Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

mm dm A VOL 90 STATESVILLE TUESDAY JUNE 30 1964 NO 156 TROOPS PULL OUT CONGO 4 Dead 14 Missing In Ship Blast WEATHER Generally fair and mild tonight Wed nesday warm with scattered showers Local temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 6 am today: High 84 low 53 Net Press Run 13700 County Board Is Continuing Budget Study County commissioners yester day heard from several depart ment heads as they continued to work on the proposed 1964 65 budget Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record a Landmark 1 Intervention ails Board Studies Concord Book Two Children Victims As Plane Hits Homes itself had been craft into pet a to Typhoon Sweeps Manila Causing 16 Deaths Wallace To Be On State Ballot for had said in in forces feared this four military diplomats disorder down Radio coni were disrupted of an 86 jet fighter that crashed into a home in her brother Todd eight The pilot Capt Dalbert Ramon Mitra spokesman for Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas Hundreds of families were homeless as swirling floodwa ters unleashed by the typhoon washed away houses construct ed of light materials powerful winds blew off thou sands of rooftops and tore off giant billboards on top of multi story buildings A mother and her daughter died en route to Manila Gener al Hospital after being dug out of their collapsed house Three persons drowned in Pasay City a Manila suburb on the shores of historic Manila Bay ed with moisture laden air from a southwest monsoon the the chil their with agents ready to become for any federal bureaucrat who has a gripe If an investigation must be carried out in connection with the Warren commission we suggest it ought to concern it self with why the American peo ple have been kept in the dark so long about what the com mission has learned Why have not these papers including the Oswald dairy and other documents bearing on the assassination already been made available to the newspap ers and other media? Surely the commission has been able to come to some sort of ver dict by this time If it has the people are entitled to know what it is'lHt they are entitled to know that too Any further delay in making some sort of an announcement will almost certainly carry po litical implications In the mean time the source of newspaper accounts is no business of the BI EVENTS AND THE DAY We all know that July 4 is the day the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of In dependence but the day has other claims to fame as well Here are a few of them: The Military Academy was formally opened in 1802 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel ist and short story writer was born in North Salem Mass in 1804 Stephen oster first great composer of music was born at Lawrenceville Mass in 1826 John Adams and Thomas Jef ferson second and third presi dents of the United States both died on this date 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence The song was first publicly sung by the children of Boston at a ourth of July cele bration in 1832 (Continued On Page 6) CAPE KENNEDY Atlas Centaur moon rocket failed to achieve an or bit today in a critical test for its role next year in the first unmanned lunar landing mission The experimental Centaur upper stage plagued with problems for more than three years shut down two minutes early and failed to reach the speed necessary for orbit Scientists had hoped to show that the 112 foot space booster had overcome its earlier prob lems and was able to streak into a high orbit The first eight minutes of the flight appeared to go per fectly NO PLACE OR BI Duties of the ederal Bureau of Inves tigation are being so diluted that there can be little question its effectiveness is being im paired Latest example was furnish ed Monday by the Warren com mission named more than six months ago to investigate the circumstances surrounding the assassinatiton of President John Kennedy Now Lee Rankin chief counsel for the commission has announced that the BI is he ing asked to news paper publication of the diary of Lee Harvey the accused assassin To begin with we fail to see where a federal law has been violated in the publication of the diary at worst only a ques tion of policy can be involved and that is not a matter calling for investigation by the BI It reminds of the time during the steel crisis when the late President had the BI calling newsmen from their beds at 4 clock the morning in an effort to collect data support ing his action against the mills We can see no plausible excuse for the use of the BI agents in such circumstances Another broad area in which the BI is being put to ques tionable use is the civil rights controversy Agents of the bur eau have been required to run down the pettiest sorts of ru mors relating not to violations of federal law but to local law enforcement below the police court level Thus it is not surprising that with so many agents off on so many wild goose chases the real federal criminals the bank robbers automobile thieves syndicate operators even baby snatchers are operating on a scale not possible heretofore We dislike and are apprehen sive about the apparent deter mination to make the BI into a sort of ali purpose gestapo typhoon flooded whole neighbor hoods of Manila Life for the 25 million resi dents of the darkened capital was brought to a near stand still Telephone and telegraph lines were blown munications The Manila Electric Company cut off all power to prevent fires or electrocutions Cables snapped and lashed wildly in the winds The storm tore the roof oft the penthouse office of United Press International located on top of an eight story building in downtown Jnila five said she was their (the in supporting Wallace Wallace said if he won the Tar Heel state the electors be pledged to He said his people were work ing in 16 Southern states in an attempt to get enough electoral votes to throw the presidential election into the House of Rep resentatives Wallace had no comment on North Carolina politics and said you elect will be all right willi Statesville police yesterday raided Pool Room Court Street and arrested five men on charges of gambling Jailed yesterday on the gam bling charges were Hugh Rum pert Bryant 50 1502 West ront Street Lonnie A Rogers 59 1212 Boulevard John Glenn An derson 24 of North Wilkesboro Kelly Nicholson ox 36 522 West ront Street and George Neely Howell III 22 328 Rey nolda Drive Police Chief Myers said that Patrolman A Hunsucker dressed in civilian clothes walk ed into a room upstairs over the pool hall and asked the men if the game was open They asked Hunsucker to join the game and as he walked closer to the group he told them to remain where they were and informed them that they were under arrest I Howell and ox fled from the scene but were arrested by several officers who had sur rounded the local pool hall All five of the men have been released from custody under a $300 bond each for their appear ance iii city court on July 6 By ROCKIE HODSON Iredell County Board of Elec tions this morning mot to con duct an official convass of the Iredell County vote on Saturday but Winberry chairman said that the votes would not be tabulated until late this after noon An irregularity in counting votes on the state ticket in Con cord Township reported Monday to be under investigation has not been investigated yet and the elections board would not specifically promise this morn ing that it would be Attorney A Raymer the Republican member of the board said he heard of the discrepancy until this morn ing and would need to check the law' on what procedure was pro per and indicated that the facts would be reported to the State Elections Board The third member of the board is Miss loy Wilkinson secretary Winberry said that the board will do whatever it is required to do by law and that he know what that is yet The matter was first report ed to Winberry Saturday night by Rex Campbell registrar for the Concord precinct who was not present at the meeting to day The matter came up in the meeting today only after a re porter asked about the alleged irregularity Winberry first said that there had been no protest or complaint about the matter that the board had not gone into it that there would have to be some formal protest by some one before the board would make an investigation He later backed away from this state ment and said that the board had not yet made a decision about what it would do Campbell reported Saturday night to Winberry that there were 53 more ballots counted in the race than there were names on the poll book Official returns turned in to day from Concord Township showed 314 votes for Dan Moore and 292 for Richardson Prey er in the governor's race In the lieutenant race the vote was 159 for Clifton Blue and 414 for Robert Scott In the school board race the returns showed 156 for Adrian Dobson and 397 for Murdock The difference between the total the school hoard race and the race is 53 When the reporter asked see the poll book today it was discovered that two figures were reported for the total num ber who voted One figure was 571 and the other beside it was 562 In a quick spot check of the poll book some errors were dis (Continued On Page 6) ive Arrested or Gambling Saddler To ace Assault Charge Sheriff Charlie Rumple today reported the arrest yesterday of Eddie Lee Saddler 23 Negro route 1 Statesville on a war rant signed by Sam Torrence Williams Grove Road charging him with assault with a deadly weapon Saddler was released from custody under a $250 bond nation The last UN peace keeper to leave was the force com mander Maj Gen Aguyi Iron si a six foot four Nigerian and one of the more colorful men to emerge from the United Na frustrating mission here this day It Is the end of an the gen eral said "My boys are very glad to be going home So am Then waving the stuffed baby crocodile he uses as a swagger stick Ironsi climbed the gangway of a chartered Lebanese transport which took him and the last 85 Nigeri an troops back to Lagos Earlier today a Royal Cana dian Air orce plane left with 58 Canadian officers No Congolese officials were at the airport to bid farewell to the departing UN troops They were seen off by Bibiano Osorio Tafall Mexican chief of the UN mission which re mains to run the $132 mil lion annual civil assistance pro gram in the Congo with UN gone Western a slide from chaos Leopoldville decked out in banners and bunting for weeks in anticipa tion of fourth anniver sary of independence from Bel gium One of the final acts of Pre mier Cyrille Adoula whose parliamentary mandate expires today was to postpone the cel ebrations in fear of possible demonstrations The only thing certain here was uncertainty ull scale Communist backed rebellions raged in Kivu Kwilu and North Katan ga provinces Despite the huge size is as big as the United States east of the Mississippi economic life is almost at a standstill Adoula was resigning today leaving the Congo for a mo ment without a government Diplomats said the present hope for the future lay with Moise Tshombe the man who on July 11 i960 pro claimed the independence of Katanga the richest and most advanced province The first UN troops landed in Leopoldville July 15 after the Congolese army and police mu tinied Later the UN had to fight three wars to end Katan secession and reunite the nation LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo The last United Nations troops left the Congo today to end a four year intervention which cost the taxpayers $420 million but failed to bring peace to this huge equatorial nation The date coincided with the fourth anniversary of an inde pendence riddled witli civil strife and economic stag SCENE Air Guardsmen search through the wreckage Haverhill Mass early today killing two children Pamela Gifford 11 and Sullivan parachuted to safety minutes before the crash (UPI Telephoto) governor told newsmen means I will be on the ballot in North The Alabama chief executive said i organization would further comply with state law by staging a party convention at an as yet undetermined lo cation He said however bis party would not offer any can didates on a lower level Wallace said his campaign plans in North Carolina were being handled by Mrs William Burton of Hickory a political unknown Mrs Burton the mother of HAVERHILL Mass (UPD A pilotless jet fighter plane crashed with the explosive fury of a bomb early today into three homes and a dozen parked cars in a residential area of this industrial city Two sleeping children were killed The pilot with an agonizing prayer that the area below was uninhabited ejected himself from the 86 single seater craft and parachuted to safety He landed in a tree The plane dropped silently and swiftly in the blackness shortly after midnight and crashed with a thunderous roar on Lackney Street The street was transformed into a sea of flames The plane ricocheted off one house veered crazily down the street bouncing off parked cars and another house and plunged nose first into the bedroom of a third house where dren were asleep with dog kids never a policeman Dead are Pamela Gifford 11 and her brother Todd 8 chil dren of Mr and Mrs Earl Gif ford The dog also was killed The parents were hysterical They were taken to a hospital for treatment The pilot Capt Dalbert Sullivan of Back Bay section said the engine went MANILA (UPI) Typhoon Winnie smashed across the heavily populated northern Philippine' with 118 mile an hour winds today causing at least 16 deaths and millions of dollars in property damage The typhoon one of the strongest to hit the Philippines in years forced a power shut down throughout the city and the suburbs due to toppled elec tric and telephone poles Thou sands of trees were uprootednd most streets were flooded international and do mestic airports were closed to traffic as Winnie battered Ma nila and outlying provinces for seven hours before roaring out into the South China Sea The power shutdown and the flood waters dumped by Win howling winds partially is olated Manila from the outside world and the provinces The blackout of electricity left Manila still paralyzed by nightfall Officials were afraid to turn the power back on be cause so many electrical lines were down It was not immediately known when the power would be re stored It was reported over the radio that it might be as long as two or three days Damage from the storm was described as by RALEIGH (UPI) Alabama Gov George Wallace will be the third candidate on the pres idential ballot in North Carolina in November Wallace told a news confer ence here Monday that he had more than 50000 names on pe titions to put him on the ballot in the Tar Heel state He said that about 25000 were certified as registered voters 15000 more than required by North Carolina law Standing behind the stacks of petitions collected by Wallace aides in the past io days die To Achieve Peace Adoula Quits Post Commissioners in their dis cussions are giving preference to school needs for the three systems and have ruled out across the board pay in creases for county workers in deliberations to date Chairman Boyer told department heads yesterday af ternoon and last night that com missioners and County Manager Shuford are taking a look al in several coun ty positions and pay increases if any will probably come al a later dale except for special cases to bring workers in line with others doing similar work Boyer told each department head of the three point reason for not allow ing pay increases as recom mended in many departmental budgets Personal property tax valuation is unsure at this time as a result of the recent 10 per cent method used for filing tax es discrepancies have been un covered in the same type of work and commissioners plan to review' the jobs for uniformity and the school situation in the county which commissioners term Commissioners com pleted some sections of the budget yes terday and Mrs Bernice Mc Junkin county accountant is to work toward a final draft for presentation to commission ers next week for possible adop tion and setting up a tax rate for the 1964 65 fiscal year Sheriff Charlie Rumple was the first department head be fore commissioners yesterday to discuss a request of $74037 Sheriff Rumple explained to commissioners the operation of the department since two addi tional deputies were provided by the board last year A night patrol has been established Sheriff Rumple said His de partment the sheriff added is still short on manpower to meet the demands of the people County arm Agent Wayne 1 ranklin and Mrs Nancy My ers county home agent also presented their requests in per i son County funds being sought I are $26047 for the farm agents: $11427 for the home agents and $7343 for the Negro farm and home agents State funds are added to the programs Register of Deeds Lynn Nes bit's budget request of $52380 Includes a $20000 special re quest to combine and close two (Continued On Page 6) MY Headed By Shuford Charles (Chuck) Shuford Jr of Statesville is the new president of the Methodist Youth ellowship Council of the North Carolina Conference Shuford is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Shuford Sr 831 Woods Street A rising sen ior at Statesville Senior High School Shuford has been an out standing football and track man in high school sports Shuford is a member of the Race Street Methodist Church Methodist Youth ellowship In 1965 Shuford will be the presid ing officer of the Work shop at Lake Junaluska The new officers elected will attend a meeting August 9 11 at Pfeiffer College in order to plan the program for the 1964 65 church year Other meetings will be held late in 1964 at the Methodist Building in States ville to plan the 1965 meetings at Lake Junaluska Rev Paul Duckwall of States ville director of MY work for the Western North Carolina Conference is in charge of this activity The MY is part of the program of the Conference Board of Education headed by i mi van rung oi btatesville ex ecutive secretary 15 Seriously Burned As Oil Rig Explodes MORGAN CITY La A catamaran shaped oil explo ration vessel with 43 men aboard drilled into a natural gas pocket in the Gulf of Mex ico today and exploded in a sea of flames our men were known dead A Morgan City hospital report ed 14 men missing and feared dead and 25 survivors many of them badly burned The Coast Guard said there were 26 sur vivors and 13 men missing The huge rig one of thou sands used to probe the bottom of the gulf for oil exploded burned and sank in 15 minutes in pre dawn darkness The vessel the Baker exploded in flames about 3 am while drilling for oil in 186 feet of water 78 miles west of Morgan City La Wind blew the flames away from one corner cf the platform however allowing the survivors to jump before the rig sank Early reports said many of the survivors were badly burned cither from the fire on the rig or the boiling flaming oil on the surface of the water The owners of the vessel Reading and Bates of Tulsa Okla said its fuel tanks could carry up to 15000 gallons of diesel oil for the drill engines It was not known how much was in the tanks when the ves sel exploded The injured were picked up by vessels at the scene and transferred to two Coast Guard and three oil company helicop ters and flown to Lakewood Hospital in Morgan City Two Coast Guard cutters In cluding the Point Young out of Grand Isle La and a Navy vessel the Yukon were at the scene A spokesman in the Houston office of the owners de scribed the doomed vessel as a catamaran rig with two sepa rate hulls made by steel tend ers A platform bridged the two hulls providing working room tor the powerful drill He said the doomed was classed by the Coast Guard as an ocean going vessel although it could not propel it self and had to be towed position He said it had been on particular drilling job for days under contract to the Pan American Petroleum Corp Moon Rocket ails In Test dead on him after a small ex plosion Before ejecting himself he said he turned the plane to black hoping no houses were below Sullivan father of five chil dren thought he would not sur vive He said prayed that my five children would get a good father I prayed the area was After landing in the tree Sul livan climbed down and made his way to the swift flowing Merrimack River He inflated his portable raft and floated out on the river until he was rescued Joseph Bitonti who was watching a late show on televi sion said he heard enor mous noise like an atomic bomb and I saw a mass of flames saw Earl Gifford (father of the dead children) wander ing around in a complete daze I shouted 'Watch out for the live wires and He just Matthew Cummines who I lives next door to the Giffords said his house shook as if I struck by lightning Residents grabbed garden hoses and sprayed them on the burning houses and cars It took firemen more than one hour to put out the fires Highly explosive jet fuel splashed throughout the wooden home and it became a mass of flames in seconds The parents ran to safety before a wall of fire The plane first hit the home of Mr and Mrs Richard Ayan ian Both of them were lucky to be alive The 64 year old husband was asleep in the bedroom seconds before the crash But he woke up with awful and went to the kitchen for a drink I of water xsSS 1 i it inn iiinWlfa ID i 11 DmhL 11 BRUMES Jr iSKHraaHEr SAW a AsE VMM Dr P' Sr.