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Independent Tribune from Concord, North Carolina • Page 3

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MONDAY, APRIL 3,1967 Your DAILY PAGE THREE 5 Injured In Traffic Accidents Five persons were injured in weekend traffic accidents in Cabarrus County. Three were hurt in a car-truck wreck on Lane St. at Grace Ave. Sunday night. Listed as injured were Gilbert Wingler, driver of the truck, and two passengers, Betty Sue Wingler and Timothy Wingler, all of Kannapolis, Rt.

1. They were taken to Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. Patrolman L. G. Powell estimated $350 damage to the truck and $75 damage to the car driven by Richard Outlaw of St.

Joseph Ave. Robert Kiser of Concord was injured in a mishap on U.S. 29 at Poplar Tent Rd. Sunday. Kiser was driver of a car which was HI involved in the accident with in automobile operated by Houston of Concord, according to Patrolman W.

A. Nichols. The Gill vehicle was damaged $200 and the Kiser car $250. Phillip Simpson of Concord escaped injury Sunday when the car he was operating ran off the road and overturned on the Old Charlotte Patrolman B. J.

Cloninger reported. The car was damaged $500. Barbara O. Cartner, 20, was injured in a crash on West downtown Kannapolis police reported. She was treated Cabarrus Memorial Hospital.

The wreck involved cars operated by Lawrence Ree Cartner of W. Eighth St. and Frank Monroe Goodman of Concord, Rt. 3. Downtown officers also investigated a wreck on S.

Juniper Ave. at involving vehicles driven by Johnson Blackwelder Faggart of Concord. Rt. 2, and Floyd Jackson Medlin Jr. of Concord.

A car operated by Raymond Lewis Wray of Concord was involved in a wreck with a parked car on Oak owned by Lester Elbert Hartis of Oak Ave. Two Rowan County accidents during the weekend resulted in $550 damage, according to the State Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported. Gerald Lynn Gulledge. 26, of Kannapolis.

Rt. 3, was driver of a car involved in a mishap at 2:30 a.m. Saturday on St. one mile west of Kannapolis. Patrolman W.

M. Anthony reported that the car was traveling west when it ran through on intersection and struck an embankment. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $250. Two vehicles were involved in a crash at 1:45 p.m. Sunday on Long Ferry Rd.

two miles east of Spencer. Drivers were listed as Edward Richard Stoner, 58, of Salisbury, Rt. 4, and Carey Lee Wilkerson, 23, of Yadkin. Total damage was placed at $300, according to Patrolman Harold H. Hall.

Three Hurt In Truck-Car Wreck Occupants of this Truck were taken to Cabarrus Memorial Hospital following an accident on Lane St. at Grace Ave. Sunday night. Staff Photo by Charles Foster. 13 Killed On Carolina Roads By United Press International Thirteen persons were killed; in traffic accidents in North Carolina this weekend, upping the toll for the year to 332.

The weekend toll included a three-victim head-on collision. The Highway Patrol said Mrs. Peggy Peterson Orosco, 25, and Justo Vaszquez, 19, both of Fay- Must Preserve State Sanford DUNN (UPI) Becoming effective in State is the way to complaints of increased Federal former Gov. Terry ettevate and Dav.ri Glenn hire weekend. Move Begins To Dislodge Dragon Jones GREENSBORO (UPI) -There is statewide dissatisfaction in the Ku Klux Klan with the leadership of Grand Dragon Robert.

Jones, a top Klan official said today. It appeared that the official, imperial kludd (chaplain) George Dorsett and former Kian leader James (Catfish) Cole, had united to lead a dissident movement against Jones. Jones, of Granite Quarry, is North Carolina grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America. Dorsett, who is also a province titan in the North Carolina Klan, said state units are turning in their charters and the breakaway groups are threatening to form a new organization. know how many charters are coming in but a feeling been dissatisfied for he said.

Dorset' said he had discussed i cham, 17, of Ft. Bragg were killed at 12:20 a.m., Sunday when a small foreign car driven by Mrs. Orosco crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The patrol said the Orosco car entered a curve on a rural paved road near Fayetteville on the wrong side of the road and at high agree that all these (federal) programs should be abolished. not going to be feasible in the first Sanford said.

of complaining, we should look toward ways of becoming more effective in State government. If i we preserve the state, we pre- Glenwood the union of Ocracoke Island was killed; about 1 a.m., Sunday when the car in which he was a ger failed to make a curve and to the Federal struck a tree in front of the ment- Ocracoke Post Office. Killed Saturday were Tommy Wilder, 16, Hertford; Herbert Mattocks, 80, Hubert; Margaret R. Edwards, 49, Hemlock, N. Curoey Locklear, 26, Shannon; James Wood, 69, Elkin; Lucius Alford, 22, Benson; and Edwin Perry Bowman, 18, Granite Falls.

Friday victims Newspapermen To Convene RALEIGH (UPI) The men who run of North newspapers will meet at N. C. State University next wprp David Saturday and Sunday for the Mazzoni, III, 20, Cherry Point, 14th annual NarLh Carolina Press and Benito Bragg. Pontonja, 3, Ft. Mechanical Conference.

The two-day meet will include an address by Dr. Dale H. Gramley, president of Salem College and a former newspaper reporter, and a presentation of an award to the man who last year contributed the most to the Conference. Registers Of Deeds Study Code During the last two weeks, North Carolina Registers of Deeds have been engaged in a Carolina man was killed early statewide series of Regional Sunday when the bit truck he Workshops on the Uniform Com- 'va1s operating at Shelby Fiber mercial Code. Industries, overturned.

These regional meetings, held K. Hambright, 44, of Blacksburg died at a local hospital a short time later. Plant officials said a complete investigation is underway. An autopsy is planned. Jackson Park Pupils Tour Charlotte The third grade class of Mrs.

Kenneth Moore at Jackson Park School recently went to Charlotte on the train and visited several places of interest. While in Charlotte they went to Freedom Park; the Nature Museum, where a film, was shown; WSOC ra Northwest Youth Named DE Officer Randy Taylor of Northwest Cabarrus High School today assumed his duties as associate president of the North Carolina chapter of Distributive Education Clubs of America. Miss Rebecca Morfield of East Rowan High took office as historian. Bruce E. Roberts of West Forsyth High was elected president during the annual leadership conference at Asheville during the weekend.

I Ernie Pearsons of Garinger High in Charlotte became vice president, while Miss Jennifer Marsh of Jordan High was installed as secretary-treasurer and Miss Shirley Evans of Wallace-Rose High School became parliamentarian. The officers were installed by T. Carl Brown, state supervisor of Distributive Education, a program in which students spend part of each school day working part-time in retailing. Mrs. Joan K.

Smith, assistant state supervisor of Distributive Education, was installed as state club advisor. The new officers and winners of the state DE contests will attend the national leadership conference which opens in Chicago April 27. Mrs. Smith will accompany the group. Retired Club Has Fish Fry On Thursday The YMCA Retired Workers Club will hold a fish fry at the cabin Thursday afternoon.

Members needing transportation should report to the YMCA MfniSi0n; and Char' 12:30 p.m. A bus will leave Children making the Julian, LaTonia Kerley, Cindy McLain, Roberts. Tierney no program is planned. Jane Trexler, Cherrie Wingler, Michael Bailey, Keith Beaver, Paul Childress, Dennis Edwards, Charles Ervin, Wayne, Gainey, Artis Griffin, Joey 1 a Hancock, Steven Hunter, Doug OllCG I ilSi. Linker, Sammy Linker, Jeff: McNeil, Jerry Miller, Jimmy N.

Kannapolis Miller, Ricky Overcash, and David Sawyer. Adults assisting were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Moore, Mrs. Baxter Hunter, Mrs.

Ronnie Overcash, Mrs. Willis Childress, Mrs. Sam Linker, Mrs. Robert Ervin, and Mrs. Becky Hope.

Shelby Mishap Fatal To Man SHELBY (UPI) A South Four Sought In Big Robbery Greenville, Goldsboro, Graham, Statesville and Asheville, were sponsored jointly by the Secretary of State, N.C. Registers of Deeds Association and the Institute of Government. Among those participating in the workshop were Cabarrus and Rowan Registers of Deeds, James O. Bonds and James Davis. The Uniform Commercial Code simplifies and consolidates the 1 CHARLOTTE (UPI) Police law of secured transactions as it along the Atlantic Seaboard to- relates to personal property.

The day were on the alert for four Secretary of State and the Regis-j men who burglarized a Charters of Deeds have been designa -1 lotte department store of be- ted as filing officers under the! tween $50,000 and $100,000 in Code. After midnight June 30, furs, jewelry, and money Satur- the effective date of the code, night, the filing of financing statements The robbers slugged watch- wili replace the previous prac-jman Onan Smith, 54, before tice of recording chattel burglarizing the Belk Brothers gages, conditional sales contracts Department Store, and similar instruments. They escaped in car. As a result of the regional It was recovered in a motel workshops and careful study of parking lot six blocks from the the volume of expected filings, store. the Secretary of State and the Smith was hospitalized in sat- Registers of Deeds have agreed isfactory condition with head the problems with Robert Shel-upon a pre filing period begin- lacerations.

ton of Alabama, imperial ninS June 1. All filings received --------------------wizard of the UKA. in the offices of the Secretary Doing 3:45 p.m. Seventh grade Gray-Y Club at YMCA. 4:45 p.m.

Fifth grade Tri- Gra-Y Club at YMCA. 6 p.m. Kappa Hi-Y Club ait YMCA. 6.30 p.m. Kappa Sigma Club at YMCA.

7 p.m. Woodmen of the World at lodge hall. 7 p.m. Odd Fellows Lodge at clubhouse. 7 p.m.

Beta Zeta Junior Hi-Y Club at YMCA. 7:30 p.m. Flower arrangement class at YMCA Dept.) 8 p.m. Moose Lodge at clubhouse. TUESDAY 102 Arrests, North Kannapolis police made 102 arrests during the month of March, an average of more than three a day, according to an analysis released by Chief John F.

DeMarcus. Officers answered 708 calls during the month and processed 117 bonds with signed and cash bonds amounting to $10,205. Also processed were 124 civil and 26 miscellaneous actions. Jail and office expense for the period amounted to $51.16 and three cars were driven a combined total of 16,629 miles. Twelve men assigned to the station worked 490 overtime hours, approximately 14 hours each, at no extra pay.

Police Report Minor Offenses Several minor cases were included on the downtown Kannapolis police report for the weekend. Linda McCarthy of Gastonia was served a warrant signed by R. L. Shoaf of Sears 12:15 p.m. Rotary Club at "1 YMCA bile The 1962 Pon- 1:30 p.m.

Cabarrus Record- Court in Town Hall. llnam Marion Brantley Rd. and Terry Woodrow Williams of Pleasant Ave were served warrants from 3:45 p.m. Fourth Club at YMCA. 3:45 p.m.

Foutrh grade Tri-Gra-Y Club at YMCA. grade Rowan County, alleging fishing without licenses. I talked with him I think he got in touch with Mr. Jones and talked to him about the conditions but it still remains about the same and fhe people are dissatisfied. We are hoping by turning in the charters it will cause Mr.

Shelton to realize it is serious and that he will come up and call a meeting and bargain with us to get the thing straightened out. not our desire to pull out and be another group but if what it takes to save the Klan in North Carolina, what have to he said. During the past weekend, Jones had held a meeting of his board in County. He emerged to tell reporters he had the unanimous support of the board. Dorsett said dissatisfaction Mail Accused Of Larceny Franklin D.

Spry, 33, of West 22nd St. posted a $50 bond at How To Hold FALSETEETH More Firmly in Place of State and the Registers of I 11 old ill IVfmi Deeds with the appropriate fee will be accepted after May 31 i rri i for processing, and will be filed oliriieCt I JJeatll as of the opening of business fol- lowing the effective date of the LILL1NGTON Lil- code. All filings received prior hngton man burned to death to midnight May 31, will be re- when fire destroyed his home turned to the sender. about 2 a.m., Sunday. Filings received during this! Harnett County Coroner Paul pre-filing period do not perfect Drew identified the victim as security interests arising out of 33-year-old Ischmail McNeil of transactions entered into before 3.

the effective date of the code. The coroner said McNeil was Prior to the effective date, secur- aIone when the fire started. He ity interests can be perfected said the fire was apparently only in accordance with the es-1 started by a kerosene lamp, tablished law in effect prior to July 1. New filing statements may be Gov, Moore prepared and filed during the pre-filing period for any trans- 1 IVlakfVS 2 I US actions which will be entered into hTLiT RALEIGH iUPIl Gov. Dan 30, 1967.

filings must be accom-: over leadership had I by the statutory filing fee. trips this week come to a head in a dispute i The code or retained counsel The governor will attend the over accepting Cole into the should be consulted for the exact dedication of the U.S. 74 Bypass UKA. He said Jones opposed lee- membership for Cole, who had led the old KKK organization in the Carolinas in the 1950s. That movement virtually died out after the Robeson County Indians shot up a meeting at WALHALLA.

S. C. Maxton in 1959. Jones reor- Ray Burley Hevner, 16 ganized the under the Mountain, N. was Man Is Killed In S.C.

Crash UKA banner during the here Sunday when a car four years. plunged down an embankment. at Laurinburg Friday. He will attend the dedication of some new buildings on the campus of Western Carolina College at Cullowhee Saturday. Gov.

Moore will attend a islative reception at the North Kings Carolina Museum of Art in Ra- killed leigh Wednesday night. He will keep office appointments Tuesday and Thursday. Do your false teeth annoy and embarrass by slipping, dropping or wob- bllng when you eat, laugh or talk? North Kannapolis jail during the just sprinkle a little fasteeth on weekend after being arrested on your plates.TMs alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly a charge Of larceny Of barbed and more comfortably. No gammy, wire from the A. B.

Burton Co. gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not. A warrant signed by Rowan Deptuy J. H.

Barnhardt alleged health. See your dentist regularly, that the wire was valued at $14. Get FASTEETH at all drug counters. NOTICE EFFECTIVE APRIL 4th Will Be CLOSED uesdays UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Open Hours Will Remain The Same On Other Days i 2100 N. Cannon Blvd.

All Burning Permits Are Voided Here All burning permits have been cancelled in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties, State Forester Ralph Wiikworth of Raleigh announced today. The cancellation of permits was necessary because of dry conditions. Winkworth said. The cancellation means there can be no buming within 500 feet of any woodland until the ban is lifted by the state forester. Larry Lawrence, forester for Cabarrus County, received notice of the ban late this morning.

He said it war effective immediately. Revival Opens A revival is now underway at the Foursquare Church on N. jCannon with services con- Ills fctMJU I I ize ducted at 7 p.m. daily by Evan, George Russell (left) presents a $500 check to Robert L. Barn- Relist Clara Peters of Oak Ridge, hardt of Birch winner of the Piedmont Sweep- Tenn.

The revival continues stakes. Russell said the prize this week will be $125. Piedmont through next Sunday and the Cleaners plants are located on West St. and in Centerview Pastor, Rev. W.

Guy Brafford, invites the public to attend. Worried About Money For INCOME TAX Ut Us Help With A CABARRUS BANK PERSONAL LOAN Quick, Convenient, Economica CABARRUS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Two Locations For Your Convenience 201 West Avenue West At Pine Street.

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