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ILAW! thought would be one of his most stirring sermons On the front row was a widowed mother with a restless little girl who kept twisting and turning throughout the sermon But tears came to the mother's eyes at passage after which Sam paused dramatically It was during that pause that he heard the child who was now looking at her mother with nc er say aloud: "Don't cry Mama Ile's bound to hush sometime!" County police surrounded the home but Harris refused to listen to pleas from his family and officers for him to surrender By VICTOR ItIcELIIENY Mawr Staff Writer The Air National Guard headquarters in Charlotte was inspected Friday by a high Air Force official but the guard unit does not appear to be in immediate danger of being called to active duty The high official was white-haired John Lang deputy to the secretary of the Air Force for reserve affairs walked through the Douglas Airport buildings of the 800 man Air 1Guard medical transport unit and met reporters afterward Lang said his visit should not be interpreted as "indicative of any urgent call for this group The Department of Defense has called aboard all units needed for the present world tension We do not require any more at this minute Of course tomorrow or the next day may be different" Lang is the civilian superviser of the Air Force reserve affairs officers who have been picking the actual air units recently called into active service To provide additiota1 fighters and transport planes for what is known as "conventional" or "non-atomic" warfare a total of about 25000 Air Reserve and National Guard men in fighter and transport units have been recalled including the South Carolina Air Guard based near Columbia and an Air Reserve troop carrier squadron from Greenville Stenhouse and McMillan have contended that if there were no constitutional requirement for filling the seat at all the party still would have a responsibility to do so Warren has argued that a primary contest for the party nomination was certain next spring and that filling the seat now would only cause a fight that might -divide the party Leatherman said Friday in a telephone conversation with the Observer that the amendment to the constitution was written to cover vacancies "primarily while the legislature is in in have 'ere no it for party isibility a pri nomispring it now ht that in a ith the ndment written imarily in ses The amendment says that If a vacancy In the General Ac sembly occurs "the said vit cancy shall be filled Immediately by the Governor appoint ing the person recommended by the (county) executive coin mittee By DWAYNE WALLS Observer Staff Writer Two physicians one of them a psychiatrist began examining Hyman Harris Friday to decide whether the 19-year-old former high school football star was mentally competent when he stole a rifle and held his girl friend hostage for seven hours Thursday Their recommendations probably will determine whether Harris will face court action or treatment according to County Police Chief George A Stephens Harris will remain in County Jail until the doctors make their recommendations The Hunters spirits Friday by his minister Rev Gordon Week ley of Providence Baptist Church "I was awfully happy to see that he's the old Hyman I've always known" Week ley said "He was as clear as a bell and very humble very sincere "What we need now is to let this boy lean on us to let him know that he is not alone and that somebody understands his problem "He has a marvelous attitude He recalled the incidents of yesterday but be was vague at times about some of it" Week ley said Week ley was at the jail Thursday night when Harris was locked up He visited the boy twice during the day Friday and was at the jail again when Adickes went in to interview Harris Week ley said Van Pelt whose daughter Donna was held hostage in the Van Pelt home does not intend to press charges against Harris Donna 17 returned to her classes at South High School Friday Armed with a stolen rifle Invention Neighbor Dick Kruerk claims he's about to corner the market on fallout shelters He's devising one to sell for $475 a dozen It's a bent steel hook for lifting manhole cov ers Leatherman and Bruton's interpretation of the section would leave A decision on whether to fill Bell's seat up to the county Democratic Executive Committee James McMillan and Irwin Belk the two top candidates for the seat vacated when Bell accepted appointment to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals He said that three vacancies In the Senate had occurred and that the legislature had ad Mimed before special elections to fill them had been called and completed ancies and ad ctions called Dr Frederick Adickes Jr began psychiatric Interviews with Harris late Friday Afternoon at the Jail Earlier Dr Thomas Du lin a general practitioner had examined the boy Hulk' also examined Harris Thursday night Both doctors are retained by Harris' father A Harris of 5829 Sharon View Road Barris was reported in good Mrs Ethel Callahan of Pav Creek came up with the sports story of the week when she went fishing and caught a deer The animal ran into her car en route to the beach Another woman Mrs Mary Baucom of 1221 Clay St finished a strong second After complaining all week of a rattle in her car and finally warning her laugh-it-off husband that she kept seeing "little eyes peering at me from under the dash" Mrs Baucom took her car to the White Star Body Works Friday Mechanics finally located and extracted from wiring behind the dash one emaciated much-relieved o'possum About dark be allowed his former high school football coach Bob Patton to enter the house When Harris said he wanted to see movies of games he had played in high school Patton South High School basketball coach Jack Needy and Craig Harvell a friend of Harris were allowed inside with 10 reels of film They also took with them a small quantity of doped whisky Harris drank some and it finally overcame him at 9:20 pm The doped intoxicant was prepared by a doctor at the scene and ttien given to Harveil to take inside Harvell said Harris threatened no one while he was in the house with him He said the boy was quiet and subdued The only charge that has been placed against Harris is simple assault a misdemeanor Police could charge him with several other offenses but Stephens indicated no other charges would be plac ed until after the doctors make their report Searchers Can't Find Lost Pilot il(Irksnien John York and Don Ridings the staffs expert thy their own appraisal) marksmen de-('id(' 4I Friday it'd he fun to teacTi little Hannah Miller how to fire a real honest-to goodness rifle So what happened? 'It was like" our sPY reported "Joey The Clown try ing to teach Annie Oakley" as Hannah the Cliffside whiz shot rings around both He said he was familiar with the local controversy "I don't know of anything contemplated making it mandatory for the Executive Committee to act" he said "but it is mandatiry for the governor to act immediately after he gets the nomination om the Executive Committee" McMillan said he had talked with Leatherman and had been led to believe that Leatherman thought immediate action was necessary ir with ig con idatory ttee to ima nOMnaive talked I been ierman 1 was i 1 i 11 1 4 I 1 I i i I I No 'Miracle' Yet For Speedway The North Carolina Air Guard unit switched earlier this year to its medical-transport mission It now flies planes called C119s or "flying boxcars" which are twin engine twin-tailed craft that can carry 38 patients When they are released from service with the active A 1 Force a group of Cl21 or Con stellation airplanes which can carry 60 patients will be given to the North Carolina unit 1 The Very End Mecklenburg Police Chief George Stephens reports that litterbugs appear to be more wholesome these days Roadside beer cans are being challenged by an increasing number of Metrecal cans The Executive Committee will meet Monday night to discuss the Senate vacancy to set county precinct organizational meetings and to discuss proposed changes in the state plan of party organization nittee a disy to iniza scuss state I The Com forter Sam Mauney who manages Liberty Life Luncheonette is also a lay preacher whose ego was punctured last Sunday as he delivered what he had BY JERRY SHINN Observer Stan Writer Charlotte Motor Speedway directors met Friday night with a creditors ax hanging over their beads LONDON A search for a Charlotte airman and two other Air Force officers over a 150-mile stretch of the North Sea Friday rt turned up only a few batterti fragments of a military aircraft The Charlottean is Mai Paul Brooks son of Mrs Cornelia Brooks of 1631 35th St Brooks a graduate of Central High School has been in the A i Force since 1944 Eight aircraft and a small fleet of ships of various nationalities scoured the area 35 miles off the Norfolk England coast A Air Force B66 bomber is thought to have ditched there Thursday night on a routine training flight from its British base The search continued long after darkness fell "If the doctors determine that the boy does not need commitment then we'll have to go into court" Stephens said "But if they say he needs psychiatric care or that in their opinion he was not competent at the time the incidents happened then there is a possibility that commitment might be all that is required" Stephens said Cameron Ware a hitchhiker who was with Harris when the youth stole a 22 automatic rifle in Pineville Thursday was released Thursday night "We released him pending the outcome of the case" Stephens said "but we may not be through with him yet" Warren said his call for the meeting did not constitute a call for an election and that no vote should be held Another meeting for an election would be called he said if the Executive Committee decided to fill the vacancy now A move to force the vote at Monday's meeting is expected McMillan said Friday that he wanted to see the vacancy filled "I had rather lose Monday night than win in the spring after the See Me MILIAN Page 4B Coll ir the a call vote call- cutive 11 the )te at ecied at he filled night the Coll Before the changeover the unit flew F86 Sabre jets The North Carolina guard is commanded by Brig Gen William Payne of Charlotte Lang and the military officers with him Col Fred Hook Col I Brown and Col Ben Lichty agreed that the A i Force "doesn't have nearly lenough" planes to carry troops and supplies for brush fire wars" They noted a large fleet of CI30 troop-carrying planes at Sewart Air Force Base in Tennesse 40 Boeing jet transports and the curent drive at Lockheed's Marietta Ga plant to get a long-range jet trasnport by 1964 Among the inspection party Friday was Congressman Basil Whitener or Gastonia and his administrative assistant Herbert Lineberger Both are Air Force reservists in Wash ington Also along was truck company owner John Akers There was still hope for the missing men thought possibly afloat in a portable dinghy Distress flares were sighted near the search area and search vessels moved in to In vestigate during the night NLRB Man: Dismiss Bus Station 'Beef' 1 a f' After the meeting all heads were still there but so ap parently was the ax I The speedway burdened with debts totaling $850000 is supposed to go on sale at public auction Monday at Cabarrus County Courthouse because of foreclosures on some of the debts An Ilth hour miracle in the form of a wealthy Florida stock car race enthusiast with a loan equal to speedway debts apparently had failed to materialize Friday night Holloway Delray Beach Fla had said Thursday night that he was "working on an aspect of a loan for the speedway" Holloway's family owns the Grace Steamship Lines and he had considerable oil interests Speedway officials issued no statement following their meeting but a spokesman made it I clear that the required money was not yet available lie also implied that several possibili! ties for averting the public sale were being considered The speedway sale cannot be consummated Monday The law requires a 10-day waiting period after the original bids The original 'high bid could he upset by a bid 5 per cent higher during the 10 days About $250000 has been raised by a limited partnership plan by Bruton Smith one of the speedway officials The 11 plan required that if $600000 had not been raised by the end 1 of the working day Friday what i had been accumulated would I have to be returned to the per- I sons who had joined in the limited partnership at $5000 each It had not been returned Friday Dewey Godfrey of the Bank of Charlotte who is holding the limited partnership money said Friday night he thought the directors had "about given up temporarily" on the plan Godfrey said a new agreement permit use of the amount raised to date had been signed Stephens said Ware technically was an accessory to the rifle theft and probably would have to answer for it if charges are pressed by Wilkerson Hardware Store in Pineville where the rifle was stolen Stephens heaped praise on residents of Oldfield Road a quiet street in a suburban development off Carmel Road where the Van Pelt home is located Neighbors of the Van Pelts Stephens said "were top flight in their attitude and 4 11'4: Zi I 4 VA! 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T71 -4 24 ---1- I 44 4 IP I 4P''''''111141r Pile re 4 10 1 XI l'IP 14 11 44' t' 4" kkll or ce 3 0 74riry 044 PS''111t-li Is 4 1 1 4 i I ar A i I's I 4 v) IP' 44 fr' 4 9 00 fil1 Aft I -at' SI -t d'4P4 4' 0 1 14 i tit 9' 1 't fa It '4'I Vc: g) A 4 i 'et 1-'- It i tA''' '11' fl s' ky I I II 1 4 i-f '1 6 46'4 Oeilk -c i4 i 0 1 01:4 I A A A i1111ai 441' i Tt A 7r viir dAA The other two aviators have been identified by the Air Force as Capt Paul Savage 32 of Lake Arid Pa: and Capt Ralph Davenport 34 of Ma con Ga All are married men whose families are with them at their overseas base Brooks' wife also in England is the former Margaret Elizabeth Bur-note of Charlotte The airmen took off in their twin-jet bomber Thursday night from Sculthorpe Air Base Minutes later radio monitors at the base picked up the signal: "Eject eject eject" A search operation was launched at once Although Lang said the A i Force did not contemplate call- ing more reserve or guard 'units unless "the situation wors- ens" he said he had an interest in seeing that all part-time 1 units were as ready as possible Lang Lichty and Whitener all praised the unit and Payne Observer V40101000 Bursae WASHINGTON A National Labor Relations Board examiner recommended Friday that a union's complaint of unfair employment practices against the Char lotte Union Bus Station be dismissed The board is expected to routinely affirm the recommendation The complaint was brought by the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes (AFL-CIO) representing janitorial workers at the bus station tional niner a un'ploy Char-mu enda-t by )n of a kirle aria! "We were In and out of some of the homes as if they were Grand Central Station But they were very neigh body They helped us every way they could including some food for our officers" City To Get RR Gates The complaint as directed at the bus station at a Janitorial service company called General Services Inc a ft at Harold Aldridge general manager of the service toe lied I at The Southern Railway Co and the Seabord Air Line Railway will install automatic signals and gates to guard crossings of Lang 50 Is a native of North Carolina who grew up in Car these Ile received an A degree from the University of North Carolina in 1931 and went on to a series of government Jobs lie worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Washington was National 'Youth Administration director for North Carolina from 1938 to 1942 when he enlisted in the Army as a private rising to major by the end of World War 11 Ile served as administrative assistant to Congressman Deane for 10 years as an aide to a committee and as assistant to Congressman Robert Jones of Alabama for five years before landing his present job under the Kennedy administration 1 Besides Stephens eight other ounty policemen maintained the long vigil before Harris was overcome They are Goodrum Whitley Earnhardt Robinson Sgt Eugene Rushing Lt Nil lough IA A Kelly a Capt Ben Smith Stephens a particular praise also for Van Pelt for his attitude and cooperation and for Harvell who was given much of the credit for subduing Harris See NO Page 411 Col their tracks at West Eleventh Street The union charged that the bus station discharged its Janitorial The companies wrote the city lemployes and hired General Servthat the work would begin in 30 ices Inc to provide such servdays ices to interfere with a uninn City officials have been urg- organizing move by the erning the railroads to improve iployes their warniil system at the! The NLRB examiner John Ti crossing indicated he found no 1 The signals and gates are to back up the cmpected to cost about $38P00 plaint bus mai len- em- ill I ri cm Obterver Photo by Jerre Denning reason off his lawn Ills job is made a little soggy by a water sprinkler behind him but the air is invigorating I Morning Prayer 1 Our Father give our leaders 1 the vision and courage to ere' ate a orld of peare where Thy Word rules supreme IVIIY ITS CALLED Charlottean knows why "fall" is often used tn mean "autumn'' in this country And he's raking a thousand examples of the gaingOMOCIIIV1001 nObmft.