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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1955
Page
7
The New York market opened higher with blue chips leading gains as early trading showed active buying. Du Pont rose to 242% after 60 million shares and held gains from Friday while a cautious tone lingered for sellers.
North Carolina Senator Kerr Scott serves on the committee with Harold Cooley as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Ballentine helped arrange the hearings and stressed that the farm program’s future depends on the information gathered nationwide.
The text recalls playwright Sherwood, tall at 6 feet 4 inches, who served in Canada with the Black Watch and fought at Arras. He edited magazines, critiqued literature, wrote The Road to Rome in 1927, worked for Hollywood, and earned an Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives. He was adapting Tolstoys War and Peace for film late in World War I era.
The Piedmont Association discusses Baptist autonomy and property entitlements as a minority church contemplates withdrawal from Southern and State Conventions. Segregation policy and a leadership succession plan are on the agenda with speakers including Rover Rough of Nashville.
Ten inmates escaped from a Stanly County camp in a forgery and break in case. Names include A Mocksville and John D. Gilmore Jr with sentences for breaking and entering and escape. Additional inmates Joseph Van Vere, Norman Patted, David Koloneheskie, Jake Lankford face varied terms for robbery, car theft, and related escapes across Asheville Cherokee Canton districts.
A small plane crashed on a Wisconsin farm about four miles north of a western Vernon County community. The pilot, a Greensboro, North Carolina native, was single occupant and believed in his late thirties. The craft bore the word Tempco and was flying from Cincinnati toward Minneapolis before the crash.
Hazard report notes Mayor Gene Baker, who lost last Tuesday, campaigned intensely to urged others to vote. He admits he forgot to vote for himself, finishing the race by 262 votes.
Textile workers seek higher pay across regions with William Pollock stating leaders will push for wage raises after years of stagnant earnings. The TWUA plans organizing and public relations campaigns as delegates from North Carolina West Virginia Tennessee Georgia Alabama Mississippi gather to map wage details.
Forecasts indicate considerable cloudiness with widely scattered showers or thundershowers turning tonight. Temperatures range from the upper 40s in the extreme north to around 60 in the extreme south, with parts remaining warm and partly cloudy in the south.
Gov Hodges and U S Sen Sam J Ervin Jr led a Jaycees meeting in Goldsboro to unveil a program to sell one million dollars in stock and two million dollars in bonds to fund loans for small industries. The plan aims to raise per capita income and energize rural farmers.
Hollywood report says actor Cameron Mitchell and his wife Johanna reconciled after a birthday party for their child. The couple, married 15 years and separated weeks ago, attended Chipper's fourth birthday with their children Bob Freddy and Camille. Mrs Cameron described being very happy after talks.
North Carolina Middle Belt and Virginia Old Belt opened a new sales week as anticipated close looms. Old Belt gross sales average about 56. per pen d un s. week’s overall averages fall about 3 cents from prior.
Readable: East enjoys near Indian summer while the western quarter shows mild trends. Temperatures reach the 70s in Cincinnati and near 78.9 in another city as readings continue. Some regions report drizzle and fog along with cool highs in the Great Lakes area and cities like Atlanta Fort Worth Minneapolis Chicago St. Louis Milwaukee.
Police report thieves used the victim's crane and two hydraulic jacks to lift a 1000 pound safe containing about $9000 from Bove Motors in SEEKONE Massachusetts. The attackers loaded the safe onto a truck also stolen from the garage.
Albany resident Alkanah Watson helped the state legislature in 1819 allocate funds for six years to promote agricultural production, initiating the American agricultural fair tradition.
At least nine persons died by violence in North Carolina over the weekend. Details include a shotgun killing of a young girl in Cabarrus County and a fatal hit near Garner. An eighth grade student at Bethel Gate Juvenile Court is mentioned, along with a fatal house fire in Gam Seaboard and a separate wreck near Goldsboro.
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