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Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Western North Carolina Asheville, N. Thursday Morning, May 16, 1957 R8th Year No. 136 Second rlau Mil TVhil-in Aulhoriud Aihevlllt, C. 40 Page nallr 1.1c Sunday House Votes To Kill Soil ank Program 18,000 Hear Graham 's First N. Y.

Crusade Talk Throng Sings, ui ti --5 WouldBar '58 Payments For Farmers Plan Eliminated By 192-187 Vote WASHINGTON, May 15 MV-The House voted today to kill the Eisenhower administration's soil bank farm program at the end of this year. The revolt against the program flared after critics charged it was marked by waste and mismanagement. A 192-187 roll call vole wrote into the Agriculture Department appropriations bill an amendment barring any soil bank payments to farmers in 1958. The money bill, for the fiscal year starting July was then. Prays As 100 Police Assist Evangelist Tells Of Revival's Need By GEORGE CORNELL NEW YORK.

May 15 Wi-A tide of humanity 18,000 strong turned out tonight as Billy Graham launched his crusade for "a spiritual revolution" in New York City. To a near-capacity crowd in Madison Square Garden, Graham aid the crusade could be "the beginning of a spiritual (ire that v. ill sweep this nation and ignite passed and sent to the Senate by voice vote. the world." Reapportionment Loses SENATE MUST ACT What the Senate will do about the soil bank key item in Stirring hymns from a choir of President Eisenhower's farm pro gramwas uncertain. Voting to halt soil bank pay Limited Access Road Bill OK'd ments were 159 Democrats and 33 Republicans.

Opposed were 46 Democrats and 141 Republicans. Rep. Harrison (D-Va.) spon sored the amendment, which he termed a "temporary injunction" against continuing the soil bank. He agreed during debate that his aim was to "kill" the program. RALEIGH, May 15 Two more reapportionment measures were killed, a limited access high The soil bank authorizes pay ments of up to $1,200,000,000 a way measure was passed, and bills providing for liquor, beer and wine elections in Lee County year to participating farmers.

were introduced in the North Carolina legislature today. In other actions, bills to abolish the fee system for justices of the Enacted last year, the program was set up to run until 1960 with the aim of cutting surplus production and encouraging conservation practices. -AP Wirepholos BILLY. GRAHAM (left) addressing huge first night audience (right) of his New York Crusade. peace, a measure designed to 1,500 reverberated through the huge bunting-draped arena as the service began.

A big blue and white banner hung above the platform saying: "Jesus said 'I am the way, the truth and the Graham, in brief preliminary remarks, said he felt "Sew York is going to have a spiritual resurrection" and the crusade would pur "a spiritual revolution." TELLS OF PRAYERS "We need a spiritual revolution in he said. "And the place where it could begin is New Yori City." He said the concentrated prayers of millions, with a scope probably never equalled by any other event in history, have appealed to God to "give new heart and new soul to this city that leads the world in so many ways." Graham said there had been tome strange ideas voiced as to his motives in the New York cru-tadc. STATES HIS AIM "Some have said I want to keep the Republicans in power," he said. "Others have said I want to clean up New York. Still others have said I want to make Baptists out of everybody.

"I have come to New York for the express purpose of winning men and women to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ." When Graham said he believed the "Lord has many people in this Turn To Page Six stores and to vote on legalizing beer and wine sales on an "off premises" basis only. Wicker said the Lee commissioners asked him to sponsor the bills and that a petition calling for an election already is being circulated in Lee. The elections would be held upon petition of 15 per cent of the voters. In discussing the provision of the beer and wine bill to permit "off premises" sales only, Wicker said, "we don't want any beer joints." Present state-wide law would permit an ABC store election in Lee without special legislation. However, Wicker's bill spells out purposes for which profits from ABC stores would be used mainly for school purposes including teacher salary supplements.

The Wicker bills were sent to WASTE CHARGED Opponents of the soil bank told keep judges from reducing charges against persons accused of drunken driving, and a measure-to make parents liable in the House that Secretary of Agri Senate Cuts Ike Fund Bill $102 Million money for damage caused by Madison Vote 'Fix' Trial Opens; '12 Denis On Jury their children were killed, Rep. J. Shelton Wicker of Lee tossed in the bills calling for votes in Lee on legalizing ABC liquor culture Benson spent millions of dollars on the program last year without reducing production "one single bushel." And Chairman Cooley (D-NC) of the House Agriculture Committee said "we have had evidence of many abuses of the program." Supporters argued the soil bank 'went into effect so late last spring that it hadn't been given a "fair trial." WASHINGTON, May 16 l-The The government yesterday election, as a result of the court I registration and polling books, absentee ballots, abstracts of the order, signed by Warlick, Senate brushed aside President Eisenhower's appeal for support launched in U. S. District Court here its case against 10 political elaf-tinn hollit Hnvoc fln1 ah.

of his budget tonight and passed ly prominent Madison County sentee ballot container envelopes. the committee on propositions a Clota onH nunartmpnts Democrats who are accused fit Teal said they visited every ana grievances wnicn is expected money bill slashed 1102,564,000 He testified that when he asked Zeno Ponder for the election materials, yonder replied that "he didn't have them ail at the courthouse and that we would have to go to various places in the county to get them." Brookhaven Non-Nuclear Blast Hurts 4 BROOKHAVEN. N.Y., May 15 to vote tomorrow on a measure under his request, icuimg iui viaiewiue voie on conspiring to the November, 1954, general election in Madison. Selection of a jury, composed of 12 Democrats, and examination of three witnesses consumed Turn To Page rive precinct and contacted every registrar and collected various materials in each place." He said that after the first collection, he subsequently talked to Ponder on Jan. 14 "about all the materials that apparently were lacking." He saia Ponder helped Turn To Page Six It stripped the U.S.

Information Agency's budget request of $144 million dollars down to $90,200,000. Jt also recommended USIA be put back in the State Dpartment, and that the agency end any overseas activities competing with pri all of the opening day action in Teal said he and Ponder toured the county most of that day, all night and into the next morning visiting precincts in an effort to obtain the desired materials- tP A chemical explosion today injured four persons at the Brook- ir.e three-year-old case. haven National Laboratory one The defendants are accused of of the nation's principal atomic Temperature Has Its Ups And Its Downs vate American agencies. conspiring to stuff Madison County ballot boxes with illegal ab research centers. One of the injured was reported in serious condition.

Six other per Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic leader, sentee votes, fictitious, forged Rep. Taber of New ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, supported the move to end soil bank payments, declaring "it is the only way in which we can eliminate this enormous waste." Taber said there would be "plenty of time to pass other legislation" if future congressional study indicated the program should be revived. North Carolina's congressional delegation voted 10-1, with one member not recorded as voting, in favor of ending the soil bank payments after this year.

Rep. Lennon was the only member voting against the proposal. Voting in favor of it were Reps. Alexander, Bonner, Cooley, Durham, Fountain, Kitchen, Scott, Shuford, Whitener and Jonas. Rep.

Barden was not recorded as dominated the debate, which fol and fraudulent ballots and using unqualified or disqualified voters Wolf son Acts To Acquire Stock In WLOS Stations lowed the President's nationwide radio-TV speech last night urging sons were exposed to corrosive acid vapors during rescue operations and required medical to swing the vote their way. The government claims the al The mercury look a ride on a temperamental roller-coaster yesterday. It rolled up to 77 degrees at 11 a. back down to 71 at 2 p. then up to a high of 79 between 4 and 5 p.

m. But today's weather should be action against big cuts, which he said might endanger security. In this connection, Eisenhower mentioned the importance of overseas The Atomic Energy Commission said no nuclear radiation was in leged election irregularities violated Madison County citizens' constitutional rights, in as much as the election was, in part, for a U. S. Senator and Mitchell Wolfson, Asheville and information programs.

Only one Democrat, Sen. Neu- more consistent, according to the volved in any of the injuries. Brookhaven is located in a remote section of eastern Long Island, about 75 miles from New The Britts claim that option was cancelled. A stockholder in WLOS, J. E.

Edmonds, who ligured in negotiations for the Thoms-Tison option, has attacked validity of other options relating to WLOS stock. Defendants in the case, which was dismissed in May of last bergcr, of Oregon, voted against the USIA cut, which was approved on a 61-15 roll call. weatherman. A high of about 82 was forecast with partly cloudy skies and scattered afternoon and early night showers and thunder York. Miami financier, moved today to acquire "a substantial interest" in Asheville's WLOS television and radio stations.

Richard F. Wolfson, attorney for TV station WTVJ of Miami, which Mitchell Wolfson heads as president, announced The explosion sent a puff of year by Judge Wilson Warhck, white smoke rising from a small- storms. who is presiding again, are Zeno Ponder, former chairman of the scale engineering test facility but was not felt generally through the Through Saturdaythe weatherman has predicted more showers Madison County board of elections. J2. Y.

Ponder, Madison The Republicans were sharply divided. Fourteen voted with the President against the cut. Twenty-three of them voted for it including Senate Republican Leader Knowland (Calif); Sen. Bridges of New Hampshire, chairman of the that WTVJ had acquired the vast acreage of the laboratory grounds. County sheriff, and B.

K. Mea during the afternoon and early night but no general rains. The high daytime temperatures should dows, Arthur E. Cantrell, LeRoy The blast blew out a section of Oscar Pitts Is Dead At 58; Dominant Political Figure Asheville Citizen-Times Publishing Company's option for 31.3 per cent of the stock in Skyway Broadcasting Company, owners of the WLOS properties. bo in the 80s with nights in the steel panel surrounding some equipment, allowing liquid to Shelton, W.

T. Moore, Roy Freeman, Merit Whitt. Jeff Whitt and James W. Baldwin, lesser func 60s. Senate GOP Policy Committee; Sen.

Dirksen of Illinois, assistant GOP leader; and Sen. Saltonstall splash out and chemical fumes to tionaries in the 1954 election. escape. of Massachusetts, chairman of Yesterday began with a low of 57 and on the second attempt, reached a high of 79 for a daily average of 68. A trace of rain was recorded in the Asheville area.

Wolfson's announcement added that WTVJ stands ready "to offer all stockholders of the Skyway Judge Warlick threw the case out of court last May when ha There was no damage to the laboratory's 25-million-dollar reac the conference of all Senate tor. Broadcasting Company which operates WLOS the opportunity to ruled that an order he himself had signed authorizing seizure of the election materials was not a sell their shares immediately for Britain Sets, Off H-Bomb Over Pacific LONDON, May 15 IAV- Britain exploded its first hydrogen bomb high over the Pacific Ocean today. The blast began a series of tests establishing this nation as the world's third nuclear power. A terse announcement by the Ministry of Supply said merely it was "the first explosion of a nuclear device in the present series." But an authoritative source said the device tested was a hydrogen bomb. It was fired at a high altitude after being dropped from a four-engined Valiant jet bomber in the area of British-owned Christmas Island, 1,400, miles south of Honolulu.

The precise location was not divulged. An Air Ministry spokesman said the white-painted Valiant-one of four flown from Britain to the test area was manned by five crewmen. The bomb aimer was 36-year-old Flight Lt. Alan Wash-brook, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross. The official announcement gave no details of the type of weapon exploded, but government officials announced previously the explosions would be "in the megaton-one million tons of TNT-range" and would be high air bursts without heavy fall-out.

Britain began its series of nuclear tests in the face of a sustained protest campaign by the Japanese government. Also pressuring Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government were the British Labor party, scientific organizations, and other societies and Individuals in dozens of countries. But MacmHlan repeatedly rejected protests that the tests would endanger the future health of mankind. valid procedure. U.

S. District Attorney J. M. a price substantially above book value. "We will purchase any shares Baley appealed the decision to the U.

S. Circuit Court of Ap if Jt I School In WM For Feeble-Minded Children To Be Asked By Umstead offered to us at such price," he said. "We hope that acquisition of a Oscar Pitts, 58, former Buncombe farm, business and civic leader, a North Carolina Democratic stalwart for many years, died at Hickory in his native Catawba County last night. Death came to the prominent political figure after an illness of six weeks. He had retired from public and political life in 1952 when he moved from his Haw Creek farm here to Hickory, where he established a real estate business.

A former stale official, Pitts served as director of the State Prisons System by appointment of Gov. J. Melville Broughton from 1941 until 1945. Ho was assistant director from 1937 until 1940 under the Hoey Administration, a post he had substantial interest in Skyway By C. A.

UPC1IURCH RALEIGH, May Join W. Umstead of Orange, who is chairman of the State Hospitals Board of Control, said today he definitely plans legislative action to assure for North Carolina an other training school for feeble minded children. peals, which held that Warlick erred in his decision that his impounding order was not proper. As the 10 defendants sat in a row peering stolidly at- him, Baley opened the government's case with a lengthy summation to the jury of the bill of indictment and the laws governing election procedure. His first witness was Raymond C.

Maxwell, executive secretary of the State Board of Elections. Baley attempted to Introduce pieces of correspondence between Maxwell and Zeno Ponder prior to the election, which purportedly spelled out instructions for Ponder's handling of the election. But Judge Warlick ruled this and another letter bearing on the election not admissible. J. Paul Teal chief U.

S. deputy marshal ip the Asheville office, testified that he went to Madison County on Dec. 30, 1954, to impound materials used in the If a new training school should be built, he would like to see It located in Western North Carolina, an area that docs not now have such a facility. Umstead said he is consider Umstead said enough children are on the waiting list to fill the new school at Butner. In addition, he said there are at least 1,200 feeble-minded children in the state who've never made application to enter a training school but should be in one.

Another current report, not sub. stantiated, says there are 6,000 children in North Carolina who need training school guidance and treatment. A training school in the West, Umstead pointed out, would save relatives of training-school children from the hardship and expense of traveling a long distance to see their youngsters and also would give the children the benefit of more frequent visits from their folks. Umstead, brother of the late Gov, William B. Umstead, is chairman of the House Committee on Mental Institutions, a post he has held in previous Legislatures.

He has long worked hard and effectively for more adequate facilities and care for the mentally ill. capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 children. The TB hospital angle entered the picture because the population of such hospitals is dwindling and the possibility arose that one could be emptied, with patients transferred to other hospitals, and thus make room for a children's training school. Umstead and officials of the hospitals board have looked over the facility at Black Mountain and decided It would not be suitable for use as a training school. It was designed specifically for tubercular patients.

Before making his move in the Legislature, Umstead will see what the Joint Appropriations Committee does on the spending bill and on a proposed bond issue for capital Improvements. He definitely thinks the West needs a school for feeble-minded children. The stale now maintains such a school at Klnston and is constructing another at Butncr, the huge state hospital complex near Durham. A training school for Negro children is being built at Goldsboro. will give us the opportunity to help make WLOS one of the outstanding television stations in the country.

WTVJ in Miami has won many national awards for its programming and for its participation in the community life of Miami. We would like to make our experience available to the Asheville station." WTVJ is being represented here by the law firm of Parker and McGuire. Mitchell Wolfson, who has lived In Asheville during the summers for many years, is owner of the Beaver Lake golf course. He has no connection with Louis Wolfson, the corporate financier. Already In a fight for control of the WLOS properties are the Joe H.

Britt and Charles Britt interests, present operators, and Harold H. Thorns, owner of Asheville's WISE radio and TV stations, and W. W. Tison of Tampa, Fla. Thorns and Tison are suins the Britls alleging they have an option to purchase between 5,000 and 6,200 shares of WLOS stock.

ing two courses. 1. He might introduce a joint resolution setting up a study commission to report to the 1959 Legislature on tte feasibility of establishing a training school for feeble held since 1930. Pills resigned his post as head of the prisons system In 1945 when he and Ralph R. McLean, then warden of Central Prison in Raleigh, purchased the Asheville Livestock Yard.

Active in affairs of state government for more than 25 years, Pitts was considered one of the best versed men In North Carolina government in the stale. He was a dominant figure in Tar Heel Democratic politics, a career he began in 1929 when he was first elected to the State Legislature from Catawba. He moved here in January, 1945, settling in Haw Creek. In 1948, Pitts sold his interest in the livestock yard and engaged in OSCAR PITTS extensive poultry farming. He became an active leader In civic affairs here and In 1950 was chairman of the poultry division of the Asheville Agricultural Development Council.

In 1949, he was recommended for the post of district supervisor of the 1950 U.S. census, but declined tho offer for business reasons. The next year, 1950, he filed his candidacy for the Slate Senate from Buncombe but was defeated in the ensuing race. Surviving are his wife, two daughters, three brothers and three sisters. Funeral arrange mcnts were incomplete last night.

minded children at one of the hospitals now used for the treatment of tubercular patients. On The Inside 2. Ho might Introduce a bill to include In any State bond issue Today's Chuckle because woman for-gives you doesn't mean she isn't going to tell you about It lor (to test of your life. for capital Improvements the sum of for a brand-new training school to be located west of Greensboro, It would have a Editorial 4 Society 26-10 Deaths St Coralrs St Sports 33-36 Markets 36-37 Class. 37-39 Radio-TV 40 1.