The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 25

ti oNvwokii11 104 4406 1 'I WilimialledodaleMpliaati10610111141414kankildiNallAW101011iiiikatOINSPallag41111414111001101010401141111114MNimbklilektt4-V-ZA 06104oi 04010 I MQkVIIMIIN i 1 The Second Frl HE The Second Front LOTT In This Section With Local News And Features 'omen Sports Features Comics Charlotte North Carolina Wednesday Oct 4 1961 SECTION City-County May Take Over In Year Julian Scheer's 1 NI WS tic 4x 1 1 (sow fook 4 Nr 5' rm i Women's au Scho 011 Fog Ab Iltescues 11 Iliteraths Alfred Takes Pen In Hand I have a friend Alfred Nettles who is well known throughout the Deep Country as we call it He is a man most interested in the affairs of his state and recently we have been hearing quite a lot from Alfred Here is a sam ple of his most recent 0 Investors Sought Four-Year Struggle Near End Bruton Smith Offers Proposal To Save Track DEAR FRIEND of Mine: Well it seems that I get down to writ in' every chinquapin season It is nice here in the country this time of year We have sold our tobacco and got a good price this year on all hut luggers and we bought us a I1PW tractor to take place Of that old Farman we used to have on the place Friend of Mine I have been standing in a fodder shock now for vecks trying to figure out what is the best thing to do As you know from gettin' the Weekly I lost the closest race for clerk of court we ever had in our county That was last November It hardly seems like nearly a year so much has happened I got 137 vo1Ps and lost by five votes to eter Hunter a slick politician has a big political machine and who was not handicapped by being of the party in power pat04'-of 4 7z k''': --'-u 4 '7 041 A 75AJillf''' etl'144'? Is ri Af-I 40: er tTh fl 0 11Izt: 11 044r11 9001AA I 04 ait 1ee' Ism 1 0 ee 1 ok i 4'y- 007Y-5' 4 1: 4 4rY: P's '''54 y- SSi'f plf 1 4 4 :1 i itki04-4 --44 i 441ei 4 rei344 41 -7 I --4 117: --75 441i Zic L11I By DICK (AHMED News Education Writer I The Mecklenburg Oppor! tunity School which has been opening a new life to illiterates here for the last four years has been salvaged from almost certain disas ter by the Opti-Mrs Club of And if the OptiMrs and the school's board of directors can keep the institution afloat for a year or two the Chariot te-Mocklenhurg Board of Education 1 may take it over The Opti-Mrs and the op By 8111 HUGHES 1 Slaws Staff Writer 1 i A former vice president of Charlotte Motor Speedway' has come up with a plan which he says will save the 1 i huge race track from being sold at auction Oct 30 1 Bruton Smith says he Is forming a partnership to finance '5 A A the speedway Ile said his plan '-k will rescue hundreds of local 1 stockholders who might lose con- 4 -44 siderable amounts if the speed i A ay is sold as scheduled '4k 4- ooemoot Mr Smith says he can obtain 4 4' vf $600000 from persons ho will ril huy into the partnership 7 04 rol vie 4 4) hy's A Slum A Slum? Why's A Slum A Slum? I THOUGHT I 1VOUL1) retire from politics for two years and then run again but since the election Ed Matthews and Jesse Quattlebaum have been talking a lot Friend of Aline I don't know if I can Win in a primary against Jesse and Ed That got lots of friends and others in the county Jesse has a program he calls it for taking off the people from the dilinquent tax lists Ed says to everybody that he will hire a secretary to make work go faster in the office God knows it needs it jet want to he clerk of court where I trimly believe I ran he of service and get the $1800 per year which I truely need Right 11fl I must make up my mind Will you help me? Should I announce for clerk now or wait until later? Please let me hear from you soonest school's hoard got together this morning and formal-id the arrangement under which the civic organization will help the school 114: By im niGnY Newt Writer I i the 269 homes 173 have insufficent air light and VNIt dation Just using these All findings and not checking for overcrowding lack of sanitary facilities fire hazards or other characteristics of slums the commission staff found 225 of the section's 305 structures 74 per cent deficient Records of fire alarms infant deaths and tuberculosis reveal that their "major high concentrations" are in the city's slum areas In other words statistics show that slums like Brooklyn not only look had hut have more fires and more disease than the rest of Charlotte With the report in hand the Planning Commission could certify as a fact accord in to law that a nine-block section of Brooklyn is indeed a slum 1:: MINIMUM INVESTMENT ig b- The firm to he known as 0 Charlotte Funding Associates vi! ill ha 120 "partnerships" is- r4r 'i! sued at $3000 each Investors will receive per lik cent interest Mr Smith said Mr Smith says he is confident BRUTON SMITH he CM) find enough investors to raise the $600000 Some he said will buy more than one $5000 in- 1de air terect The agreement which Mr Smith offers to potential invest! ors stipulates that the Irvinn ment will be returned if $600- is not raised Fair Trying :41:: Whit TMAPS a lum a slum? Sixty-one per cent of thp exteriors of structures in a section of Brooklyn earmarked for clearing are "in had shape dilapidated or deteriorating according to a survey An examination of the interiors would increase the percentage of structures found in bad shape Planning Director William McIntyre told the City-County Planning Commission yesterday The nine hlockg bounded roughly by Independence Blvd Davidson St McDowell St and Third St have 305 structures 183 of hich are substandard of the homes in the section 64 per cent lack enough space between them Of THE 0PTI-NIRS led by Mrs Frank Taylor adopted the school as a project as the result of a Charlotte News article on i the help the institution had been to an illiterate father of thive pointing out the school's financial troubles The club hopes to provide 10 per cent of the school's budget It will under-lake a sales job to get the needs of the opportunity school and the illiterates it serves before other organizations Said Mrs Jean Cole Hatcher 'chairman of the ahool's board Politicking On The Square DEAR OM FRIEND: I (lid not hear from you as you promised to write me so I announced for the clerk's job again thinking this was best for all the people I now hang around the courthouse square every day and talk politics I feed the pigeons and yesterday I hosed down our Confederate war memorial stature Do you think I ought to campaign more? tH' 4: i I I 5 I I 1 1 i I 1s I 11 4i I77 1 3- 1 I Trade Still To Get JIK 0 Needs To Be Studied proposed partnership uould in effect pay off the speedway's first mortgage and lien holders who are in the process of foreclosing racetrack "The Opti-Mrs support definitely has saved the chord 1e have struggled to keep It going as long as It has and it looked as if we ere golpg under going as long as It has and it looked as if up pre going SPP Ninry nn Page By EMERY SISTER News Staff Writor Boar wants Look I "Now well he ahlp to keer our heads uater DEAR PAL: I thought you would like a report from yours truely Jeter is doing okay in the job as clerk of court hut at the Occidental Grille the other day over grits and red-eye I said in a kind of off-hand kind of way that scandal was brewing in his office This shocked a lot of our folks Ilow can I get out of this? They are talkin' now 'hout a grand jury investigation There's nothing' to it of course but you know how things are It don't take much to get people riled up does At Coroner it? i In return the new firm would 1 Plans for the "Possible PatH receive first mortgage on the I ticipation" of President John property which the speedway Kennedy at the opening of the management values at more North Carolina Trade a i than $15 millinn i Lien holders on the racetrack 1Thursday of next week will be I I are primarily contractors and i 1 discussed here today others still owed for construe- illiam Henderson director of tion work The speedway was i the commerce and industry di completed in June 1959 iSinn of the Stale Department THE SPEEDWAY owes the 1 of Conservation Development lien holders a $3nn000 said an announcement "ill be Jhere are two mortgages on the 1 Commission lit '111aNt Tw et welimi psht jails i nz eee dhotwh support of those whose contributions ha ve kept the school go- ing as long as it has" The will stage then first fund-raking effort 1 or thf school Friday at 8 pm in Radic Center The dessert bridge an on fashion show called the Octohet has enabled the Opti-Mrs to contribute $3200 in the last three years to three coney DEAR OLD MIMI' FRIEND: Can you write me a speech? No sooner had I started that talk ahout eter's clerk office that Jesse Quattlebaum and Ed Matthews got into the act They're trying to steal my glory I need some ammunition Buckshot old friend Any change in he operation of the coroner's office will have to be authorized and made by the County AlIV change in the operation the coroner's office will ive to be authorized and ad by the County Conmis- Nvould like Dr Summer ille to come before the hoard and tell what he needs" Commissioner Herb Garrison said the coroner system ''definitely needs studying' By JOHN Newt Statt Writer A County Commission majority said today it wants to take a chise look at Mecklenburg's coroner system to if it needs changing County Coroner Dr Summerville told The News last week that the coroner systern needs an overhaul Ile said be needs an assistant two inesti2afors and the time isn't far off when the city a Minty I I I need a morgue commissioners said they ant Dr Summerville to come before them and explain his nerdc "rm going to ask Sid (Me-Aden to appoint an action committee to study the coroner setup" Mr Garrison said THE CORONER is elected -and serves four-year terms Summerville has been Nlecklenburg's coroner since I944 Dr Sttrnmerville's salary for the coroner position varies since he is paid for the numher of autopsies he performs THE CORONER is elected Id serves four-year terms As A Public Servant HELLO FRIEND: As I have told you many times politics is dirty The scandal in he clerk's office has got out of hand There is talk it has spread all over he courthouse I hope not Saw your Cousin Billy hat works in the election hoard off ice Ile says a lot is going on there too It is a me-s old friend We have not heard the end of I his scandal Nk hich I luckily discovered Some of the money from this year's October 'et will go to ward completing these scholar ships hut Mrs Taylor said she hopes the hulk of the rrtoney will go directly to the oppor (tinily school made at a press conference this track aftt'rnoon The conference will he i The commissi finer spin the Trade Fair office in the pointed by creditors have begun Merchandise Mart at 430 pin foreclosure proceedings through Mr Henderson declined to say Caharrus County Superior Court how the President would par- Me action ts centered in that licipate in the fair but he added: county since the track is just "I have not given up all hope north of the Mecklenburg County of getting the President here line on 29 I A legal ad appeared for the first time yesterday in a Con-THE PRESIDENT will de Pord newspaper announcing that liver an address at the rni- the speedway will be sold at of North Carolina in auction Oet Chapel 11111 on the day the roir opens When the fair as first Under 31r Smith's proposal announced the President indi- the new firm and its 120 cated he planned to Mend the partners mild replace the opening hut few ykeeks ago speedway creditors The speedunnounced he would not he able way would be obligated to re to come here from Chapel I pa the $00000 limn with there have been re- eight per cent interest anniialports the Preidont may go to ly over a 10-year period Fort Pragg to inspect Army units and some groups have "The speedway would still twe held out hope he could come the money but it vould he in here from a brief ceremony an ahovehoard planned arjust prior or just after his visit rangemenL" he told The News to the Army post today Iny an ahove-hoard planned nrsit rangement" he told The News today The county set aside $11910 for the entir coroner operation for this fiscal year 14101 ch i filmy of I he Oa riot teNlec klen Hoard of Edocill IfiTi sa ode fwit the hoard definite wil consoler taking pr the opper school's function if i Dr Summerville is 1 pal holoist Flu Count is the oniy other North ro rohnri county Whith Ims Nnhologist for its coroner See S( 11001 on line "THE MAN ought to have help" said Commission Chair Milli Sid Mr Aden "I think we ought to get him an assistint I've heen for that for a lon'! time" NIcAden said he doesn't know about the investigators and the possihility of building a 0y-county morgue -Those things nre new In Me Aden said DEAR Hum) oF Mine! Thought you vould he interested in the latest from down here in case you have been reading the Weekly which you can't always put trust in It is still more'n a year sway from election but John Showers the hig man in politics here now hinted the other day that I am a shoo-in for the clerk's jot) I thought I would have to defeat Jesse and Ed and then heat Icier but if looks real good now When you get this way drop hy and see me Don't have time for fishing no more Public service demands a lot of time "If Dr Summerville needs help I think we ought to give it to him Iles a fine coroner We can't afford to lose hiroft Nit Garrison said he thinks the Board of Commissioners nerds to hear first-hand from Dr Summerville ahout what he recommends for the coroner operation "IT WOULD help us for Dr Summerville to come Wore the hoard and tell us what he needs NIL Garrison said Commissioner Frank Blytho said the position of coroner "seems to he taking up much of Dr Summer illes time" "I think the 1111114 to do is to in ne hint to one of out meetings and let him us the lowdown on the coroner operation and what he thinks it needs" 'Air Blythe said Fire Inspectors Busy Don't Call Them They'll Call You Body No Help In Heart Failure hi out why the kidneys can't These drugs prmnote the se heirt they cause can These drugs prmuote the se Firemen 111 had nn I rouNe in the first kerk of the pinrm Chief Dowdy a id "ex eryone's twen tompletely conperam "It may he that he needs an assistant I'd certainly be glad to listen to him It seems that a study of the system is cer tainly needed: cret ion of urine How had can fluid accumulation become after heart failure? Dr Tuttle recalled a male patient who accumulated 100 pounds of salt and water in 100 days After taking some of the new drugs for three months his weight dropped from 270 to 170 pounds Dr Tuttle said three or 11 MYbe four hormones are involved Commissioners ChArtes 1mke and Craig LaOng could not he reached for comment Every company except th main station and the Fourth St a ion is out inspecting today They are checi tog for fire hazards in neigh borhoods near their stations 43k 42K 1 :0111 By OIIN NPWS Stec Writrr rleip dont call thP Fire Depart Men inspect your home They'll call you It seems that the departmenr inspection proaam gotten off to a better start than raveled A series of Charlotte News stories last week publicized the inspections Depoty Chief Otis Dowdy said today that "sekeral people have called and asked for the tirmen to check their home" Chief Dowdy kkho Intici Nitpit sooty touldv getIltp4 thy rt Irun oft the Lirounil said rharlinteans hake "pleasantly surprised" him MT HE 'l'S you to he pationt -We are going as lost as we can" he said "hut its fivpyear pcozcam and take that long to complete it" Ity DEM() Hos EMAN Nw Mrdicel Writer 1Vhen a perso n's heart doesn't it in enough Wood to meet the hody's mmiomm requirements the body sends out an alarm for help Strangely enough the help that answers the alarm does more harm than good As a matler of fact the body meehnnisms Inch go into action Nvhen the head fads cause heart dropsy the accumulation of 'hilt in the legs dittonom and sometimes the lungs This accimudation of fluid is hat catNcs peron i I heart falloro to ken rihri I Ttillir sitani prof e7-or of medicine ot homy I crsily School of Medicine in Atlanta and guest speaker last inght for the County Medical saul in on inter iew hat efforts arr io made to Scout Leader School Ready be fatal Dr Tuttle said the purpose of his talk to the medical so ciety was to spread information on how to use drugs against heart dropsy "If ke treat only one cause of retention" he said "the body may call on other mechanisms and the treatment won't be effective- Ile said new drugs arc being found to treat the condition An travenous chemical on at Emory ultimo es the contract tell 01- the heal I and helps get rid of salt and water The chemical hasn't been two- keted as a drug ('t addition to his duties in the medical school at Emory Dr Tuttle has the Georgia Heart Association's chair in the heart lahoratory there excrete the salt and water in a person's diet after heart failure "We've nun he said -that there are several hormones (chemicals secreted hy the 'Indy) which tell the kidney If) hold onto the water and salt when the heart fails The hody mistakes a failing heart for a lack of fluid and it tells the hormones to hang onto all the salt and water they (an find" 'The action of the hormones can cause a person to swell tin suddenly after a heart on the other hand a person it gradually dmelopheirt diseNst ha a slow accumulation of finitk mid would swell slmA ly "We need to understand these hormones And the met hanism vhich trig4ers them in order to teach the body to in the overall retention or salt DR TUTTLE JR If the nt ti are inspect ing your home and start running at the sound of a siren (101'11 he thinned It literals the engine's rraho imin has col ed an alio in in their I curltory The inspputton 'Ingram run until cold cliathec sets to Then it ill heing again in early Spring GRADY SIGNS All kinds SOU th's Pioneer Neon Mks Est 1901 Adv and water in the body the heart fails hese hor 'cones are secreled 1 extcs sive amounts and they coiled salt and vater in excessive amounts Normally these hormones help the body hold a couple (Walls of Water and salt But they get excited And erambitious in emergencies The The rniversity of Scouting will htLio tomorrow at the Co enant l'reshyterian Church lore than 2'25 adults students are expected ht at I end The cinirse yin he held each Thursday in october at 7 30 pm lorning classes for the mothers scouts ill he held during this same period rot of doo-v 11nd An i'llfcti chnive ineditmes dopelld on lin tirrstinnhnt: eNNutly whd urhanees ore present: Ile said diuretic ing used to block the et ((Nis of the would-be hormone rescuers I ii I I 1 i 1 9 444 40 ON0440" Il 4 oqo lp 0 '4' A I Ilbs114110411" "41" AtftkirSIWA4k att.