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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1957
Page
3
In Little Rock a mob of about 50 white youths confronted a Black delivery boy at a home while delivering groceries. The assailants threatened the teen, struck him, and chased him after a white woman admitted the boy tried to reason with them. The boy fled the scene seriously hurt.
A court martial acquitted S Sgt James E Martin of Me Gregor Texas of larceny in a $30,000 payroll swindle at Shaw Air Force Base. Ninety-nine personnel faced charges as 11 troops and 2 officers arrived at the scene. Several airmen received dishonorable discharges or prison terms after the chaotic events.
Clarkston Washington farmer W T Wagner a rancher from Tammany near Lewiston bought a $118000 municipal bond issue for a new swimming pool with a 4.225 percent interest rate bid, the lowest of four bids ahead of a bank investment house and the state Finance Committee.
Washington reports the United States has approved Tunisia's request for armaments from free world nations. It appears the U S will not supply directly but may authorize Allied nations to provide arms to Tunisia.
U S soldiers and jeeps surrounded Central High as troops patrol the entrance and clear whites from the area. An Army spokesman said the side entrance was practical not symbolic while bayonets forced crowd dispersal. One man was clubbed, another slashed, and a rail worker was knocked down during clashes. Paratroopers stayed, police reported quiet by nightfall, and Governor Faubus announced a TV speech while National Guardsmen prepared for possible action.
The Jackson Daily News recalled the Battle of Bastogne calling the opposing forces nuts in an editorial tone referenced by the paper on a Wednesday. The item reflects a wartime wartime rhetoric noting the phrase Nuts attributed to American forces.
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