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Volume 1 — Numbei S3
MurfreesboTO, North Carolina, Wednesday, May 11, 1960
Chowan College
Kennedy Wins Roaring
Victory Over Humphrey
Nashville Stores
Serve Negroes at
Lunch Counters
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Six Nashville stores have be
gun serving Negroes at previ
ously all-white lunch counters
on a partially integrated basis.
Small groups of Negroes sat
without incident at the six coun
ters Tuesday under a previously
secret agreement to serve them
during slack periods. Others
planned a second test of the
plan today.
Officials of the six Nashville
stores said they reached an
agreement with white and Ne
gro civic leaders to serve Negro
customers at the previously all-
white counters during slack per
iods. The agreement was not
announced in advance.
All six stores had closed their
counters at various times in
recent months during sit-in dem
onstrations which resulted in the
arrest of nearly 150 Negroes.
As part of the agreement, Ne
groes ended a boycott of down
town stores which store officials
said had not been effective.
They said the agreement was
made to bring an end to the
threat of violence which had
caused many customers to shift
their business to suburban shop
ping centers.
Boy Hospitalized
From Playmates
BLACKSBURG, S. C. AP —
Larry Bright of the Blacksburg
area appears to be on the road
to recovery in a Charlotte hos
pital, but the 14-year-old patient
wants no more of play-wrestling,
especially the so-called “Japa
nese sleeper hold.”
Last Friday, Larry—his arm
still in a cast from a fall from a
tree—and some friends were
playing. They decided to try the
hold on Larry. He drew a deep
breath and held it. One com
panion squeezed h i m tightly,
cutting off the breath, and an
other held his hands over Lar
ry’s nose and mouth.
Larry blacked out.
He was “semi-conscious and
incoherent at intervals” when
the family brought him to
Grover, N. C., said Dr. Charles
Adams. The physician said there
were times then the lad couldn’t
walk or talk well. Dr. Adams
recommended that Larry be tak
en to a specialist in Charlotte.
The specialist, Dr. Archie T.
Coffee, neur51ogist, described
the ailment as “only a bad case
of hysteria ... a nervous re
action resulting from sheer
fright.”
Dr. Coffee said that Larry is
recovering rapidly in Charlotte
Memorial Hospital, where he
likely will be a patient for an
other week.
“In fact, he is almost totally
normal now . . . but there are
times when he appears to be
bewildered,” Dr. Coffee said.
The specialist warned, how
ever: “'This kind of playing be
tween youngsters is extremely
dangerous and it can cause sud
den d^ath.”
By JACK BELL
CHARLKSTON, W. Va. AP —
Sen. John F. Kennedy’s thunder
ing victory in this state has vastly
increased the momentum of his
drive for the Democratic presi
dential nomination.
For one thing it has given him
a counter-argument to use against
those who say a Roman Catholic
cannot win the presidency.
Kennedy has put other aspirants
for the Democratic nomination in
a deep hole. He has put the
squeeze on heads of big conven
tion delegations who have been
holding out against him on the
principal grounds that a man of
his faith couldn’t win in Novem
ber.
He has, in other words, got his
convention bandwakon rolling at
top speed. It will be difficult for
his major rivals. Senate Demo
cratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
of Texas and Sen. Stuart Syming
ton D-Mo., to stop it.
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on, who called Kennedy’s West
Virginia triumph in advance, al
ready has given notice he plans
to begin campaigning at once, as
if he and the Massachusetts sen
ator already were the rival presi
dential nominees.
Raid Made on
Slot Machines
SHELBY, N. C. — Authori
ties raided about 20 clubs in
Cleveland County during the
night, and confiscated some 40
slot machines and other gamb
ling devices and large quantities
of liquor and beer.
The raids by 30 local, county
and state officers started about
11 p. m. and were completed at
7 a. m. today.
No arrests were made, but
Cleveland County Sheriff J. Hay
wood Allen said the custodian of
each club would be arrested. In
most cases, this will be the club
manager, he said.
The raids took in fraternal
clubs, veterans clubs and social
clubs. Sheriff Allen said the
raids resulted from complaints
he had received from various
persons, including wives of some
of the club members.
'K' Estimate of Ike Changes
Pilot Lost
NORFOLK, Va. AP — A
Navy pilot was lost at sea off
the Virginia capes Tuesday
when his A4D jet bomber
crashed into the Atlantic sec
onds after it was launched
from the carrier Independence.
The pilot was identified by
the Navy as Lt. John Arthur
Johnson, of Oceana-based At
tack Squadron 86. He is sur
vived by his wife, Joan, and
a three-year-old son, who lives
at Lynnhaven.
Johnson’s plane had just
been catapulted off the an
gled flight deck of the Inde
pendence when it crashed, a
Navy spokesman said. 'The
pilot was able to eject “just
as the plane hit the water,”
but sank from sight.
The plane apparently failed
to gain sufficient flying speed,
a spokesman said.
WORLD BRIEFS
LONDON AP — Queen Mother
Elizabeth today flew south on
a good-will visit to the troubled
Central African Federation of
the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.
TOKYO AP — Foreign Minis
ter Aiichiro Fujiyama told a
Parliamentary Committee today
the government would ask the
United States for military help
if Russia should attack Japan.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
AP—If the Soviet Union has
sent aerial spies over the con
tinental United States or Alaska,
the North American Air Defense
Command says it has no know
ledge or report of it.
A NORAD spokesman made
the comment Tuesday in re
sponse to calls prompted by the
downing of what Soviet leaders
say was an American-built jet
on an intelligence flight.
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW AP — Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev said to
day the spy plane incident had
changed his estimate of Presi
dent Eisenhower and they will
discuss in Paris whether the
American leader should come to
Moscow as planned.
He made the statement as he
stood on a wicker chair talking
to correspondents amidst the
wreckage of the American plane
he claims was shot down May 1
east of the Urals.
One of the newsmen asked him
point blank: “Do you want
Eisenhower to come here in view
of the plane incident?”
“W h a t do you want me to
say?” Khrushchev asked. “You
get in to my place here and re
ply for me.”
An American correspondent
then asked whether, in view of
his changed attitude toward Ei
senhower, he would want him to
postpone the visit to the Soviet
Union now scheduled for June 10.
“I would not like to comment,”
the Premier said. “We can ex
change views with the President
on that in Paris.”
He announced he is leaving
Saturday for the summit confer
ence in Paris opening May 16.
The Soviet Union denounced
Casey Stengel
Completes Fifty
Baseball Years
NEW YORK AP — Casey Sten
gel started his second half century
in baseball today with his usual
sly wink and a long look back to
Kankakee, 111.
It was on May 10, 1910, that
Stengel, 19 years old, tpok his spot
in center tield for the Kankakee
club in the old Northern Assn.
“They called me ‘Dutch’ in them
days,” rasped the 69-year-old New
York Yankee pilot. “I dunno why,
but they did. I remember the team
like it was yesterday.
“The league only lasted until
July 4, and no records were kept.
I never did find out what I was
hitting. After the last game, the
owners split up all the dough they
pulled in and beat it.
“I didn’t know it during the last
two weeks, but I was playing for
nothing. I never did collect that
pay.”
Eisenhower Announces Nafion's
Economy at Half-Trillion Mark
WASHINGTON AP —President
Eisenhower today announced that
the nation’s economy has passed
the half-trillion-dollar mark for
the first time in history.
The President also disclosed at
his news conference that employ
ment last month scored the big
gest April gain since World War
II.
Reading from notes, Eisehow-
er took advantage of a question
about housing legislation to dis
cuss the economic picture which
has been causing puzzlement and
concern in many quarters since
the first of the year.
Eisenhower said employment
increased by 1,900,000 in April to
66,200,000.
He said unemployment dropped
sharply-falling by more than
half a million.
Eisenhower’s disclosure of the
favorable employment report, it
was learned on reliable authority,
was pushed up a day to give the
President something good to an
nounce amid all the criticism of
the handling of the American spy
flight over Russia.
The government had planned to
announce the new job figures
Thursday. The job data is rarely
handled out of the White House.
Coeds Drown Spider Monkey
SAN FRANCISCO AP — Five
coeds from San Francisco State
College were convicted Tuesday
of drowning a spider monkey at
Fleishhacker Zoo.
Municipal Judge Lenore Un
derwood sentenced them to
spend Saturdays working for the
Society for Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals.
Carol C o g g i n, 18; Joanne
Pomeranz, 19; Peggy Thoene,
18; Lorelei Brede, 18; and Dar
lene O’Donnell, 18, were ar
rested the night of April 6 at a
moat-circled monkey island af
ter the zoo was closed.
One of the girls told investi
gators the venture followed a
rained-out .sorority beach party.
With less than a dozen excep
tions, all writers of autobiogra
phies leave out the details you
would most like to know about.
the flight, by Francis G. Powers,
as an act of aggression and put
what they said was his equip
ment, documents and photo
graphs on display in Gorki Park.
Foreign Minister Andrei I.
Gromyko declared in a news
conference that the United States
was playing with fire and “one
of the most dangerous forms of
brinkmanship” in sending its
planes over Soviet territory.
Gromyko condemned Presi
dent Eisenhower’s open skies
plan, first advanced at the Gen
eva summit conference of 1955,
as serving the interests of
American military intelligence.
He said the Russians naturally
could not accept it.
The sky over the Soviet Union
is closed, Gromyko said, and
will remain closed.
At a news conference in Wash
ington, Eisenhower said he will
renew at next week’s summit
meeting his proposal that the
Soviet Union and the United
States open their skies to flights
by inspection planes.
Gromyko said newsmen woxild
be allowed to see Powers only
after the Soviet investigation has
been completed.
Gromyko denounced Powers’
May Day flight, which ended
with his capture as a parachut
ist in the Sverdlivsk region, as
a bandit-like provocation and a
criminal act.
The foreign minister declared
that any aircraft which “again
dare to make a sortie into our
borders will be smashed to
smithereens.” He reiterated that
bases of nations used for espio
nage flights over Soviet territory
will be obliterated.
Among the items displayed in
the Gorky Park exhibit was a
hypodermic needle which Khru
shchev said Powers carried.
The Premier told Parliament
last week that Powers was under
orders to kill himself to aviod
capture, but “living things want
to go on living.”
Track Star From
Virginia Suffers
Bullet Wound
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. AP
—An accidental self-inflicted bul
let wound may have jeopardized
the Olympic track hopes of Tony
Sepp, the University of Virgin
ia’s 21-year-old sprinting star.
Sepp shot himself through the
left side Tuesday as he was
twirling a .22 pistol on the fir
ing range. He underwent emer
gency surgery at University Hos
pital, where a spokesman said
he was “doing very well.”
While he said Sepp would re
cover, the spokesman declined
to speculate on whether the
Lakewood, N. J., sophomore
would be able to run any more
later this season.
Just last Saturday Sepp won
the 100 and 220-yard dashes in
the Virginia Intercollegiate
Track and Field Meet. He had
developed into one of the At
lantic Coast Conference’s finest
sprinters in his first season of
varsity competition.
Sepp was eligible for Olympic
competition, assuming he h a d
been able to qualify for the
trials, by virtue of a 9.5-second
clocking in the 100 and a 20.5-
second time in the 220—both
under the Olympic qualification
standards.