The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 8

Today's Chuckle "Am (he first girl yon vrr kissed?" "llfavcns, na, I've wtn pr j. paring years for you." THE GASTONIA GAZETTE PUBLISHED IN TUB "CITY OF GROWING BEAUTY" GASCON COUNTY, TUB FINE COMBED COTTON YARN CENTER OF AMERICA NO. 157 SKA IKRVICII The Weather CONTINUKD r.KK NORTH CAHDI.IS'.t: wllli thundrrtliourrt In wulhMil portion, Trlday fair ind cneilor, Low lonljlit flier JO, MEMHKK Aunrr IIURKAU THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2, 1959. TKF.RN EW it'sui iviiiK jpimisiiERS ASSN. PA6I5 HUNDREDS ROUTED BY FIRE IN PENTAGON PiratesPlay Here Monday As Scheduled rm ar "mm i 11 LEAGUE GIVES NOD JO SHIFT BIRD FEUDS FISH As for next year, (he handsome Gaslonia Ford dealer said: -el worms Irom i Baker lpa l' (r the water lo lk lhis t( allow Columbus woims Irom Ihe beak of a male cardinal winch voluntarily took over the of fcedin" the fish move ils franchise to GaMonia Sllrel wc be interested and.

believe the league will be in- Goldlish in Ihc backyard IIV KK.V ALKXANIIER- Sports Editor) Those "in-again-out-again" Gaslonia Pirates are Thai assurance today came from Sam C. Smith faouth Atlantic League president. In an announcement Irom his office in Dothan, he saitl: "Gastonia will definitely replace Columbus In the league for the rest of the season. As for next year I can't say. it'll be strictly up to the rest of the members of the league." So, Smith's statement makes it, official The Pirates will be in town Monday night, opening a four- game set with the Savannah Rcdlegs.

The Pirates have 34 home games remaining all to be played at Sims-Legion Park. Allliou.ch some of the directors! -Stories Of Violence And Tragedy Ihe league president pointed oul, a majority were agreeable lo do everything possible to help the people of Columbus. STOJ'GAP MOVE Smith stressed that the move is "slopRap measure" for the resl of this year only. League directors had vnied licr Ibis week lo allow Columbus to move its franchise to Gastouia out of professional baseball ve the Icagi 1953. jtcrested in us, loo.

providing we all concerned what kind of doubt but Ihat Gastonia will give top-notch support lo (he Pirales. "If I hadn't thought so," hei said. "1 would never have made: Ihe first contact with Columbus. the utmost Gastonia baseball fans. They'll: turn oul." Woman Believed From N.C.

Beaten To Death In Hotel II I A woman hmtcn (o death In a hotel room here Wednesday is IhniiRhl to have heen a ojd divorcee from Golrishoro, N. Virginia Anderson Kd- wards. Police are searching for Iln- hi-rl Hoffman. .11, of Cunihrr- lanrl county, N. for questioning in conncclion wilh Ihe riealh of Ihe 52, 120-pound rcd-hcailcd woman.

In Fayclleville, I'ulice Chief F. Worrell salt! he learned that a woman named Virginia Erhvnnls boarded a plane for Chicago Tuesday atlcr- nonn. Ife said invesfigatinn showed Ihe unman had been (ialing a man nmnrd Hoffman. Miss Alice Nye. hotel clerk, told aulhorilirs that a couple rcgislered in Ihe South Side Chicago hold Tucsiiav night as Mr.

anil H. Hoffman. Police wore summoned Wednesday aflr-r a hotel employee overheard a man call for a TRAIN HITS TRUCK SUFFOLK, speeding passenger train smashed into a truck loaded wilh bricks Wednesday, killing Ihe truck driver ami 1953. Later some of Ihe directors; asked Smith to make another survey to sound out sentiment for returning it to Columbus. The Class A loop's president I said the second poll, taken by telephone and telegraph, stood as did the for the transfer Jacksonville opposing and Charleston not voting.

SECOND Pun. Smilh said Ihe' second poll i'BMZE OVER BUILDING Pentagon fire today en- dangei'ed 30 million dollars worth of statistical computing equipment, sent at least 15 firemen and building guards to hospitals, and routed hundreds of employees from the huge building. Almost two hours after the fire started, firemen from hall a dozen departments in the Washington area still had been unable to quench the fire eating through false ceilings and floors on the second floor of the building. In the great In the meantime, Gasionia's "adopted" club added lo its leanie! SMALL AND FANCY FREE area and entrance to Ihe sprawl of Ihe floor svcre buckling from heal. Firemen, using pneumatic hammers and rills, began punching holes through the concrete flooring to get water into the heart of Iho fire.

The fire, burning into big stores of recording film, rolled out choking clouds of smoke. Officials said Ihe stalistical computing equipment has suffered at least damage from smoke, They said extent of Ihe damage could not be determined until the area can be entered. FIREMEN TREATED Firemen were treated for smoke inhalation on the spot and returned lo duty. The Pentagon, headquarters and nerve center of the U. S.

armed See 1'IRATKS on" a more appropriate dress for Ihe occasion heat -jwavc is in its third consecutive day. stemmed frnm fear among league riircclors lh.it more of 'he same allendance problems White And Negro Men Sentenced Rapists Get Death Decree BKAUTORT. S. white injuring 10 persons, hospitalized. Killed was C.

Four were: selves at Gastonia. Rounlree. .1. II KOllnlrCC. 'or Moanoke Webster Brick-; rciinii.

Officers found Ihe an's nude and licaten sprawled on a lied. sst r- al Columhns would repeat them- and a Negro man were selves at C.astoma. jstnfenccd in the same courtroom Worry (hat Gastonia might prove to be electrocuted Aug. 14 an unsuccessful venture, he saidj' 01 se )ara 'e. interracial Negro woman.

If he o'ics in Die electric chair as sen- (triced. il will be Ihe first recorded case in the United Stales of lass, her attire, across Ihe Potomac'from Wash- Tile fire area was in Ihe section adjoining the Air Force computing section. Not far from Ihe burning section is the Air Force "commauc post." In that lightly room is a communications system through which, in event of attack word would he flashed to Air Force bombers and fighter planes had a jury equally com- to 80 into aclion. 1 iyarrf near here. The injured in tmd jwas bafed on the city's smaller Pvt, Fred G.

Davis. 24, while man's ewcution for rap- a. Ncgio woman. About two hours after Davis ceived such a capital case and i names had been sighted in the rendered such a verdict as in the i corridors. Sharpe trial.

ii in-' red u. fi Annul Iw'n nniirc cUided the engineer, fireman anrlPon.ilalinn and the fact that Char- was sentenced for the rape of a se 1 "d4 He iteslal clerk on the Iram a Sa-illl 1 Jonnson rtoslal clerk on the train, a another Sallv member is iboard I route pieces of luggage hearing air- Portsmouth, Va with 25 io 30'pas-! sll iof an effort to secure Ihe Colnm- line. tags in the menu. The woman's legs hore hums The Diesel locomotive and anrt her charrcri clothing was 0 Ihe seven cars were derailed in a pile near the hathroom arid said he had no appeared lo have rtmisrd with water, officers said. Airliner Crash Leaves 10 Dead IIV HEIiNAHl) II.

GOULD- MARION, crews fanned out through a nearby wheat field early today, looking for the remaining seven victims of an airliner crash that left little doubt all LO aboard perished. The plane, owned by the Continenlal Can carried eight top company executives and a crew of Air I'a'rols from ihrec states plan- two. It hurtled out of an overcast sky late Wednesday a 50arcil for an Air and crashed wilh such that'bils i Fnrc jrt rm lhi ha5 ot of wreckage were showered over a 300-yard area. ard ncc ils sme was The plane literally dir CONVICT STARTS FIRE KOY1JO, insane convict scl fire Wednesday night lo an old woorlen wing of Ihe Koylio prisfin and prisoners hnmpd lo ileath before Ihpy be released from Iheir ceils. Of 4S other convicts in Ilir wing.

21 were injured and Ihrce escaped. County Police Cnm- missionrr I.cvnn said alt nfl injured would rrcovcr and 1 1 men Cnp rcii on Boy Drowns At IVH JTJl. PLANE SKAIICI! sentenced Israel Sharpe. a Negro, to death for (he attempted rape of a white woman ir. her home.

hail convicted bolh men without recommendation of mercy, making the death sentences The body of Aaron Robinson. I "ancia(ory year-old Negro, was recovered! Ar all-white hiry convicted from Dutchman's Creek in Mount navis a native o' stalion- Ifolly about 1 o'clock Cfi at Mariru filation here, afternoon, more than an hour ne Jury in (he Sharpe case six while men and six 350 WILL DIE, THEY PREDICT CHICAGO The National Siifoly Cdimcil is fine group of which hoprs ils prcilic- tions are 100 per cnil wrong. cmbm of lllc ifc iicsi. me oeiense will have 10 davj Among Us tasks in Ilic lirld uf Crew started dragging! 1 Nvhich lo a PI )Cal Sharpe's case Ihe youth drowned in foot depth of water. I.Negro men.

Aaron and his brother. Gregory. 1 'fudge Johnson grantor! fo se a de- nine. accompanied by fo se have Sharpe corn- youths. walked about Three miles' m1 0(i ttle Slalc "ospilal at llimbla for a 30-day mental ex- ail alinn Vtcr sl.

Ihe defense will have 10 davj for moM of "them. (i Hs reported on 1.1. Col. Sarah Duke of the Chattanooga Civil Air Patrol said the Hs i-uiuu-a uvii pails of three bodies were found. Tho ane crasho( sllo eardl Tennessee "if 1 VVC1C buricd re 6 of H.

K.j North Carolina wm'ld Smilh. six miles east of this north make its headquarters at McUhee under Ihe earth. Kiphl ivrrc top c.vcctilivcs re- luming lo New York, where IHc firm h.ns ils licadquarlcrs. altev a meeting nf company officials in Chicago, Conlincnlal Can said. The plane, carrying a crew two.

was believer! lo be ,1 twiii-j vanls engine R26 Martin. II was rle-' molishcci almnsl hcynnrl ral lion. The wreckage was 5 central Ohio city. Smilh was in his ham when he heard Ihc aircrall approaching from Ihe norlh. He snirl he IhniiKhl il was Soing lo hit Ihe barn.

Intl it over and crunched into Iho wheal field 100 ig li.chlly at 'he tcrnoon Ihnnder- over an area l.V) yards in rfi itself mil. amelcr, a sheriffs deiuilv report- 1 rai1l(1 gd ll Marion Municipal Airport a Hie aircraft hi, will, such 10 pact lhal only one was found, said liie rirpulv liclx-rt 1S lr vm to Abenour. The nlher engine piv-: lrt a Ihl11l(lorsl(1 siimably was buried wilh Ihe vic-l cp AIKI.INEK. r-2- Tysoii Air Force Base near here. The plane, she said, last was heard Irom at p.

m. Wednesday, when Ihe pilot reported a flameom and said hp nas about fis minutes south of Knoxville. At a sjH'ed of 600 miles an hour, and an alliludc of W.OOfl feel, this, would puflhe cralt near in the Western Norlh Carolina safety, Hie 47.year.old Itnn inchirfcs esliinatiiiff (lie. na lion's traffic death toll an major holidays. For the 4 weekend Hie council cslimates persons will dip in traffic accidrnls anil 1.1.000 olhrrs will suffer disabling injuries.

"Hnl our goal is arcidenls al all." says a NSC spokesman. OF KVKUVTUING "All we nre ctoii from iheir home on Ihe old lo the in i(l Ih Mcmbers of (llc ailer Ihe drowni posed of whites and Negroes re-i hours after the first alarm Bulletins Strike Ends CLEVELANU-WV-The presf- dent of United Steel Workers Local 5000 today called off a strike of unlicensed seamen nn Great Lakes ore carrier's. The men struck Wednesday TAPES LOST One officers said Ihat at least 7.000 acetate magnetic tapes, all of them containing classified data, had been lost. Tiie blaze apparently began in defective wiring behind Ihe false ceiling in the concourse area. morning.

Beck Denies It NEW Deck former Tcamslfrs Union chief, pleaded innocent today in U. S. District Conrl to a charge BREAK IN HOT WA VE FORECAST i BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A slight break in Ihe heat wave, hut continued drought, were forecast for today by the Weather Bureau As farm losses continued lo mount as a result of the dry weather, a new menace devel- npcd-grnund fires In coastal woodlands. The Weather. Bureau at Raleigh-Durham Airport held out hope of only scattered thundershowers today and Friday.

No general rain was forecast lor the next five days. Temperatures, however, which have mounted lo above 100 degrees since the hot spell began last Thursday, were expected to drop to Ihe middle 90s today and become cooler Friday. While tobacco and corn in eastern and Piedmont North Carolina continued drying 'ool from fhe month-long dry -spell, ground lire.s were reported in several coastal counties. Regional Forester Ralph W. N'mkworlh called them "the worst ground fires 1 have ever seen." He said, however, all were contained by control lines.

The tires were burning in Hyde, Dare, Onslow, Beaufort, Camden, Curriluck and Jones counties. -Wants To Adopt Boy- Long Has Slight Heart Failure people then- is exlra traffic, cx- Ir.i dancer and therefore, extra arrirfenls. and vo an- asking Ilictn In he c.vlra careful." I'sing mass ciinnminicalinn radio, lelr- rouncil pounds al Ihe populace urging ihcm lo he tul. and Hie Gaslo.i Life Crew members were called to provide divint: equipment. Oilier swimmers in the water to Ihe Supreme Court.

Davis' lawyer did not indicate whether an appeal would be filed. Both defendants were impassive as they stood lo hear their Aaron started tf '''s in a packed courtroom con- COVINGTON, say Gov. Earl K. Long, working of accepting a S200.00I) payment restlessly day and nighCon lourth- frotti Iwo Intcking company ex- fcnlivcs while Iteck headed Ihe t-'nroii. New Flag around when he reached Hie about 350 Nesro anrt l.VJ spot in the creek and went down! in Hie water.

His body were sesicpalecl. al-, to Ihe surface several limos OI1 there was some fore he disappeared for the Negroes into the while half of lime. courtroom seats. term campaign plans, may now have a slightly failing heart. flcnts at John Scaly Hospital fn Galveston.

Tex. The hoy'j par- cnls said they had not consented. The youlh is David Rankin, son spot in the creek and went down'" mte spectators. Basically the! K'senhovror I on" ay announced lhal a 4S-slar flag will he raised over Independence Hall in Phil- fc acfelphia on and (hen the.gnl to likin' I've always 'night at his motel headquarters wanted to have a son. Well, I've tr nanKin, son Dr.

Victory l.icf one of four of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Rankin of Inclors attending Ihe w-year-old Texas City, who was hospitalized governor, said Long had a slight with a high blood pressure condi- heart failure Wednesday.

-lion. There was no indication the' Long, in the midst of a separa Ixnnsiana governor suffered action suit from his 58-year-old coronary attack, he said, hut wife Blanche, said sim- tors are concerned about the "He got to likin' me and ft I I I Aaron was the son of Jeremiah! -Itidge Johnson overruled six ob- and Jessie Robinson. Besides his: ieclioris by attorney G. Doul- parpnts. ho is survivod by two reprcsrnting Sharpe.

Dowling brothers and three sisters. taken to the Capilol in Alaska Russian Appeals WASHINGTON IP First Oepuly Snviel Premier Frol It. maintained Ihat the atmosphere of Ihe court was prejudicial lo Ihc pond conduct of the Irial and he also objected to Ihe presence of cameramen in Ihe comt'i: mom. commeiitcd Ihai: the Merlin issiic I never liefore in Ihp Iiislury of the? nifi hy force." here. The governor sufferer! a heart attack in 1930.

MASTS TO ADOPT BOY Karlier. f.onp annonncrrl plans adopt a linear-old yonlh he appealed fnr an rnd lei i nlr while they wore both pa- suspicion and distrust in in- lornation.il relations tint warned thai if war is unleashed over wanted a daughter too. but I can't chaperon one under the present circumslancts." Ixmg said he and David had whiled the lime away LONG, P-2- Thumper Wilt Appear All-Star Contest Business analyst Jin: erases in his weekly column nn page or nol. joti'll be inleroicd in what he has to i Mritos ahou! stock vou own slock Tragcitv burnrd in a gas explosion. Details arc on in Tivo young people were page 2.

Ted will IK- in his l.iili slrai-hl game 7. Rear! almii Ihis by The Thumper on page in. The Index major anwin; record Comics 8 Kdilorial.s 4 Wash. 4 Spnrl.s 10-11 Anmscmenls Classified Crossword Pn liariio TV Soctetv 12-11 on, K. COATZACOALCOS.

Meviro- explosion in a petroleum pipeline in soiulirast -Mexico killfrf nr injured scores of persons. Fire raged over an area a mile square for more I Irian scvpn hours. Onr n-porl sard 11 persons killed and alioiil lit injured, many of Ihrm rrilicallv. FOUND STO.VGD.U.i-:, Ark. T-A fi year-old abducted a block from her home as she was re- Imnini; Irom a srnccry slcirc.

was found alivo by (xilin- early loday. MISSII.K MONEY WASHINGTON- Western Klertrir Co. Douglas Air- rrall Corp. received Nike Hercules missile eonlrarls lo- lalinc S60.1.i!),2H. acronlin; North Carolina Sens.

Sam Enin and R. Everett The senators said of Hie Army rnnlrarls is lor the Nike Hcrcirlcs missiles themselves he divided between Wcslfrn Eleclric for ils plants in Greensboro. N'. HiirlitiRlon, N. and N.

and llouglas Aircrall's Chari lole plant. STROl.TP. URCIIIVKS AWARD -New Civitan President- Dawsey Installed Dr. Ren Dawscy, lw.il voterinar- 1 The award will be presented i.in. was installed president annually lo tire man in the the f.aslnnia Civitan Onb yeslcr- other than an officer who h-is (lay at tho Masonic Temple.

done most for Ihe club Me succeeds Hnyt Butter, retir- thr yc.ir 1 0 1 1 In raminc Slrrnipe. Butler point- O.her officers i.isial.ed by (iov- ri out Ihat "we barf no difficulty crnor elt-cl Francis Kssick of Men- whaisor' or in naming (his man roe inchiilo: Don vice Somclmios in makin? a decision pics.rlrnt: Han secretary; such as then: are many men Al Alrindgo. tic.i-iircr: Alvm Cain. ihn have be constdercrl Tl'e Henry White- man who receives this awarri asMstam jiands head anri shoulders above Ihc Hev. Harry Schuiie.

chaplain: Ihe rest, for he Imly has done a Hoy! Jluticr. presirlcni. and remarkable piece "of work for tliCJC directors Hoiwr moi. Charlie Daniel, Cliff Rcrvf-s. CIV1NF.TTK ORGANIZED Itaymond Timiwrman.

and Hugh nj tho, was instrumental formint; a Civ- sick chailonpcd Ihe new olti- incltf at Dallas and one at cers to scl new marks in Civitari licssimer City work riurins the cumiji.s year, stroupc rhairmar. of the congraHilaled llovt Butler Civitan rommittce for Ihe lor Ine magtnfucm work he has pasl iwo years. ilorc dnrini: his aiiminisiraU.w, Civisans'Buien Xeil and Bill adrtms that C.asionin is of Ihe Hair received Inn-year pcr- Pi 1C cl llll ry chevrons. Recelv- i BI.TI.M. ono.jear chevrons were Hi- praised Ruller.

also (or Bnnmomcr. Charles I.ytton Fred being olectrrl lieutenant snver- R.V.chford. Bob Bnimle'v and Hwt nnr of the N. C. dislricl.

Bntlrr Bu'ler. was elected at a recent stale President a reported rsrniin lnn briefly nn his recent trip to Ic-ft to right, row: Ihe Rev lla cli thcJ (lrst convention in Col- y. lin the counly. (ready to wort." nas II. Me Dill award olfeioc! liy the Gastonia Cuilan Club The iv New olficerf.