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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1957
Page
5
Oswald Jacoby analyzes a final hand where South finesses trumps and loses, while a spade finesse offers a clearer path. He explains that spades give better odds when East holds the king and that even a failed spade finesse can still allow South to drop a singleton king of trumps.
Charles Lee Guy III, awaiting a 1-10 year California sentence for slaying Guy F Roberts, is told his North Carolina home awaits him after parole. His father Charles Lee Guy Jr plans to pursue the Fourth District solicitor post and notes the boy’s education has suffered.
A short middle aged man with a tweed coat approached manager Michael Schachter and handed him $30 at the cash register. Police arrived but left after clerks and customers said there had been no holdup. After radio checks, police returned.
A mixed crossword style list presents across and down clues for a New Year puzzle. Entries include geography, anatomy, and culture terms such as sea eagle, goddess of the moon, Visigoth king, and various common nouns.
Phoenix officials back safety buses for New Year Eve events to shuttle groups of 40 or more to and from parties. City Superintendent Carl Rawlings and Police Chief Charles P. Thomas support the plan, urged by the Phoenix Elks Lodge.
Schachter remained on the floor after pulling a telephone from the counter and dialing the police. He did not change position as officers arrived and questioned him.
Charles Lee Guy III, 19, was sentenced to 1 to 10 years for the shotgun death of his mother's fiance Guy F. Roberts in a Santa Monica motel. He argued for probation, but Superior Judge Allen T. Lynch ruled him ineligible due to prior law violations and denied a new trial.
Two Russian economists T. B. and V. J. Abolin were unable to attend an American Economic Association convention in Philadelphia due to bad weather. The pair, from the USSR Academy of Sciences, sent a cable to Morris Copeland, president of the AEA, canceling their arrival and expressing hope to establish scientific contact in the future.
Thomas E. Meeks, 46, president of Local 1354 of the Textile Workers Union of America, resigned after acknowledging irregularities in union funds. He promised to replace the funds and blamed the accounting on ignorance. The auditor, who has since left town, did not disclose the amount involved.
State Treasurer Erwin Gill will open bids January 16 for ten million dollars in school construction bonds approved by Governor Hodges and the Council of State. Of the issue, two and a half million will repay the sinking fund. seven and a half million will fund ongoing construction. This 50 million dollar bond issue, authorized in 1953, marks the first sale since June 1955 amid rising rates. The Roanoke Island Historical Association received ten thousand dollars to offset a thirteen thousand three hundred ninety-one dollar deficit in The Lost Colony pageant. The council approved five thousand dollars to the State Property Insurance Fund for damage at Winston-Salem State University and sold the old McIver Building at Greensboro for six hundred dollars to W. R. Rike Jr.
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