Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

WEATHER Ra(n tot portion and ending In the wait Generally fair Sunday with little change in temper ature Local temperature for the past 24 hours ending at 6 am today: High 50 low 42 Published tn the Heart of the Dairying end Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record a Landmark Xtmw Net Press Hun 11345 VOL 86 STATESVILLE SATURDAY JANUARY 30 1960 Single Copy 5c NO 26 TOUGH BREAKS Well it looks as if ill luck is still dog ging the political trail of Heinz Rollman the Waynesville shoe manufacturer and world con structionist who has his eye on a seat in Congress Rollman has had to rebuild his personal fortunes three times in his comparatively short the most recent recuperation having occurred in this coun try to which he fled when the nazis took over in Germany Now it looks as if he will have to rebuild his political fortunes as frequently as his financial About two years ago Rollman entered the Democratic primary for the nomination to Congress from the 12th North Carolina district lie ran a good race but lost out to George Shuford of Asheville Later when Shuford was forc ed to resign on account of ill health Rollman sought appoint ment at the hands of the 12th district congressional committee but again lost out this time to David Hall of Sylva That soured him on the Demo cratic party and only a few months ago he announced he was switching allegiance to the Republicans and would seek the 12th district seat on the GOP ticket Now fate has intervened again Representative Hall succumbed to cancer riday in Sylvia and Gov Luther Hodges has indi cated he will call special elec tions to fill the vacancy That means that Rollman if he is to win the seat for a full term will now have to fight his way through two primaries and two general elections Had he remained in the Democratic party and won in the special primary soon to be called by the Governor it is unlikely he would have had opposition for the full term nomination But so it is with if not indeed with life ENGLISH Maybe you've made up your mind you don't like opera Don't be too hasty Maybe you like the music and the ac tion but just can't understand the story in a foreign language Stop right there Something new has been added to opera that is Grass Roots Opera company will present the immortal in English at Mac Grav auditorium Tuesday and the story which you will be able to understand is spicy and action packed You will hear the familiar ar ias sung in English by some of most promising young singers You can still get a ticket Just contact some member of Mac Dowell Music club or they will be on sale at the door for the afternoon performance at 1:45 and at 8 pm CORN REPORT Clay Hart ness of 119 Bost street came by this morning with a copy of the Landmark of ebruary 20 1914 which his brother Hugh had sent him from Phoenix Va Hugh had been going through some old things and came across the 1914 Landmark preserved all this time we suspect be cause it contained a long story about Clay taking second place in the corn club competition that year irst place it seems was won by Ervin Chester of Chambers burg who produced 91 bushels of corn on an acre In second place was Clay Hartness with 84 bushels and Paul Williams was third with 80 ourth and fifth places went to Ed Brown and Ernest Hicks Clay's corn was grown on ourth Creek bottomlands hesaid That gave him an advan tage over some of the other boys whose corn was on high ground because dry weather did considerable damage Well the boys are still grow ing corn Down In Iredell And just for comparison we asked Rowe McNeely for some 4 figures We discovered that Da vid Owens produced 132 bushels of corn on an acre down in south Iredell three or four years ago and that 4 II boys break the 100 bushcl mark with impunity So time marches on and the good old days become better MUSEUM Of spe cial interest at Arts and Science museum tomorrow will be the rare and valuable collection of bottles owned by Dr Roy Tatum of Taylorsville Dr Tatum who formerly prac ticed Down in Iredell and owns several bottles of historical in terest from this area will be on hand to tell the story of some of his unique pieces Along with this special exhibit the paintings of Mrs Clara Childs of Salisbury and Tom Crawford of Long Island and Saratoga la will still be in the galleries and they too are worth spending some time with if you haven't already seen them It will be a good time also to take a look at the mus workshop building and studio which will also be open to the public from 2 until 5 pm tomorrow Don't get into the habit of missing out on these interesting things available to you at your museum STATESVILLE SHOTS Herb SAMPSEL and June PETER SON elated as Statesville girls tie for first Mrs Mac GRAY picking up extra papers for friend Mrs Clarence MOORE getting' stuck in mud on way to bridal shower Mir iam MILLS distributing tickets for Charlotte Boys Choir Never Say Die LONDON Dr Ludwig Koch 78 know when to quit After 16 years of effort still trying to record the mating call of" the lesser spotted woodpecker Hookey Helper THOMASVILLE Ga Mrs Mary Etta Booker was accused riday of helping five of her children play hookey She was sent to jail on truancy charges Asks More Air Traffic WASHINGTON Trans World Airlines told the Civil Aeronau tics Board hearing riday it is entitled to a larger share of around the world air traffic which it estimated at 37000 passengers a year by 1962 Dedication Planned HICKORY Officials of Len oir Rhyne College announced to day that dedication ceremonies for the new Minges science build ing will be held at 3:30 pm eb 21 Mitchell Cox of New York vice president of the Pepsi Cola Bottling Co will be the principal speaker Somewhat Overdone LONDON Horace Dibben 54 and Mariella Capes 18 both laughed so hard to relieve ten sion at their wedding the preach er was compelled to call a halt "This is a serious occasion You'll have to leave if this does n't he warned? It stopped Church Is Destroyed CHERRYVILLE fire pos sibly originating in the heating system destroyed the irst Bap tist Church here this morning The blaze which burned the main sanctuary of the brick church broke out shortly after 7 am and was extinguished shortly before 9:30 am Soused Sparrows TOTTORI Japan Chicken farmers plagued by free loading sparrows soaked rice in 70 proof alcohol for a week sprinkled it around their chicken coops and bagged 500 groggy sparrows Vices ace Vice Count BATON ROUGE La Sher officers began a crack down on vice and prostitution here riday Two of the first persons on charges of prostitution and were Mr and Mrs John Vice Jet Sets Record DENVER Colo A Conti nental Airlines Boeing 707 jet airliner carrying 66 passengers flew from Chicago to Denver in one hour and 46 minutes riday bettering the previous record by five minutes New Appeal Planned SAN RANCISCO Attorneys for Caryl Chessman who is sche duled to end IP i years on death row in San death cham ber eb 19 today indicated that they will again try to take the case to the Supreme Court ederal Judge Louis Good man riday rejected the convict latest bid to escape ex ecution as merit and for the most part Deputies In Question HALIAX Halifax County commissioners have been order ed to appear in Superior Court eb 8 to explain why they should not be restrained from hiring and paying depu ties Moss of Ringwood a former board chairman secured an order riday from Judge Paul rizzelle directing the five man board to appear before Jud ge Rudolph 1 Mintz ALGERIAN REVOLT IS CRUMBLING Rep David Hall Dies Of Cancer Railroad Strike Is Threatened CHICAGO (UPI) The first major railroad strike in a decade loomed today with a third rail union threatening to join two others in breaking off contract talks A strike could affect 711000 rail road workers represented by 21 op erating and non operating unions Theodore Short the chief negotiator admitted an passe has been after wage negotiations stalemated be tween the roads and the power ful 37000 member Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) Only 12 hours earlier the 60 000 member Brotherhood of Loco motive iremen and Enginemen (BLE) ended its talks with the three regional conference carrier committees representing the na railroads and requested ar bitration Talks were still in progress with unions representing switchmen and conductors but a spokesman said it was a matter of time before we break off too unless something comes up that we can send to our mem bership for ratification far he said But Wagner vice president of the Order of Railway Conduc tors and Brakemen predicted could reach if the railroads loosen up a lit Whatever the outcome no strike is possible for at least 60 days Leverett Edwards of the National (railway) Mediation Board said The board which is mediating the dispute probably will be ask LOSES GALLANT BATTLE Rep David Hall of the 12th North Carolina District died yesterday afternoon at a Sylva hospital after a long battle against paraplegia and cancer uneral services will be held at 3 pm Sunday at Sylva Methodist Church (UPI Telephoto) Nuclear Blasts Ruled Out During This Year WASHINGTON (UPD The Atomic Energy Commission today virtually ruled out for more than a year any nuclear explo sions for peaceful purposes It also indicated this country will stage no new bomb tests at its Pacific proving ground during the remainder of Presi dent Eisenhower's term The commission left open how ever the possibility of under ground weapons tests in Nevada this year and of missile warhead tests on the fringes of space In a 628 page annual report to Congress the AEC said that in 1959 it continued Plow studies on peaceful uses of nuclear explosives This pro gram like weapons testing had been held up during the East West talks in Geneva on a per manent test ban arthest along of all Plowshare proposals apparently is Project Gnome This is a plan to explode a nuclear device deep in a New Mexican salt bed to determine whether atomic heat can be stored underground for genera tion of ower The site has been picked about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad and preliminary surveys have been completed But the commis sion said "it is estimated that about one year would be re quired to prepare the site and execute the experiment if a deci sion were made to That decision has not been made an AEC official told United Press International There has been no public indication that it is imminent The commission reported there have been continued and development activitieswith special emphasis on smaller im mcdiately ready and more rug ged weapons for use in advanced weapons Since Nov 1 1958 it has kept the Pacific proving ground where big bombs are tested a minimum maintenance Experts say it would take a year to prepare new tests there The Nevada proving ground on the other hand been kept in standby readiness by main taining the buildings and equip ment and repairing or preparing certain used in weapons tests Atomic arms experts have said privately that additional tests are needed to prove out at least two weapons prominently mentioned in Eisen budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 These are the Davy Crockett an "individual man nuclear rocket for close support of troops and the Nike Zeus an anti missile rocket Hodges To Call Special Election In 12th District SYLVA 'UPD Rep David Hall (D NC) who refused to believe his doctor's prediction two weeks ago that he had only two hours to live died riday still hoping to run this spring for a second term in Congress The 42 year old freshman congressman died of cancer that began in his bladder and spread through his lower abdomen It was an indirect result of a bone infection that placed him in a wheel chair most of his last 30 years To the end he insisted he was going to return to Congress He had announced he was running this year and made plans for a campaign uneral services at 3 pm Sun day at the Sylva Methodist Church will be conducted by the Rev Asmond Maxwell pastor of the church and the Rev Robert Tuttle of Asheville superintendent of the Asheville district of the Methodist Church Burial will be in the family plot at Webster Cemetery here The family requested that no flowers be sent but that donations be made to establish a David McKee Hall scholarship fund at Western Carolina College at near by Cullowhee rom a hospital bed in New York where he went last fall for treatment the jovial young at torney predicted with a smile: "i'll be out of here and back in Congress in But Congress reconvened and January was almost over and Hall lay in another hospital bed in his small mountain hometown growing steadily weaker two weeks ago his doc tor predicted he wouldn't live more than two said James Childress an old friend the report was kept quiet at his re quest because he felt he would get well He was afraid such a report would hurt his or Hall it was another battle with disease which began when he was 12 and fell victim to a bone infection The infection later de veloped into paraplegia The cancer was discovered by (Continued on page 4) Jordan Denies 'und' Rumors WASHINGTON (UPD Sen Everett Jordan (D NC) has challenged anyone in North Caro lina to prove' that he had any thing to do with the political plans of North Carolina House Speaker Addison Hewlett Jordan's statement came in a denial of that he tried to lure Hewlett into the guber natorial race and then cut off Hewlett's campaign fund supply not saying that Hewlett is or isn't behind these Jordan told newsmen he can find anybody who will say I cut off his money I'll face up to Hewlett withdrew from the gov race last week saying he could not raise enough money to wage a campaign He refused to comment on Jordan's statements The senator noted that many North Carolina newspapers have speculated that Hewlett was lured into the race as part of strategy to leave Jordan unopposed in his bid this spring for re election Then continued the reports Jordan was responsible for cut ting off source of cam paign funds wvw kOBiA' 4 CLASSMATES MEET Mrs Earl Teague Beechwood Road Is shown here talking over college days at the University of North Carolina with Terry Sanford of ayetteville Sanford an avowed candidate for governor was here yesterday on a "get tour through the state (Amburn Photo) Sanford Gets Warm Reception In Iredell Terry Sanford brought his acquainted" entourage into Iredell County yesterday and received a warm reception Speaking to approximately 100 people at National Guard Armory Hartness Road Sanford said he will officially announce his candi dacy for Governor of North Caro lina at a rally in ayetteville next Thursday "Public education will be a dom inant issue In my he said "Improvement of schools is North most urgent In outlining other principal plans of his platform In the forthcoming campaign Sanford said there is a need for economic and indus trial development He praised the efforst of civic and governmental leaders of Ire dell County for their activity in obtaining new indus "I would like to see the entire state take a lesson from the tech niques and approaches taken here toward new the speak er said "You have done a good he added Sanford said he would carry on the great industrial development plans of Gov Luther Hodges but would inject "new ideas new approaches and new energies to get high level income producing industrial expansion pro gram must Sanford said in touching on aspects of North Carolina life agricultural economy must get similar interest and emphasis to match the suc cess in industrial North Carolina must continue to depend on farming he declared great state is not going out of the farm Sanford continued this state we do not consider farming a dying seg ment of our He called federal farm legisla tion and urge furth er production and promotion a' new markets Sanford said the secondary road program should be closer to the people "The state wide approach for primary roads and the program for interstate highways are prop er But the secondary road pro gram would be better if there were someone in authority close by to whom the people could talk The secondary road program should not lag and the building and im provement should keep pace with North he added This was in line with his feeling that state government through the governor ought to be close to the people we are to accom plish anything we need people working through the governor's of Sanford said The informal talk here was the 91st such meeting Sanford has at tended within the last two weeks He plans to in all 100 counties of the state before his formal announcement ebr uary 4 Sanford is a native of Laurin burg and since 1948 has practiced law in ayette vile He is a former state senator and member of the State Ports Authority He manag ed Kerr campaign for the Senate He has been pres ident of the state Young Demo cratic Club and a Democratic Na tional Convention delegate He was a paratrooper in combat in World War II after having been a special agent with the BI BROAD STREET METHODIST At the 8:45 am service Sunday al Broad Street Methodist Church the Carolers Choir will sing Lovely Are Thy by Liddle At the service at 11 o'clock the offertory anthem by the Chan cel Choir will be A Voice of by Shaw ed to arbitrate in Washington Monday Edwards said The offer probably will be re jected he said throwing the dis pute to a presidential fact finding board which will have 30 days to make recommendations Short said the industry "simply cannot to meet the engin demands for a 14 per cent wage boost JOJNT MEETING SLATED The Youth of irst Associate Reformed Presbyterian and of the Pressly Memorial ARP Church are having a joint meeting at the 'atter church Sunday after noon at 5:30 Rev Jack Heinsohn will be the speaker After the evening worship service the young group from irst ARP Church will go to the home of Ronnie Burke May Drive for an informal social hour i Democrats Broaden Defense Issue Barrage WASHINGTON (UPI) The Democratic attack on President Eisenhower's military policies was broadened today to include charges that the administration was i playing politics in the de fense field The Democrats kept up their complaints that the Defense De partment was underrating Soviet missile power They said Central: Intelligence Director Allen Dul les' closed door testimony riday supported their claim that Russia was far ahead of this country in war rockets To this wer added these new allegations: William ulbright (D Ark) said was not surmising that the Republicans could raise seven million dollars at their 83 campaign kickoff banquets Wednes day "in view of the 40 odd billions of defense contracts to be let to our big Hubert Humphrey (D Minn) a Democratic presidential contender charged it was "un ethical and beneath the of the administration to use De fense Secretary Thomas Gates Jr and other top Pentagon offi cials as speakers at the nation wide GOP dinners Jamie Whitten (D Miss) charged that half the cur rent defense spending was "pump designed to every happy until the next He said too much spend ing was aimed at giving various defense contractors and geograp hic locations their share of the military outlay Senate GOP Leader Everett Dirksen I Ill) meanwhile suggest ed sarcastically that all the Demo cratic presidential aspirants who have criticized defenses form a on the con duct of the cold and or hot He said attacks on the defense program were a reflection on Ei senhower Sen Henry Jackson (D Wash) said after testi mony to the combined Senate Space and Preparedness commit tees that the intelligence chief had credited Russia with more missile power than an earlier appraisal by Gates Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don Johnson chairman of the space and preparedness groups said after Dulles' appearance that 20 years we have believed the only safe place was first place Now there seems to be an effort to advance the theory that second place is safe Sen Stuart Symington (D Mo) another Democratic presidential possibility said Dulles' testimony supported "without reservation" his charge that Russia would have a missile advantage of more than 3 to 1 in the not too distant fu ture Troops Sealing Off Barricade Of Insurgents ALGIERS Algeria The rench army today began throw ing a solid ring of troops around European settlers barricaded In the center of Algiers Heavily armed units of battle tested troops established a stran glehold around the barricades as the settler rebellion elsewhere throughout Algeria began crum bling before the strength exhibited by President Charles de Gaulle The army also moved to crush the backbone of the revolt from within by ordering the home guard mobilized Home guards men had been behind the barri cades with the settlers since last Sunday rench army troops summoned from surrounding areas moved out of their barracks and encamp ments at 2 pm An hour later they had sealed off the barricaded area The lightning military operation began shortly after Gen Maurice Challe supreme military com mander for Algeria ordered all home including 2000 to 3000 in to report to their stations in uniform The order climaxed a series of events in which the settlers them selves called an end to the gen eral strike in Algiers their sym pathizers in the big port city of Oran pulled down street barri cades and messages of support for De Gaulle poured into the city from outlying Algerian areas Buses began operating again in the beleaguered capital city and some work resumed at the post office for the first time since the settlers rose against De Gaulle last Sunday Army sources said any militia men who refused to obey the mobilization order would be classed as deserters Gen Jean Jacieux commander of the Algiers region whose loy not been established pre viously read the order over Al giers radio It meant the army was calling the home guardsmen out from behind the barricades and into service directly under rench army command Gracieux said the order came directly from Challe top military commander in Algeria The territorial units were formed in 1956 to help combat Moslem rebel terrorism in areas considered by the army They are composed of European settlers who have finished military service Announcement of the forth coming end of the strike was made by a spokesman for cafe owner Joseph Ortiz one of the co leaders of the insurrection Boys Queried In Bombing KANSAS CITY Mo (UPD BI agents and police detectives seeking the bombers of a Kansas City synagogue held two mem bers today of a neo Nazi youth organization for further ques tioning The two high school students described as ring of the movement have admitted painting swastikas on four Jewish houses of worship in the past month Both however have denied any part in Thursday bombing of the Kehilath Israel Synagogue Lt Col William Canaday chief of police operations said the investi gation will continue "until we find out who bombed that Canaday said the boys offered to show officers where they had hidden the can containing the black paint used to paint the swastikas Meanwhile 10 other youths ai rested yesterday were released pending further investigation after they had admitted membership in the high school organization called Nordic Reich Youth WSCS MEETING The Society of Ciiris tian Service of Monticello Metho dist Church will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs Coleman Lippard route 6 Statesville Mrs A McLclland will have the piogranh.