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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1957
Page
13
Russel Hopkins plans to give away more than 6000 toys and at least 3200 pounds of candy in downtown Philadelphia this week. He says he loves kids and spreads Christmas cheer with a jovial, generous spirit.
Frank Edward Wetzel faces a habeas corpus hearing in Raleigh to decide if he remains in Central Prison death row or is moved to Richmond County Jail. Associate Justice Carlisle W. Higgins will preside as Wetzel, 36, awaits trial in Richmond Superior Court for the November 5 slayings of Patrolmen Reece and Brown.
Junius Irving Scales, once a Communist chief for the Carolinas and descendant of a North Carolina governor, says he has left the Communist party. The case stems from a Smith Act conviction later overturned by a Supreme Court ruling, with a restarted prosecution planned in Greensboro.
Agriculture Commissioner L Y Ballentine in Raleigh proposed cutting farm economists to solve the farm problem. He fired back at testimony by Theodore Schultz and George Aull before a Joint Economic Committee subcommittee led by Sen Sparkman. Ballentine argued government aid remains necessary in a mixed economy while farmers can best self regulate in a free economy.
A panel of scientists met in Columbia to discuss root knot and meadow nematodes that threaten crops across the Southeast including tobacco in South Carolina and Georgia peaches. J N Sasser and H H Foster cited nematodes as major pests, with soil fumigation using nemagon fumazone and chemicals D D and EDB showing yield improvements in infested fields.
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