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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1956
Page
1
President Eisenhower delivers a firm throw from Ebbets Field as the World Series opens. In frame with him are Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel.
Justice William J. Brennan of New Jersey’s Supreme Court, age 50, moves to the U.S. Supreme Court within two weeks. He values swift justice, credits New Jersey’s model court system, and has written major opinions on the Fifth Amendment privilege. Brennan avoids commenting on hypothetical cases and is portrayed as independent in politics.
Secretary of State Dulles indicated the United States may pursue a somewhat independent line from Britain and France in the Suez dispute with Egypt. He suggested differences in approach reflect colonialism factors, though the core aim of international canal operation remains with US Britain and France.
Adlai Stevenson continues a six county tour into Pennsylvania on the eve of the election. He denounces Republican records and plans a nationwide TV speech tonight while President Eisenhower uses a nonpolitical flight to New York for the World Series opening. Nixon campaigns in New England and Connecticut as Kefauver targets atomic policy. More on page three-A.
In Boston, the defense for eight men charged in the Brink's robbery expected to rest today in Superior Court. Key witness Lt. James V. Crowley had not yet testified, while Detective Conaty described his call to Crowley and their drive to headquarters around 8:30 p.m. on January 17, 1950.
United Nations talks on the Suez Canal dispute advance as eleven foreign ministers arrive for the first U.N. airing. The Security Council plans a Friday debate with ministers including Egypt's Mahmoud Fawzi and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd aboard. Russia's Shepilov Spaak Pineau and others are en route as Britain and France draft a resolution on international canal control.
Vice President Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers of America announces a tentative one year contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. The deal provides a 2.40 dollar daily package raise and retroactive pay to last Monday, raising basic miners pay to 22.25 dollars per day. The agreement must be ratified by the union convention and the BCOA, with broader adoption contingent on Southern Coal Operators Association and other groups agreeing.
Columbus Ohio reports an odd classified style ad seeking a single man under 25 to drive in a head on collision at Powell Speedway on Saturday October 6. The fake ad requests both cars speed at 45 mph at impact and drivers sign unconditional release, offering a price figure and details.
Gov Hodges voiced concern over illegitimate children and welfare fraud. He linked abuse to African Americans and urged action against officials who ignore the problem. He spoke at the Southern Regional Conference of the American Public Welfare Association.
A C124 Globemaster from Bermuda crashed on approach at Charleston Air Force Base in fog. Three crewmen died, seven injured. plane burned, tail and small fuselage remains only. Brookley wing and Col. Herman Rumsey involved in initial response.
Former golf pro John Teal was acquitted of second degree murder in the pistol slaying of 17 year old Martin L. Gorham in Edgecombe County North Carolina. The Edgecombe County Superior Court jury deliberated 50 minutes returning a not guilty verdict after Teal testified he shot at a man he believed to be the former husband of his wife.
A devotional essay discusses modern surgery’s progress and how people trust doctors for physical healing while often resisting faith in spiritual healing. It contrasts confidence in medical operations with reluctance to surrender personal problems to a higher power.
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