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a a a a a a a a THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, ASHEVILLE, N. C. Saturday, October 25, 1958 Deaths And Funerals Miss Jennie Twitty Services for Miss Jennie Twitty, 44, of Lee Walker Heights, who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday in Hopkins Chapel tithe Rev. Church.

G. L. Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Gray's Chapel Cemetery at Rutherfordton. The body will lie in state at the church one hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Axie Randolph BURNSVILLE Mrs. Axie Deyton Randolph, 86, died at her home here Friday. Services will be held at the Green Mountain Free Will tist Church at 2 p. m.

Saturday. The Rev. Alvin McPeters will officiate, and burial will be in the Styles Cemetery. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Whittemore of Burnsville, and Mrs.

Zeb Harris of Flag Pond. a son, John of Burnsville RFD 1: 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. J. Thomas Melton BUR Thomas Melton, 62.

a retired electrical engineer who formerly owned and operated theaters in Colorado. died in a Burnsville hospital Friday after a short illness. He had lived in Pensacola since 1945, was a World War I veteran, a member the American Legion and the Elks. Graveside rites will be held Sunday at 3 p. m.

at Holcombe Cemetery here. The Rev. 0. L. Brown will officiate.

Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Mary Hawkins: two sons, Maj. Joe T. Melton of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and Frank Dean Melton of Farmingdale, N. and five grandchildren. Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

E. Walter Constant HENDERSONVILLE E. Walter Constant, 78, a retired farmer of Hendersonville RFD 5, died Friday in a local hospital after 8 period of declining health. Services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m.

at the Thomas Shepherd Memorial Chapel. The Revs. Luther Cappell and Darius Brevard will officiate. and burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery with Lloyd Corn, Dallas Zeb Rhodes. Walter Heffner Eugene and Harold Garren as pallbearers.

The body will remain at the funeral home until the service hour. A native of Polk County and son of the late Rufus and Nannie McCraw Constant, he had lived here more than 60 years. He was a member of the French Broad Baptist Church. Surviving are four sisters. Mrs.

Mae Jackson of Inman, S. Mrs. Gertie Champion of Mill Spring, Mrs. Thelma Dougins of Drayton, S. and Mrs.

Gibson of Columbus: and two brothers, Troy R. of HendersonRFD 5, and D. M. of Constant, N. M.

Mrs. B. C. Anderson HENDERSONVILLE-Mrs. Susan Wheeler Anderson, 70, widow of Baylus Clark Anderson, died Friday at the home of Mrs.

0. B. Jones on Kanuga Road. Services will be held Saturday at 4 p. m.

at the Holly Springs Baptist Church. The Rev. Ralph Banning will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will remain at Thomas Shepherd Funeral Home until 30 minutes before the service and then lie in state at the church. Surviving is a sister, Mrs.

Clara Ballard of Hendersonville. Mrs. Mae Walker HENDERSONVILLE Graveaide services for Mrs. Mae Lucille Smith Walker, a Henderson County native who died Wednesday in Knoxville, will be held Saturday at 2 p. m.

at Oakdale Cemetery. Dr. Warren F. Thuston will officiate. The daughter of the late T.

Melvin and Nannie Miller Smith, Mrs. Walker was a former editor of the Skyland Magazine at Winston-Salem. Thomas Shepherd Funeral Home is in charge of arrange- ments. CARD OF THANKS The Family of Mrs. Daisy Hyde wish to express their appreciation for all the kind pressions of sympathy, the kind acts and flowers sent them during the time of their bereavement.

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AL 2-1536 Lady Beatty And Sinatra Fight And Fly LONDON (AP). Lady Beatty, the beauty Frank Sinatra has been squiring around Amer London, flew off to Switzerland Friday. There were reports they had quarreled. Sinatra came here last weekend and London papers have predicted' that he and the 36-year-old Lady Beatty will wed. Thursday night, they went to a Mayfair night club with a party of movie people.

Sinatra leaned the table and sang "I Like across, York in June" to her. But later, according to people sitting nearby, the atmosphere at the table became strained. Sinatra, they said, seemed "very tense." An argument was said to have taken place as the party departed. A few hours later Lady Beatty, looking pale, caught a plane for Zurich. Sinatra left by plane later in the day -reportedly headed for Switzerland, too.

An earlier tiff between the singer and Lady Beatty had been reported Wednesday after they attended a fashionable party given by Lady Northampton. Sinatra was said to have complained of the publicity their friendship was getting. U. S- To Make Test Case Of MacRae's Tax LOS ANGELES (AP)-Government lawyers said Friday that Singer Gordon MacRae's tax reducing scheme will be used as a test case affecting claims against other famous personalities. The Internal Revenue Service in a two day hearing challenged MacRae's right to invest in government bonds by floating a multimillion dollar loan through which, by deducting the interest, he could lower his taxes.

The service said a victory by MacRae could conceivably cost the U.S. government one million dollars against such celebrities as Van Johnson, Nanette Fabray, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, John Wayne, Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace. Doris Day, Melcher and Gene Autry. Government attorneys said they will await tax Judge Bruce Forrester's decision in the MacRae case before proceeding against the others. MacRae has asked a ruling on whether he must pay a $139,000 levy.

He testified he borrowed money at per cent interest from a New York firm, then invested it in Treasury and farm bank notes paying per cent interest. MacRae claims the inter. est paid the New York concern as a tax deduction. which put him into a lower tax bracket. MacRae sold the bonds at a profit and claimed the profit as a capital gains.

Three Men Injured In Auto Mishap Three men, all from the Candler section, were injured Friday night when an automobile hit a tree on Holcombe Cove Road. The three, all admitted at Mission Memorial Hospital, were: Herve Dean, 22, head injuries. E. J. Ball, 26.

severe facial lacerations and broken leg. Howard Wilhide, 22 lacerations of chin and injured hip. Dean was believed to be the most seriously injured. State Highway Patrolman F. F.

Bowen said his investigation of the accident had not been completed and it had not been determined who was driving the car. S. C. Charges Taxes Are Due From Puckett SPARTANBURG. S.C, (AP) A former manager of a Spartanburg hotel has been charged in six with non payment of $70,320 in state income taxes.

The State Tax Commission charged Maurice Puckett with failure to pay $3,000 in state income taxes in each of the six years between 1948. and 1953. Puckett already is charged in a federal indictment for income tax evasion. He and his attorney, Braxton O. Wallace of Greenwood.

ere accused of conspiring to defraud the of $27,332. Trial or. charges still government. pends. The state warrants were filed in the Spartanburg County (Clerk of Court's office Wednesday.

The state penalties, interest and costs 0n the tax assessments alleged due run the total amount to $70,320. Puckett presently is an Asheville, N. C. hotel owner. Jupiter Revival A revival meeting will begin Monday night at Jupiter Baptist Church, according to the Rev.

Rex Collins, pastor. Rev. Woodrow Flynn, pastor of Carven Street Baptist Church will be guest speaker. Catholic Student Council Plans Session Here Today The biennial Congress of the, North Carolina Catholic Student Council will be held on the campus of Asheville Catholic High School, 285 Victoria Road, from 9:30 a. m.

to 3:15 p. m. Saturday. Delegates and facutly advisers from out of town will be guests of the faculty and students of the Asheville high school. The congress includes officers and members of the Student Council Association in junior and senior Catholic high schools in North Carolina.

Various committees, appointed at a Spring meeting in Charlotte, will report at programs to be held in the new gymnasium. The congress will open with a mass and will be closed in the afternoon by a benediction pronounced by the Rev. Thomas Kevin, administrator of Asheville Catholic High. The principal speaker will be the Rev. Joseph Klaus of Winston-Salem.

Miss so Loretta Millsaps, freshman of Mars Hill College, will be guest panelist on the topic: "The Honor System in School." olic High seniors will serve as Then following Asheville Cathdelegates to the conference: Robert Callahan, president of the 1o- cal council; Thomas Doe, Garland Crouch and Carla Emmendorfer, officers. Registration will be in the school building between 8:30 and 9:30 a. m. Jury Rejects Killer's Death Sentence Plea MEMPHIS (AP)-A jury Friday, night rejected a killer's plea for death in the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison instead.

Edward L. Leonard, 27, formerly of McComb, grimaced sourly as the verdict was an nounced. He was tried for firstdegree murder. The strange case went to the jury at noon. Minus the lunch and a.nner breaks, deliberation took eight hours.

The blue-eyed blond ex-bellhop sat calmly through closing arguments. The defense asked mercy, calling him a mental case. The prosecution demanded electrocution. Lawyers said Leonard would be eligible for parole in 48 years. However.

he would then face other charges in Texas and Mississippi. The climax of the week-long trial came dramatically Thursday when Leonard took the witness stand and asked that he be put to death. Unemotionally, he told the crowded courtroom how he shot Robert G. Bennett. 30.

twice in the back last May 19 and left him dead on a lonely country road. Then. he told of another killing which the prosecution did not mention in building its case against the handsome, boyish-looking slayer. Leonard said that four days after the Bennett murder, he shot Glenn L. McMahon.

32, to death Mrs. Summer's Sister Dies At Siler City FLETCH Sexta Hanner, sister of Mrs. T. W. Summer of Fletcher, died at Siler City, N.

this week. Suriving in addition to Mrs. Summer are two other sisters. She was a daughter of the late Oran H. and Josephine Reed Hanner of Siler City.

Miss Hanner spent many summers here with her sister. Swain County Man Is Held For Trial George Collins, about 55, of the Grassy Branch section of Swain charged with operation of an illegal distillery, waived hearing before U.S. Commis. sioner Clinton C. Carson Friday and was bound to the November term of U.S.

District Court in Bryson City. His bond was set at $300. Collins was arrested in Bryson City by a deputy U.S. marshal. in McMahon's Houston, home.

He denied the state's argument that he killed to rob. He killed his victims, said, because he thought they were homosexuals. The courtroom was hushed as he wound up his testimony with a plea to the jury to "find me guilty of murder and send me to the electric chair." A de defense psychiatrist, Dr. James A. Taylor, testified that Leonard himself had latent homosexual tendencies which his conscious mind violently rejected.

These tendencies building up within could have forced him to "kill and kill again." Taylor said. actually killed himself-in his mind -when he killed a homosexual." the psychiatrist said. "He tried to kill his own homosexuality when he killed one of them." Taylor also told the jury that Leonard's plea for the death sentence actually was an attempt by a tortured mind to commit suicide. Oil Man Draws 60-Day Term In Cuba Arms Case HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) -A Texas oilman Friday drew a 60-day jail sentence for conspiring to ship arms to Cuban rebels.

Robert R. McKeown, 47, of Ga. lena Park also received a two-year suspended sentence for ulegal possession of firearms. Federa: Judge Joe Ingraham at first assessed a 90-day jail sentence but was impressed by McKeow's plea for mercy. "I saw soldiers of the Cuban dictator shoot down seven old women in the of Santiago," McKeown streets, heart went out to them." "I'll see that you get out by Christmas Ingraham said in cutting the sentence to 60 days.

McKeown will serve his time in the cell at the Harris County Jail here and will be released Dec. 23. McKeown. the central figure in an arms smuggling attempt smashed by federal agents last February, denied he had a profit motive. "I find that hard to believe." Ingraham said.

"Oh, I was promised oil and coffee concessions, but I never made a dime, he said. McKeown's trial ended abruptly two weeks ago when he interrupt. ed testimony to change his plea to guilty Dillabough Renamed By N. C. Osteopaths Dr.

H. M. Dillabough of Winston-Salem, newly installed as president of the North Carolina Osteopathic Society, Friday was also named president elect for the following year. He was one of three officers named at the group's 54th annual convention in the Battery Park Hotel, a meeting which has drawn some 200 persons from 23 states. Other officers include Dr.

Walter C. Eldrett of Hendersonville, former dean of the Chicago College of Osteopathy, as secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Neva A. McCoy of Charlotte as trustee for four-year term. Friday night, the osteopaths heard Dr.

George W. Northup, president of the American Osteopathic Association, at the group's annual banquet. "As we seek recognitions, we must not forget the most important recognition-self recognition," Dr. Northup said. "We believe that the osteopathic profession should not bend to conformity, nor should we be blind to the changing field of medicine." He pointed out that the future of osteopathy will not be achieved under protective custody of any other organization.

general policy is one of cooperation without domination," he said. The top executive of the nation's osteopaths also called for a "new type of medical statesmanship." Another series of technical talks is set Saturday morning before the NCOS adjourns its meeting at noon. Next year's convention also will be in Asheville. McMahon Discusses Sales Manager's Job When a man moves from the job of top salesman to sales manager, he has to change his viewpoint from "look what did" to "look what he did," Dr. Ottis K.

McMahon, Atlanta Industrial and management psychologist told the WNC Sales Executives Club at a meeting in Battery Park Hotel Friday. Instead of doing the job himself, Dr McMahon said, the sales manager must assume bility for getting the job. done by others, and to see them "take the bows and carry off the prizes." PENNEY'S FRIDAY OPEN NIGHTS MONDAY 'TIL AND 8:30 ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY 21 Battery Park Avenue James T. Jones HENDERSONVILLE James T. Jones of Saluda RFD 1 died at his home Friday after a long period of declining health.

The funeral arrangements will be announced by Thomas Shepherd Funeral Home. Miss Hildred Small VALDESE Miss Hildred Mae Small, 33, of Valdese died Friday in a Hickory hospital after an illness of a week. Services will be held Sunday at 3 p. m. at the First Baptist Church of Valdese.

The Revs. Jason D. Ross, William D. Byrd and J. A.

Hudson will officiate, and burial will be in Burke Memorial Park. Miss Small worked for the Alba Hosiery Mill here. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. Geneva Benfield Small: and a sister, Miss Betty Small, both of Valdese. Sossamon Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Elizabeth Shope FRANKLIN Mrs. Elizabeth Ledford Shope, 76, died at her home in the Prentiss community at 9:30 p. m. Thursday following an illness of three months.

She was a native and life-long resident of Macon County and was a daughter of the late James fordand Martha Carpenter LedShe was married to Ed Shope in 1903 and me was a member of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Services will be held Saturday at 2:30 p. m. at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. The Rev.

Claude Ledford, the pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Robert L. Poindexter, pastor on the Franklin Methodist Circuit; and the Rev. James I. Vinson, a former pastor of the Pleasant Hill church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Don, Bobby and Billy Shope and George Ledford, all grandsons: Spencer Ledford and Weaver Shope. Surviving are the husband: three sons. Prelo and Woodrow Shope of Franklin RFD 2, and John of Hillsboro, N. four daughters, Mrs.

Alec Ledford. Mrs. Ira Ledford. Mrs. Max Stockton and Mrs.

Ledford Caldwell of Franklin RFD 2: three brothers. Miller, Marion and LesLedford of Franklin RFD three sisters, Mrs. Robert Brendie of Franklin RFD 4: and Mrs. Ed V. Stockton and Mrs.

Lorraine McConnell of Franklin RFD 19 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, The body will be taken from the home to the church to lie in state 30 minutes prior to the services. Potts Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Leonard B. Leverson -Leonard B. Leverson, 1, 63.

a former resident of Sylva, died Oct. 19 at a hospital in Fargo, N. after a short illness. Husband of the late Jessie Allman Leverson, a native of Jackson County, Mr. Leverson left Sylva in 1955 to make his home in Moorehead.

Minn. He was a veteran of World War 1, and a member of the Moose Lodge and the Maccabees Lodge. Services will be at 2 Saturday in Buff Creek Church at Addie, with the Rev. Clyde Collins and the Rev. Bill Crawford officiating.

Burial will be in Addie Cemetary under the direction of Moody Funeral Home. Nephews will be active pallbearers and employes with whom Mr. Leverson worked while in Sylva will be honorary pallbearers. He is survived by four brothers, Ernest, Arthur, Morris, Harvey Leverson, all of Minesota, and four sisters, Mrs. John Anderson.

Mrs. J. E. Teigen, Mrs. Morrel Quam and Mrs.

Roy Quam, also residents of Minnesota. Prior to the time Mr. Leverson's body was sent here, services were held at Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorehead, on Wednesday. Episcopal Group To Meet CHEROKEE-The fall meeting of District One, Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, will be held here Saturday. The Rt.

Rev. M. George Henry of Asheville, bishop of the WNC diocese, will hold a communion service at 10:30 a. m. in the St.

Francis of Assissi Chapel, and the business meeting will follow in St. Francis House, Robert Headen, of Hendersonville, president of the auxiliary, presiding. Mrs. William F. Tyndall of Cherokee will report on the triennial convention which was held at Miami Beach, earlier this month.

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ALL DOWNSTAIRS DOLL-E-NURSETTE SET 66c Time for baby's feeding with this miniature set. Bottles, soap, brush. He said outstanding characteristics of the good salesman include self-confidence and a strong competitive spirit, but that when he becomes a sales manager he must make the often difficult change of learning to be more concerned with the feelings of the salesman under him than with his own feelings. Too many fir Dr. McMahon said, promote sir top salesmen into managerial posts without giving them any training to help them make the needed change in outlook.

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