24 Oct 1955
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1955
Page
1
Leaders gather amid a mild crisis mood with early reports of strong informal sales. Exposition Center displays and showrooms report a centuried rise in orders, indicating continued prosperity and optimistic 1955 activity ahead of the market opening.
President Eisenhower plans a busy agenda with Dulles supporting a Geneva conference and announces a trip east. Officials Gabriel Hauge and Arthur Burns meet at Fitzsimons Army Hospital for economic talks as Burns, a press liaison, accompanies the President’s hospitalization updates.
Reports say Syrian forces fired on Israeli positions along the Sea of Galilee amid heavy tensions. Maj. Gen. Burns cited an investigation showing two groups of 20 to 30 armed Israelis in retaliation, with Private casualties and six wounded. Israel claimed it captured Syrian soldiers including a lieutenant and a sergeant after the raid.
Abitibi Power and Paper raises newsprint by five dollars a ton effective November first, boosting prices for over 200 newspapers in Canada and the United States. Canadian and U.S. publishers react amid talks of antitrust conferences as DoJ seeks to curb coordinated price moves.
Local Southern Gentlemen chapters warn against allowing Black soldiers in Baton Rouge as Army maneuvers near Camp Polk prepare to deploy about 140000 troops. Robertson cites nearly 2000 mixed troops en route and says mayors may be informed their cities will be designated leave centers for maneuver units.
Charlotte motorists flocked to bargain gasoline as operators kept prices low. Shopkeepers expressed displeasure but majority planned to maintain cuts until normal pricing returns.
London dispatch says Western observers view the Saar outcome with anxiety, fearing renewed German assertiveness and interlocal tensions. British reports note Nazi style tactics in Saarlanders campaign and recall Hitler's 1935 march into the Saar as editors in West Berlin hint at stirred emotions.
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem secured a landslide victory over Bao Dai in a referendum and will proclaim a South Vietnamese Republic. He will remain premier until the first National Assembly election, expected by year’s end, as Vietnam consolidates anti communist rule amid regional tensions.
In Saarbrucken the Saar voters reject the Europeanization plan by 67.7 percent, sparking swift telegrams from French Premier Edgar Faure and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Bonn moves to craft a new solution while the region remains linked to France by customs and currency and under a neutral commissioner for Europe.
A sightseeing trip near Ta lulah Gorge ends in tragedy as Ronald Elrod falls into a 10 foot pool and his father Carlton Louis Elrod 34 dives in to save him but cannot escape the slippery rocks. Thomas Greeman and another relative also fall in as family members struggle to reach them.
Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall accuses Adlai Stevenson of bowing to party pressure and endorsing 90 percent parity farm price supports. He also says Gov. Averell Harriman backs an unworkable program that worsens surpluses. Agriculture Dept warns of further farm price declines due to record output.
Paris reports the Western Big Three foreign ministers John Foster Dulles Harold Macmillan and Antoine Pinay completed the first part of a joint memorandum on disarmament East West relations and German reunification. Charles Wilson attended as defense secretary while Moshe Sharett looms as a potential side issue.
Senators McClellan and Stennis faced a dispute over their return flights from Madrid amid Defense Department efforts to fly them home. They claimed no date changes were discussed, while Chavez stayed in Madrid. Stennis expressed shock at the controversy and promised to explain the facts to the secretary of defense.
A strong tremor struck the San Francisco Bay area and East Bay, causing fires, shattered windows, gas issues, and injuries. A 85 year old woman Ora Bell died in Oakland amid the chaos. PG&E reported service outages in Walnut Creek and a wine cask shattered at Buena Vista Winery. Seismograph readings ranged near 5.5 with center near San Francisco.
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