Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 1

MT MORIAH LODGE A xy A and A Meeting Monday Night at 9:00 All Members Ara Urged To Attend! Vleltlng Brelhern Welcome Charles Travis Jr Master Ralph Sisk 8m Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Statesville Record Landmark Net Press Rm 12820 VOL 88 STATESVILLE SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 1962 NO 251 CHINESE REDS INDIANS IGHT ON BORDER Illness Cancels Balance Of Trip i hr im bgiafcaiiBig MMMb hSHHIPQJEL iKaML HELPING TO HELP THEMSELVES The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts shown above will benefit from this year's United und drive so they were glad to help place campaign literature in downtown Statesville Seated are Paul Meech left and Wesley Jones Standing from left are Adelaide Horton Edith Wililams Ann Hawthorne and John Purifoy Gets Over 10 Per Cent Of Goal George Yount campaign chair man for the Iredell Statesville Unit ed und reported a joint meeting of civic clubs last night at the Vance Motor Hotel that over 10 per cent of this year's budget has NEARING GOAL The Arts and Science annual membership campaign is draw ing to a close and the response this year has been very encour aging The museum being non tax supported must depend on mem berships and fund raising projects for its budget which is approxi mately $5000 per year Of this amount about $3000 is received in the form of member ship five dollars for a regu lar membership $20 for a sus taining membership $50 for a sponsor and $100 for a patron The membership drive is now nearing the $3000 goal So if you have not yet joined be sure to get your check in within the next few days so that the campaign can be brought to a successful conclusion Here is the status of the cam paign to date: Previously reported $200050 Anonymous 2500 Mr and Mrs: Wesley Jones Sr 2500 Mr and Mrs McNeer Dillon Jr 1000 Mrs James Dees 500 Mrs Grace Steele 500 Miss Rachel Morrison 500 Mary Beth Tharpe 25 Ralph Mullis 500 Mrs Milton Steinberger 500 Mrs Allen Knight 1000 Mrs Henninger 500 Kewaunee Technical urniture 20000 Mrs John Cornell 500 Mrs Mickey Mizell 500 Sonia Mizell 25 Mr and Mrs Chandler 1000 Mr and Mrs John Scott Raynal 1000 Total $2 33100 already been contributed Yount said a total of $898050 has been given toward a total bud get of $74393 He commended the campaign workers for the pro gress made to date and urged the AIR SHOW Have you ever thought you would like to make like a bird? Well there will be several per sons around here tomorrow at the Statesville Municipal Airport who will be doing that for your entertainment me occasion is tne Jaycee sponsored National Air 1 show slated at 2:30 pm at the airport The Jaycees have received con firmations from owners of eight of the older type planes who say they will have their planes here Skydiving aerobatic flying and plenty of stunts are on the ag enda So go on out to the airport to morrow afternoon ail for a good cause as the Jaycees will use proceeds from the event to aid their various projects WEATHER air through Sunday except in the mountains Local temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 6 am to day: High 70 low 34 TROUBLE SPOT Sometimes it's what after that brings on trouble Take the case of this Collie be longing to Mrs Maude Potts of North Mulberry Street Local firemen were (Summoned at 10 am riday for assistance The Collie chased a squirrel into a storm drain and get out iremen removed the grate and lifted the dog from the drain The It got away STATESVILLE SHOTS Six year old Edward APPLEIELD telling his mother 'that their neighbor Cleo PATTERSON was out playing Judy KEARNS stacking dishes Carolyn JONES worrying about feet i workers to complete the drive as soon as possible There are 11 agen cies which will benefit from the campaign this year The industrial division contribut es 70 per cent of the budget and most of the money given so far has come from this division Shaw of the industrial division re ported that over $7500 has been contributed in this unit and that Hunt Pen Company has already completed its drive with 98 per cent participation There are 81 companies represented in the Indus trial divison and their goal is $52 07510 Paul Morgan chairman of the commercial division reported that his workers have received one check for $850 He said he has ex perienced captains working this year and little difficulty was en countered in securing volunteer canvassers The commercial div ision is scheduled to provide 18 per cent of the budget of $13390 74 Clay Price vice chairman of the individual gifts division reported donations of $320 to date This group contributes 55 per cent of the budget or $409161 The educational and governmen tal division contributes 35 per cent or $260376 Ralph Sisk is chair man of this group Alvin Morrison is chairman of the Negro division which contribut es 2 per cent of the budget or $1 48786 Jack Crews is chairman of the outlying areas division which con tribues 1 per cent of the goal or $74393 Bob Collier Jr president of the organization conducted the preli minary part of the program and later urged those present to sup port the Junior Chamber of Com merce air show Sunday Prior to the reports Tommy Ply ler entertained the group with a man floor IRST BAPTIST SERVICES Dr John Sykes pastor of the irst Baptist Church will speak on the topic Is at the 11 service Sunday mor ning There Is No Vis will topic for his sermon at 7:30 Sunday night Republican Hits 'Democratic' Label Hugh West Statesville attorney was the principal speaker at a Re publican precinct rally in the Be thany community last night West said the election would not lie won by high school bands and a horse such as wore seen in Statesville Monday West said that the term did not really fit the Democratic Party He said it is a misleading label West said a man could place a "thoroughbred race sign on a donkey but it would still be a jackass He in dicated one could refer to the De mocratic Party as being demo cratic but this did not make it de mocratic He noted the use of Um absentee ballot to grave stones to supress the will of the and condemned the legis redistricting a Is which were designed to keep Re publicans from being elected West declared that the Republi can party believes in Ute "pursuit of happiness as the individual in terprets it and not as some bureau crat in Washington! interprets Bill Hager candidate for county commissioner spoke to the group and opposed a three mile wide zoned area around Lake Norman John Trivette candidate for county commissioner promised to work for equalization in tax evalu ation equalization oi schools be tween county and city by upgrad ing county schools' teacher pay and facilities equalization in road construction and equalization of welfare payments to families where real needs exist Homer Tolbert also a candidate for county commissioner said that the Democratic Party had grown into something that even the De mocrats like that it has gone further to the since 1932 Clay Grydcr Republican candi date for sheriff said the budget of the department has grown from $18000 to $83000 "dur ing one man's He said ail this money not Kennedy lying Back To Capital rom Campaign CHICAGO (UPI) President Kennedy today canceled the re mainder of a scheduled seven state weekend campaign tour an4 prepared to fly back to Washing ton immediately because his doc tor found him to be suffering from a upper respiratory infec Canceled because of the Presi ailment were political speeches set for today in St NM and Las Vegas Nev The President also will be un able to keep his Sunday date at Seattle on the closing day of the air Press secretary Pjerre Salinger said Kennedy probably would go to bod at the White House upon his return there in the early afternoon Salinger told reporters: President canceled his schedule on the advice of his doctor Dr George Burckley who noticed this morning that the voice was husky checked the temperature and discovered that he had one degree above normal and a slight upper respiratory principal part of the ac tivity today was to have been out door rallies and the doctor urged the President to these rallies return to Kennedy has been campaigning intensively across the nation over a series of recent weekends Two weeks ago he developed a slight cold but it did not inhibit his travls In one of his major weekend speeches Kennedy served notice riday night that he want to see Sen Everet Dirksen the Senate minority leader re turned to Washington this year In one speech at Springfield and in two at Chicago the barn storming President attacked Dirk sen and pleaded for the election of the in the Il linois senatorial election who he said has fought for his Democratic Rep Sidney Yales of Chicago College Plan Is Opposed RALEIGH (UPI) In a nine page letter the presidents of 15 private and church supported col leges have urged Gov Terry San ford to abandon the idea of es tablishing junior colleges and in stead support the private church supported institutions The presidents said that in 1961 three senior colleges in South Car olina the University of South Carolina Clemson and urman had vacant seats totaling 1197 They said a similar situation ex isted in the Tar Heel state In their argument against addi tional public supported colleges they said the state and local gov ernments would have to find some $100 million to pay for them The presidents asked Sanford to give consideration to establishing scholarship funds which could be used by needy students to attend cither junior or senior private in stitutions 18 Years Given To Bank Bandit SALISBURY (UPI) Ralph Harris was sentenced to 18 years in prison late riday night for rob bing a Cleveland bank of $14768 Harris 33 of Taylorsville was convicted earlier in the day by an all male district court jury after he had presented his own defense Two other men charged in con nection with the June 26 robbery Delma Cope 33 of Mount Holly and Charles Marley 38 of Lenoir waived trial by jury and were found guilty by Judge Edwin Stanley of conspiring to rob the bank AEC ANNOUNCES TEST WASHINGTON (UPI) The Atomic Energy Commission ri day announced another under ground nuclear test at its Nevada test site The test 55th in the current series in Nevada yielded less than 20000 tons of TNT MRS HENRY URCHES AS Tf 4g Mrs urches Taken In Death Mrs Mary Myrtie Sharpe ur ches 90 259 North Kelly Street died at 10:30 pm riday at Ire dell Memorial Hospital She had been in declining health for the past two years and seriously ill for three days Art Iredell County native Mrs urches was born September 25 1872 at Loray and was the daugh ter of the late Abner Clayton Cald well and Margaret Jane Gibson Sharpe She was educated at Mrs Mor boarding school in Statesville Mitchell College and the State Nor mal and Industrial College which is' now College in Greens boro In her earlier life Mrs ur ches taught school in the Iredell County system She was a member of the irst Presbyterian Church and a mem ber of the Dobbs Chapter Dau ghters of the American Revolution Surviving are three daughters Miss Lois urches of the home Mrs Joseph Miller of Statesville and Mrs Christenbury of Charlotte four sons ur ches of the home rank ur ches of Statesville Thomas ur ches of Sumter and Clayton urches of Greensboro a sis ter Mrs Lee Morrison of Lo ray a brother Clarence Shar pe of Bolling Ala and seven grandchildren uneral services will be held at 4 pm Sunday at irst Presby terian Church with Rev Neill McGeachy in charge Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery The body will be removed from Nicholson uneral Home to the re sidence late this afternoon and will remain until the funeral hour The family requests in lieu of flowers that memorials be given Mitchell College or Barium Springs Woman Killed In Accidental all rom Plane WINDSOR LOCKS Conn (UPI) Airline stewardess rancoise de Moriere vanished in a of riday night when she was pulled 1500 feet to her death by the slipstream rushing past an accidentally opened service door on her airport bound Allegheny Airliner Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and Connecticut state investiga tors today sought the reason for the freak in flight mishap that sent the 29 year old rench born stewardess hurtling screaming to her death in the Connecticut woodlands near the capital of Hartford A formal hearing was tentative called for (9 am EDT) today None of the other 50 passengers and crew members was injured when the top hinged door at the rear of the twin engined Convair somehow opened at 1500 feet as Allegheny Airlines flight 928 was going in for a landing at Bradley ield here The second stewardess on the flight Katherine Lacy 22 of Brookline Mass was in a rest room across the aisle from the service door which blew open The lavatory door was pulled from its hinges but two belted in passengers in the real' of the plane immediately forced it back into place and held it there to protect Miss Lacy according to passenger Charles Mack Spring field Mass who alsowas sitting in the tail Miss Lacy on the advise of the flight crew remained in the la vatory until the plane landed Mack said there was not much suction after the immediate rush of air when the service door opened and Miss De Moriere was pulled from the plane He said he had whether Miss Lacy the stewardess in the rest room was in danger of being pulled from the plane by the slipstream Barium Church Series Planned Dr Julian Lake pastor of Brownsen Memorial Church in Southern Pines will speak at a series of special services which be gin Sunday morning at 11 at Little Presbyterian Church Barium Springs Rev Hugh Carter church pas tor said that 7:30 pm services would be held Sunday through Wednesday Ten prayer services will begin Monday and continue through Wednesday "ii jilsl 4 I NEW George Poole 21 route 1 Statesville a graduate of Cool Springs High School has joined the staff of the Record Landmark as a re porter He is the son of Mr and Mrs Poole Mocksville Road and formerly was employ ed by the Statesville Police De partment as a radio dispatcher for two years Prior to joining the newspaper Poole was with Reavis uneral Home He will be assigned to the police beat Stock Market Takes Tumble NEW YORK (UPI) Massive selling apparently triggered by discouraging news about the na economy drove stock mar ket prices riday to their lowest level in more than three weeks A late rally near the end of the trading session recouped some of the losses but was not firm enough to make much of a hole in the losses estimated by Standard Poor to have cost the market $395 billion A wide variety of stocks was caught up in the sell off which in volved 1297 issues the broadest trading since July 19 A 20 session high of 4650000 shares up some 1480000 from the previous day held up the high speed ticker tape several times during the hectic trading which found most issues closing near the lows Market analysts blamed the bearish trend on a number of fac tors: A statement by a top ex ecutive that there would be a mild economic downturn during the first half of 1963 A marked downturn in Septem ber housing activity A statement by presidential ad viser Walter Heller that the gross national product for 1962 would be at least $10 billion short of the $567 billion goal Heavy Waves Of Communists Hit Defenders NEW DELHI India (UPI) Communist Chinese troops at tacked in and drove defending Indian forces back at several points in bitter fighting along their disputed bor der today Indian Defense Minister Krishna Menon said the Chinese smashed Indian defenders out of several outposts at both ends of the remote border in the high Him alayan Mountains At least one Indian outpost to the last round before it he said Krishna Menon said his troops were outnumbered and outgunned in what he described as a which still was raging this afternoon He said Indian troops were kill ing four times as many Chinese as they themselves lost despite the Red advance Krishna Menon said the Indians lost or posts in Ladakh and fell back behind the Namka Chu River just south of the McMahon Line in Northeast rontier Agency The McMahon line is the bor der between India Communist controlled Tibet and Communist China which originally was set up in 1914 by British official Sir Henry McMahon The Chinese government never has accepted the border Krishna Menon was reluctant to give precise figures on the Communist Chinese advance But it was understood the Reds had hit along a 15 to 20 mile front and had thrust three or four miles south of the Indian claimed border area Krishna Menon told a news con ference earlier in the day the Chinese Communjsts were guilty of and attacks New China News Agency reported the fighting first and said the Indians had started it with a scale frenzied at It said the Chinese had suffered but were fighting back fiercely Krishna Menon said the Reds fired at Indian planes from the ground He said that so far neith er side has used combat planes night the Chinese fired heavily on one of our posts in NEA (Northeast rontier Agen cy) for about one Krishna Menon said in a prepared state ment Chinese have concentrat ed very large forces in that area and ithey are all being Puppy Survives Attack By Errant Golden Eagle seen no one ft IB the or bird was a Chicago residential street No explanation could be given for the unusual appearance here A Lincoln Park zoo official said golden eagles are indigenous to the area but are rarely in cities The official speculated had suffered an injury dying of old age happened so knew what to Thomas said He shots at the bird but want to chance a stray bullet hitting a spectator Penney's master red Godoman grabbed a broom handle and whac fast officer James fired several ked at the bird before the eagle released its grip and flew to a house chimney The bird was then shot with a tranquilizer gun Penny was hurried to the hospit al where she was reported in condition The eagle suffered no apparent injury when he tumbled from the chimney He was taken to the zoo where officials were unde cided about his fate Watchers were at the same time stunned and awed by the handsome bird beautytint what terriblt one said CHICAGO (UPI) Penny a vicious golden eagle month old puppy was nursing Hundreds saw the one sided deep wounds and a broken leg battle riday between the puppy today following an attack by a and the bird which took place on I 1 i A'A JHMM IS A A A lit I 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