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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1956
Page
18
A U S Antarctic Expedition party visits a Mt Bird Ross Island penguin rookery. Adelie penguins number about 50 000 while Emperor penguins are rarer. Penguins court with pebbles, circle, trumpet, and share incubation duties with both parents feeding chicks.
North Carolina historian Dr. Blackwell Robinson plans a UNC Press biography of William Richardson Davie. The work highlights Davie as a Revolutionary War partisan leader, “father of the University of North Carolina,” and his career from Halifax to France. Publication aims for early fall 1956 in Davie's 200th birth year.
GREENSBORO Jan. 7 The first annual workshop for those interested in caring for alcoholics will be held at the YWCA in Greensboro January 23 to 25. Dr Russell L Dicks of Duke Divinity School directs. The Keeley Institute sponsors the three day event aimed at ministers doctors educators social workers and trusted friends.
Nonagricultural employment in NC held firm in November 1955 with only a 1,500 decline from 1,061,400 total. The average hourly earnings rose to 1.31 dollars, up two cents from October, boosting weekly earnings to 34.10 dollars. Textile workers led gains with average pay at 1.33 and garment workers at 1.01, while most nonmanufacturing sectors saw little or no change.
In New York a Columbus Georgia mother birthed twins the third such birth for her in 233 years. A San Diego zoo guest eggs belatedly stunned staff as the first captive horned screamer brood. London reports two real identical girls wed different Johns Blunt and Sharp. A Washington state inmate tunnel scare paused a party while Chicago police chief Lt. Pape notes feathers worth 2450 pounds were stolen.
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