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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1956
Page
5
National Institute of Mental Health researchers report rat studies showing brain cell loss with aging can occur without brain vessel hardening. The findings challenge the prevailing belief that aging-related mental illness is mainly due to vascular disease and may spark new research into senile dementia causes.
Ventura California thirteen year old Frankie Drury polio survivor underwent the first of five planned operations at County General Hospital to straighten his spine and align his legs. Doctors expect bone grafts to fuse spine and correct curvature with future procedures to halt leg growth and fix twisted feet. Frankie living with his mother will spend much of next year in hospital but remains hopeful about becoming a boxer and a normal boy.
In Washington Sen Humphrey accuses oil and gas majors of spending at least 144 million dollars on a PR campaign to win Senate support for exempting producers’ prices from Federal Power Commission regulation. Douglas Kennedy urge defeat. Iceland note follows.
Secretary of the Army Wilbur Bruckner and General Maxwell Taylor watched a large scale drop at Pope Army Air Base North Carolina. More than 100 aircraft from the 18th Airborne Corps participated including 11 C124 Globemasters and 25 C119 Flying Boxcars dropping troops and equipment. The display featured C123 Providers delivering troops and gear and two Providers unloading 60 troops a 105 mm howitzer and a carrier before departing within eight minutes.
Omaha The Shannon Construction Co. passed into the hands of its employes Wednesday. President Norman Shannon said the move keeps a good team together. He remains president and all eight employees become directors. Shannon will distribute the 25000 dollars of company stock by gift and purchase.
Washington report says Israel shows a conciliatory tone in private talks with Western mediators over the Arab Israeli dispute. Israel seeks more weapons to counter Egypt and a security guarantee from the United States and Britain, while signaling a possible shift away from a March 1 Jordan River deadline and denying plans for a spring war.
Antitrust settlements free IBM and AT and T patents, with RCA facing a remaining case in New York. IBM must license all current and future patents for U S manufacture, offering royalty terms for data processing and card-making tech. IBM chief Watson calls the terms severe and not an admission of wrongdoing.
An advertisement touts BC Headache Tablets and Powders for rapid relief from headaches neuralgic pains minor muscle aches and functional pains. It claims BC is America’s fastest selling headache powder and lists tablets and powders in 10¢ 25¢ price points and bottles of 50 and 100.
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