* The Daily Chowanian *
Volume 1 — Number 28
Murfieesboio, North CaioUna, January 7, 1960
Associated Press
Honor Roll Student
Commits Suicide
SALISBURY, N. C. AP— A
coroner’s finding shows that a
17-year-old honor student who
died Tuesday apparently (poi
soned himself with insecticide.
Coroner R. B. Wright Jr. re
ported a lethal amount of nico
tinic acid from an insecticide in
the body of David Pence, a Boys-
den High School senior and son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Pence.
He said the poison was left-
administered.
The boy’s body was found on
Salisbury’s north side Tuesday
night, eight hours after he left
home. The elder Pence resigned
last May as manager of the Sal
isbury Chamber of Commerce.
No explanation for the poison
ing was given.
Ma/n Points in E/senfiower'slJ'*'®
Guess Koadrnson
State Of The Union Message
Larency Attempt
Unsuccessful
CHARLOTTE AP—A bondsman
ani a former police records clerk
were Piven suspended sentences
and fines Wednesday tor their
pnrt 'n the theft of a set of re
cords fron the police department.
Jud-’e Howard B. Arbuckle sen-
fencsf- bondsman Walter Jack
Harw-U, 25, to 12 months, sus
pended on payment of $200 and
costs. Harwell pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to commit larceny.
Daniel Lee Thrower, 21, former
records clerk, pleaded guilty to
larceny. He was sentenced to six
months, suspended on payment of
$100 and costs.
The judge delayed sentencing
Thrower on a conspiracy chargf
and Harwell on a larceny charge
Thrower testified Harwell prom
ised him $30 for the police recorc'
cf J 0 n P-’’m?r so it w^uld be
easier for Palmer to get a job.
River Rises
CHARLOTTE AP — The Rocky
River at Norwood was rising
rapidly today and expected to
crest seven feet below flood
stage at midnight, the Weather
Bureau reported.
It advised residents of the
arra to take precautions.
The bureau said there was
shallow flooding this morning.
Labor Union Used
A Stiff Ruling
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. AP
J.P. Stevens and Co., Inc.
has been ordered to stopp dis
couraging employes from join
ing the Textile Workers Union
of America and pay Archie Lee
Moody and James O. Harp com
pensation for any loss of
earnings.
These rulings, involving the
firm’s four textile plants in Ro
anoke Rapids, announced Wed
nesday by the National Labor
Relations Board, thus affirming
earlier rulings of Trial Examin
er James F. Foley.
The NLRB held that Moody
and Harp allegedly were fired
by the Stevens company for
union activities. The company
was ordered to offer them full
reinstatement plus compensa
tion for any lost earnings.
Stuck in the Mud
VALLEJO, AP — It took
a railroad section gang and a crow
bar to pry James Hines, 65-year-
o’d retirel Navy veteran, out of the
mud of the Mare Island channel
here Wednesday.
Aker 40 years on rooling decks,
Hines usual'y is sure-foot^ when
he crosses the little catwalk across
’’he cihanel to go fishing, but Wed-
esday he fell face down in the tar-
ike mud for which the ohanel is
ell-known.
Southern Pacific track foreman,
Carlo Clerisci, saw Hines fa’l and
•'usihed to the spot with five labor
ers. They managed to get Hines
■)ver on his back with a crowbar,
■’nd firemen used special equipment
0 lift him from the mire and out
cn the bank.
“He’d have been dead in a mat
ter of minutes,” Clerisci said.
Taken to the Navy hospital at
Oakland for a checkup, Hines was
most worried about his gold retire
ment watch. It was still nmning.
SOME FACES ought not to be
taken in broad daylight.
Germans to Launch Drive Against
Ant i'Semitic Demonstrations
BONN, Germany AP — The
West German government
launched a double-barreled cam
paign Wednesday night to stamp
f'ut anti-Semitic demonstrations
by swift court action against
hatemongers and stiffer senten
ces.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
and his cabinet called for speedy
enactment of a law to increase
the penalties for “stirring up ha
tred against groups because of
their natural origin.” The maxi
mum sentence now is three
months in jail; the bill to be
submitted to the Bundestag will
Bet that as the minimum.
Aspecial cabinet meeting also
agreed unanimously “that cases
under investigation should be
brought to court as quickly as
possible and that the penalties
should correspond to the sever
ity of the misdeeds,” a com
munique said.
Two Germans already have
been convicted of anti-Semitic
acts. Police say two others being
held have admitted daubing
swastikas and anti-Jewish slo
gans on the new synagogue in
Cologne on Christmas Eve, the
incident which launched the pre
sent wave of antiSemitic acts.
sm^’ir camiaiff"—swasti
kas and slogans abusing Jews -
ke'^t un s'>orad’calIv in scattered
sections of the world for the 15th
day. Police in all countries af
fected kept up their hunt for the
paint brush smearers and also
sought to determine whether
there was any undercover world
organization linking them.
Atop commentator on Moscow
radio said Wednesday the anti-
Semitic outbursts in the United
States and Britain are about as
dangerous as a “slight cold to a
healthy person.”
Some Jewish leaders have de-
c 1 a r e d that the outbreads
smacked of a revival of Naziism
and showed signs of an under
ground fascist movement. Others
have branded the anti-Semitic
displays as the work of hood
lums, malcontents and crack
pots. There also have been sug
gestions that the Communists
sparked the outbreak in West
Germany to discredit Aden
auer’s government.
A West German government
spokesman said Wednesday their
investigations had failed to un
cover evidence of an orgaanized
campaign against the Jews in
Germany.
WASHINGTON AP — Here are
the main points covered in Pres
ident Eisenhower’s State of the
Union message tcday:
The Soviet Union .— Has ex
pressed interest in reducing
peril of war, but we must not
“be misled by pleasant promises
until they are tested by perfor
mance.”
Economic Outlook — “1960
premises to be the most prosper
ous year in our history.”
Space—U. S. expenditures will
be practically doubled in 1961;
military program not suffering
from lack of big rocket engines
needed for deep exploration of
space; development of large
rocket engines is being press
ed forward.
Free World —Other prosper
ous countries should join the
United States in giving urgently
needed help to developing na
tions.
Defense—Long — range bomb
ers are being supplemented by
Atlas missiles, missile submar
ines; but the United States will
never turn loose this destructive
power except in self-defense.
STRIKES — The President
will encourage discussions be
tween management and labor
to consider public interest and
avoid crippling strikes such as
the steel strile.
AGRICULTURE — The Presi
dent urges Congress to enact
legislation to reduce surpluses
and increase farm income.
CIVIL RIGHTS — He hopes
Congress will consider his civil
rights recommendations in last
year’s message as well as addi
tional recommendations by the
civil rights commission; says
right to vote is one of the
strongest pillars of a free
scciety.
INFLATION — “No person,
city, state or organized group
can afford to evade the obliga
tion to resist inflation. I shall
present to the Congress for 1961
a balanced budget.”
EDUCATION — The admini
stration has proposed a program
to stimulate classroom construc
tion by encouraging state and
local efforts.
CONGRESS — Although faced
with the opposition party in
power again, the President said
he looks forward to a close and
constructive association.
German Refugee
Is Candidate for
Congress
RALEIGH AP — Wealthy
Waynesville shoe manufacturer
Heinz Rollman has become the
state’s first candidate for Con
gress to file with the Board of
Elections.
He placed himself in the race
for the 12th Congressional Dis
trict post as a Repubhcan. Rep.
David M. Hall of Sylva, a Dem
ocrat, who recently underwent
cancer surgery, holds the job
and has indicated he may seek
reelection.
Rollman campaigned for the
seat as a Democrat two years
ago, but was defeated for the
nomination. Rollman announced
several months ago he was
switching parties.
He said he expected two or
three other candidates for the
12th’s Republican nomination.
Rollman, is a German refugee
who came to this country 20
years ago.
DUAHAM AP— Two pris-
cners-one with a .32 caliber pis-
toI-3scaped from the Guess Road
Prison Camp shortly after
midnight.
Supt. J. H. Belton this morn
ing identified the escapees as
Junior Jernigan, 25, of Godwin,
serving time for arson; and John
F. Ward, 20, of Athens, Ga.,
serving time for forgery.
Belton said Jernigan stole a
1957 model car from the camp
shortly after midnight acd
'iscaped.
Ward stole the pistol from a
prison guard and fled on foot a
few minutes later, Belton said.
Mentally Retarded
Children Recieve
New Hospital
RALEIGH AP— As soon as the
Hospitals Board of Control can
decide on a site, construction
will begin on a -million-dollar
institution for mentally retarded
children.
The board meets later this
month and may select the site.
The new structure which was
approved last October by North
Carolim voters in a bond refer
endum. The date for the meet
ing has not been set.
The hospital will be built in
the western or Piedmont sec
tions. Morganton has been con
sidered as the most likely spot,
but indications are that States
ville, Hickory and Salisbury also
will make a pitch.
Some 600 mentally retarded
youngsters wiU be housed in
the institution, which is expected
to be ready by the 1961-63 bien
nium.
Skeleton Found
Chained to Wall
PLYMOUTH, England AP —A
skeleton found chained to the
wall of a sewage inspection pit
may be the remai's ■! an.
American.
Police said this was among
theoires they wtre working on
after discovering a pair of brow.T.
shoes with the pile of human
bones.
The shoes were labeled with
the trade mark of an Am3.-ioan
company. They also are manu
factured in Britain but only for
export.
A farmer, grazing his cattle
through the crumbling remains
of an abardoned World War II
naval base near here, discovered
the skeleton Monday.
Prisoners Riot
In Connecticut
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. AP—
Prisoners overpowered two guards
and grabbed their keys at the
Connecticut State Prison Wednes
day night, triggering a riot by
more than 400 shouting, stomping
inmates.
State Police troopers and prison
guards quelled the riot after 2%
hours with tear gas and hi’h-pres-
surs water hoses. A fireman and
a prisoner suffered minor -injurie:.
Warden Mark S. Richmond said
about a dozen ringleaders over
whelmed the two guards, locked
them in a cell and used their keys
to free nearly half the population
of the prison.
The warden said prison officials
and State Police would investigate
to find out “who, when, where
and what brought it about.”
The outbreak occurred at about
9 p.m., as guards were completing
the task of locking the inmates in
their cells for the night after a
recreation period.
School Closes
RAVENA, N. Y. AP — A
school closed today after a di
gestive ailment struck about 20
per cent of this village’s 5,000
residents. A laboratory is sdek-
ing the cause of the illness.
Some victims have required
hospital care. About 270 of the
1,800 pupils at the Ravena—
Coeymans—Selkirk school were
reported ill.
Railroad Strike Has Been Averted
Says Labor Secretary Mitchell
to committees for study and re
commendation is similar to the
one Mitchell and Vice President
Nixon exacted from the United
Steelworkers Union and the steel
industry in settling the nation
wide steel strike Monday.
DETROIT AP — The Detroit
News said in a front-page story
today that Labor Secretary
Mitchell “is convinced a threat
ened nationwide railroad strike
has been averted.”
Th3 story said Mitchell’s op
timism follows months of behind-
the-scenes work and “is based
on a promise by both railroad
labor and management that
their fight over ‘featherbedding’
will be referred to committees
for study and recommendation.”
The Washington story by J. F.
Ter Horst said the secretary ob
tained this pledge after more
than 30 private meetings with
railway executives and leaders
of the railway brotherhoods.
The railroad controversy over
work rules has threatened to
bloom into a costly and crip
pling strike.
Rail officials have said they
intend to cut down drastically
on what they term “featherbed
ding” which they say contrib
ute to waste and inefficiency of
operation. The union denies that
the work rules foster inefficien
cy and waste.
Agreement by the two sides to
refer to the work rules dispute
Highway Tally
RALEIGH AP—The Motor Ve
hicles Department’s tally of high
way deaths and injuries for the
24 hours ending at 10 a.m. today:
Killed this year 14
Killed to date last year 23
InjuredI to Nov. 1, 1959 20,129
Injured to Nov. 1, 1958 17,253
The Weather
North Carolina; Cloudy with
occasional rain ending west por
tion late today and east portion
tonight. Not quite so cold today,
high 40 to 45 west portion rang
ing to 50 along the coast. A little
colder west portion tonight with
low around 30 in the mountains
ranging to near 40 along the
coast. Friday, decreasing cloud
iness and somewhat warmer.