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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 17

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9 THE CHARLOTTE 085ERVER Tuesday Nov 22 MO MA ELDERLY WOMAN APPEALS TO BOARD $4 Cut In Her Check Sets Off Welfare Fuss Speedway Planning New Issue Office i ark Is look into it Coin' lien on )our home?" Commissioner Craig Lavk ing asked missioner 'awing said JSAilike OVA Iro some wiwsw I By KAYS GARY Observer Staff Writer An elderly woman appeared before Mecklenburg County Commissioners Monday to cause the only stir of their weekly session She wanted to appeal a $cl cut the Welfare Department had made in the monthly checks she and her husband have been getting for 25 years They are permanently and totally disabled she said "Dots the county have a for being totally and permanently disabled Lowing suggested then that the Welfare Department be requested to determine many persons receiving aid own property on which the county has no lien This prompted Commissioner Ernest Brows t4 report that he Intends to propose that the county have liens on property of all per Sons living at the County Home Property of County Home rekidents is deeded to the county under the present an rangement A lien Brown said would insure that if any resident came into any mone he would be obligated to pay the county what it bad cost to keep him up The elderly woman who set off the whole thing? "The Welfare" she said "tells me it has only enough to take care of 80 per cent of a person's needs I want to know why 'No" she said 1 know some people were fooled and the county got something on their homes but not thisn!" Commissioners learned that while liens are taken on property owned by persons receiving old age assistance from local funds the same legal procedure does not apply to those receiving assistance By ROLFE NEILL Observer Stiff Writer Charlotte Motor Speedway which has if-sued only common stock is asking shareholders to approve sale of a half million dollars' worth of preferred stock Preferred stock as its name indicates has preferred position over common stock for dividends When dividend money is available the preferred shareholders would receive 6 per cent dividend a year payable I ISULt4p ollo Don't Miss a--- Peter Sellers In ght 4044 JACK" SHOWS A' 7 and 9 am -T By ROLFE NEILL Observer Staff Writer The 59 acre Park Road farm on which evangelist Billy 5 Graham grew up milking cows will be turned into an office building park A nationally known firm has agreed to begin building about Feb 1 1961 according to de- velopers A zoning change for the prop erty from residence to office institutional was recommended Monday by City County Planning Commisssion The City Council will act on the matter next week 1 The farm Grahat will bi buildin Ana agreed Feb 1 velopei A zo ertyIj Institut Monda ning Counci next 1 i i l'It 11! 1 r- k- -fr I 4 l' li 'f -a--t 1i i ko I 4 a I i i 2: :1 4 -4" 1 4 42'1 4 Shows LAST DAY DIRK BOGARD'S CAPUCINE In "SONG WITHOUT ENO" I'So wITMOUT lio ENty 1 Health Unit To Discuss 'Checkups' ADD $11300 Tax Sleuths Find Little Off Books Common stock owners would then be paid the remaining dividend funds The preferred stock would carry no voting rights FRANK GRAHAM lel 110 441) Edgar Allan Poe's "HOUSE OP USHER" Cinema Scone Color Vincent Price 1 feature at Show Place Of Gastonia 1 9 Uri4 01111V BShow Gastonia 11 1 77 7 a It 4 71 04 Edgar Allan Poe's BIG Ei "HOUSE OP LISMERo WEEK CinemaScone Color Vincent Price features at 1 01 '4 i 1 11' :1 I iTrnn-rti 1 I I Leases Land number considering 6000 properties were checked" Alexander said "Most involved the closing in of a porch to maxe a room something of that sort by the amateur home carpenter who didn't get a building permit There were no sensational finds" Dividends on the preferred would be non-cumulative That is if no dividend were paid one year the preferred stocsholder would not be entitled to an extra amount the next year Shareholders will vote at a special meeting Nov 30 at 10 am at Hotel Charlotte A speedway spokesman said the meeting is one of the final steps necessary to obtain a large long term loan' to consolidate Speed way debts The Speedway owes approximately $1 million Adequate preemployment physical examinations and their use in industry will be the topic for discussion at a 12:30 meeting today of the Greater Char lotte Occupational Health Council Speakers will include Dr Witliam Ranson local physician and James A Nelson director of industrial relations for Doug las Aircraft Co The meeting will be held at Belk's Cafeteria IV Frank Graham the min gellst's father Is owner of the property lie wilk lease the land to developers Seven tracts of five acres each are planned for the first part of the development Each tract would accommodate a one story building containing from 30000 to 500000 square feet of office space The land fronts on Park Road and lies south of Park Road Shopping Center and just behind the new bowling alley and luau restaurant on Montford Drive The Grahams operated a dairy on the properfy from about 1915 until about 10 years ago when the elder Graham retired because of his health "We'll continue to live here" gellst the pi land 1 Seve each part tract one from feet The and 1 Shopp hind luau Drive The dairy about ago tired ''Wo "WHY CAN'T I STOP?" MGM ssij ELIZABETH TAYLOR LAURENCE HARVEY EDDIE FISHER WHY I 14-0 ofitsios Ys TC0Aptg ELIZABETH TAYLOR LAURENCE HARVEY ER- DIE FISHER of Tax sleuths are finding little taxable property in Mecklenburg that isn't already on the books This was indicated by Acting County Tax Supervisor Alexander in a report to County Commissioners Monday After six months of work revaluation workers have turned up unlisted property improvement cases worth a net of about $1300 in tax revenue There were 119 property improvement finds amounting to $51125 or $1564 in taxes per year But three cases also were turned up in which owners were being taxed for buildings already torn down This took $228 off the books "This is a remarkably low said Mrs Graham We would not feel at home anywhere else" The southern section of the property will be developed first The two story brick home of the Grahams is on the north end Mrs Graham said they noted some years ago that the city was developing toward them and "just held on to our land" Her husband now 72 years old was born in a log house near the center of the property 2-HITS IN COLOR-2 CURT JURGENS AS HEAD OF SPY RING "House of Intrigue" MOUSE THAT ROARED" HILARIOUS COMEDY HIT PLUS CARTOON Tel VD 2-344 "BATTLE CRY" CincoaSeope-Color Tab Hunter Dorothy Malone Van Flatiln features at I 'L ioasawwwwastwas-wwa-g--mist IN COLOR-2 is- 4 "BATTLE el 17111ralrlFwi FP rj I I 1 If CumnaSeo9e-Color CURT JURGENS A Tab Hunter Dorothy I AS HEAD OF SPY RING Te Malone Van Heflin 1 "House of Intrigue" 41 21:: rn features at -Al 7 yr s-sma 4 00-6 30-9 00 "THE MOUSE THAT ROARED" i IH LARIOUS COMEDY HIT PLUS CARTOON -D "OsT t' 4 The spokesman said sale of the preferred stock "is part of the financial program of ex panding the Speedway" Asked if any individual or individuals bad indicated a desire to buy the preferred stock the spokes man said: i 110 rs)astitl I II in JOHN 0 NANA'S Ill 8BUTTERFIELD timoscoptkifirCOLOR Shows 13-5-79 Met 75c Night 90c Students With This Ad Sito Trip Passes Voldi i Its 044 "4- in JOHN 0 NANA'S 8BUTTERFIELD ENAscop HEIKCOLOR Shows 1-3-5-7-9 Shows 135-74 Mat 75c Night 90c I Students With This Ad 60c I Trip Passes Vo idi 1 KIRK DOUGLAS KIM NOVAK elnemaSeoue "STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET" features at 514-711-909 KIRK DOUGLAS KMM NNVVKK KIM NOVAK elnemaSeope Color "STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET" Sanfilraa st I 911-11L citurra in i le 514-71-9oa Mrs Maribelle Scoggin executive director of Heart Services Inc and secretary of the council since its organization in 1958 will present a four-year progress report and a comparison of the local program with a similar one in Rochester Plans also will be outlined for the fifth Occupational Health Conference to be held here next Feb 23 Theme of the conference will be "The Senior Worker: 40-65 The Challenge of the 1960's" The Occupational Health Council is made up of representatives of business industry and the medical and public health professions in the Mecklenburg area It is financed by Heart Services a United Appeal agency Tel ID $4111Vi DAVIDSON COLLEGE Alumni Telephone Calls Raise $4512 Di vs sckAnD Also Showing DIANE DRIVEIN Gastonia tti02 Also Showing DIANE DRIVEIN Gastonia Dr Beidler To Speak Dr William Beidler profes sor of philosophy at Queens Col lege will lead a program on primitive religions at the Char lotte Friends Center at 2039 Vail Ave tonight at 8 o'clock "We had rather not say anything about it right move' The Speedway is asking stockholders to authorize an increase in shares from 1 million shares of common stock to' 21 million shares of common and preferred of this 100000 shares would be preferred The Speedway has 2200 A ee A 4 07 LierarD IS SENSATIONAL AND I MEAN SENSATIONALI99 Yctrk Doily News MVO Ming 101 TRACY MARCH KELLY A IIBEZINCM11? L77173 0" I i'Era A L711 IS SE! AND I 2 SENS) TRACY Ez ee 1030' litliglawsl Ireilaa 7- I rm TUES NOV 29 OVENS AUDITORIUM OniShow "THE CROWDED SKY" In Technicolor with Dana Andrews with Mel Term "WALK LIKE A DRAGON" WOE "THE PRIME TIME" In Technicolor with Anne Baxter 0 9 OUT 10 ab I i 11Isv lt i "THE CROWDED SKY" "THE PRIME TIME" 1 In Technicolor with Ann LeCompte with Dana Andrews also also It i WALK LIKE A DRAGON" "CARNIVAL STORY" In Technicolor i with Mel Term with Anne Baxter i of annual gifts for each year's operating budget from alumni parents and friends who more than anybody else know the college best" "Such gifts" Martin saki "motivate foundation trustees and other donors of larger gifts to provide the large scale support that builds both buildings and endowment for a college such as Davidson" City Backs Permanent Safety Unit Forty Davidson College alumni raised $4512 Monday night in the annual "telephone night" solicitation By 400 telephone calls from downtown locations they brought the Char lotte area total to $9516 for this year's Living Endowment (alumni fund) drive The $454 still needed to meet a $10000 quota for this region will come through a direct mail campaign to alumni who eren't at home to be solicited according to Bruce Ballenger chairman for the event For alum night night photu catioi lotte this talun Tlu a $1( will mail IA ere ECM chair Writers Meet Today Mrs Jan Orth will be guest speaker at the flinner meeting of the Charlotte Writers' Club at 6:30 pm today at the YWCA Mrs Orth is editor of a new Charlotte magazine "Response" I 0 MANOR 1101rA 42727 STARTS TOMORROW! -Nirkteare IS 7----F''" 4- -opairoolvo 4101000! t- t--" 607 Providence Road 607 The City Council reaffairmed its support for a permanent citizens' safety organization Mon day At $10000 appropriation in the 196061 city Budget was earmarked for the organization the Citizens Safety Association of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County we moo st I int rgEEMAR 1111 RD RIVIlaenstATttage pow Ka 711011k 41116- I AND I Fi 414 1111 1 II RI Dill lit" -motifs liCtSalk iNAPLAQ team beaded-by-Larry Dagenhart raised $1136 the most secured by any group His team included Seddon Goode Eric Clarke Garnett Benson and Herbert Spach William Shipley was cap tam of the team that led in securing the largest number of gifts His coworkers were Tenney Deane Jr Joseph Lowrance Perrin Anderson George Thomas and Ben Craig THE RED V1071 AK ELIE STAR-BRICHT SHOW OF THE YEAR! i i il' 1:::11 7 frt I ::1::: 4 i ff 1r I rlirit IT Ir 4: 3 tiii: iiii: I i i iiiii'll '4 't :::11 1-r iiiii LAST 2 NIGHTS-1st RUN BY TECHNICOLOR William A White Jr pres I Ident of the ltlecklenburg Union Davidson Alumni Club told the group at a supper meeting before the calling 2- that the total 1960 objective for the national Davidson drive is 3170000 It will be secured through the cooperation of over 300 class agents and regional solicitors during the next six weeks he said Davidson President Grier Martin stressed "Davidson's great and continuing need for the highest possible number lt Ider Unli told me( thal for dri It the (lac! licit veel Mar grea the William Terrell tempor ary chairman of the organi zillion appeared before the City Council to ask if the money was still available He was assured that it was rLIMIE10- ilialabighbilliSAAMAIWOOMMAIMMEI 6 Violent Emotions Erupt With A Goo LOLISIDRIZZA and lotto rail MT rilD BLOISt 2 i 1 t- Children not :1 admitted um A 1 '41111 lin MGM I A nanied by an I 'adult 4 j'''" SHOWS SAS 1427 Morehead "BROTHER DAVE" GARDNER Planners Reassert 4 Television RCA Victor Recording Artist Prices: $200 $250 $3001 and $350 TICKETS ON SALE: Charlotte Coliseum Hi Fi Camera Center In Charlottetown Mall Terrell said he needed to know about the city fundt be fore be approached oiler sources for additional 'money lie said the organization would need about $20000 to get or ganized Terrell told the Council that he was not expecting any trouble in raising the remains ing money HIS 15143 NEW MOVIE! I i c9 T) 3 ctbirliEDEJIIJ A HALWALLIS PRODUCTION PP ''1 TECHNICOLOR' 1 CO 1A0111 swings out and sounds off with those sver-lovin a etli e- I c' I it (k Of B143 NEW MOVIE! i I swings out and sounds off with those sver-lovin I 41 i 1 31 11 17 triDn' irtifilualro I de killitilLIDIJatl) "14i4o) i A lc Fill'114 II AptRoDuAOLNII- ''''4 t' i i1 ))A pi17'1t TECHNICOLOR IN 1- 04 THE 111TIMATI Mil 4 -b 11 I -'1 1 1 1 Pd 7 i AIL 141 I 1 litt 5 I 0 S'A- ill A lal 111Alik I I it I PIM( it Opposition The City-County Planning Commission registered its disapproval Monday of City Council plans to rezone an entire block on Kings Drive from residential to business use But the Council probably will make the change anyway It asked for the public hearing and advertised that it would make the change The commission recommended that the change be denied on the same grounds it made the same recommendation before "Y- 1 1 4' N- 'C A I I 1 4wFOXert a traTtri vhxyvwctxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SURPRISE CAST! SURPRISE STORY! COMEDY! FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING FUN I 1 YUL BRYNNER tw 7' 4 rits'i i' MITZI GAYNOR tt 41 FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING FUN 1 egikg YUL BRYNNER MITZI GAYNOR PPIONI 1196-0111 NOEL COWARD II I Little Colvin the most daring love story ever filmed! The Lovers SOPHIA LORIN in GIRLS ER DANG ER DANGER 1 "THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH" AND ma FUNNY HORROR SNOW "THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS" JULIET PRO VISE JULIET PROWSE (That 'CAN-CAN' Girl) The property on the East side of Kings Drive between East Fourth Street and Baxter Street ought to be business it said hut not under the present regu lotions for business use YOUR BIG HOLIDAYI entertainmcnti is 2 Charlotte Architects In 'Top 10' TOMORROW! CENTER STARTS THURSDAY BOXOFFICI OPENS :4 Slma 41177741 FREE REGISTER FOR BIG SURPRISE PACKAGS FROM N141 CAMERA CENTER 41owitotwoottmolaPotowtokka Fabulous buggested waiting until the neW zoning ordinance containing tighter regulations for business use is adopted before changing the zoning The commission also recommended that the Council: a fequest that property east of Yorkmont Road adjoining the erossline railway near York Road be changed from rural to industrial NOW-FEAR POSSESSED HER AS LOVE ONCE HAD now she realized w-- that someone lit r' '6' 1 l'tk'''t' i somewhere -0- eok i- 0 l''''' -1 1 0 4 4 -i was playing a 1 i t2-! 0-4 1 It '-t -) -'N tx inguarmdeerownisth 1 101 1r flit 17''' 4 I-' I i 1 her sanity i- 4 --asio' f'd c' -4 1 1 Al it i and her r4' 0 I 'se i 4 4 44 14 71 A oArm w- 010A-I 1 tr 1 1 11 I now she realized -game with i 4 iot that someone 4 1 1 1 i'A''''''''' I te somewhere 444 1 '4 4 -'I cNt4ttt 4 4 4 was playing a t-- I 4 i A- f' murderous I- (-- l'-' gov 't ''''-'t: cs 2 :0 fr A 1 1) her sanity 1 i --c 1 1 Avow 4 1tr --f'''' 0 klS '1'''-'1me and her li' t-7407 7 a1 4 4k 44171 ttmW- 11' A-tia4 sr0 cIr- life! 14 4 4 FANTAIL BREAD Two Charlotte architects William Little and George Colvin are among 10 men in the nation to receive achievement awards in a school design contest They were presented certificates Monday night at Hotel Barringer by a representative of Mastic Tile Co of the competition Presentations were made at a dinner meeting of the Producers Council an organizalion of building materials companies A Raleigh architect Edwin llarris won $5000 for placing $econd in the contest Little who is with the firm of Richard Gillespie and Colvin who is with A Well wore classmates at State and were graduated In 1959 1 1 a modified request that property adjoining the Piedmont and Northern Indus trial development between Toddville Road and Pavvcreek be changed from rural to Indus trial I for real distinctive I 0 II dist' for real distinctive Melommii MYRNA LOI ROOD? McDOWALL HERBERT MARSHALL NATASHA PARRY J311N YlitAMS HERMIONE BADDELEY oirtctod by MID wilat wuk 1116 hral'i 111 ECTIJAN COLOR 4 ot' 1 11 1 1 k1 -4 i 7 I tt- 04 -7 4 't-40-'" '-) 1 li--- 1 14 I 9 I N'ygli 1 I 11 1 2 'O' I' iiifiltqiiiiviiis 1 1 141 1k 11ihrtrir I 1 741 1 1 A I A II 1-1- 14'-f' rt-J- fr' 1 fi tr it rid 0t 4-4- Milimedip Joam MYRNA LOI ROOD? McDOWALL 111110tRI MARSiiAll NAT4SHA PARRY J311N traitAMS HERMIONE BADDELEY Dirtctod by CAM MILLI'' 61 COLOR 1 JIA It 7 3' kN ECTIJAN "sugluN 1-1--N -1-N t---N a change from 11 to Office Institution for property on Park from Montford Drive to near Seneca Place a change from ft-2 to on property on the east side of the Plaza north of Stratford Avenue a change from 11-2 to B-I on properly at 24-13 Plaza Road I 4 ")'' 4sv er1114 (44 4 tcyr4-)yok 4 -7 Ai Se' '4 Z14 7' 7 Irtt54 I 1 'i it')''' i --i topsmA ii 7:4: 4 4'11' 'i i '1 1 5 't -6' Vis' Flavor I logrc1411 11707-7--- rrs f' of( 4 (j'' Nrss 'A -1 -z 4iiiii--44k 4 0 -1 I 4 :1 'l-' 4 N- mo'11- ce 4 1''S''V1'4'-: -1-fga Ityr 0 -4- 't3 Flavor! 44'' is11 1- 0- 1 5 ta '--e- 4 t' -1' k4 7 'AI 1' j-k r'''-t 1: I4' ''k r4 ''-7 41rie 41stst i' 1 '-11 4 Ve 1 1 4 71 i vt 4 I iA 0 tti ::4::: 1- 1 I 74'-'': Lufthansa Plans Office 1:: 1 zria1 7 American 4i l'''''C' 't if 4" i' Company Vt ":11 N1! '4 4 7 :1 -tri It M11: ri'4-1 i 4 1- A A American 4 't ''k Company 'i7 7 40 1 ''t Lufthansa Air Lines wilt open Ian' here about Jan with George fleapit as manager Ilennett was Charlotte A lies marager for Pierheont Air I ines until atoll a year ago Pennell said the West German carrier will have a staff ot four people here (Ace space has not 3'et been seltcled It will be the second intern Cella! carrier to open an elice here The first was Scandinavian Air Lines which opened in her 1979 2 Charlotteans In 'Who's Who' miss Mary Wayne Crymeg end Mlys Ehoheth Dalton of Char 'cite were among the 12 Agnes Scott College svniorA selected for the 1961 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American lini t'ersities and Colleges Miss Crynies Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Crymes Miss Winn Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Barry Dalton 115311)7: i'fcl-IMLofftt7' STARTS THURSDAY! ft's a wonderful new experience In eating pleasure hearty tang of yeastraised big butterfly roll type bread Just reseal the plastic wra pper for last Ing freshness Ask for Fantail Bread at your dealer's FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING TREAT! 607 Provident Road Free Parking I ED 42727 10o ow ow 0 so ow IP 10 11- afr Al All ola atk 4 oi oolL odk Ant As oR os Am ow gst AwA mgt Alk 9 1t 11--40- 46-411-40-44 --k 4 40 A A0bOk.

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