepare to reveal a 19000 acre base with large missile launch pads and tracking blocks. The Pacific Missile Range will host Atlas and other space probes as part of early spaceflight and intercontinental testing programs.
Howard Whitman presents a 12 part series on drinking patterns in The Enterprise. The feature explores abstinence, problem drinking, and social drinking and links alcohol to business life home entertainment safety and marriage. Readers are urged not to miss any installment beginning tomorrow.
President Eisenhower places national security spending as a priority in a White House meeting with Republican leaders. Budget officials forecast a roughly 80 billion dollar overall budget while discussing civil rights proposals and foreign policy.
In Denham England an American sergeant Marcus Mary mont 37 of Hobbsville NC faces a U S Air Force court martial charged with murder and adultery. He told investigators his wife may have killed herself after learning of his affair with 23 year old Englishwoman Cynthia Taylor. The trial enters its second week as prosecutors present a statement by Air Force investigators.
Moscow radio charged the Western Big Three with ignoring the Soviet proposal to make Berlin a demilitarized free city. Pravda warned against Western threats and vowed East Germany would defend its frontiers and airspace with the Warsaw Pact ally.
China Lake Calif AP reports the Navy tightens satellite detection methods. Scientists built a nine camera system claimed to discover and track satellites that could spy on the free world. The bank of nine would keep constant vigil on the night sky.
A Scarsdale resident reported a dog wearing blue pajamas to police. Mrs. Cybil Jailer later came to claim the animal, saying it had run off just before bedtime.
A man posing as Crown Prince Kawama of Ubangi Shari, Edward Lee Wood, 26, fled police and hospital staff from Gastonia to Athens and Atlanta. He used multiple aliases to obtain treatment and fled after claiming the French Consulate would pay his bills. He faced forgery charges in Virginia tied to a $187 check on a nonexistent Massachusetts bank.
New York AP reports top mediator Joseph F. Finnegan returns to talks with the Newspaper Drivers Union and Publishers Association to end the six day deliverymen strike that halted nine city dailies. Printers at the Daily News plant refused to cross picket lines and stop publication. other papers printed.
The text contrasts endless wishes with lasting fulfillment. It argues desires should drive toward spiritual aims and cites the 23rd Psalm, noting that with God one need not want for peace or blessings, for they become possessed.
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