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Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 10

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Statesville, North Carolina
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10
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AtfiffijeOa iWaaL CARMEN Escamillo the toreador played by Tom Paul finds the fiery Gypsy girl Carmen a fasci i nating companion This scene is from National Grass Roots Opera Company's production of "Carmen" by Bizet which will be presented here in two performances ebruary 2 sponsored by MacDowell Music Club To Be Sung ebruary 2 1 immortal an 1 international favorite comes to life in all its beauty and action when National Grass Roots Opera Com pany services up opera in English herc at Mac Gray Auditorium for two productions ebruary 2 The appearance here of the Grass Roots Opera Company is sponsored annually by MacDowell Music Club and has' always been enthusiastically received by a large and appreciative audience or 10 years the opera company has brought entertainment to var ied groups throughout the country i The troupe which was formed in dtaleigh tours the state in perfect ing the individual roles and en 'sembles About one half of their I audiences are made up of school children who anticipate each per formance The Grass Roots Opera move ment in America was founded by A letcher a Raleigh attorney and businessman to provide pro fessional careers for most promising young singers to give the public a chance to hear opera in English and ultimately to make of opera a means of mass entertainment in the United States Since its first performance in 1950 the company has appeared in most of the United States in over 750 performances of opera in En glish of troth traditional and con temporary works Its singers have appeared with many other leading companies in both America and Europe David Witherspoon an Iredell na tive is business manager of the Grass Roots Opera Company and has sung tenor roles with the troupe on many occasions The all new production of Car men which will be presented here will feature colorful costumes fresh young voices clever staging and opera in English The afternoon performance will be at 1:45 o'clock and the evening show will be at 8 o'clock Tickets are already on sale at Brady Printing Company Lowry Drug Store and by MacDowell Alusic Club members The sponsoring opera com mittee is made up of Mrs Albert Watson Miss Pearl Rolland Mrs Butler Rhodes and Mrs Harry Mc Lain Mrs Hugh Ervin is club president DELIVERED REE raver ft 1 195 to YOUR LOT IN SECTIONS WITHIN 1W MILE RADIUS KERNERSVILIE These are Government built pari of a federal housing project THE SUPPLY 15 LIMITED ACT NOW! Do not confuse these homes with substandard shell type homes 0000000000000 COMPARE THESE EATURES: All Structural Materials 2x4' dr larger Wiring Plumbing Windows Door AU Rafters Studs Sills and Joist spaced oc Hardwood looring NEW three piece bath Easy to Erect Section ully Insulated NEW California Redwood Siding A DOZEN USES: Contractors Builders Investors Rent Properly Permanent Homes Tenant Homes for Young and Old Couples Cabins or Cottages Reserve your unit NOW they will not last longl OPEN 10 A 6 DALY AND Calls 7961 (Kernersville C) 0R lATE APPOINTMENT 97? Write: Prefab Homes PO Box 776 Kernersville I of O' 411 AN0 sazaMI usr or UANUSVIUI Scandal Rocks Yale University NEW HAVEN Conn (UPD A 14 year old girl and a telephone have put six Yale undergraduates in the Msi(ion of being little black sheep who have gone astray The 14 year old received a phone of her own for her birth 1 day One of the calls she made errantly connected her with a Yale dormitory Neither party hung up That mischance call has led to a scandal which has rocked Yale from restaurant to Presi dent A Whitney Griswold's office Six undergraduates have been charged with carri in connection with two al leged incidents when the girl visited Calhoun College following the telephone call Twelve others have resigned from the university and more arrests are expected Detective Capt William Hol oman of the New Haven police said the intimacies oc curred at Calhoun College but students from other colleges in the university were reported in The girl identified the under graduates from their pictures in the Yale year book Holohan said One of the students charged was Stephen White 19 of Pater son NJ His father William White principal of East Side High School in Paterson said his son denied being involved in any incidents White said his son told him he had seen the girl only once The other five charged with lascivious carriage which car ries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and $100 fine were: David Rollins 20 and Peter Gluck 20 both of Scarsdale NY Stephen Rose 19 High land Park Ill Jack Adler 20 Elkins Park Pa and Donald Murphy 19 Chappa qua NY Boy Appeals To President ALL 1959 MODELS MUST GO! PH1LC0 RERIGERATORS RANGES WASHERS ALL HAVE BEEN REDUCED OR QUICK CLOSE OUT! I $17000 1 I LESS than former 1 12 cu ft models 2 DOOR AUTOMATIC PHILCO Budgetmaster iLJr iBtT 'mfa5 if I I r' tV 11 1' nrr 3' 12 CUt ft Deluxe 2 door automatic refrigerator freezer 257 cu ft freezer holds 90 lbs of frozen food Dairy Bar door stor age with enclosed Butter and Cheese Keepers Auto matic Temperature Control ull Width Shelves 2 ull Width Egg Racks Door Storage Holds 'z gal Cartons of Milk Automatic Interior Lighting Twin Porcelain Crispers Model RD 1296 List Price $35995 (Only 2 to Sell) Exch Other Philco Refrigerators: Automatic Cooking at the LOWEST PRICE EVER! wwl iT JJJ jM NEW 1959 E3HII ELECTRIC rrilLAAl range Deluxe automatic Push Button range with full width 40" worktop priced for the minimum budget Wide economy oven Large storage com partment our Speed Heat surface units neat faster cool quicker Push button surface switches Only 4 To Sell PHUCO 4093 WASHINGTON fUPD not I a dclinkunt I steal or bust' windows send my daddy I and mom to jail I will go to jail I for That was the slightly misspelled plea that a 9 year old shut in sent io President Eisenhower after the boy had caused his father to get a call from the Internal Revenue Service The lad a rheumatic fever vic tim who can be identified only as Jim decided to change some of the numbers in his ac count books one day when he was bored A revenue agent gently but apparently quite impressively admonished the youngster when the tax return did not jibe with the books The lad wrote to Eisenhower: you help me? I'm in a lot of He explained what he'd done and offered to go to jail for his parents be old when I get out and my dad and mom will be old to but never do anything like that again Can I learn to be a doctor or syentist if I go to jail? I pray every night you will for give The White House forwarded the letter to the IRS which assured Jim that neither he nor his par ents would have to go to jail Jones House Has Mystery BALTIMORE (UPD A radio repairman claims he has found a solution to the strange happen ings in the home of die Edgar Jones family here orthe past week things have been really jumping It began when a shoe shaped flower pot kicked out a window pane Then pieces of pottery glasses and ash trays exploded on shelves and tables or crashed to the floor no apparent reason A sugar bowl leaped four feet into the air A brass incense burner made a six foot flight from a bookshelf and a can of soup hopped from a shelf Things quieted down a day or so in the two story brick house occupied by Jones a returned fireman and his wife and daught er Then things started hopping again and Stanley Greenfield the radio repairman investigated and came up with a more plaus ible solution than the poltergeist theory The Greenfield says is a big storm drain that runs behind the Jones home The pipe he explains acts as a big musical instrument now and then hitting notes that create vibrations arid things start flying Jones' daughter Mrs Theodore Pauls says the family dog seems to understand the strange hap penings and claws at tlie objects just prior Io their mysterious doings In a home where everything else seems to be happening the dog just won't talk Telephone statistics show that the world had an average of 56 phone conversations per person in 1957 the latest year for which figures are available AT BLACKWELDER'S Model 12RD0 3 tQAA List $39995 4JUU Ex (Only 1 to Sell) Model 1688 List $68995 Ex (Only 1 to Sell) Model 1498 (bIOrt List $64995 OV Ex (Only 2 to Sell) Model 1488 (tlin List $59995 ipy Ex (Only 1 to Sell) ACTORY TRAINED SERVICE IS YOURS List Price $20995 Now Reduced To $14950 Exh Other 1959 Philco Ranges: Model 4095 List $29995 (Only 4 to Sell) $234 Ex Model 4096 List $27995 (Only 3 to Sell) $219 ex I YOUR DOLLAR BUYS MORE AT A BLACKWELDER'S STORE PHILCO AUTOMATIC WASHER gs 1 Lowest 'Price requency 1 Washing 1 LActiorijJ ULL 10 LBl 41 Other 1959 Philco Auto Washers: Model 200 tl7O List $19995 Zply Ex (Only 1 to Sell) Model 206 (tOCO List Price $34995 pX jV Ex (Only 1 to Sell) Model 298 (tOAO List $38995 ZOV Ex (Only 4 to Sell) Model 204 (tOOO List $24995 ZW Ex Yes You Can Buy On The Easiest Terms In Town At Blackweldes WASHER DRYER COMBINATION KVr I Jc 0 IcS fifiliH JJ 1 1 '(J I OiTOlW fl X' If "ie iSK wrsoef QaI IW ZwiTW 1960 I (26wPHILC0 BENDIX DUOMATIC WASHES AND DRIES CLOTHES IN AS LITTLE AS 1 HOUR Washes and dries clothes in one continuous opera tion or separately if you like its any where a washer will Safe for all fabrics 3 dry settings including Wash Wear Hol or warm water wash Automatic Power Soak Main Store Turnersburg Rd Downtown Store 125 Broad St Tr i I I I its: tis.

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