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iitiOatiVqNotiaraioaoWILANdMIMUMonleAtilkO00 4awwdwhacoawi 1111 4' IS 1117 II El AA 11Z (11) TIE I EV 1 CiAr 1 -4 Largest Evening Newspaper In The Two Carolinas Established Dec 81888 Charlotte North Carolina Thursday January 16 1958 Established Dec 8 1888 IHE 4 Largest Evening Newspaper In The Two Carolinas Charlotte North Carolina TIE Thursday January 16 1958 J-j VQ 0) FINAL 1 Inhev night Back A mull I 2e 7 E- Cd) rrl'r 1f 1 11 I- kg A A a-' 4i A Ab 2 iii 1 AIL 0 nev 1 Ili Ficlh Wood El Mimi) I VII 0 responsible civic leaders here succeed in their efforts to calm things down some Indians of Robeson County may go on the warpath against the Ku Klux Klan here Saturday night Anti-Klan feeling among the Indian population is running high today with some threatening to break up a scheduled KKK rally Saturday night a speech at the rally and crossburning is ''Why I believe in segregation" Reports to The News indicate the rally Sat urday night may be one of the state's largest with a number of out-of-county Klan members present Other reports say there are a number of out-of-towners in the section today presumably Klan members Posters they say are being put up by some men unknown in this area There Is no confirmation on reports that guns and ammunition have been selling at a brisk rate Kirkpatrick a member of the Maxton Town Board told The News the board was trying to "forestall trouble" with its resolution last night The resolution urged citizens not to attend the Klan rally THREE LOCAL MINISTERS today signed a letter backing the board's action They are the Rev Joe Walker (Presbyterian) the Rev Max A Eller (Baptist) and the Rey (Methodist) The letter said in part: "-i3 oppose this rally because we want men of all races to love in good will and understanding and in mutual respect The action of the KKK causes just the opposite" Mayor Oxendine of Pembroke told The News the Indian residents of his community are "stirred up as bad as we have been" in many years "We consider the source (the KKK) and I don't think there will be trouble We feel we are more intelligent than that and we feel the people of North Carolina are behind us" he said The Mayor said he "understood" there are only about "ten Klan members" in the county "There are 30000 of us" he added "We ought to be able to keep things under control" violence will come out of the Saturday KKK However Maxton civic leaders have been about the area trying to calm down some reportedly are ready to stop any attempt anti-Indian demonstration TROUBLE BEGAN here Monday night two crosses were burned by hooded men was burned in the driveway of a home in St Pau Is reportedly as a warning to an woman "having an affair" with a white The other cross was burned at Lumberton an Indian family had moved into a white neighborhood Klan poster is being tacked all over the advertising a rally "between Pembroke College and Hayes Pond" The flyer is by the KKK with a Charlotte post office as its address The scheduled subject for KLAN OFFICIALS SAY the rally is scheduled as a "warning" to Indians against race mixing The Maxton Town Board last night passed a resolution condemning the Klan and opposing the Saturday meeting A group of ministers endorsed the stand today Responsible Indian leaders told The News by telephone today that they realize some Robeson Indians are "stirred up" but they do not Pooch Spare That Postman! Lowered Farm Price Support Asked By Ike Post Office Brainstorm Bring These Traditional Enemies? beyond biting range or with goodies to con them into be coming friendlier But postmen said the postmaster general still suffer more than 6000 bites a year EIGHT LOCAL postmen in the past year were either bitten had their clothing torn or received a bad scare from dogs The latest announcement from Washington doesn't even mention psychology It says: "The instructions provide automatic discontinuance of delivery service whenever the carrier is actually bitten or his unifrom 'torn by a dog "The 'dog OM1Pr will be advised where his mail may be picked up until a satisfactory solution is found when service will be reinstated In such cases no initial notice is required THIS WOULD come under the heading of drastic action feel rally going who at an THE when One nearby Indian man where A county Junior signed box a 4 1 4 A 4'" 1 j17 QC' Ic-o it 47i- 1: 11s :4 04 i '''S: '1 4 t41ti i kk tt I 1 i't': :114 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evangelist said reports from advance agents in the Latin American countries indicate that "we are not having any opposition from the Catholics In some places the Catholil Church has been friendly and many priests are planning to attend the meetings" Graham said American prestige has been deteriorating in Latin America and that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles "has told me personally that any contribution we can make in the spiritual realm vitt help the United States" ''We have spread our filthy literature our sexy movies and our rock and roll music over the world It is time vve let the world know that the United States has great moral and spiritual resources to share -with the world" Graham said Is institute in Miami en Nvill de first of a runts in speak in Barbados 'o3ta Rica co in that onday and "regretted" Venezuela is "under the political liave been Marcos a military and then et ousting minis-police in an fine gelist said agents in ountries in-not having the Catho he Cat 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the New York Central Railroad east of Buffalo was called off today a few minutes before the 6 am deadline Talk Agreement LONDON Minister Macmillan today joined President Eisenhower and French Premier Gaillard in specifying that any summit meeting with the Soviets can come only after the most careful preliminaries by lesser officials 3 Lost Overboard ALGIERS The captain of the Norwegian tanker Seirstad and two stewardesses were reported to- day to have been washed overboard in a vain dash for safety after the ship split in two 40 Hurt In Blast MONTCEAU LES MINES France (N) coal dust explosion early today injured an estimated 40 miners working in a shaft here in east central France No deaths were reported initially Today's Weather Fair and cool today tonight and tomorrow Low this morning 35 Low tomorrow morning 29 High today 48 High yesterday 49 Iligh tomorrow 48 Sunrise today 7:32 am sunset today 5:35 pm More Weather Data on Page 3-A Clips Back To Defend First Spot See Story on Page 6B 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President Eisenhower today called for lower government price supports for major farm crops and dairy production and an easing of production restrictions In a special message to Congress Eisenhower laid out in 14 points what he termed a progress program and said it would let farmers benefit more from their own unparalleled ability to produce The program held out the prospect too of eventual lower food costs for consumers Eisenhower told Congress that agriculture in recent years has been experiencing a veritable revolution in productivity "Farm production per man-hour has doubled since 1940" he said "There has been more change in agriculture within the lifetime of men now living than in the previous 2000 years" Eisenhower said the rapid changes taking place in agriculture are largely the result of a major breakthrough in agricultural science and technology constitute a revolution that cannot be reversed and are continuing NO NEED TO FEAR "It cannot be avoided and it need not be feared" he said In outlining his recommendations Eisenhower said it was essential that they be accepted this year to improve the status of rural people in greatest need to aid agricultural adjustment provide more freedom expand markets and thereby to help raise farm family income THE CHANGES The proposals would require legislative action in Fore cases administrative decisions in others and shifts in appropriations in still others They included: Change the IV billion dollar annual soil bank program by abandoning next year the costlier short-term acreage reserve and strengthening the longer-term conservation reserve Ile prorosed 450 million dollars for payment to See EISENHOWER on page 3-A He's Refugee Not Deserter PHILADELPHIA A man appeared before Judge Edward Kal lick recently in the domestic relations division of Municipal Court the charge against him wife de sertion Wilh impressive earnest ness the defendant faced the court and said: "Judge if you knew my wife like I know her you wouldn't call me a deserter I'm not a deserter I'm a refugee" i MONTREAT Billy Graham's scheduled two-week religious crusade in politically shaky Venezuela was cancelled today as the evangelist prepared to leave for an extensive preaching tour of eight Latin American countries Graham said lie was advised by cablegram today from the Venezuelan committee working on plans for the crusade that po litical conditions make it unwise to go ahead with the scheduled speaking engagements Graham left by train late today for Louisville Ky where he will New Company Belvedere Plant To Be Re-Opened Peace To which would be taken only after a letter to the dog owner fails to get cooperation A second letter will notify the person that he is with out mail service to his door Instructions from the postmaster do not tell the carrier how he's going to avoid being bitten when he delivers these letters Postmen usually are noted for their patience in such matters and the Post Office attempts to settle things peacefully before things get serious AT ONE TIME there was Charlotte man who received two special delivery letters from his company every in the morning and the other in the afternoon For some reason known only to the mans dog the dog disliked the morning postman and was friendly to the afternoon man Mr Thomas said the problem was solved by getting the afternoon man to make both deliveries mented: "There was one instance near the start when Eisenhower appeared to fluff a word or two But there was no more of quite possibly there was before" NO HESITANCY White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said he didn't notice any unusual hesitancy in the President's way of speaking Ile asked newsmen: "Did you ever listen to yourselves answer extemporaneous questions? I've beard some of you people in the past" 1111 Latest By ANN SAWYER News Staff Writer If your postman means "bite appeal" to your pooch you better have a heart to heart talk with the dog or youll be picking up your own mail This business of a postman's trying to win over the snapping canine is out the window Postmaster General Summerfield said so And locally Acting Postmaster Edward 11 Thomas intends to follow the latest instructions from Washington IT BOILS down to this: If you dog bites your postman mail delivery to your home will be stopped at once The dogs vs mailmen contest has been going on for years and in 1956 the Post Of lice Department even brought a dog psychologist into high level conferences It toyed with the idea of arming postmen with repellents designed to keep dogs Newsmen WASHINGTON How does President Eisenhower look and act these days? Ile seems to have slowed down some since the mild stroke he suffered last Nov 25 Ills complexion may or may not have lost some of its ruddiness Whether he has more difficulty than before in expressing himself is decidedly a matter of opinion This sums up the reaction of many of the 270 newsmen who Ivatched Eisenhower yesterday at his first news conference since his most recent illness Most of those questioned to Say lice Slowing By EMERY WISTER News Staff Writer Acquisition of the Belvedere Hosiery Mill by one of the nation's leading clothing manufacturers with plans for "diversification and expansion" was announced today Lawrence A Henninger president of Strutvvear Inc said the win Jones president of the local plant now closed will be A Jones Construction Co was reopened Feb 17 "with approxi- the president of the local concern mately 100 employes" prior to the stock transaction Mr Ilenninger said machinery sion of the building at 2701 Roz- Future plans call for expan- at the Belvedere plant is being zelles Ferry Road with installaeconditioned and full-fashioned tion of equipment to produce other hosiery will be manufactured when types of garments production is resumed Feb 17 The plant will continue to opSTRUTIVEAR MANUFACTURES erate as the Belvedere Hosiery Co and will be a subsidiary of Strut- Plans have not progressed to the wear Inc The Charlotte plant is point where announcement can be the fifth in the Strutwear chain madn but Strutwear also manu fachlres lingerie blouses and rAccording published bythethetexctlialerk drirtelbc-- sweaters lishing Co here the plant is Strutwear acquired the local equipped with 14 full-fashioned ma-plant "through an exchange of chines and 40 circular knit hosstock" Mr Henninger said Ed- iery machines thought the President spoke more deliberately and perhaps showed a little less vigor than he used to Some thought he seemed at times to be groping for words he fumbled the name of the Federal Reserve Board for instance One reporter said he mispronounced the name of SovietPremier Bulganin Others pointed out however that Eisenhower's thoughts often have raced ahead of his tongue so that his words haven't always conveyed what he obviously meant say After yesterday's news conference one newsman corn I 01 60! opwmavpppr4ortrotvojwor0 lonovw0opprtfaholmoslopotAoodtV0104000010RplihNedimotirop4PqrAlripores40 0 1' wpotitnooppropiroggrePoWIP00100MINE011010PROMOMMAPIONAPIOr WIMAllowertmfowpwifftwonegovegpoOtfAmattkilkPOOSPI4rtrOmPlorfarnolF11111111111M 001PuiprrOM.