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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1957
Page
2
A 14 year old named Eiserian, handcuffed by trade, spent over an hour struggling with improvised tools before a bent key freed him. He has not stated whether he will remove the cuffs immediately. The text ends with garbled details about language instruction.
A Carolina survey finds police workweeks around 48 hours and firemen averaging 72 hours. Pay aligns with police, firemen in North Carolina sometimes earn about 3900 to 5000 dollars yearly. Cities eye 60 hour weeks, with bills proposed to state legislature if needed. Volunteer fire forces supplement departments in smaller towns, with pay varying by municipality.
Three escaped convicts from a North Carolina prison camp were arrested by Bristol police. Capt. Andrew Kristofek and Officer Wesley Mayr detained John Swift 48 Martinsville Virginia Fred Murphy 64 Galax Virginia and Robert L Swan Weaverville. Pocket mice native to gypsum dunes near Alamogordo New Mexico are pure white. mice outside the dunes remain brown.
A short note states the Spanish village of Lilva is situated in France and is linked to its mother country by a private road.
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