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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1953
Page
3
HAL Boyle suggests loafing as a healthful art to live longer. The piece playfully outlines how to become a devoted loafer, including quitting work, marrying, and spending time in parks or courthouses, while warning against pool halls and overindulgence, ending with the line old loafers never die they just loaf away.
In Middletown New York the Claude Crotty family notes a long series of operations for Claudia aged six beginning at five days old to repair an abdominal bladder defect with a pocket closure and later a tonsillectomy. Her sister Susan Ann seven has had one operation per year due to an oral defect as they enter first grade.
In Mons Belgium an underground lift in a mine plummeted 130 feet killing 12 miners and seriously injuring two others. Thirty others escaped to safety as the cable car fell.
United Nations in New York reports Russia and India prepared to reopen the issue of Communist China’s UN membership. V. K. Krishna Menon of India seeks reconsideration after Credentials Committee findings while Andrei Vishinsky of Russia urges admission at the session’s opening amid a 44 to 10 vote on an American counter proposal. Israel’s policy views were still awaited as debate continued.
Raleigh officials announced a 1953 General Assembly provision of 100000 to create loans for medical and nursing students who specialize in psychiatry. Trainees repay by working in state service, earning at least 7200 yearly with room and board for unmarried doctors and housing for married physicians.
Newton reports Mrs. Ethel Hicks in recorder's court on charges of public drunkenness and assault of her eight year old son Billy Hicks who was found intoxicated and bruised after being beaten. Deputies say welfare plans to place the boy in a suitable home and another arrest may follow related to a 15 year old girl.
A Men haden Fish Factory at Melt Lee Island burned last night nearly destroying the large frame building and smaller structures. Fire started at 6 p.m. and was under control by 10 p.m. Only Coast Guard aid from Ft. Macon was available. No injuries reported. The Phillipsers Llewellyn Jasper and H O Llewellyn own the plant, partly insured. Menhaden season begins Oct 1 and the factory starts about a month later.
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