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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1958
Page
1
Festival officials began their annual watch on the weather and the apple blossoms as the big event draws near. Dr. A B Groves of Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory noted the weather outlook remains uncertain while blossom prospects look more definite.
Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer denounces U S hydrogen bombs as window dressing to avoid halting tests. He urges end to tests for unborn generations, labels proposed limited war as contradictory, and backs Soviet Union moratorium alongside Britain.
The Virginia Woolen Co. plants in Winchester and Middleway West Virginia will shut down within six weeks, with 389 workers laid off. Six departments may close sooner while others run out orders over two to six weeks as conditions worsen in the textile industry. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc. announced the indefinite closure, noting a historic plant dating to 1900 and a prior peak of 500 workers.
DETROIT The United Auto Workers Union will seek a three month extension of contracts with General Motors Ford and Chrysler. The move aims to cover until June while 1959 models roll out. The union also seeks price cuts and higher supplemental unemployment benefits from 60 to 80 percent. A company spokesman said a draft rejection is already underway. None of the three has seen the new proposal yet.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will take a two month vacation in Uttar Pradesh starting in late May. Home Ministry sources said it will be his first extended break in about 11 years.
A blazing buffalo stampeded through Abadan, setting fire to 100 huts housing workers. It marks the sixth large fire in April in the Abadan area and the third over the weekend. Authorities note two fires were arson, while press reports claim the buffalo was set alight intentionally.
In Jacksonville Florida a Jewish synagogue and a nearby Negro school were dynamited early today amid racial unrest. No injuries were reported. Dynamite at the rear of the Jewish center exploded at 12 30 a m shattering windows. A second blast at the James Weldon Johnson School damaged property estimated at 20 000 dollars. Police had a vague auto description and noted two men near the rear of the synagogue.
Twenty three thousand filled the Cow Palace to hear Billy Graham begin his West Coast crusade. He urged Americans to seek God beyond pills and psychiatry, calling for a decision for Christ as crowds poured forward and a second service drew 5,000 listeners. The six week series may extend two more weeks.
The Air Force proposes a small cheap moon rocket built on OSA Farside lessons. Dr. Morton Alperin notes authority sought to supplement lunar probes while testing a secret nose cone in a Thor Vanguard flight from Cape Canaveral. The mission carried a mouse. telemetry failed and the nose cone was not recovered.
Bill Sydnor son of Mr and Mrs G Granville Sydnor Jr from Apple Pie Ridge won first in the state forensic meet in Charlottesville for prose reading. A James Wood School senior, he led district victors from Harrisonburg who competed for state honors on Saturday.
The U S Court of Appeals upheld dismissal of suits by Gov. Orval Faubus and others challenging federal actions to enforce integration at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. The panel found Arkansas could not lawfully use state forces to block rights protected by federal authority.
President Eisenhower asked Premier Khrushchev to join Western allies in an Arctic aerial inspection program and to reconsider the April 8 nuclear test ban proposal. He noted U.S. plans to raise the issue at the U.N. Security Council and pressed for disarmament progress amid Cold War tensions.
Rome reports Cardinal Samuel Stritch, 70, had his right arm amputated above the elbow to remove a blood clot. The operation by Dr. Pietro Valdoni lasted 35 minutes with two Chicago doctors assisting. The Cardinal awoke saying he felt fine and should stay in hospital about two weeks as Pope Pius XII sent blessings.
The Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, bishop of the Richmond diocese, died in Washington at 75 after a year marked by illness and a fall. He led about 165,000 Catholics across Virginia and parts of West Virginia, expanded parishes, schools, and hospitals, and served since 1945 after succeeding Bishop Brennan. He was a Baltimore native and a long-time Holy Name Society figure.
The Festival's Joint Civic Clubs luncheon replaces individual club meetings this week. Sponsored by Exchange Kiwanis Lions and Rotary, chaired by J. W. Arthur Jr., the event at George Washington Hotel begins 12 39 p m with no featured speaker. Festival officials department heads and the Queen, her maids of honor, attend. Herb Parsons will speak briefly at 4 30 p m at the Armory, and apple pie dessert is served for the Queen's pie baking event.
Vice President Richard Nixon landed at Carrasco airport in Montevideo for a two day visit as the first stop of an eight nation, 18 day goodwill tour of South America. The trip aims to expand U S influence in the western hemisphere amid Cold War tensions.
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