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of ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, ASHEVILLE, N. C. Sunday, July 18, 1948 CASES OF POLIO IN CITY, COUNTY NOW TOTAL 37 Warm Springs Medical Director Is Due Here Today Three new polio cases, two city and one rural were reported yesterday as the public cooperated with health officials in "stay recommendations and authorities, planned a conference at Asheville Orthopedic home. Two new city cases, a boy, 12 years old, on Brevard road, and a Negro girl, one year old, on Ritchie street, were reported by Dr. Margery J.

Lord, city health officer, bringing Asheville's total for the year to 32. An additional county case, a boy, nine years old, of the Sandy Mush section, was reported by Dr. H. C. Whims, health officer, making the county total five cases this year outside of the city.

Sunday school lessons from kindergarten through young people's groups will be presented by Protestant churches today over the city's five radio stations. These half-hour services will be nondenominational. Dr. Robert Bennett, director of medicine and the medical department the Warm Springs Foundation, Warm Springs, is scheduled arrive by plane at Asheville-Hendersonville airport this morning for a conference with the of Asheville Orthopedic home and officials of the Buncombe County Medical society, it was announced last night. Dr.

Bennett is an internationally recognized authority on poliomyelitis and before going to Warm Springs was on the staff of the Mayo clinic. He was consultant for the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Of particular interest the fact that Dr. Bennett and Dr.

James H. Cherry, chief of staff of the Orthopedic home, were at the Mayo clinic on a National Foundation fellowship at the same time, and they are warm friends. Dr. Bennett is be met at the airport of the expectedets Orthopedic home staff, H. E.

Gruver, county chairman chapter, of and the Mark Buncombe, representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Daniel Boone, Boy Scout Camp, Haywood county, will be closed Monday morning as a precautionary measure against infantile paralysis, it was announced yesterday by scout officials here. No more scout troops will be sent to the camp until the emergency situation has cleared up. according to B. E.

Colkitt. of Waynesville. council camp committee chairman. The council's executive board will meet at the camp July 25, and two courses for scoutmasters and troop committeemen are scheduled in August. 23 New Cases Bring State Total To 679 RALEIGH, July 17.

(P) North Carolina's polio outbreaks since first of the year reached 679 today with 23 new cases reported to the state board of health. The epidemic now officially has become the second most severe in the state's history by surpassing the 675 outbreaks for all of 1935. The worst epidemic was in 1944 when 878 cases were reported for the year. However, 1944 683rd case wasn't reported until the second week in September. Dr.

J. W. R. Norton, state health officer, issued a statement during the day which said "the epidemic area of the state has now become fairly well defined as lying between Asheville and Raleigh. Citizens outside these areas are requested to restrict their with residents in area contact, as possible.

"Agencies holding short term summer camps have been contacted within the past week and have agreed to discontinue their camp operations for the summer. "The long-term camps already in session are being asked not to permit visiting by persons from the epidemic area of the state. "Local health departments have already taken action where indicated in limiting opportunities for contact among children in counties in the epidemic area." For the week ending today, a total of 197 cases have been reported. Fifty cases were reported yesterday, the highest number for a 24-hour period during the current outbreak. So far 264 cases have been reported this month and 289 in June.

Reporting cases today were Gullford county four cases; Moore three; two each by Buncombe, Durham, New Hanover, and Surry; and one each by Burke, Gaston, Jackson, Mecklenburg, Orange, Robeson, Rutherford, and Wake. Meanwhile, additional tionary measures against the disease were being taken throughout the state. The North Carolina 4-H club's CECIL'S NIGHT SCHOOL Join the beginning classes and prepare for promotion 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Not "Now" May Mean "NEVER" PHOTO COPIES Save the originaluse a Photo-Copy Birth Certificates, Letters, Drawings, Specifications, Documents.

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-Continued From Page One Pershing working uniforms came for: a last look at their famous patient. Officers walked in quietly, snapred to attention, saluted general, wheeled and marched out. Tomorrow noon the body will be moved to the rotunda of the Capitol to lie in state. Thousands of Americans, humble and powerful, are expected to stream past for a last look. Selected troops from the Third Infantry regiment will stand watch.

Elaborate preparations have been the funeral services Mondav. They will be heid in the amphitheater at Arlington National cemetery. With notables and digna-1 taries a attending from all over the nation and space for only 3,000 available, the army has announced already that it is being forced to turn down requests for admission. Thousands of soldiers were ing to capital to take part in the tuneral parade, Its route will be down Constitution avenue and across Potomac to the green A hills of Virginia. Maj.

Gen. Luther D. Miller, chief of army chaplains, and the Very Rev. John W. Suter, dean of the Washington (Protestant Epicopal) catheural will conduct the funeral rites.

The general's body will be committed to the eartn on a gentle slope not far from the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Pershing picked out the spot himself, years ago. Pershing Had Visited Asheville Several Times General John J. Pershing, who died Friday in Washington, D. was a visitor to Asheville and Western North Carolina on several occasions.

Pershing delivered an address at the Imperial theater in the early twenties and visited regularly at Biltmore House and Grove Park inn through the years. His stays in this section were interrupted by failing health in recent years. Among his last trips to Asheville was one on January 18, 1941, which the general considered "off the record," but the presence of shed officer soon decame known. On that visit he was accompanied by his orderly and Southern Railway physician was' met at his car Webb Griffith of Asheville, and Southern Railway officials of the Washington and Asheville divisions. At that time the general, in comparatively good health for his 81 years, was en route to Hot Springs, to spend the remainder winter.

He was taken on a motor tour of Asheville and appeared especially interested in Biltmore house and estate. The general also expressed an interest in the residential sections of the city, including Grove Park and Biltmore Forest areas. a Spending about six hours in the city before continuing his train trip. the famed commander of the American Expeditionary forces in France during World War centered his conversation on points of scenic interest in Western North Carolina. And, at his own request, no formal reception was for him while here.

Reds Claim Advances In Plane Development LONDON, July 17. (P)-Nikolai Bulganin, armed forces minister of the Soviet Union, said tonight Russia is "successfully developing our engined and jet propelled aviation," the Moscow radio said. broadcast. heard in London, said Bulganin had broadcast an aviation day order calling on Russian airmen to continue "strengthening the might of the air force of the U. S.

S. School Law Contested RICHMOND, Va. (UP) Three Nottoway County farmers have attacked the state's compulsory school attendance law as som unconstitutional. The farmers appealed to the state supreme court their $5 fines for not sending their chidren to school. They contend the Bible places personal responsibilities for child education on the parents, and they taught their children at home.

Only 130 Of 500 Names On Petitions Accepted Clyde W. Bradley, chairman of the Buncombe county board of elections, said yesterday that' he personally has checked 500 names on petitions, that Progressive party candidates be placed on ballots for November's general eiection, but that he found only 130 of them to be those of qualified electors. He said he is expecting more petitions to be submitted to him Monday, and that he was informed by Miss Mary Price of Greensboro about a week ago that altogether petitions bearing the names of some 2,000 Buncombe county voters will be submitted. The elections board chairman said the 370 persons whose names were stricken from petitions in Buncombe county were not properly registered or were found to have voted in one or both of the two recent primary elections in the state. The petitions he has checked are the only ones submitted to the county board of elections thus far, Mr.

Bradley said, and they were submitted to him through Mrs. Edwin in Bjorkman. Elsewhere in the state, from onehalf to two-thirds of signers of Progressive party petitions have ruled ineligible by elections boards. UNITED ELECTRIC CO. General Electrical Contracting and Wiring Supplies 61 N.

Market Dial 3-6931 Funeral Rites Deaths And Funerals Sgt. Slated Tuesday HENDERSONVILLE Master Sergeant Robert G. Levi of Zirconia, who was killed in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Suffolk, England, Nov. 10, 1943, will be given a military funeral service Tuesday at 11 a. m.

at Green River Baptist church. The Rev. A. T. Howard will officiate and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will serve bearers and conduct the graveside military service at Pace cemetery.

Sergeant Levi was a native of Greenville county, S. and a son of Robert Hampton Levi and the late Mrs. Julia Capps Levi. He was 28 years old at the time of his death. He enlisted at the beginning of the war and had been overseas about a year at the time of his death, serving as a crew chief.

Surviving are the father; three brothers, James Levi, stationed on with the air forces, Charles Okinawa Levi Fayetteville and William Levi of Zirconia, and two sisters, Mrs. Allen Corn and Mrs. Clyde Morgan, both of Zirconia. GENERAL KING WILL SPEAK AT HENDERSONVILLE HENDERSONVILLE-Major -Major General E. P.

King, who commanded American forces on Bataan after the peninsula was evacuated by General Wainwright and who surrendered to there, will address the Hendersonville Rotary club Monday. Now retired, General King is spending some time at Saluda. He is a native of Atlanta. TPA POST VOTES $300 DONATION TO ORTHOPEDIC HOME Post of the Travelers' Protecassociation, meeting at Tingle's tive. last night, voted a contribution of $300 to the Asheville Orthopedic home for polio work, I.

R. Robinson, president, and W. A. Ward, secretary, reported on the state meeting of the TPA in Rocky Mount in May. It was decided to hold the next banquet and annual business meeting of the post on Aug.

25. MRS. P. A. PATRICK Mrs.

P. Patrick, 71, of 25 Vance street, a resident of Asheville for 22 years, died early yesterday morning in a local hospital following a long illness. She was a native of Saint George, S. C. Surviving are the husband; two daughters, Mrs.

Earline Ragain and Mrs. Herman Jarvis, both of Asheville; three sons, L. of Charlotte, and Foster and Hayward, both of Asheville; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Dandridge of Charleston, S. and Mrs.

T. Eckerman of Cottageville, S. ville; a one nephew, brother, C. F. Boyd Blitch ocdshe; Summerville, S.

and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in the chapel at Morris-Gearing and Black funeral homie this afternoon 3 o'clock with Rev. W. Perry Crouch officiating. Interment will be in Lewis Memorial park.

Pallbearers will be Roy Stewart, Charles Jackson, P. B. Ackerman, Marion Patrick, the Rev. Claxton Sawyer, and L. E.

Stearns. OTIS CHESSER Otis Chesser, 40, of MacClenny, veteran of peacetime service in the army, died early yesterday morna hospital here. infra body will be sent today to Jacksonville, for funeral services and so burial. Morris-Gearing and Black funeral home is in charge of arrangements here. HAWKINS INFANT James Joseph Hawkins, 10-monthold son of Mr.

and -Mrs. James J. Hawkins of 1 1-2 West Haywood street, died early yesterday morning in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held in the chapel at Brownell-Dunn and Lovin funeral home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.

PFC. CLAUDE BAKER Funeral services for Pfc. Claude Baker, son of Mrs. J. W.

Baker of Leicester, who died in France July 12, 1944, were conducted Zion Hill Baptist church at Leicester yesterday. The Rev. Vernon Hall and the Rev. R. R.

Mehaffey officiated. Interment was in the church cemetery. MRS. BETTY FREEMAN Mrs. Betty Freeman, 80, died yesterday morning at the home daughter, Mrs.

Effie Tabor, on verview road following a short illness. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Point, and Mrs. Valley Tabor, Mrs. Sallie ficantroldemigh Dallas, four sons, Lee of Bryson City, Vaughn of Black Mountain, Rankin of High Point, Everett lot Asheville; one brother, and, Kil- patrick of Nantahala; one sister, Mrs.

Sally DeHart of Marble, and a number of grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock and burial will be in Eucheela cemetery near Almond. Arrangements, under the direction of Anders-Rice funeral home, were incomplete last night. PFC. JAMES H.

GARRIS SWANNANOA Funeral services for Pfc. James H. Garris, 27, killed during the invasion of Normandy June 23, 1944, will be held Sunday at 2 o'clock at Berea Baptist church. The Rev. Troy Lunsford, the Rev.

D. Smith, and the Rev. Wayne Williams will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lee Bradley, Clarence Brank, Minford Kilby, Carl Burch, James and Herman Morgan, The Wilsons taken to the home Saturday afternoon.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Dora Banks Garris; a daughter, Jimmie Elaine: the father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Garris of Farmville; three sisters, Mrs.

Louise Dixon of Oteen and Los Angeles, Mrs. M. R. Lovick Kinston and Mrs. Lloyd Griffin of Jacksonville, N.

brother Horace of Long Island, N. Y. Pfc. Garris entered the service in June, 1941, and trained at Camp Wheeler, and Fort Bragg. He served in North Africa and Sicily before participating in the invasion.

He was a member of the ninth division, 47th infantry. Formerly of Farmville, he had lived in the Swannanoa and Oteen sections since Ballew post, American Legion, will conduct graveside services. Harrison funeral home, Black Mountain, is in charge of arrangements. MRS. J.

P. MATHEWS BLACK MOUNTAIN Mrs. J. P. Mathews, 69, died Friday night in an Asheville hospital following a long illness.

Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Mountain View Baptist church in the North Fork section of Black Mountain with the Rev. Eugene Byrd, officiating. Survivors include the husband; a daughter, Mrs. L. O.

Poteat; two sons, James Mathews of Swannanoa, and Fred Mathews Black Mountain; three brothers, George Burnett and Robert Burnett of Black Mountain; Austin Burnett of Waynesville; two grandchildren, Nancy and Ken neth Poteat. Pallbearers will be W. S. Holcombe, Thad Burnett, D. C.

Hamby, F. E. Stepp, T. B. Morris, R.

P. Abernathy. The body will remain at Harrison funeral home until time for the service. MRS. J.

S. GARRISON WEAVERVILLE Funeral services for Mrs. J. S. Garrison, 81, who died Friday at the home Winston daughter, Mrs.

H. E. Miller, in will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Locust Grove Baptist church near Jupiter. The Rev. A.

K. Cheek, the Rev. Roy Roberts and the Rev. Fisher, pastor, will officate. Pallbearers will be William Black, Wilford Black, Carol Roberts, Don Roberts, Glenn Wildes and Clifford Herron.

Mrs. Garrison lived most of her life in Buncombe county. She moved to Winston-Salem in September, 1947. She was active in church long as health permitted was member of the Locust Grove church. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs.

Miller, Miss Ethel Garrison, Miss Carrie Garrison, Mrs. H. F. Poteat, Mrs. Robert Elliott of North Wilkesboro and Mrs.

Crowell Black of Weaverville; two sons, J. Frank of WinstonSalem and. J. Ed of Weaverville; a sister, Mrs. Haas McKinney of Weaverville; 17 grandchildren, six greatgrandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

West funeral home is in charge of arrangements. MRS. CORDIE K. MOSER SWANNANOA-Funeral services for Mrs. Cordie King Moser, 73, who died Friday at her home on Buckeye Cove road, will be held Sunday at 4 p.

m. at Swannanoa Presbyterian church with the Rev. T. A. Painter Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Latt McMahan, Ed McMahan, Charles Y. Fortune, Albert Richardson, L. O. Vess and James Wilson. Surviving are the husband, D.

L. Moser; six sons, Artus, Fred, David Caswell and Richard, all of Swannanoa, and Virgil of Biltmore; two daughters, Mrs. Robert A. Cordell and Mrs. W.

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MRS. ADDIE BRIGGS 103 Saturday, Mrs. Ward Is Still Active HENDERSONVILLE Mrs. Evelyn Bayne Ward, born in the Green River section of Henderson county on July 17, 1845, celebrated 103rd birthday anniversary Saturday at the home of a daughter at East Flat Rock. In spite of her advanced age, Mrs.

Ward is still active, her mind is clear and she maintains an interest in the public affairs of the community and nation. She churns every day, members the family said, with an old-fashioned churn and for relaxation she rocks in an antique rocker and smokes her home-made pipe. The celebration Saturday incake with 103 candles other cluded presentation of a three gifts, visits from friends and relatives and a prayer service in the evening. BOOK CLUB SETS PICNIC MONDAY AT HOT SPRINGS MARSHALL -The Marshall Book club will hold a picnic Monday evening at the home of Mrs. J.

B. Tweed in Hot Springs. Following picnic the regular monthly meeting will be held. Mrs. Walter Ramsey will have charge of the program.

week program scheduled to be held at State has been cancelled. Harrill, state 4-H college, club leader, said that the 4-H club been affected by the situation. summer camp, program also has Already closed are Camp Millstone in Richmond county, and Camp Swannanoa in Buncombe. The camp at Manteo in Dare county will be closed next week and the White Lake camp in Bladen county is now restricted to club from counties not affected by polio. The Farmers Cooperative Exchange announced that tickets to annual FCX county will not be available to children under 16.

The ban will become effective July 20. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced that Dr. enneth Lanauder, director of medical care for the foundation, will fly here Tuesday from New York. Philip S. Randolph, state epidemic coordinator, said Lanauder will lay the groundwork for the arrival of the national foundation's epidemic aid team next Thursday.

Dr. Lanauder will precede the team to Raleigh, Wilmington and Asheville, the three cities in which the polio experts will confer with physicians and other polio personnel. Randolph said that the mounting polio incidence has placed such a strain on hospitals in the central region that plans have been made open the new convalescent facilities at Camp Sutton near Monroe tomorrow instead of Monday. He said that channeling convalescent cases to the new center at Sutton will provide more space for the treatment of acute cases at Charlotte, Gastonia, Morganton, Greensboro, Raleigh, Durham, and other points. 1948 Polio Cases Listed By Counties RALEIGH, July 17.

(AP)-Total cases of infantile paralysis reported so far this year by counties follow: Alamance 20, Alexander 2, Anson 1, Avery 2, Bertie 1, Bladen 1, Brunswick 1, Buncombe 37, Burke 57, Cabarrus 5, Caldwell 4, Carteret 2, Caswell 2, Catawba 22, Chatham 15, Cleveland 21, Columbus 2, Craven 2, Cumberland 20, Davidson 10, Davie 5, Duplin 1, Durham 23, Forsyth 22, Franklin 2, Gaston 29, Graham 1, Granville 2, Guilford 112, Harnett 1, Henderson 1, Hoke 1, Iredell 6, Jackson 1, Johnston 1, Lee 6, Lenoir 1, Lincoln 12, Mecklenburg 51, Montgomery 6, Moore 46, New Hanover 10, Onslow 3, Orange 5, Pender 1, Person 2, Randolph 13, Robeson 9, Rockingham 14, Rowan 4, Rutherford 6, Sampson 2, Scotland 4, Stanly 2, Stokes 4, Surry 19, Swain 1, 7. Transylvania 6, Union 6, Wake 7, Warren 1, Washington 1, Wilkes 6, Yadkin 3. MARS HILL Mrs. Addie Briggs, 73, of Fred Briggs of the Reema Creek section, died Saturday morning following a long illness. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 o'clock at Middle Fork Baptist church with the Rev.

Elzie Ray officiating. Burial will be in Cox cemetery. Surviving, in addition to other husband, are a daughter, Mrs. Murray of Langmont, Colo: a son. Frank of Ivy: two sisters, Mrs.

Ada Deweese and Mrs. W. A. Penley of Asheville: five brothers, G. E.

R. E. C. A. and Bill Penley, all of Asheville, R.

F. D. No. 1: 11 grandchildren and seven great Holcombe funeral home is in charge of arrangements. The one cent piece ceases to be he legal tender in excess of 25 cents in any one payment.

If 50 pennies are offered in payment of a 50-cent debt, the creditor may legally refuse to accept them. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy, and for the beautiful floral offerings, at the loss of our son and brother. MR. MRS. ERNEST R.

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Mabel Trull, secretary of the board of elections, said about two-thirds of signatures submitted were being found invalid. Approximately the same proportion of rejections was reported in Davidson and Durham counties. The Wallace Progressive party must submit petitions bearing a minimum of 10,000 valid signatures to the state board of elections by Aug. 2 if it is to be recognized as eligible to participate in the November general election. This means that it must obtain an average of 100 valid signatures in each county in the state.

The regulations set up by the state board of elections for recognition of the Progressive party provide that persons who sign Progressive petitions shall be stricken from the primary books of any other party in which they may be registered. For example, a Democrat who signed would be stricken from the Democratic primary books and would not be eligible to vote in the next Democratic primary. He would be eligible to vote in any election, however..