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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1950
Page
2
The Food and Drug Administration reported rising dangerous drug incidents in 194... including 33 drug recalls and numerous misbranded or adulterated products. Short weight candies, frauds in fruit fillings, and polluted baby foods were among the issues. A noodle maker paid the year's largest fine at 9,500 dollars for unsanitary operations.
The Bao Dai government gains internal control except defense remains French. Ho Chi Minh forces claim heavy Chinese losses in Indochina while French air cover restrains Chinese retreat. U S and allies defend Yokosuka base and reject Russian calls to prosecute Japanese leaders for germ warfare.
The North Carolina Railroad has paid the state a semi annual dividend of 105 007 dollars. The payment, made yesterday, equals seven dollars for each of the state’s 15 001 shares. The company leases its Goldsboro Greensboro line to the Southern Railways. Dividends have totaled 14 dollars per share annually.
Senate approved Lodge amendment to award presidential electors by state popular vote share. If no candidate exceeds 40 percent of electors, Congress would elect the president from the top two candidates. House prospects seen as fair for two thirds vote, with Gossett optimistic.
Columbia reports the state House of Representatives killed a proposed three percent general sales tax today in a February vote, reflecting fiscal policy opposition.
L. H. Bottoms and wife transfer to H. L. Moorefield and wife a lot on East Lexington avenue. Julian Snider and wife transfer to James Bowman and wife a lot on U S Highway 70. Perpetual Savings and Loan Association transfers to C R Gray Jr a lot on Welch Drive.
Subzero cold grips the Pacific Northwest with Spokane reporting a 40 year cold spell. High winds push snow blocking roads while hydro output suffers. Heavy rainfall, floods threaten Kentucky towns. Ohio river crest forecasts rise. Texas towns lose telephone service as upper Trinity river rises and water shortages hit Celeste Muenster Leonard Reston and Fannin County areas.
Green Lashes At Controls for delivery to the Miami Rotor club during the AFL Executive council winter meeting warns that legislation weakening unions invites communist takeover. He says labor should rely on a voluntary free enterprise system with minimal regulation and joint labor management unity to defend national security.
Kerr Craige Ramsay, Salisbury lawyer and longtime Rowan county representative, announces plans to run in the May 27 Democratic primary. Ramsay has served in the General Assembly since 1940 and was elected speaker of the house at the last session. He also sits on the state advisory budget commission.
President Truman endorses a five day workweek as a general aim, urges miners and operators to resume normal production while a fact finding board probes the coal dispute, and says he will invoke the Taft Hartley act in emergencies. He dodges a hydrogen bomb UN notification question and suggests Governor Duff join the Democratic party.
Six Republican governors met in Harrisburg to draft a code aimed at making the GOP a party of victories. The plan seeks broader appeal to national voters and was sent to GOP chairman Guy Gabrielson for consideration by the party policy committee in Washington. The governors involved were Duff of Pennsylvania Randahl of North Dakota Adams of New Hampshire Beardsley of Iowa Peterson of Nebraska and Robins of Idaho.
Norfolk notes a House proposal to retire the battleship Missouri after a 15 day crisis at Thimble Shoal. Admiral Blandy supports mothballing and replacing Missouri with a carrier or two from mothballs, arguing training could be done more cheaply aboard other ships.
President Truman moves to end the eight month coal dispute by invoking emergency provisions of Taft-Hartley to order a no-strike period. Talks between United Mine Workers leader John Lewis and coal operators resume after a three month lapse. Lewis and operators assess proposals, while court battles over fair labor practices continue.
President Truman announced the appointment of Paul L. Styles to the National Labor Relations board. Styles, then regional director at Atlanta, succeeds J Copeland Gray whom the president did not reappoint. The announcement was made in Washington on February 2.
The ad promotes BC nerve headache relief claiming a fast acting formula with multiple effective ingredients. It markets tablets and powder with two tablets equaling one powder, at 10 cents and 25 cents, for headaches neuralgia and muscle aches.
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