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404 SECTION Zttr What's Ahead The Stars Foretell Cat 7o1 Righter's horoscope is on Page 12B FINANCIAL COMICS EDITORIALS CLASSIFIED SAT JUNE 11 1960 Founded 1869 is Search For rother Ends Inside Jail l'' o) 2- ahead" he'd start looking again 40-Year Hunt Ends Happily 'When Man Calls: have anything to take back" And for years now Howard Whitaker has been living in the dark and low and angry places except when he had money And then he'd live in a hotel ''Brother Jesse he's coming tonight with the money to get you out" Ervin said ''Maybe Mr Whitaker will get wanderlust again after a' week or so" a reporter prodded take back" now Howard living in the angry places he had money in a hotel he's coming money to get said Whitaker will again after a porter prodded too many punches to the head That Atty Bitch and Howard Whitaker agreed had brought his life down to a rapidly narrowing torturous trail Howard Whitaker had lived but neither wisely nor well lie had been twice around the world For four years in the Twenties he had held the welterweight championship of the Navy He had reigned fistically in Hawaii and China and he had once put the great Mickey Walker down for the full count He had perhaps 150 to 200 fights in the ring to say nothing of countless others in bars from Singapore to San Francisco spent two-thirds of his life It was on a bright spring morning 40 years ago that How ard Whitaker his older brothers in service climbed astride a mule to take a bag of grain to a mill for grinding The mule came home Haward didn't alltmc ii 4 ofi iti qA' tv I r4 frawootZ 0 000 --7- 11 414 7i5e0 1 off 'I rtr- rso 1 zi 44:: 41'Iws '1' :::4 tii ::0 0 -4- pa -0kotitimo 'ZA 1 "Don't say that to my broth er about me" Howard said "This is going to be rehabilitation I'm going home" it to my broth Howard said to be rehabillg home" "Papa died three years ago Ervin said "His dying words was 'You didn't find Howard You got to find Howard please' And from that day to Friday Ervin had not stopped From Baltimore he'd come to Charlotte and following his routine checked at a police station found an arrest record but no address At a pool room he was told that a Howard Whitaker 57 years old was always seeing Atty Bitch And Bitch knew where Howard was in jail awaiting an appeal of an assault charge "I see" said Ervin swallowing and reaching out to touch a scar on his brother's lower lip "that you still got the mark where that pet coon tore into you" "That ole coon" Howard said "He sure jumped out of that tree and tore me up "In 1930 he sent me $50 he'd borrowed from me 10 'years before" said Ervin "He was in the Navy then We never beard of I again" By KAYS GARY Observer Staff Writer An Alabama mans 40 year search for his brother ended Friday in the Mecklenburg County jail "Howard?" The name fell trembling from the lips of big muscular Ervin Whitaker 60 stand ing outside the bars On the other side a bent and shrunken man turned faded blue eyes from Atty Marvin Rileh and squinted long and hard at the big man whose eyes were getting wet is that you 'Bee'?" irs me" said Bee Whitaket biting his lip before a smile came through "We're going home boy You want to go home?" This was the reunion for which Ervin Whitaker had He had tried once to level off with $2500 worth of oil stock and a home in the West But wonderlust struck again he sold the stock "and whoever owns It now Is a millionaire" "We're gonna take you to the farm" Ervin said "Jesse bought the home place" "The home place?" Howard's eyes opened wide then almost closed Its near Huntsville Ala "Still a lot of rattlesnakes on it I hear" Ervin said Howard nodded his bald head eagerly "Oh I can handle the rattlesnakes" he said "I believe I can handle any thing back home" take you to the 1 "Jesse bought ace?" Howard's le then almost Huntsville Ala rattlesnakes on said his bald head can handle the said an handle any home" Observer Dumbel I Arm Around Brother Howard In 1936 Ervin and Jesse Whitaker left Alabama headed in different directions "and I guess we hit every town of any size anywhere" said Ervin The closest we ever got was in Washington when Jesse traced him to a hotel Howard had checked out a few hours earlier" Jesse laid him 'Bee' Whitaker Right Puts An Be never went home ''because they had each other and there was just me and I didn't self down in the same bed How- Jesse ran out of money and Ervin kept looking He provid- didn't he?" ard had slept in They never got joined the Army and got his ed for a wife and seven chilthat close again left hip shot away in Germany dren and when he got "a little Whisky and wanderlust and didn't he?" owilsimairnivinummellimormnimmemonmartnimmirmemnromennnonorr 1 A ettPlkIr4RAh ow nos 4111111iillialgiRIVIP111111111111MIVIRITIIIIIIIIIIiiiIIIIMMIIIINTIIIMILI 40114 4 Upllolds Renewal Law 11W 4 7 '') 1 '141 4: istlitio iii 14 Aitt Supreme Court No Co Urban Hem rt Kays I Gary Way Is Cleared For City Project ed ect Prize Money Was For Amateurs Ilut Real 'Pro Cot 'Consolation' acona (Mrs Walter) Benson has just survived one of the most embarrassing and exciting moments of her life She breaks up every time she tries to tell it It all began with the writers club's annual short-story contest in which entries were limited to 5000 words Among them however was an excellent story 8000 words long submitted by someone nobody in the club knew It was too long to claim a prize by rules of the con te4t but the club likes to encourage amateur talent tSo the girls dicided" Mrs Benson said "to create a special award of $IO for this story titled 'The Hen 1 I 1 or' 7 1 'I 4 By JOE POSTER Observer Staff Writer The North Carolina Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for North Carolina cities to rid themselves of slums In a decision announced in Raleigh the Court upheld the state's urban redevelopment law 1-4 and said slum clearance projects 111111 Ulllt are a proper function of local governments Slum Unit eared the way selves of slums Unit 4 vow meow 4 41'4 hde 7m7rx111011044 n-'1: erlt 41 5A f- AoitK'-V '-7' :::4110 A71'''''' I 4 1 'PA' 4 'f' '4': 4iiiif-ii: stioti rceir24 4744Afj -4 4triii1 -1iiil: ti "'''t40 o4 -ii- oire440" ANT61' k' 4 St 4s So 4 4 r1X-0 0 0 At tt'4 gi4f Ot kt: 1 4 LS 'rlp 1 1 -4 11 e'1-: 4 'in 7 -st 414) (1' 4'1' 4 -4 4 i'': 't 4 or 2ifk' 0' At- '4 4- '4 et: i 3zNikcszt: tomminto000' 1 144444 4f oo4 tti 0 4 1: t' 4 4 i Its 4 -4e 4 4 tke4 100- 4 0 t'W 1 71104 e- 5 ct ie rt" 1- 4 fr itI I 4 1 1 i i I i I I 1 1 1 1 Is 'Greatly Pleased' really C(I' ry 0 Eagerly Mrs Benson looked up the author's address only to learn he was in Mercy Hospital Even more eagerly because this would surely cheer him up "I sailed over to Mercy Hospital and into his room feeling like Lady Bountiful with my $10 check" Mrs Benson said She made the presentation and Jack Hausmann fifty Ish and goateed in the manner of a Monte Woolley beamed from his bed "This must be my lucky day" he said "'Playhouse 90' just bought my story for produe tion next February!" "I could have gone right through the floor with that $10 check" laughs Mrs Benson "Here we were patron izing a real pro!" Hausmann longtime Hearst newsman ad agency op erator and free-lancer formerly of Washington and Holly wood has had one other play on "Playhouse 90" Paralyzed on his right side by a sixth stroke he plans a series of 16 stories as satires on suburban life as is "The Henrys" These he hopes to put in book form Hausmann's wife Anne is city schools attendance of ficer I The case before the cotnt orginated in Greensboro hot six other North Carolina eiti7s which have slum clearance programs filed arguments supporting the Greensboro Redevelopent Commission The other cities are Durham Laurinburg Wilmington Winston Salem Charlotte and Raleigh The case arose when Security National Bank of Greensboro challenged the Greensboro Redevelopment Commission's authority to condemn land it held in trust for an estate The Redevelopment Commission attempted to buy the land for $131300 The bank refused and asked the Cul Iford Superior Court in declare the state enabling act unconstitutional Superior Court Judge Richardson Preyer ruled that the price offered was fair and the law constitutional me price 'mere(' was lair anu the law constitutional Charlotte officials received word Friday of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the slum clearance law just as the city prepared to put its first mon ey into the local program The 1960-61 city budget will in elude $120500 as part of the cost of redeveloping the first eight blocks in the 238-acre Brooklyn section Elmer Boozer vice chairman of the Charlotte Redevelop ment Commission said "We are greatly pleased We've been eperating under the theory that Re law was okay We haven't held up anything" City Manager William Veed er said the court's action was not unanticipated fficials received of the Supreme upholding the law just as the put its first moo I pregram ity budget will in Is part of the cost the first eight 238-acre Brooklyn vice chairman lotte Redevelop ision said We based We've been the theory that )kay We haven't ling" William Veed ourt's action was ed pute -the cQuipment used to bio the track could not be started and was dra772d li-r-e's machinery is out of sight in a rzvine i equipment to left belongs to ot contractor who v'cnt to work on the track Friday (Observer photo---Dumbell) WORK GOES Turner president of Char lotte Motor Speedway watched operations Friday as the last paving on the 1 imile track was done On Turner's right behind the retaining wall is part of Owen Flowe's grading equipment involved in a dis Speedway Spokesman Says Current Debts Will Be Paid People The Brooks (WSOC's Joey The Clown) Lindsays were looking for a little girl but that's a big blue ribbon around their mailbox announcing a bouncing you-know-what "We've been proceeding under the assumption that the law was constitutional and it looks like The Supreme Court upheld Judge Preyees decision our judgment has proved sou nd" The bank had argued that the he said Tom Redevelopment Commission was Creasy attorney for the Redevelopment Commission said for private purposes given power to use public money I the decision cleared up any legal I clouds about the local program In an opinion written by Jus- It I "We proceeding under that the law was and it looks like las proved sound" attorney for the Commission satd up any legal he local program leased" with us has been canceled gave him the notice myself Wei' rot mad with him hut we're no longer associated with him" mill be determined by compli cated calculations which re quire a resurvey of nearly all 551 acres on the Cabarrus Coun ty site tice 1 Bunt Parker the Court FlOWC5 quipment on the said the bank was misconstruing sa track from about 3 pm Thurs the purpose of the act in its argu- ments that the Greensboro corn- (17 until late that evening One mission was using public rights or Flowe's employes said he was spar and money for private purposes told to "pull some wires The purpose of the act the plugs or anything so Turner and Court said was the removal of them can't move the stuff" He said he did as he was told 'blighted areas Nudist Cult Is 'Covered' By Statute Turner bad Thursday's heard Fy ROLFE NEILL Observer Stall Writer Work on the million dollar Charlotte Motor Speedway con tinned uninterrupted Friday after a speedway contractor dispute the night before involving guns bulldozers and dollars Anyone who went to the track to look for himself and sever al hundred persons visited during the day observed that the race could be run this weekend if necessary In fact stock cars start practice laps Sunday a week before the World 600 itself After the survey land eleva on when Interviewed Friday on tions will be compared with a sur the track site "I never did get 'tey made before any dirt was to bed last night" he said rub-moved The answer will be the bing red eyes number of cubic yards moved by Flowe What caused him to lake a shot on when Interviewed Friday on the track site "I never did get to bed last night" he said rubbing red eyes are pleased" he said Creasy prepared the brief sub mitted to the court for the Char lotte Iledovelopment Commission supporting arguments for the Charlotte's commission Is not expected to begin acquit log land and demolishing logs in its first project until late this year Local real estate men are ap praising the property in the blocks of Project One to tell the commission what it will have to pay for the land The 190-61 city budget will contain $120500 or about one third Of the cash the city is ex pccting to spend on Project One The city will also spend about $274000 tor public improvements in the arn In addition I2740oe in fed eral matching fonds are expected to go into Project One he said ed the brief sub ourt for the Char iment Commission uments for the commission Is to begin acquit demolishing build irst project until state men are ap property in the rut One to tell the let it will have to city budget will Do or about one lsh the city is ex on Project One I also spend about bile improvements SI274000 in fed fonds are expected ject One Ile and a fellow employe were to hare spent the night by the equipment but changed their ninds he said when labarrus Vounty deputies summoned to the track told them It was property and they had better follow Turner's instructions I gun in hand the night before? (A Flowe's share of the speed squabble began when Flov'e or way's ultimate cost was to have dered his grading equipment ta been about twothirds or POO i block the speedway track until he 000 I was paid) Moving to Va the Rev Mut ray Griffith of Parkwood Baptist paled when Deputy Hough served him with a lawsuit Friday Signed by his fish ing partner Harry Moore of 2921 Rozzelle Ferry Rd gag lawsuit charged "desertion" Pete Mullis Char lotle's basketball wizard of UNC In the Thirties will tell you the best shot he ever saw never went to college Name? Joe Roth West Trade pawn shopper "We used to shoot for doughnuts at the says Pete "And hungry Joe never missed!" Strictly Fresh Nobody but nobody gets fresher eggs than Spain 17 of Tanglewood Lane His threelear-old pet "liennyPenny" makes a mad dash evcry morning upon release from her coop to donosit one large warm egg at the kitchen doorstep City Side Now that St Peter's Catholic has done such a great Job sprucing Itself up won't the city please repair that dis graceful Mdewalk in front? The Johnny Annus Memorial Reunion of North High's Class of '53 will he held Sunday June 26 not June 12 And nightlifing in Charlotte Is picking up with Dean Hudson's band here this week-end to he followed in the same supper club next week by Chortle spiviik The l'ery End The littrun crying outside the Plaza Theater where hed jtiq went four and i half hours watching "Pen-littr" had reason: "They didn't have a a ra tona!" A speedway spolosninn sold It will be two or three weeks before the disput between the race track nnd grading contrae tor Owen Howe bt settled Ile said no more dirt will be moved by his fleet of machines until he gots a hipA cf that $74010 he claims he is nt ed Curtis Turner speedway presi dent said: "Mr Flowe's contract "Mr Howe threatened to cut hole in the track it he didn't get money Alter all the labor we've put into this thing we weren't going to watch somchody tear It tip" "Such purposes are bereby declared to he public uses" the Court quoted from the state at authorizing redevelopment The Court also ruled that the vet did not result in an improper delegation of legislative powers In a dissenting opinion Justice Carlisle Higgins said he thought By KAYS GARY observer Steil Writer There'll be no nudist camp in Mecklenburg State Statute 14-190 will cover Up anything the nudists try to uncover That's the word from County Attorney Henry Dockery who said the county's legal business all but stood still Friday as eagues ribbed him Phout the problem posed by a nudist cults desire to locate here -1 told 'ent all to keep maim I Allot I'd pave 'em a knot hole if anything happened" Dockery Jested Statute 14-190 defines indecent exposure as an offense "in any plaee" where a person of One sex is nude before a person of another sex The Apocalyptic Church cult of CJI donna banned from hold pirmred coerenron in lint SorineA Ark hod been invited lii IIoefe tract wiles froin Charlotte um ned by Aiwa du Lincoln tirryiilicrg now ing in I lot Springs A ruit twilliesmarl however told 5o() ApoctilyptiC priest A001 nOt want to risk harANMerit by the law Decoration Wires To Co ration 0 0 Two Charlotte BreakIns Net Thieves 8137 In Cash Turner bad told them to leave the case was a 'trial balloon to Later that es enirg the equip1 see percnance this Court may ment was moved by Turner's he tea along step-hy-step to the n-en That which could he started approval of the redevelopment Was driven of The remainder plan without requiring the city was pushed off to submit the issue to the voters" Flowe's walkout left the track Ile said the case ought to be incomplete hut will not affect the dismissed because it did not pre rare already once postponed sent a real controversy The upper part of one end nnd An earlier case arising In the infield the area inside the Greensboro was dismissed by asphalt-paved oval Mill have the Court because it was Ion about $'200000 worth of dirt mov friendly" In that case the Court ing to he done Flowe was to have said there was no real issue be done that this summer 1 On the track itself another grad fore it and refused to sue a ing contractor moved his roa declaratory judgement chinery noisily Ile was doing the last-rmoute work on a short poi lion of the track Elowe would Engineer I Speak ha done Itarry Conn chief engineer of This second contractor Louis Scullyntones and Co of Chicago Patterson of Concord has lircri ill Speak at a di mwr meeting working for several weeks on a Of the AnirtiCall Society of Tool road job for the speedway Some and Manufacturing Engineers at of his equipment is being diveeted fi30 pm Tuesday at the Park temporarily to fill in for Howe Rd Cafeteria the ease was a "trial balloon to see if perchance this Court may he led along step-hy-step to the approval of the redevelopment plan without requiring the city to submit the issue to the voters" Ile said the case ought to be dismissed because it did not pre sent a real controversy An earlier case arising In Greenshoro was dismissed by the Court because it was 'too friendly" In that ease the Court said there was no real issue be fore it ond refused to ssile a declaratory Judgement If we owe him $74000 as he claims he'll certainly get it" said the spokesman James Mclivaine a builder from Wash ington McIlvaine is a speedway stockholder and major mortgage holder Ile has been helping supervise construction the past five weeks "INe believe he's been overpaid for the amount of work done so far hut at this point nobody really can tell" Both Howe and the speedway began Independent calculations Friday to cThitilish xcIly oat Floe 's owed Ile has already re ccived ThieveN ransacked two Charm lotte business estahlkiimenti early Friday and got sway with $137 cash At Patteron Coal and Oil 411 Liddell St 111(1' broke open a unreholiRe floor and then broke into the office Permanent cables on utility poles used for hanging decorations in downtown Char lotte will come down if the Caro linos Carrousel approves A Chamber of Commerce coin mittee so informed Friday The conmutice is sceiting to have all overhead wiring and lines re moved and put timicrgroint The decoration cables alone would be taken dOWn Ni dPeilion has been made on the remainm wires cables on utility hanging Christ mai downtown Char down it the ('aro apprm es of commerce coin informed Friday is sceiong to have irifl end lines re it timicrgrolind it (aI le down No decilion le on the remaining mated al $100 Tanner's PH nd i and fruit juice bar 307 Tryon St lost $77 The burglars cut the back wren door open then forced the main back door to enter They knocked the lock off box used as rt safe forced open two cash registers and helped from a tray or change They riPPed Open the ofe and took $60 from a ekilkh hot Damage to the 'ale eql Tbrre Is no simple It In uhat Flooe is due Ills bill lt) Wm wayffrwmarur evirivi-orrP4mit 4 Aofi '0 Nariftmg a alihma Magi 4400VOISOOMIUMMIEL mk-ima tommbebamodeAmowir000 sitaactrAM ig alma omaawitmeilio talionamos vwrramppwloty 771v 01W441 'F'' 11.