Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

air and cold tonight and Wednesday Lo cal temperature for th St hour period eiding at 4 am today: high 45 low 10 Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark VOL STATESVILLE TUESDAY EBRUARY 13 1968 NO 38 US STILL READY TO TALK 133 Reds Slain In Saigon our Break In Cases Waived WARING A (JACK) Mrs Bradner Gives Recital Hu Battt nues By CHARLES MATHIS Toot Peece Offer Notes Bombing Lull Crime Prevention 'Your Business And Mine' Scott Outlines His Program or State Law And Order and included: a cantata this the Pucinski information sen case with Saigon area men of Army 199th Light Brigade swept the sector of the Cholon STATESVILLE SHOTS Josh HENNINGER and Susan STEGALL excited about being named Mr and Miss SHS Emma HARWELL getting a good laugh out of cartoon Nadine HATCHER and Colleen EVERIDGE twin sisters cele brating their birthday Debby COCILO a sweet sixteen WASHINGTON (UPI) The United State I rusNng 1IM9 lection chairman for the Color ado House of Representatives because of occupational haz ards During the last collection for flowers Horst explained someone slipped him a $20 counterfeit bill full law gram should be tightened state should work with local governments and programs aimed at better hous ing job opportunities more emphasis upon training in the vocational that will elim inate that breed crime unrest and government should be encouraged to pay law enforce ment officers better salaries and provide them with more fringe benefits and better work ing conditions should be imple mented in public schools "to instill more respect for law and order and to teach moral valu es to young people" support should be given to the Good Neighbor Council in North Carolina outbreaks of violence occur "the total law enforce ment resources of the state must be made available to local governments immediately upon their request Life and property must be protected and any vi olence must be dealt with quick ly firmly and fairly" violators of the law are found should be ap prehended and brought before the courts It is the responsibili ty of the courts and that in cludes juries as well as judges to mete out justice fairly im partially and his bid for the United senate We predict he win let anybody tell Indian Giver DENVER Representative Donald Horst said Monday he RALEIGH Two em ployes of the Wake County ABC system have been fired in the aftermath of a surprise audit which revealed nearly $4000 worth of receipts and whisky missing Jessie Pearson of Raleigh and Kenneth Pierce of Apex were fired eb 5 after the in ventory and audit according to Maurice Peacock general manager of the system Pearson was manager and Pierce assistant manager of the store located on US 70 West BOLOGNA Italy The city of Bologna will build a power plant designed to produce elec tricity by burning garbage city officials said today MURPHY Three area youths were arrested early this morning and held for question ing in connection with two fires which police believe were set here The fires started shortly after midnight in two vacant houses and one spread to the downtown business section of this small mountain town One business es tablishment was destroyed and two others damaged iremen from both Murphy and Andrews battled the blazes in temperatures which hovered in the teens for four hours be fore the fires were under con trol ire officials said there have been several unsolved blazes in the area during the past few months Police did not reveal the names of the three youths being questioned DURHAM (UPD Govern ment has the responsibility for maintaining order but cannot do the job alone gubernatorial candidate Bob Scott said here Monday night as he outlined "an effective program for main taining law and order in North Carolina" Scott who is seeking the gov post on the Democratic ticket addressed a crime pre vention week program Scott said crime prevention is "your business and mine It is also the business of parents of churches the schools the civic clubs and the industries of North Carolina ABC Employes Are Dismissed LARGE AND SMALL IT 1 network publicity release shows CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite holding up an inch square microfilm containing the entire King James version of the Bible A conventional microfilm cam era recorded each of the 1245 pages on a 35 millimeter film and each frame was in turn re duced to less than a pinhead in size We felt pretty impressed with that feat until we read about an experiment by Honeywell scien tists who stored more than two million bits of information on a surface the size of a dime The Honeywell people have been studying the application of laser technology to the mass storage of information in com puter systems They view the laser development as a possible inexpensive replacement for computer memory cores Illustrating the extent to which optical techniques can increase information storage density the Honeywell investigators used a laser to deposit the two million items in a dime sized area more this information can be read at the rate of two million bits per second through the use of a low power laser Now if we lost you some where behind that first laser feel too badly We know what it all means either All we know is that instead of taking less space everything we do seems to take more We couldn't even sign our name on a dime training programs in communi ty colleges and "through the establishment of a state police statewide communications network should be established linking all law enforcement agencies in the state personnel should be provided for state law enforce ment agencies especially the SBI state law enforce ment officer should be provided with the "best and most mod ern to perform his duties said the administra tion of the work release pro CONCERT SET Josh White Jr internationally known folk singer will be in concert Thursday night at Mitchell Col lege in Shearer Hall The event will begin at 8 pm and is the second annual presentation by the singing star who re cords on the Mercury label government has a great responsibility to maintain order and uphold the law it cannot do the job Scott said we are to have a peace ful a progressive and a pros perous North Carolina law and order must be the candidate said points summarized were: it "crystal that the law will be upheld and support will be given to enforcement officers advocated "more better training" for law enfor cement officers by expanding QUIET South Carolina National Guardsmen and a police officer patrol a quiet intersection in Orangeburg The two Negro colleges in the town are closed and officers are keeping things peaceful where rioting occurred and three Negro students were killed last week Avoid Destroying Building Allied planes and helicopters swooped down and strafed the Communists on the rooftops But Oliver reported they kept bombing to a minimum to protect the palaces and cham bers of departed dynasties that are South greatest architectural treasure Elsewhere Viet Cong rockets slammed into the giant Ameri can air war headquarters base of Bien Hoa near Saigon American planes pounded the North Vietnamese legions ring ing the US fort of Khe Sanh on the North South Vietnam bor der a US fighter pilot shot down a Communist jet over North Vietnam Monday and GIs killed scores of guerrillas in suburban South Vietnam fight ing in waters now closed to fishermen because of trawler disasters Hull men complained that vessels were cashing in on the government ban which was imposed after three trawlers were lost with 59 men aboard for peace ear the per Pucinski said the United States "had to stop bombing Hanoi to insure safe passage for the The Illinois Democrat said the Communist answer Pres ident personal effort toward negotiations was the terrorist attack on our unarmed American Embassy in Saigon" Johnson sounded a similar theme when he told the students: laid it out on a table and the answer we got was that on a sacred day they hit 44 cities and 24 of our airports simultaneously believ ing that the population would rise up and join them and that the police would come over to them and they could take by force what they could not get by vote that was their answer to the San Antonio Despite this Johnson said the United States would still enter Into peace talks with Hanoi Sound Sleopor LONDON Notice of a forth coming marriage in a Norfolk County newspaper reveals that the bride to be is Jose phine Gotobed of Little Snor ing" Predicts Crisis TOKYO oreign Minister Takeo Miki said today the bat tle for Khe Sanh would be the turning point of the Vietnam War The North Vietnamese are massing for an attack on the Marine base which Amer ican military officials expect at any time Sicilian Return PALERMO Thousands of frightened Sicilians who fled to the countryside during a series of sharp earth tremors Monday began drifting back to their homes today Officials said the known death toll in 105 shocks since Jan 15 has reach ed 153 STATESMANSHIP ormer Gov Terry Sanford rendered a distinct service to his party when he decided not to oppose the renomination of United States Senator Sam Ervin Jr And incidentally it do old Terry any harm either We have felt for some time that the Democratic party could ill afford a knockdown drag out primary The contest between Bob Scott and Mel Broughton for the gubernatorial nomina tion is about as much of a lux ury as the party can afford So decision to stand aside was as close a thing to partisan statesmanship as you can ask True he enhanced his image with party stalwarts and reaped a million dollars worth of publicity in the process But it is far more difficult to say no when the fortunes beckon than it is to say yes We were among those who discouraged the former gover nor from getting into a race with Senator Ervin The two men simply represent two dif ferent faces of North Carolina Senator Ervin speaks for the conservatism of the mountains and foothills an area which after all accounts for the share of Tar Heel population Sanford stands for the liberal eastern viewpoint which covers more geography but fewer peo ple our years from now eastern ers will have their chance Sen ator Everett Jordan will be 76 years of age in 1972 and very probably will not stand for re 1 election That will be the proper time for the man who served 1 his state so well as governor to make States would And you that Terry Sanford chick ened out Chickens just that smart No Contest NEW YORK Six foot four inch Eugene Ryland a 40 year old social worker wore a fake beard and a stovepipe hat to the Lincoln look alike con Monday at the Americana Hotel and was the unanimous choice of the judges Ryland was the only entrant lights Banned SAIGON South Vietnam has prohibited Air rance from fly ing over its territory on runs between Cambodia and Com munist China an Air rance spokesman said today He said the ban applied only to Com munist China flights and not to the eight flights a week the rench national airline makes into Saigon Murphy Trio Questioned 8 Tar Heels Die In War WASHINGTON (UPD Eight more North Carolina service men are on the latest list of casualties in Vietnam The Defense Department iden tified them as: Army Sgt Tembert Craw ford Jr husband of Mrs Sadie Crawford of High Point Army Spec 4 Charles Phil lips son of Mr and Mrs Wil liam Phillips of Lansing Cpl Norman Rose III son of Mr and Mrs Norman Rose Jr of Oxford Marine Cpl William Nor man son of Mr and Mrs Lu ther Norman of Charlotte Marine LCpl Willie Adger son of Mrs Vashti Adger of Greensboro Marine Cpl Ronald Morris son of William Mor ris Jr of Warrenton Listed previously as missing and now listed as dead are: 1st Lt Kenneth Albrittin husband of Mrs Vickie Al brittin of Raleigh Spec 4 Charles Daniel husband of Mrs Rebecca Daniel of Durham Old cleverly done Other selections from by Purcell a by Schubert and by Sibelius The encore was an aria from opera Carmen Mrs Bradner had an excellent accompanist in Elizabeth Lee There was a standing ovation Protest Ban HULL England An Ice landic trawler docked Monday at Hull loaded with fish caught British was resigning as unofficial col recent fisher foreign In Hue 400 miles to the north and the site of the last major pocket of Communist urban battling US Marines battled through machine gun and mortar fire toward the gates of the forbidden city The Leather necks pulled much of their firepower punch to spare the ancient treasures in the house to house fighting In the the US Infantry southern Chinatown and the race track area American intelligence officers have warned that as many as 5000 guerrillas are poised to hit Saigon once more in urban warfare that has given the Communists something of a propaganda if not a military victory South national com bat police caught and killed 26 Viet Cong in a fight nearby In Hue the fighting was inch by inch Maj Robert 500 Leathernecks dashed from house to house from their Perfume River bank beachhead toward the two mile square walled city in bright sunlight while Communists poured down fire from second and third story windows UPI correspondent Richard Oliver reported The President apparently was referring to the bombing lull in the vicinity of Hanoi and Haiphong last month while the United States sought to test the sincerity of North statement that peace talks begin when the bombing stopped In addition an informed congressional source disclosed Monday night that an American emissary had gone to Hanoi during the period of the bombing lull to explore North terms talks Rep Roman Ill had similar but he indicated the representa tive was not an American Battle Scenes SAIGON Allied troops killed at least 133 guerrillas on Saigon's outskirts today and US B52 Stratofortresses bombed the Viet Cong positions to prevent a second invasion of the South Vietnamese capital US and government forces fought the Viet Cong near Chinatown and the Phu Tho race track as heaviest bombers struck in waves that rocked buildings in a city just recovering a two week guerrilla bloodbath Allied spokesmen said the fresh fighting added to the more than 32000 Communists slain since the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese battalions moved into the cities Jan 30 The new Saigon fighting cost the lives of 19 allied troops and 37 more suffered wounds Johnson Says Enemies Can The musical talent of mezzo soprano Martha Bradner was elegant in recital last night in Shearer Hall Like the twinkle of her rings and sparkle from sequins on her shoes her formance was resplendent The recital was sponsored by the music department Mitchell College where Mrs Bradner teaches The selections which in eluded melancholic song cycle of jilted love eines fahrenden and the heart lifting gypsy lullaby from opera The Medium were sophisticated perhaps a little ambitious for an Iredell audience but Mrs Bradner with a definite presence of the concert stage was in complete control throughout Her singing of the as well as of by Strauss was immensely beautiful her renditions of lullaby and Chinatown Race Track To High Court Tony Millsaps charged with Terry Benfield and Michael Tucker Cook in four counts of felonious breaking entering and larceny waived a preliminary hearing in County Court this morning and Judge red Hedrick bound him to Superior Court under a total of $3500 bond The state took a nol pros in the misdemeanor counts of attempted breaking and entering Cook and Benfield were sen tenced to a total of 18 years in prison last week in Superior Court on a number of counts of breaking entering and larceny This morning Solicitor Boyce Gibson took a nol pros in four felonious counts and three misdemeanor counts The same action was taken in the cases in which Cook was charged Richard Estes 18 charged with breaking entering and lar ceny from the Iredell Vocational Workshop Troutman School and with larceny of money waived a preliminary hearing and was bound to Superior Court under $750 bond in each case Victor LeBree was sen tenced to 30 days in each of six cases of passing worthless checks Each sentence except one was to begin at the ex piration of the other The sentence in the sixth case is to run concurrently with the one imposed in the fifth case John A McAuley was fenced to 30 days in a in which he was charged failing to pay a lodging bill of $3484 at Holiday Inn In other cases heard morning the judge took following action: Jerry Wall Williams speeding costs loyd Lester Milholland speeding $15 and costs Kenneth Clayborn Brooks fourth offense of driving drunk and driving after his license had (See 2 Page 4) Advisory Unit Is Organized Iredell Council of Govern ments formally organized last night with all municipalities in the county represented except Harmony A Waring chairman of the board of county commissioners was named chairman of the council during an election of offi cers by duly elected repre sentatives of the member gov ernments Garner Bagnal mayor of Statesville was elected vice chairman and Robert Shuford Jr county manager was elected secretary Waring who with Bagnal sponsored the formation of the cooperative group which was authorized by statutes passed during the last general assem bly acted as temporary chair man and then remained in the chair to conduct the ganizational meeting i In a preamble to the by laws adopted and sent along to the member governmental units purpose of the organization is stated as "the permanent es tablishment of a forum for dis cussion and study of problems of mutual interest and concern to the governmental subdivisions of the State of North Carolina located within Iredell The council will function only as an advisory arm of the par ticipating governmental units of Statesville Troutman Moores ville Love Valley the county and Harmony and not as a new layer of government The mem bers of the council will seek by mutual agreement solutions to mutual problems for mutual benefit The council was created by the adoption of identical resolu tions by the governing bodies It was pointed out that all bodies had passed the resolution except Harmony and Mayor Bruce Reavis has indicated that he is in favor of the organization and plans to participate The council will meet quarter ly and the next meeting was set for May 13 at 7:30 pm when each of the governmental members will furnish a brief resume of some of its projects and problems This suggestion was made to familiarize the other members with these prob lems and services which could be a basis for discussion by the council when common problems are noted and cooperation need ed There were a number of projects which might be before the council for discussion within See Page 4 Term Is Set The regular spring term of United States District Court for the Western District Statesville 1 Division will convene March 18 with Judge Wilson Warlick of Newton presiding Miss Martha Rives deputy clerk has released a list of jurors who will be notified to report for duty Jurors are drawn from the five counties making up the division Those who will be notified to report Monday March 18 at 9:45 am when a grand jury will be drawn are as follows: Coy Lee Childers Russell Queen Deal Joseph McDuffie Jay Lee Price and red Turner Walker Alexander County Miles Aderholdt Estelle Caldwell Wheeler Dale Paul A Mabe Sr Roy Morris Vernon McDowell Rader and Cleveland H' Thayer Burke County Also Donhld olk Campnell Jr Mrs Nancy Carson Max Doll Carroll Allen Haigler and Billy Lee Miller Caldwell County Abernethy Burch Allison Mrs Annie Louise Cummings George Wayne DeHart Mrs Ethel Phillips Mildred Royster Rhyne and Robert Stuart Steele Catawba County Bryne Byron Baker Wade Campbell' Maury Gaston John Goforth Charles Jolly Jr and Roy A Tilley Iredell County Notified to report for petit jury duty Wednesday March 20 at 9:30 am are DeJamettem Mrs rench Lackey and Howard Norton Alexander County red Vernon Black Jean Clark Davis Henrietta Pons Williams and Hugh razier Williams Burke County Donald Snow ranklin Roy Hayes Leatherman and Dale Starnes Caldwell County George Washington Cloaninger Lineberger A Preslar Clarence Herman Spencer and Coy Sudderth Catawba County Thomas Maurice raley Eugene Harmon Thaddeus Kimbrough Dewey Little Raymer III and Carl Thompson Iredell County The second week of the term is set aside for trial of civil cases Seuttt Vietnam the Defense Department enneunced today WASHINGTON (UPD De spite the fierce Communist offensive in Vietnam President Johnson says the United States still is ready for peace talks and will even let Hanoi "write the agenda" Speaking to a group of student leaders during a 75 minute question and answer ses sion at the White House Monday night but directing his words at Hanoi the Chief Executive said: We would meet them tomorrow But we are not going to surrender We are willing to reason We are willing to talk We are willing to let them write the agenda and say are the first subjects you talk But Johnson said the United States had "gone just as far as we thought honorable people and the series of Communist attacks launched on sacred the start of the Buddhist Tet lunar new 1 was the answer from Hanoi Write Agenda BULLETIN fKt? it V' mA i Garbage Powered 1.