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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1951
Page
13
Washington dispatch outlines FCC plans to lift the three year old station freeze by February after finalizing local allocations for about 2,000 outlets across 1,200 communities. FCC considers 70 new UHF channels plus 12 VHF channels and reserved non commercial space.DuMont proposals spark widespread public comment.
A dense slate of programs across networks with news segments, dramas, variety shows, comedies, and children's fare. Notable items include My Town era staples such as Dragnet, The Lone Ranger, Groucho Marx Show, Stork Club, Amos ’n’ Andy, Honky tonk, The Racket Squad, and Wrestling from Hollywood, interspersed with local news and weather updates and late-night listings. The guide reflects a full day of televised entertainment and public affairs across CBS NBC ABC and local affiliates.
Groundbreaking ceremonies for a 160 bed tubercular hospital to be built at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill were held this morning. Governor W Kerr Scott and Lee L Gravely led talks as the Lee L Gravely Sanitorium is named in his honor. The hospital, part of the State Health Center, will be the fourth State supported tubercular hospital, with others at Black Mountain McCain and Wilson. Construction, costing 1 1 million, is by J A Jones Construction Company. The brick building will be three stories with 100 beds, its own kitchen dining room laboratory and outpatient clinic. Rigorous officials and university administrators attended.
Duke Power Company offered to sell its Charlotte city bus system for 435000 to any responsible operator, with buses valued at 935000 and no franchise charge. W S Robinson, vice president, said the company loses about 600 a day and criticized a demanded school bus route as ridiculous. Duke runs city bus systems in several Carolinas.
Prices were steady to slightly lower on flue cured tobacco markets with the Old Belt showing losses of $1 to $2 per hundred pounds on most grades. Middle and Eastern belts were generally firm or lightly weaker with light volume and few big changes. Lumberton, North Carolina, plans final sales Wednesday as another Old Belt market closes.
Police hunted a second prisoner after a breakout from a court to a patrol wagon. George Pakstan, 34, was recaptured, while Joseph Brunson, 28, a North Carolina fugitive, is charged with shooting and beating two men during a Denton robbery in 1942. Pakstan allegedly slipped free of handcuffs, and police fired but missed.
Woburn Massachusetts earns the nickname Americas greenhouse as 144 large greenhouses dot the rolling countryside. The city ships millions of roses and carnations across the nation each year.
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