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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1958
Page
2
The 906 million dollar education aid bill moves to final congressional action with a four year program. Senate action first on 295 million for student loans and 59.4 million for fellowships. The plan omits scholarship grants despite Eisenhower administration urging.
A hundred thousand letters have poured into the McClellan Committee urging protections from leaders. John Dos Passos has read thousands and will reveal in September Reader's Digest why workers feel they live under dictators.
CHICAGO AP This city will bid for both the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1960 says Mayor Richard E Daley Both parties held their 1952 conventions here and two years ago the Democrats met here while the Republicans met in San Francisco.
William H. Ruffin president of Erwin Mills Durham is named state campaign chairman for North Carolina United Campaigns by George P. Geoghegan Jr president of Carolinas United. Ruffin is a veteran textile leader and Durham United Fund president. W. G. Edwards of Columbia is named South Carolina state chairman. Meetings for regional campaign leaders set for Goldsboro September 9 and Morganton September 11.
Local 684 of the Textile Workers Union of America kept pickets at the Hanes Knitting Co. yarn plant in Winston-Salem. No violence reported since the Aug. 14 strike over missing new contract and rising workloads. H R Burcham, a striker, asked police to check his home during a hospital stay. union officials denied condoning threats and said replacements were not being recruited, though a few workers had returned to their jobs after guidance.
Senator B Everett Jordan of North Carolina called the House defeat of the Kennedy Ives labor reform bill a most unfortuate mistake. He urged Congress will act on crime and corruption in organized labor and said amendments outlawing secondary boycotts and other actions should be treated separately from union internal operations.
Josef Haemel head of the University of Jena and his wife sought political asylum in West Berlin as East Germany gears for a 400th anniversary celebration. The escape undermines East Germany’s prestige and may dampen attendance from Western and Communist world universities invited to the Aug. 31 event.
In Galveston Texas a mother's dream of her son’s death preceded the fatal bicycle crash that killed 15 year old Kenneth Luker of La Marque. Kenneth died after his bike collided with another rider while two companions, George Allen age 7 and Sonny Allen age 10, escaped uninjured. The mother Allen Luker spoke after being notified of her son’s death.
Eileen Reiter a 16 year old from the Bronx New York fell 150 feet to her death while on Bash Bish State Forest ledge in Mount Washington Massachusetts during a teen outing. Companion Nola Zirin 15 Jericho New York narrowly escaped plunging into the 500 foot Bash Bish Falls gorge after losing her footing.
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