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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1958
Page
1
A federal judge sent the Norfolk School Board back to review 151 Negro applicants seeking white-school admission. Judge Walter E. Hoffman asked for further consideration of the board’s duties and ordered reporting of any actions by August 29 as Norfolk opens schools September 8.
Congress wraps up the 85th session after eight months on Capitol Hill. Voters will judge its work on space age problems and recession as campaigns begin for the 435 House seats and 34 of the Senate seats. The final foreign aid bill totals about 3.296 billion, with conference notes steering toward a compromise near the mid 3.1 billion range.
The passage contrasts human and automated elevators, noting machines stop on the right floor and doors stay open reliably while humans gossip and err. It then extends the idea to divine consistency, saying God's patterns avoid temptation and hatred, and that His ways are more reliable than human automation.
Gov. Orval Faubus announced three segregation bills for the special session in Arkansas. One would postpone Central High opening, another would close the school to avoid integration subject to a public referendum, and a third would allow white students displaced by a closed school to take state aid to another district. The Supreme Court held a rare special session amid the Central High dispute with NAACP urging immediate reopening for seven former attending students.
The Nautilus arrived in New York after a submerged voyage from Portland England, with Rear Adm. Rickover aboard for ceremonies. The crew described calm seas and a fast transit, noting average speeds over 20 knots and limited surface time. Skipper Anderson framed the voyage as a homeward return rather than a speed chase.
At two New York conventions Democrats face a crowded field while Republicans contend with too few candidates. Thomas E. Dewey backs a GOP nominee as Finletter leads Hogan in a six-man race near Buffalo, Wagoner floated as a potential seventh. Governor races pit Harriman and Rockefeller as Carlin and Keating weigh re election risks.
Tropical storm Daisy intensified into a hurricane with top winds of 85 mph. Florida Georgia and the Carolinas are urged to monitor advisories as Daisy drifts slowly about 280 miles east of Palm Beach. Gale conditions begin tonight with no immediate intensification forecast for 12 hours.
A new storm map places tropical storm Daisy roughly 275 miles east northeast of Florida southeast coast as it drifts slowly northward. The Miami Weather Bureau says Daisy is unlikely to threaten land areas.
Chinese Communists ease the assault on Quemoy and Tan islands after weekend bombardment. Nationalists claim a seaborne attempt to seize Tungting island failed last night. Chiang Kai-shek’s air force reports downing two MIGs in a dogfight over Quemoy as U.S. orders precautionary naval measures in the Taiwan Strait.
Washington reports two House foreign affairs specialists view Secretary Dulles warning to Red China as signaling potential U S action if Communist forces attempt to seize Quemoy and Matsu. Dulles says such a move would threaten regional peace as the 7th Fleet is ordered to maintain precautionary defense measures.
A 3 referendum vote will likely create Alaska as a new state by late December or January with admission after a November general election. Forecasts expect a 2 to 1 majority among 35 000 ballots as 19 and 20 year olds vote for the first time amid tax and living allowance concerns. New elective offices of governor and secretary of state will be on the ballot.
Los Angeles Chief Justice Earl Warren warned that long and unjustified court delays erode basic legal rights and corrode constitutional government. Speaking at the American Bar Association 81st annual convention, he urged faster access to remedies to maintain respect for law and confidence in free institutions.
Cape Canaveral reports Explorer V failed to reach orbit after a smooth Jupiter C launch. The satellite transmitted briefly then vanished, leaving US scientists seeking answers about high altitude radiation and future Explorer missions.
The Supreme Court ordered a rare Thursday session to hear the Little Rock segregation dispute five days before the fall school opening. NAACP seeks to overturn a Little Rock delay while the 8th Circuit stayed its order pending the Court ruling. The session invites Solicitor General Rankin as the administration weighs its position.
FBI official in Charlotte described an armed white man who robbed the State Bank of Laurinburg's Roper Street branch around 12 15 pm. He weighed 180 to 200 pounds, stood about 5 11, wore a straw hat and had an adhesive tape patch on his right jaw. He fled on foot.
Capetown AP report says Cabinet to appoint Justice Minister Charles R. Swart to succeed Johan Strijdom who died at 65. Swart, acting premier, is seen as Nationalist Party front runner and architect of apartheid era laws including the Immorality Act and Suppression of Communism Act. Swart championed harsh measures and mass treason trial.
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