Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

WEATHER INCREASING CLOUDINESS and warm today Chance of showers late this afternoon and tonight High 82 Low 57 De tails Page 2 A VOL XXX O34 iElofrnre LORENCE THURSDAY MORNING APRIL 24 1958 READER'S TIP PEE DEE area news in a nut shell from over a wide section it found in today's edition See Page 10 daily 5c Sunday io ive Troopers Jump to Death Political Platforms Aired by Candidates Stumpers Speak atalities Mar At High School Mass Air Drop one of scores to IRED IN LORIDA Auto Dealers Secret Nose Cone Join Efforts To Push Sales 'E ROLLINGS was he 5 Candidates or Solicitor (Stress Power JOHNSTON when they make their selec Wli DONALD RUSSELL lor Prosser Lake Wins Dctails Page 2 A Bethea and Harrelson 95 per cent of to Inside the Abbott of Conway said few voters the un by the same indi last 20 years He be let on a bid payment next at $11137 per Harrelson Bethea think a lawyer for Anderson South Carolina retirement system and social se curity together should give him and his dear wife $6000 a year him come back to his na tive lorence and spend his last days on the soil he lias known so well He like it at first but after he gets used to it he will thank you and me for doing what we have Harman com mented acres in 1I8 to one which no produces but a half million acre he said Russell reminded the audience that I am not a politician I have never before in my life been a am he went on never in the history of South Carolina was there less time for polities as usual and more need lor leadership at the helm of our Russell said that the issues of the campaign could be dealt with in shot gun scatter by candidates attempting to cram them all into one 15 minute speech Consequently he said he would confine his remarks the role came de ll ou de THOR BLASTS 2 Stage Combo (AP Photofax) overnmeut activities case of construction this Horn 45 to Altman Leo Garrison LORENCE ATTORNEY Pete Hyman said the solicitor's office not a family heirloom to be handed down like a piece of fur niture Government should be run by the people It is not a family 1 He said he would serve aggres sively with maturity trustworthi ness and impartiality Bud Long of Conway brotlier of the present solicitor Reuben Ixrng said that all the judges in the circuit will agree that the best lawyers in the state practice in the 12th circuit as your appointed so licitor for a time" he said gave me a feeling of confidence to know I could beat the lawyer! of the 12th circuit that I could hold my own with them This also is a qualification: I offer my ex Kenneth Summerford lor ence attorney stressedthe power of the office and said he felt the solicitor should deal with the peo ple equally If elected he said he By ROBERT MCHEOH Associated Press Writer The man practically certain to be Or next governor spoke here Wednesday nififht On the platform with him were two men doomed io milted is 12 knots Maj Gen Westmoreland division commander jumped with his his 70th without in jury Lt Gen Thomas Hickey commander of the 3rd nesed the air drop Immediately after he' down Genl Westmoreland WASHINGTON The Wednesday overwhelmingly feated an antisegregation amend ment before passing and sending to the Senate a limited federal school aid bill The bill was passed by voice vote The integration amendment lost by a standing count of 132 25 after brief debate The bill would continue for three years until June 30 1961 the pro gram of federal help for construc tion and operation of schools districts where pupil population has been swollen by federal activ ities The estimated cost for the The five candidates for the 12th circuit solicitorship speaking last night before a slim late audi ence at McClcnaghan High School last night stressed the power that a solicitor possesses and urg ed that voters exercise extreme care tion that restrained power of this He said that with such power such an office holder be grounded In He said he was not' a politician and that when elected will he responsible To only two sources God and to the people of the circuit who elect Dick Du'enbmy lorence ai torney said that the solicitor should have a primary qualifica tion of unimpeachable Integrity He said the solicitor having the power to prosecute persons ac cused of violating laws also has the power to misuse his trust Pointing out that the solicitor administeis the criminal trial slates in four counties involving a quarter million persons he pledg ed if elected bring honor to tlie Area Deaths Gul urman Hardee Myrtle Beach tVaher Grooms Chesterfield Thomas Sgt James encc Mrs Nellie City Mrs Roxanna Brooks ton Salcm Joseph Lewis Darlington I VJOULDbV MlN' Kun'l bob kosuN' HE TEMPUH V4IO ME HlT'D JE5 STA LOS' Episcopalians Ask Council Reforms SUMMERVnXE UP) Mie' 168th annual convention of the Protes tant Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina toll'd Wednesday to adopt a 1 evolution seeking reforms with in the National Council of Churches 01 Christ in the th A Hie decision followed more than two hours of parliamentary debate on the Controversial NCCCA and occupied a prominent place on the agenda 01 the convention meeting in St Church More than a dvzen speakers were heard before the convent ion agreed to adopt an amended re port brought in by the special Ecumencial Movement Commit Ice The committee had been ap pointed following last year's con vention and was charged with studying the movement especially with regard to the NCCCA Il was prompted by increasing criti INJURED PARATROOPER A paro trooper sergeant administers first aid to one of scores of soldiers hurt in yesterday's mass jump by the 101st Airborne Division near ort Campbell Ky ive jumpers were killed when high winds plagued the operation A helicopter in back ground is set to evacuate the soldier (AP Photofax) dance T1I jjiu a uueaici vi man uovorsu director of the association in this I area saa that special buys and stepped up salesmanship will fea ture the program here All lorence new car dealers and many used car dealer will participate in the campaign he said A closed circuit breakfast pro gram linking many communities ill launch the program but the lorence dealers will not partici pate in it because of a delay in planning rorrester saia Many of the larger cities are planning new car parades the breakfast BARGAINS will be fea tured in advertisements by vari ous dealers during the nine day period orrester said He added that if ma terializes many dealers plan to offer even higher trade in Tlie idea of the Auto Buy Now Keep Business campaign began in Cleveland Ohio in ebruary It has spread throughout the country President Eisenhower wired his personal congratulations after the success in Cleveland Soon after the National Advertising Council decided to sponsor a national ari The minimum ear is estimated pupil compared with $15140 this jour and an estimated $15158 for the 1959 60 school jeai However iio dish let would irceive a lower total payment next year than it received this year The amendment to withhold aid from Schools which have partially segregafed classrooms or have taken no steps to integrate in com pliance with Supreme Court rul ings was offered by Rep 'Roose velt Calif) who said it would be vVronc to provide federal funds to help segregated schools Rep Metcalf tD Monli said Hurled by Rocket 'CAPE CANAVERAL la A massive secret nose cone blasted off Wednesday night with a tremendous flash of yellow flame seen over most of lorida 1 ne rocket mission was to hurl the nose cone 5500 miles out over the southeast Atlantic to see whether it could withstand the fantastic friction heat of the atmosphere as it plunged back from some 80 miles in space The Air orce hoped to recover the cone after it crashed on its ocean target area somewhere near Ascension island olf the African coast The flight was to take only 30 minutes A hybrid rocket composed of the Air orce Thor and the second stage of the Navy's Vanguard statellite vehicle was used in the dual purpose test flight One aim of the spectacularhoot was to try out a nose cone designed to keep the warheads of long range ballistic missiles from burning up in the atmosphere as they dive to their targets The other was to determine how this wedding of Air orce and Navy rockets will work out It has been reported that the first rcket the I'nited Stales fires to the moon will be cumpo ed of a Thor topped by the two upper stages of the Vanguard i A few minutes after the rocket was launched at 7:10 pm EST there were reports that its fiery exhaust and fat vapor trail had been reported that the first rocket 200 miles away Newsmen who rushed to the windows of the Miami Herald building after receiving the bulle tin on the launching saw a fat luminous trail of smoke in the northern sky and a twinkling ob ject moving away from it It was the first time a missile fired from this test center had ever been reported seen in Miami Many people in the Tampa St i Petersburg area on west coast said they saw tlie 1 brilliant fire CAMPBELL Kv ive battle trained para troopers jumped to their death in a mass airdrop on this windswept base Wednesday More than lOOof their companions were hurt maneuver covering several days of operations by the streamlined 101st Airborne Division led up to Wednes Exercise Eagle Wing Air Drop More than 1300 men of the famed division participated "rr 5j Military spokesmen said gusty and shifting winds near ground level blew the tailing paratroop ers from the landing zone Some fell into adjacent woodland some into rough and stump studed ter rain It was the first ma air drop of this size since the famed World War II outfit was reorganized in 1956 into a pentomic division equipped for atomic warfare A model for future streamlined di rt A1 7 VIblUIlb Ulf LUillUUSLM VI five battle groups from which itsi HAMBONE MEDITATIONS Bt Alky cism of NCCCA policy by groups integration amendment would kill in the Diocese I the bill 1 Dillon County farmer A in(Red Ri thea night called for tne election ot a mt tanner as state agriculture comini'sioncr His opponent incumoent Com missioner illiam Harrelson ol Mullins said criticism involving the agriculture department in 1952 bven all He said he was primarily a farmer but that he also was an attorney He said he believed the agricul ture commissioner should serve not only the farmer but industry and labor as well Bethea (iterated earlier charg es against the present administra tion declaring that $99o0o a been taken from the profits of al state seed laboiatory du'ig his thice campaign to let don't hac 150 state employes the people know about conditionsto camjiaign for he said in the agriculture department Odell Hannan' candidate fur I He said that several factors office of state supei intendent of changed his mind: the Supreme education last night advi ed in 1 Courts decision which struck cumbent Jesse Anderson to re 1 down legal integration years of experience men would enable him to more ably cope with prob lems arising from the decision and the fact that the state needs to continue a strong educational program without interruption Hannan had stated that if the office were a matter of livelihood ertising program along the same coming year is 211 million dollars 1 A A I anadate Advises Anderson MH HI CAROLINA is the first sidie ui me nanon 10 stage a state 1 wide promotion of the theme i lorence dealers met Tuesday! and agreed that each would ad vertise individually Using the ou Auto Buy slogan Individual communities partici pating in South Carolina's cam paign in this are include Cheraw Bennettsville Conway Dillon Georgetown Hartsville" Kingstree Manning Marion Mullins Myrtle Beach and Sumter successful But that before the drop had been pleted and Hie full extent of the I casualties determined arolina Auto designate is derirod The fjro nin an atl Dong and a mile tde enough hnetnoc I Tbe 101't gained wamc in World ifor air drops under normal! business ac lw as tW division I (11 VUHIJLUIIX Vxtf i retort at Batosne to 1 7 demand for sur ihen from the o02nd Airborne Battle Group making their grad 1 lorence automobile dealers will be among those in 40 communi ties participating in a state wide Auto Buy sales cam tire and return to his native lor ence County to live He said that The American way of life calls for changes in office for tlie good of the people one superintendent of edu cation is going to stay in forev er tlcn your children get a chance to run for the office' Harman quipped Harman had charged that he had planned to run for the post jir uui iiiucrsoii iequesieu a or Aq Position election in 1958 if his request was! granted Anderson advised Harman Oetobvr that he would set re eleition and asked him to posl poi running for four moie yeais Harman said ANBER6o' replied that he had never made a definite agreement except that he would make an early announcement with refer ence to running in 1958 Conferees Okay Postal Pay Hike Down 5c Stamps WASHINGTON (ft Senate House conferees Wednesday voted to eliminate a 5 cent stamp for out of town letter mail from a pos tal rate hike bill and to fix the rate at 4 cents President Elsenhower and' Post master General Summerfield had urged Congress to establish the 5 cent rate on intercity letters The present 3 cent letter rate has been in effect since 1932 The conferees also voted to in clude in the bill a 257 million doI lar pay hike for the 500000 postal employes This is more than Eisenhower Had pro posed The pay boost agreed to would be per cent for each employe permanently plus per eent for three years for workers in the first six grade levels and 114 per cent for three years for those in grade 7 The administration had recom mended a 6 per cent pay raise The conferees did not finish their work on the bill but said they hopT'd to do so Thursday Several rate increase questions re main to be decided The decisions by the conferees arc" Subject to approval by the Senate and House The conferees were appointed to adjust differ ences between the two branches! of Congress on the legislation I disappointment Lt Gov Ernest Rollings An derson Mayor William John ston and Spartanburg Attorney Donald Russell made up the trio Each had a chance to try to convince the lorence area voters that he is the man who should be elected in the June 10 Democratic Primary Victory in June is tanta mount to election to the office Johnston Jed off the speaking with stress on farm problems the farmers are prosper ous in South Carolina we have a prosperous state When our farmers go into a depression our entiie economy he ScliCl To bolster the farm econom called for irnsHnn and watAr shed projects reforestation and: of public education In the future the development ot new crops as I of South Carolina well as industrial uses of crops The Anderson campaigner prom ised to promote the farm fo mar ket road sc stem every road in South Carolina is 5 Rollings too emphasized the agricultural economy of the state 1 in his remarks Avnancinn nf South Carolina is a long range program he said "As in the nnef nnnnln mnl ln Gr Kv I mgs on farms will furnish the nec 1 essary labor supply for this growth "Xov we have heard that agri culture is a disappearing industry in South Carolina This is not true or example the value of all farm products old from 1924 to 1939 averaged $114700000 annually' ly the value of all farm prod ucts sold in 1955 the latest year for which figures are available was more than twice that He cited new agricul tural center as an example of how Clemson officials and legislators have sought to keep in step with a changing and expanding farm picture in the state Other farm developments hace cased the blow of the states change from a cotton state which produced two and a half million running for one reason do better for agriculture for South Carolina" He traced lus efforts io prevent varieties of Coker tobacco seed front being blacklisted by the government He also renewed criticism ot the publication of the Market Bulletin which is mailed tree to farmers He charged that the weekly has been published vidual for the said it should basis Referring to said don't should come before you and sayiwottld spend time before taking a office to study the work being Rilhci said he had pint SJOnoO ne hv solicitors in other circuits and other if urerd voters to slndy the qualifi cations of all candidate House Defeats Integration Dill I with an estimated 3300 districts in the benefits The bill combines two laws mb 1 I Keturn to native lorence 1 iUi i i IJ ill UUIlalJ UCUUg HOOIS and the other for operating them i Payments generally are ba ed on i the number of pupils whose par ents work on federal property The bill would commit the gov ernment to permanent responsibil ity to provide financial help for schools attended by children of persons who work and live on fed eral property A new formula would be ertab lished for minimum rates of oper ating payment to schools based on the national average cost per pupil for the entire nation and on attendance by children of persons engaged in In the ranges costs The campaign is bein': ed by the South Cari nioaile Dealers A tempt ti stimulate I nar 41 as uw ums unaivu bvity bj oo enmg purro brings a Qn its rctod at B2logne to GAKt VUUU IbA i rendc The decision to go ahead with nation In Exercise Eagle Wing Wednesday's plannsd air drop was They fell onto and near the drop made at 4 am when the wind zone located in a remote area oft was blowing but not dangerously this sprawling base astride the Officials the wind wac at Kentucky Tennessee line Visiting about eight knots at ground level I newsmen helped military authori when the drop started but was tjes rescue some of the helpless shifty and gusty The maximum friwper3 as they were dragged velocity in which jumps are per (along the rugged terrain by wind filled parachutes Paul Page state editor of the Nashville Banner who witnessed! the air drop said the stricken vic lims struggled helplessly to extri cate themselves from the tangled harness and parachutes Maj Lou Breault chief of the Campbell public relations of fice himself across Special ist Edward Russell of Cleveland Ohio to help the struggling para trooper Another officer 'grabbed and held paratrooper David Beck er of St Louis also being dragged across a field by the filled chute When It became evident that the casualty list was growing authori ties called fur helicopters from the nearby base headquarters to carry the dead and injured out The base hospital was crowded with injured and some were taken to an auxiliary hospital sponsor I I I ha a C' A 2 'V 3 8 a Comics II A Editorials 4 A amily guide 1 1 A Dr Molner 1 1 A Mark'cts finance 1 2 A Pee Dee Rambler 'I Socicly Women 2 5 7.