06 Aug 1958
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1958
Page
1
The Associated Press reports 1957 leaf prices with low and medium grades selling high. South Carolina growers face loose weed support as prices rise from $56 to $60 per hundredweight, with 8,930,470 pounds sold on opening day and average gains of $1 to $10.50 per hundred.
AP report notes Eisenhower accepted Khrushchev proposal prompting a swift U.N. General Assembly debate on the Middle East crisis. Officials weighed Khrushchev's shift away from a summit conference as Moscow pressed for a session in Peiping with Mao Zedong and Red Chinese leaders referenced in the context.
Greene County Prison Camp guard Richard M. Smith was rushed to Pitt Memorial Hospital after being struck over the eye by a bush ax allegedly hurled by prisoner Lee Moye. The 18 year old escaped after the attack during a road gang shift. Smith had emergency surgery on admission.
Opening day sales across the South Carolina North Carolina Belt totaled 9,648,762 pounds with an average price of 59.47 per 100 pounds. South Carolina markets sold 4,996,352 pounds at 59.56 per 100 and North Carolina markets moved 4,652,410 pounds at 59.38 per 100.
President Eisenhower said the United States favors a broad UN General Assembly session to discuss the entire Middle East situation. He indicated no current plans to attend the extraordinary meeting but would go if necessary. He also noted troop withdrawal would occur only when Lebanon feels the threat is past and indirect aggression is over. He left open a possible summit if constructive and not ruled out by Soviet veto. More on page two.
An AP Wirephoto shows the United Nations complex on Manhattan's east side as Soviet Premier Khrushchev declines to attend a Security Council debate on Middle East issues. President Eisenhower supports a general assembly meeting on the subject in the nearby building. The view includes the secretariat and other structures.
Governor G Mennen Williams of Michigan and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri won decisive Democratic primaries. Williams defeated intraparty challenger William L Johnson 6 1 to secure a sixth term as governor. Symington secured a second term nomination with more than 300000 votes while Missouri awaits the general election. Hastings and Dye trailed in early returns.
The United Nations Security Council is expected to approve rapidly the request for an emergency meeting of the 81 nation General Assembly on the Middle East. The council will convene tomorrow to consider rival US and Soviet proposals, with a vote possible within a day or two.
Secretary of State Dulles warned indirect aggression could lead to another world war with harsher outcomes. In Brazil he urged unity among American republics and pressed for a summit to ease U S Latin tensions while condemning international communism.
In Pontiac Michigan AP report the tale by Teamsters business agent Frank Kierdorf after a hospital collapse unravels as police seek his uncle Herman Kierdorf amid an arrest warrant. Prosecutor Ziem cites prior medication and a pathologist notes salve traces not given at the hospital. More on page ten.
In New London Connecticut a group of Boy Scouts and mothers defend Scoutmaster William N. Smith who was banned by the Boy Scouts. Lee Brown a blind 11 year old praises Smith for taking him into Troop 27 and arranging braille books. Smith says trips were properly authorized and tests strict. A regional council hearing on his ouster is set for September.
President Eisenhower warned that price increases by business and wage demands by labor could provoke consumer rebellion. He urged both sides to show restraint to avoid government controls, saying workers’ real income trails rising living costs.
James R. Hoffa told the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee he had 60,322 dollars in gambling gains from 1948 to 1956 and denied income listed on tax returns included payoffs. He refused to spell out details, saying ally Bert Brennan could. Hoffa denied a 17,500 payoff linked to a laundrey industry strike, clashed with senators, and asserted investigators pressed him about ties to Frank Tierdorf amid a Michigan torture case.
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