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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1953
Page
3
West Berlin officials report tightened border controls did not stop a large refugee surge. James B. Conant visits registration centers and a camp amid 19,000 asylum seekers this month, with East Germans total near 26,000 as January's record looms.
Dawson of Elizabeth City for the North Carolina Bottlers Association warned the tax would cut bottlers income by 33 to 40 percent, saying similar effects occurred in every state with the tax. Separately, bills advanced in the Senate and House seek pay raises for top judges and solicitors, and a state income tax withholding plan may be introduced.
In Pasco Washington an IRS official recounts a man who waited over an hour in a form assistance line only to say he did not need help and wished to pay his union dues and leave. The anecdote highlights wait times in tax form aid lines and a humorous misfire at the desk.
A loud talking gunman robbed two boys at a Houston shoe shine parlor and candy store on Tuesday. He stuffed penny candy bars into his pockets, refused to pay, and fled, with losses around 40 cents.
The cold air from the Midwest spread into the South driving temperatures below freezing in the Carolinas Georgia Alabama Mississippi Virginia and Tennessee. Readings included 21 in Raleigh 23 in Augusta 24 in Birmingham and Greensboro 26 in Atlanta and 31 in Jackson Mississippi. Northern Florida saw low 40s in Jacksonville. Michigan faced 8 below zero in Cadillac and 1 below in Toledo. Warmer conditions expected tonight across much of the region with low temps 30 to 40 in the Carolinas.
Police recovered enough dynamite to threaten two blocks and arrested a 16-year-old after he admitted playing with 130 sticks in his basement. Investigators say the missing dynamite was taken from three magazines at a small air field. Two 14-year-olds face burglary charges over the magazines and were turned over to juvenile authorities.
The North Carolina Forest Association urges the State Board of Conservation and Development to include more foresters on the new board. President Roger W. Wolcott notes forestry personnel dominate the current agency. The group also asks for funds to build another tree seedling nursery.
Senator Taft said Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas and Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina along with Gov. Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey will join a February 26 White House conference as Governors Conference representatives. The meeting will explore a federal aid policy, a proposed commission to study state and federal relations, service duplications, and tax revenue division.
The Indian villages destroyed by Gen. Sullivan in the Elmira area during the Revolution consisted not of huts but neat wooden dwellings with excavated orchards, gardens, and grain fields.
New York attorneys planned a meeting to decide whether to appeal a State Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on press and public access in the Minot F Jelke vice trial. Justice Benjamin F. Schreiber found Judge Francis L. Valente acted within his discretion in excluding media and the public. He denied requests to prohibit the ban, with rivals including United Press International and the New York Herald Tribune among those challenging it.
In New York a former Indiana cheerleader turned call girl was expected to testify today against Minot Jelke the alleged vice peddler. State witnesses include Nancy Hawkins claimed as one of 11 Jelke call girls with Erica Steele also viewed as possible. Court adjournments again limit press access while prosecutors push to finish testimony by Friday.
Grady Allen Tilley, 18, of Kannapolis North Carolina, held without bail after a Escambia County grand jury indicted him for first degree murder. He allegedly shot Albert Harwell after forcing him to drive out of town and later forced two other motorists to drive him away before surrendering. Grand jury did not act on two kidnapping counts.
Four-year-old twins Bill and Leslie Robson drowned in a manmade lake in Tampa Florida after attempting swimming on their own. Two adults who could not swim tried to reach them with lifelines as firefighters recovered the bodies from 15 feet of cloudy water. Their mother Mrs Jack Robson arrived and dived several times in a failed search.
James Wilson aged 59 was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to smashing a shop window. The judge said the long term was warranted by Wilsons long record. This marked his 100th prison sentence since.
Many shattered romances may be traced to scratching skin irritations. Get fast relief with Peterson's Ointment from druggists. One application delights or money refunded. Also for cracked feet.
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