European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Toc iday july 14, 1959 the stars and stripes a new Yore or s View from the bring a photographer for a now York City firm stood on Manhattan Bridge at dusk and caught this View of Gotham silhouetted against the sky. Boats cruise along the East River and the statue of Liberty is visible through the cables of Brooklyn Bridge As the loft towers of the financial District look Down. Up Phot Virginia school orders segregation by sex plan Charlottesville a. Up boys and girls will sit in separate classrooms next september when Public schools begin integration Here. The precautionary measure was adopted by the school Board in an Cotton acreage up 28 per gent Washington up the Agri culture department has reported that Farmers planted 15,890,000 acres of Cotton this year up 28 per cent from last year. The department is forbidden bylaw from making an estimate of Cotton production until later in the season. But if yields average 400 acre the planted produce 12,712,000pounds to the acreage would Bales. Last year Farmers produced 11,-512,000 Bales from 12,379,000 acres planted. Of this 11,849,000 acres were harvested the smallest since1876. Yields last year averaged 466 pounds an. Acre. The 10-year aver age was 317 pounds an acre. Effort to minimize the possibility of racial Board unanimously accept ing the recommendations of superintendent Fendall r. Ellis also As signed another negro child to the eighth Grade of Lane High school. It brought to three the number of negroes assigned to Lane the City s Only White High school. Nine have been assigned to Venabl elementary school which Borders on a negro neighbourhood. The Board rejected the applications of 28 other negroes seeking to enter White schools in effect closing integration this fall since the deadline for submitting trans Fer requests passed july 1. Closed last year Lane and Venable were close last september under Virginia s now defunct massive resistance Laws but a Federal judge allowed them to reopen on a segregated basis last february when Ellis and the school Board promised to work under a non racial assignment plan for the future. The new segregation by sex plan allows the principals of eight schools to separate boys and girl sin any classrooms they choose. Symington accuses Ike Radford of gossip Over defense lobbying Washington up sen. Stuart Symington do chided president Eisen Hower and adm Arthur w. Rad Ford re for spreading a o s sip about alleged improper activities of the munitions Symington who was Secretary of the air Force during the Truma n Admi Sisera traction said if officials had proof of improper pressures in the defense procurement should bring them Field they out on the i Don t think the top people in our government should gossip about such things he said. They seem willing to talk about them informally he said on the television program face the nation but they declined to give de tails when asked by congressional committees to explain their in , frequently mentioned As a potential candidate for the1960 democratic presidential Nomi nation said he was distressed by statements of or. Eisenhower and Radford former chairman of the joint chiefs of . Eisenhower told a recent news conference that it was obvious some defense purchases were not essential to the nation s Mil civil rights hearing delayed for Louisiana negro. Voters Shreveport la. A fed eral judge Ben Dawkins jr., has postponed a civil rights commis Sion hearing on voter complaints. He ordered a three judge panel convened july 22 to Rule on the Jamaica promised for second wedding trip couple starts honeymoon in bomb shelter Miami a a pair of newlyweds waved goodbye to pickets police photographers and onlookers and descended into an underground bomb shelter where they propose to spend a . Melvin Mininson 28, of Miami and the. Former Maria Rodriguez 27, of Tampa were wed at ground level by former Miami Beach mayor Kenneth Oka As a prelude to their stunt in collaboration wit manufacturers of the 21%-ton Concrete and steel cubicle. " five women pickets who identified themselves a members of the greater Miami committee for a sane nuclear policy marched up and Down bearing signs that read men who make Moons can make peace. .".,-., v. " one picket mrs. Thalia Stern told newsmen the committee viewed the bomb shelter honeymoon As a promotion for financial gain that prepares people psychologically for Warcoleman wages Miami a Vil defense director voiced disapproval of the pickets. They re a Bunch of radicals he said. I think this test is a Wonderfulthingdade county sheriff Tom Kelly who inspected the shelter agreed with wages. They re making missiles 24 hours a Day seven Days a week Kelly said. They Don t make them to celebrate chinese new year sheriff s Deputy affixed a Wax Seal to the Hatch of the bomb shelter after the bridal couple disappeared into it. Or. And mrs. Mininson were promised a second two week honeymoon to Jamaica by bomb shelters inc., if they spend two weeks in the 8 by 10 by 6 foot shelter equipped with furnishings food Tele phone and electricity. Mininson later talked vla4he shelter s phone with newsmen. He said the temperature within was 89degrees. We re in our shorts and i Don t think the heat ingoing to bother us Mininson said. He added the couple was still enthusiastic about shelter life As a demonstration to stimulate interest in civil defense. Legality of the commission s moved to Block the hearing by granting a temporary restraining order. Louisiana at Torney general Jack Gremillion had asked the judge to Stop the commission hearing. The commis Sion is investigating complaints against 16 White registrars of voters accused of discriminating against negro voters. But Gremillion charged the com Mission was denying the registrars their constitutional rights in re fusing to Tell them in Advance who their accusers were. Gremillion also said state officials who testify would suffer Public damage from the hearing. If the three judge panel upholds Gremillion s contentions they will probably Issue an injunction stopping the commission from going ahead with the hearing. Chewing their duty Cayuta . A cattle Are being used for fire prevention duty at a lumber Yard Here. Their Job to keep Down grass in surround ing pastures that otherwise would turn tinder dry in late summer. Itary Security. He indicate they might have been prompted by what has been called the munitions Radford now retired but acting As adviser to defense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy said recently he thought some arms manufacturer were encouraging interservice rivalries. But when brought before Ahouse investigating subcommittee Radford said no one had Ever tried to influence him. He also said that retired officers working for Industry had Little weight in determining defense purchasing poli cies. On other defense matters Symington said 1he estimates the administration plans to let the soviets Geta 6 to 1, rather than the earlier announced 3 to 1, numerical superiority in ballistic missiles. 2it was entirely wrong for de sense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy to say Don t worry about this coun try s difficulties in perfecting mis Siles because the russians have fallen Down Toosymington said i Don t think he has any justification for that statement and i havens much information As he has3he believes the armed Force should have a single military chief. Picture Worth 5/000 dollars not words Milwaukee wis. Up Dean a Nisson is a movie Star of sorts but he s not Happy about it. Hansen tied Charles w. Bergerot Wauwatosa wis., claiming Berger stepped on his naked foot with a spiked Golf shoe while hews retrieving Golf balls from a water Hazard at West Moor coun try club aug. 29, 1954. Hansen contended the injury left him crippled and asked $5,000 dam Ages. However judge Robert ruled against Hanson after viewing a 17-Minuto movie taken since the Accident which showed him Wheeling fresh con Crete in a wheelbarrow
