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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1954
Page
2
Stocks show modest gains and losses in a brisk trading session on the New York market. Early afternoon quotes reveal mixed results with most gains between one and two points and volume around two million shares.
At district conventions through Raleigh 4th eighth and seventh districts list new members for the State Democratic Executive Committee. Named are Carteret Craven Duplin Jones Onslow Pamlico Pender Sampson Wayne along with Chatham Johnston Nash Wake and many more across 13 districts with numerous individuals and spouses chosen.
Carlyle argues for active federal policy to counter isolationism in a global contracting world. He praises the Roosevelt and Truman era as the party’s most productive period for lifting economic and cultural life in the South and calls UN creation, Marshall Plan, and Korea vital to national life against communism.
President Eisenhower nominates Richard W. Hannah of Clyde Floyd Graham Hinnant of Pine Level and Claude Harris of State Road for postmaster positions in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Dental Society concluded its 98th annual convention in Pinehurst with new officers installed for the year. Charlotte president Bernard N. Walker Raleigh president elect J. Walton Branham Wilmington vice president Horace M. Thompson and Morganton secretary treasurer Ralph D. Coffey were elected. An illustrated lecture was delivered by Dr. Roger E. Sturdevant, head of the Operative Department and superintendent of dental clinics at UNC School of Dentistry.
Last minute reservations brought the attendance to 150 for Friday's testimonial dinner at High Point High School. Miss Anna Mendenhall retires after 45 years in teaching, with Henry Grady Owens delivering the principal address. Leaders and former students plan a reunion style tribute from across the state.
Governor Umstead received a standing ovation at the Sixth District Democratic gathering in Raleigh. Carl T. Durham criticized Republican tactics to brand Democrats as Communist and urged clear foreign policy. Capus Waynick praised the party and lamented the death of Labor Commissioner Forrest H. Shuford.
Senator McCarthy charged that Stevens and Adams used Pvt. G. David Schine as a hostage to halt an Army communists probe. He said he tried to secure a White House meeting before mid March and suspected Eisenhower lacked full facts. Stevens accepted responsibility, refuting external instigation.
New York columnist Walter Winchell said he burned a copy of the secret FBI letter shown during the McCarthy Army hearings after consulting officials and an attorney general ruling. He said the two page note summarized a 1951 FBI memo on espionage at Ft Monmouth and contained no security data.
The Church of Scotland gave formal approval to inviting American evangelist Billy Graham to hold a crusade in Scotland next spring. The invitation, from the Tell Scotland Evangelistic Campaign Committee, comes after praise from Synod representative Rev. James of Aberdeen, who noted Graham’s proven appeal and scrutiny in London where his three month crusade drew over a million attendees.
Scientists note that the Barbary apes living in Gibraltar are the only true wild monkey population in Europe. They cite their isolation on the Rock of Gibraltar and distinct ecology as evidence of their singular status among European primates.
In Ireland the Costello led coalition nears victory as final counts show Fianna Fail trailing by about 10 percent from three years earlier. With 144 seats at stake, the coalition holds 66 to 59 for Fianna Fail and independents 4, while De Valera races to reelect at 62 and Costello also at 62 amid economic discontent and rising prices.
Senate Appropriations Committee will conduct a searching inquiry into how freely allied nations have relaxed bans on trade with Red China. Senate figures McCarthy and Stassen clash over U.S. aid and policy as Bridges signals scrutiny of allied shipments to the Communist bloc.
In El Dorado Arkansas a Confederate soldier statue was found draped with a white flag yesterday. The acts of who performed the draping or any link to the Supreme Court ruling on school segregation remained unclear.
Tonight's low 50, tomorrow's high 72. Today's high 60, last night's low 52. Sunset today 7 25 pm, sunrise tomorrow 6 19 am.
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