Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

J' Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark VOL 92 STATESVILLE RIDAY EBRUARY 11 1966 NO 36 VIOLENCE SPREADS IN SANTO DOMINGO New Mitchell Library Is Given Clearance Construction Gunshots Echo Contract Goes k7 To West 14 11 ATWELL ALEXANDER Award Given To Alexander Welfare State Carl Litaker Elected United und Leader Some pretty big things have i 0 1 UNITED UND George A Scott third from left Is shown congratulating Carl A Litaker as 3 'J! organiza the Elks Reformed the for is accompa successful by leftist Angry Man TERNT Italy Police said Aldo di Vanni 42 became vio lently angry when questioned on suspicion of so much so that he smashed his fist through a glass door panel at the police station whipped off his wrist watch and swallowed it before startled policemen could stop him He was hospitalized for observation let At the Ur Civitans Plan Session Here Hugh Mitchell a Staten ville attorney and former state senator was re elected as na tional president of the Ameri can Coalition of Patriotic Socie ties at the annu al conference yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel in Washing ton Speakers at the annual con ference included Dr Carl Mc Intire president of the Interna tional Council of Christian Churches Rep Basil White ner who delivered an address of welcome to the District of Columbia on behalf of the House District committee and Senator Sam Ervin Jr who spoke at the luncheon A special citation was given to Senator Ervin in recognition of his outstanding patriotic services to the nation as De left winf of the Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers Local tem peratures for the 24 hour period ending nt 6 am to day: High 57 low 55 Representatives of 60 Civi tan International clubs covering some 2500 members throughout the western and Piedmont sec tions of the state were expect ed to be in attendance tonight for the opening session of the North Carolina District West council meeting The two day event was to get underway at 7 pm today with a at Vance Motor Hotel ball room Albright of Char lotte district governor will pre side A special feature of tonight's opening banquet is a concert by the Statesville High School Grenadiers under the direction of James Calabrese The States ville Civitan top pro ject is the support of the high school band Carl A Litaker president of the local club also announced that the banquet entertainment program would include a read ing by Dr John Lasley pas tor of St Lutheran Church and Miss Elsie Moore Miss Statesville of 1965 will sing The governor's cabinet meet ing will follow at 9 pm business session will feature an address by Mil ton aust of Salisbury gover nor elect of the North Caro lina District West aust i 1 1 speak on Changes In Our International Organiza Also on the morning program Saturday will be a discussion of the Western North Carolina Center at Morganton with Mrs Marsha Brown volunteer services coordinator speaking to the Civitans from the area A luncheon is planned at noon with aust presiding Albright the district governor will speak on at the lun cheon ft ley of Davis Hospital Rodney Collier of usion Rubber maid Roy Vehorn of Carolina Mills and Howard Doyle forest er for Hardwood Research Council Dr Robert Marshburn pastor of irst ARP Church was named to a one year term to fill the vacancy on the board created when Rev Lowry Mc Bath moved from Statesville Retiring directors are Scott Kimball Gordon Urban Jack Grant A Parks Jr Her mann Kappler and Matt hews Scott presided at the victory dinner last night at Vance Mo tor Hotel and presented the or financial report In 1964 $8765742 was pledged to and collections amounted to $8577778 Participating agenc ies were given $8102330 and expenses were $436625 In last fall's campaign the goal was $9262822 and a total of $9324779 has been subscrib ed to the campaign making it the first time in several years that the goal here has been reached Scott paid tribute to Jay rank campaign chairman for the successful drive and pre sented a plaque to rank on be half of the community United und and member agencies rank said the credit was due to the Outstanding job by divis ion chairmen and reported that four divisions went over their assignments in the drive were real pleased with rank said amount is not easy to Allen Knox a past presi dent and campaign chairman presented a plaque to Scott for his leadership during the year A meeting of the board of di rectors followed the annual ses sion Atwell Alexander of Stony Point today received the 1965 Meritorious Award from the North Carolina Society of arm Managers and Rural Appraisers The award was presented to Alexander for being the out standing farm manager for 1965 Wade Hendricks of Statesville is chairman of the awards committee that made the selection Hendricks said that Alexander has made an outstanding contribution in the field of farm management and has demonstrated his capacity for leadership in this and other fields He said the Society was honored to present this award to one of its own members Alexander is 53 years old and a native of Alexander Coun ty He was raised on the farm and graduated from Davidson College when he was 17 years old the youngest student to re ceive a degree from that in stitution He also attended Co lorado College of Mines and the University of North Carolina He holds a Master of Arts De gree in the field of geology In 1937 Alexander began his career as a seismologist with the Shell Oil Company in Tex as In 1940 he became manager of the 1100 acre family farm in Alexander County He now has 20000 layers and a beef cat tle herd of 140 brood cows He has been a member of a number of honorary fraterniti es and is a past president of the Southeastern Poultry Asso ciation Some 10 years ago he was named Man of the Year in Alexander County He has also served as chairman of the board of county commissioners in Alexander County and president of the Northwest velopment Association Alexander has served on state board of agriculture 10 years and at present chairman of the Governor's Special Committee on Agricul ture He is a director of the Dixie Classic air of Winston Salem He has also been a president of the Taylorsville Lions Club and is now overseer of his local Grange tion He is active in Shoals Associate Presbyterian Church Talk On Weeds ST LOUIS Dr Mark Weed spoke to the Weed Society of America Thursday about how to kill crabgrass Stranqe Look AUSTIN Tex The Secret Service said Thursday an identi fiable feature of counterfeit $20 bills being passed in this area is a strange look in Andrew eyes Phew On Depew LAKEWOOD Colo A gar bage truck caught fire turned into an auto junkyard to dump the flaming debris and a fire truck came by to dampen the odorous mess It all happened on Depew Street Not On ile CHICAGO Eugene Johnson recently wrote a radio station requesting that it play a couple of tunes and Bless do not have those musical selections in our was the reply he received Wednesday The station he wrote was Radio Moscow IN DEPTH OR IN fact is that it is not difficult North Carolinians are again be to determine how the reporters Ing subjected to an unrestrained feel from what they write effort by the large daily press to inflate the speaker ban con been happening in the world troversy to proportions far be since a handful of students down at Chapel Hill invited Aptheker and Wilkinson to speak Repeal of section 14 (b) has been defeated in the senate Congress has passed a new GI bill of rights President Johnson has proposed a global food shar ing plan A war continues to be fought in Viet Nam Yet these papers have given more space and and will likely continue to do to the fact that 25 students will not be permitted to hear a com munist propagandist than to any of these other important things We merely want to ask Is this reporting in depth or is it reporting in orbit? STATESVILLE SHOTS John ny ALEXANDER getting nice compliment on how well he de livered his papers during the snow Bryce HARTLEY watching Will ANJOY looking for his name in the paper Mrs aye WHITE polishing beautiful sil ver pieces Harlan ADAMS making plans for Mg boat show RASH baby sitting with grandchildren WAY CLEARED OR NEW LIBRARY This Is an architect's sketch of how the new $550000 library at Mitchell College will look when completed sometime next fall inal clearance has been received for starting construction Design Associates are architects for the project which is being financed by local and federal funds on his election president of the Iredell Statesville United und Inc for 1966 New directors and officers look on rom left are Howard Doyle director Rodney Collier director Scott outgoing president Robert Chandler director Litaker Roy Vehorn director William Burch director John Lewis Jr director and treasurer and Dr Jhn Dearman second vice president Across Capital During Night SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) The violence gripping this city spread today and sporadio bursts of gunfire could be heard in several new areas The outbursts followed a night filled with the rattle of machineguns and the thud of bombs There was no Immediate report of further casualties in the third day of violence that has killed at least 15 persons and wounded more than 50 There were reports of protests against police action in four other cities but no reports of violence The series of shooting in cidents was prompted by tha national police opening fire on an anti American demonstra tion Wednesday by students in front National Palace The violence was nied by a partially general strike called and liberal groups to protest the palace incident and to demand the departure of three military leaders ordered abroad a month ago by Provisional President Hector Garcia Godoy It was not certain immediate ly who was shooting at whom or whether there had been any new casualties Two policemen and three other all Dominicans killed here Thursday and 17 persons were wounded The persons were killed and more than 40 wounded Wednesday the day the current outbreak of violence began Although the tone ef the disorders was violently anti American at the outset the US troops here have scarcely been involved in the outbreak American paratroopers re stored order in the downtown area for a time Wednesday but the shooting started again as soon as they withdrew The trouble started when police fired into a mob of unruly teen agers outside the Dominican Wed nesday killing 2 and wounding 43 yond its merits A few weeks ago Chancellor Paul Sharp casually sent to the board of trustees informa tion purposes the an nouncement that a small group of students on their own initia tive had invited Herbert Ap theker an admitted communist and rank Wilkinson a fellow traveler to speak on the Chapel Hill campus Presumably Chancellor Sharp Intended to permit the Students for a Democratic all two dozen of them to go through with their plans but members of the execu tive committee recognized at once that both these men fall within the regulations adopted by the full board subsequent to the amendment of the speak er ban law Then the executive committee denied by a vote of eight to three the use of uni versity facilities to the two men That is actually all there is to it But judging from the amount of space being devoted to the subject by the big dailies you would think the trustees had de cided to close the university and send its 12000 students in cluding the two dozen SDS mem home for good We do not see the News and Observer regularly but let's re view for a moment the coverage in the other three large morn ing papers This morning the Greensboro Daily News carried four stories on the matter totaling 59 col umn inches or almost three full columns of body type This paper had previously carried a long editorial saying in effect that Aptheker ought to be al lowed to speak We did not measure previous news cover age but it has been extensive The Charlotte Observer car ried three news stories totaling almost three full columns and a 21 inch editorial The burden of the stories was that the gov ernor was on the speaker issue: and the editorial saw the danger of mixing poli tics and speaker bans But if you think this is full coverage you seen any thing yet The Winston Salem Journal carried seven stories for a total of 206 column or more than a solid page of type This exhaustive coverage followed an equally outstanding record on the previous day when there were four or five stories totaling 89 column inch es Editorials had previously been published in favor of letting communists speak on tax sup ported campuses Now this sort of free wheel Ing coverage has been going on ever since the trustees to whom was returned the legal authority to regulate visiting speakers on tax supported campuses decid ed to take a hand And the sad Is Attacked If America continues its in sane excess of the for philos ophy our nation will follow the same road to oblivion as the Greek and Roman empires David Molthrop community education consultant for Na tional Small Business Associa tion told the Kiwanis Club of the City of Progress at its luncheon meeting today is too young to Molthrop said in calling for a return to the "sound basic prin ciples that have made our nation the strongest and the most Molthrop a nationally known debater who makes about 300 speeches a year spoke on vate Enterprise at the Cross Citing specific laws that have moved the nation closer to the welfare state Molthrop said forgotten people in Wash ington are the taxpayer and the small business man Action by government is shoving the small business community closer and closer to bankruptcy and the consumer is the ultimate loser when competition is reduced by the closing of Declaring that the Small Business Association was organized so that the small busi ness community will have a watchdog in Washington and an effective voice to fight for its Molthrop urged the individual taxpayers to take a personal and active interest in government is no such thing as a White in Washington or in our state he emphasized The speaker charged that itself is respons ible for the growing inflationary trend An arbitrary imbalance in the law of supply and de mand is promoted by govern ment by its encouragement of wage spiraling and by its foster ing of unlimited government he said pumped by government into the veins of our economy by waste ful and unnecessary programs can not help but produce infla he declared He noted that the of America are borrowing money at 2 per cent interest from the federal government But he said the government is having a hard time borrowing at more than twice this interest rate He said the should be requir ed to pay at least the going rate of interest now being paid by tha government Molthrop said that the Ameri can dollar is almost entirely dependent on the productive power of the nation and for con tinued growth there is no sub stitute for a dynamic private enterprise system The speaker was Introduced by Eb Kimbrell who arranged the program Bill Burch presi dent conducted the meeting Several local businessmen were guests Carl A Litaker special rep resentative of Jefferson Stand ard Life Insurance Company here last night was elected president of the Iredell States ville United und Inc for 1966 Litaker succeeds George A Scott vice president of Ross urniture Company in the top post Other officers for 1966 are Brown Kimball first vice president Dr John Dear man second vice president John Lewis Jr treasurer and Mrs Joe Morris who was re elected secretary Seven new directors were also elected for three year terms on the board They are William Burch of irst Union National Bank Lewis a local attorney Robert Chandler of Pen ney Company Dr George Eck Hugh Mitchell Is Re Elected Mitchell College has received final clearance to proceed with the construction of its new lib rary President John Montgom ery announced today This was contained in a ter from Harris of lanta regional director of Department of Housing and ban Development Community acilities Division authorizing the college to proceed with the signing of construction contracts West Construction Com pany was low bidder on the 25000 square foot library build ing at $496555 and will be awarded the contract Other bidders were Twin City Builders $512500 Bumgarner Construction and Supply Com pany $516700 and Wilson Building Company $544464 On the basis of these figures the college board of trustees recommended that Mitchell Col lege oundation award the contract to West Construc tion Company and the Atlanta office approved the recommen dation Design Associates archi tects for the project are now preparing the formal contracts for signing The library building which will be located at the corner of West Broad and Mulberry will cost in the neighborhood of $650000 Of this total $220183 will be a grant from the De partment of Health Education and Welfare and $278000 a government loan with the bal ance to be provided by the Mit chell College oundation These figures are a little low er than those originally publish ed because the West bid was under the $532475 estimate made by the architects It is not expected that the building will be finished by the opening of the 1966 fall semest er but President Montgomery is hopeful that some classroom space will be available in it by that time so that the extremely crowded condition in existing classrooms can be eased Mit chell is perhaps the only college in the state which is making 100 per cent usage of its class room space Need for a new library on (See 1 Page 2) Two Proposed or Judgeships WASHINGTON (UPD North two senators proposed Thursday that two jurists from the Tar Heel state be named to the ourth Circuit Court of Appeals Legislation is currently pend ing to add two judges to the court and Sens Sam Ervin and Everett Jordan made their recommendations They 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