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Deaths And Funerals MRS. BEULAH MORGAN for Mrs. Beulah Roy- alt. Morgan was yesterday Springfield Baptist Church by Rev. L.

J. Mabe, pastor. Burial Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Pallbearers were Willie Starnes, R. A.

Simpson, J. J. Lowe, A Heilig, Wallace Heilig and Ray Heilig. Mrs. Morgan.

52, of 9L5 Sharoa MRS. SARAH KNIGHTEN Funeral for Mrs. Sarah beth Haynes Knighten, 84, was conducted yesterday from Island Primitive Baptist Church near Reidsville by Rev. W. 'S.

Teachey, pastor of Central Christian Church. Pallbearers were R. T. MeCormick, Walter M. Me- iuj.a.

i'-LVigou. ili, UL iflarOQ St. died Wednesday in High Point Cormick, Lloyd Haynes, a Memorial Hospital where she had Haynes, Jack Haynes and Hen- jman Hajues. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs.

Knighten died early Wednesday in High Point Memorial Hospital following several years of declining health. High Pointer's Sister Succumbs a patient for 11 hours. Father Of Local Resident Dies; Funeral Today 7 ORTH WEKESBORO Jesse Hardin Shumate, 84, of Rt 2, North Wilkcsboro, died Thursday at his home. Born in Wilkes County, he was a I retired employe of Norfolk andj Western Railway. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Sarah Billings Shumate; three I w. Payne 70 Rt. 1 McLeansville. sons Virga Shumate of at 1:30 a vesterday at mouth, Clarence Shumate of'. ri High Point, Roy Shumate of Lom-; her home two ears of bard, two daughters, Mrs.

Flora Ramsey and Mrs. Nora Sluss of Pocahontas, grandchildren. Funeral was to be conducted at! 2 p.m. today at Round Mountain Baptist Church by Rev. Ruzie GREENSBORO Mrs.

Allie 25; was Harrold, Rev. L. E. Sparks, Rev. Bill Harrold and Rev.

John A. Harrold with burial in the church cemetery. clining health. The former Hepsie Cook, she a lifelong resident of Guil- County. She was a member 'of Gibsonville Christian Church.

Surviving are her husband; four sons, Gaither.M. and Curtis W. Payne of Rt. 1, McLeansville; Larry J. Coble Of Asheboro Dead At 19 High Point Enterprise, Saturday, Dec, 29, 1962 President Winds Up Talks With Hew Budget Adviser By FRANK CORMIER PALM BEACH.

Fla. (AP) President Kennedy has sent his new budget director back to same "underlying philosophy" ofjdicated administration bills that failed to stantial. these were not sub- Washington touches en to put the finishing the bulky document gain passage in the last Congress. However, he indicated that some significant concessions Following his meeting with Celebrezze and other Welfare Department officials, Kennedy took after three days of policy talks at the holiday White House. Kermit Gordon, sworn in Friday as chief overseer of the federal purse strings, flew back to Washington after dusk- following a 90 minute conference with Kennedy.

Before departure, Gordon said ome changes might yet be made the budget for the 1964 fiscal ear that begins next July 1. It was apparent, however, that most of the key question marks 'ere disposed of in meetings this 'eek on tax cut plans, military lending, and legislative propos- 1s involving aid to education and medical care for aged through So- ial Security. The Kennedy-Gordon session Friday night was focused on the READY FOR SKI TRIP Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. (left), Aspen, yesterday.

The brothers and his brother, Attorney General Rob- of President John F. Kennedy and their ert Kennedy, pause atop Aspen Moun- families are vacationing at Aspen, tain before skiing down Copper Bowl at (AP Raymond G. and James E. Payne! of Greensboro; five daughters. Mrs.

Verdie Rogers, Mrs. William Fields, Mrs. H. V. Morphis and Mrs.

Gordon Peterson, all of Greensboro, and Mrs. Joe Gordon of Brown Summit: one brother, Robert Cook of High Point; two ASHEBORO Larry James ('sisters, Mrs. Edna Payne Wayne E. Connor Unexpectedly Dies At 49 Wayne Evans Connor, 49, of 16- "Xdl2 Lincoln Dr. died unexpectedly rr 1 Coble, 19, of Rt.

4, Asheboro, today in Randolph Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Survivors include, Ms parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Arlen Coble; one sister, Pamela; his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. E. T. Cagle and Mrs. J.

C. Coble. Funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at Union Grove Christian Church.

The body will be placed in the church 30 minutes before the service. Rev. Avery Brown, Rev. Dolan Talbert and Rev. Clyde Fields will officiate.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. and Mrs. Minnie Shepherd of Elon College; 26 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Gibsonville Christian Church by Rev.

G. L. Walker, pastor, Rev. Harold Loman of Salisbury and Rev. J.

Lester Stanley of Hope Dale Christian! Church. Burial will be in Apple's Chapel Church Cemetery. The body was to be taken today to the home of Gaither Payne where it will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes before the service. today at 7 a.m. He had been ill about three days.

He was born Jan. 19, 1913, in Randolph County, a son of Samuel Walker and Daisy Bain Connor. He was never maried. He had been a resident of High Point since 1926 and was eeducated in the local schools. He was associated with Duke Power Co.

for several years and played baseball with Fielddale in the old Virginia- Carolina League until he lost an arm and a leg in an accident Two Youths Admit Killing 5 Persons Survivors one sister, include his Mrs. Nancv mother; C. Yow NEW YORK (AP) i quoted two young men early today as admitting they went on a murder-robbery spree that began in Woburn, Christmas Eve and ended here Friday with five persons slain and one critically wounded. In all cases, the victims were shot in the head. Acting on a tip, police arrested Emanuel Samperi, 27, and Henry P.

du Sablon, 20, Friday night at the Belvedere Hotel on west 48th St. GOOD AFTERNOON FROM PAGE 4 came a standard fixture in Southern towns. People with no pennies to spare put pennies aside to help buy statues of the Great Man. The North had the victory, but the South had Robert E. Lee.

No phrase-maker like Lincoln, Lee did not leave speeches for school children to memorize. But he toiled without complaining, surrendered without equivocating, and died without faltering. He showed that human virtue was equal to, if not superior to, human calamity. His greatest asset was a unique kind of grace; his greatest triumph, the simple splendor of his being. Robert E.

Lee cannot be understood fully against a background of politics and philosophy. Efforts to find Lee's "secret" have failed because they followed wrong leads. He was destined for legend as well as history. We can say of him what Emerson said of Lincoln: had he not existed it would have been necessary to invent him. of the home; five brothers, George J.

Robert. Carl W. and Sam 'onnor, all of High Point, and Earl Connor of Thomasville. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body will remain at Sechrest Funeral Home.

Had the nineteenth-century Protestant Church had the mechanism for setting up American saints, Lee would have made an admirable one. His sword and face would have done well in church iconography and cathedral carvings. He was the southern Saint George slaying Yankee dragons. There is a touch of Saint Francis here, too; Lee had an extraordinary rapport with animals. Literally everything and everybody loved him.

Since his death Lee has won the hearts of many historians on! John W. Wall Dies In Hospital; Funeral Tomorrow John William Wall, 69, of 404 Tate died in High Point Memorial Hospital Friday at 1:50 p. m. He had been in declining They refused to give any home address. Both were booked on homicide charges.

The men implicated themselves, police said, in the following slayings: Frank C. Ross, 59, found dead behind a counter in his Woburn antique shop. For 12 hours his death was believed due to natural through an eye with a small calibre revolver. The bullet wen' into his brain. Ross' wallet coo taming $100 was taken.

Henry J. Jassem, 54, was fount shot to death last Wednesday the rear of his novelty shop in Manhattan. Police said Du Sablon got a diamond ring worth S85C and $20 in cash. Jassem's death at first was 1 though to be natural because his hair concealed a head wound. On Friday four men were gun ned down, three fatally, in ties robberies: Martin Himmelstein, 47, Fores Hills, Queens, slain in his retai wine and liquor store in Manhai tan.

would be made to the opposition, jhis family and a couple of guests Kennedy asked for some Jon a sightseeing cruise in Lake changes in the legislation pro- i Worth and the Atlantic beach- posed to him, out Celebrezze in--front Confession Has Flaws, Cops Say LOS ANGELES (AP)--A man who have been investigated as who confessed the 1957 slaying of (possible suspects. the Grimes sisters in gave excellent details crime, police say. but he not have been the murderer. "We want to be sure he's Chicago; Chicago detectives said Law- of the less. 34, gave an exceltent des- mayjcription of the girls, including knowledge of Patricia's crooked a toe and the clothing they wore good suspect, not just another guy at the time of their disappear- who wants a free ride back to sacs.

Chicago," a Los Angeles detective However, an autopsy showed the girls froze to death and had sexually molested, beat- strangled, as dministration's 1953 legislative rogram and its effect on the saM trl(iay orthcoming budget. Sitting in There are some discrepancies! the talks were Elmer Staats. dep-j" 1 Lhe man confession, officers ty budget director, and chicago police and sheriff of F. O'Brien, a key presidential ad- On Friday, sandy-haired Alfred flceh! they had no immediate on congressional relations. jSrmth Lawless, aoout to end lans to com to A les to With this meeting, for drunkenness, told question Lawless ileaced the decks of all announced ouce: appointments until after the New Year's holiday.

However, the chief executive had a date today Miami with survivors of the lisastrous Cuban invasion of April 961. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, were to fly to Miami to vatch the Cubans pass in review in that city's Orange Bowl stadium. Some "We don't discount it "Six years ago today I killed onfession)-we hope it is the real Barbara aad Patricia Grimes andj thing--but we have to learn more I've been running ever since." about it," said Police Sgt. John Lawless said he picked up theJKeane, a Chicago homicide offi- girls at a Chicago theater, molested them, them, bound beat and choked them, and cer. them from an auto.

Lt. Walter A. Weingart of the threw Cook County sheriffs department said: are discrepancies in The nude bodies of Barbara his story, but of course we will Grimes, 15, and her sister, Pa-i check it out. Frankly, I'm a lit- of the final questions jtricia, 13, were found in a ditch tie dubious." about the record $99 billion budget due in mid-January were resolved at a session at which Secretary of Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze and Kennedy reviewed new a i and med- cal care legislation they hope will! 'be more palatable" to This was the way -legislation was characterized by Celebrezze iollowing the session.

Celebrezze said that basically programs will hew to the reside a country road southwest of Chicago on Jan. 22, 1957. Chicago police--who have permanent team assigned to the case--have a list of 5,000 persons causes but a disclosed he later had examination been shot health for three months and a patient in the hospital for two weeks. Mr. Wall was born in Randolph County Feb.

10, 1893, a son of J. W. and Fannie Fieids Wall. He Minor Blazes Cause Three Fire Calls Firemen were summoned to a His employe, Caesar Lago, 62 was critically wounded and sti has not regained consciousnes. About S80 was taken.

Morris Neuringer, 59, proprieto of a Bronx liquor store, shot once in the temple and once between the eyes. His body was discovered in a rear bathroom of the store by a customer. Harry Schneider, 50, found dead in Ms army and navy surplus goods store in Jamaica, Queens. When Schneider was found, it was first believed he had suffered a skull fracture. Further examination disclosed fragments of a bullet in his head.

beauty shop at 611 S. Main at yesterday because had spent most of his life in Highi 12:44 Pm Point, moving here from Randolph smoke was accumulating in the f. ihililrfincf County. He was a furniture worker for many years before retiring. He was of the Baptist faith.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs.j Pearl Embler Wall of the home; building. An investigation revealed that soot in the chimney had ignited and partially blocked the flue. ere was no damage. Trucks were dispatched at 1:48 Man Suffers Injuries In Auto Wreck one son, Ervin Wall of the home: jP- to an automobile fire on S.j THOMASVILLE A Wadesboro both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, and across the seas. Still it and hvo brothers Wall of Street.

The fire, which did! man was injured in an accident a the man asks us to look at Lee in his open coffin: There he lies. Now that they have shrouded him, with his features so white against the lining of the casket that he seems already a marble statue for the veneration of the South. His cause died at Appomaltoi; now, in him, it is to have its apotheosis. In making clear what Lee is to them, his followers show what Americans admire in heroes. What is ultimately pleasing is a well- proportioned life.

Lee did not depend 50 much upon the search for truth ss upon the softening quality of an atmosphere. He was the product of proud provincial aristocracy, moved by the force of a gloriously remembered past. Virginia writer, Douglas Southall Freeman, who best reduced gh Pomt an Eugene Wall of! Iittle dama 'as caused by back-jtoday when heroic life to words. At the end of his four-volume work, Free- heboro ire through the carburetor of the 'collided wit a citv-owned truck Police also are checking Lawless' confession to the murder of a a man named Walter "Pea-John" Miller of Jamestown, "in 1947 or 1943." ON CANDIDACIES Jonas And Lake 'Keep Door Open 7 Sedgefield Sewer Plan Postponed GREENSBORO--Guilford County Commissioners were left confused and with a "smelly problem" following a public hearingi an( Raleigh attorney Dr. Bev-jmonths.

And I don't believe in By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two men who have been regarded as possible candidates for governor of North Carolina in 1964-a Democrat and a Republican- said Friday they have no plans at this time to seek the office. But both, Republican U.S. Rep. Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton announcements in case they decide to run.

Jonas, who said he has not given serious consideration to a proposal that he become a gubernatorial candidate, explained his position thusly: "I don't have to cross that bridge for another eight to 10 yesterday on a proposed new sanitary district to be established in the Sedgefield area. Some of the residents want improvements. Others object. And county commissioners concluded the hearing yesterday by deferring action until their next meeting on Jan. 7.

By then, commissioners hope, the air will be cleared of confusion. Only one commissioner, Lloyd Amos, spoke out in favor of immediate action on the petition erley Lake, left the way open for Wake Solons Want Dixie Classic Back RALEIGH (AP) Wake County's commissioners have called for resumption of Raleigh's Dixie Classic basketball tournament which was discontinued in 1961 in signed by 51 per cent of the area wake game-fixing scan- resident-owners who claim the da year-old system now in use is "inj rj; i classic time again, bad need or repairs posing ai an( we ave no DL i Classic," terrible emergency and a health Commissioner James Judd enace." 0 Fuquay at a meeting Friday. Amos advocated the establish- sports event game enter- ment of a new district encom-' jtammen and pleasure to thou- crossing bridges before I come to them." Jonas made the comments while preparing to return to Washington for his sixth term in Congress. Lake, a Raleigh attorney, had been reported as having said he would be a candidate if conditions were favorable. In denying that he had committed himself to be a candidate, however, Lake would not reject the idea of running again in 1964.

"I haven't made a decision yet," he said. Lake, who ran on a segregationist olatform, was defeated by Gov. Terry Sanford in the Democratic primary. He was in North Wilkesboro as a guest at a dinner party. Asheboro.

Funeral will be held at 2:30 p. car. Firemen were called to 609 Henat 8:04 p.m. where a m. Sunday- in Sechrest Chapel by rjrem et Dr.

E. W. Price pastor Green Street Baptist Church. Bur-i house fu TMace bad malfunctioned ial will be in Oakwood CemeteryJ and scattered ashes under the The body will chrest Funeral hour of the service. remain at Home until with the out-of-town the old district plus three The injured man was identified tracts earmarked for develop- as 0.

C. Kirby, a passenger in the car driven north on Randolph Street by his son, James Kirby, 42, also of Wadesboro. The elder Kirby was carried by ment by private contractors. This district, Amos argued, could be sands of people from states, including our own." The event was discontinued byi the Consolidated University of; expanded later on petition of Carolina after N.C. living outside the district.

players were implicated in the residence. Firemen extinguished the ler ambulance to City Memorial area objected to the obviously classic was part of a parks, and no property damage'Hospital for emergency treatment (gerrymandered district. And they i de-emphasis program. i i i i i i i i i. Those persons living outside the gambling scandal.

Dropping thej basketball; -'resulted. SPIRIT IS WILLING LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Ap Realty Transfers Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shell were try-' Forget the Lee of battle, and see the old man moving among ing to teach son Scottv 3 the old soldiers and young children who were attracted to him asj to pronounce policeman with Hi To mt Township though he were a magnet.

Forget the general in gray, and observe mstea( I Thomas Joseph Feeney and; light "at" the intersectcon the stiff old fellow in the black suit, moving back and forth between his home and the college chapel he conceived and built. Focus your eyes sharply on this man. For this is the real Robert E. Lee. jof a severed artery 2nd other lac-jwondered out loud as to why they fhe tournament, during its 12-; erations about the head and facejhad not been consulted when the year run.

pitted State College, the! suffered as his head went through! petition was drawn. of North Carolina. the windshield of the car. I If the petition is approved by Duke and Wake Forest against Police said that Kirby and thej commissioners at next meet-! four out-of-state teams. It ran fori unidentified operator of the city ing, the State Board of Health will three days between truck both claimed the green be empowered to establish theland New Years.

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Theyll Do It Every Time -DV Jimmy HatiO THE EGGPLANTS ARE VERY SAPETV CONSCIOUS- WEAR SEAT BELTS EVEN THQUSH THEY CRAWL ALQM6 TWENTY MILES UNDER THE SPEED LiMrr--- ND TWIS IS YOUN6 HAYWIRE WMO CANT BE BOTHERED WITH BEING STRAPPED IN-HE CUTS OUT AT IN A JALOPY AND A TIP OP MATLO HAT TO L.SILEEI3, 4000 LIBECTY MTS. AVE BALTIMORE'7, MD. Residents of the area, incor C. Elliott property. from Holly Hill Road.

porated as Sedgefield Sewer Donald Wmborne and wife toj police said that Kirby would be i Lines, could then borrow money Milton Harmon and wife, a lot of citec or runn ing a red light as! or issue bonds to finance construc- the Fred Carroll property. witnesses to the accident said thejtion of new lines and a disposal Harr G. Gnmmett and wife to. truck was in ight (plant. W.

M. McLamb and three; lots of the Roberson, Penny and Kirkman subdivision. Wiley L. Baldwin and wife to Alvin Staley and wife, a lot of Blair-Futrelle No. 2 known at Glen Oaks.

Lillie Wood Shephard Smith and teuton rom a presidential con- husband to Auto Supply Co. a erence en she stumbled and People In The News By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 175-year-old senator was returning Caroline Kennedy diverted at- to his home in Berryville, Va. lot of the N. E. Welborn plat.

at oceanside Palm Beach, W. Lloyd Rule and wife to a House. President Kennedy was conferring with advisers on health, welfare and education I bert I. Johnson and wife, a lot of Golfcrest. John T.

Jernigan and wife to programs when Caroline, 5, burst i Actor Ernest Borgnine has sued Mexican actress Katy Jurado for divorce in Los Angeles. The action, charging Miss Jurado's cruelty, counters suit for separate maintenance filed last fall. P. Cash and wife, four i 0a tears and the President called nine an Mis Jurado were wed lots of the J. property.

or someone to go to his daugh-j' 1959 I Farmers Cooperative Exchange ter 's aid. Caroline later reportedly barged Giovanni Agnelli, whose.family! founded the Fiat automobile into the conference to ask her works, is out in front as Italy's! daddy a question, to be told only biggest individual money earner; to put on her bathing suit and goj for 1962. Reports published thus: Inc. to Globe Furniture two tracts on South Main Street. R.

L. Smith and wife to Idol Green Co. five lots of Brent- wood School Park. for a swim. I far in Rome show he had an in- Josephine Same Harriss, execu-i Sen.

Harry F. Byrd, has; come for the year of 283 million trix of the estate of Nancy Anna been released from Union Memo-i lire In U.S. money, Bame and others, to Moses rial Hospital in Baltimore after others in the high income bracket Murphy and others, a lot of the a medical check-up and treatment (were: Aldo Crespi, Milan indus- Charies L. Amos property. Beatrice Byrum McCrary and husband to Frances McCrary Younts, a lot on Campbell Street.

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