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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1954
Page
12
The forecast notes light rain or drizzle in the lower Ohio valley and west into eastern Kansas and Oklahoma. The tral Rockies and upper Mississippi valley see similar light precipitation with a few flurries near the northern Lakes. Elsewhere, fair weather prevails.
The mid-continent saw clearing skies and warmer temperatures after earlier snow and ice storms that claimed twenty lives. Eastern regions remained fair, with light snow in the Great Lakes and New England. Caribou Maine reported 30 inches on the ground. Central Rockies and Northern Plains stayed cold with subzero readings. Bemidji Minnesota was 9 below, while New York reached 41 and cloudy.
Tonight's low 20 high 55. Last night low 28. Sun sets 5 16 pm and rises 7 31 am tomorrow. Warmer tomorrow.
In Spartanburg South Carolina two large bulldogs attacked 8 year old Roger Stokely as he ran an errand to neighbor Gene O Sullivan’s home. The boy sustained severe bites to both arms and legs requiring extensive surgery and hospital care. no charges were filed against O Sullivan as doctors assess outcome.
Park Jones of Mount Olive North Carolina and Lloyd Fenters of Klamath Falls Oregon were AWOL from Ft. Lewis Washington. Jones died after falling into the path of a truck driven by Charlie Jowers of Largo on a highway in Pahore Florida while he and Fenters tussled with each other near Clewiston. The incident occurred as they visited Fenters’ uncle J. J. Herring.
North Carolina sunny and mild this afternoon with highs 40s in mountains and mid 50s elsewhere. Tonight cold 27 to 35 with increasing clouds and a touch of rain in the mountains by night. South Carolina increasing clouds and warmer this afternoon and tonight then Saturday mostly cloudy with occasional rain. Virginia tonight partly cloudy 26 to 33 with Saturday mostly cloudy and mild and a chance of rain in the west.
North Carolina and South Carolina see temperatures several degrees above normal. Rainfall totals range from light coastal showers to heavy mountain rains, with a half inch to over half an inch possible and a cooling trend early next week.
Cairo reports numerous New Year observances across religious groups. Moslem lunar year shifts with time, Persian Moslems celebrate on March 21, Jewish New Year falls between September and October, Copts mark Sept 11 12 or 13, and Greek Orthodox follow Western dating for civil matters while observing Jan 13 as church New Year.
The article reports U S family size declining from 3.77 in 1940 to 3.60. It also notes Antarctic ice islands reaching up to 70 miles in length and 20 miles in width with a height of about 2,500 feet.
A Georgia dealer group launches a campaign to pick the state’s most courteous traffic officer, mounted or on post, with the winner receiving a new sedan. The item mentions Billy Graham revivals, British religious magazines, a Nashville headline about razing an exchange building, and miscellaneous quips and jokes.
The West German Communist party named fugitive Max Reimann as its leader at a Hamburg convention. An arrest warrant for high treason remained outstanding as Reimann did not attend in person but his taped voice drew cheers from about 900 delegates and guests.
A classified notice outlines payment terms for a cards of thanks advertisement with 90 cents cash in advance and instructions for correcting errors before the second insertion. It lists rate lines, line spacing, and per line charges for errors or subsequent insertions.
NBC agreed to pay at least 1 050 000 to televise the Academy Awards for six years with options for future nominations at 50 000 each. The Academy Board of Governors approved the contract yesterday pending NBC exercising future options. The deal caps at 1 300 000 if all options are exercised.
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