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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1954
Page
10
The Texas Bank dedication in a Texas city features a press preview, a 4500 dinner by a full symphony orchestra, and a grand open house. Invitations total 142000 with 40000 expected for the official event and 6000 to 9000 stockholders. Police brace for downtown traffic as Bob Hope headlines the free entertainment.
NEW YORK Goodall Sanford Trust of Quincy Mass says the textile firm will lease back and keep operating a worsted mill making cloth for the Palm Beach Co as a Goodall Sanford subsidiary. Signing of papers planned for December if stockholders approve. The firm operates five mills at Sanford with 1 895 000 square feet of floor space and produces upholstery and carpeting. employment has fallen from a peak of 3500.
The Federal Market News Service reports gains in flne cured tobacco prices in Virginia and North Carolina. In the Virginia North Carolina Old Belt prices rose by 1 to 2 dollars with heavy volume and improved quality. North Carolina Eastern Belt saw scattered gains as volume stayed heavy while four markets closed leaving Rocky Mount and Wilson open.
Burns and Allen announce the birth of a granddaughter born last night weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces to their daughter Sandra and her husband Willholte. Sandra, a film production executive, and Willholte eloped and wed in Las Vegas in August 1953, surprising their parents who had planned an October ceremony.
French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes-France impressed Washington by signaling support for European unity and German rearmament while pressing for France to retain strong positions on Indochina and Tunisia. His stance shifts angered Russian officials who criticized his visit as he returns home to face Assembly tests on arms and reforms.
Bonn reports German vintners expect a solid wine harvest in quantity and quality after a harsh summer. Experts say it will top 1951 but not reach the heights of 1947 or 1949, with about 50 million gallons anticipated and emphasis on late harvests like spaetlese amid frost risks.
The voluntary transfer of Joe Jennings to the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs ends a two week dispute over Cherokee Reservation administration. Jennings, in place nine years, was told his office would be abolished and replaced by a field office on December 1. William E Ensor Jr will become acting Cherokee superintendent after Jennings accepts a Washington post.
Japan observes Thanksgiving Day as the Emperor Hirohito leads the nation in thanks for the new rice harvest. Nearly all stores and offices are closed while the emperor in ceremonial robes tastes a bowl of fresh rice at the imperial shrine in the palace grounds.
The Supreme Court postponed indefinitely its arguments on implementing the May ruling that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Arguments were to begin December 6 but were delayed due to the absence of a full court. President Eisenhower’s nominee John Marshall Harlan’s confirmation awaits Senate action, delaying potential scheduling into 1955.
Lebanon Missouri. Priest Thurman imprisoned in Webster County Jail awaiting Circuit Court trial next year for first degree murder in the death of 11 year old Jeannette Earnest abducted near Fort Worth Texas. He claims he loved the child as a daughter and cites drunkenness and a mental fog as factors. FBI questioned him but offered no new details as federal prosecutors reviewed potential charges under the Lindbergh kidnapping law.
The court cancelled other argument sessions planned for the weeks of January 3 and January 10. Under the new plan no cases will be argued until the week of January 31. Brief sessions will occur December 6 and January 10 to announce decisions.
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