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News and Record from Greensboro, North Carolina • 15

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SECTION 12 PAGES WEDNESDAY MAY 23 1962 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS CITY AND GENERAL NEWS SPORTS AND CLASSIIED ADS Transfer CHAMBER HEAD SPEAKS Greensboro Winston Paper Story Of unds Leads NC Brings Local Reply In Building WINSTON SALEM PRESIDENT BENNETT Wei DR WILLA play jncss Ken City first The pro indi gov 74 17 64 77 73 63 17 68 90 68 79 58 80 54 68 44 84 41 83 65 89 68 59 95 68 55 47 64 44 91 73 78 63 64 ing to move through the impcnc trable thickets 1 The Winston Salem had Alice the Ayrshire a demure young 1 heifer who strolled from the or syth air where she was being exhibited and for two weeks (if memory serves correctly) eluded the caretakers police firemen reporters photographers and sun dry interested parties poor thing finally bogged in a quagmire and her pursuers were able to lasso her and drag her bodily from the noxious fen mind you all happened inside Winston city limits "It shall be the duty of all right thinking Greensboro citizens to work unceasingly to bring to I Greensboro an episode comparable to Charlotte's elephant or Win 1 heifer" Thompson an award winning humorous writer suggested that Winston Salem residents who are tired of being up in the marily for the education of Negro women she has with courage and tact fostered many activities lead 1 ing to better human relationships 1 the least of her contribu tions is the example of rectitude and courage she gives her stu dents rom her they learn toler i ance without compromise of prin 1 ciple courage without truculence dignity in the presence of trouble and confidence in the ultimate decency of the human race Thus many return to their home communities to serve make a contribution for a better Awards enrolling them as char ter members of the National Honor Corps of NCCJ were pre sented to three past winners of the Silver Medallion The recipients were ormer Mayor George Roach Preyer Sr and Rabbi red I Ry pins i I A past president award was i presented to David Heiberg I Costello was elected pre i siding chairman of the chapter 1 succeeding Judge Preyer The I title for the head of the chapter was changed from president to presiding chairman I Martin Bernstein and Albert Lineberry were elected co chairmen The featured speaker at the meeting was Rabbi Arthur Gil bert of New York a national staff member of NCCJ He spoke on the religious and political facing the county and outlined fu ture plans of NCCJ uilbrcath Appointed To Credit Bureau Post Stanley Culbreth executive vice president of the Greensboro Merchants Association and Credit Bureau has been appointed vice president of the Associated Credit Bureaus of North Carolina The ACB board of directors chose Culbreth to fill the unex pired term of Larry Clemente of ayetteville who moved up to the presidency when the president STORY HOUR Greensboro Public Library will hold its story hour in the chil dren's room of the library at 3:30 pm today hot city" and yearn for a place in the country should consider set tling in Greensboro Still A Benefit Here Thompson said people can live in the country and still have benefit of paying city He said it's an ex i when people claim Greensboro farmers have a big ger combined tobacco allotment than many counties down East And he was said further may not be that policemen assigned to patrol the Greensboro suburbs are required to carry compasses and survival rations and still lose a rookie every week or so Thompson also recalled (and that was his termi nology) of the Guilford County farmer who sat up late Monday night cussing city folks and woke up next morning to find that he was one The records show these facts about the size of North Carolina principal cities: Charlotte has 62 square miles of area Greens boro has a little over 51 Win ston Salem has 3113 Durham has 22 and Raleigh has 17396 Rloodmobile Slates Visit The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the main annex of Cone Mills Corp main office today and Thursday Donor hours will be from 3:15 to 8:45 pm today and from 9 am to 2:30 pm Thursday Spon soring groups are the employes of Cone Mills main office Prox imity and Revolution plants All others are welcome and can se cure transportation by calling the Red Cross Bloodmobile of ficials said (Daily News start photo) SOLOIST TONIGHT Jayne Marsh who yesterday re ceived the Grady Miller Cup as the outstanding senior in the Greensboro Senior High Band will be rench soloist in a varied program by Senior High musicians starting at 7:30 tonight in the school auditorium igures Given or Mont PLAYER Gets Award The first performance of a new John Barnes Chance composition to a Musical Comedy will be one of the features of a concert starting at 7:30 o'clock tonight at Greensboro Senior High School auditorium Chance for the past two years the ord oundation composer in residence with Greensboro public schools will conduct the Senior High Concert Band in the public playing of his work number will conclude the gram The Training Band will to open the program and follow with Russian antasia" with James Petty as cornet soloist and Overture" Joseph Still will con duct The W'ind Ensemble will play "Symphony for conducted by Edgar Rooker and "Suite of Old American conducted by red Rierson The Concert Band with Her bert Hazelman conducting will play excerpts from "Sebastian Suite" and in flat i for Horn" The latter selection will feature Jayne Marsh as 'rench horn soloist Dean Maximum trmneroturw minimum temperature Average temoeralure Preclpi lotion Dr Player Wins Silver Medallion Pr I STATION 76 35 81 47 89 57 90 64 96 68 61 50 73 51 74 41 76 63 88 73 05 70 55 17 5 77 57 58 68 37 75 48 59 40 83 55 83 74 75 53 0 71 14 71 The president of Bennett College! is the 1962 recipient of the Silver Medallion the top award of the Greensboro Chapter of the Na tional Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) Dr Willa Player received her award last night at the 26th an nual meeting of the organization at the Henry Hotel The award presented by ed eral Judge Richardson Preyer retiring president of the chapter and Dr ranklin McNutt dean emeritus of the Graduate School at College entitles Dr Player to become a member of the National Honor Corps of NCCJ The citation with the award read: Willa Beatrice Player is a scholar an able administrator and humanitarian She is an ac tive member in and sometimes leader of many regional and na tional organizations dedicated to religious and racial understanding and tolerance her difficult role as presi dent of a Southern college pri OO1 Knoxvlllt 93 6300 (L Angele 82 Louisvilla 88 63OOlMemohls '91 69 uviiomi00 Minn SIP urlons NfW YotK NorfotK Omoho onio city Phlla 00 Raleigh00 RicNrn'd02 St LOUISno Son rnn74tSovonnon00 SOtt la00 Snokona26TumtaOo wmivton21 'Wlim'ton PrcococoCOCOMCO oo An article in Win 1 circus in Charlotte and was at ston Salem Journal which sought large in the Charlotte jungles for to show that expanding Greens days The poor creature was vir boro had in some wideltually dead when finally captured open spaces inside their city lim It had become exhausted attempt its drew response from the head i of the chamber of commerce here In his article Roy Thompson staff reporter on the Journal men tioned city limits signs in places 1 around Greensboro which appear 1 to be far from anything city like Miles Wolff president of the i Greensboro Chamber of Com i merce issued the following state i ment after reading the Journal article: has arrived! longer does it have to hang its head while Charlotte and Win ston Salem boast larger rural ter ritory inside the city limits than Greensboro "The article in yesterday's Win ston Salem Journal proves it and in addition carries photographs of delightful bucolic scenes hard by the Greensboro city limit signs Thank you Winston Salem Journal for the free ad always been thus! (Daily News staff rhoto) You will recall that several years BUSY THOROUGHARE ENTERING METROPOLIS WINSTON SALEM ago an elephant escaped from a WEATHER DU furnished by Paf meteorologist at the US Weather Bureau Station at the Greensboro High Point Airport STATISTICS OR YESTERDAY 7 am 7 Tcmperalurt 9 24 HOUR READING AT 7 PM wlv've nmv 4 57 3:30 om 0 TODAY 5:09 am Sets: 7:25 om 11:23 pm Sets: 8:34 am Sun rises: Moon rises: ORECAST BY STATES North Carolina: Portly cloudy and warm Iadov with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers South Carolina: Partly cloudy and worm today with widely scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers Virginia: Partly cioudv end warm today with chance of a few thundershowers in the west BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather bureau report of lemoero tures (high last 12 hours law last IB hours) and rainfall (last 24 hours) end Ing 7 pm for selected areas: 511 iun Albany Albu'aue Amorlllo Asheville Atlanta Bir ham Blsmark Boston Buffalo Hol'os Cho'slon Charlotte Chicago Clncin C'evcTd Columb'S Drnver Otlroif Duluth Jane Whitefield of Chapel Hill re signed to go into private bus! on Min jot vine New Clinic On Tetanus Is Planned The second tetanus clinics sponsored by the Guilford Coun ty Medical Society and Health Department will be held in the Greensboro county area May 29 and in High Point May 31 Plans for the clinics the first of which attracted more than 30 000 persons on May 2 were re leased yesterday by Dr James Bruce of Greensboro and Dr Philip Davis of High Point co chairmen of the medical society committee Dr Bruce said 29000 doses were given in the school and shopping center clinics of which 17000 were Greensboro and the rural areas and 12000 in High Point More than 1000 doses were given in industrial clinics under the direction of Dr Horace Stovall The clinics are being offered to persons 14 years old and older The shots are offered at 50 cents each which covers the cost of the tetanus (lockjaw) disease The county committee meeting yesterday also reported that the third dose of the vaccine will be given in May 1963 Topmost among the concerns of the committee was the need for lockjaw immunization among farmers of the county All per sons who work in the soil or who are exposed to minor puncture wounds should be protected against lockjaw because their ex posure is so frequent the com mittee noted School Clinics School clinics set for 3:30 to 6 pm next Tuesday May 29 are: Greensboro Aycock Brooks Cone Craven Caldwell Claxton Dudley David Jones Hunter Jackson Joyner Lind lev Elementary Jonesboro Proximity Vandalia and Wash ington Street and Ala mance Allen Jay Bessemer I Colfax Gibsonville Guilford Lucy Ragsdale McLeansville Monticello' Nathanael Greene Pleasant Garden Rankin 'Stokes dale Summerfield and Sumner Shopping centers participating in clinics from noon to 6 pm Tuesday are lorida Street riendly Summit Golden Gate Plaza and Guilford College Sears Retail Store will have thd same Editor Warns Of Government CHARLOTTE May 22 A Tar Heel editor warned Tuesday that Americans are losing their vidual freedoms to The warning came from mar Jones editor of The rank lin Press and a past president of the North Carolina Press Asso ciation in the final speech of the 60th annual North Carolina Mer chants Association convention Because of panic over the ques tion of whether America can stay free said Jones the graver ques tion of whether Americans can keep our freedom as indi is pushed the of many minds would say Americans are as free today as they were 30 years ago? Twenty years ago? Ten years ago? ive years asked Jones vho pointed out that merchants as employers now must serve as unpaid tax collec tors for the government The editor mentioned the send ing of troops to Little Rock as an violation of rights He pointed out that a filibuster" had stopped Con gress from passing a bill that would exempt anyone with a 6th grade education from having to pass a literacy test to vote de spite the fact that voting qualifi cations are each state to under the Constitution Jones said that only safe government is one of limitednnwpr Concert Band To Perform Tonight These Greensboro people received awards yesterday at the finai meeting of the twin vnronna Merchants Association Left to right they are: William Martin for Gullford Galleries Bruce Crawford for Ellis Stone Arthur Jlchwartz for ine Shoes William McDowell for Belk's Department Store Clyde Hahn for Prago Guycs Greensboro led the state last montn in ouucung witn jjutiaans in building permits it was ahead of $2227968 the Department ot Labor reported si yesterday Raleigh was in third place at $1799474 and Durham fourth ss With $1083216 Estimated construction costs in 36 Tar Heel cities from January through April climbed 55 per cent is above the same period last year Labor Commissioner rank Crane said building permits issued in the first four months of this year totaled $75576064 This com pares with $71601854 in the same period last year April permits totaled $19087118 for a 15 per cent rise over the $18801596 recorded in April 1961 Commissioner Crane said Individual Totals I Individual city totals for April 1962 were: Albemarle $40400 Asheboro $288600 Asheville $946 961 Burlington $632435 Chapel Hill $225000 Charlotte $2277968 Concord $126987 Durham $1083 216 Elizabeth City (no report) ayetteville $1205655 Gastonia $517600 Goldsboro $420900 Greensboro $3004363 Greenville i $342300 Henderson $170850 Hickory $108210 High Point $375829 Jack sonville $626930 Kinston $379694 Lenoir $127746 Lexington $158411 Lumberton $152150 Monroe $124 000 New Bern $159143 Raleigh $1799474 Reidsville $86150 Roa noke Rapids $166941 Rocky Mount $434147 Salisbury $173400 San ford $15850 Shelby $189600 Statesville $218400 Thomasville $672538 Wilmington $191743 Wil son $762215 Winston Salem $931 312 our Month Totals City totals for the first four months of 1962 were: Albemarle $216886 Asheboro $1294550 Ashe ville $2785235 Burlington $1490 078 Chapel Hill $635049 Charlotte $15535100 Concord $468617 Dur ham $3515825 Elizabeth City134100 ayetteville $2554353 Gastonia $1847000 Goldsboro $1434875 Greensboro $10810494 Greenville $1145576 Henderson $297750 Hickory $1108719 High Point $4199603 Jacksonville $1 242930 Kinston $1535020 Lenoir $686226 Lexington $421802 Lum berton $613494 Monroe $563400 New Bern $508657 Raleigh $8090 503 Reidsville $597823 Roanoke i Rapids $554089 Rocky Mount $1 014149 Salisbury $986225 San ford $441350 Shelby $420250 Statesville $1099300 Thomasville $965183 Wilmington $483779 Wil son $1655480 Winston Salem $4 222594 Award Recipients Are Announced Top awards of the Alumni Asso ciation of Guilford College has been presented to James Boles a senior psychology major and Thomas Eugene Barnes a junior class member Boles the son of Mr and Mrs Boles of Pinnacle received the Key Senior Award Barnes the son of Dr and Mrs Barnes of Asheboro received the association's Achievement Award The awards were presented dur ing a convocation of the student body in Dana Auditorium Dr Clyde A Milner president of the college presented the Key Senior Award and Charles Hendrick di rector of admissions presented the Achievement Award (Dully Newi sliift tihiilu) IRST RECIPIENT ANNUAL AWARD Sammy Reid of Ragsdale High School who takes special courses at the Guilford County Industrial Center near Jamestown last nlaht was presented the first annual award aiven to the outstanding student Ed Kemp left chairman of the ad hours But the Jefferson Build vlsory board matte the presentation Carl Ritchie incoming Ing lobby clinic will be open from president of Sedgcffcld Lions Club sponsor of the award looks on 9 am to 6 pm Kent Spikes 1 Talk About New Post Robert Kent manager of the Greensboro War Memorial put at rest yesterday a report from St Petersburg la that he was going to become manager of the lorida $4 million auditori um arena He is not making a move from Greensboro Kent said yesterday somebody has mis construed my interest in the St Petersburg project" Kent stated have been interested in serv ing the city down there as a con sultant but I told the folks there in April I was staying here" Kent said he had corresponded with St Petersburg City Manager Lynn Andrews about the project but had told him several weeks 1 ago he was remaining in Greens boro 1 Kent is working on 1 his 1962 63 budget and program ming for next year season He has served as a consultant on several municipal auditorium projects including those planned for Jacksonville la and Hono lulu The latter plan has incor porated many features of the Greensboro auditorium plant The report of Kent's interest in the St Petersburg job was printed in a column by city hall reporters there this week Senior High Top Students Get Awards Awards in the field ot schol arship music home economics journalism and vocational train ing were presented yesterday to top students of Greensboro Senior High School at the schools annual Awards Day program Principal A Routh presid ed over the event and Robert Glenn assistant principal was the featured speaker Greensboro Senior High School held Awards Day this morning in the school auditori urn Principal A Routh pre sided over the event which had Robert Glenn assistant prin cipal as featured speaker Prior to the naming of re cipients an American flag which had flown over the Capitol was presented the school on behalf of the Hamilton Lakes Civitan Club by Clyde Collins president Scholarship award winners in cluded Vera Leonard Civitan Best Citizen Award Beverly Wilkerson Citizenship Essay Award first place and Sandra Parker second place Hobart Kellam Junior Jaycee Award Lana Kay Miller Torchlight Award Vera Leonard Sandra Neal Sammy Pegram Carol Sheets and Kaye Riley Sears Roebuck Awards William Nor man Latin Award Sandra Parker Junior Classical League Award Brenda Miller Secretarial Scholarship Award Janet Williams Henry Short Story Award first place Kay Riley second place and Mon ette Weaver honorable men tion Music awards went to Ray Kutos Brietz Hazleman Cup Jane Marsh and Charles Crumley Grady Miller Cup Richard Sain Robert Trox ler Cup Dan Richman and Vera Leonard Harriman Tro phy Buddy Watson award of merit and Spencer Sullivan Woman's Club Award In home economics honors were given Nancy Long ran ces Jenkins Award Lana Mil ler Betty Crocker Homemak ing Award and Carolyn Rack ley Glenda Minor Norma Johnson Sybil elder Pat Kerns Diana Travers Sonja Dale Judy Murray Mary Anne Burton and Susan Rivenbark 1 Sears Special Awards Journalism awards winners included Linda Lael Sam Underwood Cup Kaye Riley Olive Minor Betts Award Ter ry Jones Paula Abernathy Award and John Meeks Quill and Scroll Award In the vocation department honors went to Sylvia Jean Simpson Business Education Award Roby Woods Ma chine Shop Award: Charles Ed ward Lynch Mechanical Draw ing Award Mac Owen Wood work Award Elizabeth Yarber DE Award George Wayne Lee DO Office Award and Robert Lee Brogdon DO Trades Award fniintvTn Ruv ire Equipment Hoping to get Guilford name in the pot for matching federal funds next year county commissioners a ap proved transfer of $14750 from the reserve fund toward the pur chase of equipment for rural fire departments and Civil Defense The $14750 added to the $6000 already in the budget for equip ment will give the county $20750 to match federal CD funds and secure if the CD money comes through $41500 worth of equip ment affording the rural fire departments a central alarm system Advantages of such a system with were outlined in a letter from the rural fire protective association One of the advantages would be a standby generator which would allow equipment and lights to op erate in case of a power failure Budget Considered Commissioners took under con sideration a proposed 1962 63 budget from the county health department Dr Ellinwood county health officer asked $669266 for general health and $132255 for mental health programs That would make a total of $801521 an increase of $62577 over the 1961 62 budget of $738944 However Dri Ellinwood said most of the increase mostly for new staff positions would be ac counted for by state and federal funds Commissioners indicated they won't be surprised if the county winds up in Guilford Superior Court to establish the price of land to be condemned by the State Highway Commission for extend ing East Wendover Avenue be hind the County Home Some 10 acres of land will be taken and the state is offering no money for it contending it will greatly enhance the value of re maining property King Sworn Walter King was sworn In before commissioners as constable of Gilmer Township He was sworn in by John Yeattes assist ant clerk of Guilford Superior Court The swearing in was followed by a protest by Ralph Johns Johns criticized commissioners for al lowing the post to be vacant for 23 months and appointing King to fill it weeks before the elec Johns said that would give King the advantage over other candi dates for the job in the Demo cratic Primary on Saturday He asked commissioners to correct their "honest denied published state ments attributed to him criticiz ing physical qualifications of the 76 year old King for the job He said the statements made him sound and un Chris tian" A Johns then said: "A farce has been committed upon the public He is supposed to go out and chase and apprehend Let's not ba naive What can he chase and ap prehend?" Asking commissioners to their Johns said: "If he goes after a criminal and has a heart attack be on your consciences I understand he has a heart condition and He ended after congratulating commissioners for their service and asked them to pride and do the honest thing" Board Chairman Lloyd Amos said the commissioners appreciat ed his interest and that voters in the primary would decide whether they put the wrong man in the job I power am damning lawlessness by government Because mere can ue no lasting freedoms for minor! I ties or majorities unless there I is government by laws not of man" Jones spoke at the Past Prcsi dents Luncheon which was at tended by eight of the 51 presi dents who have served the asso ciation during its 60 year history Earlier the delegates were told to their stores" to compete successfully with dis count houses Raley of the National Cash Register Office in Charlotte said merchants must either pro vide additional free downtown parking or move to the suburbs take your bargain base ment with Advantages discount houses have over downtown stores he said are long shopping hours in formality of shopping self serv ice and free parking He said Charlotte has four dis count houses with four more planned In about 10 years the 1 a Knr I rtni'O UIUlHHIt IIUUM3 UU3IUV9 I grown to $5 billion annually I TreM Whcphutu) RECEIVE ADVERTISING AWARDS recnsboro people received awards yesterday at the final meeting of the North Carolina ooro01 txt It '7 LI JLO i A A ''At L'' Mo iim 'I 55 fl if Xrt AmmasS w' wt' 1 JOco0000000001000000 noMnono0011 'A I.

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