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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1957
Page
5
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Chicago story. Steve Murphy, a two time champ, plans to wear boxing gloves to gain admittance to Comiskey Park for a Chicago White Sox game. Detectives Hill and Adams, assigned to the park, say they will relent only if Murphy wears the gloves. Murphy cites frequent denial of entry and a legal counsel suggestion.
Walter Lamar Webb a Winston Salem banker and Wachovia senior vice president received the University of Utah College of Business Alumni Award at the annual awards banquet in Salt Lake City. Webb, a 1929 Utah graduate and UNC executive program alumnus, has held key posts in banking and served on American Banker and Mortgage Bankers associations committees. He is an Ogden native and church leader in the LDS Church with past roles in Colfax North Carolina and current district president in North Carolina.
The bidding sequence leads to a six diamonds contract after fast's four spades raise. South wins with spade ruff and clubs, then ruffs and spreads to force West to reveal final trumps. The article notes Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D. C. now has an air conditioning unit.
In Raleigh the General Assembly shot down several measures including auto inspection daylight saving time and another reapportionment plan. A six hour Senate Finance Committee session refined the big tax bill while the House advanced a 10 million dollar bond issue for permanent improvements. A new state minimum wage bill was introduced reducing the prior 75 cent rate to 70 cents, and a corporate income tax allocation formula was approved to attract industry. The week also saw a plan for local option horse and dog racing and a strengthened law for small loan agencies oversight.
Navy lieutenant Lt j g Joseph Rae Jr credits Raleigh Durham control tower for signaling an emergency about a smoking single seater fighter bomber. The plane had run low on oil but Rae was spared a crash during a flight to Oceana for a family reunion after eight months in the Pacific.
Charlotte jail inmate Thomas E. Hinson, 28, says he is not starving himself despite reports. He ate a ham sandwich and milk to prove it after misreports claimed he fasted to avoid trial on 24 counts of worthless checks totaling about 1600 dollars. He collapsed at the jail and was treated for malnutrition at a hospital.
Beaufort North Carolina The American Legion plans to press for a postal job and Navy pension for George Bridgers a 32 year old former sailor who panics and grows dizzy beyond two miles from town He recently lost work after being unable to travel 39 miles to New Bern to testify in a embezzlement case and his Navy pension was cut six years ago for declining a Fayetteville veterans hospital examination The Legion will take his case to Washington and praises his war record
An explosion in a power conduit at a Rock theatre in Grand Rapids cut power during a showing of the rock and roll film. The outage forced refunds for 150 admissions, including teenagers awaiting a second showing.
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