The Daily Chowanian
Volume 1 — Number 43
Murfreesboro, Norlh Carolina, Tuesday, February 16, 1960
EisenhowerSeven-Point
On Without Paar
NEW YORK AP — The Jack
Paar television show went on the
air Monday night—without Paar
but with some quips by author
Alexander King that brought a
few gasps from the audience.
Paar and his wife, Miriam,
left their Bronxville, N. Y.,
home Monday for a vacation.
The comedian had said he was
going to South America or Mex
ico. His agent would say only
that Paar was headed toward
“a warm climate.”
The comedian walked off his
show Thurdsay night. He pro
tested the censorship of a joke
by the National Broadcasting Co.
from his taped show of the pre
vious night.
Paar said then he would not
return to the show, but he has
cooled off a little since and said
he hopes he doesn’t have to re
turn to the show. He remains un
der contract to NBC.
King, who appeared often with
Paar on the program, talked at
length about censorship. NBC al
lowed the entire program on the
air as taped, including King’s
comments.
The author said he would not
appear on the show again with
out Paar.
Civil Rights Bill Killed
WASHINGTON AP — A South
ern Democrat today blocked a
move to force the Eisenhower ad
ministration’s seven-point civil
rights legislation out of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee.
A motion to report the bill to
the Senate was made by Sen.
Kenneth B. Keating R-NY—but
not until the Senate itseif was al
ready in session.
Sen. Olin D. Johnson D-SC
objected that the motion was out
of order since the committee did
not have permission to be sitting
while the Senate was meeting.
Johnson’s point was upheld by
Sen. James O. Eastland D-Miss,
the committee chairman.
It was just another bit of jock
eying over the whole civil rights
issue which has the Senate em
broiled in controversy.
Across the Captil, meantime,
the House Rules Committee re
sumed hearings on a relatively
mild civil rights bill. Rep. Wil-
Eisenhower Asks for Large Sum
In Foreign Aid Appropriations
liam M. Tuck D-Va took the wit
ness chair to declare there is no
need for any legislation.
Tuck, a former governor, said
100,000 Negroes are qualified to
vote in Virginia and no effort is
made to prevent them from voting.
The relationship between white
people and Negroes in Virginia,
he said, is good.
“Just let us alone,” he added.
Despite the absence of a bill as
such, the civil rights issue is on
the Senate floor through proposed
amendments to an unrelated bill.
And Sens. Jacob K. Javits R-
NY and Paul Douglas D-Ill an
nounced they will offer an omni
bus proposal including provisions
for presidentially appointed voting
registrars and court appointed
voting referees.
Their proposal also would in
clude authorization for the attor
ney general to intervene in civil
suits involving civil rights cases.
With no civil rights measure ap
proved by committee and with no
House-passed bill available, Sen
ate Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas got the issue be
fore the Senate by a parliamen
tary maneuver Monday.
WASHINGTON AP—President
Eisenhower asked Congress today
for $4,175,000,000 in new foreign
aid funds to safeguard the free
world against the “enormous pow
er bloc of Communist imper
ialism.”
The mutual security program is
essential to world progress in free
dom, he said in a special message
to Congress.
The sum, nearly a billion dollars
more than Congress voted last
year, would be split up in this
Attempts Made to
Check Polio Orally
MIAMI, Fla. AP — The nation’s
pioneer mass attempt to check
polio through oral vaccine is on
here under the interested eye of
the vaccine’s originator.
Dr. Harold Cox, who developed
the cherry-flavored potion to sup
plant innoculations, praised the
program’s public opening in the
Greater Miami area.
“Although one million people
have taken the vaccine already,”
he said, “saving the life of one
American will make more of an
impression than saving the lives
of a million Russians. That is why
we think the Dade County pro
gram is so important.” A similar
type vaccine is being used in the
Soviet Union.
Cox flew here from New York
for the start Monday of Greater
Miami’s oral vaccine program.
About 7,000 persons drank the
vaccine dose—two cubic centime
ters of a pink fluid—at several
civic centers and clinics. Health of
ficials hope to swell the number
to half a million to provide a basis
for studying the vaccine’s effec
tiveness next fall.
way: Two billion dollars for weap
ons aid to allies and $2,175,000,-
000 for economic and technical
assistance.
In appealing to the legislators
to avoid drastic cuts in the pro
gram, Eisenhower mentioned his
11-nation December goodwill tour
to Asia, the Middle East and
Europe.
“My recent travels impressed
upon me even more strongly the
fact that free men everywhere
look to us, not with envy or malice
but with hope and confidence that
we will in the future, as in the
past, be in the vanguard of those
who believe in and will defend
the right of the individual to enjoy
the fruits of his labor in peace
and in freedom,” he said.
Four Killed i n
Blazing Home
ROME, N. Y. AP — A cab
driver and his three young sons
burned to death when a fire
swept their two-family home
early today.
Police haid the dead were Ar
nold Johnson, 40, and his sons,
Jerold, 16, Carmen,14, and Al
len, 7.
Johnson’s wife, Ester, was in
Oneida County Hospital for an
operation. The couple’s three-
year-old daughter was a pat
ient in the same hospital for a
skin disease.
Johnson Monday attended his
father’s funeral.
Rhee Assured
Of Re-election
SEOUL, South Korea AP —
Tough old Syngman Rhee has
been assured of re-election to
his fourth term as president of
South Korea by the death of his
chief opponent.
Without a change in election
laws, the opposition Democrat
ic party cannot nominate a re
placement for Chough Pyong-ok,
C5, who died suddenly Monday
in Washington, where he had
been recuperating from abdomi
nal surgery. The election is
March 15.
One major newspaper, Donga
Ilbo, said in an editorial that
Rhee’s Liberal party, which has
a majority in the National As
sembly, should give the Demo
crats a chance to name another
candidate. But Supreme Court
Justice Kim Too-il, chairman of
the Central Election Committee,
said it is impossible for the Dem
ocrats to put up a substitute.
Unknown Object
Spotted Over
Alaska Sunday
ANCHORAGE, Alaska UP) —
a silvery object flashed through
weatern Alaska skies late Sun
day belching flames and leaving
a dozen unanswered questions in
its wake.
Was it a jet plane? If so,
whose? Was it an unidentified
flying object?
The Alaska Air Command
hopes to come up with some ol
the answers today.
The flame-belching object was
reported by several persons
from Nome to St. Michael about
150 miles away. They said it ap
peared from the direction of
Siberia and hurtled southeast
erly.
The reports were conflicting,
said Maj. Roy E. Haines, public
information officer at Elmen-
dorf Air Force Base.
“Some had it low and slow.
Some had it high and fast,” he
said.
Asplkesman for the North
American Air Defense Com
mand at Colorado Springs said
the agency had no report on the
object.
“If it were an ‘unknown,’ we
certainly would have a report
on it.”
Associated Press
Campbell Student
Dies of Carbon
Monoxide Gas
BUIES CREEK, N. C. AP — A
Campbell College freshman who
was found dead Sunday in his
room died from carbon monoxide
poisoning, Harnett County Coro-
ren R. L. Pate reported Monday
night.
He said James R. Pruden, 19,
of Washington, D. C., was sleep
ing in a small room with little
ventilation and that the youth’s
head was about three feet from
a botled gas heater.
It was first believed that Pru-
den had died of a heart attack. He
ivas the son of Dr. Edward Hughes
Pi-uden, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Washington.
Mikoyan Says Subs
Are not Russian
OSLO AP — Soviet First Depu
ty Prime Minister Anastas Mikoy
an today denied that unidentified
submarines reported operating in
Argenlint waters are Russian.
Mikoyan implied that specula
tion that the submarines are Rus
sian is aimed at slandering Rus
sia’s “peace-loving” policy.
The Soviet embassy in Buenos
Aires already has denied that the
mystery submarine or submarines
which the Argentine navy is try
ing to capture in a gulf on the
south Argentine coast in Russian.
Weather
NORTHH CAROLINA: Consid
erable cloudiness and rather
cold today and tonight with some
scattered light rain or snow west
portion this afternoon and oc
casional light rain east portion
tonight. High, mid 30s mountains
to near 50 coast. Lows tonight,
upper 20s mountains to upper
30s coast. Wednesday, partly \
cloudy and warm.
Explosions Rock
Oil Company
In Argentina
CORDOBA, Argentina AP —
Two violent explosions rocked
the Shell Oil Co. gasoline depot
outside Cordoba today killing
three workers and injuring 20
others, police reported. Flames
shot 600 feet in the air.
Police said they suspected the
explosions were caused by a
bomb planted by terrorists.
About 30 workers escaped in
jury as ;Bames swept four stor
age tanks and 300 drums of avi
ation gasoline belonging to the
Argentine subsidiary of the Shell
Co. Several hiouses nearby
burned in the fire.
Estimated Revenue For Television
Station Will Run Into Millions
Sitdowns Continue
Throughout Va.
PORTSMOUTH, Va. AP — Ad
ditional “sitdowns” by Negroes
appeared in the offing here today
at store lunch counters which tra
ditionally serve only white people.
’Two demonstrations occurred
Monday at department stores in a
Portsmouth shopping center, and
after each sitdown the Negroes in
volved promised to return today.
A third sitdown took place in
Newport News, bringing to seven
the number of such Negro dem
onstrations since last Friday in
this area.
The sitdowns at Portsmouth oc
curred at Rose’s Department Store
and Grant’s Department Store. In
both stores, the Negroes—appar
ently high school students—sat at
lunchroom counters and tables
and ware ignored while white peo
ple continued to receive service.
Both lunch counters remained
open.
The Newport News sitdown was
at Sears Roebuck’s new downtown
store and when the Negroes enter
ed a lunch room section designated
for whites only, the lunch room
was closed.
There was no disorder connect-
WASHINGTON AP — Charles
Britt, Asheville, N. C., estimated
today that the first year’s revenue
for a new elevision station prod-
posed by Southern Broadcasters
for High Point, N. C., would be
about one million dollars.
Testifying at a hearing on four
applications for authority to estab
lish a Channel 8 TV station in the
Piedmont area of the state, Britt
also said that he holds stock in
four radio stations: WIRY, Platts
burgh, N. Y,; WBAC, Cleveland,
Tcnn.; WDSR, Lake City, Fla.:
and WJBS, Deland, Fla. He said
he does not intend to give up those
stock holdings.
He said he maintains headquar
ters in Asheville, where bookkeep
ing is done for his radio interests
He said he will be station man
ager of Southern’s station if that
firm gets an FCC permit. He said
he and his family sold their inter
est in radio station WLOS, Ashe
ville about 1958. UntU then, he
said, they controlled the Skyway
Broadcasting Co., licensee for the
radio station.
I’he reason they sold out, he
said, was that a large number of
stockholders desired to obtain the
best possible price for their inter
est in a concern that had not paid
dividends.
He said that as general man
ager of television station WLOS-
TV, Asheville, he supervised the
Station’s day-to-day operations.
Russell Eagan, lawyer for Jeif-
erson Standard Broadcasting Co.,
asked Britt whether he held an op
tion for TV Channel 12 at New
Bern, N. C. Britt replied the option
has expired and said the project
was never completed because of
difficulties in getting air clearance
for a tower.
VEPCO Should
Build New Plant
Commission Says
WASHINGTON AP — The Vir
ginia Electric & Power Co. should
be granted permission to build a
200,000-kilowatt power dam on the
Roanoke River 34 miles upstream
from; the John H. Kerr Dam, Fed
eral Power Commision attorneys
feel.
The attorneys announced their
decision here Monday, suggesting
construction begin by May 1, 1961
and be completed by May 1, 1964.
Meanwhile, VEPCO or any other
interested group has until March
1 to file replies to the counsel
recommendations. The FPC coun
sel said the state of “North Caro
lina is very much in favor of this
development” and no interveners
ed with any of the demonstrations, have opposed the dam.
Man Takes Ride
On Fire Engine
NORWOOD, N. C. AP — Slight
ly scratched, but with all the
Stanly County mud wiped off,
Norwood’s new fire engine stood
ready for battle again today—but
not for another joy ride, please.
Someone went into the unlocked
volunteer fire station during the
snowy, sleety, early morning hours
Saturday. Finding the keys in the
ignition, he “just took a notion to
go for a ride,’ he said.
Out in the country, he took a
side road, but somehow got off
onto a private yard—just missing
a clothesline—and avoided nearby
Lake Tillery only by careening in
to a muddy field. The truck sank
in to its axles.
Fire Chief P. H. Maner said to
day no charges had been made
against Clyde Hoover Hurt, 31,
who admitted to officers he took
the truck.