Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark NO 221 STATESVILLE MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1963 VOL 89 OPPOSITION STARTS WRITE IN CAMPAIGN Birininghain Violence atal To Six Negroes Drive Boosted in CLARENCE STIMPSON JR WESLEY SHELL A (BUCK) MILLS JR son of Mrs Brice Elliott and the Ernest Allman alsc of Burke to aX 4t i meet with conference evening at Korne in the hall this Supt A SAIGON South Viet Nam (UP!) President Ngo Dinh Diem to day lifted the martial law regu lations he imposed last month when he ordered the crackdown on the Buddhists The president also ended press censorship which has hampered the flow of news from Viet Nam since Aug 21 when forces raided Buddhist Pagodas The decree brought an end to the rigid curfew in the capital but it was not known if the curfew was lifted in other areas who is 14 and If a girl the fourth with the only daughter 13 taking pre Net Press Run 13325 referendum which reversed the decision of the city council to fluoridate the water to prevent decay in teeth Mr Gilliam trotted out all the worn out and discredited argu ments against fluoridation and 1 succeeded in convincing hun dreds of people that the council was about to add rat poison to their drinking water They voted it down Now the council has decided hurriedly and in secret not to add fluoride to the drinking wa ter but to mix Negroes and whites in the swimming water and to continue to levy taxes to support it If the people through a refer endum can reverse the action of the council on fluoridation which every court in the land has held to be legal then the people in a similar manner can reverse the council on integra tion of the pools by simply voting to end the tax and close the pools We have read a lot recently about the of the in advertisements prepared by a non resident agency Mr Hen dren should spend less time reading ads and more time read ing the law Then the legal of Statesville might be less tarnished ALMOST Well this non resident editor almost became a permanent non resi dent during the past few days That might have been fine for Statesville but we have the heart to let it happen to Ocracoke We went down to Williamston last Thursday to visit friends the rancis Mannings and Mr and Mrs Bufflap of Eden ton When we arrived we found they had arranged a boat trip to Ocracoke with Dr and Mrs Charles Harris starting bright and early riday morning Mrs Huskins and Mrs Middles worth had gone down with us and Mrs Catherine Mallory met us at Williamston That meant that altogether there were nine in our party The trip down the Pamlico river and across the sound was like sailing on ice We had lunch aboard around 2 pm and fed the scraps to the gulls We made it up the winding channel into Crystal Lake the Ocracoke harbor after backing and filling a little and tied up at the coast guard pier But no sooner had we found ourselves snug in the harbor than small craft storm warnings went up The red flags were still fly ing Saturday morning with in dications that there would be no (Continued On Page 2) operator of a petroleum transport carrier will face incumbent (Lebe) Wood 804 Woodland Road an employe of Curlee Tire Ap pliances Ward Mitchell who retired after 38 years with Duke Power Company here and a former mem ber of the Statesville Civil Service Commission will be pitted against Angell Jr the current coun (Contmued On Page 2) Schools Plan or Evaluation crease the number of illegal dis tillery and possess cases before the federal courts The judge told the jury that most of the cases which will be present ed to them to pass on will be such cases and as far as the federal government is concerned they are tax cases profit is being taken out of the illegal liquor bus iness where legal control is voted WEATHER Partly clou dy and cool tonight Tuesday partly cloudy and a littlo warmer High temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at A am today: High 69 Low 49 in by the Judge Craven i October 1962 was sentenced to said The judge continued that he two years suspended for three had studied recently a report of months He was placed on proba in the federal tion for three years DAVIE AVE PTA MEETING SCHEDULE (CLIP SAVE THIS) Sep 16 Oct 21 Nov 18 Dec 16 Jan 20 Mar 16 Apr 20 All to be held on the third Monday of the month at 7:30 pm Make your plans now to attend all these important PTA meetings Dr Joseph Johnston super visor of curriculum development is the State Department of Public In struction wiM meet with the steer ing committee making plans for evaluation of the local schools A self evaluation program will be put on this year by the faculties and administrators of the schools and the steering committee to make plans for this year long eval uation is made up of the executivo committee of the Statesville Unit of North Carolina Education Asso ciation building representative from each school and principals The committee will Dr Johnston room at city 7:30 o'clock gay said Purpose of the study will be to decide what needs to be done so that the schools can attain new state standards which have been set up and also to work toward meeting Southern Association of Schools and Colleges standards Dr Johnston was formerly sup erintendent of Chapel Hill Schools and this past summer was superin tendent of the School at Salem College in Winston Salem Queen Elizabeth Expecting Child LONDON (UPI) Queen Eliza beth is expecting a child due to be born next year Buckingham Palace announced today The queen is 37 years old Ths last of her three children Prince Andrew was bom eb 19 1960 With the announcement it was stated that all of the en gagements were being cancelled following the end of her current holiday at Balmoral Scotland next month The announcement gave no in dication of the date beyond the fact that berth was expect ed next year the queen and fher hus band) the Duke of Edinburgh are of course very happy about Richard Colville press secretary to the queen told newsmen If the child is a boy he will rank third in line of succession to the throne behind the Prince of Wales Charles Prince Andrew child will rank royal Princess Anne Iccdence Troubled City Endures Night Of ear Hate BIRMINGHAM Ala (UPI) Negro students entered three tegrated Birmingham schools with out incident today in the wake of a church bombing and street vio lence that cost six lives A force of 1400 policemen state troopers and battle equipped National Guardsmen was ready for action in the tense atmos phere of this racially troubled city But only city police appeared at West End and Ramsay high schools and Graymont elementary school as the Negro pupils began their first full week of integrated classes The schools were inte granted by court order last Tues day A dynamite stick bomb shat tered the 16th Street Baptist Church at 10:22 am Sunday killing four young girls in a base ment Sunday school class and wounding at least 20 other per sons The church was filled with 400 worshipers Two other Negroes were shot to I nin ratling an illegal distillery and pos sessing 108 gallons of untaxied whisky was sentenced to two years He was advised by the court that if he could raise $1000 fine before the end of this court term that the court would enter tain a motion to suspend the sen tence Allman who was before the court as a repeater was des cribed by officers as a South Viet Nam Restrictions Off of the citizens making up the pan el of jurors in the court as repre sentatives of the people is a good thing As soon as the jury had been sworn and began its work the court began trying pending cases orrest Dale charged with ope rating an illegal distillery entered a plea of guilty and prayer for judgment was continued until the next term of court upon motion of the defense attorney Dale is charg ed with operating a distillery in Burke County Harlan Sanford Huffman 34 year old Burke County man who had entered a plea of guilty to ope rating an unlicensed distillery in A total paid attendance of 22 346 persons was recorded at the 1963 Iredell County air fair officials reported this morning Clyde Smyre manager of the annual event said today The attendance was not as good as last Shaver fair committee chairman reported today hurt us a good bit but still we displayed one of the best fairs that has ever been Sha ver said that the paid attendancewas off from last year but attri buted the fact to the bad weather on riday and Saturday nights He said however that all atten dance records were broken Tues day night when nearly 11000 per sons paid to enter Shaver said that the total attendance was pro bably about 35000 which included the persons admitted free Shaver said that present indi cations are that the midway will be provided by a different com pany next year He said We re going to try to improve there greatly for next The fair committee chairman stated that profits from the fair were cut considerably because of the bad weather on riday and Saturday He said the profits from the fair are given back to the people of the county in the form of contributions to schools and to the students He said that four $1000 scholarships were given last year to Iredell County students There will pro bably not be that many this year because of the lesser profit Veterans Barracks To Elect Delegates Statesville Barracks 828 Veterans of World War I will hold a special called meeting Wednesday at 7:30 pjn in the hall over Sherrill White Shoe Store The meeting will concern cho osing delegates for the nation31 convention which is to be held at Detroit Mich in the near future according to Bryan Bradburn com mander Bradburn urged all mem bers to be present for the meet ing groes swarmed from their homes after the explosion and police struggled and fired rifle shots in the air for two hours before dis persing the group Shootings and stonings broke out through the city and continued late into the night During one of these incidents police shot to death Johnny Rob inson a 16 year old Negro who was hurling rocks at cars and ignored orders to halt after he fled down an alley At about the same time seven hours after the explosion Virgil Ware a 13 year old Negro was shot from ambush while riding a bicycle with his brother in a residential area 15 miles away Two white youths seen riding a red motorcycle in the area were sought by police Officers arrested 19 Negroes in the vicinity of the bombed church on a variety of charges including refusing to obey an officer drunk enness and carrying concealed weapons Police Chief Jamie Moore fear ing a repetition of the rioting that followed the bombing of a Negro home Sept 4 called all available members of his 600 man force to duty Mayor Albert Boutwell appealed to Gov George Wallace for help Wallace dispatched 300 troopers and alerted 500 National Guards men in the city where racial tensions have ebbed and flowed for months President Kennedy was notified immediately of the incident and Atty Gen Robert Kennedy disptached his chief civil rights troubleshooter Burke Marshall Birmingham Also rushed in (Continued On Page 2) Riofs Sparked By ederation KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia (UPI) The ederation of Ma laysia a new and anti Communist member of the British Common wealth came into being today touching off anti British riots in neighboring Indonesia Malaya Singapore North Bor neo and Sarawak joined in the federation which has a popu lation of 10 million and some of the world's richest natural re sources But two of neigh bors Indonesia and the Philip pines refused to extend recogni tion Malayan Prime Minister Ten gku Abdul Rahman now the pre mier of Malaysia warned Sunday night that Indonesia should twice before taking any drastic against the fed eration (Thousands of rioters stoned the British Embassy in Jakarta today and burned the British flag and the limousine (President Sukarno summoned his cabinet to an emergency meeting to discuss Malaysia In donesia controls two thirds of Borneo and has attacked the fed eration as an extension of Brit ish imperialism The United States and repre sentatives of 31 other countries ignored the hostile position of the Philippines and Indonesia and ei ther welcomed or indicated ac ceptance of Malaysia by attend ing the inaugural ceremonires US Deputy Undersecretary of State Alexis Johnson who was President Kennedy's representa tive said in a special message: United States warmly wel comes the formation of this na tion and anticipates close and cordial relations with Malaysia Johnson said that Malaysia great promise for its peo ple and Southeast Asia as a BACK TO THE PEOPLE We returned Down In Iredell on Sunday to find the Statesville recall election back where it be right with the people It was the people not the poli ticians who organized the move ment circulated and signed the petitions and in the final analysis it was the people who stepped forward to offer as candidates Two of those who filed we know as men of integrity and ability They are Sherman Mitchell and Wilkes Kivett We feel their plat form calling for a vote on the swimming pool tax issue is sound and workable and we are convinced that if elected they would make good councilmen The third announced candidate Wilhelm we do not know and are therefore unable to oL fer any valid information on his qualifications for office This we do know These three men showed considerable cour age in stepping forward to give the voters of their wards a choice in election It is the sort of courage which springs from the people when their leaders fail them It has saved America more than once in the past It may save it yet again So much for Wards One Two and Six When we returned Sun day we found a full fledged write in campaign going for Clarence Stimpson in Ward ive Wesley Shell in Ward our and Allen (Buck) Mills Jr in Ward Three That again is a movement which originated with the peo ple and is being pushed by them Each of these men successful in his own business and a previous council member has agreed to serve if drafted by the people Thus if you want to fill out your ticket when you go to the polls Thursday you merely have to write in the names of Stimp son in ive Shell in our and Mills in Three There is ample precedent for write in campaigns They usually spring from the people when the politicians fail them Right here in Statesville there is good pre cent In the last city election one candidate was elected by write in to fill a vacancy created by the death of her husband There is also precedent for other types of elections in States ville City Attorney Johnie Ray Hendren was somewhat evasive last riday when he answered a question by a citizen as to whe ther the people could vote on whether they wanted to operate the swimming pools or not Mr Hendren should have call ed on Mayor Pro Tern Gilliam Jr to answer for it was Mr Gilliam who a few years back led the fight for the Judge Craven Jr of Mor ganton who opened the fall term of United States District Court for the Western District here this mor Irdrl tko errand ilirv that it two emsr ivegroes weir miuu i uw6i death in the hours of street vio is his opinion that the establish lerce that followed nrent Of a legal liquor store in A crowd of 2000 hysterical Ne 1 Burke County will substantially de cases handled courts and in other areas of the country and that illegal whisky County and also charged with ope traffic is diminishing and lewer and fewer cases are in the courts The judge hastened to point out that he is opposed to whisky but that since prohibition has net and will not work he is of the opinion that legal control is necessary The court named A Dear man of Harmony foreman of the 19 member grand jury and Clontz of Taylorsville deputy fore man Other members drawn for duty are George Kerley Matthews Raymond Holmes red A Benfield Ralph Stone Ed gar Simpson Claude Griffin Corey Oscar Dobbins Mrs Talmadge Mayberry George Wash ington Cloninger Thaddeus Kim brough Cartner Ella Mae Hamby and Mrs Edith Clark Abee The judge holding his first cri minal term here since his appoint ment explained the grand jury system as practiced in the federal courts and outlined duties of the jury He explained that having such a jury to pass on bills of indict ment is a safeguard for the minor ity and that the very presence orStimpson Mills And Shell By JERRY JOSEY present city council will face a full slate of opposition in Thursday's recall election be lieved to be the first in North Car history Concentrates! efforts at a write in vote were disclosed over the week end by backers of three former A (Buck' Mills Jr 110 South Race Street Ward Three: Wesley Shell 636 Glen dale Drive Ward our: and Clar ence Stimpson Jr 436 Ridgeway Avenue Ward ive The write in move assures oppo sition for the entire six member council Three candidates each making an initial move into the pol itical scene filed prior to the noon deadline Saturday in the recall el ection They were Wilkes Kivett 118 Park Street Ward One Sher man Mitchell 113 South Green Street Ward Two and Claywell Clement Wilhelm 1015 Goldsbora Avenue Ward Six Current council members auto matically went on the ballot under provisions of the Statesville City Charter The weekend maneuvering shaped up these battles: Ward Kivett self employed CDAMTC Dri'a lliAtf Jr IfiTT late BZlmand the late Price Purr reive tetters of certification from Tom Kennedy exalted ruler of the that they will receive college grants from the Elks National oundation to attend Eastern Carolina College thte fall The two loial students will receive a total of $1200 during the next nne month for their college needs from the Elks oundation These grants are made each year to sons or daughters of deceased Elks based on their outstanding qualifications and scholastic excellence Judge Says ABC Store Will Cut Court Cases ATERMATH BOMBING A shattered stained glass window a rock strewn srreer oemousneo stand in mute testimony to the Sunday bombing of the Negro 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Ala Officers sad about 15 sticks of dynamite exploded in the basement of the church killing four young Negro girls and inpring 21 others (UPI Telephoto) eu L'' hbabaabbi babbmhbbi Kl I Bl HI Mri tew lLx Al KM Bl mm ATm 1 a 1 AA A LOiab aWw mMh bWr' Jf' WAS Hi AMt ni i AB' Bm 1 ctmmIb fi i hir Attendance Io Record a a BAI III HBK AAI lai nK AMI Jill 'zX 'VXy Zflfw CT.