Statesville Record and Landmark (Newspaper) - February 26, 1966, Statesville, North Carolina fair and celder tonight and Sun Local for tha 24hour period anding at 4 today 57 Published In the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina STATESVILLE RECORD a LANDMARK 02 FEBRUARY 1966 49 APOLLO LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL 143 Viet Cong Soldiers Killed In Battle QUILL AND Waugh Berts of who judged the entries In Quill and Scrolls creative writing contest at Senior High School Is shown here with the Others In the photo from Nan president of tho club Kathy first place In prose Millie second place in prose Celia second place In poetry and Dorothy who took first place In TIM TO LOOK Justice Hugo so far as we but to In print and from the speak is the only man on the Supreme ers he pleads for a court bench who graduated return to impartial from a white sheet to a black and vigorous enforcement of robe and has spent the past 20 our criminal so long as years trying to prove that you they are out Repeatedly cannot Judge a real liberal by he reminds that under our gov his system of ordered For two decades and Jt the function of Justice Black has gone the Congress and state second mile with the or to say using the court as an instru what laws are needed are ment of reform rather than a jj command re constitutional Time and obedience by and he has proved the Now restored to Whit deciding voice on the side of taker resigned his commission the as a retired in when a man carried a substan like Hugo Black begins to read tial in order to en with lit private danger into the course the Su preme court is it is time to look and Since he has been speaking Speaking out against a ma out against the rapid spread decision which reversed of which seems a breach of peace conviction to be thoroughly planned and in Black said the re also to be designed to destroy cord showed beyond question order and all vestiges of that the defendants had gone decency in our into a public library not to get that is the direction in a but to stage a demon which we are Black then made a statement which bears directly on the speaker ban controversy In North While the heart of our system of the office Wednesday First he noon does not give anyone the right to use someone elses property KNEW IN ADVANCE A 74 yearold charged with a traffic violation and scheduled to appear in court Thursday to by the He told the clerk he had as a stage for spreading his come by to make his appear since it was going to snow He concluded with this that night and he wouldnt be cant warning able to get to court on Thurs I say once more that the crowd moved by noble ideals It did and he today can become the mob ruled by hate and passion and STATESVILLE greed and violence tomorrow SIDES proudly exhibiting the holding in this case three dozen roses she received today makes it more necessary than ever that we stop and look HOLDER garden in Calvin WOOD cele brating his birthday today Justice Black was joined by Barbara FERGUSON inquiring about Statesville s flash floods and tornado she had read about in newspaper Polly MASON processing Blissful Ignorance LAKE A more closely at where we are three others in dissent but Justice Abe President Johnsons latest addition to the provided the deciding vote with the again vindicating those who claim they do not have to obey the law if they do not like of is one of the helicopter knocked danger signs to which Justice over a 300foot radio tower and Black He is joined in that by an Charles Evans who retired from the bench in 1962 on ac count of ill He says this Is a philosophy which can lead damaged the roof of the Louisi ana State Police headquarters The copter then spec Slate police said the might not have realized whai he had Betts Describes Writers Motivations Doris Waugh Betts of a Statesville native who las become a recognized nove ist and short story re turned to her alma mater yes at Statesville Senior High School to talk to the student body about the art of Betts also presented awards to the winners of Quill and Scrolls creative writing She judged the Kiwanis Club Wins Honor For the third year in a Statesville Kiwanis Club has won the achievement award for the Carolinas ranking the local civic group as the op Kiwanis club in North and South Carolinas District Governor James made the announcement last night as the local civic group met at Vance Motor In making the Brady congratulated Clay immediate past under whose regime the achievement award was as well as all of Clines fellow officers and the entire club slating that it took the work of all of them pulling together to win this high The other two past presidents who won the achievement award are James Milstead who led the club in and William Warlick who was president in City Police Chief James Myers provided the program for last nights a film en titled Every Every The film showed some of the glamor and some of the heart aches which every law enforce ment officer encounters in a day of It graphically illu how the puts his life on the line to serve and defend his fellow citizens every The film stressed that only in a city where there is total com munity respect and support of its law enforcement agency can police officers really do the job that is expected of Chief Myers was introduced by Kiwanian Ray who was program chairman for the Presidentelect John Kiser presided in the absence of President Norman Kathy Dick won first place in prose with a story called The described by Betts as a smooth ac count of a experience and a believable Second place winner in prose was Millie Rest who wrote Note From A Honorable mention went to Sherry Steele for Dust to In Betts selected six poems by Dorothy Morrison for first place and three poems by Celia Stewart for second Miss poems were titled Advice The Fools Honorable mention in poetry went to Jim Webster and Betts said the young Student Deferment Tests Are Set WASHINGTON UPI have mixed the bitter with the sweet by announcing the dates for testing that may end deferments for college men along with a man cut in the March draft A Selective Service System spokesman said late Friday that the tests for presently exempt college students will be given May May and June 3 at locations in the 50 states and Puerto Earlier a Defense Depart ment spokesman reported that increased voluntary enlistments would allow the cut In the March which had been set at There was no immediate indication that the enlistment picture would change the Selective Service plan to test college students in an effort to build up the Viet Nam manpower pool for the armed A draft official said there are million college students now carrying deferments with low scores on the deferment could be lifted and make the students eligible for military Draft headquarters said the test will consist of 150 items covering four ing verbal rela arithmetic reasoning and data The spokesman said the test will be designed so that there will not be any special advantage for any special field of major The test will be prepared and administered by Science Re search which received a contract from the Selective Service System writers showed ability and pro mise and commended them for their She said it was dif to select the winners be cause of the high quality of the The who addressed the entire student imme identified herself with her audience by remembering how she had suffered through many assembly programs in her day and almost popped a blood vessel because she hadnt com her homework or finish ed studying for a scheduled She said she couldnt re member a word of all the wis dom she had heard in the as programs but merely carried it away like water in a hair In a short talk she touched on the questions of what writers write about and why they She said the best advice ever given writers is to write about what you about your own She said this cov ers a lot of Even though writers do write from they do not like to have others assume they have done every act their characters do or shared every belief and Betts explained to the students that a writer gets ideas from many He has fragments of things he has or or See Page 4 Classic Drama To Be Staged Thomas dean of faculty at Mitchell Col today announced tickets are now on sale for the presen tation of William romantic Romeo and to be presented at 8 Monday at Mac Gray Audi The play will be presented by National an internation al touring as part of the colleges fine arts The public is invited to attend the Tickets are for adults and for They may be purchased by con Spencer or any member of the college fine arts Spencer We are proud to have the National Players in Statesville and we think the people of Statesville will enjoy this performance as much as our college Red Onslaught Beaten Back Near Chu Lai SAIGON UPI ment infantrymen today report ed killing 143 Communist troops in a running battle in northern most Quang Tri Province during which a Marine Corps jet was shot down by Viet Cong ground The twoman crew of the Marine plane steered it out over the South China parachuted and were safely picked up by the destroyer escort USS an Ameri can military spokesman A squad of Marines working with a compa ny of militiamen near the Leathernecks Chu Lai 350 miles north of today fought off a Communist attack in what appeared to be the heaviest fighting of the day involving About 100 Viet Cong poured mortar and recoilless rifle fire into the Marine position six miles south of Chu Lai about 2 Two hours they tried to overrun the The Marines threw them back after they penetrated an outer ring of triple barbed A military spokesman said pieces of flesh and clothing on the barbed wire indicated at least 100 guerrillas were Twenty miles northwest of a platoon of 25th Infantry Division soldiers sur prised a platoon of Viet Cong and killed 15 of the Communists in a fierce Royal Australian and 1st Infantry troops continued to push their Operation Rolling 30 miles north of uncovering shal low graves that contained the bodies of 15 Viet They were believed to have been casualties of an early morning attack launched by ESCAPE TOWER APOLLO CAPSULE LUNAR MODULE THIRD SECOND STAGE FIRST STASE S TWO drawing comparts Hit ilw of tha which was scheduled to loft an unmanned version of tho Apollo into space with the which will one day carry American astronauts to tho UPI Two Georgia Slayings Are Charged To Negro three Viet Cong battalions early Tension Rises In Indonesia SINGAPORE UPI Barbed wire and machine gun emplace ments ringed President Sukar nos palace today amid reports that troops were searching Jakarta for former Defense Minister Travelers reaching Singapore said student demonstrators against the government ap to have sym and a Japanese corre reported from Jakarta that student leaders intend to defy The report said students vowed to resist order Friday night outlawing all demonstrations and banning the powerful Indonesian University Student Action Association The order came after students and others joined a massive funeral procession mourning the death of five students reported killed when palace guardsmen opened fire on antiCommunist tors Wednesday and Jakarta demonstrations erupt ed after Sukarno announced a new cabinet Monday which dropped and several other antiCommunist ministers but retained several men whom students had accused of links to the abortive 1 Communist naked bodies of two white shot and beaten to were found in a wooded area off a state road near here today and a Negro was charged with their Police identified the dead men as B u s t er about of a collector for the General Motors Accept ance Corporation and Troy of an em ploye of an automobile sales firm in The Camden County Sheriffs office announced it had arrest ed Robert Felton of in connection with the double a Camden County deputy said Moore confessed the murders and showed officers where to find the Chaney said the bodies of Wainwright and Connor were found in a patch of piney woods off a little used state road one mile north of He said the bodies were nude and bloody when found by Several hours after the bod ies were located and Moore re officers found the clothes of Wainwright and Con nor in the same area that the bodies were Cheney said an autopsy was to be held today by a doctor from the State Crime Labora According to the deputy sher Wainwright and Connor drove to Woodbine where they had been told Moore could be to either collect car payments from Moore or repossess his 1965 Chaney said the men accost ed who told them that he could get some money in He asked Wainwright and Conner to follow him Chaney said he was While driving to Chaney Moore ly pretended to run out of gas and stopped in a ditch on a state road just outside Kings Chaney said Moore has refused to talk about what hap then but that he appar ently marched the men into the made them strip off their clothes and shot He said a tire tool also was found at the scene and that both bodies were At least one of the men appeared to have been he Chaney said the first alarm was turned in by a forest rang er who drove by the area and saw a Negro and white man appeared to be nervous and de an offer of The See Page 4 Quorum Call Blocks Senate WASHINGTON UPI Sen ate leaders failed to muster a quorum today and had to adjourn an unusual Saturday session aimed at draining some of the debate on Viet After 42 the Senate quit until Monday without getting rid of a single word of the expected additional speeches on the pending business billion milita ry authorization for Viet Nam war A majority of the 100 senators 51 members needed to conduct Three roll calls produced far fewer than the necessary Acting Senate Democratic Leader Russell had wired all members urging them to be on hand to dispose of some of the speeches which have prevented action on the for almost two In maneuvering preceding a quorum Long asked for unanimous agreement to limi debate on amendments and the itself beginning The request was blocked on objection on the part of Sen Stephen a critic of President Johnsons Viet Nam Helicopters Standing By For Recovery CAPE KENNEDY UPI America successfully launched its first unmanned Apollo moon ship miles down tha At test range shaky According to tha beet Information available to tho spacecraft has landed and IB about 35 miles west of tha recovery carrier a Space Agency spokesman said shortly before Three helicopters wert dis patched to the Two other helicopters aboard the Boxer were standing by to drop frogmen with flotation gear for the spacecraft as soon as It la Recovery reported they are receiving a constant radio signal from the This would indicate the space craft is floating in the spokesmen The mighty million pound thrust Saturn IB rocket roared o life at bathing the launch area in a sea of flames as It climbed slowly clear of Its 81story umbilical Purpose of the mission waa to determine whether the three seat Apollo could withstand the searing heat of reentering the earths atmosphere and safely return astronauts from The launch attempt was first called off at EST after the countdown on the big rocket had reached within an instant of A safety device aboard the 214foot space machine automatically shut off the when It detected an inadequate pres sure level in a nitrogen gaa system used to operate fuel in the massive booster The problem was quickly but cropped up again minutes It was shortly after this shot waa But then officials reversed their field and announced It was determined after discus sion and a further look at the records that the nitrogen bottle appeared to be the pressure waa sufficient to try the The dramatic shutdown came at EST while a national television audience kept a close watch on the launch waiting for the mighty space machine to roar into it remained ominous ly silent on its launch pad with oxygen vapor streaming from See Page 4 French Rocket Shot From Silo PARIS UPI three stage nuclear punch moved closer to reality today with the first successful firing of an underground strategic The firing was reported by an air force spokesman He said only that the two stage solid fuel rocket was launched at the Proving Range in southwest France less than two weeka But it was the first progress report for months on President Charles de Gaulles ambitious plan to arm France with its own nuclear thus enabling him to shrug off American Thieves Steal Money Bag At Harmon Home Statesville police this morning were continuing their investiga tion into the theft of an unde termined amount of money from the home of Matney 326 early Police Chief Myers and Detective Hoover said they could not determine the amount of money which was stolen from the top of the wash ing machine in the Harmon The officers forced the door open in the basement beneath the bedrooms in the house to gain Hoover said they then walked up the steps to the kit chen where they opened the which enclosed the wash ing and took a North Carolina National Bank Bag containing the The bank bag was inside a paper bag ly ing on the Police said the culprits walk ed past Harmons pocket book which contained They also ignored a pistol which was lying next to the money The thieves then went out of the home through sliding doors in the living Checks which were inside the money bag were found on the living room floor and the paper bag was found on the east side of the Harmon Harmon told police that he brought the money home at and put it on the washing He added that he and his wife went to bed around midnight but his daughter stay ed up until 1 Harmon said she let the cat out of the house when she went to bed but when she woke she heard the cat inside of the house at 3 Harmony said the money and checks inside the bag were from one of the cash registers at Harmons Food Store GUI West Front Officers theorized the theft oc curred sometime between 1 and 3 today and were continuing their investigation at press time Harmon and employes of the local More were attempting to determine the exact amount d money stolen from the
