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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1956
Page
1
President Eisenhower said he has no objection to his name entering New Hampshire and other state presidential primaries but has not decided about running for a second term. He spoke at his first Washington news conference since his heart attack, promising a firm decision soon based on the country’s best interests.
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover rebukes Dr T R M Howard of Mound Bayou Mississippi for alleged baseless charges about FBI probes of racial killings. Hoover demands evidence or retraction and cites past agency work against lynching and the Ku Klux Klan. Howard, president of the Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had criticized Southern FBI investigations.
The 34 year old Thomas Walter Taylor faces a death penalty case for the killing of his wife’s companion Talmadge Parker. Prosecutors allege Taylor hid in a car trunk and opened fire in a grill parking lot. Parker died from a chest wound and a male jury was formed after a large voir dire.
The Defense Department asks Congress to approve a worldwide military building program totaling 2.912 billion dollars for the 1957 fiscal year. Of this, the Air Force receives the largest share, with 1.138 billion dollars for construction and housing.
President Eisenhower defended Secretary of State Dulles yet avoided endorsing the Life magazine claim that U S policy prevented war in Asia on three occasions. Sen Humphrey urged a clear foreign policy statement from Dulles while Knowland and Bridge praised his approach to risking for peace.
Nine more people were killed by police fire as violence surged in Bombay state during protests to make Bombay a separate state. Officials said the death toll for the week rose to about 40 with reports of arson, stoning, and attacks on civilians.
President Eisenhower said critics should address Secretary Wilson and Adm. Radford if misstatements exist in the 1954 State of the Union. He noted Ridgway disputed Army manpower plans and warned against domestic politics guiding defense policy, while Wilson and Radford offered mixed accounts on unanimity of the budget decisions.
In Life magazine, Truman argues Chiang Kai-shek’s refusal to accept a peaceful accord with the Communists blocked a unified free China. He cites Marshall’s 1946 peace mission and names Baruch Hurley and Acheson in a long recall of postwar policy debates.
The Associated Press reports icy roads and wet conditions across the Carolinas. Temperatures cooled overnight with sleet, snow flurries, and rain widespread from Asheville to Wilmington. Forecasters warn of more rain and some snow, with colder conditions tonight and tomorrow.
A broad storm belt from the Central Gulf states to the Great Lakes brought rain and snow across much of the nation. Heavy snowfall fell in the southern Midwest and parts of Arkansas Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky with up to six inches in spots. The system caused at least thirteen deaths and dropped temperatures into the 50s and 30s from Texas to the Northeast, threatening citrus and vegetables in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
In Chapel Hill North Carolina the North Carolina Associated Press Club held a luncheon ahead of the North Carolina Press Association Mid-winter Institute. Franklin K Pete Arthur AP News features editor in New York spoke, Sam Ragan Raleigh News & Observer editor attended, and Gov Hodges will present awards televised by WUNC TV.
Prime Minister Eden warned at a Conservative rally that the Middle East remains a tinder box capable of triggering a global conflict. He defended the nuclear deterrent while confirming Britain’s plan to pursue its own H bomb, and criticized Soviet arms expansion in Arab states amid domestic inflation and Soviet gains.
Virginia lawmakers ready a milder interposition resolution protesting the 194 May court desegregation ruling. State Sen. Harry Stuart plans to introduce it with hopes of 20 to 30 of 40 senators backing. The measure rejects outright voiding but retains a pointed stance against the court decision.
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