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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1958
Page
2
Rep. Barden of North Carolina states the House Education and Labor Committee will address federal education aid proposals promptly. He notes the committee intends to focus on education funding as soon as it can function and proceed with the program under consideration.
Severe cold and ice hinder North Carolina coastal hunters this week. Currituck Sound and duck shooting ponds are frozen and inaccessible, complicating hunts for area Wildlife Resources Commission staff and local sportsmen.
In 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States for fifteen million dollars, signaling a major expansion of American territory and reshaping regional power. The decision accelerates westward expansion and alters international relations of the era.
Snow flurries are expected tonight over the northern Lakes and extreme northern Maine. Wyoming, southern Idaho, Colorado mountains, and the Canadian border area of North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho. Western Washington Oregon will see showers. Nevada rain or snow. Temperatures rise in the East and Ohio Valley as a cold Canadian air mass advances into the northern Lakes and plains.
Forecast shows sunny and warmer South and Carolinas this afternoon with rising temperatures tonight. Georgia also partly cloudy and mild through Saturday with highs in the 50s to 60s and lows near 30 to 38. Extended outlook through Jan 15 calls for near normal temps with light to moderate rainfall around Monday. mountains in North Carolina expected 49 to 29.
The forecast lists a low of 30 tonight and a high of 52 tomorrow. Today’s high was 48 and last night’s low was 10. Sunset is at 5 24 p.m. and sunrise at 7 31 a.m.
Official Weather Bureau records show temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 7:30 a.m. Highlights include Asheville 38 and 0.0 rainfall, High Point 36, Greenville 40, Jacksonville 6, Los Angeles 70, Washington 33 with 20 rainfall, Wilmington showing notes. The list also cites Birmingham 48 and Denver 56 with varying conditions.
Mrs. Janette Hamlyn of St. Louis and Mrs. Rose Herley of Grantsburg Illinois died yesterday within about two hours. Both women would have turned 84 on January 26. Mrs Hamlyn died in a St. Louis hospital from pneumonia. Mrs Herley, aged 84, was about 120 miles from St. Louis at the time.
The Associated Press reports a cold snap gripping the Atlantic coast with freezing conditions in Florida crops and subzero readings in parts of New England. Temperatures rose about 10 degrees from western New York to western Georgia as a warming trend began moving east.
Turkey initiates a project to build 42 motels along a major automobile tour route. Officials say the network will boost travel access and regional tourism, pairing lodging with service stations and rest stops.
Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis says he has signed a plan with the Internal Revenue Service to pay back taxes of about 1.3 million dollars at 20 thousand dollars a year. Accountant Arthur J. Wilson notes no settlement for less than owed, and relies on the boxer's effort and good faith to reduce the balance over time. Louis will surrender 20,000 yearly salary from the International Boxing Club along with 4,800 from Joe Louis Milk Co and 8,200 from a recording firm considered for services. He has earned over 4.6 million in 17 pro years and quips about where the money went.
Cloves grown on the African island of Zanzibar have shifted from food flavoring to a major commercial crop. Once so valuable they circulated as money, the spice now serves as a key economic asset for the region.
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