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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1948
Page
2
Considerable air mass brings cooler conditions today and tonight with showers in coastal areas this morning. Saturday turns mostly cloudy with little temperature change then rain Saturday night. Sunrise 7 23, sunset 5 08.
The Piedmont Chapter National Association of Cost Accountants meets at the O Henry Hotel Greensboro with C L Stevens of Baltimore as speaker. Stevens lectures at Harvard and led industrial engineering work for textile firms. Social hour and dinner precede the technical session.
The House committee probes the Hiss case amid a New York grand jury perjury charge tied to testimony about bomb sight and secret documents. Mundt asserts a civilian Army employee at Aberdeen proving ground connected to rockets and projectiles, while Nixon and Truman exchange sharp blows over the inquiry.
The Railway Labor Board proposes a 40 hour week for non operating rail workers with a seven cent retroactive wage raise to Oct 1 1948 and a September 1 1939 start for the shorter schedule. Truman non binding guidance, Leiserson Cole and Cook lead the board.
The AFL rejects the CIO offer as a path to unity while Murray invites railroad leaders and Green to push united action in Congress. John L. Lewis remains independent after leaving the AFL CIO, opposing Truman and backing repeal of Taft Hartley to restore Wagner Act protections. Proposed labor reforms include collective bargaining, curbs on secondary boycotts, and protections for open voting within closed and union shops.
Patricia Joan Owen, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Owen, is chosen by Thomasville high school faculty to compete as the school's top citizen in a DAR contest. Anne Shuford and Mary Virginia Teal are other senior participants. The article also notes U S lightning centers with 60 to 90 thunderstorm days annually in Vicksburg, Tampa, and Santa Fe.
Refugees flee Pengpu as Red forces sweep toward Peiping and siege lines tighten. Armies clash with artillery echoing across Peiping while Nationalists rush fresh troops to Pengpu replacing worn units protecting the 12th Army group.
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