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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1950
Page
2
In his book Modern Arms and Free Men Vannevar Bush argues education preservation of freedom surpasses atomic weapons or industrial power. He envisions public access to full information for youth and adults and warns against national or political control that could enslave schooling.
The speaker argues education should evolve with community needs within a free society. Education is a life process that lifts living standards and strengthens the economy, as higher education correlates with higher income. Leaders meet to address community educational problems.
An air crash near Dublin to Wales killed all aboard and most victims were coal miners returning home. Relatives crowded the scene as rescue workers pulled bodies, with 34 victims sent to RAF St Athan mortuary and others to Llandow. Tudor aircraft, loaded beyond standard capacity, carried 44 but could go higher on short hops. Air vice marshal Bennett, inquiry head, noted the plane’s historic Berlin airlift hours without an accident.
Full-scale operations were due to resume today on American Airlines the nation's largest domestic carrier after an eleven day nationwide ground crew strike. The stoppage halted many flights and diminished the carrier's normal operations.
A call for stronger teacher training and higher salaries notes rising student numbers and school construction needs. It cites Arkansas district consolidation and urges community solutions, then previews a future look at federal funding proposals. The piece invites readers to contact North Carolina senators and local representatives with views.
Edward Lester Gibbs 25 year old Franklin and Marshall student faces grand jury on murder charges for the Marianise Baker slaying. Trial possible the day of indictment if true bill is returned. Gibbs confessed in a four page statement and is jailed without bail. He is married to Helen and connected to Pitman New Jersey.
The National Labor Relations Board sent the case of Mrs Edna Ruggles back for a new hearing after overturning an examiner's recommendation to rehire. Ruggles, fired by Indianapolis Glove Co Marion Indiana for persistent swearing, prompted an AFL union appeal. The board cited bias concerns and ordered rehearing to avoid the appearance of a partisan tribunal.
In Raleigh on March 13 the NCEA canvassing committee declared C. M. Abernethy of Lenoir the winner over Mrs. Margaret McDermott of Winston-Salem by 18 votes after recounting about 18 000 ballots. A dissent member, Sara Olive Smith, claimed ballots were impounded and the outcome may go to the board of directors.
In Pleasantville New Jersey barber Edward Anzalone 57 was freed on 500 bond as grand jury considers malicious injury to personal property after he cut six year old Helen Marie Wilkins long curls. Father Alfred Wilkins said the daughter's hair was their pride and joy. Anzalone testified he cut the hair out of kindness and for sanitary reasons, offering candy to Helen Marie as Mrs Wilkins cried in court.
The Associated Press reports at least 16 lives lost in North Carolina over the weekend due to violence and traffic incidents. Victims include B Williams 40 of Durham after a trestle fall, J R Hester 67 burned near Bladenboro, J M McKinney 29 injured in Kannapolis wreck, and A Rodgers 17 from Lilesville in a rear accident. Additional fatalities involve E Chuck Morrow 22 in Forest City jail feud, R B Crawford of Greensboro struck by husband, Bartha Lee 45 of Dunn in a highway crash, two men in a Duplin truck collision, Beatrice and Joseph McCoy 6-year-old niece burned in Wilmington fire, and others including Roger Hicks 38 Franklin County suicide, Lt Norman F Jackson, and Ernest Hardister 46 in Davidson County crash.
In Cochran Georgia a couple John and wife Hawkins rushed to a hospital with their two month old baby who had pneumonia when their car broke down on the highway. An unidentified Black man and his wife stopped to help driving them to the county sheriff and then to a Macon hospital. The infant died on arrival.
Billy Graham preaches to a 2000 voice crowd in a 4000 seat township auditorium. He warns that within three to five years a hydrogen bomb attack could occur unless people repent and seek Christ. Choir leads hymns as 1532 pledges of decisions for Christ are reported. First lens in recorded history notes Meismer in the 13th century.
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