Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 23, 1958, Biloxi, Mississippi PAGES Local News Coast Local S 10 14 ft National Sports 16 22 and NEA Saturday August 21, 1958 Hope To 85th Whittaker May Hold Key To School Keeps Arkansas Solons today * Files Order To Move Legal Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Whittaker may hold a special session while he examined a score of Gen. Bruce Bennett prepared the on his own initiative and Faubus asked for copies Bennett said he did not think it proper to reveal the nature of the could not be reached for comment on SCHOOL was speculation at the state Capitol that most measures concerned the closing of integrated schools under certain and the of private of the proposals reportedly give the governor the power lo shut down an integrated school whenever he felt such was essential to public told newsmen he also had drawn up several measures to activities of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People in said his decision to summon a special hinged mainly on the outcome of efforts by the NAACP to get the Supreme Court to restore integration at needed to know an order issued by the U.S. Eighth Court of Appeals at St Louis to stay its own ruling tor resumption of Faubus said he might call a special session anyway to dear Legislation out of the way before the regular biennial of the General Assembly in e a n w h i 1 the Negroes involved in the furor over renewed integration at Central High time as registration for term On Page Attacks At New Orleans Reported ORLEANS - Hospitals reported the mysterious outbreak of asthma attacks that sent scores of persons seeking relief and claimed three lives eased through the night with few additional patients of the mass attacks remained Charity treated over 90 gasping persons Friday and Friday They were released after said none of the conditions which ordinarily would have produced the attacks seemed to have three fatalities were Negro All were long-time asthma be resumed at Little Rock's Central High School when it reopens Sept 2. the answer will not come before next probably was whether Whittaker would rule or with other members of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People Friday asked Whittaker for an order removing all legal barriers to immediate re-entry of pupils into Central a focal point in the far-ranging integration NAACP in to set aside an order of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis that would delay integration at the Arkansas high school until the Supreme Court has ruled on the main issues in the petition was directed to Whittaker because the court is in summer until Oct. 6, and he has jurisdiction over the Eighth vbich includes Whittaker on his way to Los Thurgood Marshall of liew an attorney for the fUed petition with the office of the Supreme Court SENT TO court's deputy Edmund P. Friday night sent the petition via air mail special delivery to Whittaker in Los where the justice plans to attend the American Bar Assn. who had been in touch the clerk's office earlier in the directed that attorneys for the Little Rock school board be advised they have until noon next Pacific Coast to file papers in Oa Page See Puddy Ghee the and the work together on all including keeping an eagle eye out for the mean ole puddy The pair are owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles and have been chums for seven House And Reception Post Office Fund In The Senate has before it a to build a 14-story post office and federal building in New Orleans at an estimated cost of The House voted the funds in the were funds for post in some cases federal for at and and in Mississippi at Laurel and House 2 to 4 p.m. at the Convent of the Little West will mark the beginning of activities welcoming six Sisters of Mercy from They will teach in the Nativity BVM elementary school this nuus will arrive at Mobile airport Monday and be driven to arriving at 4 o'clock for the blessing of the convent by Bishop It O. diocese of SPECIAL special Mass at Nativity BVM Church will be celebrated by the the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Geoffrey T. The Very Rev James Broderick of wil deliver an historical sermon during the and Bishop Gerow will give a welcome following the Ireland will be Sister Mary de Sister Mary Sister Mary Sister Mary Sister Mary Paschal and Sister Mary Sister Mary de Lourdes will become Mother Mary de Lourdes and superior of flie the nuns on their trip are Paul and Mother Mary They will remain in a then will return to civic reception honoring the sisters will be given at 8 o'clock Monday night at the Sacred High School Mayor Continued On Page Considerable through widely scattered high today 90-94, low tonight 76-80, high Sunday 90-94; southeasterly 5-15 miles Increasing in Monday chance of low 76-80, high 90-94. Considerable cloudiness through Sunday with scattered showers and mainly in south S. Weather Station at Biloxi Yacht Qub 24 hours ended at 6 Low Noon 22..87 77 August 23.. 73 84 I. Weather Station located at the U. S. Navy Base in 24 hours ended at 5 p.m. Low Noon August 22 73 August 28..81 74 81 SMALL CRAFT Winds occasionally gusty in scattered otherwise variable miles per hour River at 6*4 down 3itfl - River at 9j: down J. A chorus girl in tiie hit musical Fair won rave notices today for her stand-in performance in the feminine lead 24, stepped in for star Julie Andrews with six notice Friday when Miss Andrews was stricken with who had never rehearsed lines with star Rex played the role of the Cockney Eliza Doolittle without a FIRST The Danish government decision to bar the U.S. atomic submarine Skate Copenhagen's is not the first instance when a newfangled vessel has caused alarm among Danish 1819, harbor officials told the skipper of the first steamship to visit the to put out the fire under the boilers before he entered the harbor and let the vessel be towed to Communist North Korea has offered relief goods to South Korean and Pyongyang radio said The broadcast said North Korea offered products and Korea refuses to recognize tiie Red regime in North Korea and was not considered group ot geologists from Communist Czechoslovakia left Cairo Friday to for oil in Egypt's Middle East news agency New British author Richard Pape was married here today to Miss Billie Pape is the author of by my and other true-life Okinawa Gen. Donald P. U.S. commissioner of Ryukyu announced today that American greenbacks will become the official currency specific date was in the said initial already have been taken to retire the B a special blocked yen which has served as Ryukyuan currency since the end of World War One U.S. dollar is worth 120 B Deadly sleeping sickness is reaching epidemic in Japan and South Health agencies report 202 dead and 1,128 mostly in Korea only 24 of the known cases So far BO Americans bava Talkative Senators Could Delay leaders said today they hope to wind up the 85th congress But they conceded talkative senators or disagreements could delay adjournment to next House had its decks pretty well cleared but still had to act on various measures after the Senate gets through with likely was the 3%-billion-dollar foreign aid The Senate Appropriations under the urging of President Eisenhower has added 440 million dollars slashed out previously by the Also waiting was a bin carrying more than six billion of operating funds for various federal The Senate Appropriations added more than 100 million dollars to this Friday on late budget requests from when these clear the CFT they must go back to 5CI Miss. before they can go to the school enroUement set a record at Mississippi State Uni- Sen. George A. Malone said 2,500 students were on Senate action for two campus this weU over houre with a speech Friday the 2,224 record set in 1948. at the end of 14% hour to resume his again Sen. Allen J. veteran critic of foreign aid was waiting with a two-hour urging Senate Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas told newsmen he doubted that the country wias much interested in just what day or week the Congress completes its Senate Leader William F. Knowland of anxious to fly home for his gubernatorial said chances of finishing the session tonight were touch and LAKES with a score of compromises on a variety of Johnson also planned Senate action on a measure to allow Chicago to divert water from the Great senators were pushing it but senators from neighboring Great Lake states were determined to block Senate action if debate should provide time for the conference AWAITING ACTION Items awaiting action Is Shelled By China United States warned Red China today against any move to seize the Quemoy or Matsu It said this could be a threat to peace of the of State Dulles Issued the statement in the form of a letter to Chairman Thomas E. Morgan of the House Foreign Affairs dated Morgan made it HURT IN LOUISVILLE Miss. was killed last night when his automobile smashed into the rear of on Highway 14 nine miles south Highway Patrol said James M. Rosamond of Gholson was driver of the other car was identified as Willie E. Boose of New MAN HEADS Fla. C. Scott has been elevated from vice president to president of the Shrine Assn. a past potentate of moved up KILLED IN MERIDIAN Miss. A collision at the intersection of U. S. Highway 11 and 80 13 miles east of Meridian left one motorist dead and two injured Highway Patrol identified the dead as Mrs. Bessie C. 58. ot taken to Rush Memorial Hospital in were Woodfine D. Pilcher fractured cuts and and Lloyd Jerald Felkins of broken arm and cuts and three drivers were identified as Pilcher and William Louis Fohey Jr. of Colorado Formosa Red Chinese guns pounded Quemoy with at least 25,000 rounds of shells the heaviest bombardment in that Nationalist island's the defense ministry HALTS spokesman said shelling from the nearby port of Amoy and the Red mainland abruptly ceased at 8:30 two hours after it spokesman said a final assessment might show the Reds fired up to 50,000 This would be five times heavier than any previous Red C Of C Managers President Ann Avent of Moss Point was elected president of tha Mississippi Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives at the annual convention in Gulf port. At right is Robert L. Wheeler of Yazoo the retiring The convention closes this on Page Permit New Bridge Across Bay Of Soviet Will Accept Ike Atomic Oct. 31 Talk On Sneak Testing Bridge At Mill Creek To Begin bridge across Cypress or Mill on the Road will be closed to beginning Monday morning from two to three weeks during the construction of a new was made today by A. P. president of the Jackson County Board of who said that detour roads to the west will be open to use by traffic during that The new bridge will be a deck bridge on creosote Newsome Brothers are constructing the bridge at 9 contract bid of being asked by the state highway department from the district engineer's at The bridge will be south of the existing highway department asked the permit for construction of a fixed concrete pile and deck bridge providing 120 feet horizontal clearance and 35-feet vertical clearance above mean tide and unless objections from the standpoint of navigation are received not later than Sept. 22 it will be considered by the engineers that there is no decision as to whether a permit will be issued must rest primarily upon the effect of the proposed work on an engineer's announcement is the first step of the highway department in setting in motion the huge After the permit is secured engineers can begin drawing first contract award which will be made be that for and as soon as the dealing with the information is secured permit for construction of the new Biloxi - highway today 4ebt federal aid to renegotiation of government defense benefit payments to retired railroad the government's security program Mid appropriations if these weren't a last minute drive developed to try to push through a trimmed down 800-million-dollar federal housing and community facilities Legislation introduced by John Sparkman and J. William Fulbright combined two measures passed by the Senate earlier in the but which met defeat in the Administrator Albert Cole said the revised was unacceptable to the Eisenhower administration and could hardly be regarded as a serious effort to reach agreement on sound housing legislation this FOREIGN 3^'biIlion-d<^ar aid money had top priority in the Continued On Page department can begin the probably will accept President Eisenhower's proposal to start negotiations Oct. 31 on a worldwide system to prevent sneak nuclear weapons offered Friday to suspend U.S. nuclear tests for at least one provided such negotiations got under only other condition was that Russia continue its 4i^-month-old halt in Soviet The Russians announced the halt after completing a test CALLS FOR a statement and a note to the Eisenhower called for talks in New York under United Nations Results would be reported through Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to the U.N. General Assembly and the Security radio Moscow and the Tass news agency reported Eisenhower's proposed without There was no comment from Soviet both Republicans and Democrats voiced praise Voters Cast Ballots In Primary ORLEANS - Rains and cloudy weather ushered in today's Democratic primary in Louisiana in which the First District seat of Rep. Edward Hebert was challenged by a Negro candidate in a four-way from 80 to 90 grees were predicted for over tiie for the it was studies are now being made on the type of bridge and length of span last session of the legislature authorized the bond commission to issue worth of bonds which will obligate a portion of the seawall tax for and Jackson counties and the state highway department are proceeding with the project as a joint Construction of a 40-bed hospital for the criminal insane at East State Hospital at has the approval of the Education and Welfare cost is half of which is to be borne by the federal Rep. Chet Holifield objected strongly to a part of the Eisenhower statement that left the way open for resumption of tests among other there was satisfactory progress toward on page Predicts Holiday Miss. Mississippi Highway Safety patrol said today seven motorists be killed and 82 injured in 175 traffic accidents over the Labor Day weekend Aug. 29-Sept. 2. fatalities already are higher than August 1957, the patrol ot Public Safety Tom Scarbrough gave this word of it don't PITS About of soft coal mined in the U.S. is from opea Feature Hits Payments Can't Be Charged Is THE DAILY HERALD AUGUST 23, 1918 has accepted an to speak at OB Labor YEARS AGO IN THE AUGUST 23. 19S8 Myriam asd Mary and to BOozI a M to Miss. may have to revise her 20-year-old program of providing initial plants as a magnet for industry because oi a recent adverse federal tax Under Balance Agriculture With Industry industries are enticed through tax exemptions and cost-free plants to locate or relocate in this these industries reading in plants at nominal yearly cost have been charging off. the rent payments as operational when they file their tax the Internal Revenue Department ruled against such in a case involving Gem Inc. of The ruling eliminates part of the bait Mississippi has been using to attract to from five industrial mops similar the time the Gem case came Gov. J. P. Coleman said it was merely a dispute a taxpayer should deduct his BAWI payments as depreciation or as rent in preparing his tax the light of tiie adverse the State Agricultural and Industrial which administers the BAWI probably will have to change the plan to circumvent the industries locate plants in Mississippi without coming under the BAWI They it more profitable for them to own their own facilities and charge off depreciation on tiie tax the facilities means industries inust pay ad valorem taxes on the Congress is considering a might alter of the internal revenue tax on the BAWI requires industry to determine the average annual payment over the entire length of time of including the contract and option and charge off that amount would result in reductions in the amount charged off during the contract period when payments are high and increases in the amount charged off during the option period when payments are under industries would have to remain in business during the entire contract and option time to break even on the usually contract a plant for a certain of time with an option to stay federal government says the high contract payments morning and intermittent rains were holding down the vote in southwest and central Louisiana while skies were cloudy at New Orleans and in the northern part of the VOTING voting was reported moderate in New Orleans and other sections except at Shreveport in northwest Louisiana where the race was turning out a large early Alexandria and Lafayette reported intermittent rains and The precipitation measured more than 4 inches in the Alexandria area during the early morning hours and a similar situation existed at 11 absentee votes had been cast at Crowley the Saturday spot check of precincts showed a fairly good turnout of voters in New and as approached the skies were NEGRO the First District contest with Hebert were Negro attorney A. P. Lionel A. Hernandez and A. Roswell 141,041 voters were registered in the which includes part of New Orleans and two adjoining last time Hebert had opposition was in the 1952 when 30.000 votes were That was 20 per cent of a registration of 146,504. Hebert first was elected in 1940. Louisiana for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored was Hebert's busiest He hoped for the support of 18,000 Negro voters registered in the other in the state and several state and local officials also were to nominated as Louisiana tested Saturday as an election opened at 6 a.m. and close at 8 Earl Long is pulling strings in the Eighth home district trying to name a successor to his late brother's Dr. George S. He has endorsed two of the nine three face all seven incumbent congressmen seem certain to return to Washington next Democratic nominee normally is the winner in Democratic which also has a habit of veteran congressmen term after contending more voters would turn switched all elections from Tuesday to Saturday in the 1958 Louisiana's chief election Secretary of State Wade Martin predicted the turnout would be a Long political added if he had his way are payments for the of future lower option on on
