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4A -Rotky Mount, N.C., Sunday Telegram, Nor TO, 1957 SCIENCE I CHARGES SHAW Wilson County Hard Hit By Friday Night Tornado TLTlS: Gainesville. allied with eign Office in London are working nate scientific data from foreign perry-Rand Corp. independently on the plans, which Family Forgery Team Arrested Whifehurst Is Guest Speaker Curtis D. Whitehurst, minister from Roanoke Rapids, will be guest speaker at the" Edgecombe sources. Matt aides said the bur- The labor leador declared that were decided upon principle den of this task now rests on the 'a photo was taken showing him 'ast month by President ELsen-Office of Technical Services which ij.in hower and Prime Minister Mac- WILSON More than a million the time ot his death.

He served on the distrfctFed-ral Reserve Boar frorn 1946 un' iii2 He was aooointed recently by Gov. Hodges to the Tax Study Commission. He was also a member of the National Executives Committe'e of the American Farm Bureau Fed damage was estimated from the tornado that struck Wil- WILSON A family forgery A mm team who had fleeced Wilson jSTr ffi.W -S5 th international lanr orML of the ldea eral cows and mules were killed by the tornado or either electrocuted during the storm. The home of Addie M. Hodge, Negro of the Stantonsburg highway, was lifted from the brick frame and set back about five son County Friday night, which crushed.

a 1,250 pupil Negro school Chants out of $636 in cash by pass-hHf Hwn in r.nn SuitTorinnH ready have been exchanged be- building in the county, left many congregation of Jehovan witnesses this evening at 7 o'clock He will speak on the subject, families homeless, tore down many barns, and killed livestock eration and a member of tbat Hp the president of the North Caro feet off its foundation. She was in the house with two children when kuIJ 1ess were arres1- out a ot more sajd tnat "the' young lady was tween the two countries and sub- tL r2 lpU Reynolds and his staff were as- with the delation." milled to France. West Germany liam MfwifJn Siaifo tJ181 the study job last sum-i Carey is in Europe. His speech land other governments involved. TwlnrndSrii ft by Sen.

McCIellan (D-Ark), was read by ar. aide. I Paul-Henry Spaak, secretary old dauAter BeZP rockr ithe committ chairman, before: James A Babcock. Westing-general of the. North Atlantic Cockrell Ind hU dnrhr wrPe Russians had launched their house plant manager here, said Treaty Organization has been act-confhTeri In ft.

ritv npnTn SPutnik satellites. Sen. Humphrey 'today that "in no case have we mg as a sort of middle man for MnSt0h bad suggested the ever shown this picture to the em-lthe continental allies to these ex- Monday's hearing. His wife, she said. "I noticed a piece of lina Farm Bureau Mutual Insur-ncea Co.

scaffold coming through the roof and I knew something was hap "Making A Success of Marriage." Whitehurst has served as presiding minister of the Roanoke Rapids congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses for four years. He is active in the missionary work of the Witnesses and has served as He is survived by his wife, one in. live ''auhter? stepdaughter and 10 grandchildren. In the area, The swirling tornado followed by heavy rains and winds, struck the. Negro Speight School local- ed about six miles east of Wilson and ripped the' building apart, scattering concrete, bricks and i metal into the rural road which bypasses the front of the school.

pening outside. So I grabbed my children and we huddled in a corner of the house." The piece was cited to appear in court but wasF-m, pioyes ot our plant. enanges. i draft He added that the regional di-; starting-point lor tne cisennow- avail ne auueu uiai me regional ai-. uuu- of scaffold had blown from the Aue assignment was to he small hUdren iint0 bil1 fo ted by rector of the National Labor Re-! er-Macmillan plan-which may be ner live Small allluren.

i il! Tj 1 I i nninUH a in nt offrrt nsvt home of Dee Grimes, across the road and pierced the center of the Hodge home. The home of Grimes Detective nnH 1 ana to aSK dimiu uou awuicu me Smh i nfad th prre" and out ot govern-j charge last March in connection month-was the declaration of tn-the assistance of Demitv Sheriff ment tor recommendations on with union accusations against the; terdepeadence issued last month whether these or other steps Raleigh olant Babcock asserted In Washington. The simple point "pioneer minister" in eastern United States for more than four years. Robrt R. Porterfield, presiding minister of the local congregation of the Witnesses, referred to the timeliness of the sermon' in stat was torn to bits.

Fortunately no Books; desks, school supplies, and debris were scattered for hundreds oi yards in the adjoining fields and roads. Several persons were Injured, police reported, but their MIDEAST Egyptian newspaper Al Shaab reported today the United States has noved-its 6th Fleet into position iff Turkey arid l-ebannn becaune it expects revolt in Jordan. The Egyptian Middle East News that the NLRB official the declaration sought to make one was in the home, at the time. The home of J. N.

Whitley was ouuiuu oe ianen family denuty sheriff. The re Thp nlan i tn nco iho draff Miio "Thpr i evidpnoe thnt the: was as Macmillan told the Pres- sides near Bailey. completely destroyed. It is locat names have not been learned. Police said Co'ckrell afimiitpd as a starting point for committee! motion picture shown to employees! ident-that in the modern world H.

D. Browning, Supt. of County eencv has reported refugi Schools, is making all efforts to hT forced them venes January, to determine issue He said the NLRB official! try to try to cover all the many They will I be -iveri a Drelimin-Ifinal recommendations to Con-1 recommended the allegation be vital fields of security. No free up auxiliary quarters for the 1.250 students that were left with ovprni pn i iiauon vouiu aiioiu uu au wiui- nvprnilpd Jordan staged demons; calling for the downfall sein. Ij Egyptian radio broadcast' arv hearine before citv recorder! Sress.

ing, "When one out of every four marriages goes on the 'rocks' it is high time ministers of all religions teach their members that marriage is a sacred trust from our Creator and should be treated and considered as such." Porterfield extended a cordial welcome to everyone to hear the public address and stay for a It is difficult in inHnpp snmn Rahcnck said furtehr that the out becoming a garrison state or Wiley L. Lane, Jr. Monday. out a school. The Speight School is one of the largest consolidated schools in the county.

It has 33 promising students to take extra MLR in Washington reviewed the going bankrupt. The Allies there- 1 1 1 nnJ Un I FlVVk holTO tn VlOnH tnffpthnr Ifl Jill director's and he' fore have to band together in all charged Hussein is negou I years of advanced training, when regional report Total taxes paid by insurance members of the school faculty, including 27 elementary teachers. with Israel in exchange for 30 mu-lion dollars in U. S. aid that was earmarked for Israel.

without it they can get jobs mi union ODjecuon ana ruiea mi ways io bijuiu nuM a yi co-industry at fatter salaries than' June 'that these objections and ent and future challenges, Mac-their teacher's 'exceptions are without merit." 'millan insists. companies in the U. S. in 1956 were $573 million dollars. five high school teachers and the study in the Bible following the sermon on the subject, "Endur principal, A.

G. Walker. ance Like Jobs In the Time of ed on the Stantonsburg highway. Trees were uprooted there and a telephone pole was broken like matchsticks. The family left home ten minutes before the tornado struck.

Homes owned by Joe Thomas and Fred Eagles in this vicinity were damaged and barns were destroyed. An automobile parked beneath a shed was pierced by a two by four piece of lumber. On the Fountain road about a mile from Saratoga a Negro family of nine were left completely homeless and without a thing except for what they had on their backs, when the tornado, completely leveled their frame house in the field on the farm of Richard Bryant, to the ground. This was the family of Zeta McNeil. One of the seven children.

De-lores, was struck on the head by flying debris, whicTi required sev in front of the school a tenant house was leveled to the ground. No one was at home at the the End." The Kingdom Hall is located at 416 Rose Street. time of the tornado. The top of the water tower at the school was blown off into a MANHUNT field near by, leaving the tank open. The huge plumbing, in route from Brooklyn, to play in a bridge tournament an un the school were twistedinto freak 1 objects and scattered over a wide sDecified Florida city.

area. An hour alter tne snooting oi Power cables and telephone lines Reece. 10-year patrol veteran Brown radioed that he was stop Knocked down by the storm lett a eral stitches to close the wound. wide area without electricity or tU nn ITC 1 nnar van. Th hilHron nU in frnm i communications.

Live electric .1" "Mord, 50 miles nortneast. e1Kni momns to mieen years oi afterward, Brown mes age. fUof Via VtoH Kaon eSrtt Pn. Jill 1 oavu wink i On the same road, two tenant trolman Gates said he saw Yvcic iweu apan. oudLtouj oMsmobile pass him as he v.v i a ni6 ha nf Krn U'hd llPfl Ul Not i and many trees uprooted.

Cloth Pnncip es an hour and a half later on an operating table in a Sanford hos nital. The car was stolen last Sunday lines scattered by the storm also made it- dangerous during the darkness for persons to enter some areas. Deputies from the Wilson County Sheriffs Department remained on duty at the school through the night to prevent looting. Most of the typewriters and other machines in the school were removed last night to prevent further damage by rain. In the same vicinity, six tobacco barns and a tenant house on the farm of Albert Woodard, were completely demolished.

Several buildings were blown down on the farms of Joe and Fred Eagles and Archie Ellis, and sev night from Robertson Motors at Bradford. Pa. It had a Pennsyl ing, parts of buildings, and twisted tin could be seen in tree tops in the area where the tornado struck. School officials were unable to estimate the loss of Speight School yesterday, but did say that it is doubtful that any part of the building could be salvaged. There were reports of property, damaee on the Old Black Creek vania license stolen Monday night from a parked car at Carrolltown, Fa.

Also In the Oldsmobile were guns and ammunition stolen Sun Stantonsburg roads and in other day or Monday from a hardware sections of the county. store at Barnesboro and a North Carolina license plate stolen COOLEY Wednesday at Madison, N.C. The trail, which hd grown cold prior to his appearance, Cooley the central North Carolina area stated. "I am certain my position Pf the killings, seemed to get hot-on racial matters is well known." i ter eastern and middle Tennes- Obituaries MRS. BESSIE WILLIAMS MOUNT OLIVE Funeral services will be held here today for Mrs.

Bessie Mae Williams, age 53, whiMlied Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Pate of He added he thought "a more see DUt raen peierea out. constructive asenda could have Later Thursday the search shift- been prepared." ed to Kentucky, where a 1957 In his prepared speech, Cooley Chrysler 300C, capable of 150 miles attached the world leadership pro- "uur.

ws muaa wrecsea ai vided by his own generation. He Stanford. That town is 220 miles asserted nis generation had made "ul" uauauooga, wnere me awful mess" and told thp stn. nicle was reported stolen. Kenansville.

The rites will be conducted from the chapel of the Tyndall Funeral Hoijie at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. Richard Ezzell, Holiness minister of dents thev had no choice hiit "to: A 1957 Dodge stolen from an live in this unhappiness." automobile agency at Lancaster. He asserted the nsrvivnl of 10 miles from Stanford, was Warsaw, will officiate. Burial will Mow in the Wallace family cem-tJnied States and democracy are foun1 late Thursday smashed etery near Albertson.

aependant upon the men and a wepnoiie poie is mnts I woman of America who can lift from Ldttcaster. It contained themcelvoa QKntm tk-. kn. ulooflstiiins anil hrpnrnris time's r.mv trrivnv Police theorized the driver had 'jSmes Gray Henry, age 81. diedi "nd lost a lot of blood the crackup, and would not get far.

But a central Kentucky search TORNADOES Friday night at Duke Hospital aft- er Jin extended illness. He was a resident of Route 2, Spring Hope. also didn't get far. State Police Hewas born in Franklin hurt, five homes destroyed and 14 said yesterday they were prepared son of the late John W. Henry and! other houses damaged Stantons- to withdraw their forces, and took 4h xamerine Cook Henry.

rimes soum oi ttocKy down roadblocks in the area. He was a retired farmer and a Mount, where an almost-new Ne- On Wednesday OFFICES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION, ASHEVILLE, N. C. member of the Peachtree Baptist' sro school was reduced to rubble; 300 patrol cars prowled Chflrch, where funeral services Surry County, where $10,000 North Carolina highways and bar- wm be neia today at rne pas-i um. je is aone put no injuries ricades were set up.

The cars were trr the Bpp. rharlip Wellnns at an elementary school aided hv turn Mnn'na hnWni. wnere mere were 80 pupils; and private airplanes and a state be In charge of the services. Burial will follow in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Nashville. ii vouuiy ana near can- plane.

doJ- But this search grew cold as the A swath half a mile wide and span chiftaW fire I Tann.nn TJie body will lie in state at the Chureh from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m.jjjre miles long was cut through and then to Kentucky. Hp i hv his wife, thp the Reds Place and Oakdale com- Thp deaths' hrninht in five tVio ITIP" Yhe Western and Southern Life Insure former Catherine Bell Avent and unities about 34 miles east of number of State Highway Patrol- A MUTUAL COMPANY itocxy Mount, reported State men who have been killed in line one son, J. T. Henry of the home. tl Comoanv bv with th ut SOVIET ii rairoi vapi.

h. S. Mitch- of duty since the patrol was or-eu. Trees were uprooted, telephone Iganized 28 years ago. poles were downed and power Under a patrol gentlemen's ag-lines broken.

reement of long standing, each of Among the Rockv Mount ininrpd the (ion trnnners will onntrihuto sin am i Insurance Company, nn privilege of serving the policyholders of the Imperial in the great sta arolina, South Caro lina, Tennessee and Virginia. posed by a scientist of that name. Having gone far on rockets and were Mr. and Mrs. Knox Porter, 1 each to the families of Reece a 'J developed a good antiaircraft sy- Pittman, and Miss Joan Brown.

The families also will et terri, ft was predicted the hUey, all of Rt. 2. and the Rev. $10,000 state workmen's will concentrate next on a hyper- J. W.

Gibson, pastor of the Oak- tion for employes killed on dutv ao-tic bomber. jdale Baptist Church. Newspapers have started fund" A hypersonic bomber was de B. W. Jones.

Rocky Mount tex-'drives. The Gaston Countv Law acribed as a manned vehicle, tile worker said the storm lower-! Enforcement Officers Ass'n has wnrcn cuuia icatn um eamc raugercu wmi a swosn liKe "an air-iotlered $200 reward to any private as an ICBM with less taiUal ve- plane had fallen." citizen for information leading to locity, or could go farther if it At Stantonsburg afl the children the arrest and conviction of the gireu ujc same pusu. ita mc uiouern, i.uuv-pupu Speight slayer rocket system would shoot it into School were gone when the torna; space where rt would glide 1,000 do hit. Parts of the roof and huilH. iiilii or 12.000 miles at speeds at 13,000 ing were scattered for about ai VkmIINA to 14,000 m.p.b.

i quarter of a mile around and most Tf smiM h. me. Hpadlv the ennmf it-JJTV: i tential. the ICBM because even thou I old school was damaged or deJ ln. widespread re-Instruments would be used foristoved.

Onlv nart. ii-, sentment of Western trade re- 0f Errou' stneuons, trroll bombing, the man in the plane were left standing major impres smns the tmir inoliiderf- would be there to monitor the in-f Homes and barns in that area C. ii ii. i i tmmpnts Hp pnnld als nick im of Wilsnn 1. The Chinese are eaaer to The high principles and ideals which have provided the excellent services given by the Imperial for more than fifty years to its policyholders and the communities it served, will be continued and expanded.

The management and personnel who have so ably conducted its business in the past, will continue to do so in the future. The reginal office will remain at Ashevilie, North Carolina, under direction of Vice President Charles Staines, former President of the Imperial Life. the Officers and Directors of The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company extend most cordial greetings to our new policyholders and friends. We shall conthrae our practice of managing the affairs of The Western and Southern life Insurance Company solely in the interests of our policyholders. su more intelligence than an un-jaged and son performance manned vehicle.

killed. western products against One side was tu. present equinent which has been loam Elementa almost solely from TOBACCO in rZrZ' iRussia. Countv aurry and i vvuuiv nnn nnmoffa Broa famar z. in me wcg run tninas goal age.

The season sales are now Fsaid it economic self sufficiency. Cfiina 192,845,459 pounds for a J53.31 av, would 'like to be ecooomicallv I none of me 80 niimls kin4 I vi age. nKie woa u-uc- aepeooeoi bow of nussia ana me hange in the overall quality of nuiswn-aaiem and, ciiaa. although still back the offerings last week. iher Sales by states were: Virginia, I ouAs- ward, baa made great strides during its fast 5-year plan and 13.105,190 pounds for a $49.50 av-! lr, erage for the week and 100,253..

VETERA KK may be expected to develop in S.TH mninH fnr thp opscmi ver. dustrially as quickly as Commu aelng orth Carolina: Sgt. Alford L. McLaughlin, of nist Russia. 878,920 poinds averaging $5255ieee1? Ala-.

now stationed at the 4. Chinese industrial products, for the week and 92.591.922 pounds faJ" Island Marine Base. particularly the "Liberation for the season averaging $54.54. power, still an erect and alert lorry' a 4-ton truck compare On he Middle Belt, gross sales military man, won his decoration reasonably well with Western for the week ending Nov 8 totaled the assault that broke the Hin- products. Chinese workmen have 6.6J8, 992 pounds averaern S4S.S7.

denburg Line during October of talent brains and natural median- MAP SHOWING AREA SERVED BY THE SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION oeasuD saics nave now ciunoea hi nuiiu nar i. KS1 ability. 118.977.312 pounds averaging $53.47 The Gallivants Ferry native. per hundred. a young lieutenant, led his DI AMC 'men through withering fire to kill iLMMC )f foe a machine gun nest the search, grimly pointed out llC land capture a number of Germans that the ditched plane should have PRESIDENT MAIN OFFICE GndnncrtL Ohio SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION OFFICE Charles E.

Staines, Vice President Biltmore Village, Ashevilie, N. C. MID-CONTINENT DIVISION OFFICE Saint Louie. Missouri pi Ju-e 9. 1956.

That was less than KemedVlS. a been able to flash some distress a vear after hU heart attack on oratpTfnr' fihMnV-i slgnal dunDg a Minute descent f-. 24. 1955 a- -h ulg whfl! wounded irom 10.ooo feet. Failing that Eisenhower plans to fly to Okla beond.

'-he there should be signaU from hand- koma City next Wednesday to! iI5s xfw his cranked radio transmitters on life irke his second speech on science Fary glory was rafts-if any were launched. national security. He KI- artlon against Among the 36 passengers were toTetum to Washinnoo the same. a State Department official a fM. This will bring him back me5 'requenUy lunch chemical corrpany executive and fr Mrs.

Eisenhower's 61st birth- lT- days th stau- a French ace of World War Tliursdav. th apartment where Ken-, If Ther wptp boond fnr Honolulu FAR WEST DIVISION OFFICE Beverly Hills, Caliloroia There were Indicatkmj-the Pres- aec "lr qut eu Tokyo. Hong Kong and Ransoon. Hent win goto Augusta. next er.

Day. for There was not even a hnt of Fridav Inr hi annual Kovmher1 going to sUv home for SOUTH CUBLMAJ vacation on the Augusta Xationall00" and enjoj- the day." Doner Gordon Brown, radioed lat1 Gelf Course. As resterday. remarked. W- i.

mgbt at 504 m. that his pos heaton insisted tbat while she isJutanJ general, ne is in heavy de- was 1.028 miles east of Honolulu. ot ruling out such a trip "there ma. as a public speaker on the After thai awesome silence, -fa nothing on the calendar at this holiday. Chapline noted that the plane.

Asssls Orer la Force oHPiimn. mi on wu, isse was a wea ocis aaa migst Soat iouay uk rres4ot-- spem inocimteiy alter being ditched tnomtag aendna to otficiai bnsi- A'5n. fosuii Sue Japanese There were bo frontal siorlr and reewviof twa callers, in WorM War ft was cfced for reported sions the plane'a Eight vn Brranerd piay rsSipja'aei fynss trarport iai rSa inta! rc-'i4 of goif at Burning 0 at Laian io llarcb. of.beadwiadi but. they war not.

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