Statesville Record and Landmark (Newspaper) - April 12, 1968, Statesville, North Carolina Strikes in tht of tht Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina Two Killed In Alexander RECORD R Two young Alexander County men were killed and another seriously Injured late Thursday night when their vehicle left NC 16 north of here and struck a Patrolman Jim Jennings iden the two victims as Robert Eugene route and Clifford route The trooper reported both men were dead on arrival a t Alexander County Hospital Admitted to the hospital in serious condition was George Harold route and a brother of one of the Trooper Jennings said the double the first deaths on Alexander County roadways this occurred around in the mishap five miles north of Taylorsville on NC The trio was in a 1957 being driven by Robert Eugene and were travel ing south on the which connects Taylorsville and Wilkes Trooper Jennings said the car went out of control In a sharp curve to the left the way on the left side and struck a tree All three occupants of the car were pinned In the vehicle by the It took almost an hour for members of the Alexander County Rescue Squad to free the Daniels was employed by Irene Cotton Yarn Mills In Taylorsville and was a native of Alexander born on May He was a son of Charlie Clifford Daniels and Julie Mazell route who In addition to his he is survived by four Gene Daniels of John Daniels of Bobby Daniels of route and Doyle Daniels of the home three Mitch Munday and Arthur both of and Miss Ellen Daniels of the Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 Sunday at the Taylorsville Church of with Tony Forrest officiat Burial plans are The body will be taken from Adams Funeral Home to the residence at 9 The casket will be opened at the church after the Bolick was also employed at Irene Cotton Yarn Mills He was a native of Rock and was born on October a son of George Wash ington Bolick of Rock Hill and Margaret Ellis Bolick of route in addition to his are his Brenda Harden Bolick one Robert Eugene of the home four Harold Bobby Bolick and Victor McCray all of route and Carroll Gene Bolick of route Taylorsville four Miss Virgil Anne Miss Dianne Bolick and Miss Sallie Faye all of route and Randy Waldrop of Rock Funeral arrangements for Bolick are The body is at Adams Funeral M APRIL 1968 80 Opening Set For 177 Link State Highway Commission officials have announced that a southern link of Interstate 77 to bypass the Troutman area will be opened to traffic on July The extending some four miles from the present terminus at Amity Hill Road to the existing US 21 interchange at will leave only two remaining segments of the four lane interstate to be completed between Statesville and the Mecklenburg County One from the Lake Norman area northward for miles on US 21 in the Mourne has been open ed to The two existing links will run from that terminus to the NC 150 area west of Mooresville and from there to the US 21 interchange at Ost Highway officials said the final asphalt surface is now being put down by contractors on the new link and landscape work began Tuesday to sow grass on the Work is to begin around May 1 for the installation of signs and guard Highway engineers indicated that the million project may be opened early in June but said rains could delay the open ing until the official July 1 com It will still be several years until the entire lotte link of 177 is An stretch of the highway from the US 21 interchange south has been graded but the contract will not be let until 1969 because of lack of highway officials point The State Highway Com mission is also involved in pur chasing for 177 from Cornelius south Charlotte and this section is scheduled to be opened about Moon Eclipse Due Tonight BOSTON watch ers will have their best opportunity until 1971 tonight to see a total eclipse of the The eclipse will begin at EST and will end at Saturday The total eclipse is expected to occur at according to the Smithsonian cal There will be another lunar eclipse visible the moon will set be fore the eclipse has EDUCATION PROGRAM we went over to Lincoln ton last night to hear the school people of the southwestern dis North Carolina Education present their legis lative It is quite a with an annual price tag of about above and beyond what the state is now doing for its public But they made out a pretty good case for Present were school officials and representatives of teacher on the one and candidates for the General Assembly from the several counties in the on the We went over with Assistant Dent of the city and Tom of the county sys tem Senator who is seeking reelection from the 26th and Homer who is a Republican candidate for reelection to the house from the 39th Perhaps we ought to explain since we are a Democratic candidate for the house from the 39th Tolbert is a political enemy but he is such a decent fellow it would be hard to imagine him being any other sort of executive director of the 111yearold North Carolina Education Asso was the principal speak He touched briefly on the struggle going on between the the professional organiza and the American Federa tion of which is the teachers labor In some he the AFT is getting the upper he was the main rea son why the at its recent meeting in Charlotte adopted a position paper on This action must now be rati fied by a majority of the mem of the association once no sanctions can be invoked except by a vote of twothirds of the Nothing in the sanctions pap he endorses action outside the Dawson described the modern teacher as well educat ed and who is con that his efforts have con to current economic prosperity and who wants to share in American Dawson outlined the leg program under three heads They are asking for a salary range of to based on 10months of work by teachers and 12 months Church Music Presentation English Organist Plans Recital An organ recital will be pre sented on Sunday April beginning at oclock at First Baptist Church John Lock of noted church musician and who will be the is in this country in connection with a project a music center for The project is being sponsored by the Dorford Church and Lock is touring the country giving recitals and lectures about church music in This center is to be situated in Dorford Baptist which is used only very little during the and provides an attractive environment for a music It is proposed to equip the building with a two manual a manual and a grand all serious making facilities available for who is asso practice and recital purposes to secretary of the Baptist World had this to say in relation to the project I am happy to be associated with this interesting project in the Dorford Baptist Church in Apart from i t s obvious value in the field of I believe it could in its fulfillment be a means of inspiration in a far wider field and become an unusual but serious addition to the work and witness of the Kingdom of Christ our Lord in that I admire the vision and enterprise of John Lock and I believe this project for which he is responsible is worthy of wide and generous An offering will be taken at the recital to be used toward Red Attack Beaten Back CAR IMPOUNDED BY FBI for other they would bring the state up to the national The added cost would be around a They want the money directly to the State Board of which would work out a system for its equitable distribution among the dents and other school Summer This would cover enrichment pro remedial kinder gartens and vocational train Added 000 per Improving Under this they are seeking special service teachers above the state allotment additional clerical help and aides for Added All these items together would require about in ad appropriations for the Claude director of labor relations for the discussed the relative standing of North Carolina with other states in the matter of teachers He said the differential of about between the state and national average had con despite fairly large in creases by the state in recent He also pointed out that public educations share of the North Carolina tax dollar had actually declined hi recent He urged that both these discrepancies be wiped and warm er tonight and Local for the 24hour period ending at today 44 29 heavy STATESVILLE GOFORTH visiting around at a Golden Age Club dinner Rettie PARKS getting an Easter Egg Hal SHERRILL calling home from Vietnam to order an Easter orchid for his wife Allison Lynn LINK celebrating her first birthday Debra SWiCEGOOD visiting her cous Wayne home from Vietnam Crystal SHERRILL placing an order for a pony for her birthday Chimney Sweep urgent call was put through to the fire department in this Hampshire town Theres a monkey stuck in the the caller Firemen re and dislodged the ani mal with a JOHN LOCK establishment of the music Foe Overruns Army Position On Plantation SAIGON UPI Communist troops screaming We kill GIs overran Army position 50 miles northwest of Saigon today but were beaten back into the jungle with heavy losses in what the Americans called the Battle of Good The attackers at a 400man battalion 129 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong bodies on the Half were piled in a huge mound of carnage then buried in a mass The rest were still scattered through the rubber tree jungle where the battle was An Army chaplain held a Good Friday service for the 16 25th Infantry Division men killed in the Another 47 were wounded in the War Zone C battle and flown to a Enemy Scouts The battle involving men of the 3rd Battalion 22nd 25th began at when two Communist scouts touched off a Claymore killing one of The Americans were asleep at the time but were alerted by the Less than an hour later a mortar barrage The Communists were later identified as the 217th Viet Cong reinforced with many North Vietnamese They burst inside the perimeter of the base pushed the Americans back and seized the vacated The fighting was so fierce both sides fired in every They were Gilbert Uregas told UPI correspondent Nat All around We shot at anything we couldnt For four hours the Americans battled on all sides against the North The Commu nist grew confused They broke for cover but dashed directly into a secondary defense line the Americans had set Close Fighting It was hand to hand Both sides were forced to fire at targets all around American casualties were 16 men killed and 47 according to The had taken up positions Thursday night in the overgrown French Michelin rubber plantation at the edge of war zone that vast jungle area near the Cambodian border and the home of the Viet Congs national headquarters and radio The GIs had pushed into the See Page 2 Meeting Set In Honolulu WASHINGTON UPI The White House announced today that President Johnson will meet in Honolulu next day with South Koreas pres Park Chung The White House announce ment said Park had accepted Johnsons invitation to come to Honolulu for a personal meeting to discuss all matters of interest to the two The meeting originally had been scheduled for last week but Johnson called off the trip because of the assassina tion of Martin Luther King and the subsequent racial The White House only Thurs day night had denied reports from Seoul that the two presidents had rescheduled the Honolulu Johnson had intended to meet last weekend with his top diplomatic and military advi sers from as well as Pack After the meeting was called Johnson summoned the commander in William to Washington for Earlier this week Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker flew in from Saigon for talks with Johnson at Camp BOARDING HOUSE is the boarding house in where Eric Gait The FBI impounded a white Mustang in Atlanta last night the car was sought in connection with the assassination of Martin Luther King and was traced to whose present whereabouts are Nations Cities Back To Relative Peace By United Press International Relative peace prevailed in American cities today but Negro spokesmen and white authorities in some communi ties were embroiled in con over the weeks racial violence and the techniques used to contain In Kansas City where three nights of fire and violence left six Negro leaders accused police of having a belligerent Site Rejection Is Criticized MOSCOW Viet official circles say that Americas apparent tion of Warsaw as the site of contacts is legally Tass said The Soviet news agency said these circles believe the United States has no grounds to reject Warsaw as the site of preliminary contacts between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Viet White House press secretary George Christian said Thursday the United States would prefer some neutral site for the initial The story gave no alternate site for the The official circles quoted by Tass implied that the United States was reneging on its promise to go anywhere at any time to talk peace with North It was the second consecutive day that in an officially inspired acted as a conduit of information between Hanoi and Washington on the meeting North Vietnam originally pro posed Phnom as the When America rejected this on ground there was no embassy Tass quoted authoritative cir cles in Hanoi Thursday as proposing Warsaw The story today was prompt ed by Christians response to the Warsaw Christian had said that the government proposed a number of neutral countries as possible sites for contact and we have not yet had any response to this Christian said Warsaw would not provide a neutral atmos phere fair to both attitude and of using tear gas Police denied the A grand jury in was to be called to investigate the fatal shooting by police of a Negro ministerial student dur ing violence Tuesday The youth had been a member of Mayor Carmen Armentis Youth Council while a student at Trenton Central High His friends said he had not been looting as police In Spiro Agnew and Negro leaders exchanged Ag new criticized the Negro spokes men for not condemning black power The who said the governor tongue lashed in turn accused him of not demonstrating enlightened diminished by Thursday Sporadic gunfire and minor fires were reported from Kansas Citys East Side Negro section but police said the city was on the way to Police said two of the 49 persons arrested Thursday were white men described as sni Another white man was arrested for carrying a con The latest arrests in Kansas City brought total there to 543 since the violence started Nearly National Guardsmen and law officers enforced a rigid 8 to 7 EST In other cities there was a general relaxation of curfew and other restrictions while federal troops and National Guardsmen were either prepar ing to leave critical points or were already on their way Curfews were lifted in Chica Youngstown and Detroit and Baltimore where disturbances had Pennsylvania Raymond Shafer ordered the withdrawal of National Guardsmen from In and in curfew restrictions were partly lifted although federal troops or National Guardsmen were still on an alert The national death toll from the disorders which followed the assassination of Martin Luther in Memphis eight days ago stood at More than persons were arrested in the violence which shook 125 It resulted in million in property dama estimated by the American Insurance Crash All Are Dead gia Civil Air Patrolmen and Forest Rangers found the charred wreckage of a private plane early today in the moun timberlands near All four persons aboard the plane were The green and white Cessna 182 had been sought in three states since it disappeared after taking off Wednesday afternoon from on a flight to Charlotte with an intermediate stop at The body of Pilot Thomas of Charlotte was thrown from the but res cuers found the bodies of the three passengers burned beyond identification inside the wreck The crash site was near the crest of a mountain in an area called Nimber Will Gap at the intersection of four northeast Georgia Military and civilian search ers had combed the mountains of Georgia and the Carolines all day Thursday without Officials said skies were clear when the plane took off from but the weather worsen and fog and stormy condi tions were prevalent Wednesday night when the plane The other victims were Rob ert of president of a manufacturers representative firm his sales Clyde also of and Rich ard a Spar tanburg Air Service Is Scheduled MOSCOW long delayed start of the New York Moscow air route will take place next a Soviet air official said Nikolai deputy chief of civil told newsmen that the inaugural flight will take place in the second half of It was believed to be the first time that the Soviet Union had been willing to give a fairly definite time for the Bykov also said the planes may stop off in Montreal en The Soviet American air agreement was negotiated in 1960 but remained because of American objections late last Mustang Held In Connection With Slaying ATLANTA FBI today cloaked in secrecy an impounded white Mustang car resembling one that sped from the scene of the assassination of Martin Luther In last The impounded parked on an Atlanta street since the day after Kings was traced through license plates to Eric whose address was a south Birming rooming Neighbors said they hadnt seen Gait in three Neither the FBI in Atlanta and Memphis nor the Justice Department i n Washington would comment on the Mus which was towed to FBI headquarters in Atlanta and shielded from No Warrant FBI agents did say that no warrant had been issued in the But it was learned that the FBI had asked Florida police Thursday to be on the lookout for The request was canceled by the FBI several hours Gaits Birmingham address was a rooming house in a neighborhood of old highrise apartment buildings and modern office The owner of the rooming house refused to come to the door Thursday but a telephone repairman Percy said the FBI had been asking about Gait plenty the last Alabama License The bearing 1968 Ala bama license 138993 with two 1967 Mexican tourist stickers on its was found on a street in an Atlanta Capitol A resident of the Joe said he had seen the car since last Friday and another Mary reported seeing a dark haired man near the car during the past few Bridges was uncertain whether the man resembled a police artists sketch of the assassin who shot King with a Remington reported purchased in after checking into a flophouse across from Kings hotel in The described as a neatly dressed man with dark hair and a silly fled the rooming house after shooting King and abandoned the rifle and a suitcase in a nearby amusement One Memphis witness said he saw a man get into a white Mustang and take off at high Thursday in New Ramsey Clark said regarding the King slaying that We will report on some developments that should be made public Offices Close For Holiday county and state offices will be closed Easter Monday but federal offices will be Some stores downtown will be closed but most food stores will be Statesville Record Land mark will publish its regular Children will return to school Barbecue And Music Scott Forces Planning Big 15County Rally forces are planning a 15county rally Tues April at Catawba Col lege in beginning at 6 Principal of will be Robert who is a candidate for the demo cratic nomination for governor in the May 4 But other entertainment is being Herbert who is managing Scotts campaign in four of the 15 said there will be a free chicken bar becue lopped with enter for Wes Jones III will be there with his Good Intentions Lambert of world champion banjo will also be And for those more classically the organist will provide background music for the One of a series of seven being held across the the Salis bury rally will bring together Scott supporters from David Union and A special consisting of chartered bus and private will go over to Salisbury from This group will form at the Statesville high parking lot at 5 Anyone planning on attending the rally from Iredell should contact either Fred Hedrick or Richard Reavis by 10 We are confident that Bob Scott is way out ahead in Iredell a a These rallies are simply being organized as a means to permit his supporters to show thair
