The Charlotte News
Wednesday, October 29, 1958
FOUR EDITORIALS
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reports that U.S. officials this date saw little hope for any early
agreement between the Soviets and the Western powers for a start to
disarmament, blaming the darkening prospect on evidence that the
Soviets were following a generally tougher line in their relations
with the West. Secretary of State Dulles said that it could be the
result to some degree of a possible realization among Soviet leaders
that despite remarkable scientific achievements, the Soviets were
still behind the U.S. in the nuclear weapons race in important areas.
Two negotiations were imminent. On Friday, the U.S., Britain and the
Soviet Union would open diplomatic talks in Geneva regarding a
possible ban of nuclear weapons testing, to be backed up via a
worldwide international inspection system to prevent violations. Ten
days after that, panels of Communist state and Western experts would
start discussions on the technical problems involved in preventing a
surprise attack, such things as ground and aerial inspection systems
which would be capable of discovering concentrations of troops and
weapons in advance of a massive assault. The President had proposed
the previous summer that starting with the opening of the Geneva
nuclear test talks, the world's atomic powers, the U.S., Britain and
the Soviet Union, ought suspend nuclear testing for a year beginning
October 31. If progress on inspection installations could be made
during that year, the suspension would be renewed. In New York on
Monday night, a Soviet spokesman had told the U.N., however, that the
Soviet Government would not agree to the one-year test suspension,
and the proposal was again attacked on Tuesday with the Soviets
renewing their call for immediate, unconditional agreement to end
testing. The Soviet Union had announced a halt in testing the
previous March, but had resumed testing in September after the U.S.
and Britain had carried out planned series of tests during the
summer. Secretary Dulles told a press conference on Tuesday that if
the Soviets continued testing after Friday, the U.S. would make plans
to resume experimental testing, although the Geneva negotiations
would continue. Soviet rejection of the suspension proposal, he said,
"dims the chances of success at the Geneva nuclear talks."
Similarly, he said that the Soviet attitude on the issue also cast
doubt upon the success of the scheduled talks regarding ways to
prevent surprise attack
In Amman, Jordan, the last of 3,000 British paratroopers had left the country by air this date, with their commander indicating that the forces had served the purpose for which they had been brought to Jordan.
In Ankara, Turkey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had arrived this date for a round of talks with Turkish leaders and American military advisers regarding allied defense problems.
In Melbourne, Australia, Prime Minister Robert Menzies this night had said that Australia's foreign policy required a close alignment with the rest of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.
In Vatican City, Pope John XXIII had broadcast from the Sistine Chapel this date an appeal to all rulers of the world to work for peace. The appeal came less than 20 hours after his election, as he urged that weapons of destruction be converted into tools of progress, indicating that he would continue the fight for peace which had made Pope Pius XII known as the "Pope of Peace". He had spoken in Latin for 20 minutes in a firm and powerful voice, and before the address, had received the homage of the 51 cardinals gathered in the chapel who had participated in the conclave which elected him. He asked for God's help for those in countries where there was no religious freedom and for all who suffered. He called on those who had in their hands the fate of the peoples, that peace came from the interior soul and could not be imposed from without. He was expected to be crowned officially as Pope within two weeks.
The Commerce Department said this date that although some phases of the recession still lingered, business had fared better than usual during the fall. In its monthly survey of the business situation, it said on Tuesday that various economic indicators showed that the business recovery was now rather broad, albeit with a few dark spots remaining. It said that the recovery in employment had been rather limited, that investment in industrial and commercial facilities, although leveling off, was not yet advancing, and auto production still had not provided the stimulus which would come with large-scale output of 1959 models. But the Department said that except for automobiles, industrial production had shown a marked comeback. There was rising personal income, increasing by 1.5 billion dollars since the previous month, to a record rate of 357.5 billion per year on an annualized basis. Most of the increase was credited to bigger wage and salary payments. The IRS reported that despite the recession, Federal tax collections during the fiscal year ending June 30 had fallen by only 200 million dollars below the previous year.
The Textile Workers Union of America wanted the NLRB to bring unfair labor practice proceedings against the president of the Darlington, S.C., Manufacturing Co., a mill which had closed two years earlier after a union vote to organize the workers.
In San Francisco, it was reported that former President Herbert Hoover had endorsed Senator William Knowland in the gubernatorial race against State Attorney General Pat Brown.
In Little Rock, Ark., about 9,000 letters soliciting funds for the Little Rock Private School Corp. had been sent from the office of Governor Orval Faubus, and one of his aides had said this date that response had been "very good". The letters bore the signature of the Governor and the corporation president, soliciting donations to "establish private schools in private facilities with private funds" in Little Rock, to replace the three white high schools among the four closed public high schools, including the only black high school. The corporation did not issue regular reports on how much money it had received, but the president of the corporation said that over $100,000 had been contributed through the previous week. Half a dozen workers spent eight hours daily getting the letters out, being sent to persons who had written to the Governor praising his handling of the integration situation in Little Rock—by employing any means necessary, including closure of the public high schools, pursuant to newly granted powers from the Legislature, and replacing them with privatized, segregated schools, refusing to continue desegregation despite the Supreme Court's September 29 holding in Cooper v. Aaron, ordering desegregation to be continued at Central High School, as during the previous year, and not delayed until the beginning of 1961, as a District Court judge had earlier ordered. The Governor's executive secretary said that it had not been decided yet how many of the letters would be circulated, but the Governor had said recently that he had received 500,000 pieces of mail from persons supporting him and that perhaps 50,000 or maybe 100,000 letters would be sent. The executive secretary said the contributions were coming from all sections of the nation, indicating that the surprising thing to him was that there were large contributions from sections which already had integration.
Also in Little Rock, a black sergeant had lost a bid to be transferred from the Little Rock Air Force Base because his daughter had been denied admission to a nearby white school.
In Montgomery, Ala., a Federal District Court judge this date upheld the controversial legislative act which all but eliminated black voting in Tuskegee. The court had dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Tuskegee black voters challenging the constitutionality of a 1957 law which rearranged the city boundaries of Tuskegee, virtually halting black voting in the town by excluding all predominantly black residential areas from the city limits. As a result, only ten registered black voters had been left inside the city, in contrast to the 420 who had voted there previously. The 600 white voters in the city were left undisturbed. The blacks who had challenged the law claimed that it deprived them of their rights guaranteed by the Constitution under the 14th and 15th Amendments. The judge said that regardless of the motive of the legislation, the court had no authority to declare an act invalid after measuring it by any yardstick made known by the Constitution, and had no control or supervision over, and no power to change any boundaries of municipal corporations fixed by a duly convened and elected legislative body. Predictably, the dismissal of the case, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, would be reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court in 1960, albeit not until after the 1960 elections. The Court held that if the allegations were proven in the case, the law would have the effect of depriving citizens of their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment.
In Newark, N.J., a defendant's lawyer sought to prove that his "fun-loving" client's hot shot stick was harmless and so plunged the battery-powered stick into the hand of the 29-year old defendant, who was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon. The defendant then let out a yell, and the magistrate found him guilty and fined him $25 for disorderly conduct the previous day.
In Paris, actress Brigitte Bardot warned this date that she would take legal action against anyone seeking to publish an unauthorized biography of her.
And since Drew Pearson had, four days earlier, mentioned a similarly disturbing act by teachers in Tempe, Ariz., enough to curdle the blood of any bona fide resident of Magaville, USA, in 2025, we feel constrained, because it is Thanksgiving and for the sake of showing how such tendencies are passed through time to a younger generation of adults, to reference this 2025 report
As we have fallen behind, there will be no further notes on the front page or editorial page of this date, as the notes will sporadic until we catch up.
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