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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1954
Page
5
A 41-year-old woman, Mary Long Billings, waited today for a federal judge in Greensboro to decide between prison or a fine after admitting to embezzling 2500 dollars from a Durham bank where she worked. She offered immediate restitution when caught by FBI agents. A fellow employee was also charged for altering bank records to conceal the crime.
The 27th annual North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers opens with a board meeting and an 8 p.m. general session at Woman’s College in Greensboro. Speakers include Chancellor Edward K. Graham and Dr Lyda Gordon Shivers, with Rev Martin Vick addressing parental life education. The event runs through Thursday.
Chapell Hill natives and UNC figures attend the Seethonners Institute in Roanoke. Johnston president of United ee pebusnel tpeabeecot speaks at dinner while Chancellor House of UNC addresses civic leaders. Booth of Washington will speak tomorrow as executive vice president of the U S Chamber.
State Patrolman J. L. Garrison arrested for drunken driving when a truck carrying bees and sixty million stingers triggered a chaotic stop. He fled twice to dodge the swarm before parking the load near a vacant drive in theater by White Lake and detaining Tess J. Gill in Bladen County jail for a June 23 hearing.
North Carolina State College announced 20 talent for service scholarships totaling 42 000 to top North Carolina high school graduates. The winners were named by Dr FE T York Jr committee chair and begin in September. One recipient Robert Phillip Kennel of New Bern earns 1000 yearly for four years.
President Eisenhower likely to urge Churchill to back an international Southeast Asia anti-communist conference during their weekend talks. Eden and Dulles will join in formal, secret discussions focusing on Indochina, European defense unity, and atomic energy.
Raleigh reports that, aside from three solicitor contests, the second primary across 43 counties focuses on local races. Runoffs feature Robert D. Rouse Jr. versus Luther Hamilton Jr. in the Fifth District. Lester V. Chalmers versus Robert A. Cotten in the Seventh. Basil L. Whitener versus Thomas G. Lane Jr. in the 14th. Four legislative seats are also on the ballot with Senate hopefuls Blythe and McIntyre in Mecklenburg and three House races in Haywood Pamlico and Washington counties.
In Winston-Salem a labor meeting between Western Electric Co and the Communications Workers of America continued negotiations for a new contract. John Walker, union international representative, declined to predict outcomes if talks fail by the deadline. North Carolina plants voted to empower a strike if negotiations break down, by about 12 to 1. Both sides reported some progress, with wages piece work and seniority among unsettled points.
Screen actor Tom Tully aged 45 wed Mildred Johnson 37 of Salt Lake City last night at the Little Brown Church in the Valley. The couple depart for a Montana honeymoon today, headed from North Hollywood California.
Raleigh two Negro prisoners Weldon G. Ross and James Melvin, aged 23 and 32, are held in separate cells after slashing the deputy sheriff J. P. McMillan near Fuquay Springs and fleeing. They were recaptured within hours with aid from a State Wildlife Commission plane and bloodhounds. the men had previously escaped from a Scotland County road gang.
Mexico City reports a military transport carrying 19 people including soldiers their wives and families is missing as air force announces.
Chicago authorities intensified inquiry into the death of 20 year old heir Montgomery Ward Thorne. Coroner McCarron found four needle marks on Thorne and ordered organ analysis. Thorne had recently revised his will to make Maureen Ragen chief beneficiary and executor. Ragen, 18, is the granddaughter of racing publisher James M. Ragen. Thorne’s lawyer said the estate could be worth about a million dollars with payments starting at $1,000 a month at 21 and $3,000 at 30, with principal at 35. Thorne was a Fordham freshman and had planned to marry Ragen in December.
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