19 Mar 1955
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1955
Page
1
The article describes Friday night and Saturday observances including lighting candles, Sabbath meals with two challahs and Kiddush, Friday services, singing hymns, and the Sabbath ending with Havdalah. It notes study, prayer, and communal gatherings as integral parts of the Sabbath tradition.
The program invites all churches in High Point to join a revival starting Wednesday night and continuing through Sunday April 3 at 7 30 daily and 10 45 Sunday. Rev John M Williams of Reidsville Wesleyan Methodist leads the services with music by Professor Gordon E Miller of Pilgrim Bible College Kernersville.
High Point growers tend Easter lilies with care hoping for a thriving bloom this season. The feature notes gardeners pampering the white symph lilies as spring efforts continue.
Senate banking inquiry backers and critics agree on two points the probe fizzle and politics tainting hearings. Fulbright says the study will not meet hopes to inform and shore up markets while Capehart blasts partisan bias and calls for no further inquiry unless rigging is found.
Paris Premier Edgar Faure secured a compromise to avert a tax dodger penalty vote and avoid resignation. He agreed to present March 28 a plan for tax reforms aimed at small business, while withdrawing a request for broad economic powers to please Senate ratification of the Paris pacts.
A DENVER report states a Greenville Air Force Base Mississippi jet trainer severely damaged on landing at Lowry Air Force Base last night. The left landing gear collapsed. both aircrew escaped. Pilot is 1st Lt. Otto L. Kovar Jr. and passenger Air Cadet Kermit T. Hale Jr., aboard a training flight.
Olga Monzon faces charges of practicing witchcraft aimed at President Carlos Castillo Armas. Police describe a jar with a rag doll, garlic, onion, tomato, buckshot and pins, buried by a maid in a cemetery. Monzon is linked as sister to Col. Elfego Monzon and is said to be in exile in Miami.
In Nashville negotiations on the Louisville Nashville Railroad strike show cautious optimism. About 25 000 workers are affected across 14 states with nearly 5000 miles of lines disrupted. Gov Frank Clement and National Mediation Board officials attended talks as both sides reported progress and agreed to continue discussions.
A failed gas bomb set in a manhole during the Atlanta strike spree targeted cables as CIO Communications Workers of America officials deny union involvement. Across Alabama Georgia and Mississippi cables were slashed cut or damaged while bullets haunted lines and a brick with a warning note appeared in Birmingham. Police report 57 cables damaged since the strike began with additional incidents noted in Memphis and Biloxi.
Senator Knowland of California said he will push for publication within a year of wartime Tehran and Potsdam records. He framed disclosures as coincidental amid the 1956 campaign and urged broader releases including China documents. Senator Sparkman downplayed the political impact of the Yalta record.
Seattle hearings expose a handbook taught by B Vassiliev and used by party members to evade detection. The document details covert signals using flower pots onion juice and water for messages and a tiered pass word system for different ranks. The witness Eugene Dennett provided hundreds of pages from four cartons after leaving the party in 1947 for alleged deviationist Trotskyism.
Kenneth Chapin, 19, convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of Lynnes Smith, a baby sitter, and Stephen Goldberg in the Goldberg home last Sept. He faced the electric chair as his lawyers weigh appeals while Chapin remained disinterested through the 11 day trial. The jury did not recommend mercy and Judge Charles Fairhurst deferred execution to allow appeals.
The United States plans to admit about 20 Russian seamen who deserted the tanker Tuapse off Formosa and are now in Chinese Nationalist custody. The plan includes rigorous screening to exclude security risks, with temporary visas contingent on good behavior.
A divorced Missouri couple and their 9 month old baby were found safe after an intensive police search. Robert Woodring Jr., 21, was suspended from police service and later indicted for assault with intent to do harm. The family had been believed held in Canada following a note from a motel room in Madison, Wisconsin.
The Sunday Enterprise teases a 12 page feature on spring wear for all family members with models from High Point. It promises women and men readers coverage in 56 pages of news pictures and comics tomorrow.
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