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The Daily Chowanian Volume 1 — Number 27 Muiireesboio, Noilh Carolina, January 6, 1960 Associated Press Train Wreck Takes Many Lives; Man Lives to Recall Spectacular Event MONZA, Italy AP -I was go ing to work on the regular Sen- d r i e Monza Milan commuter train this morning with hun dreds of others who ride it every day. Without warning the terri fying crash happened. I was in a compartment of the fifth coach with three young girls and two students. The girls were chatting. The students were reading newspa per accounts of the funeral of Fauste Coppi, Italy’s great bi cycle racer who died Saturday. Suddenly, as the coach inclin ed on a curve, the girls were hurled into our laps. Then, for what seemed several long se conds, there was a violent crash ing and grinding sound, a gigan tic scraping of steel o n steel. This seemed to continue for se veral hundred yards. Now the coach was on it side and we were all piled together. The coach continued to grind along. Jenkins Promoted GREENVILLE N.C. W—Dr. Lee W. Jenkins today was pre- mrted frcm vice president to ^resident of East Carolina Col lege, suceeding John D. Mes- sick, who has resigned. Dr. Jenkins was elected un animously by the board of trust ees. Messick’s resignation is effective Wednesday. Jenkins, 46, has been connect ed with East Carolina College sirce 391". Ho camo ! '’■'3 as dean of instruction. In 1955, he was made vice president and cortinued in his office in charge cf instruction. Henry Belk of Goldsboro, cla’rman of a three-member cc mm ttee appointed to nomin ate a president, offered the mo tion that Jenkins be elected. Before coming to ECC, Jen kins was assistant to the com- m'ssicner for higher education in the New Jersey State De partment of Public Instruction. Prior to that he taught history and political science at Montc lair Teachers College. De Gaulle Will Visit U. S. In PARIS AP — President Char les de Gaulle will open his visite to the United States April 22 and will remain until the end of the month. He will visit Canada April 19-22. A brief announcement from De Gaulle’s office gave the dates. “Gen. De Gaulle has been in vited to make an official visit to the United States and to Canada at the end of next April,” it said. Adenauer Talks With Hendrick BONN, Germany AP — Chan- celler Konrad Adenauer told a German-Jewish leader today he is revolted by the outbreak of anti- Semitics in West Germany and vowed to find those responsible. Adenauer spoke with Hendrik Van Dam, secretary-general of the German-Jewish Council, when the latter called to cengratulate the chanceller on his 84th birthday today. The girls screamed. Only one of them had a slight bruise. We crawled out of shattered win dows, on our stomachs, along the ground to get clear ot tn^ wreckage. We had no idea c. the exte. t of t h e crash. Fog was so thick you could scarcely see the coach ahead. Then I saw it. It had apparent ly also scraped along on its side and then bounced back on its wheels. I could scarcely believe what I saw. A railroad rail stuck cut of the coach, pointing sky ward. I looked and saw that the rail had pierced and killed three passengers in that coach. One was a Roman Cathelic priest. It was just as though a child had stuck a wire through a thin paper toy. I couldn’t see the third coach. It just seemed to have disap peared. Then I saw it. It was on top of a factory roof, adjoining the tracks. To get there, it had to hurtle over five railroad tracks and up into the air about 20 feet. I don’t know how it did that. Icould now hear screams com ing from the coach. There must have been at least 100 nersons in that coach. It was packed with laborers, on the way to their jobs. I could now hear screams com- coaches of the train because of thick fog. There must have been 1,000 persons in all aboard the train. One girl with her hands under her coat asked me to hand her purse to her. I did. She put out her hands. Th?y were bleeding. She could net move her finger. “I guess they’re broken,” she said and turned away and walk ed toward town. I counted 17 dead in the wreck age, but there must have been more bodies trapped inside the ‘;^’'gIsd cars. Many injured were also trapp 'd, and it was difficult for the ■es2uers to find them i n the dense fog. DC 6 Plane Crashes With Thirty-Four Persons Aboard; No Survivors Found New President Goes Into Office Today GREENVILLE, N.C. AP — Dr. Leo W. Jenkins assumed his new duties as president of East Carolina College today. Dr. Je~kins, 46, was unani mously chosen by the college’s trustees Tuesday to succeed Dr. John D. Messick who announced several months ago he was re signing effective today. Dr. Jenkins has served for several years as Dr. Messick’s r’Bhthand assistant. He came to ECC in 1947 as dean of instruc tion and was promoted to vice president in 1957. BOLIVIA, N.C. AP - A Na tional Airlines four-engine plane with 34 person aboad crashed in woods near here today. The North Carolina Highway Patrol said it though there were no survivors. The Patrol said the big ship burst upon the ground 2% miles southwest cf Bolivia, a village 25 Women Are People WASHINGTON IM — Women are neor>le, they’re just under developed in politics, says a wrman who should know. “It’s t'me to talk about equal ity that can’t be legislated,” said Katie Louchheim, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. She was addressing the National Wo men’s party, a group dedicated to passage of a constitutional ame.^dment ot guranatee women equal rights with men. Mrs. Louchheim just couldn’t resist issuing a call Tuesday night to these women, many of whcm pioneered in women’s suf frage, “To win for ourselves the acceptance of the fact that wo men are people.” “We are not a special interest group with a wagonload of special axes to grind.” Just like men, she said, wo men have varying interests: ■“Western women think like Western men. Businesswomen think like businessmen. Women like men with a social con science. Some women do more thinking and some women do less thinking. It all depends on what nature gave them to think with.” Too many women consider politics “a spectator sport,” Mrs. Louchheim said. They want good people to run for office but will neither seek it themselves nor encourage their husbands to run. "Our worst problem,” she said, speaking as a political or ganizer, “is dealing with the many women who are over - do mesticated in their thinking a- bout public affairs.” Dog of Princess Bites Her Footmsin LONDON AP — Princess Mar garet’s Sealyham was in the doghouse today. He was banished to the kennels after taking a bite out of a royal footman. For Jonny, a palace pet for close on 12 years, it was a pretty tough rap. For when Princess Margaret takes breakfast in bed, the cud dly little dog often is brought in by a maid with the tea and toast. “It was nothing very serious,” assured a palace spokesman, “just a nasty gash above the eye.” Bridge To Be Built BEAUFORT, N.C. AP —Resi dents of coastal Carteret County have the opportunity Thursday to rpeak cut on what they think of Highway Department plans .or a new bridge to connect •p ir'iH Citv and Beaufort. The department will reveal preliminary sketches on the law- level bridge at a hearing. Engineers have preposed a 2,- 700-feet structure to be built par allel to and just north of the Beaufort - Morehead City Railroad tracks. The Weather NORTH CAROLINA: Rain or snow in the mountains and north portion of Piedmont today and tonight with rain elsewhere. Rain or snow ending in the mountains tonight. Somewhat colder today, high in the 40s southeast portion to the 30s else where. Little change in tempera tures tonight, low ranging from the upper 20s in the mountains to near 40 on the coast. Thurs day, gradually clearing and be coming warmer. miles southwest of Wilmington. Doyle Howard, reporter o n the scene from me vviimmgton News, said it appeared the plane nad exploded in the air. Debris was scattered over a half mile radius on a farm in the swampy, wooded area. There was no sign of fire after the plane struck, he said. Howard said the largest part of the plane he saw was a wing and half of the fuselage “all ripped to pieces.” The scene is about 12 miles from the Atlantic coastline. The plane, carrying a crew of five and 29 passengers, was on a non-stop flight from New York to Miami, Fla. The giant night flying coach, a DC6B, was last heard from at 2:31 a.m. at that time the plane was just south of Wilmington, when the pilot made a check. The flight plan called for the plane to hug the coast on the leg from New York to Wilmington, then to swing out to sea for the overwater lee to Palm Beach. Weather conditions were to dic tate when the plane was to turn over the Atlantic. Pavburn Celebrates 78th Birthday WASHINGTON AP — House Sneaker Sam Rayburn D-Tex, seemmgly as oemery and vigor ous as he was 20 years ago, ob serves his 78th brighday today. Congratulatory telegrams and letters were waiting for him at his office, and a stream of col leagues was ready to greet him even before he went to the House chamber to gavel open the new session of Congress. Business on Canitol Hill was expected to be cleared away in time for him to attend two down town functions in his honor-a reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miller of Dallas, Tex., and a dinner by the Women’s Nat ional Press Club. Clouds and raLi lay in the plane’s route as it passed Wil mington. But, said a spokesman, the big coach should nave found clearing skies soutn of Wilming ton. Airlines officials said the ship had enough gasoline to re main aloft until 7:06 a.m. She was due at Miami at 4:36 a.m. It had left New York at 11:52 p.m. Word that the plane was miss ing touched oit a widespread search along tne coast. Ttie Coast Guard put out seven aircraft and a nuinoer of sur face vessels frcm Elizabeth City, N.C., Jacksonville and Miami. The Navy dispatched four ves sels from Charleston, S.C., and four planes frcm Jackso viUe. Capt. C. H. Rudy, National’s chiel pilot, left iVIiami in a twin- engine Convair with a crew of eight in an apparent plan to tra ce northward over the DC6B’s route. A NAL plane, less than twj months ago, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, killing 12 per sons aboard. It wts on a flight from Miami to N e w Orleans. Most of the bodies and wreckage remain unrecovered. In New York, National Air lines said it had asked the FBI to send experts to Bolivia to ,s p e e d identification of the victims. The airline said It v,-as making efforts to fly relatives of the vic tims to the scent this afternoon. Ike Warns U. S. of Being Hysterical of Soviets Progress WASHINGTON AP — Presi dent Eisenhower today caution ed Americans against becoming “too hysterical” about Soviet achievements in outer space. The President called for ex ploitation in this country of the idea that “man is a creature of God and dignity.” Eisenhower expressed h i s views in a brief informal talk to officials of the National Presby terian Church. H e attended morning services where he join ed in prayer for success of the new session of the 86th Congress, convening today. The President, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, some mem bers of the Cabinet, and mem bers of Congress recieved Holy Communion at the 8 a.m. service today. Eisenhower Plans Trip To Brazil WASHINGTON AP — Presi dent Eisenhower's choice o f Brazil as a startir? noint for his February trip to South America may be an effort to dramatize his annourced program for ever- improving relationshios with Latin America, informed sour ces said today. S'" me observers said there had been reports recently that U. S. — Brazilian relation ship had cooled somewhat and that this may have disturbed govern ment officials, in view of violent anti-American speeches in the past few months in Cuba and Panama. There have been sug- j gestions by some members of Congress that Washington’s re lations with Latin America gen erally leave much to be desired. Although there has been no U.S. announcement, Brazil’s President Jusceline Kubitschek announced officially Monday Eisenhower wiU visit there next month. Argentina’s foreign minister, Diegenes Tabeada, said in Buenos Aires Sunday that Eisen hower would visit the Argentine capital Feb. 24 or 25. ■There have been reports that the President plans also to visit Chile and Uruguay, and pres sure for him to visit other coun tries in South America already is reported. An Eisenhower visit, some diplomats say, would be a powerful stimulus to closer re lations between Washington and Latin America, especially if the trip should mark the beginning of an intensified program of cooperation between the United Staes and its neighbors to the south.
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