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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1954
Page
2
Dr. ae Welton Marquis of DeKalb Jr. named professor of music and dean of the Woman's College of Music by Chancellor Edward K. Graham. Marquis, 38, a Whitman College graduate with a USC PhD, comes from Northern Illinois State Teachers College where he led the music department.
Mrs. Annette Newsome, 60, of Northampton County, was struck and killed on U S 301 about four miles south of the State Patrol post. Northampton County Deputy Sheriff Odum said the car was driven by Deputy Sheriff Odum and the boy involved escaped.
The General Services Administration suspends Spruce Pine mica purchases for not less than 30 days starting March 5 amid internal investigations. Three buyers resigned, a fourth was suspected, and details cited safeguarding stockpile operations as the reason. Mica remains critical for electronic insulation.
Senatorial candidate W Kerr Scott planned to formally open his campaign headquarters this afternoon. He will occupy three rooms on the mezzanine floor of the Carolina Hotel, the site he established six years ago when he first ran for governor.
The FBI said federal warrants against Rowla L. Hudson and Edward D. Gowen for a $33,500 Danville bank robbery will be dismissed. Hudson was captured in Florida after a lengthy foot chase, while Gowen is in state custody in Virginia. A separate federal complaint on theft and interstate transportation of a car is being filed.
Trading across New York shows a cautious session with many leading issues slipping while a broad set edges higher. The list includes Boeing Irving, Studebaker, Allied Chemical, American Can and Union Pacific among decliners and gainers such as New York Central, Paramount, Loew’s, and Chesapeake & Ohio. A noon reading lists Admiral, Allied Chemical, Coca Cola, General Electric, and Dow among leaders and laggards. A test siren device is described, capable of igniting cotton or boiling water by inaudible sounds at around 34 000 cycles per second.
The State Utilities Commission began new hearings on closing the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad station at Pikesville. ACL says the line loses money though 1953 revenues rose. locals protest. ACL's Crawford cites about 107 dollars per month loss in 1953. The plan is to consolidate Pikesville with Fremont, about three miles away, with Fremont handling shared shipments.
The dispatch notes Billy Graham's British campaign start with 6000 subscribers and 20000 pounds raised in five weeks from industrial sources and private partners. Alfred Owen, a motor industry figure, is cited as treasurer. A Graham crusade spokesman declined to comment.
A broad weather overview notes no severe cold or heavy snow nationwide. A southeastern Minnesota storm brings light snow near the Canadian border and central Mississippi, with coastal light rain in Washington and near Cape Cod. Dust storms occur in the Southwest, especially Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle toward the Plains and New Mexico. Visibility drops in several areas, with most of the country seeing clear skies. The northern Great Lakes and central Rockies stay below freezing early, while the southern half enjoys mild conditions. Los Angeles records 87 degrees yesterday.
The New York Yankees announce the sale of right handed pitcher Vic Raschi to the St. Louis Cardinals for cash and several minor league players. Yankees general manager George Weiss says the deal involved considerable cash. Specific figures and minor league names were not released. Raschi posted a 120 50 record in his Yankees career with 15 6 last season and 16 6 the prior year. From 1949 to 1951 he averaged 71 wins per year.
In Greensboro a 12 year old girl identified as Sandra Lee Atkins was moved from a hospital ward to the operating room at Duke Hospital in Durham for an exploratory surgery to assess eye injury and possible sight preservation. Doctors report the retina is detached from the eyewall and the child is blind in the right eye. Police say her stepmother, Mrs Mac Atkins, 30, is charged with maiming and is jailed on $10,000 bond after alleged attack in November and arrest in February.
Western high commissioners propose talks with Soviet High Commissioner about lifting travel and trade restrictions between East and West Germany and East and West Berlin. They call for removing border zones and red tape, restoring city services in Berlin, while East German leaders demand removal of Western agents in exchange.
Senate hearing on the Red scare and Army case features McCarthy and Democratic allies, with Robert Kennedy as counsel. Mrs. Markward testifies about FBI contacts and Communist ties, while Stevens accuses McCarthy of abusing officers. Peress and Zwicker figures spark cross complaints as network coverage plans.
A 17 member U S Public Health Service panel found no evidence gamma globulin prevents or mitigates paralytic polio in mass inoculations or among family contacts in 23 epidemic areas. The group cautioned against conclusions, while the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis plans to offer three million doses this summer valued at 19 million dollars. Basil O Connor said previous cautions were expected and the foundation still hopes limited use may prove beneficial.
The State Board of Paroles reduced the $1,000 fine against Columbus County Klansman J. C. Fermy Duval by $500 while continuing his two year sentence for kidnapping conspiracy and assault. The board said Duval could not pay the full amount and warned the remaining balance could send him to the roads. The release also listed paroled convicts including Bessie May Lowery, Edward L. Turgeon, Howard Tom Clark, Shade Bryant, Edward Ofsen, J. Paul Snow, and William Rufus Devane with their sentences and dates.
In Buenos Aires last night factions of the Nationalist Alliance for Liberation fought at their party headquarters injuring three people including a 48 year old Portuguese woman Alicia el Castro de. Police quickly intervened and detained combatants as the alliance faced internal splits and tensions with Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi.
French forces attacked Vietminh positions west and southeast of Hanoi claiming heavy losses for the rebels. One unit hit the village of Bue Tap twelve miles west of Hanoi and forced Vietminh from pillboxes and entrenchments with fighters bombers and napalm support. Casualty numbers were not released, but the army spokesman said losses were heavy.
A testimony recounts McCarthy issuing an official order to discharge Peress amid a heated hearing. Zwicker protests that a biased version of the testimony was released and that he received the order with no choice but to comply.
In Stockholm a tall elderly man pays 25 ore for coat check but has no money. The hat-check girl asks for payment and the man borrows a coin from a bystander. She finally recognizes the borrower as King Gustav of Sweden.
Vatican sources said Pope Pius XII, 84, has had more trouble taking food in the last two to three days amid a gastric ailment whose nature has not been disclosed. Anxiety over his health grows as officials hope he may soon regain the ability to take nourishment orally.
The Army named sixty additional soldiers it now regards as dead in Korea. The list includes C. Tolley of Monmouth, Hilda R. Tolley of Monmouth, Pfc. Cain Chisolm of Wadmalaw Island, and Cpl. Adgie Duvall Jr. of Greenwood, with family addresses provided.
Three top applicants for the municipal golf course pro position were sent to Bill Stronach, city parks director, after civil service exams. Stronach will choose a successor to Golf Pro Al Arring, who resigns March 1 to take a golf job in South Carolina.
General Foods Corp in New York raised wholesale Maxwell House coffee by five cents per pound to 1.06 and lifted restaurant and hotel brands seven cents. Instant coffee rose 25 cents per dozen two ounce jars. The move follows similar hikes by eastern roasters last week.
The Vanderbilt Cup final pits a Philadelphia New York team led by Stanley Fenkel and Charles J. Solomon against a New York lineup with Milton Moss Sidney Mandell Ned Poe and Kalmar Apfel. Semifinal winners include Arthur Miller and Mrs Mathews from Fort Worth joining Mrs Eliot Evans Evanston and A M Barnes with Harold Ogust of New York.
Lt. Gen. K. M. Thimayya, chairman of the Neutral Nations Reconciliation panel, departed Seoul after completing duties under the Korean War armistice. He watched 6,000 Indian troops ship out aboard the Jalbuza as an 8th Army honor guard bid him farewell at Seoul airport.
Saigon reports the French high command says Vietminh forces from Division No. 308 have retreated from Luang Prabang and nearby Muong Sai after an offensive that began January 30. The city, capital of Laos, was under siege for 18 days, now ended with aid from air support.
Mrs Netta A Strickland 88 died at Memorial Hospital after several months illness. A Pittsylvania County native, widow of Charles A Strickland who died in 1938 she lived in Keeling for nearly 50 years and aided Mount Tabor Baptist Church. Survived by two daughters and four sons including James F Strickland of Durham and Silas E Strickland of Richmond. Funeral 3 p.m. tomorrow at a funeral home with Highland Park burial in Danville.
The forecast calls for a low around 38 tonight and a high near 58 tomorrow. Today reached about 60 with a chilly last night around 90. The moon will rise at 6 09 pm and set by 2 am tomorrow.
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