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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1958
Page
1
Police and soldiers raided the two largest Palestine refugee camps in Amman seeking arms under a dawn curfew. About 140 people were questioned and powder and ammunition were found. The overnight clampdown coincided with Moslem Sabbath tensions and a heavy security buildup in the capital.
In 1955 Indianapolis businessman and attorney Probstein vanished en route to St. Louis while involved with dangerous associates. Senate hearings reveal he warned attorney Joseph Good of dangerous men and an imminent, potentially fatal mission. Probstien reportedly sought loan assistance linked to a taxi venture with James Hoffa.
The Winston-Salem city school board will consider nine applications from Negro students seeking reassignment to white schools along with 38 other reassignments for white students at its meeting Monday. Last year one Negro student was admitted to a white school, marking the city's first mixed class.
New York reports on early moon mission hopes as scientists plan a first moonbound rocket. The aim is to reach the moon with precise timing, speed, and trajectory to photograph and study the lunar surface and magnetic field.
The Dutch airliner Hugo de Groot with 99 aboard is believed destroyed after a violent Atlantic crash off Ireland. By afternoon 35 bodies were recovered as search was abandoned by the Canadian destroyer Crusader. survivors unseen.
The Federal Reserve Board reversed its recession stance and raised the San Francisco Reserve Bank discount rate from 1% to a higher level effective today. Banks in the system will see higher borrowing costs, with other regional banks expected to follow after a delay. Officials cited rising inflation risk and signs of recession bottoming out as key factors behind the shift.
In Winston-Salem officials of the P. H. Hanes Knitwear Co. sought cloth from other sources to avert a walkout at its only unionized unit the yarn plant. About 200 of 510 workers left, with key staff stopping work. Union spokesman said 8 percent walked out. Picket lines and commissary cards were issued. No contract in seven months and the strike stemmed from pay and workload disputes for doffers and spinners.
Washington AP Secretary of the Treasury Anderson said he would not rule out a tax increase as a method to curb inflation while facing a large budget gap. He told the Byrd Finance Committee he is not ready to propose tax changes and warned the debt limit may need lifting beyond 288 billion dollars. The committee weighs raising permanent debt to 285 billion and adding 3 billion temporary for 288 billion, with current temporary limit at 280 billion.
In Jefferson Georgia AP report the Drake murder case ends after Superior Court verdicts A D Allen Jr 37 of Georgia convicted of murder and life as accomplice Charles Paul Rocky Roths child 33 former Cairo Illinois police man pleaded guilty to murder and got life James Fulton Foster 40 house painter from Greer South Carolina acquitted after earlier death sentences Allen now serves five years in federal prison and a new trial motion is scheduled for December 18
Hurricane Cleo moves west-northwest at 15 mph with top winds near 145 mph. A hurricane watch is in effect for the Windward and Leeward Islands as residents are told to monitor advisories and be ready for quick action if warnings are issued.
President Eisenhower rejected reports of a surrender study as ridiculous. Senator Russell pushed a rider to stop any surrender research while Hagerty affirmed no money would be spent. The White House press secretary stated the President would not agree to surrender discussions.
Western diplomats report a Norwegian plan to give Dag Hammarskjold a major role in Eisenhower era Middle East peace efforts. The proposal seeks Hammarskjold to draft troop withdrawals, study an economic foundation, and consider a mobile U.N. peace force with a Sept. 30 report, while Jordan rejects U.N. observers.
Mrs Frances Marjorie Miller 31 pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit a felony after police said she offered a $500 fee to a man to shoot her husband William 34 during a staged robbery. District Attorney Hanna said the man reported the plan via Deputy Carpenter. The Miller family includes a seven year old.
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