The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 17

Charlotte Jaycees Name 10 Top Young Men By ROGER HONKANEN Ntwi Stiff Wrlltr The Charlotte Junior Chamber of Commerce today named 10 men as the most outstanding and distinguished young civic leaders in Mecklenburg County The men all between the ages of 21 and 35 are: Ty Boyd Thomas Creasy Jr Frank Dowd Jr Carlton Fleming Frank Edwin Gossett William (Dub) Graham Jr Leon Hoover Jr 0 Kirby Carl McCraw Jr and George Morgan MR BOYD W'BT radio personality was a member of the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Mecklenburg Inc and of the Heart Association He is a member of the Advisory board of the Boy Scouts here and an inveterate supporter of good causes here and elsewhere in the state where he has appeared countless times in behalf of civic or charitable activities He is married to the former Patricia Cowden and has two children Mr Creasy is an attorney with the law firm of McClenag-han Miller and Creasy and THOMAS CREASY JR Mecklenburg County March of Dimes Drive a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Charlotte Nature Museum and he served last year as president of the Charlotte Junior Chamber of Commerce He is married and has three children TY BYD general counsel for the urban redevelopment program As a member of the Committee on Urban Redevelopment he delivered more than 20 talks during 12 before civic business and educational groups in Charlotte and elsewhere He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Arts Fund and a member of the board of directors of the newly formed United Arts Council He was chairman of the MR DOWD is vice president and director of the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co He is a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education and chairman of the North Carolina Friday Jan The Charlotte News Charlotte GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION FRANK EDWIN GOSSETT Association and a member of the advisory board and Red Shield council of the Salvation Army MR GOSSETT is a Charlotte insurance man with a production of $14 million last year making him third highest producer in the entire Pilot Life Insurance Co for 12 He was chairman of the board of directors of the Heart Association of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County last year and was chosen as one of last year's ten outstanding young men He is a past president of the Charlotte Junior Chamber of Commerce and a member of the board of directors of the Charlotte Kiwanis Club as chairman of the membership and reception committees He is a member of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce the YMCA the Kings-wood Community Association and a member of the board of stewards at Myers Park Methodist Church during 1962 Mr Graham a Charlotte lawyer is solicitor of the newly established traffic division of the Charlotte City Court and is the first person to hold that title He was stale president of the Young Democrats last year putting in some 20000 miles visiting areas ail over the state He was a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee He is active in church and other civic activities as well MR HOOVER is a member of Third Presbyterian Church and has served the church as an elder chairman of the nominating committee co-chairman of the Evangelism committee a member of the every member canvass committee a member of the budget committee a substitute teacher and a speaker for a number of church classes He is an honorary life member of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and served as a member of the sports awards subcommittee of the sports committee program chairman for the contact club and chairman of the usher committee for the annual banquet Mr Hoover was a team captain in the YWCA building fund drive the YMCA membership drive the Heart Fund golf match and the American Cancer Society survey He is senior auditor of the First Union National Bank of North Carolina where he supervises the auditing itys West Side Project et Underway Monday OUR TOWN iJ With They almost made a space pilot out of little Mark Everette of Emerywood Dr Mark the son of Mr and Mrs Jake Everette was about to celebrate his fifth birthday and Mrs Everette wanted to get him on Channel 9's Joey the Clown program She called to make reservations like to get my son on your Mrs Everette told the operator the operator said is Douglas A i r-craft This mixup in numbers is a mistake which is not hard to make Emery Wister our man around town makes it often number is FR 6-8401 Douglas Aircraft is FR 6-8471 Emery said he first solved the problem by remembering tht Douglas makes work long Emery said I just forgot both of the Many of you will remember Holley Mack Bell former Courthouse reporter and Church editor for The News He is now press officer for the US Embassy in Santiago Chile California Visitor Finds Familiar Name It's a small world Joe Burger of Pasadena Calif came to Our Town last week to speak at Sell-A-Rama only to find that he had a bronchial infection and talk at all He went to the Charlotte Eye Ear and Throat hospital and was treated by Dr Stanley Burns Jr It brought back memories for Mr Burger Over 40 year ago in St Louis another Dr Stanley Burns took out his tonsils father performed that operation on Mr Dr Burns Jr said one of those coincidences in life Ralph Gibson public relations man for Duke Power was out on an errand the other night with his 12 year old son Geoff They passed the new ABC store in Cotswold Shopping Center Geoff there is a new booze said Papa Ralph dad You know mother doesn't like for you to use Being a policeman can have its drawbacks City Police Sgt Joe Wilson can tell you this Joe went into the Identifications Bureau at police headquarters this week handed Carl Holliman a picture of a young man like to have several pictures of this man by this afternoon I want him for 12 counts of forgery" It was indeed an unpleasant case for Joe Wilson The suspect is his brother-in-law The Winner Wins A Live Ground Hog Radio station WIST is going to celebrate Ground Hog Day Fcb 2) in grand style Jim Turner the WIST morning man announcer says he is going to have listeners call in and give their very best Ground Hog growl on the air The one with the best growl will get five pounds of ground hog or sausage The person who guesses closest to the exact time the Ground Hog sticks his head out of his hole in Punxsutawney Pa will he awarded a live Ground Hog Punxsutawney you see is the Ground ling capital of the nation FRANK DOWD JR board's personnel committee Mr Dowd is a member of the board of directors of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and the board of directors of the Goodfellows Club He was elected to the board of directors of the Defense Orientation Conference Association in November and is a member of the board of directors of the YMCA Mr Dowd is first vice chairman of the Myers Park Baptist Church board of deacons Mr Fleming a partner in the law firm of Fleming Robinson and Bradshaw is chair- 25 1963 News Stuff Honeycutt CARLTON FLEMING man of the Crime Prevention Committee and is secretary and director of the Downtown Charlotte Association He is on the board of trustees of the Methodist Home and a director of the Char lotte Arts Fund and the Char- lotte Choral Society He is chairman of the state legislation committee of the Char lotte Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Charlotte Kiwanis Club Mr Flem ing is also vice president of the Duke Law School Alumni SECTION Fall '64 Completion Date Seen By BILL HUGHES Ntwi Staff Writer big west side grade crossing elimination project will get underway formally with an opening ceremony at 1:30 Monday Mayor Stan Brookshire will man a power shovel to take the first of earth out of the Southern Railway right-of-way near Trade St Contractors were ordered to begin work last Tuesday and have moved advance crews into the project which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 11164 THE RAILROAD tracks will be raised and underpasses constructed to eliminate grade crossings at Trade St and two other streets The state city and the railroad joint participants in the project will be represented at the opening ceremony as will be contractors and consulting engineer Ralph Whitehead Preliminary work started earlier this week includes construction of field offices for the contractors and engineers in the old passenger station and alterations to the former Standard Crankshaft Co building on Morehead St Parts of both buildings will be demolished The passenger station will he razed later A portion of the Morehead St building will be retained and sold Other work to begin soon includes alterations of other buildings construction of retaining walls along the Southern tracks and preparations for first work on the Morehead St underpass Grading will begin soon for a temporary mainline track that trains will use while the roadbed for permanent tracks is being raised Blythe Brothers and Crowder Construction Co have the contract for the bulk of the con-jstruction work on the $36 mil-I lion project which involves building or altering six underpasses and a maze ol related street and rail work Engineers To Hold Dinner Meet Today Hammarlund assistant plant manager of the Hammarlund Manufacturing Co at Mars Hill will be the guest speaker at a dinner meeting of the Western North Carolina Subsection Institute of Radio Engineers at 7 pin today in the Cafeteria at 1)26 Central Ave WILLIAM GRAHAM JR LEON HOOVER JR CARL McCRAW JR By EMERY WISTER Newt Staff Wrlltr A too 000 addition which will double the size of th present structure will be added to the Goodyear Bldg at 500 Morehead St George Goodyear presi- dent of the Goodyear Mortgage Cnrp said the addition will occupy the site of the former Red Cross building on Morehead St This structure will he demolished soon and ground will be broken for the addition within 60 days MR GOODYEAR said the addition will he a three-story structure containing 30000 square feet His company will occupy the entire first floor and the second and third floors will be leased to tenants The addition will have a basement for storage Heating and air conditioning equipment will he in a penthouse on top of the building The addition will be a fire- proof brick concrete and stoei edifice It will be 1 30 feet long and 57 deep A parking lot adjoining the See GOODYEAR on Pag department GEORGE MORGAN in 1962: President of the North Charlotte Rotary Club president of the Forest Heights Home Owners Association 1st vice chairman of the American Institute of Electrical En- Mr Kirby held these offiees See JAYCEES On Page 12B Stock Sale In Feb Court Confirms Speedway's Plan By BILL HUGHES Ntwi Stiff Writer Charlotte Motor of was confirmed in a cut-and-dried Federal Court hearing here this morning In a proceeding lasting less than five minutes Federal Judge Pvnnncmn Craven Jr authorized the Plans Made By Goodyear speedway to begin operating as an independent corporation It has been under a court-appointed trusteeship since November 1961 CONFIRMATION of the plan! Teamsters Await US Court Rule By ROGER HONKANEN Niwi Stiff Writer Events took what appears to be a serious turn for the worse for the Teamsters International in Federal Court here yesterday evening Judge Braxton Craven heard arguments from 10:30 am until nearly 6:30 with only a brief pause for lunch and finally decided to continue the temporary injunction against trusteeship of Local 71 at least until today The judge said this morning he would compile a tentative finding of facts and make a tentative ruling sometime today on the injunction THE RULING would be subject to later revision after some 175 pages of testimony have been transcribed and he has had time to read them over carefully rather than rely on his memory as the necessary haste of today's action forced Should he rule today that the injunction should continue in effect the Teamsters International will have to abide by it until next April when the appellate court sits next or until such time as Judge Craven might make a final ruling in their favor should think there's enough of a prima facie case to warrant continuation of the present the judge said at the close of the hearing yesterday The hearing was hurriedly scheduled in telephone conferences between officials of the Federal Court here and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia where the Teamsters International sought to have the temporary injunction removed Wednesday The appellate court decided the injunction proceedings should be send back to Charlotte for immediate hearing rather than being heard in Statesville Tuesday as the injunction ruling originally stipulated The in Chilly Reminders Tryon St in case you need a reminder that it got down to 7 yesterday 11 this morning and will be down to 23 tonight (More weather on Page 1A 2A 13A The discussion about stalagmites and stalactites is purely academic them is plain old icicles They are hanging under the railroad overpass on means the speedway will pay oft most of the $900000 in debts that nearly forced its sale at auction late in 1961 Management will revert to a board of directors to be appointed by Judge Craven Under the plan some $400000 toward the debts will come from a new stock issue to existing! stockholders I I he plan calls for the slock1 sale five days after the "order i of confirmation'' issued today Trustee Robert Robinson said! jit will take several days to pre-j I pare the order meaning that! 1 the stock sale probably won't come until after next week I Other funds for speedway I debts and operating capital i will come from a $343000 mortgage loan and about $200000 earned In two races last year The new stock will be offered to stockholders at 75 cents a share Under the plan it can be exchanged for issued in a the speedway" move organized by a stockholders' committee last year That effort raised about $too 'See SrEEDWAY on rage 12R BILL OF PARTICULARS FILED State Lists Noe Charges rights at the city's Statesville Ave dump The bill of particulars was filed in Superior Court Thursday under an order issued by Judge Francis Clarkson The order requires Solicitor Ken Downs to turn much of its evidence against Noe over to Warren Stack Mr attorney The bill maintains that Noe "had implied ennsent and implied authority to receive lawful monies and other funds dp-rived from the sale and dispo sal of scrap materials for the purpose only of rereiving these lawful monies and funds in the name of and on account of the City of and that he was required to turn the money over to the city treasurer It charges that Noe received money weekly nr at slightly longer between April mill and June See NOE on Page The state in ils case against former city motor transport boss Ted Noe will maintain that Noe deposited $280 in in his personal bank account The "bill of to be used in Noe's trial next month cites six specific deposits of allegedly embezzled funds NOE IS CHARGED with embezzling funds paid In the city for scrap and salvaging We had a little story here a couple of weeks back about lawyers at the Courthouse referring to Ralph Kidd as Cannon ball Mr grandson Larry Grist rend the story hurriedly and rushed to the phone I'm not coming to see you any more The paper said you are a cannibal and they eat people lip GRADY SIGNS All kinds Pioneer NennMfrsEst 1904 Adv See TEAMS'! ER on Page 12B injunction was put effect Monday by Judge Wilson Warlick prohibiting the Teamsters International or the old Local 71 officers from keeping a new slate of officers headed by Barbee out of office In sessions the judge will hear brief closing arguments from both sides before making his decision in the case LITTLE THAT has not already I been made public came up at.