THE DAILY CHOWANIAN, MURFREESBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
Yadkin River Dam Would Be Best
Investment, Hodges Tells Citizens
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. |
AP — Gov. Hodges told Wi!k?s j
Ccuity and Winston-Salem citi- |
zcns Monday right a Yadkin 1
River flood control d'm would:
be one of the “best investments
you can make in your own
future.”
Area voters ga to the polls
next month to decide whether
to issue $1,203,030 in bonds to
help build the project and to pay
for the water storate feature of
the dam. Wilkes countians and
Winston-Salem voters each will
decide on whether to issue
$603,000.
In a speech to the annual meet
ing of the Wilkes Chamber of
Ccmmerce, Hodges said the
Yadkin River project can have
a far-reaching effect through
out North Carolina.
“Similar projects are being
planrxd for other areas of the
state and in all probability the
actions of the people here will
sat a pattern for other flood
control structures to be con
structed in the future.”
Indian Freed
On Dynimiting
School Bus
Navy Scientists
Decorated By Ike
WASHINGTON AP — Presi
dent Eisenhower decorated a
t3am of Navy-civilian scien
tists today for diving in a sub
mersible laboratory to the deep
est rrot of the ocean floor known
to man.
The awards were for the de
scent of the bathyscaph “Tri
este” to a depth of 37,800 feet
about 210 miles southwest oif
Guwam, in the Pacific, on Jan.
23.
The awards were to:
Jacques Piccard of Switzer
land, under contract to the Navy,
Public Service Award,
the U. S. Navy Distinguished
of Merit.
Lt. Don Walsh, Navy, Legion
Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer, Na
val Electronics Laboratory, the
Distinguished Civilian Service
award.
DUNN. N.C. AP — A Dunn In
dian was free on bond today
rending his appeal to Superior
Court of a misdemeanor convic
tion on charges of dynamiting a
parked school bus New Year’s eve.
Enoch Jones, 43, was sentenced
to 12 months on the roads by
Judge H. Paul Strickland Monday
in Dunn Recorder’s Court. The
judge also ordered him bound
over for trial in Harnett Superior
Court or a felony charge.
Jones, who served notice of ap
peal on the misdemeanor convic
tion. was released undor $2,000
bond.
A co defendant, Eugene Chance,
42 W3’’ acquitted on one misde-
■npanoi- charge and not prosecuted
Zo^ another. The state also drop-
p d felony counts against him.
Chance and Jones were charged
w;th de.'-troying the bus, used to
carry Inr?ians students to a special
school 34 miles away in Clinton,
I as it was parked Dec. 31 in front
i of the home of teacher-driver
Joseph Brewington.
There has been resentment
among local Indian parents ob
jecting to the 68-mile round trip
bus rides their children must take
to attend the special school.
Border Clash
Small Economy Car
Owners Given 10
Per Cent Discount
NEW YORK AP — Owners of
small economy cars will be giv
en a 10 per cent discount on
automobile insurance premiums
by more than 400 insurance com
panies, it was announced today.
The announcement was made
by the National Bureau of Cas
ualty Underwriters and the Na
tional Automobile Underwriters
Assn., which said they have
asked insurance supervisory au
thorities in 43 states to approve
the discount starting March 1.
Approval will be sought later in
other states.
The 10 per cent discount alsc
will apply to two-car families
already getting a 25 per cent
credit, and also to autos eligi
ble for the 10 per cent driver
education rate credit where
there are male drivers under
25 years of age.
Small cars of the sports car
type are not eligible for the dis
count, the announcement said.
Egyptian Army Troops Have Taken
Up Positions Along Sinai Desert
Ex-Gen. Believes
U.S.S.R. Will Soon
Have Military Lead
LONDON AP — The British
government announced receipt of
ofticial information from the Unit
ed Nations today that a cease-fire
has been arranged in the Syrian
border clash between Israeli and
United Arab Republic troops.
‘ The U. N. Truce Observation
Commission is on the spot, a for
eign office spokesman said. “This
' coTiimission has the first responsi-
I bility of trying to settle the
I natter locally.”
Kennedy Says He Will Enter West
Virginia And Indiana Primaries
W-\SHINGTON AP — Sen. John
F. Kennedy of Massachusetts an
nounced today that he will enter
Ih"' West Virginia and Indiana
primaries in his campaign for the
Pemocratic presidential nomina
tion.
With this step, he said, he will
have entered every presidential
primary which binds its nominat
ing convention delegates for one or
more ballots and where no legit
imate favorite son is running.
No other presidential aspirant
has been willing to do this,” he
told a news conference.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnesota formally entered West
Virginia’s May 10 primary today.
He previously had announced in
tentions to do so. Kennedy said
he had accepetd Humphrey’s chal
lenge to run there although he
ori?inally had not intended to do
SO,”
Kennedy noted that the West
Virginia primary falls on the same
day as the primary in Nebraska,
which he previously had commit
ted himself to enter. Humphrey
said Wednesday he is giving ser
ious consideration to entering the
Nebraska contest. That would set
up a doubleheader trial for a single
day. .
Kennedy said that with his en
try into the West Virginia and In
diana primaries, he has complet
ed the list of states in which he
now plans to file.
He didn’t rule out the possibility
that he may yet decide to go into
California despite the favorite son
role of Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
Counters Moved
By Negroes
GREENSBORO AP —A group
f Negro youths—partially
their attempt to be served at the
thwarted by white youths in
luncheon counter of the Wool-
worth store here—moved some
of their members to the Kress
store’s luncheon counter.
At Kress store, six Negro
youths were seated, unserved,
while six more afaited seats.
At Woolworth, around 60 white
youths partially blocked the
third-day offort of the Negroes
to obtain service.
A spokesman for the white
youths said he knew of students
from Rankin, Pleasant Garden
and Sumner the group which
started out at 10 a. m. with a-
round 20. Their numbers grew
as the Negro delegation grew
until at noon each side appeared
to have around 60 on hand.
The white youths were giving
up their seats to white patrons,
but were demanding return of
the seat on completion of service.
At nobn, tour of the white
youths milling around the group,
were noticed wearing hunting
knives around their belts. Plains-
clothesmen took a toy pistol
from one Negro youth.
Profits Less Than
Expected On Steel
YOPK AP — The steel
strike’s tell in profits and output
turns out to be less than first ex
pected. But its lone-range toll in
consumer prices and in lost mar
kets is yet to be assessed.
The nation’s three largest steel
producers show a decline in prof
its in 1959 from 1958. But in spite
of rnnrptions at a loss during the
struck third quarter, their final
figures for the year aren’t bad at
all. U.S. Steel’s profits, for ex
ample, were the best for any post
war year since 1955.
And most steel producers show
increased profits in 1959. Some of
the smaller ones weren’t struck
and were able to work at capacity
with few customers quibbling
about prices. Some of the larger
on?s had only part of their opera
tions cut off by the strike and did
well enough with the plants to off
set str ielseoskekkfhrdlrdlddldlwy
set s*rike losses in the others.
the ?3 steel and iron com
panies reporting earnings to date,
on'v seven show declines in net
income after taxes. Combined the
23 show 1959 earnings topping
1958 by 3.5 per cent.
As for output the nation’s steel
mills turned out eight million
more tons of steel last year, de
spite the strike, than they did in
1958.
The industry also increased
steel-making capacity by nearly
one million tons last year. And
this year it plans to spend 1%
billion dollars on construction and
new equipment, or half a billion
more than last, and almost as much
as the record 1957 outlay of 1%
billion dollars.
A chief factor in the good show
ing in both profits and output last
yesr was the big spurt in the first
half of the year getting ready for
the strike.
A chief factor in the planning
for this year is that the steel com
panies are working hard to catch
up after the strike and replenish
customers’ stocks. So profits are
soaring.
But the strike did take its toll
in other ways. Americans bought
a record 4% million tons of for
eign steel, an increase of 259 per
cent over 1958. American exports
of steel dropped to 1% million
tons, the lowest since 1936.
By EDWIN B. HHAAKINSON
Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army
that the Soviet Union will have
military superiority starting
next year “unless we take her-
otic measures now.”
Army chief of staff last June,
Taylor, who stepped out as
told a Senate defense investi
gation that “the trend of mili
tary strength is against us.
“Our manned bombemr force
is a dwindling military asset,”
the former four-star general
said. “Our long range missile
tain in reliability, and immo-
force is limited in size, uncer-
bile upon exposed bases.
“We have no anti-missile de
fense in being or in sight. There
is no effective fall-out protec
tion for our civil population.
Taylor, now chairman of the
.lexican Light & Power Co. Ltd.,
lexico City, gave his views at
a public session of the combined
Senate Space Committee and
Preparedness subcommittee.
Also on the witness list was
Gen. Layman L. Lemnitzer who
post.
The hearing s are aimed to de
replaced Taylor in the top Army
/elop information about this
;ountry’s military position. The
jubject has long been a matter
f runnong debate—a debate in
which President Eisenhower
has retorted to criticisms by
saying he knows more about it
than his critics.
Only Wednesday, the Presi
dent commented that there are
“too many of these generals”
who have “all sorts of ideas.”
CAIRO AP — Egyptian army
troops today were reported to has e
taken up positions along the U.N.-
patrolled Egyptian-Israeli frontier
in the Sinai Desert as a result of
the Sinai Desertt as a result of
clashes between Israeli and Syrian
troops.
The newspaper A1 Ahram report
ed Egyptian troops have moved up
all along Israel’s western desert
frontier in the past three days. The
paper said the Egyptian army had
been placed on a state of emerg
ency so that it and forces in the
Syrian province of the United Arab
Republic would be “fully prepared
to meet all eventualities.” All mili
tary leaves were cancelled.
In Oslo, the Norwegian army
command announced Norwegian
troops serving with the U.N. force
would be pulled out immediately if
serious fighting developed between
the U.A.R. and Israel. The Nor
wegian command said its troops
were on the Egyptian-Israeli bor
der for police duty only.
Daily clashes since Friday be
tween Israeli and Syrian troops
prompted the dispatch of the
Egyptian forces to tthe Sinai fron
tier, where men of the U.N. Emer
gency Force maintain preventive
patrols as an aftermath of the
Israeli invasion of 1956.
So far there has been no action
on the Israeli-Egyptian frontier.
Four days of shooting which re
newed fears of a Middle East out
break have been limited to Israel’s
northeast frontier, where a demili
tarized zone separates Israel and
the Syrian province of the U.A.R.
Satellite Launchde
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia AP—
\ Czechoslovak scientist said to
day he believes the Soviet Union
next month will send up a space
•■Jitellite which will return to earth.
He implied it might carry a living
animal.
Dr. Vladimir Guth, head of the
Cz“choslovak Academy of Sciences
observatory at Ondrejov, told the
official news agency CTK he based
his belief on the successful firing
of two Soviet space rockets into
1 fie Pacific Jan. 20 and Sunday.
Remarkable QuaKties Are Shown In
Work Of Eisenhower And De Gaulle
Bardot Returns
PARIS AP — Brigitte Bardot
returned to the' film studio Mon.
day for the first time since giving
birth to a son, Nicolas, two weeks
ago. The blonde star started re
hearsals for “La Verlte” The
Truth.
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON AP — Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle and
President Eisenhower have in
’ommon a remarkable quality
.vhich has served them weU in
critical movements. It is re
straint.
With great calmness and seU-
:;onfidence De Gaulle has just
smashed the greatest threat to
his presidency and the contin-
led existence of the French Re
public; The revolt in Algiers
Eisenhower, without fireworks
and practically without raising
his voice, has handled one crisis
and peril after another during
his seven years in the White
House.
Where do they get this quality
of restraint? There are several
foctors, of course. For instance
their individual characters and
philosophies; the fact that both
grew up in a Democratic tradi-
erstion. But there seem to be
Dthers.
Perhaps, because both had
gained so much self-assurance
as military leaders, neither felt
it necessary to prove his
strength or toughness by bellig-
tion to rely on their prestige out-
3rency when faced with crises
in their political careers. They
had become used to crises.
Unlike politicians whose pres
tige was derived from their of-
"ice Eisenhower and De Gaulle
had built up a huge backlog of
public confidence in themselves
as military men.
Both therefore were in a posi
tion to rely on their prestige out
weighing and finally ending in
their favor the problem that
faced them.
Without such pre-political
prestige, and the self-assurance
acquired long before, they might
have felt it necessary to assert
their power by force when con
fronted with a challenge to their
political authority.
This may explain in part why
two such political monsters as
Hitler and Mussolini depended
upon force for their solutions
and made a religion of military
action.
Unless there is another war,
future De Gaulles and Eisenhow
ers are ant to be few and far be
tween if only because the kind of
prestige they got can come to
military men only in war.
The first was soon after he
took office in 1953 and Sen. Jos
eph McCarthy attacked him.
McCarthy, in pitting himself a-
gainst Eisenhower, was relying
on what he thought was the pres
tige he had won as a Communist-
hunter.
Eisenhower could have fought
back. Instead, he depended on
public confidence in him and
let his aides challenge McCar
thy in a public showdown which
steadily and surely eroded Mc
Carthy.
Again Eisenhower, despite the
provocations of Egyptian Pres
ident Nasser, avoided the possi
bility of world war by stopping
in a hurry the British-French in
vasion of Egypt.