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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1958
Page
2
The report details living conditions in China including housing rents, cafeteria meals, and silk wages. It describes the militia, poetry on imperialism, Chinese food prices, education reforms, and the state push to integrate schooling with productive labor. It notes factory schools, social education, and religious consolidation under patriotic movements.
Tokyo officials reported a ninth Soviet nuclear test with abnormal air pressure shifts around midnight Japan time. Measurements showed 0.3 millibars of pressure change, higher than prior tests, suggesting megaton yields. The Weather Bureau logged five Soviet tests since Sept 30, with cycles of shocks lasting 20 to 40 minutes at observatories.
Leonard A. Kilian Jr. is appointed water shed forester for the Abbotts Creek and Deep Creek small watersheds. He will base in Lexington and report to C. C. Goodwin and oversee the division tree planting program in the area.
Adlai Stevenson told a Milwaukee rally that the US should be ready to talk with the Russians at every level while urging patience in negotiations. He criticized Eisenhower's leadership on racial equality and Desegregation and warned that internal divisions weaken the nation against Russia.
Richard Bowling, 26, central figure feared linked to the Jewish Temple bombing, was arrested after detectives received a tip he would flee. Five Atlanta men were indicted by Fulton County Grand Jury, including Robert A Bowling 25 Wallace H Allen 32 George Bright 35 and Kenneth Chester Griffin 32. Police seized a 1949 automobile containing a mimeographed anti Jewish letter urging money for white Christian America.
Birgit ta Ahlberg, a Swedish girl injured near Greensboro when she walked into a plane propeller, writes from Stockholm hospital thanking Carl King and North Carolina friends for their support. She recounts ongoing surgery, braces, and planned grafts with optimistic prognosis over a year.
AP report says a U S Navy Skymaster with 18 engines caught fire 400 miles west of Ireland before landing safely at Shannon Airport. No injuries reported. Emergency crews extinguished the flames as the aircraft touched down.
Evangelist Billy Graham completed four weeks of his Charlotte crusade drawing 343,190 in attendance with 13,178 decisions for Christ. He announced Saturday night that the final televised program would be the last from here due to funds. He spoke of weariness yet praised the campaign’s impact and stressed individuals may must stand alone for moral right.
Clarence Norris, 49, a Lumberton cab driver, was beaten robbed and shot twice after picking up a fare Friday night. Fred McLean Jr., 25, was charged with murder and armed robbery, with Clinton Gore, 29, arrested in Trenton New Jersey as a suspect. Norris body found in a rural ditch six miles south of Lumberton.
Babette Brett 33, of the singing De Castro sisters, welcomed her first child a girl on Friday. Husband Thomas Brett is a gym manager.
Beiruit reports a stalled conflict yielding a coalition cabinet led by Premier Rachid Karam after months of street clashes. The nation remains split Christians and Muslims but embraces a middle ground, avoiding deep Western or Arab alignments and restoring a cautious stability.
Mrs. Laura Shaw of Danville Virginia, 87, finally rode as a passenger on her son A J s motorcycle after years of urging. A J and his brothers have ridden since youth and she enjoys outdoors despite advancing blindness. The ride covered about eight to ten miles and boosted her enthusiasm for motorcycle outings.
Moscow reports 94 slogans for the 41st birthday of the Soviet Union on November 7. The Central Committee issued 81 last year. Messages praise world cooperation, unite workers, ban nuclear tests, disarmament, and friendship with Yugoslavia and Arab nations amid Cold War tensions.
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