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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1956
Page
5
The newest addition to the Southern Furniture exposition building moves toward the contract stage as debates remain over basement size and loading facilities. A rear loading platform is favored to keep trucks off streets, with steel shortages delaying structural plans.
Alan W. Detweiler announces Reid S. Davis as production manager at Continental Furniture Co. Davis, a Thomasville native, brings extensive production experience from Thomasville Chair Co., United Furniture Corp. Philpott Division, and prior roles. He and wife Lorene Orman have two children and reside in Thomasville.
A Richmond survey of 11 trooper classes found about one third could not swim. State police decree a swimming course for all recruits and will also train troopers in life saving.
Charles T. Ingram Jr. of Carolina Container Co. is re elected director of the Fibre Box Association. A native of High Point North Carolina he has served 24 years with his firm and holds director roles at the High Point Thomasville Denton Railroad and Wachovia Bank. He belongs to Emerywood and Sedgefield Country Clubs the High Point Chamber of Commerce and Wesley Methodist Church Board of Stewards. The association represents manufacturers of fibre boxes used to ship American industry and agriculture products to market.
Roy Johnson president of Johnson Spring Co Inc in Jefferson City Tennessee announces Harold McMahon will join as plant manager and engineer. McMahon native of High Point known in Southeastern furniture trade and member of the North Carolina Society of Engineers. He will start duties on the 15th of this month.
A Chattanooga couple suffered injuries when a wife reaching to embrace her husband caused the driver to lose control. The car crashed into a bridge abutment, was demolished, and both Bruce W. Brown and Marie Brown were hospitalized.
Local upholstery fabric distributors report no notice of price increases but expect raises at J. P. Stevens & Co. and Burlington Industries to raise mill costs. Furniture trade and distributors doubt immediate action yet fear potential price moves after the wage hikes effective Monday.
Patrolman Dale McCoin of Sedgwick County sheriff's patrol helped a motorist stranded with a flat tire and a flat spare by loaning his patrol car spare to reach a filling station. The Volstead Act became law over the president's veto on October 28, 1919.
The Associated Press index rose 2.80 to 177.50 as the market recovered from a sharp Monday loss the prior week. Trading slowed to 1,580,000 shares with mixed gains among General Electric, Gulf Oil, Western Electric, Johns-Manville, Chrysler, and Santa Fe. The week showed bearish sentiment before the rally, sparking talk of a possible selling climax and a tentative third major rally.
Report notes that Europeans first learned tobacco smoking from observation by Naecae crew in the West Indies during November 1492, marking an early contact moment with the plant and its use.
Columbus man Bill Condon 30 taking the job to crash headon at 45 mph with another car at Powell Speedway. The track sought a single man under 25 but he was chosen for his previous experience. Other driver is Bob Metzger 29 of Columbus.
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