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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1955
Page
3
North Carolina general fund receipts for September rose by 2.38 million dollars from the prior year lifting total to 3.20 million. First quarter revenue reached 40.50 million, up 7.04 million from a year earlier with gains led by sales, highway, and various tax divisions.
RALEIGH The board of trustees of a new consolidated college will meet on Oct 24 to plan a 1956 campaign to raise three to five million dollars. The synod of North Carolina will merge Flora Macdonald College Peace College and Presbyterian Junior College into a four year co educational institution to be located in the eastern part of the state. Dr Harold J Dudley said site decision is expected within two to three months. William H Neal was elected chairman of the board and finance and campaign committee. Other chairmen include Dr Harry M Moffett and Charles G Rose.
A weather map shows cooler conditions spanning the northern Plateau and Pacific coast from northern California to Washington. The northern and central Rockies are also expected to be cooler, with AP Wirephoto mapping the area.
The report projects a low of 54 tonight and a high of 78 tomorrow with today’s high at 76 and last night’s low at 52. Sun set at 6 p.m. and sunrise is at 6:15 a.m. Partly cloudy conditions continue in North and South Carolina with a gradual warming trend and little rainfall, highs 75 to 83 and lows 54 to 62.
The Associated Press reports mild autumn weather across most of the country with early temperatures from the 50s to 70s. New England sees 30s and 40s while rain drives flooding on the Southern Plains from Texas to Missouri. Wichita Falls faces its worst floods since 1950 as Lake Wichita waters surge into Holliday Creek and the Wichita River.
Detective Capt. Fred Zarnow said Robert Mark Dearmin 21 admitted killing Hubert Hahn 27 a symphony trombonist and shooting his female companion during a Sept. 22 robbery attempt. Dearmin who used the name Jay R Dearmin was arrested at his workshop and identified by Joyce Danielson 23 a hospital technician. The watch that led to the arrest was found at the crime scene and traced to Diane 18 Dearmin the suspect’s wife.
The Beacon incline railway in New York is touted as the steepest of its kind worldwide. Two cable cars transport visitors up Mount Beacon to a lookout 1540 feet above the Hudson River.
A gunman forced entry into a car near the musician Hahn and Miss Danielson at their boarding house. He ordered them to drive into the countryside, robbed Hahn, and shot him, then wounded the girl during her escape attempt. The gunman fled. the scene left investigators with questions about the crime.
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