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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1955
Page
3
New York markets edged forward in late afternoon trading but kept a dull tone. Price shifts were small with rails underperforming as traders hoped for stronger gains to lift the sector alongside the industrials.
A flash fire destroyed the 23 year old mess hall at State prison camp in Lillington North Carolina. Inmates ate picnic style as the blaze from an oil fired cook stove sprayed hot oil and set one end of the building ablaze. Fire crews from nearby towns fought the flames but could not save the hall or its supplies. The cook was the sole occupant at the time.
Kenneth Rouse, a cafe operator, killed his wife Patricia after an argument about clothes in their bedroom where he was sleeping on leave from Ft. Jackson. Patricia described Rouse grabbing her mother by the hair, swinging a hammer, and blocking calls to police before a struggle led to the fatal assault.
A. G. Pete Ivey new UNC News Bureau director told the fourth annual News and Feature Writers Conference closing banquet that the press and university share a mission to present facts in perspective. Panelists included Colburn Ethridge Gray and Fesperman. Officers elected were Bell Scheer Weaver.
Residents of the Kenwood section accuse a retired Negro couple of offering their Jamaica, New York, home for sale to white Protestants to profit from prejudice. Marvin L. and Mrs. White paid about 12000, plan to sell for 20000 by Sept 15 or move in if no buyers. A 15-family meeting denounced the motive and warned the price harms property values.
Memphis mayor Frank T. Tobey aged 64 died from a heart attack after slipping into a coma last weekend. He opposed private power and supported a municipal generating plant, a stance marked by his yearlong fight over the Dixon Yates contract. His successor hopeful is former Mayor S Watkins Overton who criticized his plan. Tobey began in city government in 1924 and rose to mayor with E H boosting his bid after 1953 split.
Tom Wood aged 33, formerly assistant city editor at Twin-City Sentinel in Winston-Salem, is named editor and publisher of the Ashe County News a weekly starting publication in November. He becomes secretary treasurer and director of Ashe Publishing Co. Wood's prior experience includes five years at Winston-Salem papers and a year on the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a native of Winston-Salem and a University of North Carolina graduate.
Hodges and Kerr Scott headline the 21st annual Farmers Cooperative Exchange and North Carolina Cotton Growers Assn gathering in Raleigh. Rep. Harold D. P. Cooley will intro Scott, Hodges gives welcome, with 5000 farmers from NC and SC expected. Directors balloting for the cotton association will be announced and three FOX board seats are up for election. Nominees include H. C. Ferebee, S. E. Boswell, and C. B. Player.
Federal mediator Yates Heafner of Charlotte arrived in Greensboro to press contract talks between Cone Mills Corp and the Textile Workers Union of America CIO. Workers voted to join the union last December and negotiations have run since January with deadlock on wages and dues checkoffs despite sessions last week.
Dr. Forrest H. Kirkpatrick of Wheeling Steel Corp will be the featured speaker as the Southeast ern Personnel Conference opens at Duke University in Durham. The two day event assists business executives in merchandising insurance and banking as well as personnel matters.
Drivers of the McLean Trucking Co. voted by secret ballot in Winston-Salem on a six year contract. They are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters AFL and will vote again at an injunction hearing set for Saturday. The injunction hearing to curb picketing was postponed until tomorrow morning pending the vote. The union and firm earlier said an agreement was reached but did not reveal details.
Mar vin C. Smith twenty nine, of Sanford North Carolina, was electrocuted yesterday while repairing a pole near Georgetown South Carolina. Smith was an employee of Santee Electric Membership Corp and son of Mrs. Mattie Smith of Sanford and Mose Smith of Kings Tree South Carolina.
LILLINGTON North Carolina two Harnett County Recorder's Court officials Judge M O Lee and Solicitor Neill McKay Ross resigned after grand jury indictments for gross misconduct Involving whisky and court terminations Ross a 1931 state representative urged a special term for trial but the district solicitor declined due to schedule The grand jury also accused cases of being dismissed without witnesses and without state testimony FBI reports on the investigation were not released by Hook
Governor Luther Hodges urged conservation development and wide use of North Carolina natural and human resources at the ninth annual North Carolina State Employees Assn banquet in Asheville. He praised state workers, noted revenue limits, and announced new association officers Leonora Caraway Dorothy Austell and H Gilliam Parker.
Mr William Ard known as Bill Ard denies being husband to Julia Bradshaw and father of children amid publicity. He states he and his wife of 29 years are not involved. Lemira protest group chairman Paul Helton says a mass meeting in the school cafeteria will proceed as planned tonight.
A $2,630,000 school bond issue was approved by Cabarrus County voters 1 953 to 460. The funds will be divided among the county school systems with Cabarrus County receiving 1 236 889, Concord 639 353, and Kannapolis 753 758.
The Albanian government, claiming to act for wartime justice and post liberation reconciliation, announces it will release eighteen Italian detainees held on charges of crimes during the war. The statement cites political considerations and recent liberation as context.
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