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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1958
Page
5
Marshall Miles, West, describes a hand where Bill Hanna misreads missing aces and, after a long sequence, leads a third heart to a ruff, allowing South to ruff and discard. The play culminates with Bill's heart lead and a fourth heart to force down an extra trick.
Actress Greer Garson’s mother Nina Sophia Garson, 73, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving night at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica California. Funeral services are slated for Monday with details forthcoming.
Greensboro AP report states a six point plan to reform the state court system aims to unify 1400 lower courts under one organization. The plan seeks a chief executive head, lay involvement on the Judicial Council, court rule making, uniform judge selection, and jury selection by sworn commissioners under Superior Court supervision.
In MEDIA Pennsylvania 71 year old Anne Eldredge tells a coroner jury she allowed her 77 year old sister Irene to die by taking sleeping pills. Irene’s death was ruled homicide but the judge discharged Anne citing no wilful crime.
Raleigh AP report says a North Carolina Utilities Commission rate relief for Carolina Power and Light industrial customers could be reversed. Judge Susie Sharp intends to sign a tentative order calling the commission action mutually inconsistent, with a motion to send the case back to the commission before any final ruling. The dispute, involving 40 manufacturers, centers on coal base rates rising from 6 to 7 dollars per ton, reducing CP&L net income by 366000 dollars annually and affecting prices tied to coal. The case is headed to the State Supreme Court for decision.
A Greensboro North Carolina man Cole E Wilson aged 22 and Thomas W Tucker 21 of Casper Wyoming were indicted in Chicago on wire fraud charges. They allegedly asked victims to send money for relatives in trouble and collected 3750 from Warren Cox of Sanford before failing to obtain further funds. Wilson was arrested October 24 when attempting to collect more money.
Twenty three visiting Soviet film makers told Hollywood studios that American films focus too much on entertainment. Sergei Jutkevich said Russia produced about 120 films yearly aimed at telling a story and that art is propaganda while criticizing U S movies as unrealistically entertaining.
The Dow Chemical Co. signs a deal to buy about 54 million gallons of benzene from the Soviet government at a price well below U S market. Payment will be in Dutch guilders, with delivery to the United States by a tanker leased through Nederlandsche Dow Maatschappij N V.
Twenty of Kentucky's 27 burley markets posted record high averages with statewide sales averaging 67.62 dollars per hundred pounds on 15.8 million pounds. Growers earned over ten million dollars as Mayfield led declines and Cynthiana Shelbyville topped 69 dollars, signaling broad gains across the eight-state belt.
In Kansas City a taxi mixup left two men injured after a gun was drawn during a mistaken robbery scare. Robert Young, 63, fired a pistol accidentally, causing the cab to crash into Young s shop and injure himself. William Frazier, 23, escaped unharmed.
A historical note describes a shipment volume of 27 million gallons per year during 1959. Details are limited, but the figure indicates a sizable flow of liquid commodities in that period.
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