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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1953
Page
8
Georgiana Carhart, 88, famed singer and actress, celebrates birthday while she plans to continue performing on television and radio into the next century. The long-time show participant advises to enjoy life and notes that she ad libbed a honeymoon story that briefly landed a Boston ban.
Advert says BC tablets and powders deliver quick relief from headaches neuralgic and minor muscular pains with a blend of popular pain relievers. Claims same formula in tablet and powder forms and promotes 10¢ 25¢ sizes and family bottles.
Milam a former Polk County bolita kingpin was found murdered in a swamp near Kissimmee Florida his body mutilated and shot. Osceola Sheriff Buckles says the killing appears gangland related as detectives search for the getaway car and two men seen with Milam leaving Orlando. An autopsy was ordered and a statewide alert issued for a Dade County plated vehicle with bloodstains.
The FBI added 28 year old Fleet Current to its ten most wanted fugitives list. He is accused of robbing $1,495 in San Francisco in January and $24,000 from a St Paul daily in March. Current has tuberculosis and carries a revolver. police should regard him as extremely dangerous. He replaces Joseph Levy on the list after Levy’s arrest at Churchill Downs.
The doctor warns mineral oil as a laxative carries risks and should be used only under medical guidance. Taking it near meals can block vitamin A absorption, and inhalation can cause fat or lipoid pneumonia, especially in older people or infants. Emphasizes diet and fluids for constipation and notes certain ulcers can be treated with medicines and bland diets.
A third siege of storms was forecast for Louisiana with wind, flooding rain, and tornadoes injuring 12 and causing up to 1 million dollars in damage. A Delta-Chicago and Southern air liner crashed killing 19 and a Missouri-Pacific train derailed after a washout. Homes were wrecked, towns flooded, and 16 to 18 inches of water stood in streets as rescues continued in Sicily Island, Ferriday, and nearby areas.
Red industry maintains the wartime tempo as the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies push reorganization of forces, with NATO and Yugoslav sources noting rapid buildup. Soviet divisions total about 180 facing Europe, plus satellite deployments, 20 000 frontline aircraft and a similar reserve, a 700 ship navy with submarines, and yearly aircraft output around 12 000.
About 4,000 AFL construction workers were to restart work at the $464 million atomic project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., today after a two week strike ended in Washington last Thursday. Meanwhile the Knoxville Building Trades Council and Associated General Contractors planned further talks to resolve a separate walkout involving some 18,000 East Tennessee craftsmen. Maxon Coast Co. reportedly offered a 5.3 percent wage increase, though the firm is not a member of the contractors association.
A river near Natchez Mississippi injured a woman and three children. Earlier storms struck Lewisburg Louisiana and four communities near Powhatan near Greenwood Quitman and Chatham in the northeast.
A Masonic communication notes a Fellowcraft degree ceremony scheduled for Monday May 18 at 7 30 p m. The event details the degree within the lodge proceedings and invites members and attendees.
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