Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

WEATHER Inerutlng cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms to night and Wednesday Local temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at am today: High 88 low 57 VOL 85 Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record a Landmark Net Press Run 11135 STATESVILLE TUESDAY JUNE 9 1959 Single Copy 5c NO 137 COUNCIL APPROVES RECORD CITY BUDGET House Draws Battle Lines On Teacher Pay State Voting Test Upheld By Court WASHINGTON (UPD The Supreme Court decided Mon day that North liter acy test for voters was "not a calculated but rather appeared to be device to voting standards in the southern state The unanimous court opinion ruled against a Negro woman who had charged the literacy test was so vague that it allowed elec tion registrars to disenfranchise Negroes Mrs Louise Lassiter 41 of Northampton County re fused to take the test based on a 1947 North Carolina law that a voter must be able to read and write any part of the state Con stitution She was not allowed to register and her case went to the North Carolina Supreme Court which upheld the law The US Supreme Court agreed with the state tribunal that the test cannot be condemned on con stitutional grounds Justice William 0 Douglas said the requirement "seems to us to be one fair way of determining whether a person is literate not a calculated scheme to lay spring traps for the citizens "Wc certainly cannot condemn the test on its face as a device unrelated to the desire of North Carolina to raise the standards for people of all races who cast the Asst State Atty Gen Raph Moody expressed delight that the Supreme Court "has the constitutionality of the test which he described as a mental test and not too high a requirement for any prospective Moody North segre gation expert said the test was "within the legitimate power of the state as long as it is admin istered fairly" HIS OWN WEAVING ''I'm like a guy caught in a said Ciro Bravala 39 year old freight conductor who Saturday became the fa ther of illegitimate quadrup lets A web yes but of his own weaving and the pattern leaves us cold Nor does tvis express ed desire "to work out an ami cable arrangement for the good of add the alter the circumstance materially We can suggest one arrange ment stop talking and get out and wipport all his child ren not only those four little bundles of illegitimacy down in East Orange but the two legal offspring amd their moth er over in Queens That way they won't become burden on the public which each year is having to should er a heavier and heavier load Latest figures from the US Office of Vital Statistics show that tlhie number of illegitimate births increased from 141600 in 1950 to 201700 in 1957 Dur ing that period the number of white children born out of wed lock rose from 53500 to 70800 while the number of non whites jumped from 88100 to 130900 and the public cost of caring for them jumped from less than $100 million to $210 mil lion By 1965 if the trend contin ues the number of illegitimate children receiving public sup port will total nearly a million and the annual cost will be approaching a billion The picture in the big cities is far worse than in the small er communities and rural ar eas Washington often refer red to as the nation's show case right now is leading the league with close to one in five of its children being born out of wedlock Washington in fact has the highest white illegitimacy rate in rhe nation 588 per 1000 in 1957 with the Negro rate being close to the top 2G53 per 1000 Social service workers point out that these figures appall ing as they arc do not give the full picture Many illegiti mate births are concealed and many others arc recorded as legitimate by reason of the fact that the women has a married name Thus the nation like conduc tor Bravata is fast being en meshed in a web of its own weaving The day is not far hence when tlie woods colls will move out into the open pasture The records will be worthless and not even the most expert among us will be able to trace the lineage by the markings And broiler really be togetherness ITTING An accus ed shoplifter recently appre hended by Statesville police evidently believes in holding to the general lheme Among tlie phonograph re cord he is accused of stealing are the following titles: Praying Get Should Go On "Step urn Me "Pardon Mr and "I Waited Too Long" Now no doubt be given a picture from other side GOOD INVESTMENT Ers kine Johnson who owns two cottages down at Ocean Drive came by this morning to show us what must be toe most pro fitable investment in the coun try today Ife had two checks from the SodTli Carolina Public Service authority "for interest on ser vice deposit through December 31 One check was for $140 and toe other for $280 Mr John son explained that he Iras two deposits one for five dollars and the other for ten "I wish I could buy some stork with returns like that" he said So do we STATESVILLE SHOTS MarybeJle HORTON panicked because invitations have not ar rived Young Bobby KUT TEII carrying gift package with extreme care Mr and Mrs BEAVER receiving congratulations on their 25to wedding anniversary Mrs BROWN getting an ex tra warm welcome Mrs Cteiide MILLER making minia ture rosebud trees from holly olives and cheese Mary and rances RAMSEY going for a ride Monroe ADAMS giving photographer instructions iV? TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO DREAM A surgeon's hand hesitates momentarily over the tiny body of Kim Smith only eight hours old The infant was undergoing a life or death operation on his deform ed esophagus in Children's Hospital Denver Colo Dramatic photo capture one brief scene in the suc cessful two hour operation Without it Kim would have died of starvation within a few days Hospital authorities report that the infant is making satisfactory progress Successor or Slain Sheriff To lie Picked By AMBURN Jr TAYLORSVILLE Alexander County Board of Commissioners will meet here riday to name a successor to Sheriff Bebber who was fatally shot last week Gill Dellinger of Hiddenite a member of the three man board said ortner cnairman has called a meeting for 9 am in the courthouse Wayne Payne is the third member The commissioners will al that time receive the recommendation ol the Democratic Executive Com mittee which meets Thursday night Patterson of 'Stony Point chairman of the Democratic Exe cutive Committee said there is a possibility that the group will not be able to agree on one man a commitice' of 16 from throughout the county it might be hard to get Patterson said However it is possible that toe committee might submit more than one name to the commission ers It would then be up to Uie board to select a sheriff It was pointed put by Dellinger that the selection of a successor had to be inanimous He said he believes the three commissioners can agree on one man Patterson and Dellinger both re fused to state publicly who they are supporting for the post left vacant last Tuesday when Sheriff Bebber was shot in toe back at the Jones Ellis home is quite a lot of the fu ture of the party Pat terson said He expressed the hope that there would not be a split in the Democratic Party over nam ing a sheriff Patterson said that he has a man he will recommend to the executive committee at meeting Until that time he is not discussing recommendation with anyone haven't talked with any of the precinct chairmen about this and I will not until toe he said Dellinger who has been listed as a possible appointee Tuesday told Statesville Record Land mark that he is not actively seek ing the post When asked if he would take the job Dellinger replied: I am not seeking the The commissioner who is a pmil try farmer said he did not know how his name was listed as a pos sible appointee Tlie latest person to be mention ed for the post is John Behber son of the deceased sheriff IJe is a police officer in Hickory Others mentioned include: Char Continued On Page 2) Summit Talk Prospect Dim GENEVA IUPI The Western Big Three handed Russia's oreign Minister Andrei Gromyko an ulti matum today that unless he stopsstalling on Berlin the present Big our talks will be broken off with out any hope of a summit confer ence High Western souices said the West was in agreement that there was no point in carrying the 30 day old conference any further unless Russia abandons its deter mination to undercut Western rights in Berlin Secretary of State Christian IJ' rter and his rench and British partners went into a secret ses sion with Gromyko determined to have a quick showdown Just before this session Jk rter rench oreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and British oreign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd sidetracked the East West issue Jong enough to attack a dispute exploding in the middle of their own camp This broke out overnight over rench President Charles de Gaulle's refusal to permit nuclear weapon stockpiles in rance unless his government has direct control over these vital NATO armaments Diplomatic sources said the three men here made the first moves to heal what could become a highly dangerous split Negro Suspect Is Identified RALEIGH UP A Negro suspect who killed a Lee County deputy and wounded two other men was identified today by state prison authorities as an escape artist with a long criminal record The fugitive was identified as Thurman Andrew Hicks alias James Jones 34 of Washington 1)C The slight who was transferred here from a Sanford hospital Monday for treatment of gunshot wounds has served pri son terms in Maryland Virginia and North Carolina He was caught by a posse Monday Ricks was serving 30 days for disorderly I and public drunkenness when he escaped from the Cary prison camp near line on April 4 tliafi He had escaped throe times while serving prison terms in Vir ginia for assault with intent to kill and feloniously tampering with railroad tracks He also had served a term in Maryland for as sault with intent to kill and was picked up for questioning on a similar charge in Miami Sheriff Holder of Lee County said the Negro was trans fen ed here to avoid the necessity of placing guards at the Sanford hospital Tlie man was listed in serious condition with wounds in the left shoulder arm and back Holder said toe Negro believed to have shot and killed Deputy Powers Monday morning was a suspect in the rape of Mis red Smith 56 who was assaul ted at her home at Burlington last week Officers from several counties had been seeking the man since the attack and Powers and Dep uty Ralph Matthews apparently acting on a tip were searching a rural aiea near here Monday morning Suddenly and without warning the Negro jumM'd up in a wheat field and fired a shotgun point blank at Powers The officer was killed instantly by a pclli in the hart Matthews dashed to a pa trol car to radio for help He was met by two men Tucker Summers and Lee King who rushed to the scene from a nearby farmhouse Employes To Get Hikes In Salary $130 Rate Holds By ROCKIE HODSON City council last night approved on first reading a record S2 279 395 budget for fiscal 1959 60 which included pay raises for most city employes and a $1200 increase for the city manager The tax rate will remain at $130 per $100 valuation Councilman agreed at the May 11 meeting that all Action Sought On Annexation City council last night passed a resolution requesting Senator Henkel to restore Iredell to the list of counties covered in House Bill 506 prescribing annexation proced ures for towns with a population of 5000 or more Action by the council was taken on recommendation of the Plan ning and Zoning txvard A similar resolution was passed by the Mooresville town board Iredell was dropped from the provisions of the statewide bill which permits annexation under certain cir cumstances without a vote of the pi ople involved by Rep John McLaughlin Action was deferred on an ordi nance pertaining to building set back lines for the central area of Statesville Hie Planning and Zon ing Board has proposed an ordin ance dealing with the problem and council is expcci rd to take action on the proposal in the near fu ture Dickerson and Bagnal both em phasized that the proposals was in the nature of a long range plan and bring many immed iate changes in the area Gil liam Sr asked for time to study the proposals Council awarded a contract to Gilbert Engim ering Company of Statesville in tlie amount of $119 612 for the installation of curb gut ter and paving in connection with the 1959 60 street improve ment program Tar Heel Construc tion Company was awarded the re surfacing contract which amount ed to $28645 North Mulberry Street was re moved from the list of streets to be improved under this year's pro gram and it is piubahle that Speed ball Road also will be removed from the program this year if it is agreeable with officials of Howard Hunt Pen Company The city had previously promised to curb and gutter the road and still Intends to do so later Dickerson had decided before lhe meeting last night to recom mend that North Mulberry Street be removed from the Im provement list this year so that the money could tn1 used Io repair damages to streets from the storm last week Grier and Mrs Land asked the city to de fer indefinitely improvements Io the street It was their contention that the assessments against them would nm high and that the pro posed improvements help them anyway Mrs Land suggest ed a brtfer project would be to clean up Kelly Street Dickerson said that he hoped the city could receive funds from the stat? which could used to widen East Broad Street from Oakwood Drive to East End Avenue In other action council rescinded its previous action calling for a public hearing on an amendment to the zoning ordinance pertaining to slaughter houses cxeniled a power contract with Duke Power (Continued On Page 2) employes would be moved up one step on the salary scale and that members of the police and fire de partments be moved tip two steps according to a recommendation by Heiman Dickerson city manager The recommendation at that time excluded pay increases for tha mayor councilmvn and city man ager and flie estimated cost of the increases' for live 206 city employes was $31015 Mayor Garner Bagnal stated last night that he and the council men had discussed the city man salary and had reached the conclusion that his salary should lc increased He pointed out 'that Dickerson is receiving less than managers of other towns the siz of Statesville and that refused to take a pay increase last year salary was in creased $9600 to $10800 Upon recommendation of Coun cilman Earl Teague the salaries of superintendents of four depart ments were increased two steps instead of one as previously propos ed Teague said that the men were doing excellent work and assuming heavy responsibilities and should be paid accordingly The four are: Reese superintendent of the street department: II llarlee King superintendent of the ceme tery department Ed Hol comb superintendent of the water depart ment: and Marvin A Ballard su perintendent of the sanitary depart ment Councilman Raul Lingle suggest ed at one point that if they were going to raise the salaries of some of the superintendents that all should be raised and Councilman Clarence Steele suggested that there were probably others working for the city who had merited more than one step pay increases but no motions were introduced to provide further increases Mayor Bagnal however stated that the city judge was not receiving a very high salary and asked that councilmen consider raising his (Continued Ou Page 2) Boy Injured In Accident Jimmy Holland 13 ycar old sots of Mrs Elizabeth Holland route Harmony is in Iredell Memorial Hospital as a result of injuries injuries suffered in a tractor acci dent yesterday The accident took place at about 1:30 pm yesterday as young Hol land was driving a tractor and pulling another tractor on the Robert Thomas farm near Har mony According to Mrs Holland the tractor started turning over and the youth jumped off As he jump ed he caught his leg in the wheel and was crushed under the trac tor lie was trapped under the trac tor for approximately 15 minutes while a young boy who was watch ing ran to gel help Some neigh bors lifted the tractor and freed the boy Holland was then brought by ambulance to Iredell Memorial Hospital Dr Nicholson II said that Holland received a fractured pel vis but his condition was describ ed as good Umstead Tries To Delete und or Education RALEIGH tUPl) The battle lines were drawn in the House today for a last ditch fight over lhe question of additional money for teacher pay raises Tlie House by a 58 53 roll call vote riday approved an amend ment to the appropriations bill adding 10 million dollars to the nine month school fund for the coming biennium Rep Carroll Holmes of Perquimans author of the amendment said he hoped the extra money would be used for pay raises for teachers Rep John Umstead ol Orange began the debate on the bill by sending forward an amendment to delete the $10 million do not have any way to pay for that obligation" said Umstead He noted that lhe i nance Committee had not in creased taxes to provide lhe nec essary money and that to ap prove the increased appropria tions would necessitate cuts in other state services "I want the school people for the resulting cuts said' Umstead Holmes said that "North Caro lina is not too poor North Caro lina is not unable to provide com petent instruction for our chil Holmes who called for a roll call vote on the amendment asked "Are you willing to give the children the best instruction available? Are you to lay on the people the burden of paying for that Under questioning by Rep Watts Hill Jr of Durham Holmes admitted that he had voted against a proposed 1609 per cent teacher pay raise two years ago and that he had not introduced any hills in this ses sion to provide lhe money for such a raise Rep Kemp Doughton of Alle Continued On Page 2) Reds Prepare Alternate Plan MOSCOW UPD The Soviet Union and East Germany reached complete agreement in the open ing session of formal talks in the Kremlin today on an alternative plan for Berlin if the Geneva for eign conference fails Moscow home radio service said that the "situation in Germany and West Berlin especially in connection with the progress" at Geneva was discussed by the Soviet and East German delega tions "The exchange of opinions con firmed the full identity of views of lx)th parties on the aforemen tioned lhe broadcast said Western observers said an al ternative plan for Berlin and further Communist strategy were the major items under considera tion They expected the confer ence to produce the outlines of a Soviet East German peace treaty and perhaps the final treaty itself Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev headed the Soviet delegation which included Deputy Premiers Anastas Mikoyan and rol Kozlov and Deputy oreign Minister Vasili Kuznetsov The East German delegation was headed by Premier Otto Grolewoh) and Communist Party Chairman Walter Ulbricht ollowing the meeting in the Kremlin Khrushchev and the East Germans left Moscow for a visit to Riga capital of the Lat vian Republic Survey Shows 660 New Workers To Be Needed In Iredell County Industry By A steady increase in employ ment is anticipated here during tfic next four months according to a statistical report released today by Wade Wilson manager of the local office of North Carolina Em ployment Security Commission According to the report 430 ad ditional workers will be needed by July 15 Of this number 230 will be needed for factory jobs and 200 will be needed in non manufactur ing fields Between mid July and September 15 some 230 additional workers willlve needed due large ly to further hiring in apparel manufacturing Increases are an ticipated in apparel metal and machinery manufacturing con struction and trade industries The employment estimates arc based on information submitted by some 82 representative Iredell County firms which employ more than 11500 workers or about 61 per cent ol all non agricultural wage and salary workers in the county The sample of manufactur ing firms upon which the employ ment estimates are based repre sents over 71 per cent of lhe to tal manufacturing employment At the present time an estimat ed 25445 persons are working in the county an increase of 3545 over the past nine year At toe time of the 1950 census there was a total of 21900 perons working in the county Wage and salary employment in non agricultural industries was es timated at 18954 in mid May an increase of almost 400 during the past two months actory employ ment advanced by around 200 workers during this period While all manufacturing industries show ed increases expansions in appar el industries were responsible for a majority of the added jobs Con struction employment gains ac counted for most of the Increase in the non manufacturing work force As of mid May the total Labor farce in the county stood at 26610 Of this number 25445 were employ ed and 1165 wore unemployed There were 3600 persons working in agriculture and 21845 working in non agricultural jobs A further breakdown of the workers show 2900 self employed unpaid family worker and domestics There were 18945 wage and salary work ers Of the 18945 wage and salary workers 11265 were working in manufacturing plants as follows: food 570 textiles 4 33'1: apparel 1010 lumber and furniture 2200: metal and machinery 1575 and all other manuf actur ing 560 The 7680 engaged In manufac turing positions were employed as follows construction 1180 trans portation commercial and utilities 380: trade 2710 fi nance insurance and real estate 325 service except domestic 1 510 government 1510 and other non manufacturing 65 The current jobless to tal represent 44 er cent of the local la Ivor force considerably un der the national and slate averag es Clairtis for unemployment in surance have shown a steady de cline here recently As of mid May the claims volume had dropped to 337 or a ratio of 24 for each 1000 workers covered under the un employment insurance program According to Wilson high school graduates school diop ouls and re entrants to lhe labor force are expected to exceed the demand for labor during the next four months Approximately 300 high school graduates have been given apti tude tests and counseling to help them determine their potentialities in different fields of work In addition to the ones who are currently unemployed there are hundreds of additional people who would be available for industrial employment if more job opportun ities existed in the area These in clude housewives and person now commuting to jobs in other areas Also additional workers could be drawn from portions of counties adjacent Io Iredell At the end of May there were 1179 applications for employment on file at the local office compar ed with 1662 a year ago During May 297 new appli cations were filed at lhe office compared with 320 for the same period a ear ago Wilson said his office received 418 job openings during the month compared vvith 280 during May last year There were 559 referred to jobs com pared with 301 during May Iasi September year There were 301 persons plac ed during the month compared with 180 during May last year There were 419 initials claim for unemployment compensation filed at the local office in May compared with 933 during May last year They claimed a total of 1835 weeks compared with 4100 weeks during the same period a year ago Wilson said he would like to thank all employers vvho have operated with his office by rcleas ing information about employment at toeir firm I I I.