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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1955
Page
3
Evangelist Billy Graham told 12,500 at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds that Toronto bookstores have sold more Bibles in recent days than in the first nine months of the year. He urged readers to use big print editions and the King James version, noting Bible love letters to mankind.
Informed sources say a move is afoot to delay U N debate on France's Algerian dispute and other hot issues until tempers subside. The plan aims to start debate with the atoms for peace program and avoid scheduling other items for now. The French call the proposed debate a violation of the U N Charter and prefer Algeria be treated as part of France.
Dr Michael J Plese a 67 year old retired dentist in Tampa sips coffee and soft drinks on day ten of a jail term for failing to pay alimony to his ex wife 36. He says he will fast for 30 days to protest his and his ex wife s divorce accusing her of marrying him for immigration purposes from Yugoslavia and denying he should owe alimony.
St Louis businessman Patrick Paddy Keough answered the $16 000 question on The 64 000 Question in New York. He identified the Indians ending Joe DiMaggio 56 game hitting streak and named Al Smith as starter with Jim Bagby Jr as reliever. Keough advances to the $32 000 question next Tuesday.
H. T. Angell of the Ground Hog Club Roanoke asks that ground hogs be spared during the Oct 23 civil defense drill. State Civil Defense Coordinator J. H. Wyse replies the test will not scare or trespass on any ground hogs.
Reports from Canton state Red Chinese authorities convicted 13 people of spying for Nationalist China. Nine were sentenced to death, four received life terms.
W J Simmons administrator of the Assn of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi denied plans for an economic boycott against Negroes and said councils aim to arouse public opinion. Gov Marvin Griffin of Georgia and S E B Rogers spoke as about 1500 crowded the Charleston meeting.
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