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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1951
Page
3
In New Orleans a 30 year old patient at the U S Marine hospital roamed and hurled iron pipe and slate from a three story roof for nine hours. Tear gas and ladder access failed to reach him. He finally subdued and napped on the roof after rescue attempts. The hospital director blamed the scene on the patient seeking attention.
New York report cites Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen describing Chinese Communist torture of Catholics. He alleges slit backs filled with gasoline soaked cotton ignited to create living torches, with nuns stripped, dragged through streets, and priests and a bishop unaccounted. He warns of missions being dynamited.
In Beirut a Palestinian refugee group reportedly formed a Black Hand Society that stole large amounts of rice sugar and flour from a United Nations food depot at Sidon. Police recovered a letter signed The Black Hand Society amid investigations. The UN with US funding feeds over half a million Arab refugees in Lebanon and neighboring states. Refugees fled Palestine in May after the establishment of Israel.
Raleigh February 22. The struggle over state aid to municipal streets eclipses debate on a statewide liquor referendum. Senate Bill 120 would place maintenance of all municipal streets under state control and divert gas tax revenue to cities, while Royster and Gudger proposals seek highway commission takeover or separate taxes. Gov. Scott and lawmakers clash over who should fund urban roads amid charges of railroading tactics and political maneuvering.
Berkeley officials announce a short course for agricultural pest controllers at the University of California. The program covers fundamentals of entomology plant pathology agricultural chemicals and airplane spraying methods.
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