Stocks Drift With Mixed Signs As Market Awaits Eisenhower Update
Quiet trading and mixed prices characterize the New York stock session with gains and losses narrowing to fractions. The Associated Press index slides to 173.50 as many issues go ex dividend while steel stocks stay firm and industrials dip slightly amid rumors over a presidential health report.
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New York
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Steel
Republic
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
American Telephone
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker- Packard
Long Bell Lumber
Chicago & Northwestern
New Haven
Santa Fe
Chesapeake & Ohio
Southern Pacific
Judge Lists Delinquency Reasons At National Crime Prevention Week
Judge Williard J. Gatling of Charlotte spoke to Exchange Club members in High Point outlining factors behind juvenile delinquency. He cited cultural shifts, atomic-age stress, family strain, materialism, and diminished parental involvement as causes, and called prisons monuments to society’s negligence.
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High Point
Williard J. Gatling
Charlotte
Exchange Club
Gatling
Mecklenburg County
Realty Transfers in High Point and Jamestown Townships
Real estate transfers reported including E. E. Younts Inc to Py. H. Mack and wife a Elliott land lot. O. A. Kirkman and wife to L. W. Lamar and wife a High a R. Albertson to Lucille A. Mc Bride a lot of Wheeler land. Connor and wife to J. F. Dobbin and wife a lot of Biair ar Jamestown Township Kerr land ad joins William G. Ragsdale Jr. Inc to William G. Ragsdale Jr for adjoining Kerr land.
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High Point Township
E. E. Younts Inc
Py. H. Mack
Elliott Land
O. A. Kirkman
L. W. Lamar
High A
R. Albertson
Lucille A. McBride
Wheeler Land
Connor
J. F. Dobbin
Biairar
Jamestown Township
William G. Ragsdale Jr
First Sleeping Car Operated Between Harrisburg and Chambersburg
The first sleeping car in the world ran between Harrisburg and Chambersburg Pennsylvania in the winter of 1836 37. It was a remodeled day coach with crude bunks.
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Harrisburg
Chambersburg
Fire Fighting Facts Outlined To Y's Men
Ys Men club heard Capt T G Shelton fire prevention officer compare High Point with similar cities using statistics. He cited carelessness as a leading cause of deaths and property loss by fire. Members approved funds for a rifle range project and donated to the Heart Center at High Point Memorial Hospital.
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Y's Men's Club
T. G. Shelton
Fire Department
High Point
Bob Allen
High Point Memorial Hospital
Greensboro ABC Sales Second In North Carolina
Guilford County ranked second in the state for January whiskey sales with Greensboro ABC stores reporting $471 367.75 in sales. Mecklenburg County led with $768 227.35, while state totals reached $4 665 083.35, up $36 204 from last January. Greensboro sales surpassed January 1955 totals by about $28 500 but lagged behind January 1953.
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Guilford County
Greensboro
ABC
Mecklenberg County
Building Plans Discussed by HPC Trustees
Preliminary drawings for a new gymnasium and remodeling of the old gym were discussed at the mid year meeting of High Point College trustees. President Dr. Dennis Cooke described the session as largely routine and said the library gathering focused on plans for construction and dining hall use. the group holds its annual meeting in mid July.
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High Point College
Dennis Cooke
Balloon Reported Over Soviet Siberia by U S Weather Balloon
A U S Navy weather balloon traveling from Japan reversed course in high altitude jet stream and crossed into the Kamchatka region of Soviet Siberia. Officials said it carried only weather instruments and an automatic transmitter, while critics claimed espionage risks.
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Tokyo
U.S. Navy
Soviet Siberia
Aleutians
Navy
Pacific
Russia
Japan
Air Force
Europe
Soviet Union
North Pacific
Kamchatka Peninsula
United States
Hokkaido
U. S
Sme
Mother Is Charged With Murder In Son's Drowning
A 52 year old woman in Columbia faces a murder charge after her young son Charles Edward Davis, 7, drowned near Dentsville. Solicitor T Pau Taylor said the charge is standard in such cases and that a 30 day observation at the State Hospital will follow via a court order. The father reported the boy was taken to a lake to pretend fishing and disappeared after he fell in while the mother attempted to help.
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Columbia
T. Pau Taylor
Taylor
B. A. Davis
Charles Edward Davis
Dentsville
ROTC Officer J F Lewis Named Cadet Officer at Chapel Hill
Naval ROTC unit at Chapel Hill announces spring semester cadet officers. Col R C Burns, commanding officer, lists J F Lewis of High Point among named officers in Company C.
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J. F. Lewis
High Point
Chapel Hill
R. C. Burns
Lewis
Building Boom To Continue Lions Told
Ed Mendenhall a High Point realtor told Archdale Trinity Lions that a large number of children driving classroom shortages will sustain a long real estate and home building boom. He noted ten years of rising home building and predicted continued growth, despite higher costs, with luxury features now common. The Lions Ladies Night at Cedar Square Friends Church is Feb 23 at 7 pm. Robert Blair was inducted by past President Carson Thornburg. visitors included Jack Hall Coy Brewer and Gene Marsh. program by Rev Isaac Harris.
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Ed Mendenhall
High Point Realtor
Archdale Trinity Lions
Mendenhall
Cedar Square Friends Church
Robert Blair
Carson Thornburg
Jack Hall
Coy Brewer
Gene Marsh
Isaac Harris
Automotive Finance Firms In Meeting Greensboro Convention
The ninth annual convention of the North Carolina Association of Automotive Finance Companies held at Sedgefield Inn featured talks on three financing phases from a banker dealer and insurer. About 150 attendees heard P. N. Calhoun J Bobo Langston and B L Rickensbacker speak during the panel session and luncheon.
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Greensboro
N.C. Assn
Sedgefield Inn
P. N. Calhoun
Guilford National Bank
Youth Handed 6 Month Term For Car Theft
A 16 year old Kannapolis youth Eugene Stephens received a six month sentence in Recorder's Court for larceny of an automobile. The car owned by Lester H Orman Jr was taken from Plant C of the Thomasville Chair Co in Thomasville. Stephens surrendered in Kannapolis and said he drove to Asheboro Greensboro and High Point before returning.
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Thomasville
Recorder’s Court
Eugene Stephens
Kannapolis
Stephens
Lester H. Orman Jr
Thomasville Chair Co
Asheboro
Greensboro
High Point
Natural gas pipeline network spans vast U S reach
The United States houses about 445000 miles of natural gas pipelines forming a nationwide grid. The figure underscores extensive infrastructure supporting energy distribution and utilities.
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The
United Sates
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American Tobacco Co
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Carolina Light & Power
Douglas Aircraft
DuPont de Nemours
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Consolidated Edison
Eastman Kodak
Greyhound Corp
General Dynamics
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber
International Harvester
International Tel. & Tel
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Jones Laughlin Steel
Johns Manville
American Tel. & Tel
the Texas Co
Union Carbide & Carbon
United Aircraft Corp
Wweo Electric Co
U.S. Steel
F. W. Woolworth Co
North Carolina
HPC
Bruce H. Carraway
Washington St
Wachovia
Wachovia Sat and Trust Company
College Street
West Washington
College Streets
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Federal Reserve System
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N. Main St
Belk
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North Main Street
Lions
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Howington
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Antarctic
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Vicks
Vicks VanoRub
New Vicks
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Batiste
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