Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 8

PAG1 STATESVILLE RECORD LANDMARK inals Held Bible Chapel Honors Cottar Takes Pistol To Son Methodist Dead Veterans Check Miss Della Arnold Joanna Brown I i ntarmaJ 14 Mr XV iSnla US Planes Buzz Time Trials a VA benefit check may not be I Dallas Tex: Adn forwarded from one address to an chfef of of MOSCOW (UP) Russia Happy Birthday Heer Evangelist lloyd bardowell the Each Evening 7:45 ser Mac Gray Auditorium He Assisted By Song Leader Bill Hinder With His Accordion Due To Tremendous Response We Are Repeating This Special! ENJOY OUTDOOR Special 2 All Metal Outdoor Chairs in Red Green Yellow 2 lor $7 99 in cartons Cat Rote urniture Store REE urniture Department Store RIDAY NIGHTS THL 9:00 Call 4329 We Tor Ler North Gantor Street STIKELEATHER GROG ree Perking aza ikon PRACTICE CANCELLED Choir practice scheduled for to night at the irst Presbyterian church will not be held it was announced today years Jacob Charlie Miller speeding $30 and costs July 1 Horoscope You have the green light for attention to important personal matters but should not expect much coordination with those a round home or office parents elders William "Sonny" Hager' Mrs Richard Stine Shirley Ross Josey Mrs Holland Janice McLelland Mrs Guy Ward Annie Ruth Walker Billie Rae Shaver Mrs Hendrix Susan Wade Sloan Sandra Kay Sprinkle Ada Stroud York Nancy Deal Carolyn Dobson Johnny Godfrey DENNIS JAMES lays: $100 worth of Burpee's lower Seeds with eeeh Sot of Outdoor Chairs! Baxter A Mees possessing cne and eee feaif prats ct illicit liquor prayer for judgment continued' far 12 months upon payment of costs I Clifton Mattox no li cense $5 and cosU red Turner simple assault costs Kinard Morrison simple assault pay $14 bill and costs i Murry Keerans letcher no op license $3 and costs Billy James Thomeberg no op license and reckless driv ing eight months on the roads Donald Lee 'Butts speeding $30 fine and costs Butts gave notice of appeal to Superior court and was released under bond Jerry Eugene Brown reckless driving pot guilty Allen Rome Cook speeding six months suspended 12 months upon payment of $100 and costs Johnny Alexander Overcash no license $3 and costs Jay Hall driving after license revoked six months suspended for three years upon payment of $200 and costs Not drive for three LAKE JUNALUSKA Mem orial Chapel at the Methodist chur ch's summer assembly grounds here will be dedicated July 4 in a special ceremony honoring the Methodist dead and living of nine southeastern states who served in the armed forces More than 80000 names of men and women are inscribed in a huge book to be placed in the stone of Remem Their parents and relat ives contributed to the building fund Bishop Costen Harrell Char lotte will officiate at the dedica tion Principal speakers at the holi day observance will be Bishop William Martin Dallas Tex president of the National Council of Churches and Maj Gen Charles I Carpenter Washington chief of Air orce chaplains Assisting in the ceremony will be Bishop Charles Selecman Dallas lex: Adm Inomas law chaplains and dean of the chapel and Dr Elmer Clark Lake Junaluska secretary of the World Methodist council Special music will be provided by the 40 member male choir Keesler Air orce base Miss alarm The call came from GRAVEYARD CLEANING There will be a graveyard clean ing at Macedonia Methodist chur ch off 901 near Harmony Satur day morning Members and friend of the church are asked to gather there about 7:30 or 8 and bring tools for the work PRAYER MEETING Tonic of the nraver mcetins vice at irst Presbyterian church this evening at 7:30 is Pray er Life of Jesus" Rev Neill McGeachy the pastor will con duct the service which will be based on the 5th chanter of brews versos 7 through 9 MOSCOW (UP) The Soviet Union charged today American warplanes have been flying low over Soviet merchant ships in ar Eastern waters near ormosa in "flagrant of freedom of the high seas The official Soviet news agency Tass in a dispatch from the Soviet i Pacific port of Vladivostok said the actian were aimed at "organi zing various kinds of provocations against Soviet ships on the high seas" It cited four cases of Soviet ships allegedly puzzled by American jnili tary planes between May 19 and June 24 The dispatch also said the Soviet tanker Tuapse was seized by "United States naval forces" June 23 south of ormosa A statement completely denied this charge and the Chinese Nationalist government said it seized the Tuapse and intended to hold the tanker with its cargo of kerosene military planes have for a long time systematically flown over Soviet merchant shins in ar Eastern waters and in the Pacific Ocean specifically near ormosa" the Tass dispatch said planes zig zag danger ously close to Soviet ships and sometimes circle over them for a whole it added "Such ac tion by these planes worrv the pas sengers and crews of the Soviet merchant ships actions by American mili tary planes arc flagrant violations of freedom of navigation on the highseas and show the complete disregard of the United States military authorities for universally accepted international law dispatch said CHAPEL Shown here th Methodist Memorial chapel which soon will be dedicated at Lake Junaluska The chapel honors Met hodists who died whfie terving their country Air Service Established Winston Negro ined In Liquor Car Case other Therefore persons who are receiving benefit checks regularly were cAiioned to be sure to in form VA promptly if they change their address If a benefieiairy moves without having advised VA of the change the check must be returned to the Treasury and cannot be re mailed until VA finds out the new address of the recipient This usu ally causes an unpleasant delay for the person entitled to the check VA beneficiaries who are plan ning to change their addresses were advised to get a change of address form from their nearest VA office and fill it in promptly to notify the agency Due to the law against forwarding checks it is not sufficient to notify the post office alone of the address change AUGUSTA Gi A mother was accused today of smuggling to her doomed son a pistol that was discovered in his cell before he could muster nerve enough to use it in an escape attempt Police said Mrs Ruby Anderson of Gloversville admitted slipping a 32 caliber pistol to her son James Morgan 18 who has been sentenced to die for the murder of a taxi driver last year She smuggled the pistol to Morgan in his cell in the Richmond County jail last June 20 "police said and Morgan planned to use it in a break the same day Morgan said he lost his nerve and buried the pistol however and it was found by jail officials Police quoted Mrs Anderson as claimins she made her son promise on getting the pistol from her not to shoot anyone with it "A mother will do a lot for her she was quoted as saying Mrs brother James Price also of Gloversville was arrested as her accomplice 2 for $15 95 te euteat All Other Outdoor urniture Greatly Reduced! A 34 year qld Winston Salem Neg i was punished for hauling liquor rough Iredell county Tuesday ernoon as Judge Winberry id him $300 rT larry' Gilmore who was captur £2 along with 72 gallons cf non Nnxed paid liquor two weeks ago byDeputy Ralph Marshall had told jihe officers that he was making seventh trip when he was icaught The bootlegger was operating a 7t947 Pontiac which Judge Win i "berry ordered sold by the county The Negro was given a 12 month lr 'sentence suspended for two years 4 on conditions that he not violate p' the probition laws and that he pay i a $500 fine and costs Besides transporting liquor he i was charged with no operator's (license Speeding cases filled the leng thy afternoon seston with Judge Win berry dealing out the usual finej 4Hld costs pi Those charged $25 and costs were Steve Calvin Wallin John Lester Edwards John Richard Troutman Andred Isenheur Steven Samergedes Billy Eugene Mc Neely William McKinley Knox James Watcon and Burniee Earl s' Shope Those charged $35 and costs were Julian Campbell Larry Hal Pope 1 Joseph Hugh Pegrem Lawrence Ip Philip Brown Thomas Daniel Woo dy Bobby Colon Barker James Loflin Matthew John Carson John Claude Lankford and William Lee Beattie I Other cases heard AT BLOWING ROCK Mr and Mrs Jay" Little will be at Mayview Manor Blowing Rock during the ourth of July week end doing exhibition dancing and teaching 2 Bunting Outdoor Choirs Rod Groon YoMow and White In Progress RALEIGH (UP) Tims trials will ermrinue here tonight for Sat nstfonal ehampteeship 200 stock car race at the Raleigh Speedway with prospects that more records will fall "Jack Choquette ef Moatdafr covered the mile distance in 42 63 seconds in last trials Tito set a new record and earn the pole postion for Saturday race for modified and 7" Choquette was one of 10 drivers to break the did mark of 45 seconds Set last year by ireball Roberts if 'ft Daytona Beach la Others who broke file record last were Roberts Tom enley Augusta Ga Runt Harris of redericksburg Va Ralph Hen derson cf Spartanburg Ray ft of Richmond Va Dur Howe of Hialeah la Cotton 1 Owens cf Spartanburg Har luff of Louisville Ky and Doug Yates of Chapel Will 5 BIBLE OUND lA A small Bible has been turned In to the police department 'No indication as to the owner wasfound in the book but the owner maY claim the property by con i' tacting the officers and properly describing the book Down In Iredell (Continued from page 1) ry on and pay for their fams with the help of a fifteen year old sister and bis mother to see if I etauld get him on Grade A milk market After explain ing the situation to the plant superintendent he agreed to help and let the bov begin Sep tember 1 Tbiis folks will make 311 Grade A dairies in Iredell the largest dairy county in the state and Southeast Allied with the dairy program we have helped set up the arti ficial breeding program and the DHIA testing program in the county Also we now have 3 breed organization for each cf the purebred dairy breeds and have held purebred sales here to teip sell their heifers to a better advantage bv having these organizations This com ing August 25 at the county fairgrounds will be held the first artificial heifer sale which was set uj to enable farmers who have been breeding artifi cially and' have purebred or grade animals for sale to mar ket them and realize a better price We in the county of fice have tried to keep this point before us at al! times which is simply this we get far mers to expand or take advan tage of better farming practices then we must help provide a market" So far we have done this and that is one reason we have gone ahead of counties around us We have made it a practice since I have been farm agent in Iredell county to try and work with every segment of agricul ture or example the beekeep ers of this county now have an organization and two meetings are held each year with the to bacco farmers' One meeting is held in December or January giving them the latest informa tion on seed fertilizer and var ieties of tobacco and the other in August on diseases This meet ing is held in the form of a clinic at which time farmers bring diseased plants and their problems to the meeting and the diseases are identified and reccmmendaticns made The same is true with cotton turk ish tobacco soybeans and mail gram or example Iredell eoun ty is the only county in the state having a small grain program where farmers can get Atlas wheat colonial barlev hot water treated and Arlington eats for planting and finance the cost until han est Iredell county is responsible for getting federal aid in build ing rural telephones through die REA A meeting was held at Troutman High school in ei ther 1948 or 1949 where ever 7(Ml rural farm families were present with Younglood of the Roll Telephone company out of Charlotte who told the group that it was impossible for them to serve all the people The re of this meeting were taken to Washington and REA tele phones were made available to rural people here and through out the United States About three years ago the poultry industry of Iredell coun ty had grown to the extent that we along with the leading poul trymen of the county realized the definite need of having a full time poultry agent to work with our noultrymen on diseas es marketing and poultrv man agement As a result of this we were able to secure an out standing poultry agent which has helped to marc than double die poultry income in Iredell county Ladies and gentlemen of Ire dell county 1 have tried to serve you to the best of my ability but under no circumstances could 1 have accomplished hat I have here in Iredell county first without your help and co operation without the coopera tion of the ASC office the SCS Ciffiec I 'tlA office Vocational Agricultural teachers all allied businesses farm malnnery feed seed and fertilizer dealers local banks and legal business firms 1 have no apology to make to anyone for the kind of agri culture program mv office 'has carried on for the past eight years Thanks for letting me leave my footprints on vour Iredell agriculture Yours vety truly IL Murdoch 1 11 SHOTS Margaret COLLINGSWORTH getting caught up on local news Mrs Dick MARTIN busy moving Rev Lester BECK HAM and faniilv leaving for Colorado MARTIN looking at lumber Betty HOLLAND happy Mrs CARLTON deciding on ear bohs SMALL IRE iremen answered one Tuesday Statesville lour mill after heat had melted off a sprinkler head There was no damage reported Policy Outlined Nearly 5000000 checks represeat monetary benefits to veterans and their dependents are mailed out by the Veterans Administration every month VA said The principal benefits covered in these large mailings are compen satlea and pension payments for GI training in schools and colleges on the job and on the farm and to dependents of deceased veterans who qualify for death benefits In announcing these large totals VA nointed out that under the law HARMONY Vacation school has just closed at Harmony aaptist enuren ine school bad an enrolment of 130 with 31 teachers Commencement exercises were held at the close when handwork done durinsr the term was on exhibit for parents and friends Jvexresnments were served each morning at IQ Members of the Lydia Bible class of the Sun day school were in char re of this feature The committee included! Reavis Thomas Moore Wli Taylor Mitchell Watts Paul Davis Mrs Lawrence Pat terson Shaw and Ezra Hayes On the last day of school a pic nic lunch was served with several parents and friends joining withi teachers and pupils Those working in the school were Rev Caudle pastor and music director: Miss' Clarice Wit liams principal Mrs Mullis secretary: rances Atm pianist nursery department Mrs I James Stack Mrs 'Paul Davis' Mary Baggarly: beginners Mrs Leonard Marlowe Mrs Houston Kennedey Mrs Cranfill primary Mrs Ethel Mills Mrs Ralph Kurfees Mrs Bryce Reavis Mildred Poole Mary Brown Mrs Ezra Hayes rances urney Mrs Charlie Baggarly junior Mrs Gil bert Grose Mrs 'Wilhelm Mrs Arthur Wood Mrs Clinard Keller Mrs Lawrence Patterson Miss Della Arnold Joanna Brown I intermediate Mrs Caudle' Mrs Thomas Moore Miss Myrtle York Mrs Windsor Norman Joyner and Ralph Kurfees Playwrite Riggs Dead NEW YORK Lynn Riggs who wrote the successful play from which the hit musical was adapted died at Memorial Hos pital today He was 53 Grow the Lilacs" which had a highly successful New York run in 1931 was adapted 'v Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham merstein II in 1943 into the show MOSCOW (UP) Russia and! which has become a historical rance announced today they have I point for musical comedy agreed to establish the first direct commercial air service between Moscow and Western Europe The pact was signed yesterday Air rance and Soviet commercial planes will share the direct route between Paris and Moscow via Prague Czechoslovakia Previous commercial service to Moscow required changes at Hel sinki inland East Berlin or Prague Buy OLD GOLDS Bib Schoo 't 'S'' I i ''6 4 7 7 r'J 7 7'7 jV W' zi 7 '7'' 99 'S''77 HKr HE Ships Reds Say I I K' j'' tv I sail 'I I jr I a WEDNESDAY 30 19M iii Call A Cab II Everybody Loves A Quality I Used Car rom Alexander 1950 1950 li 1951 I 1950 1949 is 1949 1953 1953 Your Choice $195 Alexander Motors Inc TeL 5283 I YOU WANT SOME REAL GOOD TRANS PORTATION OR A LOW PRICE WE HAVE AN EXTRA GOOD 1941 ORD AND A REAL GOOD 1939 BUICK NO JUNK orget Parking and Traffic Problem! iU Knight cf Salisbury police relations officer of the North Car olina department Veterans of or eign Wars was a guest last night at Gordon Heath VW post here Knight told members of the rpst that for the past several years the Statesville organization has been forgotten The local post demonstrated during the rege 1 membership drive that it is Knight said and he told (x'st members they can look for ward to frequent visits from state BW officials A buffet dinner and a short busi ness session preceded speech 1 Ci A native of Iredell county Mt was burn October 3 188T a son of Milton and Elizabetl! Nicholson Morrison His entire lift was spent in Iredell county with the exception the past two mouths Mr Morrison is survived by four sons Bradley Morrison Statesville Rev Morrison Richmond Va George Morrison Durham and Milton Morrison MoreheadCity There aie 15 grandchildren and th tee great grandchildren uneral setv'ces for Mr Morri son will be conducted at Bethany Presbyterian church at 3 Thursday with Dr Joe Carter of ficiating' The body will remain at 'the chapel of Johnson uneral home and wilt be taken to ths church 30 minutes prior to ths i funeral hour to lie in state Inter ment will be in the church cerae tery i Veterans Hear State Officer Dial 5235 CITY CABS Special 1953 CADILLAC coupe Deville looks like a million but costs far less than guess Actually you can buy this tremendously popular Cadil lac hard top model for an unbelievably low price and just think what you get for your money Animal Hospital Adds Robinson Dr A Robinson a recent gra duate of the University of Georgia 'has joined the staff of Statesville Veterinary hospital where he will be associated with Drs Hud gins and Lynch Dr Robinson also is a graduate of Scotts High school and State college where in 1950 he was awarded a bachelor of science de gree During the summer of 1950 he was employed as farm manager for the North Carolina School for deaf Morganton While at the of Geor gia he took an active part in the affair of the American Veteri nary Medical association student chapter He is a member of Alpha si veterinary fraternity Di Robinson is married to the former Lula Harrison of Nakenta Ga Mrs Robinson also is a gradu ate of the University of Georgia where she received a bachelor of science degree in elementary education U' It! OLDS 252 ront" Sf $1295 radio and $795 with radio $795 extra nice $595 Morrison Rifes Sei Thursday orest ire I Still Ablaze MYRTLE BEACH (UP) i State orestry Commission work and volunteers today were sttU 6 Morrison died a' trying to bring under control a fire 15i Tw1darv at the home ol near here that had burned an esti hb Milton Morrison More mated 40C0 acres of woodland and 'hea4 cuv where he hud been Ijvifi was described as the two months CADILLAC 4 dobr sedan in a beautiful two tone gray with white wall tires Has all the nice accessories or the thrill of your (tOI EA life drive this one home pX I Jv BUICK Riviera coupe Truly a nice car "that you will be proud to be seen (tftlAEA driving Only 4jIUjU CHRYSLER club coupe Black with all extras A nice car for the family and the price is right CHEVROLET club coupe powerglide heater It is ready to go for only 1950CHEVROLET leetline 2 door Green and heater or a carefree vacation trip buy this car for only ORD Convertible gray This one and will give you the convertible you have always wanted for only MERCURY 4 door two tone green radio heater and overdrive Looks better than most '52 models Yours to own for the low price of only p45 PLYMOUTH 4 door with radio and heater dark green finish 20000 actual miles Going this week for only plw95 ORD 8 Pickup Tinted glass and aa a big heater Driven only 6000 It is now I ZdU worst la Horry tounty history The blaze started Sunday and brought under control later that night only to break away again Monday Today the orestry Commission estimated the fire was about five miles tong and miles wide" Volunteers from the ree I reation camp here from Shaw Air force Base Kort Jackson and from ort Bragg as well is heli 1 copters and crews from Shaw Air orce Base and the Coast Guard have been helping fight the blaze John Shirer of the fire control division of the orestry Commis sion said the state had 52 fires Monday and 21 yesterday includ ing the huge blaze here The fire near here was by far the worst iu the state but two others one near Loris and another near Sandy Bluff were also burn ing in Horry County The fire at Sandy Bluff was brought under control Monday but a shift in the wind restarted 'spread of the fire last night With rainfall in the state somenine inches below normal for the year tinder dry forests have made it exremely difficult for forestry men to hold down the number of forest fires fl i JI ifl I mH I I 9 kH ifl iH fl fl ll mH mi.