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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1955
Page
3
New York stocks rose in a generally higher market with a gain that peaked around six points. Losses were near one point at worst while volume surpassed 20 million shares, signaling bullish breadth. Leaders included chemicals aircrafts steels and copper stocks, while railroads steadied to close narrowly higher.
A dense ledger of 1 p.m. stock figures for major firms across industries. Companies include Admiral Corporation Alleghany Allied Chemical Dow Chemical General Electric General Motors IBM Motorola Telecomm and Eastman Kodak among others with varied percentage changes and a closing tally.
Gino Prato, the New York cobbler who won $32,000 on the $64,000 question, returned to Prato in Italy after 33 years in America. He walked the mule trail to his birthplace as church bells rang and locals crowded the square to greet him. His 92 year old father Giovanni stood beside him as the family wept with joy.
Clarendon County Superintendent L B McCord questions the South Carolina Methodist Conference resolution opposing economic pressure by citizens councils. He denies misrepresentation and asserts local council actions in Clarendon are limited and not anti Christian.
San Francisco psychologist Dr. Lee J. Cronbach warned that postwar job tests fail to predict a worker’s behavior without job demand context. He noted wartime testing arose from cloak and dagger programs and criticized its ability to screen emotional issues from pilots.
The Los Angeles area saw the heat wave crack slightly as a daytime high near 98 was forecast after several days of record temperatures. Across Southern California cities posted triple digits with El Centro 114 and Needles Blythe San Bernardino and Burbank at 111 or higher. The county coroner reported 51 heat related deaths since Wednesday, with natural deaths totaling 277 in that period, marking a sharp rise from last year.
U S Ambassador James B. Conant arrived back in Bonn Germany today after a four week vacation in Austria.
A three day alert titled Exercise Late Summer began in the Carolinas to boost interest in the Ground Observer Corps. Civic clubs volunteer fire departments and other groups urge new volunteers to man observation posts and report aircraft to the Air Defense Filter Center where flights are plotted. Jet interceptors monitor unidentified craft reports.
State foresters from 12 district offices convene in Laurinburg for the annual personnel meeting of the forestry division of the Department of Conservation and Development. About sixty foresters are expected to attend from across the state.
Governor Hodges and family vacationing at Wrightsville Beach were honored guests at a Surf Club reception. He planned to return to Raleigh Thursday morning after arriving Monday. Earlier he joined John Whitford on a Labor Day yacht cruise and attended a dinner Sunday at the Eastern Carolina Yacht Club in New Bern.
In Scotland Neck North Carolina a crackdown on bootlegging continued as 90 people were arrested on liquor law violations over four days. Officers reported 140 warrants had been issued for 105 individuals and more arrests were expected under a weeks long undercover operation by five state ABC officers and local police.
Oak Ridge High School hires Fred Brown a former Negro High School teacher to teach mixed white and Negro classes in printing home mechanics and plastics. The school now enrolls 1700 white pupils along with 45 Negro pupils. Brown a Tuskegee Institute graduate and three year veteran serves in a government community school operated under contract with the Anderson County School Board funded by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Nationalists reportedly planted a flag on Amoy beach in Formosa to celebrate Nationalist China's Armed Forces Day. Antipersonnel mines were laid around the flagpole base, and Red forces were feared to approach due to mine danger and threat from Quemoy Island six miles away.
Bishop Walsh, first American Roman Catholic bishop in China, was freed after two to three months to finish settling affairs. Details note his past in Shanghai under Communist surveillance, life in cramped quarters with Chinese priests, and mentions of other Americans like Miner and exits for Ricks and Romanoff family.
A 1955 Whitehall Pharmacal advertisement touts Primatene as the most prescribed asthma formula now available without prescription. It claims minutes to stop attacks, hours of relief, and no injections, with a money back guarantee at drugstores for 98 cents.
A publisher promotes a simple technique for everyday conversation to boost social and business influence. It offers a free 24 page booklet Adventures in Conversation mailed to readers who request it, with no obligation, to Conversation Studies at 835 Diversey Parkway, Dept. 2036, Peoria IL.
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