Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 10

Page 10 A Statesville Record Landmark Monday May 1 1972 When It Was News Out Of Our Past In Iredell Ten yean ago: Record Landmark Ap01 SO May 2 1962 As Mitchell College planned its May Day festivity Combs president of the college alumni said a near record of former students have made reservations for the alumni luncheon in the college dining room at noon Wednesday the Trout man band under the direction of Paul Owensby and Charles Donaldson drum major gave a concert at Union Grove for the faulty and student Redman was honored on Tuesday with a sur prise birthday celebration were still 100 per cent behind the 24 day old walkout The rumor began Sing explained when local workers held a meeting at the telephone build ing to discuss the arrival of four operators from Charlotte who were brought in today by the company in an effort to improve local service Members bitterly denounced the action referring to the four operators as scabs and strike Annie Sue Holland sailed yesterday for Europe leaving on the Williard A Hol brook Miss Holland who is a member of the Special Services Division of the War Depart ment left here March 23 for started up Rickert and Messrs Moore Co the jewelers have entered an agreement to close their places of business at 6 each 2 Mill Wycoff Cowan the liverymen are erecting a mamoth shed in the rear of their stables for the storage of vehicles It is 40 25 feet and will be covered with dog was taken out of the public well in front of the court house Wednesday morning He was alive when rescued Whether he was thrown into the well fell in accidentally or jumped in with a view to com mitting suicide is not Landmark of Tuesday noted that James Ramsey colored who was about to be come a charge on Buncombe County had been taken up in Asheville and ordered to return to Iredell which he claimed to be his home Ramsey was brought here by Deputy Sheriff Gatewood of Buncombe and sent to jail until some provision could be made for him Ramsey belongs in Iredell and the county had to pay the expenses of bringing him from Asheville to A TIME is enjoyed by this preteener in Omaha Neb and like this most everywhere now that sunshiny weather is the thing again (wk 1 XjL V' A i Election Discussed The 4 County Council met Thursday night at the Hall of Justice to discuss the upcoming district officers election Candidates who will be sup ported by the Iredell County delegation for district office are David McAuley for president Della Brantley vice president Marcia Davidson secretary and Michael Cashion reporter Della Brantley presided over the meeting that included a tour of the Hall of Justice by County Manager Sam Webster Jr Rebecca McAuley and Richard Renegar led pledges with Anne Stamey and Michael Cashion leading the singing i Some 20 friends of the honoree gathered in the home of Mr and Mrs William Wells of Olin for a buffet supper Among the guests were Mrs rank Cooper Mrs Templeton and Mr and Mrs A wrestling under the auspices of the Hurst Turner returns to Statesville again riday night for a three bout card at the local National Guard Armory Headlining the card will be a tag team match pitting mammoth Haystack Calhoun and Abe Jacobs against Poncho Villa and Gypsy Joe" Curlee a nine year old with a mind as sharp as a doc scalpel made the first contribution to the 1962 Mitchell College expansion fund He gave his only leaders of Methodism in the Western North Carolina Conference began a two day meeting in the Methodist Build ing on Wesley Drive Bishop Nolan Harmon is presiding at a meeting of his Ernest Ridenhour has accepted a call to become pastor of St Evangelical Lutheran Church on Salisbury Mary Keever will appear in the production of South Pacific at Appalchian State Teachers College in Johnsie White for merly secretary in Judge red office left Sunday for cnapei Mill where she will be employed by the Institute of the 94 who graduated in 1937 from Statesville High 41 still live in Statesville and others may live Down in Iredell Anyway they are planning a reunion at the Masonic Temple on ront Street Saturday or those girls who are wondering if Bill eyes are still as good looking as they used to be rank Barrier chairman of the reunion event assures us they are Better come and see for Twenty five years ago: Record April 30 May 2 1947 game wardens have been cracking down on gill netters along the Catawba River in recent nights and arrested six men Saturday night on gill netting charges Hugh Robertson district game leader announced that telephone workers in Statesville would defy their unions and go back to work today were scotched this afternoon by Ed Sing chairman of the National ederation of Telephone Workers local union who declared that his members NICHOLSON REALTY AND SALES CO 206 Water Street 872 5281 WANTED: We need listings on homes In most all price ranges and also farms or acreage Call Joe Swann for courte ous efficient handling of your property LOSE WEIGHT THIS WEEK Odrinex con help you become 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this evening at the community building under the leadership of Mrs has been made in this paper to an organization in the Charlotte Graded schools known as the We are informed that there is such an organization in the Statesville schools but just what strength or following it has we are not in county singing held Saturday afternoon at the court house under the general super vision of Mr Johnson was classed as the best event of this kind ever held in the county Mr A class from the Oakdale community won first honors and second and third honors went to Mr John class from South River church Alexander county and Mr Curtis class from ifth Street Methodist Church rom Troutman: Mary and Lelia Kyles Mary Allison Buelah Rankin redonia and Lois Brown who have been engaged in teaching in various sections of the state have completed their school work and returned and Edna Culp who live on a farm down in Coddle Creek township are rearing an interesting family of children and incidentally a lot of hay and hogs and other impedimenta of agriculture They told me of a mistake they made not long since They were both reared on doses of the Landmark twice weekly and when they set up housekeeping they kept it up However some time back their subscription expired and just about this time a solicitor for another paper just as good but cheaper happened to strike them or the sake of con venience they gave a subscription to just as good but cheaper and got precisely what they superintendent A Steele has been notified by Brooks State superintendent of public instruction that a part of the money cf the $5000000 school bond issue will be avail able within 30 days appropriation from these funds will be used to build new build ings at Cool Springs and Har mony and to complete buildings at Harmony and In Mooresville a 12 year old boy was arrested by Chief of Police Brown and sentenced to the county home for six months for stealing 14 chickens from Melchor and one from Cam McNeely bridge of concrete across Branch is com pleted The Luten Bridge Com pany has moved its forces to Third Creek where work has begun on the construction of a bridge at that Seventy five years ago: Landmark Aprjl 30 1897 a boon a street sprink ler would be these hot dusty days the sprinkler be SEE SKIPPER BOWLES IjJrgaL SKIPPER BOWLE! TONIGHT (Mon May 1) WBTV Ch 3 Charlotte 9:30 PM POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Alabama: Ten Years Of Wallace George allace has come into North Carolina and talked a lot about his concern for the little man But the words begin to taste sour when you look at the record i Iff Wallace Ignores The Working People of Alabama The people of Alabama have the second highest poverty rate in the nation The people of Alabama have the 48th lowest per capita income in the only $2853 a year In Alabama The Little Man Is Taxed Until He Is Hump backed The working people of Alabama pay a sales tax of 4 percent every where and 6 percent in most 33 to 100 percent more than North sales tax The Wallace tax on cigarettes is 12 cents a pack 600 percent higher than our a tax that hits the tobacco farmer directly and the little man a lot harder than the wealthy people Corporations in Alabama pay 166 percent less tax than they do in North Carolina and pay only half the percentage to the budget that North Carolina corporations provide This shifts more of the Alabama tax burden to the little man Alabama gives corporations the tax breaks The corporations get to deduct their federal taxes on their state returns and businesses like building and loan companies pay any taxes The make up the difference property tax is so unfair that the courts have ordered the state to quit discriminating against the working homeowner Wallace: The Education Alabama spends less money per pupil on public education than any state in the only $489 a year North Carolina spends 31 percent more 22 If George Wallace has a message for America it is that he says one thing out of state and does nothing about it back home The man from Alabama has run his state for a decade and nd one has suffered more from his three terms than working people and school children A Positive Message rom North Carolina state has a rare opportunity to give leadership to the na tion The issue in this election is what kind of message we will send to the nation Will it be a message of looking forward to progress or will it be a negative message? America needs faith in itself America needs a fresh message of hope We have in North Carolina a proud history of solving our problems not just talking about them or too long politicians around the country have gotten away with telling the people one thing and doing something different time to blow the whistle on that kind of deception North Carolina can lead this nation Your vote for Terry Sanford will get it Mrs Lee Wing Woodrow Teague Managers People for Sanford Paid for by a lot of People for Terry Sanford Iredell County Chairman Bill McLaughlin North Carolina Can Lead The Nation Vote for Terry Sanford for President I 1 1 I Iff Kt MAY 6 4 i.