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It's still winter all right but a lot of people ignored the calendar Saturday as temperature rose to 75 degrees Observer photographer Don Sturkey roamed the city to find these definitely Pti A DESPITE FIRE 100 Meet To Avoid 'I'm Sure We'll Be Married springtime pictures 1 i I ::::3: Her Shoes To Wearing Them If the marriage does go through Miss Scoggins and her husband William Bosworth of Charlotte aren't sure vhere they're going to spend their wedding night Miss Scoggins' problem began about 1:30 pm Saturday when the trailer she was living in at A Brown Mobile Homes Park at 4200 Hovis Road burst into flames She and Bosworth were shopping and taking care of last-minute wedding details trailer was to have been their home The fire did several thousand dollars worth of damage to the trailer and destroyed Miss Scoggins trousseau including lingerie a new coat a new hat new shoes and a new dress Firemen said the blaze developed enough heat to melt sections of the trailer's aluminum siding They don't know how it started Shortly after 2 pm Miss Scoggins and Bosworth returned to the trailer Daddy PLEASE Tell Me What's Wrong With Everyone? Saturday's April preview: "Daddy why are all the girls sitting so close to the boys driving the cars "Daddy why is the old man just standing out there in the yard "Daddy why did Mr Beasley start his boat motor so Party in the morning? That's silly Air Beasley's boat can't go anywhere in the back yard "Daddy where did all the birds come from? Where were they yesterday "Daddy why don't you tell Mama to come on? Why does she keep looking in that ole mirror ''Daddy why don't you SAY something? What are you grinning at daddy? You'd better stop chewing on that grass You might get choked Mama says That's silly chewing on grass and grinning with your eyes shut You'd better not let Mama see you lying on the ground She'll Here she comes "Mama what did you do to your hair? Golly-bum but you smell good! Just to go get the groceries? Hey can I get a kite huh? "Mama why are you sitting so close to Daddy? That's silly That's goopy That's acting crazy Daddy SAY something! Mama he just keeps grinning What's the MATTER with everybody? 0: 4 44-4 i'''l 1' ''''''1514'44t' le 4104114V it 1 0 00 '4p1 tl i i 0 "tit f' 13 4 i l' i -2 4 ts A I' 4 ti 41 l' ittik IP 4 tv 1'4 leak e-- liMil 1 A 44700 VOA 4 34 tkok 4 I 4klel 14 4 -1k 4 Iriko 1 1 1 -3 we' 7 7T 1 i11' 141 v' et isamensele-- I -'44- 4k it 0000 0' A- II! 'q 4 1 1 mg I' ck -in'': 4 4- z' -4 '4i: i 4 3 'r 40: 1-'- l''' 11'4 'qi- il 'ri Abetigt 414 ''k'il F4 i1 1 -Y' s44 4 f2 11 --fi: 4 --44f A4oppt Cf 7' '48 4- 0 4 4 otirrk' 1 r1 4 4:::4: 1 II i 0 IQ i ii i 4 :4:: 00 4 3' 4: 4 4 i 4ii 0i- 'Iv AW '7 wy :4:: i 1 4i 1 A I if i''- i 4s3: i la By 101IN DeMOTT Observer Staff Writer As of midnight Saturday the only clothes Miss Leonia Scoggins possessed were a pair of pants and a sweater She was wearing those and she's scheduled to be married at noon today in Temple Raptist Church in Kings Mountain Just about that time a child shouted from the top of the hill: "Here's Tommy up here Tie is not even wet" Tommy an unconcerned 4- year-old had been playing in a neighhor's yard Friday afternoon lie hadn't been near the xvater In fact he had heen less than 30n feet from his own backyard Why did the girls tell their story and set off this chain reaction? None of the adults can figure it out Unless ma yb they've heard their parents warn them so many times about the danger of this pool of water Its enticing unguarded And too deep for a child BREATH OF SPRING blooms are sniffed by Janice Cal hey and four mothers Mrs John Robinson Mrs David Blake NIrs James Mc David and Mrs Thomas Worthington enjoy strolling with their youngsters By PORTER MUNN Observer Staff Writer Charlotte Motor Speedway stock holders surpassed a $300000 goal Saturday in their drive to raise half of $600000 needed to keep the raceway out of bankruptcy Dwight Cross of Huntersville has agreed to put up $300000 to match the stockholders $300000 An estimated 100 stockholders rnet in the auditorium of Esso Building at Park Road Shopping Center and came with about $47000 This pushed the stockholders' part of the salvage fund to $301- 510 A Goings chairman of a special stockholders' committee announced the total amid applause and yells of approval from the audience The stockholders went int the I pm meeting with $254- 000 Goines and Jack Hamilton stockholders committee attorney explained that the speedway could be saved from bankruptcy if the stockholders would litty $300000 worth of trustee's certificates Richard Troward Denver furniture dealer shouted "Let's get started Here is $5000" From the opposite side a the auditorium a stockholder called "We tan raise $50000 on this side alone" The stockholders came out of their seats waving their check-hooks At 2:45 pm Howard who had been helping tally the checks took the microphone to announce "We need another $18000" announcement brought more response A woman wrote a check for $3000 Goines said "1 have a man here who has told me he will have his check for $1500 in my office Monday morning" The checks continued to be handed in At 2:55 pm Hamilton announced "We have just run another total and we are $7500 shy of the amount needed" Again the stockholders reached for their checkbooks and the checks came in for amounts ranging from $500 to $3000 A stockholder called "We can get the rest of it by passing the hat" At 3:16 pm Goines gave the word that everyone had been waiting for "The total is $301- 510" The audience milled around the speakers' stand congratulating Goines and shaking hands with other members of the team had engineered the money-raising effort The speethsay on US 29 in Cabarrus County Just north of the Mecklenburg County rder was placed under the supervision of Western District Federal Court last November ludge Craven granted a petition to have his court take charge of the speedway operation under Chapter 10 of the Federal bankruptcy laws Chapter id allows the court to reorganize a corporation in financial difficulties without actuall throwing the company into bankruptcy The judge named Robert Robinson trustee with the job of operating the speedway a working out a plan of reorganization Creditors ha claims of $900900 against the I a corporation One of the major considerations in any proposed plan of reorganization is how to pay off the most pressing obligations The stockholders' committee was formed to raise the needed cash Judge Craven agreed that if the committee could put up $6o0Anto that sum would he enough to get the reorganization rolling Robinson A-as authorized to issue trustee's certificates for the $00000 Fle vill hold mono! in escrow and it will be the basis of the plan of reorganization Tentative plans are to have the stockholders and Cross lend See STOCKHOLDERS 68 1 Fell In The Water' Couldn't Find Him "I screamed and threw my hands over my eyes and almost collapsed" Miss Scoggins said during a telephone interview "I was so stunned I couldn't say anything everything burne everything Bosworth said he told her: "Honey don't cry We have each other we have each other" Minutes later they also had a check for $5 which was given to them by one of Miss Scoggins' neighbors Mrs Esther Ware Shortly after that they had recovered their wedding rings which had been thrown accidentally from the trailer by firemen during the attempt to put the fire out The rings were found in debris near the trailer They were in a box Miss Seoggins and Bos worth also had a ear They used It to drive to Kings Mountain to the home of one of Miss Seoggins friends Mrs James limbatigh And thars where they were at midnight Saturday 12 hours before their marriage was to have been performed Bosworth who is 60 and a widower was a bit cautious "Well the wedding is set for Sunday but things are in a mess here and I Miss Seoggins who is 52 and a widow said "Oh I'm sure everything will work out all right I'm sure well he married at noon re anymore Just call him ''Happy John" Iklefiae Cu 1 Stil I If any of her friends spy Mrs Carlton Andrews sewing on dainty little garments they needn't get excited Irs probably a strait-jacket for their 3-year-old Sent to his room as punishment for some misdeed he flew the coop by locating a screw-driver removing the window screen with meticulous care and crawling to freedom Guess how many freshman music scholarships are available at UNC? That's why the Phi Mu Alpha music frat there is sponsoring two March 6 concerts by the Navy Band there to establish a scholarship in the memory of James Michael Barham an outstanding music student who died last fall Contributions are welcomed The l'ery End Finance Co exec Ken Keever in Wilmington for a meeting when the Feb 15 deadline arrived for new auto license plates wired his secretary in Shelby to "please send my new number special delivery" The next day's mail brought the special deliveried reply: Your new number is AV 8637" Industrial Developed houses and light manufacturing "The main feature is that it located on the eastern side the city near residential areas giving it accessibility for execu lives and the labor force" Speizman said Construction is expected to begin immediately on the first building a 15900 square-foot structure for the Charlotte 7- Up Vott ling Co to he erected by Godley Construction Co The area will he called Oakhurst Industrial Park and will hold 15 to 25 huildings Charles Morrison Grier and Associates are architects for the general project and realtor Allred Stnith will he in charge dPVelopment Jan Kirk ley Prefers Carrying 'Tommy But Paul By EARL HEFFNER Observer Staff Writer "Tommy fell in the water" These words spoken matter of factly by a small girl put fear into the heart of Tommy's mother Mrs Paul Poetzch of 5011 Wedgewood Drive "Where?" she asked clutching the childs hand "Down there" was the answer ThP girl's hand swept outward toward a hill pointing toward a creek a small stream of water that has a 'sizable pool where a culvert empties info it at Prentice Place Mrs Poetzsch's teen age son Paul Jr hotted across the hack yard his mother in close pursuit As she passed two Ill a I I girls on a swing she stopped to ask: 'Flave you seen Tommy?" Construction Booms Here Charlotte had $4 million more than any other city in building permits issued during January The Charlotte permits totaled $3613056 Greensboro was second with $1573874 Raleich third wit $14383 and Winston-Salem fourth i4 4 i434 i4 The Charlotte figure as SI5 million more than the combined MG Is of Greensboro Raleigh and instonSalem The State Department of Lahor reported January building permits came to $15 million in 3A North Carolina cities of more than 10000 population The Littruns Murray and Char leen Whisnant's little Tommy is recovered now from an illness that had him on the ope awhile and full of painful injections Nurses themselves agonized every time they had to give him a shot until finally they prefaced the ordeal with: "Tommy doll we love you Thereafter the sight of a nurse prompted Tommy to plead: 'Please dont love me anymore!" Happy Fe 11(1 An auto wreck has made a happy looking man out of Charlotte Opera director John McRae Until now his set expression has been a frown of intense concentration to the point that the daughter of Bill Thomas director of music at First Methodist once suggested: "Let's turn him upside down so we can see him smile!" Then came the wreck early this month when after singing in and directing 'Kismet" he went to sleep at the wheel driving to Spartanhug at 4 am A muscle in his forehead was cut And he can't frown INSIDE CITY LIMIT $25 Park Being A 76 aere industrial park inside the Charlotte city limit with railmad siding available is being developed by Charlotte businessman Morris Speizman The area is off Old Monroe Road on the eastern side of town The projected development is valued at $25 million Speinnan referred to the project as the second phase of his development polity lie developed previously a small area on North Davidson Street where 1Valker Martin Inc and General Latex and Chemical Corp are located "It's just a flatter of putting up investment properties industry" Spetiman said Saturday "We'll specialim in ware is of of ITC Finds Membership On Upswing By JOE DOSTER Observer Stott Writer Young faces in Washington and in Raleigh apparently are paying off in a new surge in membership for the states Young Democrats Clubs State ITC President William (Dub Graham credits the ennedy administration in Washington and Sanford administration in Raleigh attracting more young people into politics and the Democratic Party "When a party has been out of power for eight years it is hard to get people excited about political affairs" Graham said "With both the Democratic president and governor young men and with young around them it tends to inspire young people to get interested" Graham said that Buncombe County already had more than 2000 )'DC members and expected tn have 3000 before the end of the year Watauga County has 7sn to 1000 members and its club is still growing Graham said that in Yadkin County where no VDC club had been able to get a foothold before a club had been organized with more than 300 members Graham also said that an upsurge in participation at club rallies and meetings was evident People were turned ay at a recent rally at Statesville Greem ille had re co crowd for a inter rally and i crowds are expected at a Madison County rally this week Another factor that Gra ham credits with creatively the new interest and activity Sc 111C rage 0 fi "Yessuni" said one "he fell into the water" "lle drowned" said other And Mrs Petzsch broke into a run after her oldest son By the time she could see the pool young Paul was already in it clothes and all He disappeared in the water which is about four feet deep A rhild ran up beside Mrs Poetzsch and pointed to some footprints at the edge of the water "See that's where Tommy stood" she said "Paul stayed under so long- 7Irs Poetzsch said Saturday "and then finally he came up crying" Paul Jr was crying because of near exhaustion and failure A neighbor called police Paul's mother called i nt out of the pool He had searched for about 10 minutes "Go get help" she said "I knew it was tno late" she explained "Too much time had gone by" Young Paul panting a crying ran back op the hill to the home of Philip Beebe at 5011 Wed gewood Drive Beehe dressed and ready to 20 out ran down the hill kicked off hisshoes tossed his wallet to one side and plunged in A few tninnies later he came out "Tommy couldn't hp in there" he told Mrs Poetzsch Two city pollee ears rolled ti'' It' 441''4 -i' ''-T tz''" "16 4' 4 I'S'4-os 1 'i 1''F'-' It i'--: 1 --'i 11 4 i' i-' Ai 4'-''''''t A 4--' i 4: t- 4 4 -4 4 )0' s'-'efr'' ''i-'' '''''''''itL- li: 4 seilo -it4 0-s 4-1 71 tis )10ii 4 i I t'1 le i'-'k i 4 4ft -1 'tr i' ::::1 'Ai '410: 7 to4 ov- ''''''f''''4 's': 'fS'''I'Sc' 'A' kg4'-'' ot644 zt '''io 4 -4- ClhA Pryer Photo bY EArt Heffner Pool At End Of Culvert Is Four Feet Deep 1 Nfl -wIPNo7mtirsononwr WeiManilIPMMMW419917Prienr1F0.