The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 1

Ay v. ft NA -v V'A 2 Springs, and Asc James M. Summer of Dayton, Ohio. AS Charles R. Suljenger of Port Arthur, Texas, and A3c Louis P.

Jones of Port Arthur, Texas, engage Miss Colvert In a card game, center. At right she is ringed by a group of tall Texans on the practice putting tee in front or the club house Left to right are A3c Frank J. Schillaci of Houston; A3c Charles R. Sullenger of Port Ailliui, A3c 1 Louis P. Jones of Port Arthur, Ab John F.

Irwin of Beaumont and A3c Jimmy O'Bryan of Houston, (Index-Journal photos by Charles Haralson). 1 Air national uuarasmen irom rexas, umo ana Aricansas training at Lake Greenwood wanted to meet Miss Cecelia Colvert, the current Miss South Carolina, and through the local Chamber of Commerce the meeting was arranged. The Greenwood Miss who will represent South Carolina in the Miss America Beauty Pageant, posed at the Greenwood Country. Club with representatives of the Air Guard units from the three states. At left Miss Colvert has a break with, from left to right, Alc Frank J.

Schillaci of Houston, Texas; A John F. Irwin of Beaumont, Texas; Alc William D. Smith, Hot II-- 2 ili iMi in in ii i 1 I ill -i ii i in i mill j-r OURNAL INDE TH GREENWOOD WKATHEB f' For 24 boun endrng it ra. Temperature, high ft, low 68, rainfall 0.08 inchk Rainfall lnce Jan. L.

20.60 inches? (A mr through June, 2340 inches.) 8un rtsa :20 am, tunset 7:44 p.m.. today. The Leading Newspaper jf Western South Carolina King Feoturei GREENWOOD, S. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, Press Leased Wire Hmrricaiie Veers, ffitsi State Bank And Trust Co. Wind Velocity Drops But Damage Is By STANLEY MEISLEIt PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) Hurricane Audrey, a killer miraculously losing its punch, veered and struck ths Associated Prea and Thornwell Head i Local Bank Is Given Permission To Buy Bank In Columbia Plans are underway tdt the State Bank and Trust Company of Greenwood to purchase the Lower Main Street Bank of Columbia, it was confirmed here today by D.

W. Johnson, president of the local Institution. Louisiana coast today. Blasting winds of 100 M.P.H. at sea skidded to 65 when Audrey hit land.

Dr- M. A. McDonald, for IS years president of Thornwell Children's Home In Clinton, says the Institution hs heads "will continue to grow and develop and to serve those who It la our privilege to develop and train for life." Since 1950 seven new buildings have been erected on ths Thornwell campus and numerous old buildings have been remodeled. The need for such Institutions is increasing Doctor McDonald says snd will require "more efficiency, more staff, more money, more buildings, more programs and "more of everything that is necessary to train children for life." A story on Thornwell. with pictures, is on page (Index-Journal Photo by Jim Allen).

THE WEATHER SOUTH CAROLINA: Consider, ble cbudinfM this Kfternoon, to mid Friday with widely scat-. trfd afternoon ajid rvenlng thun-dershowers, high 88-82, low 68-72. VOL. XXXVIIIrNO. 139 Congress Receives Request To Lower Selling Price Of Cotton By ERNEST G.

WARREN WASHINGTON IB Cotton tex- tile interests. North and South, asked Congress today for legislation permitting domestic manufacturers to buy raw cotton at world market prices. The government now supports the price of cotton at above the world market. It exports some of the government-held' surplus at World market prices. The cbtton textile manufactures, members of Congress from textile manufacturing states, and union leaders contend that under this tWo-prlce system American textiles cannot compete In the export trade.

They also argue that this country's surplus cotton, no Id abroad at lower prices, tends to destroy the foreign market for American textiles. The House Agriculture Committee has before It about 30 bills proposing various methods to enable textile manufacturers to buy cotton, at Uie lower wprld price while not reducing producer Income. The measures receiving primary consideration at a committee bearing today were identical proposals' by Chairman Cooley D-NC) and Reps. Hale (R-Malne). Mclntire (R-Matne) and Coffin (D-Malne) These bills, and one by Sen.

Margaret Chase Smith (R-Malne), direct the secretary of agriculture to make available to textile mills 750,000 bales of cotton annually for the next five years at prices which would allow textiles manufactured' from It to compete In world markets. This cut-price cotton could be used only for export products. "The three Maine house members and officials of the Textile Workers Union of America, AFL CIO, supported this proposition. C. A.

Cannon, president of Can-' eon Mills Kanna polls, H.C., peaking for the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, advocated a one-price policy on raw cotton without supporting any specific legislation. Cannon said that domestlo cotton should sell at prices competitive with work markets, with compensatory payments to growers. The Northern Textile Assn. filed a statement supporting: one price for cotton with equalization payments to producers. Proposal By Ike! Draws Comment COLUMBIA (fl The head or the State Chamber of Commerce says President Eisenhower's proposal to transfer some governmental functions back to the states "merits executive study and taxpayer approval." John 8.

Linton wired Eisenhower yesterdny that "central government baa mushroomed too rapidly and has abrogated rights and responsibilities which the states would willingly Linton added 'that "the cost of functional administration would be more economical under local supervision." Elsenhower made the proposal before the National Governors Conference this week. He coupled it with a suggestion that states raise their taxes to carry out the additional functions. a 'The South Carolina State Board of Bank Control has approved the purchase. Me. Johnson said, subject to approval by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, An application nas been made to the FDIC, but the letter of approval has Dot been received as yet.

If the Columbia bank la bought, Mr. Johnson said, it will be operated as a branch of the 8tate Bank and Trust Company. The Jocal bank already operates branches at Wagtner, Aiken, Ware Shoals, Ninety Six and New Ellenton, in addition to the branches at Mathews and Harris. S. C.

Rhame, president of the lower Main Street Bank in Columbia, told a reporter there that the purchase had not yet been eon-eluded. Mr. Rhame aald that the bank has the largest surplus In proportion to its capital stock, ol any bank east of the Rockiest Of the banks that were operating In Columbia at the time of the depression in the thirties, when President Roosevelt ordered the bank holiday, the Lower Main Street Bank was the only one aUr v-ed to reopen with" any qualifications. It has long beea recognized as a financially strong Institution. Retired Attorney Will Be Buried In Clinton ,4 CLINTON.

C. tft Robert S. Owens, a retired Cllnton'-attorney, died at the Veterans Hospital in Columbia. Funeral service were for late today at the First Presbyterian Church here. He practiced law Abbeville.

McCormlck and Clinton, at one time was city attorney for Clinton. He Is suvlyed by his widow, Mrs. Mary Frances Poole Owens; one son, Tench P. Awens of -Clinton; two dauKhters, Mrs. Conway Twit-ty.

of Richmond, and Anne Bowtns of Columbia; three sisters and a brother. Indiana Will Send Escapee McGahaToSC INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. tf Oov. Harold W.

Handley has ordered the extradition to South of Hubert (Pete) McOsha. McOaha's attorney said he will block the extradition by seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Handley'a decision was made yesterday by his executive secretary, Robert J. Fink, In the absence of the governor, Handley la attending the National Governor's Conference at Williamsburg, Va. Fink aald Handley had discussed the case with' Oov.

George BeU Tlmmerman of South Carolina at Williamsburg. McGaha's lawyer, Vernon 8t John of Lafayette, said, has not decided whether to seek the habeas corpus writ in federal or state courts. But he said he would appeal aU the way to the Supreme-Court of the United States If necessary, and that McOaha would be kept in Lafayette pending a final decision. St. John contended McOaha's constitutional rights wee violated when he was convicted of murder in the slaying of a fellow inmate of the South Carolina State Penitentiary at Columbia.

The lawyer said the conviction was based on an post facto" He explained that at the time of the slaying, convicts werenot permitted to testify ln cpurt, but that a law passed between ths time of the slaying and the trial lifted this restriction. McOaha, who has been working In the kitchen of a Lafayette restaurant for several months, waa returned to the Tippecanoe County Jail when the governor's decision was announced. Witness Invokes New Supreme Court Ruling PRICE FIVE CENTS But winds, nigh tides and tor- rential rains caused widespread damage for hundreds of miles along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Thousands evacuated their homes and resort cabins as tides up to-S feet above normal battered the shore. Port Arthur Weather Bur eau said Audrey hit at Cameron.

east of Port Arthur at a.m. CST. However the Lake Charles Weather Bureau aald winds reached 100 ra.p.h. there about 40 miles north of Cameron. Orange, about 40 miles northwest of Cameron, said a dead calm occurred there at 9:05 a.

Indicating that the eye of the storm was there. Earlier, winds reached 75 m.p h. at Orange. Persons who had taken refuge at Orange, began leaving for their homes when the ealm-eames and-authorities sought to get them back to shelter for the expected blow which always follows he hurricane calm. At Oalveston, 70 miles southwest and out of the direct path, water splashed over the seawall and almost all downtown streets were flooded.

It was in Oalveston in 1900 that a hurricane took 000 lives some say many more in one of the naUon'a great disasters. That was before the present seawall was built. "VW Orange, 20 miles northeast of Port Arthur. Sheriff Chester Holts reported the three-story court-bouse was "packed to the rafters' with refugees. At Oalveston many naval officers there said they believed the 130 ships of the reserve fleet were secure.

8varal homes in a new Orange subdivision were damaged by falling trees during the first burst of hieh winds. Business in Orange was at virtual standstill. Power snd other utility lines were blown dowa and only emergency telephone calls were being received. By early morning, 350 telephone circuits were out at Oalveston. A large number of downtown plate glass windows were broken by flying debris.

Water was up to the curb and completely across most business district streets, and Into some stores. The same conditions-occurred at Texas City, on the mainland aeross from Oalvesto Island on which the city of Oalveston sits. Nearly 400 children at four church Camps along Galveston Bay were evacuated to Baytown for shelter. High winds and heavy rains of four to eight Inches were forecast through western Louisiana and extreme eastern Texas with hurricane warnings displayed along the entire Louisiana coast. Dangerously high tides with very rough seas were expected to continue, the bureau said, front the upper Texas coast to the Mississippi The bureau's bulletin advised all precautions should continue against the high tides.

Nine men were prea umed drowned when the fishing vessel Keturah sank In the storm-tossed tContlnued on psge fourteen) Hi iqaoori by oim Miller I. I No doubt the habit -that would be easiest to break is the hiblt o( working, Cbiciso Sua-Tlnt 5JUi Heavy 1957 Associated BULLETIN MOSCOW UB The Soviet Union warned 'West Germany today that if it cooperates with the West on nuclear armaments it cat) give up aU hope of German reunification. A Soviet note delivered by Foreign Minister Andrei Oromyko to West Oerman Ambassador Wll-helm Haaa declared "nuclear armament of Germany and Oerman reunification are irreconcilable." Senate Group May Restore Defense Cuts WASHINGTON The Senate Defense Appropriations subcom mlttee neared approval today of a money bill which would give the armed foreu about a billion dol lars more thaVthe House voted. Restoration of the money al most matching the hard cash cuts the House made In military funds for nest fiscal year would signal a major victory for the Elsenhow er administration. Subcommittee members told re porters the group had agreed to restore a billion dollars, "in round numbers." of the $1,220,000,000 in "cash cuts" made by the House.

President Eisenhower has asked Congress to restore all the cash out. The House voted an over-all total of $33,662,723,000 for the armed services for the ilscal year starting Monday, about 2', billions less than Elsenhower requested in his budget message. But about 11.300.000,000 of the cut waa described in the House debate as of a bookkeeping nature that would not affect the next year's spending power, and the administration did not fight this. The Pentagon's authority to spend out of this year's uncom mltted. funds will explrt at mid night Sunday, and there -1s no prospect that the big appropria tion bill can be passed by then.

However, congressional leaders said they would seek quick action on a stop-gap bill to let the serv. Ices pay the troops and meet oth er expense. CAMDEN BEAUTY PAGEANT CAMDEN, SC. moth parade and prelimlnar Judging got the annual South Carolina Miss Universe-pageant under way here today. Another preliminary feature will be a "twin city" contest tonight featuring girls from Kershaw and Sumter counties.

The state's new Miss Universe wtU be selected tomorrow night proposed some sort of federal guarantee be made on school bonds ao as to keep the Interest rates down on these bonds. Oov. Oeorge M. Leader of Penn. sylvanla put forward the Demo crats' resolution hitting the tight money policy, and ihfw final committee resolution was 'a' com promise Democratlo O.

Mennen Williams of Michigan said Jt was evident, however, that the gover nors were "certainly fed up with the administration's tight money Nevada Republican Gov, Charjes H. Russell aald It might be lnterDreted as critical of the administration's fiscal policies, and Republican Gov. Joseph B. Johnson of Vermont said It was an Indication, the governors thought this matter ought to be looked into." Anderson, however, said. he sup ported the administration's tight money policy ss a means of hold Ing back inflation.

Hodees said the Resolutions pommtttee had proposals both lor and against aid to: edca-'i tlon and It' killed all of thenv The conference as a whole was widely divided on thl4 subject. Sees Bright Future aimed at easing the effect on law enforcement as a result of toe decision. In a decision Juhe the high court ordered a pew trial for Clinton E. Jencks, a former union official convicted of falsely denying Communist membership in an affidavit filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The court held In the cae that under certain conditions FBI evidence must be turned over to defendants in criminal cases.

There baa been a feeling that this would hamper the Justice Department In enforcement of subversive and other law. Brownell win appear before a Senate Judiciary, subcommittee tomorrow on the bipartisan proposal to rettrict to "relevant-material the information from FBI flies the government must supply defendants. Testimony Hits U. S. Aircraft Industry Hard HUNTSVILLE, Ala.

Col. John C. Nickerson chsrged in effect today that the aircraft Industry had been trying to scuttle the Army's long-range missile program. "The aircraft industry," Nickerson told a 10-man court-martial panel, "has a lush operation in aircraft, but missiles are, going up and missiles may pass aircraft." Then Nickerson, 41 year old West Point' graduate, said the managers of the aircraft industry were not going to pass up an opportunity to cash in on the missile program. "No civilian company likes, to stand by and tee a Civil Service organization go ahead." The Army Ballistic Missile Agency is such i a civil service operation and has been responsible for the development of the now Redstone missile snd the experimental, 1.

500-mile intermediate range the Jupiter. So far as is known the Jupiter Is the only irtflM to have been flown successfully. Hurricane Audrey Weather Advisory NEW ORLEANS ttl The Weather Bureau Issued the following advisory (No. 9) on Hurricane Audrey at 10 a.m.' (CST) today: "Hurricane Audrey moved inland near the Texas-Louisiana border. The center was about midway between Beaumont.

and Lake Charles, near latitude 30.3, longitude 93.7 at 10 a.m., moving northward about IS miles per hour. "Lake Charles and Orange. Tex. reported winds of 100 miles per hour. Winds of 7S miles per hour or better are expected tb continue near the center rest of today as it moves northward along the Texas Louislansriorder-accom panied by, four to eight inch rains.

"Tides Will remain dangerously high along Louisiana coast and fall tonight. All Interest should continue precautions against these high tides. Oales, squalls and seas will gradually subside along the coast craft from Corpus ChrlsU to Pensacola should remain in port until winds and seas subside. "All warnings will be lowered later today." Reuther Charges Congress Failed On Civil Rights By nwiftnT rrriUN DETROIT Ifl Walter P. Reuther says, "the people In Congress have been on the longest sltdown strike in America SO long years" ictlng civil rlghU legisla tion.

it Is about time lor thernfo terminate the sltdown the United Auto Workers president told the convention of the Nationsl Assn. lor tne Aavanoe-ment of Colored people last night We "need the courage to tell hnth -nolltical parties' they should be ashamed Of their a noddy ef-J forts on civil right," be aald. In a speech before a mass meeting in the Henry and Edset Ford Auditorium, Reuther pledged the support of the UAWs 1 'imtlllon members to help the NAACP. ob tain rivil rights for Negroes in tne South. Reuther told the applauding crowd, "we are with you all the way until victory is ours." 1 Sharing the platform with him was the UAW's Washington attorney Joseph L.

Rauh national vice chairman of Americans for Democratlo Action. Rauh drew applause with his declaration ttiat the White House nhould throw its weight behind the association to halt "he cur-the association to halt "the current effort in many Southern statea to, put the NAACP Out of Rauh proposed that President Elsenhower "use his great influence to call for an end to the attacks upon the NAACP," He suggested that Vice President Nixon "address public meetings in the heart of the South" in support of NAACP, He also called on the attorney general test suits on behalf of the NAACP. TO TESTIFT ON COTTON WASHINGTON (AP) Cannon of Kannapolis. N. president of Cannon Mills at Concord.

N. testifies today at a House Agricul- tur Committee hearing on cotton bills. He represents the American Cot- ton Manufacturers Institute. I. 11 As Conference Ends Hit Tight Money Policy WASmNOON UR For the first time in an open Senate hearing, witness today invoked a new Supreme Court decision and refused to aay whether he waa a Communist while he had access to official government messages.

Howard V. Trautman of New York, who was IdentUied by- an automatic telegraph operator as a fellow member of a Communist cell, was the balky witness before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee. An operating technician for RCA Communications Inc, Trautman declined to. answer a Communist membership -question on grounds it Invaded rights of free speech, press and assembly guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution. He said that under a June 17 Supreme Court ruling lq the Wat kins case be cannot be compelled to testify about his "beliefs, expressions or associations." He also contended the question exceeded the Jurisdiction of the subcommittee, which he said was oper ating under "unlawful delegation I or power" from the Senate.

Ben. Hrussa (R-Neb), serving as a one man subcommittee, warned Trautman he was acting at bis own peril and suggested the possibility of contempt of Congress action against him, either in a court or before "the bar o( the Senate." The hearing brought into sharper focus the confusion and uproar that followed recent Supreme Court decisions affecting rights of Individuals congressional committees and in criminal trials in courts. The problem came under discussion in President Eisenhower's weekly conference today with Republican congressional leaders. Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) said afterward that Elsenhower recognizes a "very real problem" growing out of the court'a decision in the Jencks esse.

This decision would require the government under certain circumstances to show defendants FBI evidence against them. Knowland aald that while the President had Hot endorsed any particular remedy, Atty. Oea. Brownell attended Elsenhower's weekly meeting today with OOP congressional leaders arid favored the approach of a bipartisan bill Governors By JAMES GEABT WILLIAMSBURG, Va. UrV Republican and Democratic governors collecUvely have served notice on the Eisenhower administration that Its tight money policy is pinching their efforts to finance school buildings and other capital expenditures.

In a unanimous resolution, the 49th annual Governors Conference at its wlndup yesterday noted that 'bonds have been floated at high er and higher interest rates, thus increasing amortization costs." It asked the President and Congress to "take cognisance of this additional burden on the taxpayers of America 'with a view of alleviating" it. The governors met Eisenhower's request for a Jolrjt study with hi administration of federal-state relationships by providing for a committee to work with the administration. The President had suggested' Much, a study wt(h an eye to rolling back to thestates functions and revenues tuw controlled In Washington. The conference narraed Oov. William 0.8tratton of Illinois as ltchalrm and designated Flort-da probaWy Boca Raton for next year's get-together.

Republican Stratum succeeds Democratlo Oov. Thomas B. Stanley of Virginia. Thirty-two governors, In an action outside the conference, sent a telegram yesterday to the President urging a reduction Of oU imports from the present ratio of 22 per cent. America's national production to 18.8 per cent.

At about the ame time Elsenhower was creating a special wRDinei committee to study whether crude oil Is being Imported "in such quantities as to threaten, 4o impair national security." The resolution on Interest rates appeared to be a elap at the administration's policy of sttempt-lng to control Inflation by upping interest rates. HoWever, Oov. Luther Hodges of North Carolina, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, said there was no difficulty ln getting Republicans on the committee to go along with the resolution. OOP Gov. V.

E. Anderson of Nebraska said the 'original resolution before the committee waa his but the Democrats took rt over and revised it the way they wanted it. Anderson said he had Clemson Will Expand Forestry Curricula CLEMSON, S. a (iP Clemson College will replace Its two-year forestry program, with a full four-year curriculum this fall. The Forestry Department I fiead.

Dr. K. Lehotsky. said the new program is designed to meet the needs of a fasVii rowing forest and wood-using industry In South Carolina 'and the Southeast -A.