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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 33

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'LI i I 'If timedTritogrimorwqmpoillOmosipoloompagjecWwqONgo irlwantilmiltrV(4101101MumonfoomrtonwPffilmot Seetion Local Neirs Itt (fillarlotit 11 Strv Davidson's Cake About Staph Infections-7A Football Contest Coupon-13A Merit Scholar Finalists-12D FOUNDED 1886 Wednesday Sept 22 1965 'Operation Amigo' Will Afford First Look AI ty They come however from varyin social and econormc backgrounds None has ek er visited the United States before Their ages range from 16 to 19 Umied States hich young isitors bring ith them are at ide vat lance with their disco erics about North American lanillies tide livinz here or of Amo litl xz fl Ami2o na-0(ned with hos' twrilics on the hasis of common interests and ages of students in host famines A briefin for selected host IJrntlies planned for late octoher Stuart lorrison exccutik eel OF -I! 11(w at Implfriendly and honczf they'll ak enouzh quel ions and enouzh anscr a zond Idea of the difference between truth and fiction- Martha Akers of Myers Park faculty will 4 and arrive in Charlotte by bus on Nov The announcement was made Tuesday by A McKnight editor of The Observer and James Boyce president of the Mecklenburg Jaycees Randy Vinson will serve as Jaycee chairman of the trip to the mountains They ere guests of the Commodore Yacht Club for an afternoon on the river and at receptions for other foreign exchange students The visit ended at a public forum when the visitors fired questions at local civic school and political leaders By KAYS GARY Observer Staff Writer -Operation Amigo" is coming back to Charlotte Thirty South American teenagers 15 from Ecuador and 15 from Colombia will get their first look at the United States close up by living with 30 Charlotte families for two weeks in early November -Opel back to Thiit agers from first lot close Charlott weeks i 9tiz A rio tlit AIIOO "Operation Amiso" has found that impressions of the -There should he no effort to propaandiie the An Thzos" said I 128000 SOUGHT Emotional attachments de 'eloped during the two weeks turned their departure into a leartut allair The Observer brought the first "Operation Amigo" contingent here in 1962 40 students from Peru who were guests of Smith Mecklenburg Myers Park and Garinger schools The Charlotte Observer and Mecklenburg Jaycees will co sponsor this continuing pro gram of people-to-people diplomacy with cooperation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools The Mecklt sponso gran diplom of the schools "That" Editor McKnight said Tuesday was an eminently successful venture Most of those students still correspond with friends made here three years ago and some have During their isit the Latin student leaders both boys and girls will attend Myers Park High for at least fiVe days They will fly to Miami on Nov Durin student girls High fr They wi City 11'a)Ts tut $21101 In Three Injury Suits returned to the United States for further study" He pointed out that the only 1062 problems Nver those of logistics with the group scattered in three schools Families interested in opening their homes to at least one of the visiting students may apply through Myers Park High 'Operation Amigo' isn't interested as much in entertainment of the visitors as it is in giving them an opportunity to see us as we really are" McKnight said "Operation Amigo" founded several years by The Miami Herald has brought dozens of Latin American student groups In the United States It has recently become an independent nonprofit organization supported by newspapers and other corporations throughout the nation in selecting young people to make the trips Carefully screened by "Operation Amigo" and school authorities in their own countries the visitors are of proven character and scholastic abili osmimkNu I 1 I 1 I 4 Charlotte's 1962 hospitality kept (he Peruvians hopping however Lays Gary Settlement Readied Outside Courtroom In addition to attending school activities and sports events they toured the city taking in its best and worst sights Another day was spent in observing the workings of local government and another on a Do you aspire to a position of community importance? Say a seat on the City Council? Don't tell it to Councilman Jerry Tuttle He might go into hysterics Jerry likes his job all right but he's getting a new perspective on its status There was for instance a rather pressing invitation lo attend some kind of luncheon at the airport City Councilmen can't often say "No" lie went to the luncheon sat through to the hitter end was dunned for $185 on being told it was dutch and left to find a $3 parking ticket on his car Do tance? Do into 11: getting Th In atte Council eon sa on bent ticket 1 By PALI JArLow Observer Staff Writer 1 Three personal injury suits stemming front a 196: automobile accident and based on a still-unremedied situation cost the City of Charlotte about $20000 Tuesday The plaintiffs had asked $128000 Mr and Mrs Raymond Jurgensen raid their dauhter Pamela Itirgensen had sued f()r injuries suffered hen their car ran int) a drainage ditch acrws Wood led Eoad on ALiy r) They eninended thd wArninz 11('i hc 11Hdo0 gtp the 1d i-Tecn RUM Arrc and GardM SI ih(11 sVlfl 1 ic i Z11 1i1 between central Avenlio and IThe Jurgen-ens had hecn ni1 ri about lo nmileal Road alter worm: jrnm Rrookview Dri ellS The largest suit a $100000 by Jurenscn PrIvately settled itt I Ts 2-s c- privately settled kt ()IleellS Speedway Acquires RightwaN c'' '11 3'4 kif'''5Y'111t7IT: I-- ''-1--'' 'ii 1-s --4 -rt 5---4--i :1 A ft)'tE'4''' 'Axss -'111-' Iiiiiolliki At i 444Nnit: 4 k'k ''P4 4 A4: 4'4 A ia- ''XWkc4' 0 I 4 40 7ofr- -44-'' --4 0' 'J1: '''( e' VP 1 ir-" 1 ''-'s: 48 kiN sr: 170 474 '-wvVN 1 4 t- 1 -i i 1 SA't ee Jr' rti "4 A 11 Or 1 i'4 0 'Ig'' 2 1 4-- i At 04 bk i litli 4 ot Wr11t 4 fy s'S A 1 4 4 't -'4 4 44 4A --9 1 el 11' '4'4 'ii411'i0t $'' 10 VA Zi if 4i! kot iittil 3 0o14)1 tik 11 '3414 4 J' f- oei 111 la -v '444 0 4qr 1 A Itil 1 i-p--'0- -ii ik 4l'l 4- VAr 4-t''-1 4 tt A :1 0 I13 1- )t -11 roopk4i 4111r': i'-- te SSS 3 ik i 4 I "iti4 4 4 'rerk rt: va 74 ir 0 wk r71t 44 '44 1 -k '''t 4T'1 '''411Pt 'i' fits i 'AP) "014 IP 1' tio 4' i t4 1- at '1'144' '4' r-li' 't41Do- ti-ii14' 4'' VA 1 1ie IsA 3 4 0 1 Ammalettaiit e'C' "A bad day" said Jerry "but the next one also at the airport was worse I looked for a threehour parking meter found one with 40 minutes on it put in a quarter and got only 10 minutes for my money This luncheon turned out to be 'dutch' too" the a parkin a guar lunche 1 a- oo Charlotte Motor Speedway has acquired Rightway Inx estment Corp in a move toward diversification Speedway President A Goines announced Tuesday Rightway which has offices at 1120 East Morehead St will be operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the speedway Goines said The merger was accomplished through an exchange of stock with Rightway stockholders receiving 212 shares of Charlotte Motor Speedway stock for each share of Right-way stock held The speedway stock has a current market a I ue of about $2 per share i I Judge I Honk who I arbitrated in the suits ot Ray I mond and Pamela Jurgensen II 6 11 i Mrs Jurgensen's husband and A31(111 said he awarded them a total of $3733 for Ti idi uity of Queens expenses I Thesday addrd its voice to those calling for immediate repeal of The hushand and da 11 u4hErrhad d'r A SpeOr)Arl IdNi -11011 fOr A liThil (4 S24011 Jur2ewn also ot the $or-In he '111c rollrge is and ouzht to he asked for damn(' to the car dnd a ptaintry irrna of deflate in Jeliahle sources put the total fror fliIety" thr faculty mem- settlement at ahout $20001) hers silid iti a i eellnti adopted There had Iron warning SignS at a faculty meeting But the kiss-off came when the program chairman turned to Jerry and told the assembled guests "I want to thank Councilman Jim Whittington for joining us today" The fellow quickly realized his mistake though and rose to make a public apology -I am sorry about using the wrong name" he said "Of course all of you know our friend Councilman GEORGE Tuttle!" Jerry laughs when he tells it hut he recalls muttering a prayer as he left the luncheon: "Lord don't let another $3 parking ticket be on my car I'm too young to have a stroke!" Bul turned thank Thi rose to "of col GEOLIC Jcr ing a another have a The Littruns Ti' ilodel Of Obsryer Phnto by MibRpl MauPY Proposed Bond Shell For Freedom Park Shingled Roof Hides Acoustical Fins To Deflect Sound Outward "We've been wanting to diversify" said Goines "and this merger will give Right-way access to additional funds and will give us a place to invest our money and earnings" Five year-old Walter Holland from Kingsport Tenn visiting Mrs Holland at 1821 Beledere was just about to bite into a banana from a bowl of artificial fruit when Grandma stopped him "I'm sorry" she said 'hut its not a real banana" Fiveye from Kin Mrs I edere into a ha artificial stopped I said '11 banana" at the dead-end street in 1963 the -whenever freedom is dimm suits contended hut none by the heginning of The city had ished for one group it is i heen told of the problem on March 1964 the suits alleged when a city policeman nve atinilltge" commiss hearings on ist ated an auto accident in the ditch whether the controversial law The strip has heen unpaved should be amended or repealed hecause it is neither in a private Passed by the Ceneral Assem development nor in the coy it prohibits anyone thoroughlare network din And the street i Thou! 1h I)m mtml ho has it was at the time of the 111 nli ne211(ol ntcli accident of state-upported colleges Band Shell Design Praised At Unveiling want to sell quilts to benefit the home have some beauties but have searched in vain for somebody to quilt 'cm Grandmas it appears have quit quilting in favor of go-go Terry McKnight thinks Desna Kramer 8 daughter of the Nelson Kramers of Amesbury Avenue deserves public posies for her birthday gesture Guests brought money instead of presents which Desna sent to Cerebral Palsy Police Sgt Fred 'feeler Ppplauds a teen-age gang he spotted after Friday night's game in a parking lot near a drive-in The "gang" upon investigation was cleaning up a lot littered with beer cans 'These boys weren't drinking" Teeter said "They saw the mess figured stmeone would blame the whole school for it and were just cleaning it up themselves" Rightway an insurance premium finance company was incorporated in June 1963 and holds licenses to operate in North Carolina and South Carolina It specializes in financing automobile insurance premiurns working wilh more than 300 I ependent insurance agents who forward installment contracts to it Since May 31 1964 Rightway's net premiums receivable Park Center before Mayor Stan Brookshire President Brodie Griffith of the Chamber of Commerce and other civic I eaders Ilut Walter's appetite persisted "Don't you have any live ones?" he asked And Miss Madelyn Foster of Windsor Pail liked the comeback her nephew three-year-old Tommy Foster when his mother insisted on giving him an aspirin "Lemme see that bottle" Tommy insisted 'Why? Mma asked wanna make sure" said Tommy coolly "that it's rekkamenned for Eut NVa ed "Doh ones?" II( And Mt Nkindsor back old Tomi mother ir an aspirit "Lemm Tommy it "Why? wan Tommy menned I A $100ono oriental-type hand-shell building for the island in Freedom Park lake drew commendations Tuesday when the model was unveiled The slming of the model took place in the Charlotte Park and Recreation offices at See SPEEDWAY Pg ID Cot I A jury for (he cases was I diameter The upper hooded selected monday and started to QUeenS a private college is hear arguments hut thp matter not covered by the law However area will be used for storage was settled by negotiations the resolution said: and for raising and lowering outside (he courtroom "We feel the first duty of those scenery curtains and other ho enjoy academic freedom is stage equipment Sources close to the case said to make it secure for others" resolution continued: The he city's negligence in the A catwalk will circle the matter was never in doubt and -It seems to us that the cause lower inside of the hood and that the only question was how of education is imperiled" by the the stage lihting will he tmuch the plaintiffs would get law which it said was an controlled from the walk The City Council had been "attempt to deal with ideas Dressing rooms vill he at the concerned about the suits At the Which are not those held by the rear Hroup's meeting NIonday Coon- majority by denying them free 'cilman Jerry Tuttle strongly and public evression Thr lakc-11" h(Th'" 'sod that the city lake out Ideas hich are denied open and I jlC "Is nI th' 1-catastrophe insuranee' against conidcration have a history if II hr "'Hied hurre settlement which could seeking and finding underground to create a reflecting pool Ithrow a whole year's ow Pardue said See age lot I of line QtL Gene 1Varren Charlotte Jaycees president emceed the presentation and interviewed by special telephone hookup Dean Henry Kamphoefner of NC State University consultant On design of the project The llery End Women of all ages have trouble unoerstanding men's addiction for football hut it was interesting to hear two ktle girls try during Sunday's Browns-Redskins game "My daddy" said Karon Camphell of fit 11 to neighbor Debbie Hyman is in there 11611ering at the TV for the Browns I guess its because he's from Cleveland" PcterrinT to Sherman Pardue Chariot te architect ho designed the proposed structure Kamphoelncr said: -lie has achieved an original structure I feel it will he a work of art 4: A '4'' I tvlimespottIrri' 1 'VW' IV i' it 1 4 I- -7- '''l 1' 40 te -4 it i 4 4 i4 -''r 4 Est 4' "1 'i 4 1 i 441 :4 I 't cit Quote Box Little wonder that the public get confused We almost fell out of the chair on hearing this concluding paragraph of a radio editorial: "Individualism is traditional in America and this includes the expression of unpopular opinions and the right to be wrong Difference of opinion does not mean the nation is divided and some of our best national decisions have come out of the debating of convictions Anyone who fears debate needs to grow up and get into the argument!" Why the shock? This amazing editorial came from the same WET pen which gives eloquent support to the Speaker Ban Law! Little gets conf We amn chair on mg pars editorial: 'Indivic in Ameri the expr opinions wrong does not divided national out of tilt Hons An needs to the argun Why thc editorial WET pen support Law! "My daddy is hollering for the Redskins" was Debbie's sober comment -People come and look al it as outstanding architecture in addition to attending the concerts held there" The Charlotte Jaycees have heen collecting money to huild handshell and k'irrell said they have ahout Sto000 When Brookshire hemrd the cost hr It Is within the resources nf this community" 1r LW Aftimian7 OtrPrver Pbo'b by David Cupp Joyotis lloment At The kirport The Porrie Tvk ins Greet Their her -Golly!" Karon exclaimed Is he an Indian?" 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"Han crecido lanto- said his father (You've grown so much since I've See 11 The mother cried The Ponzes looked at their Hunter All-Jersey milk for growing children higher protein value HUNTER DAIRIES Adv Hunter growing ch tein value nte'ver bbcto by Davfd ThIS 111( Gap In Wood leaf Road That Coi The City i20000 The Dead-End Warning Allegedly Wasn't There In May 1961 The floor of thr building will be about 50 feet in.

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