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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1955
Page
5
A massive fire in Niigata Japan devastates the shopping district as flames move fast aided by strong winds. In seven hours about 1200 buildings are destroyed leaving Niigata's 250000 residents confronting the disaster.
Pacific typhoons focus on Japan with October peak. Louise last week caused 42 deaths and 300 injuries in southern Japan while damaging Niigata and the Iwo Jima base. Marge approached Japan, forcing alerts for 88 million people. typhoons travel from Guam and the Philippines through Okinawa to the Japanese archipelago, with 3 to 6 storms yearly.
A 50-year-old from Brilliant Ohio became the first motorist fined for driving the wrong way on Ohio’s new turnpike. Lawrence A Brooks was cited for drunken driving, fined $150 and given three days in jail by Mayor J Grant Keys.
North Carolina Governor Hodges asked the Agriculture Secretary for surplus flour and corn meal to aid hurricane victims in Dare Carteret Pamlico Tyrrell Hyde counties with immediate shipment. He also sought $1 million for mosquito control and repair work and noted 1942 local Red Cross applications, plus a $300,000 federal aid request for saltwater damage to crops and SBA disaster loan access in eastern counties.
Fred Linton former Winston-Salem Chamber executive is named president of the Travel Council of North Carolina at an organizational meeting. Officers include Harry E. Buchanan and Lynn Nisbet with a 20 director board. First annual meeting set for January 16 in Raleigh. Governor Hodges urged statewide cooperation to expand tourism. A Melvin-led committee will meet in Waynesville October 25 with other members named.
A Peoria report states a car was entered but nothing taken. The thief left a case of 24 cans of spirits on the front seat, with no other items disturbed. The witness noted no other damage or items missing.
A dedicated team of meteorologists established a constant weather observation post atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the northeastern United States high point at 6,288 feet, to monitor climate conditions year round.
An advertised stainless compound claims instant relief for internal and external piles without surgery. It features six ingredients including Triolyte and offers fast anesthetic action to stop pain and itching. available as suppositories or ointment at druggists.
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