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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1956
Page
8
In Omaha delegates from about 3 000 church representatives discuss merging the independent Congregational Christian church with Evangelical and Reformed to form the United Church of Christ. The plan ends the Congregational name and faces strong protests and potential court action from opponents urging voluntary church action only.
Mr and Mrs Meyris, the only eligible voters, cast ballots on whether the multimillion dollar Northside Hospital area should remain in Irondequoit or be annexed to Rochester. After caucusing, they both opposed annexation citing taxes and school districts for their three children. A separate note reports firemen mopping water from a split pipe at St Edward's Grade School after a lightning strike.
A federal panel ruled Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws unconstitutional and issued a 10 day stay to allow appeals. Officials plan to study options before possibly taking the case to the U S Supreme Court. If no appeal is filed by June 29 the injunction becomes permanent.
In New Orleans the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of the Montgomery Improvement Association said an appeal to the Supreme Court likely means no decision before early next year. He noted the prevailing view among MIA members that about 50,000 Negroes will continue boycotting city buses until definite action ends segregation.
New York Attorney General Jacob K. Javits urged the House Public Works Committee to drop the municipal preference provision in the Niagara Power Bill as unfair. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Herbert Lehman and Rep. Charles Buckley, would authorize the New York Power Authority to build and run hydro projects at Niagara Falls and was approved by the Senate.
Samuel Sugarman, 28, of Brooklyn, was arrested in Mountainside on a driving without a license charge after his car struck a tree. The vehicle had been reported stolen earlier by his mother Rae Sugarman.
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