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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1958
Page
6
AP reports 370 traffic fatalities during the extended Memorial Day weekend, surpassing the 1955 three day toll. The 78 hour window from Thursday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight added drownings 127 and 88 miscellaneous deaths for an overall 585.
About 506000 auto workers reported to 27 plants operated by General Motors Ford and Chrysler without a union contract. UAW President Walter Reuther urged restraint as negotiations stalled with no temporary extensions offer, while companies prepared for potential slowdowns and vigilant supervision.
Eleven people including seven children ages 7 to 16 died in Georgia accidents over the Memorial Day weekend. Drownings claimed three sisters and two other youths while seven were traffic related. Notable deaths included Loraine Nichols Edwards and siblings Annie May and Mary Ann Nichols in a gravel pit near Cartersville, and 48 year old John H. Cabe in Lake Lanier. An Alabama crash killed Arthur Smallwood Jr. and other local victims occurred around Athens and Unadilla.
Thomasville voters will go to the polls tomorrow at City Hall from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. to decide a 525000 bond issue split between 250000 for paving and 275000 for sewer projects. If approved, paving funds cover 120000 feet and sewer work would add about 32 miles of paving and 14 miles of sewer lines with new lift stations.
Corrections Director Forrester reported two irregular uses of convict labor by Bainbridge on private property. The findings cover a fence contract on Gov Marvin Griffin's property and work on Bainbridge Country Club golf course, with no evidence of boat house construction for the governor's son. Convict crews cleared weeds on 103 jets for 4 firms under sanitary ordinances. the state was paid in full.
The National Assembly approved six months of emergency decree authority for Charles de Gaulle by 822 to 282 after a tense debate. The vote follows a 329 to 224 installation for six months with a plan to revise the constitution and reorganize overseas territories. In Algeria, titling factions feared royalist and colonial power shifts as De Gaulle hinted at a federated autonomous Algeria.
Paris Figaro reports Eisenhower plans to invite French Premier Charles de Gaulle to participate in next week’s talks with Prime Minister Macmillan. The aim is to coordinate American British and French policy for possible negotiations with the Soviet Union. Macmillan will visit the United States to speak at DePauw University and meet Eisenhower in Washington.
President Eisenhower signals intent for legitimate and friendly relations with France as Gen. de Gaulle becomes premier. A key foreign conference planned to discuss Franco American ties and a joint stance on nuclear test talks with the Soviet Union. Khrushchev agrees to science talks among US USSR and others later this month.
Congress resumes a five day work week after Memorial Day with a heavy House docket including pay raises for federal workers space agency creation defense appropriations extension of reciprocal trade act and ongoing tax-rate extensions. Senate focus centers on foreign aid authorization and Alaska statehood with major bills on labor law revisions foreign aid scholarships and reorganization of defense programs still to be tackled.
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