The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 13

THEWIATHIR Art Mora Weather Data on 5A 76th 43 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Cralcf CCWMMlA WHATS INSIDI cu HIGH POINT, N. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 12, 1960 24 Pages DAILY Sc, SUNDAY 15t AS 'SIT-DOWN' ARRIVED IN HIGH POINT Negro high school students occupy all of the stools at the downtown Woolworth store counter in the first such demonstration in High Point yesterday. They read and studied, ignoring the signs which announced the lunch counter to be closed. (See stories and more photos on Page 1-B).

(S rtoto Sitdown Hits Local Stores; One Food Counter Closed High Point eating establishments today chose their own ways of facing the newest threat to their well-being. Those which were major targets for sit-down demonstrations yesterday were doing business as usual today while at least one store has gone out of the food-serving business. Most fully expected new demonstrations later in the day. McLellan's Store, which was caught in the edges of the storm centering at Woolworth's yester day, had removed its counter stools today and set up displays of framed pictures on the counter Expect Second Visit Both the Woolworth stores downtown and at the College Vil lage Shopping Center were operat ing their luncheonnette counters today, despite the promise that both would be visited by Negro students again this afternoon. Once yesterday and again this morning groups of Negroes walked into Everette's Cafe on Main Street and were refusec service.

They did not linger. The management said today that three came in yesterday. Early today, six men, none of whom appeared to be students, asked for and were refused service at the The Kress Store, in the same block with the other two dime stores downtown, has thus far escaped involvement. It has long operated a soda bar at the rear of the store but has no stools at the counter and has served whites and Negroes alike. Eckerd's Counter Open Also open today was the counter at the Eckerd's Store in the shopping center.

The counter was closed last night shortly after the incident at the Woolworh Store, but management refused to discuss he situation other than to Lunch Counter Sitdown Invades South Carolina Orderly Negroes Take Seats In Rock Hill; Counters Closed ROCK HILL, S.C. W) A passive resistance movement by Negroes against segregated lunch counter service jumped the North Carolina state line today to Rock Hill. A large group of orderly young Negroes entered two Main Street variety stores and took seats at the lunch-counters. The stores, Woolworth's and McCrory's, immediately posted signs saying the lunch counters were "temporarily closed." There had been hints that there! would be a demonstration in Rock Hill and large numbers of curious whites watched the Negroes from bo'h inside and outside the stores. In Concord, N.C., 20 miles north of Charlotte, 14 Negroes appeared at the lunch counter of the Belk's department store just before the hour started and took seats at the counter.

The store temporarily closed the counter to all patrons, but the Negroes continu- say they were closing because they were short-handed and traffic was heavy. Statements by spokesmen for the downtown demonstrators were interpreted as meaning that the groups of sudents would be on hand every day to ask for service and to occupy counter stools until their demands are met. CARMICHAEL l-l'L ICARH ME THE HE ME Argentine Ships Hit Submarine By BRIAN BELL BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Argentine warships have crippled a mystery submarine hiding in a southern Argentine gulf and capture of the sub is imminent, Navy Secretary Gaston Clement announced Thursday night. Government authorities claimec the underwater intruder was successfully trapped after a 12 of hide and seek near the Argentine naval base the head of Golfo Nuevo, 650 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Claims Gulf Argentine claims the entire gulf 20-by-40-square-mile body oj water opening into the South her territorial water.

Rear Ad. Clement for the first time confirmed newspaper reports Jiat the submarine had been attacked, both on the surface and under water. He told newsmen that the sub is forced to come to the surface jvery 48 showing she had suffered serious damage from depth charges and artillery shells 'ired by Argentine warships. President Arturo Frondizi met with military chiefs at government house Thursday night. Sen.

Alfredo Turano, president of the congressional defense committee, emerged from the meeting and announced in a radio broadcast that "the Argentine public can be ure that the intruding submarine exists." Argentine authorities have been silent on the likely identity of the submarine. Both the United States and Britain said none of their submarines are operating in the area. This is the third foreign submarine scare in Argentine terri- orial waters within 21 months. The navy announced the other two got away after, being detected. Unofficial naval sources said then hose two were believed to be Soviet.

Stools Replaced At Fayetteville Lunch Counters FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. variety stores put the stools back at their lunch counters today following- the suspension of a Negro students' protest of segregated serving customs. P. W. Woolworth Co.

and McCrory's uprooted the stools after a Wednesday demonstration by students of Fayetteville State Teachers College for Negroes. The students voted Thursday to appoint a committee to meet with store officials. C. A. Foster, Woolworth manager here, said, "I don't Me any value to any meeting.

We are song to continue to operate our lunch counter according to, local plicfnm custom. There was no McCrory comment on a possible meeting with students. AND THEN THEY LEFT Only when sure that all white patrons had left the store after it was announced closed did the Negro students file out. They came through a crowd of the curi- ous who had gathered outside during the afternoon demonstration, without incident! (Slaff Photo by Dal Baylcs) A-Test Ban On U.S. Terms Could Win Senate Approval WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.

reorge D. Aiken (R-Vt) said today a nuclear weapons test ban along the lines of the new U.S. proposal should have a good chance to win Senate ratification. Aiken and several Democratic joined in commendation of the proposal, although some said there didn't seen, to be much lope it would break the deadlock the 15-month-old Geneva talks. Initial Soviet reaction supported hat idea.

"Our reaction is negative," Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarap-; tin told newsmen in Geneva. 'These proposals cannot serve as the basis for any sort of agreement." U.S. Hopeful But U.S. officials expressed lope the Soviet Union would take a more favorable attitude after a thorough study of the proposals.

Otherwise, they said, the Geneva negotiations will be threatened with collapse. Some Democrats in Congress said they had long advocated just such a plan as President Eisenhower announced Thursday. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont), he Democratic whip, commented that it was "a good way to display when the administration "takes up recommendations from the Senate." The proposal, formally presented to the Soviets in Geneva, calls for a ban on all sea and air atomic and hydrogen blasts, as well as large explosions in underground, tunnels. Small underground shots would permitted initially, but Eisen- lower's proposal also left the way open for extending.them.

He sug- gested the agreement could provide for joint experiments to improve detection techniques to the point they could catch even sm.Jl sneak explosions. The Soviet Union has held out for a ban on all nuclear tests. The new U.S. offer proposes to ban all that can be detected with certainty. "Fair Offer" Aiken, a member of the Foreign Relations and Senate-House Atomic Energy committees, told a reporter "I think this is a fair offer which the Russians ought to consider seriously.

"It is just about as far as we Con go. There might be some little explosion out in a hole in the ground in the Gobi Desert that we would have no way oT knowing whether it was atomic." Aiken said he believed the new proposal, if incorporated in a treaty, would have such strong bipartisan support it would be very likely to win the two-thirds Senate vote needed for approval. Some senators have expressed doubts about an all-embracing test ban on the grounds that Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission experts believe further experiments are essential to refine the nation's nuclear weapons. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union ended nuclear testing Oct. 31,1958, and have not resumed it although the formal U.S.

suspension has expired. ed to sit there, with open books before them. The demonstrators said they were students at Barber Scotia College for Negroes in Concord. The movement began in Greensboro, N.C., last week and this week spread to these other North Carolina cities: Winston Salem, Durham, Charlotte. Fayetteville, Raleigh, Elizabeth City and High Point.

Thursday, demonstrators also appeared in Hampton, Va. and Deland, Fla. In every city but High Point, there is a private or. state-supported Negro college whose students have taken part in the movement. Rock Hill is the first city in South Carolina, one of the Deep South's bastions of total segregation, in which demonstrators have appeared.

The city is just across the state line from North Carolina, only 2 miles south of Charlotte. In some of the cities, the stores where the demonstrators appeared had offered separate lunch counters for Negroes and whites. Others offered service to Negroes on a "stand up" basis, but sit down service only to white patrons. After the first demonstrations, some of the stores shut down their lunch counters com pletely and others removed stools from the counters and either continued food service or converted the counters to other merchandise. The Greensboro and Fayetteville demonstrators have agreed to a cooling off period in the movement, but the Negro students in most of the other cities have returned daily to the lunch counters, despite the fact that some of them closed.

At Rock Hill, the Negroes said they all were students at Baptist- supported Friendship Junior College. Most of those seated had books, generally Bibles, open on the counter. Two students, pointed out as leaders, refused to give names. They said, "We started taking seats about 11 o'clock. There was no organization." They would not (See ORDERLY on Page 11-A) ON NEGRO RULING 'Like Or Lump Seawell Tells ACLU RALEIGH GB State Atty.

Gen. Malcolm B. Seawell today, told the American Civil Liberties Union that his statements on sitdown protests by Negroes "are none' of your business." "I stand by what I have said. If you like it, well and you do not like it, you may lump it," Seawell said in a telegram to Patrick Murphy Malin, execu live director of the American Civil Liberties Union, New York City. Seawell issued a statement earli er this week in which he said the sitdown strikes by Negroes protesting segregated lunch counters 'pose a serious threat to the peace and good order in the communities in which they occur." He also said, "The right of the owner of a private business to sell cr to refuse to sell to a customer las been recognized by our State Supreme Court." Malin sent a wire to Seawell in which he said, "The American Jivil Liberties Union strongly sup' ports the efforts to desegregate places of public accommodation such as restaurants, because of our belief that the constitutional juarantee of equal treatment for all persons definitely applies in this area.

We also believe that the students' peaceable demonstration is an exercise of their first amendment right of free speech. The statement attributed to you in the press may be taken as a threat to prosecute the students for their legitimate assertion that under the 14th amendment, as American citizens, they are entitled to equal treatment. "We regard your statement as a contradiction, of the rights guaranteed under the 14th amendment and an effort to pressure the students against continuing their activity. We hope that rather than (See LIKE on Page 11-A) Seawell Considers Candidacy RALEIGH (AP)-Terry Sanford paid his filing fee today to make his candidacy for governor official while Atty. Gen.

Malcolm Sea- wll said he definitely was con sidering running. Seawell, answering a newsman's question, said: "I'm considering it, yes. When you add that word I don't know how serious it is, although it has gone beyond the wishful-thinking stage." Several months ago, Seawell's name had been prominently mentioned in speculation about candidates for governor. Of late, however, this had subsided and most i folks figured he would run for election as attorney general. "Within 10 days I'll be in the governor's race or seeking reelec- as the state's attorney general," said Seawell.

He said his entry in to the race would not be prompted by the amount of money he could raise or a campaign, as necessary as financing is. "I do not think the office of governor is for sale," he said. "The emphasis should be placed on 350,000 votes and not on $350, 000 in campaign funds. While newsmen watched, Sanford handed a $250 check to Raymond Maxwell, executive secretary of the State Board of Elec- tee SEAWELL on Page 11-A) Soviet Power Touted NEW DELHI, India Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declared today that the Soviet Union is the strongest military power in the world but does not wish to take advantage of her superiority. Speaking from the same stand from which President Eisenhower two months ago defended Western military alliances, Khrushchev said that of Soviet military strength, the idea of peaceful coexistence is "gaining ground even among advocates of the cold war." "They have come to understand that if war is unleashed by them, the instigators and inspirr ers woud be the first to perish in its flames," he declared.

400,000 Listen An estimated 400,000 Indians heard Khrushchev speak at a civic reception in sprawling Ram Lila Park, between the new and old cities of Delhi. Eisenhower attracted an estimated million spectators to a similar reception for him two months ago in the Earlier today, Khrifshchfiv had met alone with Prime Minister Nehru for nearly three hours during which it was assumed India's border dispute with Red China was discussed. Although many Indians hoped Khrushchev would persuade Red China to pull her troops out of Himalayan territory both nations claim, Nehru was reported to have no such hopes and to doubt that Khrushchev had enough influence with Mao Tze- tung to change the Chinese leader's course. Khrushchev coupled his attack on "advocates of the cold war" new declaration that the Soviet Union is determined to surpass the United States in per capita production within a few' years. "Highest Standards" "This will enable us to have the highest living standards in the world and at the same time the shortest working day," he said.

"According to all rules of competition we have made our challenge known to the United States. "We told them 'Let us compete in the peaceful development of economy and not in the production of "Our peoples, our countries and the peoples of the entire world (See SOVIET on Page 11-A) SIMMERS OVER CENSORSHIP Jack Paar Says He Won't Return To Show NEW YORK (AP) Tele vision porter for the Yonkers Herald star Jack Paar, who quit his show Thursday night in anger over censorship of an anecdote on his previous night's show, said today he won't return to it. He said he plans to take a long vacation in Europe. "I am going to leave the country and go to Europe, maybe to (he Mediterranean area where it's warm," Paar said at his home in suburban Bronxville. "I need a big long rest," he said.

Paar told of his plans in an interview with William Kalna, a re- Statesman. He said he had no intention whatsoever of returning to his "Jack Paar Show" on the National Broadcasting Co. network. He opened morning newspapers to check on ship sailing schedules and said he would try to make reservations today. Paar said he has canceled all his commitments for the future, including an appearance on the Arthur Murray testimonial program for comedian Bob Hope i.cxt week.

Mrs, Paar, with her husband as was interviewed, said she backed his decision to quit the NBC show, and that she also was looking, forward to a long vacation. NEW YORK (AP)-Jack Paar, simmering over a censored anecdote on his Wednesday night NBC television show, boiled over emotionally Thursday night and walked off the program. He said he was leaving the show. The show was being taped before an audience in an NBC studio when Paar commented about "an idiot" cutting him off the air for about five minutes Wednesday evening, said "there must be a better way of making a living," and stalked off-stage. "I believe I was let down by this network at a time when I could have used their help," said Paar.

Paar's final gesture before leaving was to shake handi with Hugh Downs, announcer on the coast-to-coast "The Paar Show." The studio audience was stunned. Some spectators, thinking it was part of the program, (See JACK on Page 5-A) i Village Saves Vital Industry HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) The factory whistle sounded a blast of victory and the 9,000 residents of this community rejoiced. They had saved a vital village Their efforts to raise they received pledges and contributions of about that the Standard Furniture Co. will continue operating, its 300 employes still have their jobs, and they will collect million dollars a year in wages.

The company makes wooden office furniture. Competition from steel and aluminum rivals hurt. Standard said it lost $57,000 last year but looked forward to a business upswing this year. Standard said it needed a minimum of $150,000 by midnight Thursday or it would go out of business. The drive for funds in this Mohawk Valley community, spear- icaded by a citizens' committee, began Tuesday: It ended Thursday night, about four hours ahead of the deadline.

Local 3715 of the Carpenters and Joiners Union represents the factory workers. The local pledged $75,000. Every employe pitched in, too. Some used their savings, others took bank loans 'and mortgaged his home to buy $100 company bonds sold in the drive. The bonds mature in five years, at 6 per cent interest.

Samuel D. Earl, company president, described the response as 'the most gratifying thing that has ever happened to me. dard has been a part of Herkimcr or 75 years but never so much as it is at this very.