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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1956
Page
1
An editorials warns the Water Emergency in High Point highlights reliance on a single water line and calls for conservation by all users to rebuild reserves for fire protection. It questions planning, notes weather reduced risk, and urges better facilities and emergency planning while outlining three civic actions.
President Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Nehru departed Blair House for an 80 mile private conference at Eisenhower’s Gettysburg area farm. They will discuss world issues including communism and Red China with aims of closer U S India relations and no formal agreements.
A Southern Pacific Golden State Limited passenger car struck by a train near Union Station killed 11 aboard. The victims included three children and eight adults, body details were unclear, with debris strewn along the track and a 30 foot gulch.
Two Smothers tobacco warehouses in Reidsville North Carolina were destroyed by fire early today with unofficial losses near 500000 dollars. Smothers No 1 was leveled while No 2 suffered only partial damage. Hudson Lester Co. occupied No 2 and several firms lost tobacco including R J Reynolds Liggett Myers Virginia Tobacco Co and Dibrall. The aging warehouses were owned by the Smothers family.
Houston Tex. Frank M. Edwards 101 a former cowboy rancher and real estate speculator died yesterday in a rest home. He built a stone home in Kerrville at age 80 and always flew a Lone Star flag from a 25 foot flagpole in front.
Budapest reports show a sit down strike fading as lack of coal and power hampers production. Bejolanis plant resumes work amid military area status and arrest tensions with two labor leaders still in custody.
American and Austrian security officials urge Vice President Nixon to skip border contact with Hungary. Nixon arrives in Vienna for a two day review of Hungarian refugees as Austrian police tally 1040 entrants amid border tension with Soviet forces.
British and French forces began the final stage of withdrawal from Port Said after a moonlit 34 hour operation against guerrillas following the ambush killing of a British officer. The UN planned to place Egyptian police to maintain order as evacuatIon continued.
Moscow accuses three U S B57 jet bombers of trespassing near Vladivostok on December 11 in a reconnaissance flight. The Soviet note demands punishment and steps to prevent future violations. U S officials in Japan deny knowledge of any flight.
A frigid Arctic air mass moved from Canada into the central Rockies Plains and upper Mississippi Valley bringing snow flurries and very cold temperatures. The Kansas City Weather Bureau issued a cold wave warning with zero degree readings possible in northern Iowa and Nebraska by Tuesday.
In Kill Devil Hills North Carolina outer banks jet planes fly over the Wright Memorial on the 53rd anniversary of the first powered flight. About 40 jets participate in the 10 37 am flyover tied to the original takeoff time. The First Flight Lunch is held in Nags Head with Vice Admiral A C Richmond as featured speaker.
A water main break at the Jamestown pumping station crippled High Point industry. Major furniture and hosiery plants shut down and fire safety pressure dropped as officials urged conservation. One pump operated at limited capacity while two others expected back later, with full pressure days to a week away.
Emergency phone service returned to Portsmouth two months after a strike shut down Scioto County. Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co. restored dial tone yesterday morning as officials guarded the exchange, while Gov. Lausche warned he would call in the National Guard if needed.
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