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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1957
Page
8
Zoologist Dr. Desmond Morris notes Congo the chimp could win a mate if London Zoo directors approve selling his 24 oil paintings. Betsy the Baltimore chimp will also exhibit 36 works, showing chimps may illuminate the origins of human art while offering a practical path to companionship.
Robert Paul Hooks, 34, of Greensboro, received a life prison term after pleading guilty in Guilford County Superior Court to the August 14 killing of his wife Bernice.
The Federal State Market News Service reports mixed prices across Virginia and North Carolina flue cured tobacco. Old Belt prices held steady with small grade variations, North Carolina Eastern Belt little changed, while Middle Belt dipped $1 to $4. Demand rose in the Border Belt as five markets remain open with gains.
Percy Flowers is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after a shooting at Jimmy Flowers store in Smithfield near 8 30 last night. James Seawell, a tenant on Flowers farm, says Flowers fired through the store window after threatening to kill him. Sheriff B A Henry to serve the warrant today.
United Nations in New York prepares for another setback as India and the Soviet bloc press to place the China representation issue on the General Assembly agenda for the twelfth session. Diplomatic expectations favor a vote to shelve the bid, with the United States leading the postponement alongside Britain and Australia.
The record notes Thomas Jefferson kept 54 house servants at Monticello in Virginia and estimates that about 73 percent of American families own automobiles, highlighting household scale and growing mobility in the era.
J C Bolles, president, announced Chadbourn Gotham, Inc. posted a net profit of 239 408 for the year ended Aug 3. Consolidated sales rose to 20 020 391 from 19 584 309 in 1956 as the firm expands lingerie hosiery and new quarried products divisions. The company plans a major hosiery invention and paid quarterly dividends on several classes of preferred stock.
Greensboro Principal intervened after an unknown student threw an egg at Josephine Ophelia Boyd, the school's only Black pupil. In Charlotte, Dorothy Counts’ father reaffirmed her withdrawal from Harding High as white parents sue to block school integration.
Alfred Neugebaur, Austria's famed veteran of German language stages, died Saturday at 69. He began his career at age 13 under Max Reinhardt, becoming a pillar of the theater scene.
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