Week of September 23, 1958

Resigns - Presidential assistant Sherman Adams. President Eisenhower accepts

his resignation “with sadness” and renewed assurance of “my complete trust,

confidence and respect.”

Rashid Karami, the new pro-Nasser Premier of Lebannon,

says he wants American troops to quit his country by the end

of October.

Racial feeling and bitterness between white groups grips Little

Rock on the eve of a special election to decide whether the

people want Negro students to all-white schools.

Hurricane Helene bares down on the Carolina coastline.

Thousands evacuate.

President Eisenhower promotes his deputy assistant and long-time army friend

Maj. Gen. Wilton B. (Jerry) Persons as successor to outgoing Sherman Adams.

Nationalists crack the Communist blockade of Quemoy with another supply-of-

landing operation. Nationalist air force planes once again parachuted supplies to

the island in the night. Though Red siege guns thundered, the air drop was

successful and there was no report of damage to planes.

About 71,000 Detroit autoworkers from the three major companies walk out of

their jobs. The United Auto Workers Union blames the unauthorized strikes on

what it said was refusal of the companies to negotiate local grievances.

Actor James Stewart breaks the sound barrier over the

Mojave Desert in a TF-102A Convair Delta Dagger. Stewart is

a colonel in the Air Force reserve.

The Soviet Union declares President Eisenhower has shown

he is unwilling to “listen to the voice of reason” by rejecting

Premier Khrushchev’s latest message on the Formosa crisis.

Khrushchev’s letter demanded that President Eisenhower

withdraw American ships and troops from the Formosa Strait

or risk being driven out by Communist China with the support of Russia.

The French people accepted by an 80% majority, a new constitution which

invests Premier de Gaulle with extraordinary powers to settle the Muslim

rebellion in Algeria and to restore France’s crippled fortunes with an authoritarian

regime.

Week of September 23, 1958

Little Rock votes overwhelmingly against admitting Negroes to the all-white

schools in the district and action begins immediately to reopen the schools as

private institutions.

The Supreme Court warns the

South that it will permit neither

violence nor legal maneuvers

to block integration of

schools. Chief Justice Warren

read a 5,000 word opinion by

the nine justices, setting forth

the legal reasoning behind the

Sept 12 ruling which ordered

the Little Rock high schools to

admit Negro students this

year.

Mayor Paul Egan suspends

the entire police force in Aurora, Ill - all 68 and proclaims a state of emergency

and calls on the citizenry to make arrests when laws are violated. One patrolman

said the police are carrying on - business as usual. “Nobody’s paying any

attention to him,” said one patrolman. The May is bristling with anger over the

refusal of Police Chief Donald Curran to obey Egan’s order firing him. The

controversy between Egan and Curran stems from and Egan edict several weeks

ago ordering police to clamp down on all forms of gambling.

Two convicts attack and bound

Alcatraz guard Harold Miller in an

attempt to escape from the

forbidding prison rock in San

Francisco Bay. One was captured

and the other is still at large, but believed still in the island. Captured within two

hours was Clyde M. Johnson, onetime public enemy No. 1 who is serving time

for bank robbery. He was found cowering in waist-deep water on the shoreline.

Television news - New - Disneyland will focus on Frontierland tales with a

promise of a western every other week. (see ad). The first of these - “The Nine

Lives of Elfego Baca” based on true stories. The other western hero Disney

introduces is John slaughter - another lawman, another true character.

Week of September 23, 1958

Friday night television

CBS - Douglas Edwards With The News, Boing Boing

NBC - Jefferson Drum, Ellery Queen, M Squad, The Thin

Man, Boxing, Jack Paar Show

ABC - Rin Tin Tin, Walt Disney Presents, Twenty-Six

Men, Action Theater, Harbor Command, News with John

Daley

Jack Paar Show - Jack Douglas and Marlon Marlowe join

Jack.

Monday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards with the news, Robin Hood,

Burns and Allen, Father Knows Best, I Love Lucy, Dupont

Show of the Month,

NBC - Haggis Baggis, Restless Gun, Tales of Wells

Fargo, Peter Gunn, Goodyear Theater, Suspicion, Jack

Paar

ABC - This Is Music, Curtain at Eight, Bold Journey,

Voice of Firestone

Haggis Baggis With Jack Linkletter.

Du Pont Show - “Harvey” with Art Carney. Comedy about

a man and his imaginary rabbit.

Jack Paar - Kay Thompson, Dody Goodman, Marlon

Marlowe

Week of September 23, 1958

Week of September 23, 1958

At the movies -

Week of September 23, 1958

Week of September 23, 1958

NBC Monday Nights