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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
8
A 55 year old wife writes detailing 30 years of marriage, her husband’s fling with a younger woman, and his demand to live as he pleases. She seeks guidance on leaving, protecting home and reputation, and what steps to take next in this distressed situation.
In 1955 health officials report the Salk polio vaccine shows 80 percent or better protection after one shot, with full three-shot course raising effectiveness. Antibiotics and early strep detection curb rheumatic fever, a major killer of children, while research targets nephrosis and other conditions.
Corpus Christi report states Mrs. Pete Tunches, snack bar operator at the station, was accidentally shot when a detective dropped a lighter and a spent bullet ricocheted, hitting her in the chest after passing through a plate glass window. The incident also mentions Sgt. Bob Simmons.
In Pueblo, Colorado, 2 year old Charles Finkenstadt unintentionally alerted a fire station when his tentative dialing linked to an operator. The operator traced the call and firefighters arrived to revive Charles's mother Virginia Finkenstadt who lay unconscious. She was revived with oxygen and taken to a hospital for observation.
Emerywood Country Club hosts a 9 pm New Year’s Eve dinner dance with Bax ter Potts band and a mignon lobster menu for about 200 reservations before Dec 1, then dancing until 1 am. Sedgefield Club holds an 8 to 9:30 pm dinner with dancing 10 pm to 2 am, reservations due Dec 20, chaired by W H Stott, featuring many High Point members.
Cocoa's Audubon Society reports a 24 hour bird count of 184 species, the highest in the nation. Leader Allen Cruickshank said the total surpasses last year's 175 species by a San Diego group.
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