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MOUNT Editor's Note: Following is the sixth in a series of articles being Ann prepared this summer Mount's by AmerSugg, who is Rocky ican Field Service summer, This exchange student to Norway about town of this article tells where she is summer spending with the second half of the Rjukan, the shopkeeper. family of Additional Oskar Batheticles from time to time in will appear the future. ANN SUGG the morning of July 18 Norway I left HolRJUKAN, feeling sorrow and exmestrand with a Leaving the Aslestad citement, family was I was going to like leaving my own meet family, a but new then man going to Oslo sat we began talking about familfrom me on the train and which one might find the things in Norway. When and took my bags to we pulled into Drammen, he got off train. Again I found my my suitcases on the right self trying train to get when a rather elderand put them on another ly man came up the car for there me.

left for me to All that find place to sit. So was I do began was to to go a from compartment compartment his until wife I found and their one to with only a The best thing of all man, baby the in fact that they both spoke it. was English. Both of them are teachers, and into quite an inthe woman teaches English. teresting We got conversation comparing the two different school systems.

self in Kongsburg where I was was Time flew 'by and I I my- to catch the bus to Rjukan. to on met here and was a three hour helped get the right through of the most bus. After bus trip country to be some beautiful mountain I arrived in found anywhere, Rjukan. the bus, I found myself Stepping the off busy town of Rjukan. On towering all sides it mountains is and beautiful surrounded by has been here, he lakes.

realizes After the truth in the statement there is only one street in Rjukan. narrow The town lies in such a only four valley that there are streets Rjukan across originally the was width. a thun- which now has been dering harnessed waterfall and tamed, giving birth to the industrial the center of Rjukan, Here some the of world larg- are est power producing 500,000 kw. stations in electricity derived from this located, over is used by the nearThe water factories power of Norsk Hydro Conby cern. Here, hydrogen and nitrogen turned into ammonia and calsaltpetre with heavy water are cium resulting as an important inhabitants are duct.

The some dependent upon this indusmainly for the livelihood. During the try shifts, few streets of factory become crowded with the Rjukan to and from bikes, motorcycles, in workers hurrying work on cars modern and shops here, giving the buywalking. There are many er a great choose. Aside from the variety of items from there are those which to which regular cater shops, to the tourists with displays of beautiful and their original Norwegian not handicraft. only an industrial Rjukan center but a tourist finds itself as well, Nearby Mount Gausta attracts many visitors each year beauty and a over 6,000 with its towering, majestic feet.

The mountains and many for the lakes form a natural paradise eager fly-fisherman and mountain lover. In Rjukan, there a is cable car which carries one to the a mountain plateau where one of finest views of the valley and very lofty Mount Gausta can be enjoyed. those who live here, this is To home and a town of which they A proud. There are two are schools school which trains public manual skills. This school is modern and has an indoor very swimming pool.

which the town's people enjoy all year long. facilities, The town also has the usual such as a -police department af fire department. There are several churches here of various denominations. No' picture of Rjukan would be complete without There mentioning two the "Kino," or movie. are showing nightly to which to the flock entire population seems about twice a week.

As in so many Norwegian towns, Rjukan number is kept of clean and has a parks filled with gay flowers and graceful birches. Exchange Student Tells Reckless Driving About Life In Norway Charge Lodged Rev. Glenn Easom Holding Services At Church Of God The Rev. Glenn G. Easom of Greenville, former pastor of the North Rocky Mount Church of God, is conducting services this week at the Church of God on Davis Street.

The minister is brother of the local pastor, the Rev. J. R. Easom. The services, starting each evening at 7:30, will extend through Sunday night, Special local music features known as selections the by group Masters Three.

Warren Bailey Feted At Meet Special tributes were tendered the retiring director of the Upper Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Warren Bailey, at the regular meeting Tuesday night of the West Edgecombe Ruritan Club. Bailey, who will become superintendent of the Piedmont ExperStation on Sept. 1, was presented a gift from the Ruritans and also an honorary chapter Farmer's degree from the West Edgecombe Future Farmers of America chapter for his outstanding contributions to the Vice President Fred Langford conducted the meeting held at Josh Bulluck's and Cecil Brake served as program chairman. Lawrence Bradley made the FFA presentation to Bailey, who is a former president of the West Edgecombe Ruritan Club. Guests at the meeting Dirk Hinton and Tom Butler.

Prizes were won by Henry Bradley and D. L. Dawsen, UN Council To Approve Session By MILTON BESSER UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) U.N. Security Council is pected to approve quickly the calling of an emergency U.N.

Assembly meeting on the Middle East. The 11-nation Council will meet tomorrow to consider rival U.S. and Soviet proposals for an emergency session of the full 81-nation Assembly. It could be under within a day or two, depending Council. U.S.

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said the United States welcomed a General Assembly meeting "now the Soviets have rejected our offer of a high-level of the Security Council." "Lodge noted that a U.S. resolution asking an emergency Assembly meeting has priority the Counsil. "We intend to press it to a vote at the earliest possible moment when the Council convenes." he said. The rival resolutions were shunted aside when Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced his original proposal for a summit meeting of the United States, Britain, France, the U.S.S.R., and India, attended also. by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.

The U.S. resolution asks the emergency meeting to deal with appropriate recommendations concerning a complaint by Lebanon against President Nasser's United Arab Republic. The U.A.R. was charged with intervening in Lebanon's internal affairs. U.S.

sources took the view that the wording of the resolution is broad enough to bring up related matters in the General Assembly. Since the filing of the original U.S. resolution July 18 there has been an election in Lebanon and an easing of tension there. THE EVENING TELEGRAM SECTION Cartoonist Dies er Page, 'LOUISVILLE, whose editorial cartoons Ky. (AP)-Grovappeared in the Louisville for nearly 40 years, died last night.

65, had a heart ailment and Page, contracted pneumonia shortly after entering a hospital last week. Page, born in Gastonia, he would N.C.. decided at the age of 10 become a cartoonist. Except for brief interruptions, his adult life was a cartoonist. His use of wood blocks, wood and linoleum blocks in engraving, the standard pen and ink sketches was credited with giving more art to editorial "short- pages.

Page called himself a order" artist, because he usually whipped' out final sketches in half an hour. He won the Edward Shorter Prize for the best block print in the Southern States Art League competition three times. MARINES ARE BACK MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) -Approximately 6,000 Camp Lejeune. Marines are scheduled disembark here today after three weeks of maneuvers in the bean area.

Some 1,600 other Marines who participated in the exercise were returned They were 35 ships an Atlantic Fleet amphibious task force. The task group originally, formed for possible deployment the Middle East. When the Mediterranean situation eased. diverted to the Caribbean. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 6, 1958 HERE'S HOW IT GOES--Paul Raymond Bulluck Ill, whose dad farms in the West Edgecombe community, leads a hand with the tobacco harvesting machine, but that steering wheel is almost too much for the lad who is only three years old.

Harvesting tobacco was the order of the day on most farms in this area as farmers got ready for the scheduled opening of the Eastern Belt on August 21. (Telegram Photo by Kille- Coopers Area Planning For Its Own Fire Dept. COOPERS Fire protection is; spreading over Nash County by leaps and bounds, covering every little nook and cranny. very soon now Rural Fire Department No. 12 will, join ranks with the other 11 in the county, stretching the blanket of protection over the Coopers Community, stationary set for the base station, will be partially paid for by the county and by Civil Defense.

According to O'Berry. Civil Defense will pay half of the cost; the county will pay one-forth of the cost and the department will pay one-fourth, making the department's share total some $300. A site previously selected for the department headquarters, to be located. in Boone Town via a life-time lease from F. H.

Boone, was apparently objected to by some of the community members. Some of the 10 directors present reported rumors to the effect that some of the community members wanted the headquarters located elsewhere, possibly somewhere in the community on highway 58. Others said that the location was criticized because the people thought that the lifetime lease meant for the life of Mr. Boone, instead of for the life of the department. The board unanimously approved the site in Boone Town, previously selected by the members.

Plans were adopted for having an attorney draw up' a charter, and contract to present to the county after receiving the initial plication of $1,500, and for making apblanks for selecting firemen. No firemen have been selected as yet, but a fire chief has been appointed in the person of D. F. Boone. The department is young, but steadily gaining )ground since its beginning the first week in July.

Twelve members of the Board of Directors have been elected, with L. R. Joyner as president and chairman and John -F. Willey as secretary, At Tuesday's meeting the board selected the first Wednesday in each month as meeting night for the firemen, and the last Wednesday for in each month as meeting night the directors. The election of officers will be held in September of each year, with staggered terms of one year each.

Believing that the people who support the department should know exactly what is going on, the directors have slated a mass meeting with the community for September 3rd at 7:30 p.m. at: Coop. ers: School, if the people of the community respond generously to a- fund raising campaign that will be essential in starting the department on its way. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the newly Coopers Volunteer, Fire Department Tuesday by-laws were adopted, laying the groundwork from which the young department can grow and operate efficiently. The by-laws cover membership qualifications, officer elections, and present the rules by which the department will be operated.

Nash County Fire Marshal Perry O'Berry explained each phase of the by-laws to the group and offered instruction in adding or taking from the laws if the need occurs. Also brought out by O'Berry was the need for annual affairs, such as barbecue suppers, for raising funds for the department. "There is one thing you will need to keep the department going," he said, "and that is money. The group, after soliciting funds on their own, will go before the Nash County Board of Commissioners to request an initial fund of $1,500 to buy a truck and equipment. Two-way radio equipment, a mobile set for the truck and a SECTION Woman Is Bound Over On Series Of Charges A Route 1, Rocky Mount resident was charged with reckless driving Tuesday night following an accident on Hammond Street in which two people received slight injuries.

Investigating Police Officers B. 'G. Rivenbark and A. F. Watson filed the reckless driving charges against Michael Delane Davis, of Route 1, Rocky Mount, after the motorist, hit his a vehicle, telephone and pole, collided lost with The a officers parked stated that Davis.

who received leg abrasions and was taken to Park View Hospital, made a wide right turn from Church Street into Hammond causing him to hit the telephone pole. The 1954 Oldsmobile he was driving traveled approximately 72 feet and collided with a 1956 Oldsmobile which was parked in a yard at 213 Hammond Street. In addition to the injuries received by Davis, another occupant in the car, Betty Proctor, of Hunter Hill Road, was treated for shock. The 1956 Oldsmobile with which Davis collided was the property of Lonnie Alvin Vaughan and was damaged an estimated $700. Davis' vehicle was damaged an estimated $850.

The accident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Police Team Taking Part In Matches Chief of Police J. I. Nichols, who is president of the North Carolina Police Executives Association, was unable to preside over la two meeting of the organization which opened today in Wilmington. Nichols is confined to his home with a injury.

However, a team of seven police officers left today for the Wilmington meeting and will participate Thursday in a pistol match with teams from other N. C. cities. The Rocky Mount pistol team is composed of Lt. J.

B. Lt. Ernest Tilghman, Detective J. M. Hoell, and Patrolman Horace Winstead, Ed Williford, Larry Hataway, and H.

Z. Luper. Auto Damaged By Truck Here A 1951 Pontiac being driven a Raleigh woman was approximately $150 today truck driver's foot slipped off the brake pedal and the truck rammed into the back of the automobile. Henry S. Cokey, of Route 1, Whitakers, who was driving a truck for Hamilton Wholesale Company, of Rocky Mount, told investigating officers that he applied his brakes, but hit the vehicle after his foot slipped off the pedal.

The Pontiac was being operated by Phyllis G. Edwards, of 3827 Cobb Street, Raleigh, The truck was not damaged. The accident occurred at the corner of Grace Street and Raleigh Road shortly before 9 a.m. Kindergarten Mrs. J.

S. Blue announced today that the kindergarten which she operates at her home at 608 Eastern Avenue will open September 2. The number of children to be enrolled will be limited and the school will operate only on a morning schedule. Hours will be from 9 a.m. until 12 noon.

Hearing Is Set In Assault Case A 33-year-old Rocky Mount Negro has been charged with felonious assault with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury as the result of an assault which occurred here July 26. Detective Harvey Culpepper arrested Henry Parrish, of Thorpe Apartments, Raleigh Street, today and is holding the Negro in City Jail. Bond was set at $500. Parrish assaulted Walter Edwards, another Negro, with a knife. A preliminary hearing has been set for Recorder's Court as soon as witnesses are subpoenaed." Double Billing LOS ANGELES (AP) Danny may have been the main attraction on stage at the Greek Theater, but backstage it was something else again.

forfeited The comedian $5 bail yesterday when he failed to citation appear in court to answer a charging him with smoking backstage at the theater last Thursday. Fire Inspector John Lansing said. he cautioned Kaye against smoking and was told: "You can't do this to me. I'm the star of the show." To which Lansing said he responded: "I'm the star of my show too, and (handing the citation to Kaye) just present this I ticket at the box Burning Memories Insured For Waterlogged Kittens Two waterlogged kittens, still, too young to open their eyes, were rescued today from a burning woodshed behind Bertis Whitley's home one mile from Rocky Mount on Highway 301., According to four-year-old Bertis Wayne Whitley, who is more or less unfamiliar with arithmetic, the pair of felines are part of his brood of 600. When questioned about the resoperation, young Whitley said he didn't know the two kittens were in the abandoned shed he had been using as a playhouse, "but I've got 600 under the A 44-year-old Rocky Mount wo-1 man was bound over to Nash Superior Court today on charges of breaking and entering and in attempting to assault her Released under a $250 bond until the next term of the Nash court was Mrs.

Rosa N. Stancil, a housewife of Country Club Drive. Mrs. Stancil was found not guilty of trespassing charges brought against her by the plaintiff, Mrs. Grace Neville, of 3136 Sunset Avenue, in Recorder's Court, but Judge Norman Gold found probbable cause in the breaking and entering charge.

Mrs. Neville, the wife of the defendant's brother, testified that he sister-in-law called her on the night June 20 and said that she coming around to "beat me up." Mrs. Neville said that after receiving the phone call, she locked all the doors to her home and called police officers. Before officers arrived, she stated that Mrs. Stancil came to the window of her bedroom and started cutting the screen.

She said that Mrs. Stancil, removed screen and halfway in the window, so she ran into another part of the house which is rented to another couple. Police Officer V. L. Draughan testified that when he arrived the house, the two women ewere in the rented apartment arguing and that later.

Mrs. Stancil grabbed Mrs. Neville and slapped her. Draughan stated that he advised Mrs. Stancil to leave Mrs.

Neville's house and when she failed to do so that he put her under arrest for trespassing. Draughan stated that after arresting Mrs. Stancil he went back to the Neville residence and found a screen lying on the ground and that the screen had been partially torn. The torn screen was offered as evidence by attorneys for the plaintiff and Mrs. Neville identified it as the screen which Mrs.

Stancil removed from her bedroom window. After the screen was offered in evidence, the defense recalled Officer Draughan to the witness stand, and Draughan testified that the screen was not torn in the same manner when offered in evidence as it was on the night the incident occurred. Mrs. Neville's husband (brother of the defendant) testified that his sister came to the house on the night in question to move some of his personal possessions and that when she arrived at the house that he went to the back door and let her in. The brother said that he was loading his possessions at the time that his sister allegedly assaulted his wife.

Mrs. Neville testified in court that she spent seven days in the hospital as a result of injuries received from the assault by Mrs. Stancil. She said that Mrs. Stancil slapped her, hit her in the side, pulled her hair, and pushed her against a wall.

Positions In Game Management Open The United States Civil Service Commission, through local Postmaster H. C. Rountree, announced today that there several positions of U. S. Game Management Agent, are open.

The job pays $4,980 per year. Application forms or information concerning the may be secured at the local post office or from the Fifth U. S. Civil Service Regional Office, PeachtreeBaker Building, 275 Peachtree Street, N. Atlanta 3, Ga.

Positions to be filled are located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi. Applicants must pass a written test and will be rated on their experience and education. Plant Expands CHARLOTTE (AP) Chadbourn Gotham, of Charlotte has acquired the business and leases of the Carwood Manufacturing Co. of Winder, Ga. The announcement came yesterday from J.

C. Bolles, president of Chadbourn Gotham, and W. Clair Harris, president of Carwood. Carwood will be operated as a division of Chadbourn Gotham with the present management and personnel to continue under Harris. Carwood is one of the largest manufacturers men's work garments and sportswear in the United States.

It has seven planis in North Georgia with the offices at Winder. Chadbourn Gotham manufacturers women's hosiery, lingerie and men's hose. The company has two plants in Gainesville, and others in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Quebec, Canada. Bolles said combined annual' sales of the two companies should total about. 35 million dollars.

Pilot Is Killed BEIRUT U.S. fighter pilot was killed when his plane crashed 30 seconds after a catapult takeoff from the carrier Saratoga. A nabal spokesman today identified him as Lt. (j.g.) Kenneth Seawright Jr. of the U.S.

Naval Reserve. He is survived by his widow, Betty Ann Seawright of Jackson, and his father, K. Seawright of Albany, Miss. Seawright was catapulted in normal launching in an F3H Demond: Navy all-weather jet fighter, interceptor durisg regular operations. The spokesman said search continued until dawn.

He said the body was not recovered. Memorial An Elk's ritual memorial service will be observed this evening at the regular session of Elks Lodge No. .1038 here, It was announced today by spokesman for the lodge. The service will be in memery of Charles Cooper Harris, charter member of the organization who died here early Monday morning. Mayor Page Gravely, a life-long friend of Mr.

Harris, will deliver the eulogy. The meeting will begin o'clock. 34 Certificates For Swimmers Thirty -four young citizens of the Rocky Mount area recently completed a beginner swimming course and have been presented certificates by the Rocky MountNash County chapter of the Amer. ican Red Cross. The course was taught at the Municipal, Horace Swimming Felton.

Pool by inIt included instruction in breath holding, rhythmic breathing, prone float, prone glide, back float, back glide, kick glide, arm stroke, finning, combined stroke, change of direction, turning over, leveling off, jumps into waist-deep and deep water and the plain front dive. Those completing the course were the following: Marie Zaytoun, Mary Paula Zaytoun, Robert Collins, Barbara Stussie, Mary Floyd Farmer, Shirley Michael Johnson, Andrew Jones, Jones, Eddie Powell, Larry Leggett, Don Ballane, Tommy Jones, Eddie Wood, Mike Pitt, Verna Shearin. Donald Williams, Phillips Williams, David Bradshaw, Carl Joyner, Leamon Norris, Janet Rosser, Claire Rosser, Dianne Tyner, Lynn Joyner, Katherine Brake, Joe Brake, Lee Tyler, Kathy Buckman, George Jones, Jimmy Taylor, Dianne Siler; Margaret McLin, Al Adams and Beverly Rosser. Support Case Brings Road Term Safety Meeting The Eastern Carolina Safety Council will hold its regular quarterly meeting at Josh Bulluck's Friday at 6:30 p.m. W.

H. Seward, safety and training supervisor for Albemarle Paper Manufacturing will be the featured speaker. His topic will be "Talking Without Listening To The executive committee of the council has extended a particular invitation to representatives of safety minded industries. The program will offer door prizes and music in addition to the barbecue dinner. New Journal Editor Has Sister, Other Relatives In City Vermont C.

Royster, the Raleigh native who has been appointed editor of The Wall Street Journal, has local connections. He is the brother of Mrs. James R. Trotter, wife of a local attorney, and also is more distantly related to members of the B. Kyser family.

Royster, son of. Mrs. Wilbur H. Royster and the late Mr. Royster of Raleigh, was a Phi Beta Kappa student at the University of North Carolina.

He married Frances Claypoole of New Bern. The new editor succeeds William H. Grimes, who has been editor is of The Journal since 1944. Royster the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing as well as other national- awards. He has served as senior associate editor of The joined Journal since 1951, having the news staff in 1936.

Royster was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial. made writing in The award was lence of for the general the his and the writing throughout excelling year, his Pulitzer board cited to' discern the underlying moral issue, illuminated in by a deep faith and confidence the people of our country." Use N. C. Port WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) Bragg authorities have announced they will- utilize Wilmington port facilities in transferring two airborne battle groups to Europe in December and early next year.

Last December, the Wilmington Morning Star said' in an editorial that the rotation of Army personnel in Europe "could best be carred out through the port nearest the camp in the United States which the troops' were being The editorial urged the use of the Savannah, port "for Ft. Benning troop movements and utilization of the state docks here for Ft. Bragg troops." The units to be shipped out here are the 1st Airborne Battle Group of the 504th Infantry and the 1st Airborne Battle Group of the 505th Infantry. Chance To Live WINSTON SALEM (AP) Eleven Hamilton, nickel-size Terry hole Wayne his a in head now closed, has been given a 50-50 chance to live by doctors at Bpatist Hospital here. Surgeons spent four hours operating on Terry yesterday and reported later he was in satisfactory condition.

The doctors said the operation wouldn't have been successful without blood donated by several volunteers. Among the latter was Mrs. Ralph Lomax of Salisbury, whose own son underwent a similar operation and survived earlier this year. Terry is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

M. L. Hamilton RI. 2, bury. A local Negro 1 man was given an 8-month road sentence today in Recorder's Court for failing to comply with a court order that he support his wile and children.

Sentenced was Benjamin Joyner, Negro of 918 Star Street, who appealed the verdict to Nash Superior Court. Bond was set at $300. In another case, Lillian Taylor Massenberg, Negro of 401 Goldleaf Street, was given a 30-day jail sentence when found guilty of a charge of assault. Bond was set at $50. Other cases tried today in the local court were: William R.

Medlin, 1612 Falls Road, speeding submitted $20. Guy C. Madden, Shreveport, failing to stop for stop signsubmitted $8. Jerry D. Jacobs, Negro of Alabama, drunk-30 days on the roads suspended.

Anne Speight Fox, 312 Edgecombe Street, $20.. William T. Leggett, 1111 Eastern Avenue, using center lane for through traffic-prayer for judgment continued. Rose N. Stancil, Country guilty.

Club trespassing--not Rose N. Stancil, breaking and entering-bound to Nash Superior Court, bond set at $250. Police Meeting WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N. C. (AP) were all over the place today.

But they weren't looking for, sion of the North Carolina Police crooks. It was the opening ses-1 tion Assn's. annual convenExecutive here and more than 200 police officers from throughort the state were on hand. A highpoint of the convention tion begins on the when Wilmington competi- fircomes tomorrow for firing teams and individual marksmen. The speakers' list for the threeday program includes Bob Giles Gov.

Hodges' administrative assistant; Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheidt, and Col James R. Smith, State Highway Patrol commander. Girl Is Injured GREENSBORO (AP) A 23- year-old Swedish girl who lost an arm and suffered head and chest injuries when she walked into an airplane propeller yesterday was in critical condition here today. The accident occurred just after Miss Brigitte Ahlberg of Stockholm had landed at a private airstrip in a plane piloted by the Rev. James Gibbs, pastor of Moriah Methodist Church.

The minister had taken Miss Ahlberg and several other members of a religious group for rides. Authorities said the plane itself was stationary when Miss Ahlberg struck the moving propeller. She underwent emergency surgery night, the same night she was to have started her return trip home. Extended Hike NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Schoolteacher Harry embarks on another one of his extended walks today.

This time it's to Ottawa, Canada, his longest foot-trip to date. The 51-year-old walking enthusiast figures the 500 miles will take him 15 days. Moskowitz will carry good will letters from Gov. Robert B. Meyner wand Rep.

Peter W. Rodino (D-NJ) to Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Tyler Thompson, the American consul general in Ottawa. Other, less ambitious strolls have taken Moskowitz to Albany, Washington and Hartford, Conn. Higher Prices On Leaf Mart VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP)-A high daily average price has been set by Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco and indications are the price will continue to elimb despite heavy volume.

An upward trend of $1 to $3 held for all groups Tuesday except cutters which were at previous levels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that general quality and prices were higher with much tobacco selling for $63 to $66 per hundred pounds and some best going as high as $67 to $69. A majority of the markets were blocked by the heavy volume. Under rules limiting the number of baskets to be sold and the length of selling hours, sales had to be halted before the floors were cleared of offerings.

For the season, more than two million pounds more had been sold through Monday than for the same period last season. The comparative figures are 47,021,545 this year compared with 44,823,511 for the first five days in 1957. The average price per hundred pounds this season has been $58.17, up more than three dollars from the $54.96 average last The auction bid averages per 100 pounds Tuesday showed good lemon leaf at $66, fair orange leaf $65, low orange up $1 to $64; fair. lemon lugs up $2 to $66, low orange lugs up $3 to $64; good lemon primings up $1 to $65, fair lemon up $2 to $63; and best thin nondescript up $2 to $40. Bowles Given Life Sentence KOUSTZE, Tex.

(AP)-Bryant W. Bowles, 38, was connected and sentenced to life in prison last night for the shotgun murder of his brother-in-law James Harvey, 35. Bowles, founder of the National Assn. for the Advancement of White People, showed no emotion. His wife, an expectant mother and sister of the slain in man, fainted.

A District Court jury convicted Bowles of murder with malice. Witnesses said Harvey slapped Mrs. Bowles in a family argument the day before he was shot to death last May 4 at Loeb, Tex. Defense lawyer Joe Goodwin of Beaumont said he will appeal. Testimony at the trial developed this chain of events: Bowles, who has actively op posed integration of Negro and white pupils in this east.

Texas area, was in Chicago at the time his wife was slapped. She phoned him. He drove back to their Beaumont home. She accompanied him to her brother's home, where Harvey was shot down on his front porch. The defense contended Bowles went to Harvey's home only to pick a fist fight with him but fired when he thought Harvey was yo ing into his home for gun or I knife.

house." Twelve men and two fire trucks from the Stoney Creek Volunteer Fire Department rushed to the scene at 11:55 a. m. Credit must go to them for saving the two lives. The roof and walls of the shed were damaged by fire, but there was no estimate on the loss. Cause of the fire was not determined.

The kittens? They were reportedly doing fine under the constant care of about a dozen neighborhood children. Their condition is expected to be about. perfect as soon as their mother can be located..

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