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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1957
Page
2
The piece recounts the Great Moon Hoax of 19th century papers claiming man bats and flora on the moon. It notes Sun and Yale scientists debunking the hoax, yet readership remained high with circulation rising to 30 000 two years later.
New York stocks edged higher in subdued trading as a few gains among key issues stretched to about two points. The Associated Press 60 was up 7 cents at noon to 165.90 with industries ahead and rails rising modestly.
A massive manhunt in Indiana ends with the killing of one of two suspected killers after a roadblock gunfight near North Vernon. Indiana State Trooper Kellems dies, Trooper Vogel is wounded, and other officers are wounded or captured as the suspects flee.
The market for power driven and other industrial brushes expands as manufacturers report 110 million dollars in annual shipments, with 400 million brushes sold in the U S for home and industrial uses. Fuller Brush Co touts 700 home and industrial brush types, while firms customize brushes for bakeries, textile mills, metal workers and more.
George Neely testified that his girlfriend Lucille Thomas nicked him with a knife, showing a six inch chest wound. Judge Verne Shive sentenced Thomas to six months for the incident in Gastonia.
Mrs Joyce Lowe aged 29 and Mrs Pegny Lowe aged 26 each had twin boys in adjoining hospital rooms at SCARSDALE. The midwife delivering both sets of twins was Miss Elsie Lowe aged 25. The three women are not related and neither are the fathers of the four infants.
Sonotone unveils a compact in ear hearing aid advertised as worn entirely in the ear with no cord and a half ounce weight. Benjamin Moore, Sonotone consultant, will present at the Sheraton Hotel High Point on Thursday October 3 at 10 a.m. to demonstrate the device.
The National Safety Council reports 3790 traffic deaths in August, a 5 percent rise from August last year and the highest August toll since 1941. Five Saturdays this year, including Labor Day weekend, partly explain the jump while eight month highway deaths fell 2 percent to 24730. Travel in six months rose 3 percent, yielding 5.5 deaths per 100 million miles, the lowest for a comparable period.
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