The Daily Chowanian
Volume 1 — Number 15
Murfreesboro^ North Carolina* November 24, 1959
Associated Press
KwSf™ Oil Companies Are Given
Learn US Cooking
SEATTLE AP — A Korean
girl, on her way to marry an
engineer working in North Caro
lina, arrived in Seattle Monday
night and said she’s looking
forward to learning how to cook
American food.
Miss Pak said one of the
things she is going to do in the
weeks before her wedding to
Bob Hall of Kings Mountain,
N. C., is learn to cook his fa
vorite dishes.
Hall and Miss Pak met when
he was stationed with the Army
in Korea and she worked as a
typist at his base. The two have
not seen each other for nearly
three years.
Miss Pak, whose h'lme is
Taegu, said she was extremely
happy to be in the United
States and was anxious to see
the country.
Sen. James E. Murry D-Mont
paved the way for her entry by
sponsoring a special bill in
Congress to waive immigration
restrictions.
Mrs. Hall said the couple
will be married at the Presby
terian Church at Deer Lodge,
probably about a week before
Christmas.
RALEIGH AP—Several hun
dred voting delegates were
scheduled today to stamp fi
nal approval on State Farm
Bureau recommendations for
the national agricultural
program.
Various commodity groups
met Monday and presented rec
ommendations to the group’s
Resolutions Committee which
was to report to the voting del
egates today.
The recommendations were
not expected to differ much
from those adopted earlier this
year at the State Farm Federa
tion convention.
Tobacco recommendations in
cluded continuing the price sup
port program next year as in
1959. It called for supports in
future years to be adjusted
from the 1959 level in direct
proportion to changes in farm
production costs.
Another commodity session,
dealing with livestock, flatly
opposed government production
controls or price supports on
livestock.
Monitors Win A
Legal Round To
Oust James Hoffa
WASHINGTON AP — Courtap-
pointed monitors of the Interna
tional Teamsters Union today won
a preliminary legal round in their
campaign to oust James R. Hoffa as
pr^«!ident of the big union.
They obtained from U. S. Dist.
.Tudse F. Dickinson Letts sweep
ing powers to investigate their al
legations that Hoffa had misused
funds of Detroit Local 299. Hoffa
is president of the local, as well
as the international union.
Letts said he would issue sub
poenas asked by the monitors and
would authorize them to take tes
timony under oath.
WORLD BRIEFS
Week To Stop Price Fixing
Attorney Fights
States Blue Law
GREENVILLE, S. C. AP—An
attorney for movie theater op-
ri-at'-r? fighting the state’s Sun
day blue laws declared in Circuit
Court today the 18th century
law violates both state and fed
eral constitutions.
J. D. Todd Jr. declared tha
the prohibiting of Sunda-
! movies acts to force on the
minority the religious convic
I tions of the majority.
H3 noted that the law, passed
in 1712, prohibits sports and
past-times which violate the
peace and repose desired by
many people on Sundays. In that
time, he said, most entertain
ments were in the village
quare; but in today’s big cities.
‘ h e enclosed theaters, the law
s obsolete, he declared.
“Charge” Was
The Carolina Yell
In Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. AP —
Police broke up what apparent
ly started out to be a panty
aid by some 1,000 shouting un
iversity of North Carolina men
students Monday night.
It apparently was a prelude
to Thursday’s D u k e-N o r t h
Carolina football game in
Durham.
The men gathered along a
campus street in the area of
women's dormitories and began
shouting: “Go Carolina . . . we
want panties . . . charge.”
At 11:30 p.m. they converged
on Mclver dormitory for wo-
:nen, where they were met by
"ampus police and sheriff’s
deputies.
The officers demanded that
the students surrender their un
iversity identity cards.
The shouting students milled
around the area for a few min
utes and then dispersed.
Statens Gabriel
ACC Soph of Week
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quarterback Roman Gabriel
broke North Carolina State Col
lege’s record for completed pas-
■^es Saturday, and was named
the Associated Press Atlantic
■''oast Conference Sophomore of
the Week.
Chooses Dog
SYRACUSE, N. Y. AP —
Kevin Miller. 10. earned $1.80
by doing odd jobs.
The money could go toward
a turkey for Thanksgiving,
which his mother had said
they could not afford, or for
a veterinarian’s fee for treat
ing Kevin’s injured dog, struck
by an auto Monday,
Kevin chose the dog,
NY To London
LONDON AP — A Boeing
707 jetliner flew from New
York to London today in just
under 6^4, hours to inaugurate
Trans World Airlines’ jet ser
vice across the Atlantic.
Lombardo Almost Loses Hydro-Plane But
He May Have Set A New Record Trying
Bank Teller Makes
$i000,000 Boner
HOLYOKE, Mass. AP—A mul-
timiUion-doUar argument be
tween the Hadley Falls Trust
Co. and an Air Force wife is in
impasse today.
She, Mrs. James Wlash, re
fuses to surrender a $4,000,022.-
75 check unless the bank re
hires the teller who somehow
authored it on a check writing
machine.
Mrs. Wlash had applied only
for a modest $22.75 check to
pay an installment on a TV set.
The check she got was for four
million dollars greater.
And unless the bank comes to
her terms, Mrs. Wlash intends
to frame the king-sized check
as a decoration for the quar
ters she occupies with her fly
ing sergeant husband.
Mrs. Wlash doesn’t think the
bank should have fired the tel
ler, Miss Ann Helliwell, five-
year bank employe, and neith
er does the sergeant.
Just now he is off on an flight
to Goose Bay, Laborado, and so
is the check, because, Mrs.
Wlash said, “he felt I might
give in to the bank and return
it.”
Miss Helliwell is reported
under treatment for shock, but
her telephone is kept busy with
calls, some from businessmen
offering her positions.
RENO, Ven. AP — Bandleader
Guy Lombardo and the designer
and driver of his jet-propelled
hydroplane Tempo Alcoa still aim
to shoot for a new world record—
despite a nearly disastrous acci
dent Monday.
The sleek aluminum craft, with
Les Staudacher at the controls,
skimmed into the beach at Pyra
mid Lake 30 miles northeast of
here, struck a rock and soared 200
feet before crashing on the sand.
Staudacher, 47, emerged badly
bruised but claiming he had topped
the world record of 260.35 miles
per hour on three runs before the
crash.
Except for its right sponson—
•) pontoon-like float—the hydro
plane appeared undamaged. How
ever, Staudacher said it would be
returned to Bay City, Mich., for
repairs before another record try
St Pyramid Lake next year.
Two Prisoners Leave
One Decides To Stay
ASHEVILLE AP — Two close-
custody felons escaped from a
prison truck Monday night between
Burnsville and Asheville. A third
prisoner ignored the open door
they left and remained in the
truck.
Driver Jim Rhodes did not know
he had lost his prisoners until he
arrived at the Craggy Prison Camp
near here. Then he found that the
rear screen had been kicked open.
The escapees were Bernard Card-
well, age not listed, of North Wil-
kesboro and Grady Seal, 21, of Mur
freesboro, both white.
Officers of Yancey, Buncombe
and surrounding counties imme
diately began a search along the
35-miIe route of the truck.
RALEIGH AP — The attorney
general’s office has given North
Carolina oil companies a week to
10 days to stop fixing prices under
the Fair Trade Law or face court
action.
Esso Standard OU Co. has an
nounced it has halted fair trade
operations and Phillips Petroleum
said it had the move under con
sideration. Five other firms have
been operating under the state
law.
Atty. Gen. Malcolm Seawell de
nied he was campaigning to get
the oil companies to halt the prac
tice and eliminate the necessity
for court action.
He said the Fair Trade Act, as
applied to gasoline, would not
stand up if it were tested in the
courts.
Under the law, fair trade oil
companies dictate to dealers the
minimum retail price of gasoline.
The prices have been bouncing
up and down throughout the state
in recent weeks.
Seawell hinted he would go into
the courts when he sjwke recently
at Dunn. He also said he would
ask the 1961 General Assembly to
repeal the Fair Trade Law as be
ing contrary to the public inter
est.
He has contended that through
the law the major companies were
forcing independents out of bus
iness.
Seawell said any action brought
by his office would challenge the
law on the grounds that it does not
apply to gasoline dealers because
their product is not sold in con
tainers bearing the brand name.
The Fair Trade Law has been
tested by the State Supreme Court
only once in 20 years since its en
actment. It was ruled constitution
al in an opinion written by the late
Associate Justice A. A. F. Seawell,
the attorney general’s father.
New Name
NEW YORK AP — A new
name in the 1960 New York
Social Register published Mon
day; Anne Marie Rasmussen
Rockefeller, o n e-time house
maid.
The blue book of New York
society lists) Anne Marie’s mar
riage at her home in Norway
Aug. 22 to Steven Rockefeller,
son of Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller ofl New York. They met
while she worked as a domestic
in the Rockefeller home.
Light Plane Crashes Near Raleigh;
One Injured, Crew Reported Safe
RALEIGH AP — Three of four
Army men parachuted to safety to
day just before their light plane
crashed in Umstead State Park
near the Raleigh-Durham Airport.
The pilot went down with the
disabled craft and was injured.
The airport’s traffic control tower
identified him as Capt. Brady. A
report said he stumbled out of the
wreckage, made his way to a farm
house, and was taken to the air
port.
Two of the other men in the
plane were identified as 1st Lt.
Paul H. Ray, 26, and the copilot,
1st Lt. Carl Ritz.
The plane was en route from
Ft. Bragg to Newark, N. J., when
motor trouble developed near the
Raleigh-Durham Airport. Ray, who
had hitched a ride on the plane to
Newark, said he was the first to
jump out. Ray and another soldier
had tossed a coin to see who would
get a seat on the northbound plane,
and Ray won.
Ray. whose home is in Mossup,
Conn., said the pilot ordered the
copilot and two passengers to bail
out when it became apparent the
craft could not reach the airport.
Ray, a member of the 82nd Air
borne Division and a veteran of
many parachute jumps, said he
bailed out at less than 1,000 feet.
He was momentarily frightened
when the chute failed to open. He
pulled the rip cord a second time
and the chute blossomed out just
above the trees, he said. He land
ed on a utility power line.
An unidentified lieutenant col
onel, second to jump, landed on
some telephone lines across a rural
road from Ray.
Copilot Ritz landed about 100
yards away in a field. A man living
nearby said he heard the plane
sputter a short time before it crash
ed.
Ray said he immediately went
to the wreck scene in a wooded
area and found an unopened chute
with some blood on it, and some
blood on nearby leaves.
The L20 plane came to rest with
its tail in the air.
Officials at the Raleigh-Durham
Airport said the pilot received
some bruises and scratches.
Authorities at the airport attrib
uted the crash to engine failure
caused by loss of oil. The radar
control tower was guiding the plane
in for a landing when the engine
failed and the plane was forced
down, an airport spokesman said.
Freed Not Troubled
About Finding Job
NEW YOftK AP — Rock ’n’
roll disc jockey Alan Freed,
who has lost both his radio and
television outlets here, says he
has plenty of work to keep him
busy.
Freed and WNEW-TV parted
ways Monday even after the
disc jockey signed a statement
for the station denying he ever
had accepted payola. The sta
tion said it wants to take over
control of all its record shows.
The Freed show was a package
deal, controlled entirely by
Freed.
He was fired Saturday by
WABC radio after he refused to
sign a simHar statement. He
SEiid then he was insulted that
the station would ask him to.
After announcing h i s break
with WNEW-TV, Freed said he
plans to continue operating
touring companies of rock ’n’
roll entertainers. He said he al
so may tour Europe and has a
10-d a y Christmas appearance
lined up here.
The Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Qoudy and
mild with occasional rain moderate
to heavy at times today and to
night, turning cooler in the moun
tains late tonight; Wednesday, par
tial clearing and turning colder
preceded by showers east portion
in forenoon; high today in the 60s
except around 70 in the vicinity of
the coast; low tonight in the 80s
in the mountains ranging to near
60s in lower coastal area.