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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1952
Page
1
The State reports an Air Force order for ground observers in border states. While details are unclear, officials indicate readiness and ongoing civil case discussions with E. Z. Jones and county authorities as deployments are anticipated in the near term.
Dr John W McKee of Hickory was installed as president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association at Atlantic Beach during the closing business session of its first annual meeting. Dr W O of Fayetteville attended with more than 150 veterinarians and their wives.
Three hundred educators gather at the University of North Carolina for the annual North Osens School Week. A. Milner, prominent figure from Guilford College, attends as a keynote speaker.
North Carolina teenagers at Woman’s College in Greensboro for the 13th Tar Heel Girls State focused on government structure. They weighed the roles of city and county civic systems alongside state leadership.
William B. Edgerton, a Russian teacher at Pennsylvania State College, discusses the Quaker view of the East-West struggle in a talk at the 19th Carolinas Institute of International Relations held in Greensboro tonight.
Raleigh reports Gov. Scott's office announced a uniform vacation policy for top state officials placing them on the same basis as ordinary state employees. The policy grants 15 vacation days per year with a 45 day accumulation cap and payout for unused time upon leaving state employment.
Two North Carolina delegates to the Republican National Convention T Lytt Gardner of Reidsville and Mrs. W P Few of Durham endorse Gen Dwight D Eisenhower. Both had previously declined to state their position in the Eisenhower versus Robert A Taft nomination contest.
About 304 non Communist prisoners escaped Red control as U S 2nd Division troops with fixed bayonets separated 61 000 inmates into smaller 500 man enclosures at Koje Island Korea. Brig Gen Haydon L Boatner ordered readiness after prior beatings and scattered groups formed 150 strong under his watch.
The Republican National Committee promised a ruling today on Texas delegates amid a split over Eisenhower and Taft control. Taft aides claimed a majority, while Eisenhower supporters planned their own convention bid as a prelude to a Denver showdown.
At Panmunjom the United Nations pressed the Communists to prove four North Korean POW camps are where they claimed five months ago. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison signed the note demanding verifiable locations for camps 2 6 9 and 10 after air reconnaissance failed to confirm the sites.
North Carolina troopers chased a car driven by 16 year old Thomas Walter Hoover with two 15 year old girls Gail Enlow and Suzanne Lithicum for about 45 minutes. Hoover faces larceny speeding and other charges. stare of charges and details of the incident.
Springfield Michigan report details Robert Knetzer the Alfalfa Field auto tycoon who escaped from jail posing as a U S marshal. He had been in jail for contempt of court with multiple prior so called vacations to raise funds and flee. Authorities pursued an ongoing investigation and a guard faced suspension for aiding the jailbreak.
New York and along the East faced record heat with 91 degrees and 100 percent humidity. A cooling Canadian air mass pushed toward the region, bringing only slight relief as a second cold front moves from the Great Plains. Death toll across the nation reached 19 with multiple lightning fires.
Raleigh reports Budget Director D. Coltrane will return his $12 000 annual salary to the state treasury and continue in a limited role as Governor Scott seeks budgetary reform. Coltrane plans to accompany the Advisory Budget Commission on a summer tour and sit in on fall budget hearings. Governor Olive Olive Olive
Secretary of State Dean Acheson called the Russian fighter plane action that shot down a Swedish plane shocking and indefensible. He said the matter is primarily for the governments involved and expressed deep concern, linking it to broader Indo China and European matters as he prepared for talks with Eden and Schuman on international affairs.
The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority named George Watts Carr of Durham architect and William C. Olsen of Raleigh engineer for a proposed 500000 dollar passenger terminal.
Stockholm condemns Soviet claim re Baltic incident as Danes and Swedes prepare responses. The Catalina rescue plane was unarmed and 18 miles outside Russian waters when shot down, wounding seven crew before rescue. Governments discuss next steps.
A lightning strike near a granite quarry triggered a dynamite charge under a 17 foot ledge. Two workers were injured a chipped ankle and a skinned arm. An official cites a new electric cap as a possible factor while praising the crew's performance.
Railroads lift the market with gains mostly in the rail sector and steel shares. Key players Bethlehem Steel Santa Fe Southern Railway Kennecott Copper Zenith Radio Philco and Paramount Pictures rise while American Natural Gas sees a large block trade drop. Putnam signals possible support if the 17 day steel strike ends.
Washington reports W Averell Harriman won three of Columbia's six delegate votes with a narrow district victory over Kefauver. Kefauver led the national delegate tally with 252 to Russell 114 and Harriman 109. Harriman praised turnout and Roosevelt Truman civil rights stance while Kefauver advocated a stronger civil rights program camouflaged by policy.
The forecast calls for a low of 65 tonight and a high of 90 tomorrow. Today’s high reached 88 with a 69 degree low last night.
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