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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1957
Page
15
A Beech Bonanza yellow and green plane on a Columbus Georgia to Raleigh-Durham flight landed yesterday at Rockingham North Carolina and was not reported until today. CAP officer Lt. C. B. Parham said no reason was available yet. The craft had six hours fuel and took off from Georgia at 3 56 p.m. The search was run from Newberry South Carolina.
Two U S reporters George Prentice and Tony Faletta were arrested twice in four days while trying to interview Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. They were detained, their notes and films seized, and later released after U S Embassy intervention. Cuban authorities charged them with harming the Batista government, supporting communism, and financing anti-Batista activities.
Raymond J. Cannon a 62 year old Los Angeles salesman reported a trunk containing jewels missing from the downtown railroad terminal in Tucson. He estimated wholesale value of the samples at forty to fifty thousand dollars.
A shuffled column notes a proposed guild for TV and radio jingles amid quirky society items. It mentions a drive in restaurant fashion, Prince Charles schooling in London, a critic on food terms, and curious tidbits from campus to a country editor’s quip on labor saving devices.
Fire destroyed a Navy blimp as it touched down at Weeksville Naval Air Station near Elizabeth City North Carolina last night. Seven crewmen leaped to safety and were not hurt though the gondola gas tank ruptured and flames spread. Pilot Lt Comdr Harry H Ray USNR and others escaped to the ground unharmed as a wheel gear collapse triggered the incident. About 300 square feet of siding was burned by the blaze caused by ignition of aviation gasoline likely from friction.
In Raleigh the Joint Appropriations Committee listened to agency requests for increased funding. The State Ports Authority seeks 1.05 million for Morehead City improvements while the advisory panel recommended 3.1 million for Wilmington and none for Morehead City. It notes railroad gains boost Morehead City prospects and outlines hospital and health spending plans funded in part by federal money.
A column touts a thrifty colon remedy that remoistens and bulks the stools to stimulate a normal urge to purge. It promotes a laxative product Cotonam for overnight relief and notes its gentle action even in pregnancy while claiming other laxatives and foods lack clinical support.
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