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High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1957

Page

2

Stock Market Rally Mixes With Mixed Downdrafts

Early trading showed a slight upside tilt with many leading issues off from week’s end highs. Major names listed include Royal Dutch, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, U S Steel, Reynolds Tobacco, Gulf Oil, General Motors, and Eastman Kodak among others.

Royal Dutch Sinclair Texas Co American Cau Co Allied Chemial & Dye American ‘Tobacco Co the Borden Co Bethlehem Steel Burlington Mills Chrysler New York Central AR Cone Mills Corp Carolina Light & Power DuPont de Nemours Dow Chemial Eastern Airlines Consolidated Edison Eastman Kodak Greyhound Corp General Dynamics General Electric Gulf Oil General Motors Goodyear Tire & Rubber International Harvester Standard Oil Co.‘Jones Laughlin Steel Johns Manville Loew's Inc Norfolk & Western Phillips Petroleum Pennsylvania Railway Pepsi-Cola Proctor ‘ Gamble Reynolds Obacco Steel Sears Roebuck Southern J. P. Stevens Co Amerian Tel Tel United Aircraft Corp Westinghouse Electric Co U. S. Steel Youngstown Sheet & Tube F. W. Woolworth Co

Dow Jones Averages Reported With Mixed Readings

A garbled stock page shows Dow Jones averages and sectors with figures for industrials utilities and rails. Readings include party- or period-style figures such as 140.54 73.77 73.79 and volume tallies around 480,000 to 2,390,000 while many words are unreadable.

Bachs & Co Eer Eet Soc Iana

Market sentiment lifts stocks to new yearly high

The stock index rose briefly to a new high for the year as investors shifted from recession fears to optimism that a sectors-led upswing will follow a sideways economy. Earnings, retail volume, and inflation expectations supported bulls while housing, auto sales, metals, and profit margins remained weak factors.

New York Wall Street Associated Press

Kurfees Re elected In Winston Salem Mayoral Race

Winston Salem May mayor Marshal Kurfees won re election to a fifth term in a high turnout contest. He defeated Republican William E Morrow 5824 to 5290 in unofficial returns. Four aldermanic races saw Democrats prevail in each contest.

Winston-Salem Marshal Kurfees Kurfees William E. Morrow George D. Lentz Elizabeth Overcash Carroll Poplin Carl Mason

Vietnam to Seek More Aid in War Effort

President Diem and his party travel from Saigon to meet San Francisco officials led by Mayor George Christopher before heading to Washington. Diem says Viet Nam relies on military buildup and cites far greater aid from Red China and the Soviet Union than from the United States. Interior minister Nguyen Huu Chau says U.S. assistance totals just over 200 million dollars annually and promises to push US officials to better understand regional needs.

Asnew South Vietumbine III Diem Party of 10 San Francisco George Christopher Washington Honolulu Red China Soviet Russia United States Nguyen Huu Chau Chau Saigon Asai

Democrats rally to defend budget amid tight money drive

National Chairman Paul M. Butler reports about 150 000 raised to erase a 660 900 deficit as Democrats press against Eisenhower budget cuts. Governors Harriman Hodges Freeman Muskie and others assail high interest rates, warn of unemployment, and push for a constructive program to offset rising costs.

Paul M. Butler Truman Stevenson Averell Harriman New York Luther Hodges North Carolina Williams Orville Freeman Minnesota Congress Foster Furcolo Massachusetts Edmund S. Muskie Maine Ernest W. McFarland Arizona

Blind War Veteran Faces Trial in Brevard Court

Glenn Merrell a 37 year old blind World War II veteran faces trial in Brevard City Court on drunkenness and resisting arrest charges. He also seeks a $19 000 civil damages claim against officers Boyce Gillespie and Bob Fisher alleging beating and wrongful imprisonment and a separate assault with deadly weapon count. The civil suit was filed March 25 in Buncombe Superior Court Asheville.

Brevard N.C Glenn Merrell Merrell Boyce Gillespie Bob Fisher Transylvania County Buncombe Superior Court Asheville

Eye strain shifts from offices to open fields

Farmers and cowboys experience less eye trouble than office workers as they view distant objects more often, suggesting outdoor work reduces眼 strain and improves long distance vision.

Nicaragua and Honduras Agree to Halt Border Skirmishing

Managua and Tegucigalpa signed a cease fire brokered by the OAS after four days of clashes on the Mosquito Coast. The pact obliges both nations to refrain from troop moves that worsen the dispute and sets a four day deadline for an OAS plan to withdraw forces and create a buffer zone.

Nicaragua Honduras Managua Louis Somoza Organization of American States Tegucigalpa Ricardo Arias Panama OAS Somoza Mosquito Coast Anastasio Somoza Macoron Mocoron

Priest recalls Japanese and Chinese torture for confessions

Father Fulgence Gross, a Franciscan missionary released after six years in Chinese prisons, says forced interrogations produce false confessions. He described beatings and threats, and he doubts visits by American reporters would yield insight into China’s regime.

San Omaha Neb China Father Gross Tsingtao Shanghai Ion Ie Hong Kong Communist

Evacuation Becomes Picnic During Civil Defense Drill

Fifteen hundred people from Binghamton flee to Deposit New York for Evac 12 a mock H bomb attack. Volunteers from 12th Ward fill 374 private cars and a train carries 110 evacuees to the village on the state line. Local homes and the high school serve as shelters as leaders praise cooperation and test applicability to national survival plans.

Deposit N. Y Binghamton U. S New York Civil Defense Commission 12Th Ward New York- Pennsylvania State Line

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