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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1955
Page
8
President Harlow H. Curtice announced General Motors will extend dealer agreements from one year to five. He said the change responds to misunderstandings raised at Senate hearings and aims to protect GM goodwill amid criticism of the one year terms.
SPRINGFIELD Ill Federal authorities denied Gov William G Stratton request for a federal probe into the Emmett Louis Till case in Mississippi Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr said no federal offense was involved Stratton noted the lack of state or local officer involvement or cross state abduction as the basis for federal jurisdiction The inquiry followed a LeFlore County grand jury refusal to indict two white men on kidnapping charges in the 14 year old Chicago Negro boy case earlier both men had been acquitted of murder
New York shares advanced to a fresh record with the AP average up 50 cents at noon to 182. Prices rose 1 to 3 points on select issues while several sectors including steels motors and oil led the gains. Trading activity remained brisk with 2.44 million shares changing hands as major names such as U S Steel Santa Fe Chrysler American Smelting RCA Du Pont and General Electric posted advances.
The Halifax County Board of Education heard a request from the Halifax NAACP chapter to admit Negro children to county public schools on a nondiscriminatory basis as soon as practical. About 25 Negro and 35 white attendees attended the meeting. Charles A. McLean, NAACP field secretary from Winston-Salem, opposed the governor’s voluntary segregation plan. W. W. Taylor Jr., counsel for Gov Hodges’ Advisory Committee on Education, attended but spoke nothing publicly.
British observers suspect Nikita Khrushchev is provoking Britain to cancel his April London visit. The plan follows hostile Asia tour remarks by Khrushchev and Bulganin and heated reactions in Britain ranging from resentment to satire.
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