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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1957
Page
3
New York City weighs a controversial bill before the City Council to end discrimination in private housing. The measure follows heated debates in schools over redistricting to balance neighborhoods.
In Greenville County three white men A Marshall Rochester Wade H Howard Jr and Robert E Waldrop were jailed on conspiracy charges tied to a July assault on Claude Cruell 58 a Traveler s Rest resident caring for a white neighbor s children The men face alleged assault and burglary conspiracies and intent to kill accusations based on mistaken identity and violent home invasion during a period of racial tensions in the county.
Francine Kamen of New York urged U S pressure to halt nuclear tests during a four nation youth festival in Moscow. Other American teens attended with delegates from the Soviet Union Britain and Japan as survivors of Hiroshima spoke and called for compromise to end testing.
About 400 delegates are expected for the 78th North Carolina Conference of Wesleyan Methodist Church of America in Colfax starting Monday. Miss Mary F. Bennett of Houghton New York tops Sunday School events at 7 45 p m. Rev B H Phaup opens business Tuesday. Rev C Wesley Levin of High Point preaches that night. Rev H K Sheets of Marion Indiana speaks Wednesday.
Robert W. Dowling of City Investing Co. backs the bill saying discrimination in the city is intolerable and must end. Roy Wilkins of the NAACP counters that real estate claims about lowered values and mortgage drying up are unfounded.
The Federal State Market News Service reports higher average prices across flue cured tobacco grades in the opening four days, with heavy volume on day one and lighter trading later. South Carolina sold 11.46 million pounds and averaged 54.25 per hundred, up from 46.76. North Carolina sold 10.42 million pounds at 52.18, up from 42.18.
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