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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1956
Page
1
Ford Motor Co held a stockholders meeting in Detroit with about 3000 new stockholders among the roughly 325000 total holders. The day included registration, tours, and meals for attendees while executives noted the election of 13 directors and a proposal to extend stock holding to three years.
Archival essay urges readers to expand daily studies beyond routine pursuits. Writer notes clergy who enjoy jazz, a jockey who loves art, a ship captain who needlepoints, and a psychologist who knows hymnody, highlighting how broad knowledge serves others and God.
New York health officials warn that unsupervised tuberculosis patients infect at least 89,000 people annually. Dr. Edward X. Mikel of the New York State Health Department cites a Public Health Service study showing 45 percent of TB patients are not hospitalized and that most nonhospitalized cases are advanced, with higher incidence in men over 35 and ages 45 or older.
Turkish Cypriots rioted through Nicosia after the killing of a riot sergeant. Bullets sprayed from a taxi through a Turkish shopping district as Greek Cypriots and Turks attacked each other. British troops used tear gas while shops closed and several people were hospitalized.
Delegates from 48 states gather to approve a plan of union forming the United Presbyterian Church in the U S A with a combined membership of three million. The budget and merger timetable are set as leaders urge action against racial discrimination and to promote peace.
A three year extension of the GI home loan program is set to be considered as an amendment to a large omnibus housing bill in the Senate. Senator Lehman with Senators Hill and Sparkman proposed the extension covering both VA loan guarantee and direct loan programs. The move aims to avert a slowdown in home building while public housing expansion faces opposition and debate.
Laura Hammond, 21, of Falls Church Virginia, described as a wash and dress model, was found in her jail cell in Laurinburg North Carolina after a failed attempt at suicide by hanging. Sheriff J C Gibson said she tied a blanket to her cell bars and around her neck, then collapsed and later revived briefly before being sent to a hospital where no injuries were found. She remained in jail unable to post a $5,000 bond and faced August term of Superior Court. Police noted she was arrested after a safecracking attempt at Hamlet and had links to a trunk with dangerous items found in the vehicle.
Senator Jackson proposes a Senate subcommittee investigate Secretary of Defense Wilson for “thought control” over seating military leaders amid interservice rival missile programs. Wilson hints at a review while Symington's panel could probe missions. Eisenhower warns against loss of service unity.
In Buenos Aires striking public transport workers ignored provisional government mobilization orders turning the city into a rush hour crisis. Trolley bus and subway drivers walked off yesterday causing vast delays as government and police limited disorders while private lines could not handle the surge.
The new farm bill sent to the White House includes a provision to raise U S cotton exports by requiring the Commodity Credit Corp to sell stock at competitive world prices, targeting about five million bales annually. It sets 1957 1958 cotton acreage at 1956 levels and caps any state loss in acreage at one percent, aiming to reduce the 15 million bale surplus by year end.
Senate Internal Security subcommittee urged the State Department to expel Arkady Sobolev chief Soviet delegate to the UN and top aide over allegations of coercion in forcing nine Soviet sailors to return to the USSR after asylum here. It accused Sobolev staff of using duress to secure departures and criticized U.S. agencies for weak action amid Soviet pressure. Four sailors remaining here testified the five who defected were kidnaped by Soviet agents as part of broader covert actions.
Secretary Benson asked Agriculture Department lawyers for a detailed outline of changes required by the 1956 farm bill and discretionary powers the secretary may exercise. Officials linked the move to expected White House signature while noting questions about soil bank payments for retiring specific crops and timing issues for this season.
The Labor Department reports a small 0.2 percent rise in the living costs index for April, lifting the index to 114.9 percent of the 1947-49 base. Food costs drove the increase, with potential one-cent-an-hour wage boosts for about a million workers tied to the government’s price measures. Commissioner Ewan Clague warned for a gradual rise in food prices through summer, with possible relief on auto and household goods.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will relocate its general headquarters from Wilmington to Jacksonville. Mayor Hayden Burns announced ACL president Champion McD. Davis notified him in a letter. The site, narrowed to Jacksonville Savannah and Charleston, will involve a six million dollar building east of the Acosta Bridge on the St. Johns River and a payroll of about six million dollars annually. The move aims to place the HQ nearer the center of the company’s lines and will bring roughly 7 000 workers to Jacksonville.
Gov. Hodges said a June special session on school segregation is unlikely and a session date will be firmed up next week. He noted drafting bills for the session and praised the State Supreme Court ruling on Old Fort school desegregation as logical and likely to lessen session prospects.
A White House spokesman said a visit by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Soviet Union would not be surprising if invited. No invitation had been received and officials were unsure if such a trip is under consideration. An embassy inquiry yielded no firm confirmation.
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