Jan. 30, 1956

Staff

Published Thursday, January 30, 2003

The lead story in the Suffolk News-Herald on this date 47 years ago:

Legislators blast, stir racial issue

ATLANTA (AP) - Ingredients from court and legislators simmered uneasily today in the South's racial cauldron, kindred anew by a bomb blast in Atlanta.

Virginia legislators voted strong approval to a resolution of interposition, which denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on public school segregation as an "illegal encroachment" on the rights of a state.

Abandoned infant found at hospital

Nansemond County police are looking for the parents of a baby girl found abandoned last night in the seat of an automobile at Obici Memorial Hospital sometime between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

The baby, described by special investigator Ray A. Early Jr. as "black-haired and less than a week old," was found by Eugene Daughtry, Route 3, Suffolk, after he returned to his car from visiting a patient.

County Boy Scout to visit governor

Randy McDaniel, Explorer Scout of Driver, will represent the Old Dominion Area Boy Scout Council in Richmond tomorrow when he joins other explorers in the state in making an annual report of activities to Gov. Thomas R. Stanley.

E.C. Bowden, scout executive, said today that McDaniel will be the guest of Sen. Mills E. Godwin Jr. for breakfast with the governor.

Boy, 4, saves smaller girl in grease trap

Heroes come in all sorts of sizes, the current one in Holland being little Eddie Carter, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Carter.

On Monday, Eddie was playing with Andy and Leslie Hope Lightbourne, children of Rev. and Mrs. J.H. Lightbourne, when he and Leslie Hope fell into an open grease trap.

Eddie managed to get out and held up the 21/2-year-old up by her collar while her older brother ran for help.

'No place like home,' Suffolk cagers agree

Suffolk High School's basketball team pretty well agreed today that the man was right - that there really isn't any place like home, even if it is a however little the gymnasium may be.

After 10 straight games on the road this season, all against tough Eastern District Group I competition, the Raiders got to play on their home floor last night against Franklin's Group 2 Broncos

The Red Raiders, sporting new white warm-up suits with red trimmings, threw the book at the outclassed Broncos and rolled up a classic score in routing the visitors 102-50.

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