Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

EVERY GOOD GUY GIVES THE UNITED WAY 1' 1 ft jr nt I wl Sl NEW POLL Winberry chairman of the Iredell County Board of Elections hero Inspects one of the new looseleaf poll books which will be used for the first time in the general election November 3 The modern system called the finest to be found anywhere is a result of the new county wide registration held earlier this month The new system will ex pedite voting in the county's 23 precincts Voter Turnout Predicted At 23000 New Election System Praised Iredell County now has the most elaborate election para phernalia to be found anywhere Winberry chairman of the Iredell County Board of Elections said the new system would allow a record number of citizens to vote with a mini mum amount of confusion are really fortunate to have MISSING THE POINT Else where in today's Record Landmark is a letter from James Dees opposing the $100000000 school construction bond issue to be voted upon next Tuesday Mr Dees has every right to the position he takes By the same token we have every right to attempt to show where he is wrong The most charitable con clusion we can come to Is that Mr Dees simply under stand what he is writing about In the first place there Is not even the remotest connec tion between the national elec tion and the proposal to sell a $100000000 Issue of state bonds to speed up school construction in the 100 counties The one is partisan the other non parti san the one is political the other educational "It has always been custom ary in this state for the people tn the local communities to de cide what school buildings were needed and then to raise the money themselves and build them" Mr Dees says That is not strictly true It has been and still for the local communities to decide with state approval what buildings are needed but the local people do not always raise the money needed to build them Twice within memory the state has sold school con interim Government CAIRO UAR An interim government headed by Gen Ibrahim Abboud but eliminat ing all other military men was formed today in the neighbor ing Sudan republic to rule until elections are held Dignified Auto MAIDENHEAD England struction bonds of exactly the same type Involved in the Nov ember 3 election We too are strong for local government We believe that governmental operations should be carried on at the lowest level where they can be effi ciently performed But there are some operations that can best be performed at the state level Schools and roads are cases In point Anyone who can recall the days before the state took over the operation of the roads and schools has a good picture of the miserable failure the local units made in those two cate gories Does Mr Dees realize that Iredell county is still pay ing off the bonds it issued to build the road to Harmony? That road is now Inadequate It is being replaced by a four lane expressway which Iredell simply could not build on its own No county will be "In compe tition" with any other county for funds from the school bond issue Under the law the money will be apportioned on the basis of average enrolment Each county will get its share automa tically If it is already abreast of its school building needs then the law provides that the money be used in retiring outstanding school bonds And no county will be re quired to pay more than its just share in retirement of the $100 000000 school bonds The bonds will become an obligation against the general fund and will be repaid from existing tax levies Taxes need not be in creased to retire this issue In deed through this and in no other some of the food tax will find its way back into school buildings Iredell county has already done a commendable job rais ing funds for school construc tion More than a third of its total tax levy has been going such an up to date i Winberry said The new county wide registra tion found 25791 citizens getting their names on the books in the 23 precincts during the month of October Winberry predicted that vote on November 3 will be more than 23000 Already 535 absentee ballots have been sent from the elec tions office More absentee ap plications are expected from people who have become ill since the deadline at 6 pm Wednesday Speaking of the absentees Winberry pointed out that mili tary applications this year were 315 more than the total number of persons voting absentee in past years There have been 200 civilian applications The new registration books contain the name address pre cinct party affiliation race sex age registration date and place of birth of each qualified voter These sheets are placed in handsome looseleaf books which make it possible to keep the registration list current At the time of the new regis tration there were more than 34000 names on the roils A breakdown of the total re gistration shows that there are 20121 registered Democrats in the county 4942 Republicans and 728 Independents Of these 13425 are females and 12366 are males There are 22880 white voters and 2911 qualified Negroes Statesville No 1 the precinct with voting at Davie Avenue School has 2627 registered vot ers to lead the list Close be hind is Statesville No 2 with 2411 Olin is the smallest precinct with 403 voters and New Hope has 406 registered More than half of the registered voters are registered in the Mooresville and States ville precincts There are 3 710 in the three Coddle Creeks and 10199 registered in States six precincts All three Coddle Creek pre cincts have more than 1400 vot ers while the spread in States ville is from 879 in Statesville No 3 to 2627 in Statesville No 1 It was said prior to the regis tration that it would be a phy (See 1 Page 2) VOL 90 STATESVILLE RIDAY OCTOBER 30 1964 NO 260 OUSTER REASONS GIVEN Huong Is Named Premier Saigon Mayor To Take Over In Vie! Nam SAIGON Viet Nam (UPD Mayor Tran Van Huong of Sai gon was appointed today as the first civilian premier in nearly a year of war torn dissension riddled South Viet Nam On the anti Communist war front two US Air orce pilots were killed Thursday in a fight er bomber crash 12 miles north east of Saigon A US spokes man said the pilots were on a training flight and the crash was believed the result of hostile Their deaths raised the num ber of Americans killed in four years of warfare in Viet Nam to 314 including 217 killed in combat against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas 97 killed in accidents Mayor Huong 60 was asked by the new civilian chief of state Phan Khac Suu to head the new civil government which is supposed to succeed that of Maj Gen Nguyen Khanh appointment was subject to approval by the 17 member High National Council The disagreements over the choice of a premier had already delayed the trans fer to civil rule by three days past the Oct 27 deadline prom ised by Khanh Though Khanh was stepping down as premier he was ex pected to retain control of the army and thus the direction of the anti Communist war Embattled South Viet Nam has been under military rule since the overthrow of Presi dent Ngo Dinh regime one year ago this coming Sun day Huong has said his first alm as prime minister would be to free the army to devote all Its energies to the fight against the Communist Viet Cong guerril las Bolivian Toll Reaches 35 LA PAZ Bolivia (UPI) Au thorities today reported 3 dead 30 wounded and more than 300 arrested during four hours of battling Thursday night be tween rebellious students and police Rioting students who bar ricaded themselves inside San Andres University after storm ing and burning the Health Ministry left the building today under a "safe conduct" negoti ated by churchmen Communist led mobs also battled troops and police in two other major Bolivian cities in creasing the toll of a week of bloodshed to at least 35 dead Sporadic gunfire crackled through the streets of La Paz throughout the night and new violence appeared likely today Most business houses continued closed President Victor Paz Estens government announced it is breaking relations with Com munist Czechoslovakia I MB MBp A nfl UN MERCHANTS NAME Allen Knox right a vice president of North Carolina National Bank today was elected president of Statesville Merchants Association Pictured with Knox are left to right Sam Hickman vice president Paul Morgan outgoing president and Mrs Travis Shaver re elected treasurer The new officers will assume their duties at the association's annual banquet in January 1965 Khrushchevs Many Errors Are Stressed MOSCOW (UPI) Commu nist party members were being told today that Nikita Khrushchev was fired for a long series of mistakes ranging from the Cuban missile crisis to his shoe pounding at the United Nations Informed Communist sources disclosed Thursday night that an official document is being circulated to the 10 mil lion members giving the real reasons for Khrushchev's sud den dismissal Nowhere does It mention the original official re port of his retirement on health grounds sudden removal brought many foreign Commu nist officials to Moscow to seek an explanation Thursday night the rench delegation left ap parently satisfied that the new Soviet leaders had acted cor rectly Similar agreement wag expected from the Italian In dian Austrian and East Berlin parties The sources said no official confirmation of the Knox Elected By Merchants Statesville Merchants Associa tion today elected Allen Knox 915 Hedrick Circle to serve as president during 1965 Knox a vice president of North Carolina National Bank heads the slate of officers sub mitted by George Snipes chairman of the nominating committee Members attending the short session of the association pick ed Sam Hickman of States ville Drug Company as vice president Mrs Travis Shaver of treasurer and re elected Mrs Ruth McLean as secretary manager New members added to the board of directors were Ken neth White William Burch and Wilbur Schrimp All the new officers will take office in January 1965 at the annual membership banquet Knox is one of the most active young executives He is president of the Iredell Statesville United und and served as campaign chairman last year He Is a member of the Iredell County Planning Board and Is a past president of Statesville Exchange Club A graduate of State College Knox is an elder in irst Pres byterian Church He is married and the father of two children Bank Robbed Of $61819 ATLANTA (UPD Two armed bandits unaware that a secret alarm had been sounded methodically a branch bank of $61819 today and made their escape minutes Dr McCoy Will Head Iredell Cancer Group Dr Edwin McCoy local phy sician was named president of the Iredell Unit of the Ameri can Cancer Society at a meet ing of the board of directors last night at the Elks Club Dr McCoy succeeds Mrs Harry Epps who will become ed ucation chairman for the 1964 65 year Sim Boyd was named vice president and Louis Mel sheimer will be the 1965 Cascade chairman with Mrs Louis Mac Kesson Jr as his residential chairman New members present for the business meet ing were Mrs Connie Spicer Mrs Gladys Smith and Dr Clayton Wrenn both of Moores ville Mrs Pierce Dr Robert Dame Mr and Mrs Melsheimer Mrs McCoy Mar vin Raymer and Dr Charles Tyre of Mitchell College Other officers named to serve on the executive committee were Jack Springer past presi dent chairman of the board Mrs Mills service chair man Mrs Mabel Brent Negro Division chairman: Mrs Long executive secretary and Mrs Huskins publicity chairman Mrs Epps in her annual re port reviewed the work of the unit during the past year des cribing it as the most success ful year in the chapter's history from the standpoint of finances and service Reports were heard from committee chairmen and the crusade report present ed by Boyd Mrs MacKesson and Melsheimer showed that $463280 was collected This was some $1500 more than last year Boyd said Mrs Brent told the board that the Negro Di vision with Miss Maxine Rut ledge as co chairman collected more than $700 which was its best year to date Mrs Epps also reported on the annual state conv i which she attended from the lo cal unit were Dr and Mrs Harry Underwood Dr and Mrs McCoy Mr and Mrs Melshei mer and Mrs Long Tai Poole field secretary praised the lo cal unit for its work and ex plained the current budget which was adopted by the board In other business the board voted to raise the salary for the executive secretary Mrs Long from $75 to $100 per month Mrs Long is the only paid employe of the chapter and Is designated a part time worker All others are volun teers Berlin Wall Is Reopened BERLIN (UPI) Communist East Germany today opened the Berlin wall for the second time since it was built more than three years ago West Berliners streamed through to visit relatives in East Berlin Under a pass agreement reached between the Commu nists and the West Berlin city government West Berliners with relatives in the East will be allowed one 17 hour visit be tween today and Nov 12 No overnight stays will be permitted and the traffic will be strictly one way The Com munists fear that most East Berliners would stay existence could be expected The document is an Indict ment of Khrushchev's policies at home and abroad Its mala charges are these: made a "serious mis by sending Soviet mis siles to Cuba two years ago and was fully responsible for the loss of prestige when the mis siles had to be withdrawn under pressure from the late Presi dent John Kennedy made the Sino Sovlet split worse by insulting Chinese leaders to their faces and try ing to force satellite leaders to accept a China policy they op posed used his Influence to help his family and friends into power The document criticized in particular at tempts to push his wife Nina into the presidency of the Un ion of Soviet Women often lost his temper or made indiscreet remarks or ac tions in public The famous shoe banging incident at the United Nations General Assem bly in 1960 was listed as one example recent boast to Japanese legislators of a Soviet weapon was another failed to consult his col leagues on the Presidium on such important decisions as granting the United Arab Re public a $280 million loan or awarding the hero of the Soviet Union medal to UAR Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser bungled planning for So viet agriculture and industry meddled in the cultur al life and caused widespread resentment when he suspended scheduled income tax cuts two years ago the age of 70 he was beginning to show some of the tendencies which Soviet citizens associate with Josef Stalin easy to anger intolerant of the opinions of others Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark Lord Astor Thursday gave his 12 year old Rolls Royce to this city for the use He said that after observing last office holder bicycl ing to civic functions he decid ed the town needed a "digni fied No Comment TOLEDO Ohio Editor Ben jamin Strange of the Toledo Monitor a weekly business newspaper picked up a copy of this week's edition Thursdayand found the Monitor had en dorsed state Rep Charles Kur fees his opponent for the state legislature Strange had no comment into a capital reserve fund which now contains about $1400000 rom the state issue we stand to get another $1400 000 which will just about take care of our current school build ing needs After that has been done then some of the local capital outlay tax amounting to something like 30 cents on the $100 valua tion can be removed That will leave us in the enviable position of having modernized our school system on a pay as you go basis Somehow we had always felt that was what the people wanted Down In Iredell WEATHER air and cooler tonight Saturday fair and cool Local temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 6 am to day: High 72 low 38 STATESVILLE SHOTS our year old Dean BROWN JR saying that he wants to cast his vote for Santa Claus instead of Goldwater Nathan STA ORD loading truck early in the morning Legal SHER RILL proud of new grandson Douglas Constantine SHERRILL bom in Worcester Mass Gladys SIPES attending Scout Court of Honor Iredell's Registration igures TOTAL 20121 4942 721 12366 13425 22880 2911 25791 Precinct Barringer 563 155 10 369 359 636 92 728 Bethany 571 196 21 393 395 726 62 788 Concord 762 221 50 513 520 945 88 1033 Chambersburg 860 202 39 554 547 1029 72 1101 Coddle Creek 1 1293 301 45 802 837 1514 125 1639 Coddle Creek 2 1216 204 49 659 810 1188 281 1469 Coddle Creek 3 1288 258 56 759 843 1513 89 1602 Cool Springs 435 77 9 254 267 451 70 521 Davidson 625 179 17 409 412 770 51 821 Eagle Mills 282 159 14 237 218 385 70 455 allstown 1189 195 25 699 710 1245 164 1409 New Hope 184 208 14 203 203 395 11 406 Olin 237 157 9 199 204 399 4 403 Sharpesburg 381 142 29 290 262 527 25 552 Shiloh 1104 221 45 688 682 1244 126 1370 Statesville 1 2187 399 41 1201 1426 2438 189 2627 Statesville 2 2066 316 29 1083 1328 1474 937 2411 Statesville 3 707 135 37 375 504 860 19 879 Statesville 4 760 145 22 411 516 828 99 927 Statesville 5 1465 356 57 932 946 1727 151 1878 Statesville 6 1031 356 90 681 793 1431 46 1477 Turnersburg 524 126 6 310 316 527 129 636 Union Grove 391 234 14 312 327 623 11 639 before police arrived A lady teller grabbed the gun of one of the bandits but re linquished it when his partner threatened a life The robbery occurred at the Ponce de Leon Avenue branch of the Bank of Georgia at 9:18 am just minutes after large sums of money were dis tributed to tellers for handling week end payrolls A plucky woman teller Mrs Doris Lewis grabbed the pistol of one of the bandits when he laid it on1 a table to scoop out her cash drawer But Manager Ball Jr shouted to her to put the pistol down when the confederate threatened other employes and customers he had herded to the rear fellows were mean and tough" Ball said "Jf a judge of character I think they would not have hesitated to Unit or Girls CAMBERLEY England The commanding officer of the local sea cadet corps started a unit for girls after discovering the male cadets would rather date girls than attend meetingk i a 'VW' CANCER Irsdsfl UnW gf fits American Canctr Society elected new officers at its business meeting last night Dr Edwin McCoy center wm named president Other officers ere left to right Mrs Louis MacKesson Jr residential chairman Louis Melsheimer Crusade chairman Sim Boyd vice president' and Mrs Harry Rpp retiring pmldont and new education chairmaik.