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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1957
Page
2
District Noble Grand J Paint er of Greensboro will attend the meeting. After degrees, officers will conduct instruction on lodge workings. A social hour will follow the business session.
Green Street Baptist Church elected ten deacons in conference Sunday morning to replace the outgoing group this fall. The new deacons are Thomas R. Allen Jr. Clyde Ayers Walter E. Crissman Roy B. Culler Sr. Wilfred R. Eddinger Herman M. Malpass J. B. Phillips Jr. E. Alton Slanter G. Dewey Smith and W. Arthur Whaley.
Deputies report Jimmy Freeman said $82 was taken from him on Friday night after a dance on Greensboro Road. He named three men as possible thieves, none of whom were arrested today. Australia tops wool production with an annual clip from 131 million sheep selling around $900 million.
Trading volume edged up to 1 420 000 shares while copper and oil issues led minor gains. Dulles voiced belief in a peaceful Syrian solution as market leaders showed narrow moves with a mix of gains and losses across major names and sectors.
Superior Court Judge Francis Clarkson presided over a calendar call on a weeklong civil term. The cases involve motorists seeking to overturn license forfeitures ordered by NC Motor Vehicle Commissioner Ed Scheidt. some petitions were dismissed with costs, others bound over for fault. Jurors receive a new handbook, a juror handbook, to clarify procedures and juror duties.
The Dow Jones Averages list furnshed by Bache & Co shows the noon and closing values for 20 industrials at 474.63 and 474.11 474.20, 2 rails at 292.43 192.00 192.52, 15 utilities at 67.62, and stocks at 168.00 162.76 162.90 with volumes of 260 000, 650 000, and 1 430 000.
Industry leaders plan a public-relations push to remind consumers that ten years have passed since the postwar model standard. About 44 percent of the 50 million sets sold are still in use as inventories and sales face challenges amid color debates and pay TV friction.
Elmer the mynah at Forest Park zoo in Fort Worth is revealed not to be male. Zoo superintendent Jim Brown says five years of belief Elmer was a he may be incorrect since male mynahs do not lay eggs.
Gov Hodges defended a 20 percent cut in tobacco acreage and discounting certain varieties saying drastic actions were needed for all growers needs. He cited sales of 484 486 805 pounds of flue cured tobacco at 56 70 per hundred and praised cooperatives for aiding small farmers.
Buses crashed in Cumberland Wilkes and Graham counties injuring two students seriously and five others slightly none killed. One bus rear ended another near Fayetteville on Highway 401. A second crash near Fontana Village flipped a bus with 36 aboard thirty treated for bruises.
Hurricane Carrie drifts west northwest over the open Atlantic about 950 miles east of Puerto Rico with 130 mph winds at the center. Advisory warns ships to take caution as gale and hurricane-force winds extend far from the core. No landfall threat while it maintains its path.
A historical note states that eight cents of every dollar spent by consumers for food goes toward transportation costs.
Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Thunderstorms mostly in afternoon and evening. Highs 78 to 84 mountains 86 to 92 elsewhere. Lows tonight mid-60s mountains 67 to 75 elsewhere.
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