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ttli 4 Lg f-TPaimpos00traWAtima-601110j1411011004M40 416(111 11111104100o N410 OA RLOTTE NEWS FIIA "I NilE Largest (By Far) Evening Newspaper in The Carotinas Charlotte North Carolina Saturday December 9 1961 Established Dec 8 1888 48 Page's Price Ton Cents i I 1 i i I A '1111k1 Ilk 4 Lux 1 I jT IHI ams I Carolinas Close-Up A 0 uick Bila7ze )itall oorr 115 Die Sweeos 115 Ex-Charlottean Heads Dinner For UN Official noso By JULIAN SCHEER News Staff Writor Notes from a Carolinas notebook Hugh Tillett formerly of Charlotte and an official of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co of New York is chairman of a dinner in New York City Thursday for Dr Frank Porter Graham The United Nations official also a Charlottean will have several other local people with' him Mrs Charles Tillett also a UN official will attend as will former Charlottean Don Bishop Gov Terry Sanford and Chancellor William Aycock of the University of North Carolina will also be there Cigaret Gas Leak Arson Theories Eyed Speedway Gets Stay Race Okay Statesville's Safety Program HARTFORD Conn UP)---Cigaret butts gas and previous small blazes figured today in an investigation into a fire that took 15 lives at Hartford Hospital Fire officials who held a hearing even as bodies were being 0 taktn from the hospital last night heard testimony that a Death Waited lighted cigaret could have caused the fire that burst from a trash chute and flashed through a ninth-floor corridor where Duty Death Waited Where Duty Statesville's annual safety slogan contest will be judged Thursday in that Iredell County community It is time once again I think to recognize the work of Statesville's police chief Bill Ivey This man has won more national safety prizes than any man in the country His record at Statesville is outstanding just as it was in York and at Monroe He makes a community safety conscious and more communitits could look at Statesville and use it as an example r- )- AIL reirprotoz70 cupeA-or 14-'a43 sq to: ikt000liftigookli :411 0: :3 44 41 40tr''' '4 4'44" A 4 4 41 ') 1 l'iolo 4:43 Mir- 44CRom 441P r': s1 '019''4 33e: 0' 1 i'i''''' 71f4kttrktt ::1 5 '9 tre-41 'it 7 oo 4' Ti- '1'': ri to 01 ool'Noor4 t1 ii :0 5k' 4 t1 -1fI p1 1''''I''' 1 0 i i 4 5 4 1'1 'i': MI6 4- t-- A' 5 1 4Lif i vir 4: 1 1 if! 'il tr 10': vao Ite '44: ts- 1 Aft -x fL-- --74 0 4' it It tyic I '1'4 1t i 1 "040 I 1 1::: 'o I'': 1 iF 4' i 1 ii: 0 'tb 7 1k7t i ye A Noo: 3 A I iso44' ''---4- I 44't s011''' 1 ''''''i 'r-' 'S'(' 44 4''''' ta uii4 4 i--iJ44 Beckoned Him op By BILL HUGHES News Staff Writer A federal judge has given Charlotte Motor Speedway an Opportunity to get on firm Ifinancial footing safe from pressure by creditors who would sell the giant race track to collect 18-month-old debts The judge also gave the speed way a green flag to hold its "World 600" stock car race as scheduled next spring I BUT JUDGE Craven made it clear yesterday that he won't let the speedway dilly-dally on its obligations Ile wants its management to find money to pay the $900000 or so in past-due debts He also made it clear that he would like to see a stockholders' committee given an open road to raise at least $650000 probably more in its proposal to provide a long term loan for the ailing race track venture No Tar Heel Bundling wily DIDN'T PEOPLE in North Carolina bundle? This is a puzzling question You may remember this week that Dr Hugh Lefler's scholarly American history was banned in Levittown because it noted the old social custom of bundling The practice came to this country from Western Europe and was prevelant in New England Young couples went to bed fully clad and with parents' permission (and usually a bundling board inbetween) for their wooing The practice started because of the intense cold Since it was a habit I have never determined what happened in i'47t174 A HOSPITAL official advanced l''''4r-1 the theory that some kind of I iTyk -ii escaping gas might have touched s'''sit -''Vf1 off the fire 0' 1''''' 0 il Also under investigation was ''''14' A an apparent d'elay in turning in i' 44'e 5: a fire alarm Other witnesses told about 0 -'Ip previous small fires in that 'srel n-4: i 'ftw same trash chute only in the 4 4 past several months and about 44 I 11-s-1 fires set in a laundry chute by vt an inidentified 19-year-old hos- pital worker ''4 4 440 1 For six hours the investigators heard testimony Then they adjourned the hearing un- Ill today -0 0 'ATI: I tf i sfi''' 0 414: 4670: tt1' 'N11' 0" t'4o 1 'o: 1 4: i i It f'44i i AP Wirephoto Firemen And Hospital Officials Inspect Burned Hallway AP Wirephoto Captive Swallowed Spoon DR LEFLER WHO HAS searched as many documents as any man in the state says he has never seen a reference to bundling in North Carolina He guesses that this may have been due to our mild climate But it is surprising that the migration of some New Englanders to the South did not bring the accepted social custom to the region And especially since good Presbyterians accepted this idea of bundling No reference must mean no bundling Castro Asks Latin Break Judge Craven left the speedway management squarely on the shoulders of its court-appointed trustee Robert Stomach Surgery DoReOn 144 I AS A FOOTNOTE: There weren't but a few of Dr Lefler's books in town but they sold quickly The sales must have picked up an Dr Lefler is a colorful man in his own you won't find a former University of North Carolina graduate who took Dr Lefler's courses who won't tell you that it was the real delight the real experience of his college career HARTFORD Conn (All Young Dr Norman Hedenstad a big strapping man was very popular at the Hartford Hospital particularly on the ninth floor where he did much of his work At 33 he could look back on 16 years of work dedicated to helping the sick and the study of medicine He got his first hospital job at 17 in NNoccester Mass where he was born as an orderly in the Worcester City Hospital He worked as a lab technician while a student at Holy Cross College 4 AFTER GETTING his med ical degree from New York University at the Brooklyn Medical Center in 1959 he re turned to his home town to intern at City Hospital He transferred to Hartford Hospital earlier this year to serve a hitch as assistant resident in internal medicine But he didn't plan to stay away from Worcester for long He was scheduled to return to City Hospital next July to become chief of medical residents And he had a wife with him He married last August Yesterday Hedenstad was performing a post mortem on the third floor of the hospital when a fire broke out He dropped what he was doing and rushed to the ninth floor where the fire was raging This was his ward this was where his duty called him He was trying to close the doors at the end of a corddor in the danger area when the smoke and flames engulfed him He was found dead in the corridor where he had The speedway is a ward of Judge Craven's Western District r1Feciere1 Court in a proceeding 'tindeittlinte-r10 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law The somewhat obscure depression-vintage law allows a corporation to reorganize when by doing so it can avoid collapse Attorneys for the speedway's creditors gave notice of appeal at yesterday's hearing in which Judge Craven ruled that the corporation may keep its status as ward of the court IP I MMMI Fla surgery was performed today on a madman who swallowed a spoon handle while awaiting transfer to New York where he is accused in the slaughter of his brother-in-law's family Mate (Mike) Ivanov 37 a migration authorities Dec 5 on Yugoslav immigrant underwent charges of illegal entry into the the operation at Jackson Me- United States He was found morial Hospital where he was moved after swallowing the 312-osing as a Cuban refugee in a inch sppon handle in his cell at rowboat near Marathon in the Dade County jail Florida Keys Matt Dillon In Prison More than 100 persons were trapped in hospital rooms as the fire transformed once gleaming corridors into a mass of charred debris Six patients five visitors and four hospital staff members were among the dead Two of the visitors had been to see their ill husbands There were 793 patients in the hospital at the An almost Immediate investigation and hearing put witness after witness some of them still disheveled and soot-marked fire officials in an effort to pinpoint the cause But the cause was still not clear Perhaps a lighted cigaret said one hospital official Per haps some kind of escaped gas said another ONE DOCTOR said flames raced along the ceiling Another said a billow of flame dropped down from the ceiling "like a blowtorch" Thick smoke and a muffled explosion accompanied the blast of flame that spouted from the trash chute at the ninth floor It was a time of horror and heroism Patients screamed for help from their windows Rescuers fought through smoke and fire as they carried helpless patients to safety down stairs or by a few elevators still HAVANA Cuba VP) Fidel Castro lashed out today with a biUttacknPanama and Co7 lombia and challenged them to sever diplomtic ties with his Cuban regime The Cuban prime minister In a midnight television speech also assailed President Kennedy's scheduled trip next week to Venezuela and Colombia charging it is aimed at defending the United States' "repressive policy against workers" CASTRO TOLD a cheering audience of graduating sch I teachers he was issuing the invitation to his two Latin American neighbors "on a silver platter" to accommodate the wishes of the State Department Castro called Panama "another government of traitors and accomplices of the Yankee THE TELEVISION SHOWS "Gunsmuke" and "Have Gun Will Travel" will be seen in Central Prison tonight This is the first time It means a change in policy The State Prison Commission has adopted new policies on television shows and motion pictures Heretofore any television show or movie which "featured" crime was barred It was a cumbersome policy with which to deal It was hard to give movies that didn't show some aspect of crime and it was virtually impossible to censor television in the prison Even though the lawmen usually win out over the bad men this kind of show couldn't be seen Grade inmates see movies on Saturdays and holidays Prisoners watch television in their cellblocks after working hours The TV sets are purchased with profits from prisoner-run unit stores which sell sundries to the prioners The old policy stated: "No pictures shall be selected that are known to feature crime" "I'd say there's a very convincing possibility I'd say probability tgat (the speedway) can pay some possibly all the amount due to creditors" a a THE JUDGE obviously based his opinion to a large extent on testimony by James Hamilton an attorney for the stockholders committee Mr Hamilton said members of the committee had pledges for $150000 for a loan to the speedway He said they also had commitments by which another $200000 could be raised for a limited partnership which would lend money to the speedway A fingerprint check by the FBI disclosed his identity RECORDS SHOWED that Ivanov and his wife and four children lived with the Gregovs when they arrived in the United States from Trieste on the Yugoslavian border Later Ivanov and his wife had domestic difficulties and she and Gregov had Ivanov committed to a mental institution Authorities at the mental institution described Ivanov as not dangerous but a victim of chr on ic mental illness with symptoms of paranoid "Let them break relations with us these unlawful ones like Panama and Colombia" Castro said Ivanov lodged in the jail as a federal prisoner was served a meal shortly after 5 pm yesterday along with other prisoners and was given a spoon Jail attendants in a corridor reported hearing later a scraping sound in Ivanov's cell Investigating they found he had broken off the spoon handle and swallowed it AFTER OTHER attempts to remove the spoon handle failed Ivanov underwent stomach surgery police said Following the operation he was placed in a detention cell at the hospital with two detectives on guard Assistant Nassau County (N Y) District Attorney Witliam Cahn arrived during the night Two county detectives and a court reporter accompanied him Cahn said he brought with him a warrant charging Ivanov with murder in the first degree: He said the Nassau Grand Jury had not met to consider indictment of Ivanov The jury goes into session Tuesday Cahn said The FBI identified Ivanov as the man wanted in Mineola for the Nov 25 bayonet massacre of five persons Nurses remained with their patients to prevent panic despite choking smoke and approaching flames What's Inside Ivanov fled the hospital Nov 15 while working on a laundry delivery detail He also said Dwight Cross of Huntersville had agreed to lend the speedway $300000 on a first mortgage basis if stockholders could match that amount Fire Kills Two In Rooming House Evening Prayer Colombia this week called for a foreign ministers' meeting to discuss the problem Cuba poses for the hemisphere and Panama recently relayed to Cuba a diplomatic note from Guatemala in which that nation threatened to permit establishment of a Cuban government in exile unless ex-President Arbenz is expelled from his exile in Cuba Eleven nations of the western hemisphere already have broken with Cuba Books Classified Comics Editorials Features Obituaries Radio-TV Green Sports Theaters Women SA 5-7B 9B 14A SB 11A Sheet 7-10A 4-5A 1213A 15-16A They ran through corridors slamming doors shut as a safety measure until they were forced by fire to seek refuge in rooms Rescuers evacuated all patients from the eighth floor up in the $10 million 13-story hospital that was built 13 years ago See FIRE on Page GA When firemen arrived on the scene the flames were out of control The cause of the blaze was not immediately determined Heavenly Father we are grateful to Thee for the talents with which Thou ha endowed us Help us in this needy world to use these gifts in service for Thee Amen It also was reported that a family living in a second floor apartment escaped Injury THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND Thus he said the speedway could be assured of a loan of at least $650000 He said in effect that efforts to raise money among stockholders have been frustrated by Securities and Exchange Commission regulations The hearing hit a snag on the subject of which of these regulations can he waived under Chapter 10 to allow the stockholders committee to solicit loan funds from other stockholders At one point Mr Hamilton said the SEC would allow "only a small group of sophisticated investors" to form a committee a JUDGE CRAVEN clearly See SPEEDWAY on Page SA With 14 Children Food Is Scarce NORTH WILKESBORO Two persons were burned to death when fire swept through a rooming house here early today The charred bodies of two unidentified men were found by firemen in the ruins of separate downstairs rooms of a boarding house operated by Ralph Freeland Wilkes County Coroner Green Jr was working this morning to identify the remains Listed as missing were Freeland owner of the building and Miller A THIRD person Pat Patter son believed at first to be one of the dead was found this morning A passing motorist saw the fire about 1:45 am and reported it to the fire department The victims were Peter Gregov 39 his 35-yearold wife and their three sons Peter Jr 17 Ronald 15 and Michael 11 Even the family poodle was stabbed to death 17 wounds A French bayonet found nearby was de scribed as the murder weapon By ROGER RONKANEN News Staff Writer Theirs is a good-sized house but with 14 children there is no such thing as a big house From tod- CirVtrot tiling grand- 4 In another fire near here late yesterday a family of nine was 'left homeless A Wilkes County man was being held in jail today after he admitted burning down his four-room home 10 miles north of here Just off 18 Fire department officials said Lonnie Cleary told them he set fire to his house after his wife and seven children walked out Firemen said Cleary said he and his wife had been quarreling and she threatened to leave with the children He in turn said he would burn the house down if she did leave Firemen said the wife left and the man burned the house Ivanov was picked up by im help The Empty Stocking Fund can bring a ray of nope to their lives with your cooperation Send your contribution today to The Charlotte News Empty Stocking Fund Box 360 Charlotte Families needing help this Christmas can con tact the Christmas Bureau 125 3rd St or telephone 334-5057 a op' ti to feed all these young'uns It ain't easy" A married daughter worked in the kitchen as he talked making dinner for a group of the children 4 "WE GOTTA EAT in shifts around here" the old man said with a rare twinkle of humor "Ain't enough table space to sit 'em all down at once" The daughter didn't have much to work with because food is almost as scarce as table space in that household One of the children racked by achoking cough sat bundled in a blanket near the stove trying to keep warm Our Weather Ford Motor Comoanst Charlotte Community Rola lions Commilte 10000 Anonymous COO In Memory of Charles 15 Ross III 1000 IN Dr Hunter Jones 1000 Dr it Adams 500 Mrs Ciamewell 1000 From Circle No 3 Wtmien of The Church Forest Hill Presbyterian Church 500 Mn A Collins Jr 1000 Stuart and Blair ineram 1000 Mr and Mrs A Craddock Jr 1000 Dr Cecil Hawes MOO In Memory of and Bernice 1annort 1000 In Memory of and Elizabeth Eves 2000 Mrs Lucks Wicholhaut 1000 Cherry Blythe Ives 5 00 Claude Leo Ives III 110 From: A Friend 10I Dr and Mrs Bieck 1000 Richard Salisbury and Andy Sallsburst 1000 Charles an Anna Potts 500 A Friend WOO Mrs Maim Keck 400 Mr and Mrs A ickhoff Jennifer Holly and Morodlth Reid 600 In Memory of my Mother Mn Harriet Farb's and brother Walter 100 John Morton $10 Morton Church 3rd See Helots Church 500 Mary Church 1iie Bradford Church ISO TOTAL TO DATE 113271 yip I- children to teenage tu 7- schoolchildren 01:1 the he i ds through cold rooms of the dingy frame dwelling Money is a genuinely scarce item in the household and the children's mended clothing shows it Sitting on a bed (everywhere you look in the house there is some sort of bed for the children) the old man told his story: HI got sick a few months back and the doctor told me I wouldn't be able to work for nearly a yehr- Ikleantime I gotta try and find'some way 'h-LT) tr441rf I GREENVILLE Shuman 20 of Charlotte who could jump on a pogo stick 501 times without stopping bounced out of his league in a contest here Friday Shuman a student at East Carolina College was beat out by a couple of 12-year-olds who vowed that from now on "we're going to challenge college students only" The Greenville Daily Reflector carried a story on Shuman who boasted that he could probably out-pogo-jump anybody In the county Then the paper got calls from Sidney Mills and Linda Spain both 12 who challenged Shuman's statement The contest was held yesterday At the word Go Linda and Shuman began Shuman bounced 934 Linda 1130 Then came Sidney's turn and he became the new champ by bouncing 2312 times It took him 25 minutes EMPTY STOCKING FUND CONTRIBUTIONS Amount Previously Acknowledged 417111 S1000 Mr Halberstadt 1000 Mr Ernest Machin Jr 2500 In Memory of Char los Wister Mr and Mrs Kstier 1000 Eugene McMillian 500 In Memory of Fails Thomason 500 Goorgana Cathy and Teona Johnston 500 Iliac Garden Club 1000 A Friond 2500 Miss Nancy Washam LOO Student Council Eastway Junior High School 1050 Mr and Mrs Frank Dowd Sr 2500 Julie Hall and Clair Arnold 1000 Mrs Clayton Lineborgor 2500 Mr and Mrs George Anderson 1000 Miss Thelma Seaford 100 Mrs Margaret Kehl AbernaMy 100 In Memory of IRV Girl 1010 Mn Gravel 100 1 I gisit ir 1 i 1 -t tocri TA-P'! Occasional rain today tonight and tomorrow with little change in temperature today Not to cold tonight and tomorrow High today 50 High yesterday 48 Low tonight 43 Low this morning 36 High tomorrow 58 Sunset today 5:11 pm sunrise tomorrow 7:21 cm More Weather on Page 6A DIES BALTEMORE The Most Rev Francis Patrick Keough 70 archbishop of the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the United States died yesterday of effects of a stroke He was born in New Britain Conn ordained a priest in 1916 and named Archbishop of Baltimore in 1947 He was known unofficially as "Archbishop of the Poor" for his charity work Most of them have colds throughout the winter the old man explained It's just part of the season like Christ mac And theirs will be a sad Christmas this year without a 0 meaf0000 Alopovt Iriorlo-1mAP10oO" Mob 140? ROPPOmmetioPetoltogin Aite'sno011finvegroAS04Politsaro-CtirtoneAtiommeenwPakdrA041kOtt r-mnomparKivRorr mow le- i.