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the the the the the the the the the the Deaths And Funerals Funerals Today Mrs. Gladys Randall Aiken, p. Groce Funeral Home Chapel. Hubert A. Rector Services for Hubert A.

Rector, 67, of Jacksonville, who died in an Asheville hospital urday, will be conducted at 11 a. m. Tuesday in the chapel of Dunn and Williams Funeral Home. The Rev. H.

B. Dendy will officiate. Burial will be in Old Weaverville Cemetery. Members of Blackmer Masonic Lodge will conduct graveside rites. Mr.

Rector was a native of Buncombe County and had retired from the Southern Railway about 15 years ago. He was a yardmaster at that time in Jacksonville. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman Smith, 65, of Cowan Road, died in an Asheville hospital Sunday night after a short illness.

Mrs. Smith was a native of Yancey County and was the wife of William B. Smith. She was a seamstress with the Asheville Cleaners and Dyers prior to opening her own alterations shop here. Mrs.

Smith was a member of the Gospel Chapel on Hanover Street, where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. J. Innis, the Rev.

C. D. Bessenger and Rev. Mr. Southerland will officiate.

Burial will be in Refuge Baptist Church Cemetery at Jupiter. Pallbearers will be William Seay, William Sluder, Grady Llewellyn, Harlan A. Sluder Harry West and Walter Peck. In addition to the husband, Mrs. Smith is survived by three daughters, Margaret S.

Parker and Mrs. Louise Marsh of Asheville and Mrs. Colleen Gresham of Washington, D.C.: two sons, Rupert B. Smith of Sacramento, and Ralph B. Smith of Washington, D.C.; a brother, Millard Chapman of Canton; and nine grandchildren.

Morris Hendon Black Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Addie Lineberry Services for Mrs. Addie Wiiliams Lineberry, 88, of Montview who died in an Asheville MORRIS 6 FUNERAL HOME FINEST FACILITIES MODERATE COST AMBULANCE SERVICE 140 Merrimon Ave. Dial AL-2-1821 FERRYMAN Tuneral Home AIRCONDITIONED FUNERAL CHAPEL AMBULANCE 1138 CHARLOTTE ST.

AL You Express Your Sympathy Easier with Middlemount Flowers 199 College AL 2-6747 nursing home Sunday night, will be conducted at 4 p. m. Tuesday in the chapel of Groce Funeral Home. The Rev. J.

Lester Lane will officiate. Burial will be in Green Hills Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Raymond and G. G. Morgan, William A.

Howard, Harry Logan, John Lawrence and Victor Weaver. Paul Pappas Paul Pappas, 58, of 122 Bradley West Asheville, died at 8:25 p.m. Monday in an Asheville hospital following a short illness. He was retired about, five years ago and prior to that time operated the Deluxe Hatters on Pack Square. He was a native of Athens, Greece, and came to this country at the age of six.

He formerly, Atlanta, in Ga. Massachudent of Asheville for the past 28 Mr. a Pappas had been years. He was the son of the late Pete and Helen Calanatiani Pappadeas. He a veteran of the United States Army, having served from 1923 to 1926.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Helen Sirmas Pappas; two sons. Charles Pappas of the home and Pete Pappas of the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune; one daughter, Mrs. Johnny Brown of Newnan, one brother, Pappadeas of Atlanta, one sister, Mrs.

Anna Matrangos, Atlanta, Ga. Groce Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Haskell Abshire Haskell Abshire, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died in an Asheville hospital Sunday morning following a long illness. He was a native of Kemp, Okla. Mr.

Abshire was a veteran of World War II. The body will be sent to Texas for burial. Among survivors is a brother, Edwin M. Abshire. Dunn a and Williams Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements which were incomplete.

Mrs. Mellie Bridges WAYNESVILLE Mrs. Mellie Byrd Bridges, 53, of Hazelwood died at her home late Sunday after on a long illness. Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m.

in Richland Baptist Church with the Rev. George Mehaffey and the Rev. Edgar Willix officiating. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. Mrs.

Emma Hendrix ROSMAN Mrs. Emma Hendrix, 73, died Sunday morning in a Kannapolis hospital after a short illness. Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at Old Toxaway Baptist Church near Rosman with the Rev.

Claude Holcombe, pastor, and the Rev. N. H. Chapman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Mary Messer CANTON Mrs. Mary Dotson Messer. 49, of Canton, died early Monday in an Asheville hospital following a brief illness. Services will be held at 3:30 p.

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ENKA, N. C. MO 7-1424 Mrs. Wright, Member Of Coxe Family, Dies Mrs. Daisy Coxe Wright, 87, of Philadelphia, member of a prominent Asheville and Western North Carolina family, died in Philadelphia Sunday following a long illness.

She was the daughter of the late Col. and Mrs. Frank Coxe of Green River Plantation in Polk County. In former years, she spent much of her time in Asheville and Polk County after establishing her residence In Philadelphia, and was widely known here at that time. Mrs.

Wright was the sister of the late Otis Frank S. and Tench C. Coxe, all prominent leaders in Asheville and the state during their lifetime. Surviving are a son, William Coxe Wright of Saint, Davids, and four grandchildren. Relatives here include three nephews, Frank, Tench and William F.

P. Coxe and two greatnieces, Mrs. Mary Coxe Berlage and Mrs. Thomas Humphries. Services will be held in St.

Francis Episcopal Church in Rutherfordton. Arrangements were incomplete Monday night. New Democratic Secretary Will Be Appointed LINCOLNTON (P--Former Congressman Woodrow W. Jones, new state Democratic chairman, is expected to announce the appointment of a new party secretary next week to succeed Herman Moore of Charlotte. Moore was named a district manager of State Rep.

David Clark's 10th District campaign against Charles R. Jonas, the only Republican in North Carolina's congressional delegation. That the party leaders got together at Lincolnton, Clark's home town, was construed as another indication that an all-out effort to unseat Jonas already is under way. "If it's a full-time job, and it. looks like will be, I'll resign as party secretary," Moore said Monday after the conference with Jones and John Larkins Jr.

of Trenton, the party's new national committeeman. Miss O'Brien Given Control of Savings LOS ANGELES (AP) Margaret O'Brien is free now to do what she wants with $152.459 she has saved since she started acting at the age of 5. Miss O'Brien, who recently turned 21, received a decree Monher day from Superior Court granting control over her savings. Her mother, Mrs. Gladys O'Brien, has had charge of the funds.

Western Union Asks Rate Hike RALEIGH (A Western Union Telegraph Co. filed general rate increases with the State Utilities Commission Monday and the commission immediately suspended the hikes pending a public hearing. The hearing was set for 10 a.m. Sept. 24, Proposed increases would affect both base rates and press rates.

N. C. News Roundup PTA Is Told About Law-Making RALEIGH (AP) Secretary of State Thad Eure told about 100 PTA members Monday that North Carolina's General Assembly is the powerful law making body land. most, "It is the only state." Eure said, "in which the governor does not have the power to veto." He expressed the belief this power rests in the people who elect the legislators. Eure was one of three speakers at a panel discussion on "There Ought To Be a Law." PTA members from councils throughout the state gathered here for a two-day legislative workshop aimed at teaching them the details of establishing a legislative program.

After the panel discussion, the members toured the capital and dropped by Gov. Hodges' office. At the session Lt. Gov. Luther Barnhardt told them parents and teachers must work hand in hand towards solving what he called the school problem.

"Good schools are the result, not the cause, of good communities," he said, and he cautioned the group against "the mistake of assuming that we can disassociate the school problem from community problems as a whole. The two are the same and inseparable." Barnhardt urged the state's parents and teachers to continue actively PTA organizations. The need for such joint endeavor, he continued, 'has never been as great as we find it at the present moment in this uncertain time of tensions which seem destined to put each of us as citizens to the severest test imaginable." Eure outlined to the members how bills are drafted and introduced in the Legislature. Other panel speakers were Ray S. Wilkin.son of Rocky state PTA legislative chairman; and A.

C. Dawson, school superintendent of Southern Pines. Five Wives. Then The Law NEWTON (AP) The biblical prophet Isaiah tells of a time in which "seven women shall take nold of one man," saying that they will support themselves if only they may be called by his name. Robert Hicks, 65, of Maiden, told officers he was just trying fulfill the prophecy.

Police said Monday he had got as far as five wives at once before the law caught up with him this week. Hicks was charged with big. Real Estate Firm Here Is Chartered RALEIGH (PArticles of incoporation filed Monday in the office of Secretary of State Thad Eure included: Pioneer, Asheville. To deal in real estate. Authorized capital, 2,500 shares, no par value, to begin business with $300, by W.

J. Parks, Kenneth Lee, and F. H. Keener, all of Asheville. M.

B. M. Hosiery Mills, Lincolnton. To deal in textile business. Authorized capital $100,000, to begin business with $3,000, by Howard R.

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Eugene W. Needham and the Rev. Horace L. Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Crawford Memorial Garden.

Mrs. Florence McNeil SPRUCE PINE-Mrs. Florence McNeil, 62, died at her home, Burnsville RFD 4. Monday ing following a long iliness. She was the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. N. N. Silvers of Burnsville and a member of Blue Rock Baptist Church. She was married to Horace McNeil in 1922, who survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ransome McKinney and Mrs. Martin Hensley, both of Burnsville RFD 4: one son, Herace McNeil Jr. of Fletcher: five Mrs. Clyde Young of Charleston, S.

Mrs. Nora Herenburger of Indiana, Mrs. Ruth Gasper of Clearwater, and Mrs. Oscar Reese and Mrs. Nattlie Hoilman, both of Plymouth, four brothers, Alton Silvers and Paul Silvers, (both of Charleston, S.

Vernie Silvers and Roy Silvers, both of Henderson. Services will be held at Blue Rock Baptist Church at 2 Wednesday. The Rev. Lloyd Glenn and the Rev. Ranas Hall will officiate.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Charles Gilreath SALUDA--Charles Gilreath, morning 87. of Saluda, Sunday in a hospital after a long illness. Services will be held 'at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Friendship Baptist Church near Saluda, Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Globemaster Replacements Going Home GREENVILLE, S.C. (P) Reserve C124 Globemasters brought to replace planes that left 10r Europe at the outbreak of nese troubles are being ordered back to their home stand. A unit of the Globemasters came to Greenville's Donaldson Air Force Base about 10 days 320 from Larson AFB, Washington. They began their return Monday. A Donaldson spokesman said he was not authorized to reveal their number or comment on the meaning of the return.

There was no announcement on whether the Donaldson planes are en route home from Europe, or have been ordered back. Youth Ordered Held On Murder Churge MONROE, N.C. (AP) A 16- year-old Negro boy accused of a series of burglaries here last spring was held Monday for grand jury action in the slaying of a Monroe storekeeper. He is charged with murder. Investigator Tom Broom of the Monroe Police Department testified at a preliminary hearing that the youth, Shelton Hopkins, had admitted fatally wounding Floyd Stack when surprised at the store by the owner last March 21.

The officer testified that the youth said he obtained a popsickle and soft drink in burglarizing the store. Broom said the slaying was not solved until after the boy had been wounded the night of April 26, while burglarizing a store owned by Will Helms. It was upon his return to jail from the hospital, Broom said that Hopkins admitted shooting Stack. Hopkins, also held on two charges of burglary and four of breaking and entering, offered no Wreck Victims Are Recovering Three Madison County teenagers Monday were recovering in Memorial Mission Hospital from injuries suffered Sunday in an auto crash on Sandy Mush Highway near Marshall. Wayne Clark, 19, of Marshall, listed as driver of the vehicle, was reported in fair condition.

Lawrence Naves, 17, of Marshall, also was listed in fair condition, and Hazel Pat Proffitt, 17, of Marshall RFD 2, in satisfactory condition. Naves and Miss Proffitt were passengers in the car, according to State Highway Patrolman C. M. Long. Another passenger, Kenneth Hensley, 15, of Marshall RED 3, received dispensary treatment for cuts and bruises.

Water Pollution Bill Approved WASHINGTON -The Senate Monday passed and sent to the House a bill which would give congressional approval to the Tennessee River basin water pollution control compact. The compact involves Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi. Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. It would set up a commission composed of residents of each state with authority to set up standards of water quality and to enforce anti-pollution orders. Six Soldiers Are Hit By Lightning FT.

JACKSON, S.C. (AP) -Six soldiers here were struck by lightning late Monday. Five of the men were admitted to the Army hospital for observation. The sixth was returned to duty. Hospital authorities said the con dition of all the men was "good." The first balloon tires on tT.

cars were introduced in 1922. amy. His fifth wife, Hazel Hubbard. 22. of Rt.

1, Maiden, was jailed on an adultery charge in connection with their marriage, recorded March 1957 at York. S.C. She told police she married him knowing he had not been divorced. Man Injured In Plane Crush GRETNA, Va. (AP)-Leon Paulette.

24, of Evergreen, was reported injured Monday when a Piper Tri-Pacer plane caught fire and crashed in North Paulette was en route to Winston-Salem to pick up spray equipment when the crash occurred between Mayodan and Stokesdale. The plane was owned by Sadler Flying Service of Clover, Va. Frank Sadler, operator of the service, was en route to Winston Salem. Paulette, who was thrown from the plane when it crashed. was taken to a Winston-Salem hospital, where it was reported he suffered bruises on the head and leg a lacerated chin.

Four Burned By Gas Blast CHARLOTTE (AP) A "sidewalk engineer" and three workmen were burned Monday in an SHOEMAKERS SINCE 1880 Exclusively At OPEN EVERY TILL 9 PM FRIDAY FIELDS explosion set off by a construccompany employe who struck a match in a gas-filled vault $0 he could see better. Mitchell Kannon, 43, operator of a dry cleaning establishment, an interested onlooker at Brevard and 12th Streets where water mains were being laid. Down beneath, in a brick vault used for housing water. main valves. Leo Lowery of Charlotte scratched a match in order that he could see what he was doing in the dark chamber.

Gas which had seeped into the vault took fire and whooshed out 10 across Lowery. Kannon The flames leaped 12 Lowery were hospitalized and two other workers, Eugene Brown of York. S.C.. and Will Hoyt of Rt. 3, Gastonia, suffered lesser burns.

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