24 Jul 1957
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1957
Page
1
Washington reports the consumer price index climbing to 120.2 from the 1947-49 average as June raises the cost of living. Wages for about 650,000 workers in electrical, trucking and construction gain 2 to 4 cents under price index contracts amid a broad rise in prices for goods and services.
A statewide road block net hunted a merciless killer who opened fire on a truck driver and two young divorcees on desert roads. Police held a 25 year old Illinois fugitive in Oakland after the predawn attack and possible abduction attempt.
Brooklyn Dodgers vice president Emil Bavasi confirms to the Jacksonville Journal that the team will relocate from Brooklyn to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. Bavasi cites inability to secure land for a new stadium as the primary reason, discounting TV deals.
The ninth shot in the Atomic Energy Commission test series detonated at 4 50 am at the Nevada site. A tethered Navy blimp and 18 scientists in a heavy shelter observed from 4 1/2 miles away as dust and darkness masked its aftermath. The blast, labeled sub normal, sent a strong shock wave and equaled about 20 000 tons of WWII A bombs in yield.
In Charlotte Greensboro and Winston Salem seven formerly all white schools admit 12 Negro children this September after earnest and prayerful consideration by school boards. Forty one applicants were rejected. Greensboro reserves right to transfer white children if parents oppose mixed classes. State leaders say some desegregation is needed for North Carolina Pupil Assignment Act to stand. Virginia's act rejected as segregationist. More on page two A.
The Fifth Circuit ordered Dallas to integrate its public schools without a deadline while Miami and Dallas face setbacks defending segregated systems. North Carolina boards also began voluntary assignments of Negro students to white schools. The cases involve 12 Negro children across seven white institutions in the region.
An all male jury at General Sessions Court in New York could not reach a verdict after a month long trial charging racketeer Johnny Dio and two union officials with conspiracy to extort $30 000 from two companies. The jurors were ordered to return at 11 a m tomorrow after a long night of deliberations. The case is tied to a U S Senate Racketeering Committee investigation and involved testimony resistance by prosecution witnesses.
Seven defendants including John Kasper were found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a federal court order on desegregation at Clinton High School. Defense attorneys pledged to appeal if a new trial is denied as sentencing was deferred.
Excerpts show editors from Charlotte Winston-Salem and Greensboro praising a moderate approach to school integration. Papers note aims to uphold law while avoiding massive resistance, pledging gradualism and local control to prevent court decrees.
Senator Mansfield urged the Senate to turn the civil rights bill toward protecting voting rights and retain AG enforcement power. The chamber moved toward a mid afternoon vote on an Anderson Aiken amendment to erase enforcement authority, signaling possible changes before the final tally.
Britain held up air strikes against dissident tribes in Oman after an ultimatum expired. RAF leaflets were dropped over rebel areas as fighting erupted last week led by followers of deposed Imam Habib ben Ali. Reports note rebels seized Bahla and surrounded a British HQ near Nizwa, with Britain pledging full support to Sultan Said bin Taimur while investigations into arms sources continue.
The House Interior Committee voted 16 to 14 to kill a federal dam bill for Hells Canyon on the Snake River. Rep. Prost introduced the bill. two Democrats joined Republicans against it. A Senate-passed measure remains in subcommittee, with opponents calling the House action a technicality and a full committee irrigation meeting likely to postpone it. The panel also expunged remarks by Rep. Miller criticizing Rep. Pfost amid debate affecting Nebraska skills.
An Illinois fugitive William T. Allen confessed to shooting two El Segundo California police officers and officers in St Louis and Nebraska. He escaped custody February 8 from a Chester mental hospital convoy and was captured by the FBI in Chicago August 13 1956.
James Bell of Duplin County, wanted on five charges, sought shelter at Mount Olive Police Station. Chief Alton Daly noted the familiarity before allowing him to sleep in a cell, then locked the door. Daly had pursued Bell since last winter.
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