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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1957
Page
2
L J Co union leaders warn the Lorillard cigarette plant in Greensboro may close within 30 days if workers strike Friday. TW IU officials say the outcome could influence other tobacco firms as mediation is paused before a nine month pay increase plan. Base pay targets rise from 1.33 to 1.49 per hour matching Louisville plant.
Chapel Hill station WUNC TV adds Channel 4 offerings including New Horizons and World of Man. The schedule lists 700 New Horizons and 0 Schoor Bonds as part of a broadened foreign policy themed lineup for viewers seeking global perspectives.
Official Weather Bureau records show the 24 hour period ending at 7 30 a m with a low tonight near 2 degrees and a high tomorrow near 68 degrees. Today’s high reached 68 and last night’s low was 49. Sun sets at 5 43 p m and rises at 7 23 a m. Showers are intermittent.
North Carolina shows cloudiness with scattered showers in the south and possible rain in the north this afternoon. Highs 59 to 75, with warmer weekend ahead. Tonight remains mostly cloudy and warm with fog along the coast and showers in the west. Temperatures 30s to 50s. colder Wednesday, warmer Friday and Saturday. South Carolina stays partly cloudy and warm this afternoon through Tuesday with limited rain. Overall: temperatures 2 to 6 degrees above normal. North Carolina precipitation about half an inch, rain possible tonight through Wednesday.
Two assault charges stem from a disturbance during a strike at White Packing Co in Salisbury North Carolina. Bruce Nolan 47 Atlanta member of the Meat Cutters Union and Delverina Templeton plant employee face trial. Templeton accused of assault with a deadly weapon on Peggy Pinkston and of striking Pinkston with her car on November 26. Pinkston was among about 35 pickets outside the plant during negotiations over a new work contract which was later agreed to.
Mrs J D Stratton of Charlotte begins another year as president of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women and urges immediate work to boost membership for 1958 elections. She was re elected at the one day annual convention in Winston Salem. E R Daniels of Charlotte is secretary and Paul D Phillips of Hendersonville treasurer. New clubs announced in Harnett County and Southern Pines.
A 60 year old Mt. Gilead woman, Mrs. Charles Greene, died in Stanly County Hospital after her heart stopped for four minutes and doctors massaged it for 30 minutes before it resumed beating. She died 12 hours later in critical condition.
Sawmillers in Lenoir North Carolina gathered to review log grading best sawing methods with talks films and demonstrations hosted by Lenoir Furniture Corp and sponsored by the Furniture Plywood and Veneer Council of the North Carolina Forestry Assn the U S Forest Service and the TVA. Mount Airy area sawmillers will attend and a similar program opens North Wilkesboro.
An Air Force C124 Globemaster with 13 aboard crashed on ice near Elmendorf AFB after an engine fire. All were saved within ten minutes, transported to hospital. 3 remained under observation in good condition. Crew listed as from Biggs AFB. one passenger from Ft. Richardson.
A two million dollar fire in Saratoga Springs New York killed Patrolman Frederick Pettit 50 and damaged seven buildings. Ten nearby fire companies aided as 15 000 residents were told to boil water. The blaze began in the Palace Recreation Building boiler room and spread to Starbuck s Woolworth s and other businesses in the aging district.
Rain and snow coated the eastern two thirds of the nation while the Rockies and southern plateau endure their worst season snowfall. In Colorado heavy drifts blocked highways and Grand Junction and Eagle reported around 14 to 32 inches of snow with Red Mountain and Wolf Creek passes heavily drifted. The Los Angeles area also saw its first major snowfall in eight years.
Three new major airports will be completed in Mexico this year. They are in Tijuana on the California border Matamoros on the Texas border and Tuxtla Gutierrez near the Guatemalan border.
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