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Pubftshed In Hie Heart bf Hie Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark Single Copy 5c STATESVILLE NC MONDAY JULY 1 1957 NO 156 VOL 83 Brownell Linked Health Problem INSPECTOR Shown 7 il the hanging Commissioners Return Ct To Business As Usual a direc pair of Television Radio Go Hoywire Universe Lays Welcome Gift At Cradle the to he and said a very then highly classified relative to the so (in military were passed along unchanged a $12 increase in the cost of a Lino type machine But already the manufacturers have notified us At least to have 2000 stations around the will undertake the greatest of the earth and its atmos ever conducted STEEL That $6 per ton price increase just an nounced by Steel will strike home to all of us So steel your self for it To equip your kitchen for ex ample will require around a ton of steel To replace the old jalopy in the garage will take some 3500 pounds more In short steel goes into the manufacture of practically every thing you use But you cannot ar rive at the 'added cost to the consumer by merely adding $6 per ton to the present cost It work that way Each increase is padded ail GREENSBORO Greensboro has become the largest city in the state in area The addition of 28 squalre miles to the city at mid night Saturday boosted the area to 495 square miles The an nexation also increased the city's from 97000 to 119000 STORM DEATH TOLL REACHES 246 Committee Aims Radio TV Probe i 000 miles from the earth A Shapley vice chairman of the National Academy of Sciences said the storms also caused a blackout of shortwave radio com munications in many parts of the world Sunday and today He said the communications difficulties were easing and should be over by Tuesday Aircraft and ships at sea de pendent on radio navigation and communications were alerted take precautionary measures said Although Shapley regretted ifteen events have been listed for the city wide playground ourth of July meets to be held at the Avery Sherrill School and the Garfield Center play grounds at 9:30 am Thursday morning Caldwell Park and Mills playground children will com pete at Avery Sherrill The events include: pie eating contest ice cream eating contest sack race three legged race cra cker eating and whistle contest potato race shoe finding race bub ble gum blowing contest wheel barrow race balloon blowing con test shuttle relay most freckles brightest red hair blondest hair and best looking girl and boy Colored' award ribbons and candy will be presented to the winners Jack Springer Superintendent of Recreation announced that the following playground supervisors will be helping the operation of the play day meets Herb Hipps Peggy Jo Badgett: Carolyn Bal lard Jane Pope Booker Clark and Bertelle Thompson all at Avery Sherrill and Gladys Torrence Carolyn Morrison and Hayden Ren wick director at Garfield Center UNDERGOES SURGERY Clarence Rumple of Cleve land is in the Rowan Memorlial Hospital in Salisbury after a ma jor operation Saturday than world study nhere (President Eisenhower issued a special statement wishing 1GY scientists of all nations and good hick" in their 18 month endeavors) The disturbances which might be caused in your radio and tele vision sets results from a huge flare up in the sun The solar eruption one of the greatest ever set off violent electrical storms Sunday and today in the magnetic Bold stretching out 10 Ralph Sloan who placed in the corner stone the records of the Sunday School is chairman of a committee to study ways and means of celebrating STATESVILLE James PORTER and family enjoying dinner ait the Chuck House Jim McCRARY watching his sis ter take off for vacation Celia LACKEY telling stranger her name Patricia Judy and Sandy BUSTLE just back from lorida GARRIS sup porting himself against a car when they told him he had won a Holstein heifer WASHINGTON (UP) If your radio acts up today or your tele vision set in Hartford Conn picks up a San Diego Calif1 pro gram worry just the universe celebrating the birth of IGY It may bp a headache to you But the scientists think won derful IGY is the abbreviation for In ternational Geophysical Year which officially began at 8 pm edt Sunday night During the Year which actual ly will run until Dec 31 pome 10000 scientists at more £33 4 I Saturday and Clarence Little of Loray of a white one at his farm near Loray Luckily we do not have to judge the evidence as to which one was first bloom of the season A white first blossom found on the farm of Homer Tolbert in the Amity Hill community had been rushed 6n to us riday afternoon to take the first place in the 1957 cotton derby NEW above is Russell Gamble for mer Siler City electrician who to day assumed th post of elect rical inspector for Statesville and Iredell County He succeeds Herbert Smith in the joint city county post and will serve in the Statesville and North Iredell areas Gamble's family is ex pected to move her soon communications trouble he also was pleased that it came at this time The flareup occurred two days ago but the effects reached the earth Sunday Shapley said universe it self cooperated in heralding th of the Geophysical Year The solar eruption which is big enough to envelop the earth was first detected by Russian scientists in Moscow and flashed to IGY communications centers all over the world including the IGY warn ing agency in Virginia accident riday near Clinton Caldwell and his wife we in jured when their car collided with an empty bus about six miles OMAHA Neb An American north of Clinton Airlines iplane had to make a forced landing because of a tooth pick in a martini Henry Moore Tucson Ariz swallowed the toothpick in his martini as the plane flew over 1 Iowa The pilot made an unsched uled landing so Moore could be rushed to a hospital where the toothpick was removed' A ollowing several night sessions devoted exclusively to considera tion of the 1957 58 budget County Commissioners flnorning slip ped back into low gear as they heard routine reports and trans business4' The board passed a resolutionsetting an intecum operating cost appropriation to pay for county ex penses until adoption of the new budget Mrs Bernice McJunkin county accountant said the interim appropriation is based on the old budget land will be applied to the new budget when it is finally adopt ed Iredell Rowan for ester presented his total budget for the new year It figured to $12470 share of the expense would be $2348 with Rowan County and state funds providing the balance This figure is a slight increase from the $2120 set up for forestry work during the past fiscal year Albert King welfare supervisor recommended approval of two ap plications for blind aid and the re jection of one application The board followed his recommend ations A petition for the hard surfacing of miles in Concord Township running from Highway 90 to Scotts Road was approved subject to action of the Highway and Public Works Commission Several applications for beer licenses were presented but ho ac tion was to be taken until this af ternoon pending a check by Coun selor Hugh Mitchell into law re garding distance of an establish ment selling beer from a church Wayne ranklin county agent reported on the poor grain crop in Iredell attributing it to the weath er He said there is a high infesta tion of boll weevil running as high as 47 pet cent in untreated fields in' South Iredell However rank lin said that with proper treatment the percentage can be appreciably lowered ranklin reported plans for in creasing sheep and feeder pig pro duction in the county He said that about 10 farmers have ordered 500 ewes to be brought in this fall for winter feeding and for breeding Citing a big demand for feeder pigs he said he hoped that this i ON THE BLOCK Well we see where Republican leaders met' in Winston Salem and auc tioned off the middle district fed eral judgeship County chairmen and other key party men from 24 of the 28 counties in the district got together and under the astute leadership of State GOP Chair man Ray Jennings of Taylors ville put the appointment of a successor to retiring Judge John son Hayes on the block Thus it was something less than an accident that attorney Kyle Hayes of North Wilkes the way down the line so that boro' was to sue by the time it reaches the con ceed his uncle He bested sumer that $6 basic raise will be Dist Atty Edwin Stanley of multiplied many times over Greensboro 32 to 29 Linotypes for example are There is of course no certain made of steel each one contain ty that President Eisenhower ing something like two tons wifi benefit from this advice which would mean if the $6 Some few years ago when there was a vacancy in the district at torneyship Republican leaders of the district nominated Herbert E' Seawell Jr of Carthage for 1 that effective January 1 there tiie appointment But the Presi will be a 10 per cent increase in dent on advice of Atty Gen the price of Linotypes That re Herbert Brownell appointed Mr presents an increase of approxi mately $1000 the cheapest model And the manufacturer blames it on the increased cost of steel other So the $6 plus the becomes $1000 by the time it reaches the consumer: It is interesting to note that the July 1 boost in the price of steel coincides with the date of the automatic wage increase for steelworkers under the contract signed last August Thus we a pcucvi CAdUipir US nuw big labor and big business can Partly cloudy get together to gouge the pub lic a process uiat is likely to continue until a sit down sends our economy into a tail spin which will clip the hair in stead of cun it OLD ASHIONED PICNIC Talk is flowing freely about a kind of a homecoming celebra tion for Biroad Street Methodist Church sometime in the late sum mer one with dinner on thegrounds and pink lemonade and all the of 50 years ago The occasion for such a cele bration is the 50th anniversary of the building of the church on the present site On July 15 1907 the cornerstone was laid but plans bad been in the making for some time before that and it was much later than that before the Real Cool Cows EL CENTRO Calif The University of Imperi al Valley field station disclosed Saturday bow it keeps its cows con tended in the summer heat The cows are cooled with 42 inch elec tric fans that whip up a four mile an hour breeze ield station spe cialist Nicholas Ittner said the cool cows gained 32 per cent more weight daily over their un fanned sisters Defense Thwarted NEW YORK Margaret ish er and her oldest sister Ann put up a battle Sunday when two rob bers invaded their home But the robbais were able to subdue the sisters and fled with $800 in cash and jewelry Margaret is 82 and her sister 93 Water Back Up LEBANON Ind Residents had just about finished bailing out the water dumped in their cellars by a flooded creek when the water company announced it was increasing its rates Caldwell Improved GREENSBORO Harry Caldwell master of the State Grange was reported in condition here today with Senate Group Cites Monopoly By 3 Networks WASHINGTON (UP) A Sen ate Commerce' Committee report has recommended a sweeping con gressional investigation into al leged monopolistic practices by the three major radio television networks The report charged the televi sion executives of the three net NBC CBS ABC ef fect determine what tlfe entire na tion on television A House anti trust subcommit tee June 9 also called for a broad government investigation of the radio TV industry for practices which it said threatened the pub right to monopoly free air waves1 1 The Senate committee issued a staff report Sunday night calling for examination and re of contract relations be tween the TV networks and their advertisers and affiliated stations The report also said Congress consider seriously the problem of multiple ownership of television stations by networks and the concentration of key city outlets in the hands of these same Sen Warren Magnuson ID Wash) chairman of the commit tee said the group unanimously agreed to withhold formal approv al of the staff report pending com ments from the ederal Communi cations Commission and the Jus tice Department Hie report said the television networks effect determine what the entire nation because of the of the combined and privileges It said provisions in network contracts advertis ers to contract to use certain sta tion whether these stations are needed or The report said these regula tions against nation al advertisers with sales distribu tion pattern whch may differ from the station list set up by CBS and Tomlin Resigns rom Hospital The resignation of Irvine Tom lin as a director and trustee of Iredell Memorial Hospital was ac cepted with regret riday at a meeting of the board Dr Nicholson chairman said today that Tomlin resigned health He express ed the that Tomlin' been valuable Tomlin has served as tor and trustee since inception of the board Dr Nicholson that the board has not appointed anyone to take place He said dir ectors have the authority to make a temporary appointment subject to the September meeting of the board of trustees' but that no ac tion has yet been taken letter of resignation dat ed June 27 stated: than six years ago when the idea was first conceived for a county hospital I have worked continuous ly and to the best of my ability After serving for these six years in the interest of the hospital I feel I have my duty as a citizen and am tendering my re signation as a member of the Board of Directors the Board of Trustees effective upon receipt of this Couple Arrested On Morals Count Record Landmark Bureau 259 North Main Street MOORESVILLE A 38 year old textile worker who is separated from his wife and (three children and a 29 year old woman were Jailed Sunday night on charges of fomification and adultry Clifford James Lackey and Naomi King both of route 2 Mooresville were arrested by officers at a house where they had been living since mid December Deputy Sheriff Tom Thompson signed the warrants on informa tion ami belief He and Deputy Marshall Maness of Troutman had visited the home three times and talked with the couple Both Lackey and Miss King post ed $500 bond far their appearance in Mooresville Courti Rises As Crews Rush Grim Work Nickerson Vows To Press ight HUNTSVILLE Ala (UP) CoI John Nickerson stripped of his top secret security clearance vowed today he will continue his fight for Army missiles through channels and someday regain his status as a rocket ex 'port Nickerson convicted of leaking top secret missile data drew a suspension of a a $1500 fine and a stern reprimand in addition to losing the right to work on Army top secret develop ments" tdlowcycr (he a square jawed col onel said he will work to regain top secret security clearance so he again can work with Army missiles get it back" he said Although it was not generally known during the trial the Army had rescinded top secret clearance last Jan 1 at the start of the investigation of leaks in classified missile information through letters pro testing the assignment of inter mediate missiles to the Air orce While Nickerson pleaded guilty to charges of revealing certain classified information his letters the court martial punishment was considered for the record" He could have received 30 years at hard labor and dismissal from the service The rocket expert said he ex pects to be sent overseas soon but promised that he would continue Ids battle to keep the Army in the field of developing intermediate missiles will speak my opinions when ever I can But there is no free dom of speech in the military service like there A is in civilian life and there should he said fully worked out what I am going to do to stayin this thing There will be some ar ticles and books written and they will fee submitted for security clearance Driver Clocked At 100 MPH John Wilburn Ireland 29 of 320 West Sharpe Street was jailed here at 8:45 pm Saturday after Deputy Sheriff Robert Kinder charged him with speeding 100 miles per hotirX Deputy Kinder charged that he clocked Ireland driving a 1950 Oldsmobile for more than two miles as he drove on US 901 near 'Harmony Ireland was released under $130 bond for appearance in Court As Key igure In News Dispute WASHINGTON Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr was named today as the official who is blocking publication of data showing alleged chapters of of security by Amer ican newsmen role in" the current dispute over a 1 1 ged security breaches by newsmen was re vealed by Rep John Moss (D Calif) whose' House Govern ment Information Subcommittee resumed hearings today on mili tary information Moss issued a statement de nouncing a list of 15 examples of news reputedly to national security The list was is sued nd a nifht by Loyd Wright chairman of a bipartisan commission on government secur ity Moss who had challenged Wright to document his claim of unauthorized pr ss clsclosutcs affecting security la belled the list an unproved mary of contention that failed to show wrongdoing by the press Wright whose commission has recommended legislation provid ing jail terms and fines for un authorized Of highly secret data did not 'name the publications involved in the 15 instances Among them were: national weekly in Janu ary 1956 carried an article on mis of which some statements were erroneous but in other re spects was basically correct "and disclosed characteristics of mis siles which werestill in a highly classified (secret) metropolitan daily De cember of 1953 published quite ac curately the information called wire service story in Jan uary 1956 carried a report on the use of air to air missiles with atomic warheads Because of the higfli classification and vital importance of (his project this item is under investigation by In addition he cited long con troversial World War II stories by an "importantant metropolitan including one he said had tipped off Japan its secret code had been broken the 1945 disclo sure of secret documents in pos session of the magazine Amer asia and seven instances in which he said Columnist Drew Pearson published data from secret docu ments and communications during the Korean War Nine Arrested During Weekend Johnny Williams 32 of 821 Charlotte Avenue was arrested Saturday by police on a warrant chairgjng him with hit and run driv ing riday night Williams is charged wish hitting the air off Story Porter and fail ing to stop Qther weekend arrests included: Willie Lee Knox 504 Newton Ave nue no license Warren Connelly route 3 States ville spinning tires Troy Howard Rash route 1 Sta tesville illegal left turn James red Dalton route 8 Statesville speeding Sam Pledger 50 year old Negro 1116 Rickert Street possessing one quart of untaxed liquor William Homer Alexander route 1 Statesville driving drunk Hczeriah eimster 49 year old Negro Wagner Street assault with a deadly weapon Olan Phillips Akron speed ing LAKE CHARLES La (UP) The number of known dead in Hurricane disastrous blow at the 'Louisiana coast rose to 246 today! Sheriff Henry Reid announcing the official figures said the total now is expected to reach 350 dead have confirmed that a total of 246 bodies have been re Reid said at a news conference these 182 have been processed through Shed 4 at Lake Charles docks balance are accounted for in burials on the spot bodies sent directly to private mortuaries and deaths in Crews on the devastated coast south of Lake Charles speeded up their efforts to recover the bodies of the dead still in the swamps and wreckage and to bury or bum the carcasses of thousands of animals and pets These were causing a severe health problem but evidently not too much of a probl enr to dis courage the government from planning to build a big tent city at Cameron the biggest town on the coast that Audrey hit to house the homeless Since Saturday crews on the coast had been piling up auto mobile tires and setting them on fire to bum the carcasses of deadanimals A spokesman for the ederal Civil Defense Administration says the government plans to put up 500 to 1000 tents right away at Cameron Gov Ear! Long of Louisiana toured the disaster area during the weekend and predicted the toil would exceed 400 'Authorities threatened" to post some areas to prevent looting which has become a major prob lem However the dead and disease remained the big problem Around Cameron the smell of death hung like a cloud Thousands of bloated carcasses of cattle and pets lay rotting in the sun Tetanus typhoid and gangrene serum was flown in from New Orleans At Lake Charles 75 carpenters worked in assembly lines building coffins some of which will be filled with unidentified dead' At least 140 coffins had been con structed and carpenters were working on an order for 100 more Ike Approves Hayes Request WASHINGTON (UP) Presi dent Eisenhower today approved the retirement of Johnson Hayes 71 as US district judge for the Middle District of North Carolina Hayes has served as district judge since 1927 He wrote the President that he wished to retire because he had become physically unable to perform all court duties The President thanked Hayes for his service hoped that retirement would improve his health Meanwhile in Winston Salem an all out campaign was credited today with obtaining for Kyle Hayes of Wilkesboro the Republican en dorsement for the post being va cated by his uncle Republican leaders from the counties in the district endorsed the younger Hay es Saturday' as Johnson successor Hayes 1956 Republican candid ate for governor defeated Dist Atty Edwin Stanley of Greensboro for the endorsement Stanley already had received ths endorsements of most of the bar associations in the district Hayes trailed Stanley on two ballots which eliminated "favorite candidates but picked up enough votes to win the endorse ment on the third ballot i The Wilkesboro attorney and his supporters conducted an intensive campaign among Republican com mitteemen in the district last week Hayes also had the support of several Republican members of the General Assembly Stanley however is still a candidate for the post and many observers believe that the GOP endorsement will1 not be the de tiding factor The new judge will be appointed by President Eisen hower with the recommendation of Atty Gen Herbert Brownell The appointment ig subject to confirm atm by the Senate ART SHOW TODAY Miss Louise Gilbert Is shown first group of pictures on fence at Broad Street Methodist Church for sidewalk art show which began at 1 pm today The show which features 58 pictures by local artists will last until dark tonight (ry Photo) Strolhng Nude ROCKY MOUNT A man wearing) a polka dot hand kerchief over his face has been seen strolling in the nude in an exclusive residential section here police salid Satuloday The man has been seen several times by children playing in a park in the fashionable West Hav en section On one occasion they said he was entirely nude An otner time he wore a shoes Bolt Kills Many 'CALCUTTA India persons were feared died when a bolt of lightning struck a ferry boat off the town of Bogra in Bast Pakistan ac cording to reports here The reports said some of the passengers were killed by the lightning while others drowned When the boat split apart They said the bodies of 25 victims had been recovered Only 20 Minutes MINEOLA NY Mrs Jean nette Dempsey in court ridayto chalnge her husband Charleswith assault because he alleged ly bopped her on the head with a bottle told the judge Dempsey should also get his facts straight Dempsey said he hit his wife be naiica cihA smnint Am Jirviir and kissing his best friend Said injuries suffered in a highway Mrs Dempsey: so It was more like 20 Cocktail Caper a' St project can be started in the fall ranklin reported that the hiring of a new poultry agent replacing Cliuber wiio resigned in the spring awaits only theapprova of the ExtensionService ranklin reported? that Howard Stamey has been instrumental in securing 42 head of Holstein cattle for purchase by hredell dairy far mers Mrs Nancy Myers home demon stration agentt said calls are fre quent from county housewives for the latest information on canning and freezing She said that three pressure cookers may be borrow ed from her office for use in can ning Play Day Meet Set or ourth Stanley That came as such a shock to Mr Seawell who had carried his banner in the guber natorial race that it virtually drove him into the Democratic party Nowadays he refers to the United States attorney gen eral as 'Well may still be holding all the high cards If so he may still see Stanley written right across the top WEATHER Monday and Tuesday with scat tered thundershowers mostly in the afternoon and evening Local temperatures yesterday: High 88 lew 74 COTTON DERBY Early cot ton blooming has spread Down in Iredell during the week end Re ports been coming in thick and fast over the telephone this morning rom up on the Jennings Roiad Mrs Virginia Allen says their patch near Dunlap Gate is full of pink blossoms this morning or the third year in a row Bowman of the New Ster community has noticed blooms in his patch iust a little too late fo lead in the derby His ing that they were probably there moved into the new as darly as Saturday Then Larry Sharpe son of Mr and Mrs McCoy Sharpe of theMidway community told us that 'he 'had found both pink and white blossoms in his patch jSssi fe 1 5 IO I) fc.