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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1955
Page
7
The Associated Press reports a blast of freezing air as conditions chilled wide areas. International Falls Minnesota bottomed out at 14 below zero after a high of 6 above the day before, with Bemidji at 10 below.
In Fremont North Carolina a rural storekeeper H Clifton Wiggs aged 64 died after colliding with an automobile as he tried to cross a highway during a violent wind and rain storm Police Chief W D Rich said Wiggs was fatally injured and died at the scene Patrolman J C Carter said the driver Johnny B Ellis 17 reported heavy rain at the time Tornadic winds damaged farm buildings over a wide area.
T Ellis of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn warned at the Tar Heel Electric Coop meeting in Raleigh that private power interests allied with the Republican administration threaten REA cooperatives. He cited North Carolina co op battles with Carolina Power & Light over Buggs Island transmission and the Hoover Commission's call to abolish REA as a lending agency.
Charlotte NC leaders host National Association of Real Estate Boards president Henry G Waltemade who calls for a real estate licensing law. He speaks at a Charlotte Realtors luncheon and will address a South Carolina legislature session. He says licensing protects buyers and polices the industry.
Duke University announces the appointment of Dr James T Cleland as dean of the chapel superseding his prior role as university preacher He will join Dean James Cannon of the Divinity School to represent the university among national religious leaders and lead collaboration among professionals and groups James B Duke professor of preaching title noted
North Carolina mostly fair and colder with frost inland tonight. High 50s mountains to 68 elsewhere. interior low 30s tonight, coast 35 to 41. Friday clouds and light rain in mountains. South Carolina increased clouds with little temp change, scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday possibly northern edge tonight. Virginia clouding up tonight with lows 28 to 35, Friday periods of rain west and east portions at night.
An official from Providence sanitation cites stray cats near the Deer Asylum as attracting rats. Dr. Edwin Knights notes many asylum residents keep pets and cats often sleep, failing to chase rodents.
Carl H Butter Anderson today resigned effective July 1 from his post as assistant basketball coach at North Carolina State College to join Southern Builders in private business. He will assist in building supply operations and new homesites under Everett Case.
In Greensboro federal court, Judge Albert V. Bryan denied Junius Irving Scales’s motion to dismiss the indictment on grounds of jury composition and the case proceeds. The judge will rule later on whether Scales’ latest motion merits a hearing while earlier motions were due by February 18. Scales faces charges of Communist party membership and advocacy against the government. he is free on a $35,000 bond.
A letter from a sister and a self report discuss Addison's disease, its rarity, and the need for careful, individualized treatment. The piece describes adrenal glands, hormones, and management with bed rest, salt balance, and epinephrine substitutes while noting the historical link to Dr. Addison and characteristic symptoms.
Blood pressure and blood chemical tests reveal diagnostic changes. Patients receive a hormone related to adrenal secretion, notably deoxycorticosterone combined with cortisone. Careful monitoring for under or overdosage is essential, but real improvements in managing this curious disorder are noted.
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