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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1948
Page
1
Vice President elect Alben Barkley forecasts a mixed budget outlook with the 81st Congress to curb price controls while protecting honest business. He hints at revising the Taft Hartley Act, extending rent controls past March 4, and ensuring funding to carry on administration plans.
Six state agencies told the advisory budget commission they seek 1 999 877 for the 1949 51 biennium from the general fund. The highway commission requests 115 888 in highway funds for the next biennium with 20 000 000 for county roads and 28 000 000 for improvements. The budget will be presented to the general assembly in January. The board of public welfare seeks 350 000 yearly for general assistance and Dr Roy Norton proposes a 900 000 yearly public school health program.
President Truman orders fresh Budget Bureau review to curb a predicted 1.5 billion deficit. He heads to Key West for a two week vacation with Budget Director James Webb and economic advisers. Officials expect year starting July 1 to approach balance as costs modulate, aiding aims like housing health and education.
Peiping dispatch reports the Chinese government claims major gains north west and south of Peiping Tientsin island area with 30 000 Communist troops possibly crushed at Shihkiachwang 170 miles south of Peiping 2 000 Communists killed at Hingcheng and government forces recapturing Yangkao while denying Yingkow fell and moving to reopen Peiping inner Mongolia railway. US evacuates 1000 dependents from Nan king Shanghai Tientsin Peiping amid fears of fighting.
Governor elect W Kerr Scott moves to enact a rural road program pushing 12 000 miles to be paved and 36 000 more treated within four years so school buses can operate in all weather. He weighs funding options including gasoline tax or bonds and asks the highway commission for cost estimates.
Dr Henry Fentell of Miami died at the scene when his car collided with a heavy tractor trailer on highway 301 south of Weldon. His wife Betty 29 and mother Augusta Fentell and sister Anita 19 were injured and taken to Roanoke Rapids hospital. The truck driver Alden Finch of Clinton escaped injury.
Nassau county Federation of Republican Women cancels a planned November 17 talk on Our New Republican President and instead schedules radio comedian Harry McNaughton to discuss It Pays To Be Ignorant.
A streetcar and a chartered bus collided on Toronto's western outskirts killing at least six people and injuring about 63, with 15 in critical condition. The bus carried members of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders of Hamilton and their spouses returning from a reunion party near Sunnyside Amusement Centre. Rescue teams freed victims trapped in the bus amid confusion over identities due to missing papers on uniforms and evening gowns.
A reliable informant reports 60 people arrested in Chile as authorities say an alleged plot to establish a military government has been thwarted. Officials say the scheme has been nipped and under investigation.
A 19 year old Michigan youth, Ralph Edward Barrows, confessed to killing Cameron MacKellar, 56, in a Waldorf Astoria hotel suite after meeting him at the Hotel Astor bar. MacKellar, a Dominion Textile executive from Montreal, died of a fractured skull and ruptured intestines. Barrows was traced via a match book clue and arrested after being identified by a hotel tavern waitress.
H B Tennison 18 Texarkana Texa s was found dead in his Fayetteville room and left a signed note claiming six killings blamed on Texarkana s famed phantom killer. Police pursue whether the death is suicide or hoax amid a two state investigation into five slayings at the border town.
In New Bern North Carolina President Truman and his party will attend a Sunday service at the First Baptist Church. Pastor Rev Thomas W Fryer faces crowding seating and security restrictions as secret service limits greetings. The visit will be solely for worship with a reserved section and first come seating.
Tornadoes and strong winds killed eight people and injured 67 as farms homes and crops were wrecked across Mississippi Georgia Kentucky Tennessee Louisiana and nearby areas. Benton Mississippi suffered the worst damage with multiple fatalities and extensive property loss.
James Marlow argues that nonvoters could allow a tiny, organized third party to determine the outcome. He uses hypothetical shifts in Wallace and other states to show how 120,000 added votes or a few thousand from Wallace could flip New York California Ohio or Illinois, and thus alter the electoral result.
In Chester Pennsylvania on November 6 a gunman fatally wounded seven people and wounded four others before killing himself after being cornered in a house. Ellery Parnsley, a city detective en route to work, was among the victims. Police used tear gas and heavy fire to subdue the assailant.
The body of an elderly woman was found in Lake High Point by two fishermen near the dam. Deputy Sheriff Burrows recovered a card with the name Mrs A S Hanes of Greensboro and items on the bank. Coroner Harvey said death occurred 10 to 12 hours before and ruled the death a suicide. Relatives were not reached and the body was moved to Yew funeral home.
New York University announced a breakthrough showing magnetism with blue light instead of iron filings. A tube emitting a stream of electrons creates visible lines of force, as the electrons align like filings and emit a blue glow. The device, invented by J Tetenbaum, marks the first time magnetism is made visible by light.
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