Saturday, October 25, 1958

The Charlotte News

Saturday, October 25, 1958

ONE EDITORIAL

Site Ed. Note: The front page reports from Tokyo that Communist China had agreed to suspend bombardment of the Quemoy airfield on even dates so that the people on the offshore islands could obtain supplies.

In Warsaw, it was reported that diplomatic negotiations between the U. S. and Communist China had resumed this date regarding a possible solution to the Formosa Strait crisis.

At the Atomic Test Site in Yucca Flat, Nev., heavy rain again caused the postponement of a planned 13th shot in the fall series of nuclear weapons tests, planned to be the last series of tests before the October 31 yearlong moratorium would begin, contingent on the Soviet agreement to continue its moratorium on testing begun the previous March, though now considerably in doubt by recent Soviet statements objecting to continued U.S. testing.

In New York, it was reported that the American Cancer Society had rejected a proposal to test the value of the controversial drug krebiozen in the treatment of cancer patients.

In Vatican City, the Archbishop of Detroit, Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, collapsed and died this date. He had been one of the College of Cardinals to begin the following day the conclave to elect a successor to deceased Pope Pius XII. The death of the Cardinal reduced to 51 the number of cardinals available for the conclave, and to 53 the number in the College, 17 less than its full complement. Two American cardinals remained, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles. Two cardinals behind the Iron Curtain had been unable to attend.

In Lincolnton, N.C., a 28-year old man, ex-convict and former mental patient, who had gone on a killing spree the previous early morning, starting with the shotgun killing of his wife, followed by the stabbing and fatal shooting of her sister and then the shotgun slaying of a female neighbor and the shooting of her daughter, was killed the previous evening just at sunset by a member of a posse hunting for him for nine hours before he was cornered while trying to reload his shotgun. He had also wounded four men of the posse, one of whom was in critical condition. There was no explanation as to what prompted his rampage.

In Charlotte, the municipal bus strike was settled after agreement on wage increases. City service would resume Monday after being unavailable since October 1.

In Ann Arbor, Mich., it was reported that a football gambling racket was broken up after taking in an estimated $10,000 weekly from students. Police said that three students were to be charged formally on Monday with conspiracy to violate state gaming laws, following a four-week investigation. A detective said that a leak had hampered investigation of the case or many others would have been charged.

On the editorial page, Drew Pearson tells of the efforts to collect money to rebuild the Clinton, Tenn., High School, scene of desegragation in fall, 1956, decimated by three dynamite charges on October 4, exactly one year after the launch of Sputnik I. News of such bombings, including Jewish synagogues and other places of worship, had been published in Europe and Asia, giving bad press for the U.S., worse than that occasioned by the Sputniks and their indication that Russia had outpaced the U.S. in missile and satellite technology. The nation, he imparts, had been considered one of democracy and idealism, but now the world saw it as a nation of dynamiters of schools and places of worship.

Yet, in one respect, he suggests, the school bombing had been healthier than the aftermath of Sputnik, in that the American people could do something about the bombing, while unable to do much about the satellite and missile gap.

While the Administration had pledged $20,000 to the effort in Clinton, many Americans had pledged dollars and dimes to help in the rebuilding effort. The Textile Workers of America had sent $500 for Bricks for Brotherhood. The students of El Cerrito High School in California—where the forerunner band, which later became Creedence Clearwater Revival, was formed—, had collected among themselves $70.60 for the fund. The Franklin Institute squadron of the Civil Air Patrol in Philadelphia had contributed all of their dues collected during the week. The cadets of the Lower Merion air patrol just outside Philadelphia had done likewise. The Salt River Valley Classroom Teachers Association of Phoenix, Ariz., had sent $50 and written that they would further the effort before the Arizona Education Association when it would meet in Tempe the following week. A generous contribution had come from the Diversey Engineering Co., which had secret missile and space projects in Huntsville, Ala., and Franklin Park, Ill., and whose president had enclosed a letter saying of the bombers that "these creatures are doing more harm than could a full squad of saboteurs achieve in the most sensitive areas of our plants."

Also on the page appears an editorial book review of Second-Class Power?, a recently published work by Mr. Pearson and his assistant, Jack Anderson.

As we have fallen behind, there will be no further notes on the front page or editorial page of this date, the notes to be sporadic until we catch up.

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