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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1955
Page
2
New York markets moved higher in early afternoon trading led by rail firms. Most industrials remained firm though near session highs, as the list of advancing issues showed mixed gains and incomplete quotes due to transmission issues.
The Senate Internal Security subcommittee questioned Matusow after he admitted giving false testimony in 1952 probes including a Lattimore perjury case. He said he joined the Communist party in 1947, reported on it for the FBI, and was expelled in 1951.
A riot in New Orleans prompted police to use tear gas and night sticks after crowds of tourists and bar patrons swarmed two men attempting to force a car lock. Squad cars and a crash truck arrived as officers were attacked, with several arrests processed at the First District station.
Washington House Ways and Means Committee to endorse a Democratic $20 per person income tax cut plan. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey to testify in closed session. president would decide on the proposal’s fate amid tax and rate extension considerations.
A Chicago publisher promotes a simple daily conversation technique to boost poise and social and business success. The free 24 page booklet explains easy rules for better talk and persuasion and can be requested by mail or postcard from Conversation Studies Dept. 2642 835 Diversey Parkway Chicago 4 ll.
Four bodies were found near a cliff at the Sandia Mountains where the Martin 404 wreckage was spotted. The plane, bound from an unknown origin to Baltimore on the first leg to Santa Fe, was confirmed as the missing aircraft by Col. William Gibson of the Rescue Service. Eight searchers worked atop the rock with parachutes and supplies as two searchlights illuminated the site.
Snow plow crews battled long hours through deep drifts across central and western Nebraska in search of Saturday blizzard victims. Rescues included five children and five adults who sheltered 19 hours in a car nine miles northwest of Ogallala. Three ministers from Gothenburg remained unaccounted for, and Nebraska Highway Department workers reported missing for nearly 30 hours were found near Lewellen.
The forecast calls for rain tonight across areas east of the Mississippi River with exceptions along the lakeside states and southern Florida. Snow is expected in the northern Plains and the Rockies while colder air pushes from northern Florida to the Ohio River and the eastern Great Lakes. Warmer conditions are noted in New England, southern California, and the central Rockies. The AP Wirephoto map accompanies the report.
Uniontown police probe a grim house scene as Robert Miller 42 mortally wounds his wife and 17 year old daughter and two men before dying by suicide. Victims include auto mechanic Steve Demko 27 and neighbor 25 unidentified man. Rivak, hospitalized, linked to the attack.
North Carolina shows cloudy west with light showers in extreme west and fair conditions in the east this afternoon and tonight. Highs 62 to 70, lows upper 30s mountains to 40s elsewhere. Tuesday remains mostly cloudy with occasional rain in central and east, cooler west. South Carolina stays partly cloudy and mild through tonight and Tuesday. Virginia remains cloudy and mild with occasional rain Tuesday and in the west tonight, lows 26 to 44 degrees.
UN charged violations after an air battle on February 5 in which two MIGs were shot down attacking the RBIS and its Sabre Jets. Carter urged three neutral nations to send mobile inspection teams to North Korea to verify the MIGs and their armament with photographs and radar-tracked takeoff and return data. He asserted the MIGs were not in Korea when the armistice was signed, accusing North Korea of violating the armistice agreement.
An old advertisement touts Ferrizan as a fast acting iodine iron reconstructive tonic for weakness and run down feelings. It promises four weeks to feel stronger with better energy and sleep, offering a money back guarantee and urging purchase at Mann's Cut Rate Eckerd's.
The VU.S.S. Information Service reports Russia’s large campaign to raise farm production has collapsed leaving fewer grain per capita than in 1926 and three million fewer cows than before.
In a regional geography note the text compares lake levels showing Lakes Huron and Michigan several feet lower than Lake Superior. The passage frames the discrepancy as a factual measurement of surface elevations across the lakes.
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