* The Daily Chowanian *
VUume 1 — Number 41
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Thursday, February 11, 1960
Associated Press
Parings Begin For
Jr. College
WILMINGTON, N.C. AP—Fi
nal pairings for the Virginia-
Carolina junior college basket
ball tournament, beginning here
next Thursday, will be complet
ed this week unless a playoff
for the eighth spot develops.
Charlotte 2-13 plays Louisburg
on Saturday night needing a win
to gain the final berth. Edwards
Military, 2-14, has completed its
season and v.:ould tie Charlotte
for the final spot should the
Queen City five lose. If the
teams tie, they will play for the
eighth spot.
Final standings will determine
how teams will be paired.
The defending champion Wil
mington College, currently
leads the conference with a 13-2
record. Its final game, sched
uled tonight is at Campbell.
Teams certain to be in the
tournament are Wilmington,
Cam/pbell, Louisburg, Ch(owan,
Frederick of Virginia, Oak
Ridge Military and Presbyter
ian Junior.
The tournament winner is eli
gible for a regional junior col
lege tournament, whose winner
plays in a national event.
Stock Market
NEW YORK AP — A few is
sues made good gains in a nar
rowly mixed stock market early
this afternoon. Trading was at the
slowest pace of 1960.
Small gains and losses, few go
ing to as much as a point, were
the general rule for most key
stocks.
A scattering of selected issues
were up form 1 to about 3 points
The nearnss of Friday’s Lin
coln’s Birthday observance had
something to do with the extreme
ly light turnover, brokers said. The
major stock exchanges will be open
but banks will be closed and many
in the financial district will take
off today for a three-day weekend.
Airlines showed a degree of
firmness, tobaccos were steady but
steels, motors and chemicals were
mixed.
The Associated Press average
of 60 stocks at noon was un
changed at 216.60 with the indus
trials off .10, the rails up .30 and
the utilities off .20.
Corporate bonds were narrowly
mixed.
U.S. government bonds were
irregular.
Big Fire In New Bern Causes Large
Damage, Origin Undetermined
NEW BERN, N.C. AP — Fire
of undetermined origin destroy
ed a two-story brick building
in dov/ntown New Bern early to
day after fire fighters from six
nearby towns were summoned
to help battle the blaze, fanned
in its early stages by winds of
25 to 30 miles per hour.
Sgt. Ray Wetherington of the
New Bern Fire Department said
damage was unofficially esti
mated at up to $100,00.
No one was reported injured.
Wetherington said the walls of
the building, which housed the
Ace Electric Co., collapsed. He
said a furniture store warehouse
and a refrigeration concern also
were in the building.
The high winds subsided and
only periodic gales hindered fire
fighters some three hours after
the alarm was turned in at 12:50
a.m. Rain also started falling
and helped contain the blaze.
Sgt. Wetherington said fire
fighting units f r’o m Cherry
Point, Bridgeton, Vanceboro,
Greenville Washington and Kin
ston arrived to help battle the
flames. He said they were cal
led when it was feared the winds
might cause the blaze to quick
ly spread to other buildings ir
this Eastern North Carolina
town’s business center.
Eisenhower Unable
To Accept Invitation
COPENHAGEN AP — Presi
dent Eisenhower told the Danish
government today that he is un
able to accept an invitation to
visit Denmark this spring. Simi
lar invitations were sent to
Washington by the governments
of Sweden and Finland, and
Norway was expected to join in.
Presumably those invitations al
so will be declined. The Scandi
navian governments invited Ei
senhower to stop en route to his
visit to Russia.
Mr. K. Begins Four-Nation
”Peace and Friendship’^ Tour
By WATSON SIMS
NEW DELHI, India AP —
Nikita Khrushchev today began
a four-nation “peace and friend
ship” tour of Asia before Indian
crowds small by comparison
with the tumultuous throngs
who greeted President Eisen
hower two months ago.
Beaming and waving his white
Panama hat to thin lines of flag-
waving Indians, the Soviet Pre
mier seemed either unaware or
undaunted by the comparison of
the welcomes.
More than a miUion Indians
Iiad turned out to welcome the
U.S. President. The crowd today
was in the neighborhood of 250,-
000.
Seaton To Speak
At Metting Tonight
ASHEVILLE AP — U.S. Secre
lary of Interior Fred A. Seaton
will speak tonight to a meeting
of Republican party faithful from
North Carolina’s 12th congression
al district, which covers 10 western
counties.
District GOP Chairman Orville
Coward said more than 1,000 are
expected for the Lincoln Day din
ner. Expected to be in attendance
are two aspirans for the Repub
lican congressional nomination;
Heinz Rollman, Waynesville shoe
manufacturer, an Richard Clark
Jr., Hendersonville.
The district’s seat has been va
'ant since Jan. 29 when Rep. David
i^all, a Democrat, died from com
plications following a cancer oper
ation.
Gold Asks For
Insurence Increase
RALEIGH AP — Insurance
Commissioner Charles F. Gold pre
sides today as North Carolina auto
nsurance firms ask for a 9.5 per
cent increase on liability rates.
The firms, represented by the
North Carolina Automobile Rate
Administrative Office, based their
request on two years’ accident
experience since the state enacted
a compulsory insurance law.
Gold recently turned down the
rate office in its bid for a 19.1
ler cent boost because the filing
ncluded the experience of only
one year.
Negro Students Resume Sitdown Protest
RALEIGH AP — Negro col
lege students resumed their sit-
down protest against segregat
ed eating practices today.
Lunch counters at Kress’
store, near the State Capitol,
and at Walgreen’s drug store
closed promptly when the Ne
gro youths sat down for ser
vice.
Kress and Walgreen’s had re
opened today after closing down
their lunch counters Wednes-
Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Fair ra
ther windy and cooler today to
night and Friday except show
ers this morning over extreme
east portion. High today rang
ing from mid 40s over moun
tains to near 70 immediate
coast. Low tonight ranging from
25 to 30 mountains to 35 to 40
coast.
day, along with four other
stores, when the spreading sit-
down movement hit Raleigh.
Two other variety stores
Woolworth’s and McLeUan’s, did
not attempt to reopen their
lunch counters today. Counter
stools had been removed over
night at both places.
A department store, Hudson-
Belk, kept its luncheonette clos
ed to the public, but served
food to its employes.
Eckerd’s drug store, which
closed its lunch counter Wednes
day, was operating as usual to
day. It displayed “no trespass
ing” signs.
All six of the stores promptly
closed their lunch counters
Wednesday after the Negro stu
dents appeared.
Things were quiet today at
several other North Carolina
cities where the sitdown move
ment struck earlier. Many of the
variety stores in these cities al
so had closed their lunch coun
ters.
A tense situation developed in
Raleigh Wednesday when groups
of whites, mainly youths in their
teens, moved into the affected
stores. They moved along the
aisles near the lunch counters,
occasionally making low-voiced
threats.
At Woolworth’s at least one
egg was thrown from the crowd
of whites. It landed on the coun
ter and spattered on some of the
Negro students. They ignored it.
Raleigh Mayor W. G. Enloe
declared in a statement that the
city “is going to enforce all
laws” of the state and city “in
the interests of peace and tran
quility wittiout discrimination
and with the utmost promjjt-
ness.”
Mayor Enloe said that this
meant that “if anyone is guilty
of trespass they are liable to be
arrested.”
The turnout for Khrushchev
was friendly but showed none
of the wild enthusiasm shown
for Eisenhower. Many clapped,
only a few cheered, and some
watched silently as Khrushchev
drove by to the presidential pa
lace with Prime Minister Ne
hru and President Rajendra
Prasad.
The Eisenhower motorcade
took 2% hours to travel the 11-
mile routs because of the
crowds; Khrushchev did it in
about an hour.
A major reason fDr the small
er crowds today may have been
tighter security controls, order
ed to prevent the motorcade
from being blocked even once.
And Khrushchev is paying a re
turn visit to India, having been
here four years ago.
Bulletin
WAUKESHA, Wis. AP — The
Waukesha County sheriff’s office
said today that the Milwaukee ,
Road’s crack Hiawatha passenger Union, declaring they would
Khrushchev and his large
party of relatives and Soviet of
ficials arrived after an over
night flight from Moscow in a
big Ilyushin turboprop airliner.
The plane made one refueling
stop, at Tashkent.
In a brief prepared speech
at Palam Airport, Khrushchev
praised Nehru as one who “real
izes full well the significance of
friendship between our coun
tries and our common struggle
for consolidation of peace and
friendship among all nations.”
The Soviet leader made no re
ference to India’s bitter border
dispute with Red China, a topic
certain to loom large in his talks
with Nehru.
He called personal visits be
tween government leaders “one
of the effective means of invi
gorating international atmos
phere and promoting mutual un
derstanding between states.”
“Soviet-Indian cooperation in
the internationl, arena is of im
portance to securing a .durable
peace,” he said. And he held
out an invitation to Indian
statesmen to visit the Soviet
train has been derailed in the Vil
lage of Pewakee. There were no
immediate reports of injuries.
The sheriff’s office said the en
tire train was off the track.
Pewaukee is located in southern
Wisconsin, aout 18 miles west of
Milwaukee.
‘meet with a heartfelt and sin
cere welcome in our country.”
Man Gets Caught
For Taking Money
MARTINSVILLE, Va. AP — A
former insurance man pleaded
guilty today to three counts of ob
taining money under false pre
tenses by securing loans on cars
which had ben demolished in ac
cidents
William Henry Kassebart, 40,
was accused of obtaining a total
of $2,278 from two Mart.insvills.
banks ?nd an automobile finance
agency. The prosecution said he
pledged the titles of the demolish
ed cars as collateral.
He vas sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary.
Police said he obtained $1,163
from one bank in October, 19ofi;
$504 from another bank in Novem
ber of 1958, and $611 from the an-
t3omobile financing company in
December of 1958.
The FBI located Kassebart
working as a car salesman in Sum
mit, N. J., and he returned vol
untarily in June of last year and
surren(?ered to local police.
Jet Liner Sets New
Transcontinental
Speed Record
MIAMI, Fla. AP — The first
production model of Convair’s 880
four-engined jet airliner clipped
about 27 minutes off the trans
continental speed record in its
maiden flight from San Diego,
Calif., to Miami.
The four million dollars aircraft,
named “Delta Queen” by Delta Air
Lines, its new owner, streaked
coast to coast in three hours 31
minutes, 54 seconds. The previous
record was 3:58:55 set last Jan. 4
by a Douglas DC8.
Britain Constructs
Nuclear Plants
PHILADELPHIA AP — A
member of the British Atomic
Energy Authority says Great
Britain how has under construc
tion five new nuclear power
plants which will produce two
million kilowatts of electricity.
Sir William Cook, here to make
an address, said the output
would be more than any other
nation in the world. Britain now
has eight reactors supplying
300,000 kilowatts, he said.
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Employment U
Unemployment
WASHINGTON AP — Employ
ment dropped seasonally by 1,-
900.000 last month but the num
ber of Americans with jobs
—62,020,000—was a record high
for January, the Labor Depart
ment announced today.
Employment was roughly a
million higher than a year ago
despite the usual post—holiday
shrinkage in retail payrolls and
the winter curtailment of farm
ing, building and other outdoor
work.
Unemployment climbed b y
572.000 to a total of 4,149,000 in
January, about the usual in
crease for the season. Jobless
ness was 5.2 per cent of the ci
vilian labor force, the same as
in December. This compared
with 6 per cent a year ago.
Highway Tally
RALEIGH AP — The Motor
Vehicles Department’s report
of highway deaths and injuries
for the 24 hours ending at 10
a.m.
Killed 0
Injured rural 9
Killed this year 98
Killed to date last year 145