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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1957
Page
11
Texas and the Southwest plus Southern California glow with fair weather this evening. Rain and snow blanket the rest of the nation. Cooler air moves into the northwest, northern central Rockies, and south through the plains to Texas.
Severe winter conditions sweep Northwest and central regions with up to 20 inches of snow forecast in mountains. Cold air from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest drives temperatures near zero in Montana. Two tornadoes hit Texas with floods threatening Cameron area while rain exceeds four inches in southwest Texas. Dallas report notes a lumber company office safe was forced but yielded nothing.
Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC, argued pay television harms the public interest and may eventually dominate broadcasting. He cautioned that if pay-TV replaces free broadcasting, the public and industry will have to accept the tide, as conveyed in remarks prepared for a luncheon in his honor.
Pay TV advocate Sarnoff warned that subscription services could upend free broadcasting affecting 470 stations and three networks. The FCC announced a limited public trial plan in cities with four stations, offering demonstrations but delaying trial permits until after March 1.
Forecast for North Carolina calls for a mild period with around 60. Rainfall totals about three quarters of an inch from Thursday through Monday. Temperatures will trend near normal with highs around 66 to 72 and lows about 40 to 48 in the mountains and plains. Occasional rain and mild conditions tonight and Thursday, then cooler Friday and a warming trend through the weekend.
North Carolina and Virginia flue cured tobacco markets showed slight price increases on two belts while a third belt eased. The Federal State Market News Service notes $1 to $2 per hundredweight gains on the Virginia North Carolina Old Belt and the North Carolina Middle Belt, with Eastern North Carolina Belt falling about $1 to $3. Market volume ranged from light to medium and quality dipped slightly.
Federal Judge Wilson Warlick of Newton resigns from the State Probation Commission prompting Gov Hodges to receive the letter of resignation. Beaty calls the move a loss noting Warlick’s long service since the commission's 1937 creation and his longtime chairmanship.
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