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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1955
Page
2
Jewish citizens of High Point take part in a nationwide observance marking 300 years since a Jewish settlement began in America. February events highlight religious, community, civic and cultural activities. The 1620s landing of 23 Jews in New Amsterdam is noted.
Nationalist air force announced dive bombers hit Eugene Yikiangshan Island eight miles north of the Tachens with heavy enemy losses. Red forces seized the Tachens Jan. 18 and now shelling could threaten evacuation. The plan reportedly relies on 7th Fleet amphibious craft to evacuate civilians and soldiers to Formosa.
Arsenault and Devlin admitted shooting Lovinger as LeBlanc waited outside. The trio were rounded up within half an hour and faced questions about Annie I. Glassman, 48, killed March 30 1953 during a Passover home invasion. Parallels noted between both robberies.
The Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 619 will air The Man And the Moment, a nationwide teen series, on WHPE Saturdays at 3 30 p m and on WHPS Wednesdays at 11 12 and 1. Mrs Roy M Hunter says the public service program highlights America's heroes and follows The American Trail from 1953. The show airs on 300 stations across 48 states plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Civic club representatives will meet at 6 30 p m on Monday February 14 at the Woman's Club to discuss feeding needy children in city schools. An inter council group for High Point is to be formed and details will be carried back to member clubs. Mrs L C Chiles 611 Colonial Drive was named secretary pro tem.
Mrs Emma Lou Combs 61 widow of David H Combs died Wednesday in High Point Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held Friday at 4 p m at Green Street Baptist Church with Rev George T Tunstall officiating. Pallbearers included Robert Hendrix Johns Sanders Raymond Lanier W H Measle Jack Samuels Gilbert Lewis Dennis Hutchen. Burial followed in Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
Refugees insist they were ready to fight as the Tachen islands exit the scene under bombardment. Families endure grim deployments, medical spray with DDT, and crowded displaced lines while an officer reappears from a prior Tachen encounter, framing retreat as a wider political failure.
The reporter notes repeated evacuations from Indo-China to Malaya and Canton as refugees become commonplace. A new deployment line remains only a vision while people speak of readiness to defend Tachen.
The passage recalls a courteous Oriental gentleman and mentions men alighting from a ship while DDT powder whitened hair. It references a British statesman who, amid evacuation, warned that even a brilliant execution is not a victory.
Marse Grant editor of Chair and Children at the Baptist aliens here will moderate a panel of leaders on WFMY TV. The program runs 5 to 5 15 pm during the statewide Evangelism conference at First Baptist Greens bor o. Guests include Dr Louie D Newton Atlanta Dr Roy O McClain Atlanta Dr William Ayer New York Dr James L Sullivan Nashville Dr J C Canipe ot Greensboro. Each will discuss a subject of special interest.
The vocal recital by Professor Richard Cox of High Point College Music Department, initially set for February 5, is postponed to February 15. Location and start time remain unchanged.
A promotional note describes a non-surgical method for treating arthritis rheumatism and related chronic conditions. It claims a drugless therapy with over thirty five years of use and offers a free copy from The Ball Clinic in Excelsior Springs Missouri with no obligation.
Washington reports expose a sharp split within the Atomic Energy Commission as Democrats assert disruption to peacetime energy efforts, while Republicans see no impact on major tasks. The dispute centers on the Dixon-Yates contract, with Strauss, Murray, Libby, and Hickenlooper cited amid hearings on nuclear policy.
The General Assembly opens its second month with tax policy atop the agenda. The Joint Appropriations and Joint Finance Committees will hear from major state agencies and industry groups on proposed new taxes to fund a 637 million dollar next fiscal year budget. The Senate Judiciary Committee will study a new code overhaul. a House panel will hear medical views on treating sexual deviates.
States and Central Plains face freezing rain and sleet in a narrow band from northern Illinois to central New York and central Newland. Rain spreads from the Atlantic states to the Mississippi Valley, with varying intensity and a weather service advisory.
An 85 year old man perished trying to rescue his bedridden brother in Scranton as multiple fires hit eastern Pennsylvania. In Shenandoah, 42 families evacuated and 250 homeless after a blaze razed a city block. Carbondale saw 29 businesses ruined and estimated damages exceed three million dollars amid freezing conditions and high winds.
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