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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1956
Page
1
Growers and dealers told a congressional committee that artificial leaf tobacco threatens their market as demand shifts. They report declining interest in high quality leaf for cigarettes and cigars while lower quality grades rise in appeal, enabling synthetic processing similar to pulp-making. The article notes further details on page two.
In Washington voters backed Adlai Stevenson pledged delegates over Estes Kefauver allies in the District of Columbia primary. Officials warned results may take days due to a broken tabulation system and inexperience among poll workers. Republican delegates were pledged to Eisenhower amid GOP power struggles.
Julius Strauss president of General Cigar Co denies any glass fibers are used in his cigars after Senate-House committee mentioned the issue. He requested to testify out of order to give a direct denial for the record. The panel studies artificial leaf tobacco and its impact on aroma flavor and burning and on about 800000 farming families dependent on tobacco livelihoods.
A moral essay urges readers to trust others and oppose the guilty until proven innocent mindset. It argues for seeing good in people, treating others with love, and inferring character from one's own attitudes and expectations. The author cites American ideals and the law.
Ray D. Murphy of the Equitable Life Assurance Society urged Congress to empower the Federal Reserve Board with standby powers to control consumer installment credit and home mortgage terms. He warned inflation signals are rising and warned that mortgage debt and consumer debt grew last year as total spending outpaced new capital, with a 1956 outlook for more plant spending and higher commodity prices.
Federal judges with heavy backlogs may be asked to limit annual vacations to one month and chief judges could resign from duties when they reach 70. The proposals were tabled at a special session of the Judicial Conference led by the Chief Justice and circuit court chiefs. A report was released yesterday.
Flood waves sweep through Texas with at least four dead as Brownwood brims with up to 12 inches of rain. Lake Brownwood spillway six feet deep floods homes and evacuations top two hundred fifty. Gatesville, Waco face danger while Trinity River near Dallas nears crest. Billy Ed Whittenburg 12 perished on a bus washed from a bridge near Lometa. six others rescued. Three others drowned near Brady in a separate flash flood.
Charles W. McKay Jr. won Alabama's Democratic national committeeman race with 135,268 votes to 44,730 for Gov. James Folsom in an unofficial count from 1,820 of 2,805 boxes. Roy D. McCord had 24,528. The race highlighted segregationist rhetoric and NAACP tensions amid a Stevenson-aligned delegation push. Lanter Hill defeated John Crommelin for the Senate, with racial issues not central to that race.
John Sherman Cooper, U S ambassador to India and former Kentucky senator, declined to say if he would seek the Senate seat left vacant by a death. He outlined foreign aid recommendations for India Nepal and related relations, and noted possible conferences in Washington while in the United States for minor surgery.
Washington mourns Alben W. Barkley at a funeral service led by Pastor Harris. President Eisenhower attends with Nixon and Knowland among guests as funeral rites for the 78 year old former vice president are held at Foundry Methodist Church.
The United Nations 11th General Assembly will open November 12 to avoid clashing with the U S presidential campaign. The session had previously been set to begin in late September.
Lebanon backs Syria in demanding a written pledge that Israel will not divert or resume work on the Jordan River project. Israel reportedly rejects the pledge while Hammarskjold prepares a report for the U N Security Council after talks with Syrian leaders. Lebanon cites self defense against any Israeli attack. Brigadiers Zadok and Rabin receive top army postings as tensions on the Lebanon Syria Israel front remain notable.
In Minneapolis the General Conference approved a resolution urging the elimination of racially segregated church administration with reasonable speed. It calls on Methodists nationwide to stamp out discrimination and for pastors to admit members regardless of color. The debate centered on abolishing all Negro jurisdiction and moving toward integrated structures. leaders stressed the measure is a recommendation, not binding policy.
The House begins debate on a new farm bill centered on Eisenhower's soil bank concept and a potential 500 million dollar advance payment to farmers who withdraw surplus acres in 1957. Republicans push a simplified measure as a substitute to avoid price support issues and a partisan clash.
White House aides press former Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York and Ambassador John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky to run for the Senate. Eisenhower aides hint at Dewey’s possible candidacy with conditions including Taft wing party support and a strong role if elected. Dewey and McKay deny plans to reenter politics as GOP strategists consider Oregon and New York races. In New York, Javits and McGovern weigh bids against Lehman. Kentucky politics shift after Senator Barkley’s death.
Maj. Gen. David M. Shoup, a Medal of Honor recipient, was named to supervise Marine Corps recruit training after the Paris Island drowning incident that killed six trainees. The plan shifts also place a brigadier general in charge at Paris Island and San Diego recruit depots, with added training officers. Shoup replaces initial choice Maj. Gen. Edward Snedeker, who remains in his role as assistant chief of staff for operations.
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