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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1954
Page
6
London marks a new era as meat comes off rationing at midnight. British households celebrate with bonfires and song while economists warn of price shifts and traders brace for postwar readjustment.
A rowboat full of pickets halted the unloading of about 250000 gallons of fuel at a busy airport. Capt Lester Erdsley led the Allied Aviation Fueling Co. teamsters Local 553 AFL-CIO in delaying operations after a wage dispute. Delays continued with no flight schedules canceled as airlines used their own trucks for heating fuel.
Fifty five people were killed when a rail autocar collided with a freight train near Chateaubourg south of Tournon France. The report came from the French National Railways Southern Division headquarters.
The article reports heavy storms across the South and Chicago area with lightning fatalities, streetcar injuries, flooded basements, and transportation disruptions. It notes a July Fourth holiday pattern, temperature swings from Kansas City to Miami, and Midway Airport closure.
Sunday mail service will resume in Seven Springs North Carolina on July 18. A letter from F B Gann mail supervisor at Norfolk Virginia confirms the reinstatement of the service after a Washington dispatch indicated it would be resumed.
London dispatch quotes the Red Radio broadcasting a heavy defeat for the French colonialists and U.S. interventionalists in Indochina. The report notes French withdrawal from the southern Red River Delta and frames it as a major setback for the colonial administration.
Wet weather dampened Fourth of July festivities in High Point as police reported few incidents. An auto crash on Prospect Street Extension left no serious injuries for Elsie J. Winslow and passenger Marshall Harding after a drizzle drenched wet roads. A separate overturned car on Deep River Road prompted a patrol search for its missing driver while city arrests remained routine.
Fire gutted a three family dwelling at Leonard and Walnut Streets late Friday. The families of George Adams Viola Thompson and Duska Roberts were driven from the house. Firemen fought the blaze about an hour and a half after an 10 12 p.m. call. No injuries reported though damage was heavy.
Police hunt an assailant who struck a man near the Royal Smoke Shop on Fairview causing a deep head wound. The victim, identified as J Johnson of 725, was hit with a heavy instrument described as a brick.
Kansas City July 3 Harry S Truman again sat up in a chair briefly and requested a robe and shoes. He walked to a window and asked for food while doctors reported he is reading newspapers for the first time since his emergency operation June 20. Temperature pulse and respiration remained normal.
Residents face enforcement under a municipal ordinance to keep lids on garbage cans after Patrolman P. T. Hantey visited a house over the odor. The scene revealed a 400 gallon still filled with sour mash.
Yanceyville North Carolina July 3 UP The engagement of Navy Ensign William P Hobby Jr of Houston Texas son of the secretary of health education and welfare and Miss Diana Poteat Stallings announced by her mother Mrs Gordon Preston Marshall of Boston Mass at Forest Home estate near here No definite wedding date The groom is Rice University graduate and active naval duty in Washington His father is a Texas farmer Miss Stallings a Radcliffe graduate Her father is Lawrence Stallings noted playwright
The Friendship weather bureau records July 3 as the hottest in 26 years, reaching 95 degrees. Another scorcher is forecast with highs near 94 and scattered thundershowers possible. low temperatures near 72 tonight.
City detectives report a $712 theft from a shelf under a grocery store cash register yesterday morning. A handbag containing $92 and a $25 billfold were also stolen from two downtown shoppers, Irene Lovelace and Peggy Ingram, during shopping and parking incidents.
The President approved Osborne as Jamestown postmaster, affirming the appointment after Carl V. Bundy retired last summer. Osborne had served as acting postmaster since Bundy’s departure and now holds the official position.
Today marks the 32nd year of continuous service by our funeral home to High Point and vicinity. The new facility at 640 North Main Street features a home like spacious interior with private family rooms and air conditioning. Parking for over seventy cars on site and a large community demand for an up to date establishment are highlighted.
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