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Builders Of Asheville XI ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, ASHEVILLE. N. C. Sunday. April 17, 1949 der Fights S.

Patrols German Bor Call Out U. George Willis Pack Donor Of Library Building And Two Public Parks George Willis Pack was a man PTA Will Open Meet April 27 In Greensboro 'Child In His Family And Community' To Be Theme Of Convention GIBSONVILLE. April 16. The 29th annual convention of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers will open in Greensboro. Wednesday, April 27.

and continue through Thursday. other, usually as the most active partner. In this role he finished one project alter the other, some Sicilian Bandit King Challenges Ten To Duels ROME. April 16. (AP) Salva-tore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit king, has challenged 10 members of the Italian government or their delegates to a "duel to the death." Survival and control of the government would be the prize.

"If I win," said Giuliano in a letter to the newspaper Giornale de Sicilia, 'T will take over the government of Italy. If I lose, it will be the end for me. to whom the possession or money meant only the key to things cul of them requiring as much as 10 tural and intellectual, the open ARZBERG, Germany, April 16. i.T) A crackle of gunfire shattered the quiet of a winter nteht. Orrman border police suddenly found themselves in a battle with Czech border guards across the German-Czechos-lovakian frontier.

Seventeen minutes after the first shot was fired. American constabulary troops arrived. Such speed was no accident. The U. S.

constabulary is geared for speed. This gun duel of last January 20 set off by a smugglers attempt to sneak ball bearings from Germany into Czechoslovakia illustrates the role the constabulary plays in guarding Germany's sesame to the sort of food for the soul that is found in a book or a years before he was able to move to another. He was married in Detroit in 1854 to Miss Frances Farman and tree or a shaded glen. Willis Pack' Foundation. When his wife became ill with a throat ailment, he brought her to Abheville by way of Cincinnati and Knoxville.

Her health was much improved in Asheville and they liked the community. The final ironic touch came when his own health became less robust. His physicians told him that the altitude in Asheville was too much for him and that he should live as near sea level as possible. This he did until his death in September, 1906. He made money in the forests of to them were born three children, Michigan, building a long and dis tinguished career through several decades in the lumber business, but always he looked upon the woods as Charles Lathrop, Mary, who was married to Amos B.

McNairy, and Beulah who was married to Philip A. Rollins. One of his major benefactions was the setting up of the George The constabulary no longer pa troU the actual border. That Job was long ago turned over to th German police. But the constabulary 'troopers stand bo close back of the German police that they can reach a border trouble spot In a very few minutes.

Night and day, in all kinds of weather, constabulary patrols range the roads of this border area. In jeeps and armored cars, armed with pistols, rifles, machine guns, sometimes light cannon, they cruise back and forth. Smugglers and illegal border crossers must reckon with them as well as the lightly armed German police. Communist fearing Germans, living close to red-ruled Czechoslovakia, see these patrols and take heart. The patrols bring this isolated border into close contact with far away U.

S. Army headquarters lit four minutes or less they can flash a message from radio equipped patrol jeeps to constabulary headquarters in Stuttgart, nearly 200 miles away. But calls for help are infrequent. The men deal with most troubles on the spot. They are a hardy, battle-trained outfit.

The theme of the convention is "The Child in His Family and Com living growing things filled with power for good. That was his creed and upon it he built his life. I I t.t pi sS 4 '-ft iV i TBiiimnriTf TiH4- -ff- irmmum mni munity." The state president, Mrs. But whfn later in life he came to Asheville in search of a place where his wife's health would be improved he took the community Giuliano said he wants to fight the government's men one at a time. The bandit chieftain did not indicate a choice of weapons.

Giornale de sicilia said his letter ended with Jibes at police methods of trying to capture him. Cheap Potato Democrats Trying Out Barkley' Peace Plan On States Rigl iters to his heart and what a big, generous heart it He showed this generosity here by five major ben efactions. Each of them in turn Ernest B. Hunter of Charlotte, will preside over the general sessions, assisted by Russell M. Grumman, of Chapel Hill, first vice president.

Mrs. Joseph W. Eshelman, of Birmingham, chairman of Juvenile protection for the National Congress cf Parents and Teachers, will represent that group at the convention. The convention will feature a number of prominent speakers. Among them will be Dr.

Ellen Winston, commissioner of Public Welfare for North Carolina; Dr. Albert C. Van Dxisen, associate professor ef psychology and director of the reflected something of the charac ter of the man himself. He deeded the Southerners' ideas on this point, these five properties to the City. GEORGE WILLIS PACK simple.

In essence he tells his Southern audiences that President Truman's civil rights proposals have been widely misunderstood. He points out that Mr. Truman has never suggested to Congress that it pass any legislation that would open their clubs and swimming pools to Negroes. All the President wants in federal legislation. summer school session of North-1 Flour Devised By Scientists Other Substitutes Prove Popular In Present Markets PHILADELPHIA, April 16.

(UP) Nutritious potato flour, apple ice Barkley tells his audiences, is to endj to the County, to the Library Association, and to the Kindergarten Association. They were: 2. building, known then as the First National Bank building on Pack Square, for a library. The present library, named in his honor, stands on the same site. 2.

The "Sarah Garrison Kindergarten" on East Street. 3. The property which fcs now known as Montford Park. 4. The property of some 13 acres that is now known as Aston Park.

5. The old Davidson property of about three acres on College Street on which the Buncombe County party leadership will get along with the Southerners will come to a head early next year when candidates for Congressional and Senatorial races are lined up for their all-important primaries. If a candidate with some stron? support wants to run against a States' Rights backer, the independent might get help from the National Committee. But betting her is that such instances will be few and far between. By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, April 16.

W) Democrats are trying out the Bark-ley peace plan on the South. National Chairman J. Howard Mc-Grath says results are good. The plan involves using Vice President Alben W. Barkley as a combination peace messenger and missionary for the Truman program.

Barkley, just about the best story teller in the Government, is making the cash register ring with contributions to the Democratic National Committee. These contributions are coming at party dinners in territory where the States Righters were up in arms last fall, vowing to fight Truman-ism to its death because of the President's stand on civil rights. But, more important, Barkley is making some converts in Dixie to the Truman cause despite the fact that most of the Democrats who hit the sawdust trail are doing so with mental reservations on the civil rights question. The Vice President's formula is but McGrath says that he is satisfied that progress is being made toward healing the breach in the party. McGrath has sent word down the line that States' Righters who want to come back into the fold generally are being welcomed.

That is not to say that there aren't some sore spots left in the picture. Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who got 49 States Rights electoral votes for President, apparently still remains Democratic National Committeeman for his state. But when a South Carolina subject comes up, McGrath talks it over with Senators Burnet R.

Maybank and Olin D. Johnston. Senator John C. Stennis is the National Committee's principal contact in Mississippi. Senator James O.

Eastland apparently isn't consulted on party matters because of the active part he took in the States' Rights campaign. The whole question of how the 6quare was named in his honor. As a matter of record, the library building was deeded to the Asheville Library Association, which was operating the public library at the time. Pack was born June 6, 1831, in Fenner, Madison County, New York. His name was the same as that of his father and grandfather.

His mother was Maria Lathrop. He received a common school education in Peterboro, N. Y. At the age of 17, he moved with his father to Sanilac County, Michigan. In 1854 he entered the lumbering business in a Email way.

His first hand knowledge of the Michigan forests, gained while he was handling the purchase of a great many tracts of lands, stood him in good stead. He was a successful lumberman and for many years continued with one company or an segregation on interstate carriers. But, Barkley tells his listeners, every infringement upon civil rights here is magnified abroad and used for Communist propaganda purposes. The President could do nothing other than advocate a civil rights program in the face of such conditions, Barkley says, even if he didn't feel so strongly on the issue personally as he does. The whole tenor of Barkley's talk is to be reasonable and calm about an issue that many of the Southerners feel outweighs for them any other question in American politics.

Barkley may not have changed Courthouse, which served from 1901 IJil-WMMTTl to 1928, was erected. In addition he donated some TfMUIIUl COMMUtUt; Sff NK nSUUTY-COTWi 300 in cash to complete the monu western University, Evans ton, Dr. J. W. Roy Norton, commissioner cf Public Health in North Carolina; Dr.

R. B. House, chancellor of the University of North Carolina: Dr. leslie Hohman, professor of neuropsychiatry at Duke University, and Mrs. Charles W.

Tillett of Charlotte. Business will include election of president and second vice president. "Russell M. Grumman, director cf the Extension Division of the University of North Carolina, has been named by the nominating committee for president, and Mrs. T.

Easterling. of Rocky Mount, state PTA safety chairman, as second vice-president. Special features of the convention will be a pre-convention reception to be given by the Greensboro City Council and Guilford County Council Tuesday at 9:30 p. m. in the ballroom of the King Cotton Hotel, convention headquarters; luncheon for local and council presidents Wednesday noon; an old-fashioned community stng and square dance Wednesday evening after the general session, and a luncheon for rtate and national life members.

This will be presided over by Mrs. E. N. Howell of Swannanoa, past state president. "Vf M-0PH8T0S- 602S cream and soap substitutes are some of the things that chemistry may soon give Us.

A meeting of the Philadelphia section of the American Chemical Society revealed that processes for achieving the above already have been developed. Dr. Roderick K. Eskew, of the eastern regional laboratory, U. S.

Department of Agriculture, reported that the new process for milling potato flour was developed at the request of the Commodity Credit Corp. The flour would sell for less thari two cents a pound. Soap substitutes that will kill germs as well as remove dirt are products of research conducted in the laboratories of New York University and St. John's University. Apple ice cream and other new apple products are promised by a flavor-preserving process reported by Dr.

R. P. Homiller, of the eastern regional research laboratory. prettiest every day in these wondefTuT ment honoring Zebulon B. yance that now stands on Pack Square.

The Sarah Garrison Kindergarten was deeded to the Kindergarten Association and was one of three operated by it until 1909 when, after an enabling act was passed by the General Assembly, all wer taken over as part of the city school system upon payment by the City to the association the sum of $6,000.50. Then in 1930 the kindergartens were abandoned by the city school system and no longer operated. It is interesting to note that, in donating the Courthouse site, Pack did so under the provision that the old Courthouse, then standing in the center of Pack Square, be torn down and the property made into a public 'square. In order to assure that Pack loolc your FRUIT or the LOOM Wash Dresses '-'4. (As seen in Morcn L4DfS' HOMEJC Fish Able To Hear Better Than Humans Square would remain for the use of the public, the City officials, when the property was deeded to them by the county, made George Willis Pack trustee, with the provision that his son and grandson should succeed him as trustee.

It was at the same time that the their inner ear. The air bladders pick up the vibrations of sound. Dr. von Frisch is most noted for his work in solving the curious language of the bees. This is a dance through which a scout bee tells other bees how far away nectar-laden flowers are, what direction, and even how good the pickings are.

Dr. von Frisch is lecturing In the United States, under the sponsorship of Cornell University and the Rockefeller Foundation. NEW YORK, April 16. Some fish can hear very well, even better than humans. This is the finding of Dr.

Karl von Frisch, famous Austrian zoologist. Some fish can tell the difference between sounds as close as two notes of a piano. And sometimes a fish can even learn the difference between half tones. Dr. von Frisch trained blinded fish to expect food when he blew a cote on a whistle, above water.

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