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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1957
Page
2
A Sloan Kettering expert reports that heavy drinking defined as seven or more shots daily elevates mouth and larynx cancer risk, especially among pipe and cigar users, with data from cancer patients including 132 with lung cancer and 543 with oral cavity cancer.
Billy Graham told about 40,000 at a New York City rally that war danger is greater now than in the past decade. He urged a return to God during Visitation Week and warned Congress and the nation about threats from Russia and moral decline. The service highlighted decisions for Christ at the recent crusade and covered Amos as a warning.
Civil Air Patrol resumed an air and ground hunt for the Piper Apache with three aboard missing after a Wednesday takeoff from Atlanta bound for Charlotte. Ground crews focused near Brasstown Bald Mountain while Capt. Lowry W. Davis led about 70 search planes from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Felix S. Barker of Raleigh is elected president of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Dr. Edgar T. Thompson of Durham and J. Preston Wrenn of Charlotte are vice presidents, Mrs. R. L. Sanborn of Bessemer City is secretary, and W. E. Thompson of Chapel Hill is treasurer at the annual meeting.
At least eight persons died violently in North Carolina over the weekend. The incidents included a headon car crash near Charlotte killing Charles Ray Estridge. a bicycle collision killing Rudolph Howell near Orrum. a fatal crash near Mount Pleasant killing Ray Hinson Jr.. a rollover near Kannapolis killing Ida Beatrice Palmer and a 80 year old man William Elliott dying from injuries after being struck. Violet Henry shot dead in Rockingham with her husband Dr T Boyce Henry charged with murder. Earl Bryant killed in the U S modified championship race at Concord Speedway. and Sgt Tom Sampson Kirby fatally injured after his vehicle ran off a highway near Roseboro.
Hollywood star Bing Crosby and his 23 year old bride Kathy Grant return to work after a four day Las Vegas honeymoon. They have been at Bing’s Silver Spur ranch near Palm Springs and Crosby tapes a radio show while Grant goes to Columbia studios for a film role opposite Van Heflin.
E L Edwards of College Park Georgia a Klansman and imperial wizard faces Recorder's Court on November 7 charged with assaulting James M Babb a Concord Tribune photographer at a Klan rally near Concord North Carolina Four other men allegedly helped attack Babb as a five foot two inch woman reporter Kay Harbison was knocked down Sheriff Roberts witnessed no assault but arrested Edwards after Babb signed a warrant Edwards posted a five hundred dollar bond and offered no resistance
Dukie Cogdill, 32, died after rescuing one brother and perishing when he returned for another as a house fire swept through their Bethany residence early Sunday. The incident left two brothers dead in a fatal blaze.
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