The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 17

Fishing Report Where To Catch Them This week's fishing survey is on Page 118 SECTION eyb EDITORIALS COLUMNS FORUM SPORTS Founded 1869 FRI JUNE 10 1960 ktikk 41EA $erm "I II are 11 Invited Here Public Morals' But 'Priestesses Might Constitute A Danger To By KAYS GARY Observer Staff Writer live enough offering concealment of but little cornrort for gamboling nudists There are no buildings no water and too few clumps of moss to seat 500 sensitive-skinned priestesses "But we're trying to work out something" Greenberg said "Little development will be needed The nearest house is at least 1000 feet away and occupants could hardly see through all the foliage" News of the proposal stunned residents li ing in those houses a little more than "1000 feet away" George Cockrell said he didn't believe anybody could pull a raw deal like that "I don't want such as that around me" he said Mrs Ralph Cook was stunned almost beyond comment but finally choked: "Folks around here wouldn't put up with it that's all" And Mrs James Hyder simply gasped "Heavens above!" Greenberg who now operates a second-hand clothing store in Hot Springs once tried to promote the area as an artists' colony He is not a member of the cult which carries on its stationery the quotation "Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God naked as He created thee" This said Mecklenburg County Police Chief Joe Whitley was for sure And he believes a North Carolina statute and prohibiting indecent public exposure in any place public or private will knock such plans in the head The matter sent County Attorney Henry Dockery scurrying to his law books however He found the legal question "interesting" and figured he couldn't come up with an answer for several hours County Solicitor Joe Travis said: "The bare facts suggest that Mecklenburg wouldn't have to put up with this Greenberg an elderly goateed self-styled authority on antiques and paintings travels about the country in an old school bus He describes Avon Park as being "amidst primitive nature's gifts of whispering pines" But a reporter's inspection of the premises Thurs day afternoon indicated there'll be some Apocalyptic screams among the whispering pines if some briar patches aren't cleared out Bordered by a dirt pool the dense woodland is primi A California nudist cult has been invited to hold its annual convention in a wooded area just outside Charlotte The invitation was issued by A'oraham Lincoln Greenberg who told The Observer "This would be a good thing for Charlotte It'd certainly bring in a lot of business" His invitation brought new hope to the priests and priestesses of the Apocalyptic Church of America Only days ago Hot Springs Ark had served notice that the nudists couldn't hold their convention in a city park there as planned Greenberg offered an 11-acre site six miles from Charlotte off Mount Holly Road Chapman Avenue and McClure Circle He calls it Avon Park Robert Clogher an official of the cult wrote to ask The Observer if "we might run into trouble with the state or county law enforcement officers" and added: "Five hundred Apocalyptic priestesses might in some minds constitute a danger to the health welfare safety peace and public morals" c7-- ic I i i (-40 t) I) 4 -9 Iv Folk 1 I''' lik tr 'I 4 4 11 0 hill I )4 11' et Ji r- i 4'' 7 I-1 tkt fi 4i 1 'V -4- i -k4 'i A It) 1- 0 "tt Ito t) 't i V74S 1' frl '1' 41' Siti) 1 ke: i 1 I 1 ft i 1 4 i 1 1Ps k' 4 1 ig i A fiP A A 4 '''4T- i qist 14' li 1 :1 1: 0 t- 4-- t411 te 1 I '4 or fikill re (4 ilk we 411 ikit tt 9 City First Itudget Money To Slum Program Allots Observer Haun Will This Be Barred In Avon? 4 Veeder Earlitarhs $120500 NEGRO FACILITY County Home Wing Pushed -t -44- n6''' Itre 40: 1i: '41711v- Ath-- 4kr IL t4: 046677 Ao'r :14141 ---IrstCa' 4vo 11iLICZ144NIIIII6 -1i71W- 4 --4e- ---zt-74w 76 -No t4- -4t-t '-a 1111111o1111h '4-i r0-- v--i -s' '''s 4-- '11-- 16 -4t 14: "'-qz-k-'-' 1 C' "722 ---'e lb -4141k 100- 4i: -41'4e -----'1 N-' ss a 0 4COZ 11 'N's Of'7: 'I' 14C:" 'k 404 dt454 aLCSD 4 42: A i 4t 4t -m-se4c 4-''-c or 2 ''IrIcio ortb) 4 1r cs Edi 0 Anteo 1401 4161 -'-idgroso get" 7'111 'tome" jib e7-1 41641 Mr libit Ur' ksos 4460 CZ) 0 s-Nr-- 410 czk' 4: AHEAD 4b 41t 45Lk-4 '1 44 CS'1-rt': '70b -Z cl- 1 ilita41t10rL4111( fr Cs'iz164e -'4441' op ioni k--- sz r-- A ''qt It4og cftfd-x 401 -4 -t- (- oli ie IT liti-vb A VEMEAi N4s c1-Nr-- 'L' A i 4i' 4'4 ROW CZI -N kt 4k 04 '411a PlaCi) i1111 11111SI 's 1 Ct 4k'''7 yk't OiY-ks dr ict-Aurvolos i No- 7 lc clin ll 0 SP41) Slitl670 Ictulbfr NSCLIktio 12) OV A 4 0 4 45le 44? 0 4 4 gt'6 4C: -i CA 'k 4ZT 2 St- C' Perc1 is 0 iTIkk' r4 TtO'''1' 4 --c ft- 'A' 4) 'ICI d1- 400 eg 0 140S? o0: lOill' 03 ss6451 010414' 45) NC't! 4 ro 1 c1 7 N43: Sts eh C3 SQ) S- l'eck N''4 9V () Akio 04 ft f71" 711 ate's's 'S: 4taltoolppee 1" -vtA''4- '-') A A a 416 0 '5 i "''''''6 "'''''4h5V "Oh "4 -07 '1 114r sIbb timt4i 7 Noo doligh 'Ikea Agatillg qib4 "Prdomoc! Z7477 4' If' 4w 4C4km )---' sk-- 0 ti '14 1'z) 4 --44- 4k--- ST 0 --'----'-4' -zu An C- 4kw ite A -4s ---m 44' 1 4 Nkk lo 4' 4110 -4 4Z411Zital ifor4 0-15 eh '44 iv 4 and a "definite fire hazard" A committee composed of Commissioners John Mc Ewen and Herbert Garrison investigated conditions at the home By KtN CLARK Observer Staff Writer County commissioners will be asked soon to pass on a $75000 appropriation for building a new wing for Negroes at Mecklenburg County HOMO If they approve the money will be added to $75000 appropriated last year and architects probably will be asked to clart drawing up plans some time in Jt'ly Plans for all this were made In May of 1959 about months after a grand jury inspected the buildings for Negroes at Green Acres and pronounced rif 'Inadequate" If they approve the money will be added to $75000 ap propriated last year and archi tects probably will be asked to start drawing up plans some time in Jt'ly Plans for all this were made In May of 1959 about months after a grand jury in groes at Green Acres and pro- spected the buildings for Ne- nounced 7friadequate" Bus Finn Is Suing Clippers Payment Sought For Team Trips By KEN CLARK Observer Staff Writer A local bus company is suing the Charlotte Clippers for seven long rides the hockey players took and apparently didn't pay for This poses an interesting problem because the players themselves now belong to the city of Charlotte Former Clippers owner Charlie Rock of Baltimore Md owns all other assets But apparently Rock and not Charlotte will be expected to pay The suit filed Thursday in the Mecklenburg Superior Court was instituted by Queen City Coach Lines Inc It asks for $569360 plus inter-es' for seven round-trip rides the Clippers took last winter It was filed against "The Char lotte Clippers a Maryland corperation" The trips include two to Clin ton at costs of $89980 and $104170 two to Johns town Pa at costs of $53460 and $58025 two to New Haven Conn at costs of $87230 and $759 and another trip to Clinton at a cost of $100595 Some local lawyers thought Thursday that Rock and not Charlotte would be the defendant When his deal with the city was closed Monday the city bought the contracts of 14 hockey players from Rock Rock retained his franchise in the Eastern Hockey League and other assets of the Clippers Presumably he retained the liabilities too Local Firm lilt By Fire A fire in an exhaust fan did several thousand doIlar in damage to the ceiling and ven tilation equipment of the Auto-burger at 4100 Independence Blvd Thursday afternoon City firemen received the call at 5:14 pm Manager Marshall Tinsley of the Autoburger said the fire apparently started in an electric motor Inside the fan and spread to the ceiling before it was put out 77 of the more than 80 varieties of signs made and used by the City's Traffic Engineering Department (Observer A MOTORIST'S really A Charlotte driver would see most of these signs everyday but not all at one time They are spread out here to show some Speedway Contractor Fuss They recommended that aboat $6000 be spent tome diately for emergency re pairs and that the commis sioners set aside $100000 in the 1959-60 budget toward constructing new quarters for the Negro patients This sum they said could be supplemented with $75000 in 1960-61 budget And this presumably would be enough to build the new facilities Boy 11 ii1aii he $100000 was cut to $75- 000 and this amount was set aside at the beginning of the Are Charcred current budget year The proposed 1960-61 budget includes another $75000 for this purpose If the commissioners Gun Theft leave figure untouche when they review the budget An 11year-old boy was turn durng the next few weeks this ed over to Juvenile Cour willigive them $150000 authorities and a 59-year-o I man was charged with receiv "I haven't heard of a ing stolen goods Thursday aft change in plans" Commis er the boy reportedly took three stoner MeEwen said Thurs guns from a Charlotte home day "As far as I know the Youth Bureau Detectives proposal to ask an architect Griffin and IL Aderholt to start werk in July still say the man A Rouse of stands" 728 Charles Ave has been charged with receiving stolen The committee's 1959 report goods after receiving the guns estimated that modern fire re-from the boy sistive facilities for trie num Occupant of the house was her of residents currently stayE Ausband of 30331i Clem ing at Green Acres could he son Ave who told police his constructed for about $100000 home was entered while he Welfare Supt Wallace Kuralt was gone and one rifle and two said Thursday that about 40 Nepistols were taken gro patients are at the home The committee's 1959 report estimated that modern fire resistive facilities for trie number of residents currently staying at Green Acres could be constructed for about S1ii0000 Welfare Supt Wallace Kura It said Thursday that about 40 Negro patients are at the home voluntarily If he doesn't we will have to use legal means to have it moved" The 1Vorld 690 race is sched uled to be run June 19 and practice runs by the drivers are supposed to begin Sun day The runs woud be im possible with the back stretch blocked by the heavy grading equipment Smith said that Howe already is running overtime on his con tract He said the contract called for the work to be fin ished by March Howe contends that the speedway officials owe about $300000 for grading and related work already done He said they are about $74000 behind on the contract 'I need the money to meet my payrolls" Howe said "They have been giving me little Old dribbles and now they usc this Jesse James fashion with guns out there 'I've been going along with these fellows trying to get mon ey out of them but they won't pay me So I Just told my men to park the equipment" an additional itore and better locations for rXiStin stores The ARC Nystem Meek lenlinrit County now operille 11 glorek Only In mere tieing operated thirinit So first Ihe months of last year A new store on Williinon Boulevard is apparently getting a lot of Gaston County hitsines tied a new store on Highway 74 East is gettini business Opening Project Covers 8 Acres By JOE POSTER Observer Staff Writer Charlote will put its first money into slum clearance from its 196061 budget City Manager William Veed er has included $120500 from current revenue in the budget for the coming fiscal year That amount is about third of $363000 in cash the city is expected to put into the first phase of redeveloping the 238 acre Brooklyn slum area first phase or Project One cow ers eight acres The city's total share in eluding about $274000 worth of improvements to streets sewers and water expented to be about $637000 for Project One The federal government will put in twice as much as the city or $I274000 for the Brook lyn project The $120500 in the 1960-81 bud get is the first money the city has had to spend since program got under way here Federal grants and advances have paid for all the planning and preliminary work spent on the Brooklyn project so far Redevelopment Director Vernon Sawyer said Thursday the local nioney would he spent for acquiring land demolition work or administrative costs of the program lie said the federal Urban Re newal Agency followed a policy Of encouraging local communi ties to put their money into the projects as soon as possible The federal government has already approved Charlotte's plan for redeveloping I Brooklyn area and the Char lone Redevelopment Commis slim has selected an eightacre tract near downtown as its first project The City Council has also approved Project One Local real estate men are appraising the property in Project One to see what the commission will have to pay for it The commission is expected to begin acquiring the land and de molishing buildings on it late this year both Union and Stanly counties Severs said The sales during the first 1k months of this year in ARC stores total 11732911 Sales dam: the same period bit year toal $1099169 Publication ot the fact that poison nioonshine which has killed A number of perons in 'other counties I being sold in Meeklenhaz has cut do11 substantially on illcd Yshistky sales here Severs said behind in their grading pay ments "absurd" Both Howe and Smith agreed that Flowe already has been paid $341500 Smith said that the last time engineers checked on the amount of work that had been done the speedway had overpaid the grading contractor Smith said that he was unaware that Flowe had watchmen at the track but that the speedway management did have watchmen there When we attempted to move the equipment block log the back stretch tale Thursday afternoon" said Smith "some men came LIP 'One of them worked for lime We told them to move back Then the watchmen threw their guns on the men and they moved back "We moved Nome of the equipment hut couldn't get the rest of it cranked up" Smith said "We hope that Howe will move the equipment 7ZV7T1'77M: Travisties Gus Refuses 2 Column By PORTER MUNN News Staff Writer A controversy about pay ment for grading work Thursday halted construction on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Owen Flowe head of Owen Flowe and Sons the grad ing contractor said he order ed work stopped because speed way officials were behind in their payments Flout said he told his men to park the grading equipment on the back stretch of the track at midafternoon By GUS TRAVIS Well he got mad and ae cused me of not being willing to help the Rehabilitation Hospital and I got mad and told him if I did it I'd certainly be helping gome hospital for that's where I'd end up He'd hardly hanged up the receiver before the phone rang again and it was Martha London "Gus" she said "you know the Charlotte Summer TheAer opens at Ovens Auditorium next Tuesday We need all thc publicity we can got llow about (b- ing a column on it?" "Martha" I said "dig up some slapstick facts and I'll be glad to" "Oh" she said "I can't think of anything right off hand But Nam just go ahead and make up something" "Gob (tang swift it!" I txploded "I gotta have some Thursday night Flowe said Curtis Turner and Bruton Smith the speedway promoters and a contingent of men armed with shotguns and pistols held the guns on his watchmen and moved part of the equipment Flowe said "I told my men to go on home and not get killed over the dispute" He said he would see about ''legal action to get my money" this morning Smith called floue's contention that the promoters are Ideps facts I'm no Hans Christian Andersen" "If you insist on some facts" she said "vve can easily or range that You come out to one of the rehearsals for 'South Pacific' and well let you get in One of the mob scenes Then we'll have somebody push over a big piece of scenery on maybe a water tower and knock you cuckoo You can write it up like it was an accident Darling thatll really wow 'cm!" "And I won't he around to hear the laughs" I snapped "Sam Goldwyn thought up an answer to that Include me out" Well even if I didn't get a story about the Horse Show or Summer Theater I hope Ive kifled to birds with one stone by mentioning them today They both bremcd perfectly IlIng to kill me )Alk the show What do you Aug "Aw you can make up somc thing" he 61)01 back Gosh that burnt me up "Listen" I retorted don't flit around making up columns I gotta hat some facts to build around Now what's something funny connected with the horse show?" 'If you must have facts" he said "we can fix that up Yon come out to the Coliseum Thursday morning end we put ynn on one ot the 11mming horses We'll Just forget to buckle the saddle girth and when he takes a practice jump you'll land about 15 feet away Man it'll be a scream! You can it tip as the first spare flight" "Do you reahle" finned that the Coliseum has a eon crcte floor?" Pik4 A ''a--tsl: 'a'' A II: Jo vb r- t) DJ 1 -1 II NM011 It it Bonded Whisky Sales Soaring Another thing that irks me Is the number ot readers who think I'd try to climb Mt Everest or go to the bottom of the sea in a bathyseope or risk my neck any other way just to get 8 cockeyed column I'll 'admit that like any other columnist I stay hard up for ideas but saving my fkin comes first Now take these IWO ex amples Last Tuesday Larry publicity man for WI1TV called me bp and said "Gus I'm helping promote the big Iforse Show which ()ens Thursday at the Coliseum for the benttit of the Charthite Iteluthilttatinn llow nboin writing a toloain phont it and helping make it 4 success' -Larry" I replied 'I'll be rldd to if you can du: up tomething funny connected with "Aw we'll have sawIliist on it" he pleaded It won't he near as bad a tali as you had flow that extenion ladder you wrote i4hout twit summer" 'N'eah but I landed in a big bucket ot paint that broke my fall I reminded him "I once nearly got killed trying to ride II hore even with the saddle girth buckled Count me out" fly 101IN YORK Observer Sis If Writer Ponded whisky sales in Meek lenburg County have jumped nifie than Sqonjion in the tirq live months of this year over the first five months of hit year Chief llonry Se ers of the Mecklenburg County ARC law enforcement division says he attributes part of the Increase pf6nn mounshire kWh IA being circulated in Mock len berg County and part of it to TA ovourro10 -11f 5retpn vow r-tr-rf-Mitionnifirpormiranyr-o-wer y-wvtvpir lb at lie rte iAmmrowwww tor- 01.