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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1947
Page
9
In Malden Massachusetts on May 28 a four year old amputee nicknamed Dickie Landry visits eleven year old Glenny Brann in hospital. Dickie demonstrates walking running and riding a bicycle with artificial limbs convincing Glenny that he can recover.
Borden's Starlac promotes milk rich recipes from breads to puddings and shakes. It can be used as powder or liquid with directions on the package. The product delivers minerals proteins and vitamins from milk, made by removing water and fat from pasteurized fluid milk. The U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that riboflavin and calcium provided via dry skim milk improve growth in children on low nutrient diets.
Tempers flared at a Raleigh board of trustees session as former governor Cameron Morrison invited Rep. Clarence Stone to fight. The board approved adding Dennis Cooke and Randall Jarrell to the Woman's College faculty, despite protests that their names were not sent to the executive committee.
Sam Alford of Henderson was elected president of the North Carolina Association for the Blind at its 13th annual meeting held with the North Carolina Lions convention in Asheville. He succeeds W. H. Imbody of Charlotte. The report notes a Charlotte ordinance making street washing of horses illegal.
Charlotte May 28 Rep. James B. Vogler a ten year general assembly member from Mecklenburg County and member of the joint finance committee announces candidacy for state treasurer in 1948. The office has been held since 1932 by Charles M. Johnson who plans to run for governor next year.
Spot the dog earns a grammar school diploma at Wall Elementary in Pittsburgh suburbs. In nearby towns 14 year old Jimmy Franks lies gravely wounded after a failed attempt to shoot himself when told he could not take the entrance exam and attend high school. he had cared for siblings after his mother fell ill.
The Veterans Administration will house relatives of critically ill patients at Oteen hospital near Asheville North Carolina six bedrooms are being reconditioned now and more facilities will be added at Moore General Hospital Swannanoa with visitor transportation. Senators Hoey and Umstead urged immediate action after meeting with veterans officials who cited lodging and transport shortages.
Washington May 25 congressional leaders show little enthusiasm to act on President Truman's proposal for a hemisphere wide military cooperation law. Other major foreign policy bills await rules committee action in the House including refugee organization membership and the information program. The foreign affairs committee approved a shift to a united nations agency for refugees and displaced persons in Germany and Austria.
A ten week dental clinic for Negro children runs at Leonard Street school under Acting City Health Officer W. S. Teachey. Dr. E. W. Swepson of the state board of health leads, after finishing four weeks at Fairview school he continues six weeks at Leonard Street. Free dental care is available to all school children up to age 13, with the program lasting six weeks despite the June 1 school term closing date.
The Benevolent and Patriotic Order of Does Women’s Auxiliary of the Elks opened its 25th national convention in Charlotte on May 28. Debates covered judging competitive work for the Elks rest memorial and the grand lodge trophy with attendees from across the union.
Homer M. Pace of Charleston South Carolina Power Co was re elected president of the Southern Association of Science and Industry at the annual meeting yesterday. J M Broughton of Raleigh North Carolina former governor of North Carolina was chosen as vice president from another state.
In Media Pennsylvania Judge Henry G Sweney considers a case where Hugh L Adams Haverford dog owner faces two neighbors claiming his shepherds are a public nuisance The judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring Adams to confine the dogs The case tests whether a dog that attacks another dog can be deemed vicious under current law
Edward A. O Neill president of the American Farm Bureau warns the nation faces soil bankruptcy as a Senate hearing discusses a soil fertility program. He compares soil to a bank needing deposits and cites a proposed eight million dollar Mobile Alabama plant to supply fertilizer and eightty plants to meet phosphate needs. Mississippi State College’s L I Jones warns that discouraged farmers could be a breeding ground for Communism and urges drastic steps to halt erosion and aid small farmers.
Samuel Galewitz a New York newsprint dealer told House investigators he earned over $800 000 in a single deal while noting it was not profiteering He bought 10 500 tons at 82 50 a ton and resold at 160 a ton He said the buyer resold to the Miami Herald for as high as 189 a ton and lawmakers questioned ethics
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