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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1955
Page
8
Weather brief notes coastal art in Florida forecast for tonight. It predicts warmer conditions in the eastern half of the nation and cooler weather in the northwest. AP Wirephoto Map accompanying the update.
Forecast for North Carolina shows mostly sunny and warmer conditions this afternoon and Wednesday with highs near 50 in the mountains and 55 to 58 elsewhere. Tonight will be fair and cold with scattered frost, lows 30 to 35 inland and 35 to 40 at the coast. South Carolina will be fair and warmer this afternoon and Wednesday, then fair and rather cold with scattered frost tonight, lows 28 to 34. Virginia expects fair tonight with interior lows around 35 to 32, Wednesday fair and warmer.
North Carolina shows near normal temperatures with a warmer trend into Friday and a drop Saturday. Light rainfall under 0.2 inches mainly around Friday. South Carolina rises through Thursday then cools Friday into Saturday with a warm Sunday. rainfall about 0.5 inches mainly Friday.
The Associated Press reports a warming trend across the mid continent while the East and South see chillier conditions. Snow flurries hit New York state and northern New England after weekend storms. Temperatures rise 5 to 15 degrees from Texas to the Northern Plains and Great Lakes, with freezing east of the Mississippi. Gulf readings mid 30s to 50s near Florida. near freezing in Mobile and Raleigh. South cold snaps damaged orchards and crops with an estimated 60 million dollars in losses, devastating peach crops in Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Virginia.
The House sent to the Senate by voice vote a bill for the Agriculture Department totaling 878 million cash and 388 million in lending authority for the new fiscal year starting July 1, about 27 percent above the department’s request. The move brings the chamber closer to passing five departmental money bills before Easter recess while awaiting action on a 4.46 billion appropriation for 18 independent agencies.
Lemuel R. Boulware of General Electric told 350 people at the Catawba Valley Executives Club that appeasement does not pay in business and urged clearer public and employee communication. GE plans a 20 million dollar transformer plant near Hickory next year, the fourth in North Carolina, following Goldsboro and Asheboro plants and an outdoor lighting facility near Hendersonville. He cautioned unions may try to organize NC plants but said employees may choose freely. Ontario is larger than France and Spain combined, per the National Geographic Society.
The Japan coast guard reported Russian patrol boats seized five Japanese crab boats in international waters north of Hokkaido yesterday. Crews ranged from four to eleven men per vessel, with the exact total unclear.
James Marlow reports that W. Gton-Joseph Cain nominee Campbell, chosen by Eisenhower as comptroller general, moves to audit the highway program. Campbell faces Gore opposition over Dixon-Yates and TVA concerns, then criticizes the administration’s 101 billion dollar highway plan in Senate testimony.
A federal survey places North Carolina highway construction needs through 1964 at 1.216 billion dollars. The interstate system would total about 247 million, split 226 million rural and 21 million urban. Primary needs total 256 million, with 314 million rural and 42 million urban. Secondary needs reach 255 million all for state roads. Federal aid highways cost and nonfederally aided projects amount to 358 million and the remainder.
Forty three ministers and church workers from the Seventh-day Adventist Carolina Conference will serve as delegates to the Southern Ministerial Session and Evangelistic Council in Miami Florida from April 11 to 14. C H Lauda announces the event at conference headquarters and L H Pitton is named publicity chairman. Yogurt served over frozen peaches makes a dessert tip.
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