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Weather Partly eloodr, warm tonfcht and Saturday with (tatttrtd afttrooon ud evetiaf thnnderttowm. THE DAILY TIMES-NEWS I or Times-News Service CALL Editor CA Newt CA 44417 Advertising CA t-MM Circulation CA C4414 VOL. 73--NO. 310 FULL NBA SERVICE BURLINGTON, N. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE PRICE: FIVE CENTS Deeper Probe Planned Into Alleged Payoffs Starting Point State Pay Raise Requests Receive Tentative Okay Good Friday RALEIGH Gov.

Hodges' recommended pay ra is for teachers and other state employes have been given initial approval- en a "tentative" basis. The Joint Appropriations sub- committee voted yesterday to ac- cept the governor's recommenda- tions "as a fundamental starting point" in its work of whipping the slate budget into shape. The subcommittee specified it was accepting the proposals "ten- tatively" without determining "at this time" the schedule under which the pay raises shaU be de- termined. Gov. Hodges recommended a pay increase of 15 per cent for school teachers and 11 per cent for other state workers.

He favors a yard-stick formula worked out by the Personnel Department for distributing the pay boosts, while state employe organizations have requested an "across-the-board" pay plan. In an effort to speed its work and its report to the full Appro- priations Committee, it may be cecesfary for the subcommittee to hold some night sessions, the members were told. The subcommittee delayed con- sideration of 42 million dol- requested for permanent im- urcvemeLts and began making de- cisions on the record state budgei fur the next two fiscal years. Hodges has recom- i menace a 10 million dollar bond issue to finance a portion of the permanent improvements o- gram. Tte bond issue would en- able 10 million to be released for use in making salary increases.

The subcommittee was told that the governor intended for voca- tional agriculture teachers to re- ceive a 15 per cent salary increase along with other teachers. This would preserve a pay differential for the vocational teachers. The State Board of Education had sug- gested it be eliminated. Asst. Budget Director D.

S. Col- (See STATE On Page 6-A) Wrangle Develops Over Revenue Bill RALEIGH UK--A wrangle has de- veloped in the House Finance Com- mittee over whether controversial portions of the revenue bill should be decided by the full committee a decision should be made on these items before shuttling the bill to a subcommittee. The Senate Finance Committee also has authorized the formation before being sent to a subcommit- a subcomm.itee to study the tee. I bill. Both chairmen have said they plan to name the subcommittees early next week.

At yesterday's meeting. Rep. Tom White of Lenoir offered a mo- tion to withdraw several the more controversial portions of the bill from the subcommittee. He Rep. Thomas Turner of Guil- ford said last night "a number of people" on the committee feel that the major portions should be decided by the full committee.

The question will likely come up again when the committee meets Tuesday. The controversial items listed by Turner were the proposed gross receipts licenje tax, a pro- posed revision in the corporate in- come tax formula, and proposals authorizing municipalities to levy an occupational tax up to $10 and out of order by T. Falla Jr. of was declared Chairman B. Cleveland, who said the entire bill had already been referred to sub- committee.

Falls said "I have not attempted railroad anything and it is my to increase auto license tags up intention to give ample opportuni- to $10. Turner termed these provisions "the guts of the bill." He insisted Courts May Be Restricted In Divorces RALEIGH OPI-The Slate Senate has put its stamp of approval on annual in revenue under a bill to tighten the divorce-grant- PTM" 058 1 es'TMated. fng powers of North Carolina's in- 1 by Rep. David ing puweio ui clar) of ln 0 i nj would increase (See WRANGLE On Page 6-A) ty for everyone to express him- self on this bill." The proposed gross receipts li- cense tax has been the target of much opposition. Hearings on the proposed tax changes were brought to a close yesterday.

Two bills were ex- plained to the committee. One, by Sen. Adam Whitley Jr. of John- ston, would add farm parts and accessories to items subject to wholesale instead of retail sales tax. The state would lose about ferior courts.

Before passing the-bill yester- day and sending it to the House, the Senate beat down attempts to amend it. The vote was 25-12. The measure, proposed by the state's Judicial Council, would al- low recorder's courts and general county courts to grant divorces only in cases where summons are lerved on defendants in person. The inferior courts would be pro- hibited from granting divorces when notice is served on the de- i fendant through publication in a newspaper. The bill was proposed after widespread publicity was given cases in which persons had obtained divorces in recorder's courts without the spouse knowing it.

Meanwhile, Rep. Dan Simpson of Burke, a Republican, introduced a bill to amend state law regard- ing the counting of ballots in elec- tions. It would return the stale's split ticket voting laws to their status before 1955. Simpson said his bill would permit the counting of all ballots which showed "the clear intention of the voter. Some Republicans regarded the 1955 law as an effort by Demo- crats' to unseat Republican con- gressman Charles R.

Jonas in the 10th District. The 1955 law slates (hat when a voter marked the parly circle on his ballot and also marked the name of individual candidates of the other party, the vote was counted as 1 straight party ticket. Such a ballot under the old law was counted for all candidates under the party circle except where the voter marked his choice an Individual candidate of the other party. The vote for that par- ticular candidate counted. Rep.

Phil Whitley of Wake Intro- duced a bill which would give the Motor Vehicles Department au- thority io suspend title and registration of molor vehicles owned by persons who failed to nettle court claims arising from accidents. IIU bill would imcnd the present financial re- sponsibility law under which the Motor Vehicles Department has authority to suspend the driver's license of a motorist who fails to damage claims. Challenge Of Literacy Test Heard RALEIGH W) A three-judge, federal court convened here today to hear a case challenging North Carolina's literacy test for voters, which requires those seeking to register as voters to be able to read and write portions of the state constitution. Sitting lo hear the case were Judges John J. Parker of Charl- lotte, Wilson Warlick of Newton and Don Gilliam of Tarboro.

The test was brougt-' by Mrs. Louise Lassiter, who contends that she was refused the right tu regis- ter in Northampton County last year because she "mispronounced several words." The names of two other plain- tiffs who contend they were arbi- trarily rejected in their attempts to register in Northampton last spring were added to the list of plaintiffs in the case this week. When the case was filed, law- yers for Mrs. Lassiter asked a permanent injunction to restrain the use of literacy tests by elec- tions officials. They contended that the registrar of Seaboard Precinct in Northampton, Mrs.

Helen H. Taylor, rejected "25 or more other qualified voters" after giving them "the so-called literacy test." The complaint also asserted that the literacy test "is a treatment extended only" to Negroes and that It violates the U.S. Constitu- tion. Since the case was filed, the State Legislature acted to amend the election laws so that persons rejected by registrars In their ef- fort to register could file an ap- peal with the county board of elec- tions. The law would require the elections board lo conduct a hear- ing and make a decision In 10 days --in time for the voter to be reg- istered if the county board de- cided lie qualified.

And it icos almost the sixth hour; and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was. rent in- the midst. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

--From the Gospel according to St. Luke. All Christians Today Commemorate Agony Of Christ's Death On Cross By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians throughout the world commemorated today the agony of Christ's death- upon the Cross. In Good Friday services the Christian faithful of all nations icard anew of the suffering of Jesus Christ two days before joyous occasion of His resur- rection, on Easter Sunday. Approximately 4.000 visitors, mostly Arab Christians, were in he Arab-conlrolled Old City of Jerusalem, where most of the holy places are located.

Only 400 pilgrims, with few Westerners among frem, crossed the Pales- tine armistice frontier from Is- rael. The small number reflected the tense atmosphere in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Sinai war. Travel restrictions were re- moved too late for any great tourist influx. But as in the past there was the traditional tracing of the Way of the Cross, with pilgrims carrying heavy wocHen crosses along the route followed by Jesus from the scene of his trial to the cru- cifixion on Calvary. It was Easter week for both Eastern aid Western Christians.

Tragedy Averted As Airliner Lands In Flames At Airport PITTSBURGH An airliner andcd in flames at Creator Pitts- urgh A i yesterday but hanks (o a quick-acting pilot, a calm stewardess and expert fire 'ighters a major tragedy was averted. Fifty passengers poured out of he Capital Airlines DC4 seconds after it ground to a halt while (ire- men riding alongside in trucks poured flame-quenching foam on he plane. Not a person was injured ser- ously. Nine were treated cither 'or shock or bruises. "When we stepped on the ground we thanked God." sold Mrs.

John Burnham of Buffalo. 'He was with us today." Mrs. Burnham, her husband and young daughters were on the 'Irst leg of vacation trip to riorlda. There was no indication of an emergency as the big airplane, piloted by R. L.

Calhonn of Alex- andria, circled (he airport and approached for landing. But he plane landed "hard," an air port official sni(l A Capital spokesman said in' strumcnts in the cockpit indicated the landing gear was not secured so Calhoun zoomed the big ship into the air. Seconds later the right inboard engine caught fire and flames raced along'the fusc- Hage. As the passengers tensed, the airplane's public address system blared: "Prepare for a crash landing." There was a momentary rush of passengers toward an emergency door and some slight panic, Mrs. Burnham said.

But stewardess Kathcrinc Szymanski of New Ken- sington, "Keep calm." Capl. Calhoun, who had alerted (he -airport, set the plane down in a few seconds. The Capital spokesman said there wns no Indication of what caused (he "hard" lunding on the first attempt. He declared the Buftalo-to-Piltsburgh plane could have possibly been caught in a wind current. The spokesman said impact (of (he landing apparently caused fuel line or lank lo bursl.

They follow different calendars, but this year the dates coincide, la addition, Moslems celebrating the Ramadan prayed at the Dome of the Rock, and Jews were com- pleting their Passover holidays. At the Vatican, pilgrims from many countries assembled in St. Peter's for Tenebrae services. The highlight of the mournful is the slow extinguishing of all but one qf 15 altar candles. The remaining candle, symbolic of Christ, was hidden momentar- ily behind the altar as a loud noise reminded worshipers of the convulsions oi -nature at the mo- ment Jesus died.

Pope Pius XII will deliver his Easter Sunday speech to millions over a direct hookup with radio systems of nearly a score of na- tions. For the first time the papal address will be put on European TV. He speaks at noon, Rome time, from the balcony above the central door of St. Peter's. In KoiiLcrsreuth, Germany, 3,000 pilgrims gathered in the a i outside the cottage of Thcrcse Neumann, the 59-year- old Bavarian woman who each Good Friday appears to suffer the agonies of Crucifixion.

In 1926 she was first reported to have dis- played Hit Crucifixion sllgmata markj on her body corresponding to the wounds of Christ. President Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, holb Mclhodists, deliv- ered Good Friday sermons al Ihcir church In a suburb of Taipei, the capital of the Chinese Nation- alist stronghold Island of For- mosa. GOAT GOTTEN HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J. Iff--Someone got Carmen Pas.iar- 'rill's goat, ami he's hopping mad i about it.

Passarclll told police he stopped at a garage with (wo i goals in the back of his car. When i lie came out, one was gone, Relief Fund Legal Question Allowance 0 A -i Oi Prosecution Is Approved Being Studied Congress Scatters After Passing Welfare Action WASHINGTON (AP) Members of Congress scat- tered to their homes for a 10-day Easter recess today after freeing the 275 million dollars needed for relief checks to the aged and oth- ers in May and June. The money for the federal share of the public assistance payments had been tied up in a dispute which has gone on with increasing bitterness between the House and Senate since February. The final version provides no money to continue a minerals buy- ing program on which the Senate had insisted. President Eisenhow- er had asked 30 million dollars.

The House declined to vote any- thing. Also dropped was a Senate pro- vision to authorize use of cotton- seed cake and other high protein feeds in government drought re- lief programs. This had the back- ing Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. In the final windup on tl)e bill yesterday, the Senate was victor- ious on one point, but this was not an issue involving any substantial money savings.

The House repeatedly sought to tie to the bill a limitation on the amount of federal funds that could be given to the states to help pay the cost of administering federal grants. Welfare Department officials said that under the limitation, the federal government could not meet its obligation to the states. The 1935 Social Security law re- quires Washington to pay 50 per cent of the administrative costs. The Senate fought against any (See BELIEF On Page 6-A) Textile Mills Cutting Back Production NEW YORK Ut-Many textile mills, in an apparent effort to bring supply and demand into bet- ter balance, have announced they will close Easter Monday and will cut back on Saturday work. Sixteen southern mills of M.

Lowenstein Sons producing un- finished cloth will cut back Satur- day work and will be closed Eas- ter a Yesterday's an- nouncement said about 11,000 workers will be affected. Seven Erwin Mills in North Car- olina and Mississippi also will close Monday. a i Manufacturing Co. of Rockingham, N.C., announced it las gone on a five-day, three-shift operation, with the elimination of Saturday work and will close Eas- ter Monday. Another cutback from six days to five days was ordered by the Pelzer, S.C., pbnt of Kendall Cot- ton Mills, and Pacolet Manufac- Co.

is cutting back its mills at Pacolet, S.C., and New Hol- land, to a four-day week. Others which previously an- nounced cutbacks include Abney Mills of Greenwood, S.C.; the Lib- erty, S.C., plant of Woodside Mills; the Ely Walker Division of Burlington Industries, Berkshire-Hataway, Bales Manufacturing and Amero- Iron textile subsidiary of Textron, which pledged not to operate its mills more than five days weekly for the rest of the year. But group. By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) Senate rackets proben said today they will explore more deeply into alleged payoffi to Teamsters Union officials in Scranton, Pa.

One question intriguing them is whether if you can't jail them both the giver or the taker of a payoff should be prosecuted. The Justice Department has obtained federal indictments ac- cusing three business agents of Scranton Teamsters Local 229 of TIM receiving illegal payoffs from bus- M. IHlit 111 Call iness fi TM The Senate committet conducting the i i has or- dered its staff to ask why na charges were brought against any of the companies or their officials. "We are going to find out why they were not prosecuted," Chair- man McClellan (D-Ark) told re- porters. "It is something we ought to find out." In reply to a question, ha said, "It might be the subject of an investigation." Meantime, replies to some of McCIellan's questions came from outside the hearing.

A pragmatic explanation camt from Oliver Dibble, the special federal prosecutor in charge of the Scranton case. "If we indicted both men in such cases," he told newsmen ia Scranton, "we wouldn't be able to make one testify against the other," and he added: "The grand jury decides which one is, so to speak, the mort guilty and returns the indictment against him. Then the other servet as a witness." Also speaking out was Earl P. Bettendorf of Texarkana, who said at his home he had sent McClellan a telegram asking right to appear as a witness "so that committee can correct the injustice done me at today's (Thursday's) hearings." Bettendorf, naaied as one of the businessmen making the pay- ments, said news reports of the (See LEGAL On Page 6-A) Bomb Tests it Mean Stockpiling WASHINGTON Ufi Chairman Durham (D-NC) of the Senate- House Atomic Energy Committee said today a series of five Russian nuclear test explosions this month indicates the Soviets have a sub- stantial supply of atomic weapons, another member of the Rep. Van Zandt (R-Pa), said the closely spaced tests could mean the Russians are still trying to develop weapons worth stock- piling.

The Atomic Energy Commission said Russia on Tuesday detonated somewhere in Central Asia one of the largest of the five nuclear de- vices it has exploded since April 13. "This series of explosions shows they have a good supply of fin- ished weapons, not just nuclear material," Durham said in an in- terview. "You would not expect them to waste weapons if they were in short supply." But in a separate interview, Van Zandt said the known total of Sov- iet tests, which he placed at about 20, is still less than a third the number already conducted by the United States. "We were testing one weapon after another when we didn't have many in stock," Van Zandt said. "I think that's what the Soviets are doing now--testing for first one characteristic and then an- other.

There's no point stockpiling weapons until you are sure you have something worth stockpil- ing." Van Zandt said he is not advo- cating complacency and is sure the Soviet Union has weapons that could cause "terrible damage." But he said he thinks the United States is still ahead of Russia by about two years, and that the Sov- iets do not yet have a "family" of nuclear weapons, from artillery projectiles to superbombs, com- parable to the U.S. arsenal. Eisenhower Picks New Ambassador To Three Nations AUGUSTA, Ga. tfl-President Eisenhower today picked new am- bassadors to Mexico, Sweden and Colombia. In advance of getting in a round of golf on this first full day of his Easter holiday, the President an- nounced his intention to nomi- nate: Robert C.

Hill, now assistant secretary of state for congression- al relations, as ambassador to Mexico. Francis White, career diplomat who now is envoy to Mexico, as ambassador to Sweden. John M. Cabot, who moves from the embassy in Sweden to become ambassador to Colombia. In Colombia, Cabot will succeed Philip W.

Bonsai, who has been reassigned lo Bolivia. All of the nominations will be sent to the Senate when Congres returns after Its Easter recess. UNC Press Head Attacks Gov. Stanley CHAPEL HILL, N.C. tB-Lam- bert Davis, director of the Univer- sity of North Carolina Press, bai rejected Virginia Gov.

Thomas B. Stanley's invitation to a dinner lor distinguished Virginians. Davis, a native Virginian, turned down the invitation in an open let- ter to Slanley in which Davis ob- served: "You have succeeded in making the leadership of the common- wealth both a stench and a laugh- ing stock of the nation." Davis was among 1,200 native Virginians listed in Who's Who in America who were invited to the state Chamber of Commerce din- ner May 17. The dinner la part of the Jamestown festival. Toi-ee Virginia born Negroes listed in Who's Who also received invitations, but the chamber said it was a mistake and withdrew them.

It was this which aroused Davis, 51, a native of Lynchburg and a graduate of the University of Vir- ginia. In his letter, a copy of which was sent to a Washington news- paper, Davis pointed to the with- drawal of nvitations to the Ne- groes and wrote: "And now you find yourself, OB (See UNC On Page 6-A) One-Fitth Of White Americans Said To Have African Ancestry BOWLING GREEN, Ohio W-An Ohio Slate University researcher said today a study indicales that more than 21 per cent of Ameri- cans classified as white arc de- scendants of persons of African origin. And from the study, said Dr. Robert P. Stuckcrt, graduate in- structor of sociology at the uni- versity, "it is possible to esti- mate" that in less than two gene- rations more than half the persons classified as white will have some African ancestry.

He said one conclusion stands out from the daln in the study: "The belief In the racial "uni- formity of an Individual's ances- tor may be the basic myth of the while man's past." In a speech prepared for the Mill annual meeting of (he Ohio Acad- emy of Science al Howling Green Stale University, Dr. Stuckcrl said the research project was under- taken "lo determine (he validity of (no popular belief in the non- Nccro ancestry of persons classi- fied as while." He described (he popular defi- nition of a Negro as that of per- son having any known trace of African ancestry, regardless of how far back one must lo go find it." To social scienlists, "defining a racial R-oup generally poses a JIL sold. "A definition of a race has yet lo be proposed that is satisfactory for all purposes. This is particularly Irue of the term 'Negro' in the United States." Describing the research ap- proach, Dr. Stiickerl said all per- sons were classified Inlo three cat- egories--while persons of non-af- ricnn ancestry, while persons of African ancestry and Negroes.

Statistical compulations in the study were based on a number of nssumplions. With one exception, said Dr. Sluckcrl, the assumptions made "would lend (o minimize (he (InnI estimate." At one point in (ho study, two alternative assumptions made. One was on a basis of se- lective mating; the other on a ba- sis of random mating. Explaining this.

Dr. Stuckcrt suid: "Under selective mating, the probability of whites of non-Afri- can ancestry mating with persons classified as Negro is one-tenth of what would be expected if mating were random. The figure of one- tenth was established on the basis of previous estimates of the rela- tive size of the mulatto population and studies of the mixed ancestry of Negro groups." On the scleclive mating assump- tion, the study showed that 21.1 per cent or 28,423,000 persons had Af- rican ancestry out of a total of 135,215,000 persons classified as whiles in 1950. On the random mating assump- tion, the percentage of white with African ancestry in 1950 would have been 54.9 per cent or 000 persons. Dr.

Stuckcrt said ho believes the 54.9 per cent figure ipproxtmatci a maximum estimate, but the 21.1 per cent figure probubljr It im.