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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1954
Page
36
City offices suffer from extreme space shortages as desks and file cabinets crowd within city hall. Police departments and administrative units share cramped quarters while officials debate expansion plans including an annex and possible city county facilities, hindered by budget limits.
Marion Cochran, assistant public works director, convinced state highway officials to resurface Main Street and fix northend intersections. State crews now work on Kivett Drive and receive applause at city hall for the achievement despite some criticism from a car dealer about trade-in value after the improvements.
CHAPEL HILL November 13 The North Carolina Symphony announces second semi annual auditions for players. Auditions take place Friday and Saturday November 27 and openings include tuni doubling on percussion clarinet doubling on base clarinet viola and violin. Apply to North Carolina ec Office Box 1211 Chapel Hill to arrange times. Earlier auditions for Hebe gm 4 vers were held in September.
Actress Marilyn Monroe went home to Beverly Hills from Cedars of Lebanon hospital yesterday after a minor operation performed last Monday. She appeared pale and unsteady but is reported in satisfactory condition.
The article portrays Damascus as a living shortcut to the Arabian Nights with the Azzem Palace as a centerpiece. Dervishes whirl to oriental chants, markets glow with copper and bronze, spices perfume the air, and shoppers haggle over silk brocade, copper trays, and ivory carvings at strikingly low prices.
A Mississippi circuit court jury found 5-year-old Hawkins guilty of murdering his wife and staging a car crash to collect insurance. The jurors rejected mercy, so Judge Hemmer Currie must order the death penalty. Hawkins held multiple life insurance policies and claimed extensive prior payouts related to family deaths and accidents.
The US State Department will dispatch two envoys to Scandinavia aboard SAS eastbound inaugural flight to Copenhagen. The SAS airline announced the plan amid the planned trip near Monday from Los Angeles.
Six year old Edwin Durden of Macon Georgia had a tooth removed from his right lung after it was pulled into the windpipe. A team of doctors using special instruments flown from Philadelphia performed the operation at Macon Hospital in about twenty minutes. The tooth was embedded deeply and could not be grasped by ordinary forceps. Bronchoscopic tools were specially made and air mailed to the city to complete the procedure. The lung collapsed but the surgeon expected it to heal well.
State foresters report Bladen Lakes experiments show potential to expand charcoal making in North Carolina. Portable kilns at Elizabethtown forest HQ cut transport costs, converting low grade hardwoods into 300 to 500 pounds of charcoal per half cord, packed in 20 and 60 pound bags for market.
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