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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1955
Page
2
Immature and selfish individuals object to parents remarrying, while middle aged and elderly often choose suitable mates. The column notes tests for emotional complexes, including inferiority, and cites copyright 1955 Kine Features Syndicate.
A Joseph Whitney piece explains projective testing with stimulus words to reveal impulsive and emotional control issues. It notes psychopathic personalities are not insane, describing them as disordered but not formed by a disease process, per Lichtenstein and Small.
New York stocks slipped then regained much of the loss as traders concentrated on steel, oils, chemicals, and motors. GM moved after a split proposal, Du Pont showed smoother activity, and Standard Oil groups rose while steel shares traded unevenly amid a high two hour volume.
Raleigh Atty Gen W B Rodman and assistants conferred with UNC officials over a case in which three Negro youths seek undergrad admission at Chapel Hill. He called it the most pressing single matter as of yesterday.
Three senior U S Air Force generals arrive in Taipei to confer on Formosa air operations and potential squadron rotations. Nationalist Wang says Communist jet bases at Swa tow and Foochow threaten Formosa as about 1000 coastal planes shift southward.
President Eisenhower may accept a compromise highway bill to aid adjournment as Congress nears the session’s end. A GOP source says he backs action on five major measures including housing and road-building, while backing school construction and polio vaccine priorities in conferences with leaders.
The attorney general's office reviews an item of business as the state has until Aug 1 to answer a federal suit brought by three Durham youths. It notes that Negroes have never been admitted to undergraduate departments, but some are enrolled as graduate students.
In Standish Maine Mrs Silas Pinkham hosts a birthday party for the Pinkham quadruplets Jane Melissa Rebecca and Bill marking their third birthday with 50 to 60 guests adults and children. A large birthday cake and a Ferris wheel style lollipop wheel decorate preparations as the family notes they will have the party rain or shine despite the children’s busy year and the mother’s full hands at home survived with the quads helping shell peas in the garden.
Survivors aboard the mystery vessel told Coast Guard officials they were not aboard an American submarine. The Blue Star tale prompted a large search as four ships and two planes combed 3,700 square miles, but no wreckage or survivors were found.
FBI agents filed a false entry complaint in Asheville against Donald Maynard Cox a 34 year old cashier of the Citizens Bank of Marshall. The complaint accuses him of knowingly making a false entry of 3000 dollars on a note of Robert Wheeler whereas the amount should have been about 27 dollars. Cox’s car was found at Charlotte airport and an audit of bank records funds and bonds is ongoing. He faces arrest when located on the false entry warrant.
Pitt County Coroner Griffin Rouse plans to seek approval to exhume the bodies of June Crawford 34, Mary 33, and William 12, a Negro tenant family from Winterville Rt. 1, for autopsies after FBI confirms blood on an ax found near the burned house. Sheriff Tyson reports the ax appeared after the bodies were removed.
New president Raleigh S E Griffin of Wilson succeeds William Thacker of Winston-Salem as head of the Farmers Cooperative Council of North Carolina. Griffin, manager of Growers Cooperative Warehouse at Wilson, was elected yesterday at the summer meeting at North Carolina State College. Other officers include J L Shearon Wake Forest vice president G D Arndt Raleigh treasurer and Harry B Caldwell Greensboro secretary. Dr Ken Stern Washington says the American Institute of Cooperation plans its 1956 meeting at State College the week of July 29 with about 3000 attendees.
Sixteen migrant workers headed from Florida to New York state were injured when the truck they rode in veered off U S Highway 1 and overturned near Cameron, about ten miles north of Southern Pines. Nine others escaped unhurt in the early today crash.
The revolt, which at its height held about half the prison and 1,700 inmates, prompted a nine point accord with five ringleaders. County prosecutor Arthur Hawman vowed to prosecute leaders despite leniency promises and to bring them to court once facts were collected. The deal included releasing isolated inmates, forming an inmate council, reassignment of Charles Simon, and faster inmate interviews plus attorney access and mail-delivery complaints review.
A Navy board under Secy Charles S. Thomas seeks 31 admirals from about 1,600 Navy captains to fill vacancies caused by death and retirement. The drive targets younger officers and specialists in atomic power electronics and guided missiles, with Adm Jerrauld Wright heading the board and the directive circulated Navy wide.
A Chicago butcher, Joseph K. Johnson, 43, admitted pawning between 750 and 1000 dollars over three years, receiving small cash and pawn tickets for each amount. Police found seven currency serial numbers and planned to hand him to the Secret Service, which declined interest as the original bills could not be located. Johnson offered little explanation, saying nothing illegal about pawning money.
Dr. William F. E. Reed, a Greensboro North Carolina educator and dean of the School of Agriculture at NC A and T College, is named among 12 Americans invited for an unofficial visit to Russia between July 15 and August. Reed is noted for his Siberian soil survey work guiding that country’s agriculture.
In Santa Paula California George Whitlock sold his house and lot to the school district for 16725 dollars. The district auctioned the home yesterday with Whitlock as the highest bidder at 760 dollars. He expects moving costs may run into thousands but he still pockets a tidy sum.
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