Eisenhower Returns to New York for Campaign Finale
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in New York to await the nation’s decision after a final campaign push. He urged a mandate to pursue peace as a primary objective if elected president.
04 Nov 1952
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1952
Page
1
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in New York to await the nation’s decision after a final campaign push. He urged a mandate to pursue peace as a primary objective if elected president.
Adlai Stevenson campaigned in Half Day Illinois urging fresh minds to review Korea policy as part of a nationwide push for unity. He voted straight Democratic tickets and urged supporters to accept the election outcome with sportsmanlike conduct while addressing a nationwide audience.
Charlotte native K C Laughlin is appointed general manager of Celanese Corporation's textile division, a move from vice president. J Guyton Boston of New York becomes general sales manager of the division, previously held by Laughlin, with prior experience as sales manager for acetate filament yarn.
This Haywood County precinct in the Great Smoky Mountains reported all seven registered voters cast ballots for Adilal Stevenson in today’s election.
The fifth annual Southeastern short course on marketing fruits and vegetables opens at North Carolina State College tomorrow. It focuses on the cause and prevention of economic waste in marketing.
Dr. Ordway Tead chairman of the Board of Higher Education of New York City will be a featured speaker when the Southern College Personnel Association meets at North Carolina State College November 10 to 11. Delegates from major colleges and universities across the South are expected to attend.
A two car collision on North Carolina Highway 41 near Fairmont left three teens dead Bristow Leggett and Steve Leggett both 17 of Fairmont Route 2 and L K R Turbeville of Red Springs dying in hospital. Three others injured. The Leggett brothers were born within the same hour and died within an hour of each other.
Kay Kysers family grows with a seven pound eight ounce girl born yesterday at Duke Hospital to singer actress Georgia Carroll wife of the Tar Heel bandleader. Mother and baby in excellent condition. The infant remains unnamed.
The North Carolina State Nurses Association began its 50th convention in Raleigh with about 1,000 nurses expected over five days. The State League of Nursing Educators and the Student Nurse Association of North Carolina joined the event as councils and boards met.
Dave Harris of Charlotte Harding High School and Marvin Hoffman of Wilkes Central High will assist in coaching the North Carolina stars for the December 6 Shrine Bowl game in Charlotte. Leon Brogden of New Hanover High will be head coach of the Tar Heel squad.
G Tom Scott says Madison and Yancey counties declared emergency areas by President Truman. farmers may place hay orders under the government emergency program by tomorrow. The announcement comes from Scott, head of the North Carolina Agriculture Mobilization Committee.
Members of the 2nd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment moved from Ft Bragg in convoy to assist in Tennessee forest fires. An advance group was airlifted to Elizabethton yesterday. Officials said no jumps were contemplated by the paratroopers in this operation.
Police report 51 year old Gilbert Schwartz of Monroe shot at his wife from a back doorway as she hung laundry in their yard. After wounding her he placed a .32 caliber pistol in his mouth and killed himself instantly.
A private plane crash in the Blue Ridge near Asheville killed Simeon Roane Cross 45, his daughter Elizabeth Cross, and two Marion youths, Robert Lambeth and Billy Wilkerson, as they were en route from Marion to Christ School in Black Mountain. The accident followed motor trouble and strong winds, igniting a forest fire along the mountain slope.
Allied forces report repelling six predawn assaults on the East and Central Fronts. North Korean, Chinese units attacked Heartbreak Ridge and Sniper and Triangle Hill areas, with heavy fighting and minimal gains. Maj. Eisenhower spoke of election interest as returns stream in.
Voters in 35 states faced scores of proposals from repeal of South Carolina school free‑entry requirements to Daylight Saving Time limits in Oregon Washington and other measures. Key items include a SC amendment to allow a legal escape from racially segregated schools a ban on daylight saving time in adjoining Washington and possible liquor sales and local options in several states including Colorado and California.
Henry W. Gramiich 101, the region’s oldest resident, plans to walk to the polls to vote for Dwight Eisenhower. He has voted in more presidential elections than anyone here, dating back to 1872 for Horace Greeley.
New York AP reports the 1952 election finale will reach a global audience with radios and televisions tuned to returns. About 19 million TVs and 44 million radio homes exist as networks prepare a single program of results from key states shown on a giant 85 foot electric indicator. Electronic calculators promise odds and state by state predictions as Eisenhower and Stevenson battle for the White House.
Early voting surged as Americans chose between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. Across states lines formed long queues and record ballots. Notable early voters included Eisenhower and his wife in New York City, Truman in Independence, Missouri, and Stevenson in Half Day, Minnesota. Texas Rangers were sent to Alice amid local tensions. Poll closings stretched east to west with projections of a tight race and possible landlide outcomes.
In Independence Missouri President Truman his wife and daughter Margaret cast three votes for Adlai Stevenson at the Seventh Precinct Blue Township. He then boarded his campaign train to Washington after a final radio television pitch with Stevenson Senator John Sparkman and Vice President Barkley. He warned the election could decide prosperity civil rights peace or a third world war.
Tonight's low is 84 degrees with a high of 68 degrees tomorrow. Today's high reached 55 degrees and last night's low was 4. Sunset is at 5 42 PM and sunrise tomorrow at 6 46 AM.
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