Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - January 15, 1957, Florence, South Carolina I I WEATHER INCREASING CLOUDINESS and quite cool today Possible rain tonight High today 48 Low tonight 37 Details Page 3 READER'S TIP BIZARRE MURDER trial British society charged in death of widow and picture Page 10 VOL 298 FLORENCE S C TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY 15 1957 DAILY SUNDAY To Red Threat Called Dangerous Real WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dulles said today evidence is accumulating that the Com- five trying to take over the Middle East Appealing backing of O'Neill is shown center with the Ike Promises Help tor Farmers On Southwest Tour TUCSON Ariz Jim 14 President Eisenhower today surveyed record i wld area parched Southwest and he Making a tour taking him into six sun-scorched states President's first round of air and ground travel took him to wind-swept regions in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico Then he flew on lo than -Air Force Base near Tucson for the night and for a parley on Arizona's drought problem in the morning before visiting Colorado and Kansas Talking as one farmer to others Eisenhower told those faced one of the worst droughts in I'm delighted to see you ing your up Our of bed at 6 the started his of b damaged drought areas at San Tex on to Woodward Okla and Clovis N M where tramped over more parched country At all stops on the ground in- trips and at airport con- wilh state and local Eisenhower got plenty of ad- vice on how the federal ment could provide additional ief But for time being he withheld comment on both gency and long-range advanced He may set forth tiis own views when he concludes his tour late morrow at a conference in ta Kan Representatives from all the drought-stricken stales in the Great Plains area will attend The Wichita meeting is uled after additional Eisenhower inspection tomorrow at eblo Colo and Garden Kan Today i the President drew ex inglish Cabinet Ms to Obtain Trade linister new into alks ranging from the Rural Fire Group Study Set Tonight A special survey of Florence suburbs will be studied by citizens interested in a rural fire ment at at the firehouse night A committee headed by Charles Mitchell will submit the report on the number and types of buildings in the area that has been as needing a fire department FIRE Chief Ben Dozier an estimate for the committee of the amount and cost of equipment that will be needed for the area and the com- will prepare a report to be submitted to the delegation for consideration in the General Assembly Howard chairman of he rural department commit ee slated that the meeting lomor row will decide whether the repor o the delegation shall hat the fire department be unde auspices or shall be oper ated as a corporation THE MEETING will also con sider whether they will enlarging the city limits south Florence The project was since the area could possibly ben fit more served by city fire department than the pr posed rural one DeBerry state The area under consideration between Jeffries Creek on th and Second Loop road o the South and by Highway 3 and the own in chatting wilh land and sharecroppers all ong the route He talked of how were when was a kid in Kansas and ion of the farm he now owns al Pa al crisis to setting up a free rade market in Western Europe The new Cabinet was sworn iji IT ot Queen Elizabeth Palace II at Highway on the East and West pints of Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hustled ft to confer with Foreign Minister Charles Malik of Lebanon who lad talks with resident Nasser of Egypt One of the tasks of government is to le the and get ships moving through the canal s cleared of wreckage Man Arrested Here On Liquor Charge In a second raid at the OK lunch within three lice last night arrested one of the proprietors on a charge of sing legal liquor for illegal poses Gene and Film Ray Shupe Jr were listed as making the arrest of Harry Jeffords He was released on bond Officers brought in five half President Eisenhower's request for standby military to cope wilh possible Red sion he said the Soviet threat to Middle East security is dangerous and real I'd say that this is the most serious threat we have faced over a period of 10 Dulles the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees in joint session Sen Johnson the Sen ate majority leader lold Dulle secretary was basing hi on generalities rather specific information Evidence is accumulating th Soviets are trying to take ove this Dulles replied Som details have to be guarded fo security reasons Dulles said some of would be dealt with al closed today's hearing was open to Hie public 5 Dulles said the threat to the Middle carried over into Europe He said that if the musts should gel control of the Middle Easl they will have a hand on the throttle which will enable them lo give or cut off the life blood of Europe Remarking that the would like to control euv Europe Dulles One way to gel lo get it Another way to get an area is to get control of its And this he said is what the Communists could do to Western Europe if they won the Middle Easl Dulles for the swiftest He said not believe Con- fess should ever be stampeded on these important mailers On other he added every day's delay means the viel Union is gelling lhat much in area every elay is costing us He said the Communists will take every risk that they dare to ake in order to win the Middle Easl The secretary rejected tions that the authority idea and tute for it a resolution expressing over the Communist threat to the Middle East Former Secretary ol State Dean omy possible Senate approval of for Eisenhower to use American military forces if essary to help any Middle East country thai asks for help In re- sisting overt aggression Acheson has made such a tion but Bulles did not mention by name in his mony At he present les said the situation Is loo critical lo be dealt with by a mere expression of opinion 1 believe we've got to act He said the United States must show lhal we mean business In House today Rep locki introduced a tion along the lines of suggestion and Rep Gordon D- 111 issued a statement urging that Eisenhower be given substantially what he asks Gordon is chairman of Hie House Foreign Affairs Committee and Zablocki is a member of it Bama Council Refuses to Pay In Bombing Case MEMBERS OF THE SENATE foreign relations and armed services committees day heard Secretary of State Dulles right discuss the Middle East at a pu L AP AP Training Revision of Guardsmen Requires 6 Months Active Duty WASHINGTON Jan 14 AP The Army today announced a major revision of the military service and training program that will require all new National __ t VI fT men to six months active duty training The announcement brought an protest from the tonal duard Assn which ened to carry the fight to Con- The Army decision described as based on a directive from tary of Defense Wilson will auto- the military service obligation of all except career soldiers and will provide a way for most youths fo escape draft duly The National Guard said the six months compulsory training vision which is effective April 1 Tobacco Fight Flaring Again Star of Countless Action Roles Humphrey Bogart Dies of Cancer T ion ii nnp of finest That stuff stinks he said HOLLYWOOD Jan 14 Tough guy Humphrey Bogart nally gave in today to the one foe he couldn't lick cancer He died at his home at the age of 56 The poke veteran of countless action roles who be- MEDITATIONS By Alley OM DE SIDE OM irA TO WID MM Hit's to me one of finest rs and most noted characters ought until the last that he ould win Only last Saturday night he re- friends for his usual lil hour in the den of his y Hills mansion He seemed in ood spirits Early Sunday he fell into a oma and never emerged His Dr Maynard said came at Tom a general spread of the nal cancer Last March doctors removed a ancer from Bogart's esophagus he pipe running from lomach After that he radiation treatments In November he was treated fo lerve root pressure due lo sea from the original sur jery Bogart was one of a kind In a place where ther ias become a remarkable same less about stars in recent years He died at the peak of his ca He had won Hollywood Highest prize the Academ Award and was one of a of stars who could command to money a picture a prankish extrovert whose hea was as soft as his screen were hard He loved to stir things up touch And how That stuff he said The only way to get publicity is be an exciting enough He was He explained how he Jan 14 A W Red Bethea of Dillon twice defeated candidate for the office of South Carolina Commissioner of agriculture continued his cured tobacco fight today Again he criticized those who say the U.S Department of lure acted wisely in placing allies on three varieties Pale and slick neutral varieties support prices were slashed Bethea took exception to a com- ment made by Fred Royster of Henderson president of the Bright Bell Assn Royster said everyone had an op- to express himself on tie proposal to penalize three varieties Coker 139 and 140 and Dixie Bright 244 developed by North Carolina State College But Bethea said the 500.000 bacco growers had no advance of the proposed slash in supports Royster knows that no one con- MONTGOMERY Jan 14 Commission refused today to assume financial for the recent bombing of Negro churched The pastor of one of the churches spoke of a possible court Montgomery without lic transportation for the straight as a result of the dynamiting of four Negro churches and two ministers Homes and gunfire attacks on racially city buses City suspended all bus service following bombings The violence began after segregation on the buses was ended by federal court order Dec 21 The Rev Uriah J Fields whose Bell St Baptist Church was one of the four Thursday made a formal demand on the City Commission today He told the commissioners he holds the city responsible for the attacks because he said the police de- failed to provide quate Afler Mayor W A Gayle and Clyde Sellers and Parks rejected his claim Fields said we will have lo re- sorl to other means We will have downgrade the im- portance if not destroy it Un der the 1955 Reserve Act new Guard recruits could volunteer for the training Army officers who sought lo ex lain new order signed by Secretary of Army Brucker said the reduction in military service obligations for all reserv ists will be retroactive to the starl of their service Under the new order said three years of training and ice in ready reserve will he cut from the o predraft age men who o take six of active training Young men who entered the re serves through this wi serve of 7 cars in a ready fter completing training and icn have three years in the reserve This latter dury no regular training or effort The new order also rom two to one year the required service in the ready reserve for and others who spend two years on active duly Meir who spend three years of voluntary active duly with tht have one yew instead of two the reserve and will then trans- fer the standby reserve Darlington Plant Hearing Set Here A National Labor Relations said poor hearing charging the defunct ington Manufacturing Co with un- labor practices opens here morrow The textile plant owned by the chain was sold at auction Dec The ly and equipnjent brought more than The closing was ordered by the board of directors after plant em- ployes had voted to affiliate with the Textile Workers Union of America No peering Milliken plant is unionized One plant in New England closed after its workers organized Roger Milliken the principal ness conditions were a major tor in the decision to close The citation against the com- pany alleges that it refused to and discharged all of its em- ployes because of their union ft further charges that on eral occasions employes questioned about their union and that the company to shut down the plant and blacklist released employes because of union activities Company representatives are of keeping union meetings under surveillance and or urging employes to petition ing tp do away with the union Hot Fight on Teacher Pay Raise Facing Assembly in Second Week lax a By doing as damned please 1 defend my ght lo cut a capter if I feel like Bogart was always available comment on anything from oung male stars color lo nondrinkers trust to TV dramas stupid stories acted by guys to be Marlon Although the film colony was ware of the gravity of I ness it was shinned by his Among the Bing Crosby Bogie was a ine person and a superb actor He vill be sorely missed by Niven How Bogie suited them about the proposal he said or gave them a chance to determine from a legal point of view whether the city should assume this responsibility Sellers who heads the police and fire departments told the gro Cold Front Swirls Toward East Coast Jan 14 W-A fight over school teacher pay increases is burgeoning in the face of the new General Assembly All sides seem agreed on a raise in slate aid that pays the bulk of teachers locally contracted salaries Trie issue for the new assembly that opens its second week here al noon seems to be How The South Carolina Education Assn to which most teachers be- long wants an increase of about David vould hate this but God knows t is a great personal loss to his riends and to audiences who oved him He was a man of bark and absolutely no James Bryant TIMMONSVILLE Jan 14 James Bryant Lee 67 heart attack at his home here a 11 p m tonight Funeral arrangements will announced by Ham and Perry Fi neral Home in TImmonsville THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Plains Another weather haymaker bore own Monday on eastern half f the nation which already is in he grip of an old-fashioned J A new cold front whipped into he Northern Plains and fanned south and eastward Snow accompanied the new blast The new front didn't make much of a temperature dent in a region already plagued by sub-zero cold But it stirred up strong northerly winds and reinforced the cold covering the area Temperatures early Monday ranged from an unofficial -50 de- grees in the Adirondack io -42 hi Iowa and no relief was in sight The weatherman forecast tha low overnight readings would range from -20 to -40 Ir parts of New York State to New England and from -10 to -20 in the The mercury stayed below the zero mark all day Monday from Upper Mississippi Valley into Iowa and portions of the Great region and from interior New York to northern New land A storm left a blanket of snow one to three inches deep in many sections of the Midatlantic region Blizzard conditions were ered likely overnight in some er lakes areas Heavy snow ings called for up lo IS inches for arctic portions of western Hew York State Overnight readings as low as -15 were in slore in New England as far south as Rhode Island long tin 20 per cent A special committee headed by Sen Moore of also 20 per cent is right But the SUile Budget and Con- trol Board has recommended 10 per cent More than the report in his annual mes sage to the assembly last week Sen Brown of Barnwell chair man of the Finance and Rep Rhodes of Hampton chairman of Ways and Mean have said they oppos any new taxes A number of legislator zero temperatures expected in the mountains of Virginia and land Freezing were forecast as far south as Georgia and northern lections of the Gul Coast states lave spoken along the same lines Mrs Mary Dowling of president of the South Carotin Congress Parents says her organization is a statewide figh Tor the higher increase President Robert Lee Scarbo ough of the South Carolina Ass of School Boards announced Wednesday meeting here wi Moore stale PTA d others to discuss and plan a public relations batlle r higher increase A group of Columbia teachers Dreher High School will ask e Columbia Teachers Council row to a march on t Slate House to impress the lhat the higher increase essential aner r Both groups recommend a ms on in the statutory teacher pay d schedule that carries scores different pay levels geared to training of ex- and grades made on the teacher certification ex Starting pay for a beginning cacher wilh professional ations and with a grade of A on ic teacher exam now is rom the slate The proposed 20 per cent in- rease would start such a teacher t The Budget and Control proposed raise would cost aboul a year This Brown and say can be handled within he present tax structure due to revenues The Moore raise would cost about million dollars His conv Bills to levy these taxes introduced by House bers of the Moore committee Rhodes Ways and Means Com- meets tomorrow to begin work on an draft of general s where any increase for ers will appear Work of drafting the will lake several weeks and will come after numerous hearings for state agencies and The drive being put on for the higher increase indicates teachers will be among those heard and loudly proposes a 1 per cenl in- crease in all personal income tax brackets a V4 of 1 per cenl in- crease in aH personal income tax and a withholding system for in- come taxes to net wage earners who now are able to avoid the JAMES JONES on his first vacation day yesterday col- fur the March of Dimes bringing his tal to tions may be handed to or mailed to Post Office Box
