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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1957
Page
3
A 73 year old man from San Diego starts a cross country hike reaching San Bernardino. Patrick P. Thienes, a retired railroad man, plans to follow Route 6 to Tulsa and aims to reach New York by September 5, averaging about 42 miles a day. He says he’s good for more walking miles.
A sunken World War II ammunition ship exploded seven miles off Okinawa killing at least 32 Okinawans who were salvaging the wreck. Eyewitnesses say divers were about 150 feet down when the blast occurred and could not confirm how many remained underwater or in small boats.
DeWitt M. Lockman a leading portrait artist and founder of the National Association of Portrait Painters died yesterday in New York. He shaped early 20th century portraiture and helped organize professional standards.
Ed Gerber of Houston, famed inventor of the Gerber slam convention, returns at the San Antonio regionals after a two year hiatus. In today’s hand, Gerber as South bids four clubs asking for aces, North responds four no trump with three aces, leading to a six spade contract. He wins the heart lead, forces West to cover, and brights a win through precise spade and heart play with exacting control.
In Richmond Virginia ground breaking for the new All Saints Episcopal Church was delayed and marked by a novel moment as Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr. planned to use a bulldozer instead of a shovel to start the project.
Clerks of Superior Court of North Carolina gather in Winston-Salem for a four day annual meeting. The program features panel discussions reviewing procedures and practices. Guilford County Domestic Relations judge B Gordon Gentry will address the group on domestic and juvenile courts. A banquet and a toast by Judge L Richardson Preyer of Greensboro mark the event.
General Robert E. Lee based at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia serves as president of the Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons, guiding the organization's medical and surgical efforts within the service.
UNESCO reports that the world prints over a billion books annually including school textbooks. It also notes that 1916 was an exceptionally cold year worldwide, earning the label the year without a summer.
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