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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1958
Page
1
A Miami bottling firm linked to Pepsi Cola poured 150000 into Miami's Buy Now campaign handing out checks from 1000 to 7000 to 55 employees. The funds came from a trust set up in 1952 by President Hall Pelton from investment profits. No employee contributions were noted.
Lieut. Col. Paul Hartman 56 of Winchester is believed drowned after falling from a boat off Millers Island in Chesapeake Bay. His wife Thelma searched the water as Essex and Edgemore police and rescuers scoured the area. the Coast Guard did not participate. Hartman, a WWII veteran who led Company I of the 116th Infantry and later served in Europe under Gen Patton, reportedly suffered a heart condition and had a medical Army retirement.
Civic officials in Grande Prairie Alberta request provincial assistance to restore Mc Queen's Presbyterian Church, a log-built pioneer congregation structure dating from 1911.
1st Lieutenant Edward Joseph Swoboda 23 of Omaha Nebraska died when his 1958 Austin Healey sports car left Rt 522 north of Cross Junction, struck a tree and overturned. The crash at 12:15 pm pinned him beneath the car, leaving a fractured skull. He recently acquired the vehicle and was en route to Ft Belvoir for reassignment with the Army Corps of Engineers. Also reported a Kentucky man injured in a separate guard rail crash on Rt 50 near Winchester. charge of DUI pending for Hall, with a total loss vehicle and $550 damage to the guard rail and posts. The Winchester Volunteer Squad responded to both incidents.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors extended the fox trapping season by 45 days. The season now runs from January 27 through June 10 with a $2.50 bounty for foxes. The tail must be exhibited to claim the bounty.
Secretary of Welfare Folsom informed President Eisenhower he wishes to leave public life this year but no resignation letter has been received. Reports link Arthur Flemming as possible successor, but Hagerty cannot confirm vacancies or announcements.
Lincoln Nebraska defense lawyers began selecting a jury to hear Charles R Starkweather’s bid to avoid the electric chair. Prosecutors questioned 56 prospective jurors and found 20 men and 14 women acceptable as potential jurors for the January killings.
Foreign ministers of six NATO nations urged cautious pursuit of a U S Britain and France led summit with the Soviet Union. They stressed postponing a major conference until preliminary talks show real chances to ease tensions and warned against伟 compelling concessions or nuclear tests without ironclad safeguards.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged rapid planning for a presummit foreign ministers conference while seeking parity for Communist states in the talks. He said negotiations with Western ambassadors would proceed to set time and venue, without predetermining the participants. U.S. envoy Llewellyn Thompson stated no change in position as he left Moscow for a Paris conference.
NEW YORK May Roper Coker of Hartsville South Carolina was named the American Mother of 1958. The 68 year old widow of a noted farming leader was cited for race relations work and tireless community leadership. She is to be honored at a Waldorf luncheon with mothers from each state. She was born in Gibson North Carolina to David C Roper former assistant postmaster general and commerce secretary.
New York reports that cash shortages, not desire, curb consumer spending. The Wall Street Journal found most people want major purchases but only a few plan to buy soon, due to high prices, limited cash, and reluctance to dip into savings.
Weather eases with clear skies forecast and warmer temperatures tomorrow. Entomologist Dr. C. H. Hill says apple scab is the main worry for orchardists while pollination chances look favorable as Stayman Winesap and Delicious bloom with petal fall underway and York trees expected to shed petals by week end. May rainfall reaches 1.55 inches for May and 15.71 inches for 1958.
The Little Rock integration crisis shaped the 1958 Pulitzer winners. The Arkansas Gazette won two journalism prizes for public service and editorials, while Belman Morin earned a national reporting prize for eyewitness coverage of mob violence.
A beserk janitor, William Edward Breeze, 37, fired a 12 gauge shotgun into a crowded Potrero Hill apartment, wounding three adults and six children, one critically, then fled and later called police. His wife, Mary Breeze, 29, was present as tensions in the housing project escalated.
In an annual training, imaginary enemy bombers prompted civil defense action as Operation Alert 1958 began at 10:03 a.m. EST from NORAD in Colorado Springs. Half a million workers joined simulated evacuations in Syracuse, Birmingham, and Memphis. Eisenhower observed from an underground post as shelters opened in New York.
In Washington Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson appears ready to back the House passed jobless pay measure approved by President Eisenhower. Senator Knowland expects votes to extend unemployment benefits with loans to states and a 16 week extension, while Kennedy and a bloc of liberals push a broader permanent reform plan.
Six robbers intercept a money truck in London then drive to Westminster Bank taking 120000 dollars. They bind gag the driver, force a cashier and guard to enter the truck, dump them in the street, transfer the cash to their car, and flee.
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