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No. 15TH* GREENVILLE, N.C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1963 12 Pages Today Price 5 Cents$98.8 BILLION BUDCET

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Budget Sets Off Clamor In Congress

Smithfield

Judge Is Removed

SMITHFIELD. N.C. (AP) Superior Court Judge Rudolph Mintz today ordered Jack Austin removed as Judge of the Smith-ficld District Recorders Court.

Judge Mintz said he found from evidence presented by the state that Austin felcHiiousIy and corruptly used his office for his personal gain.

Austin and his attractive vrife

took the Judge's decision with no

display of emotion. Defense attorneys have Indicated an appeal will be made to the State Supreme Court.

A principal line tA defense at the removal hearing wae the con-tenti<m that the (rffenses charged against Austin occurred in a previous term of office and that he

WASHINGTON (Ai^)President Kennedys budget sailed into stormy congressional seas today. There was a clamor that unless some spending was Jettisoned, its cargo of tax cuts would never reach port intact.

Much of a chorus of alarm about the budgets deficitpractically drowning out other commentcame frran Democrats, with Republicans adding their de-nunciaticms.

Incredible. Ridiculous. "Entirely too big were some of the harsher comments of critics.

Many argued that the estimated $11.9-billion deficit would badly hurt the Presidents tax reduction proposals.

GOP leaders generally gave the budget a blistering reception.

Rep. Charles A. HaUeck of Indiana. House Republican leader, said the $98.8-bllllon budget makes a mockery of the administrations brave talk of letting the taxpayer keep more <A rus own money.

What the taxpayer thinks he will save (under Kennedys proposed reduction) will be taken away from him either by so-called tax reform or by an Increase in the cost of living, he added. Either way, the taxpayer looks like a sure loser in the end. The GOP Senate Leader, Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, called the budget incredible.

We are told the New Pnmtier is going to get over its chronic deficits by having a deficit so big that the nation will enjoy rapid growth and the Jobless will ,ccan-mence returning to work. In other words, the best way to correct mistakes is to make bigger ones. Nor did many key Democrats express warm regard for the spending plans.

Entirely too big, remarked Rep. CHarence Cannon, D-Mo, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee which handles aU spending bUls. We will look for and find places to cut it substan-

Hally without impairing national

security.

Sen. Harry P. Byrd, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, forecast a $14-bilUon deficit if the Presidents tax cut proposals are adopted by Congress. He said spending would exceed $100 bUlion.

Chairman Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., of the Senate Appropriations Committee confined his comment to a promise to give the recommendations profound study.

Sen. J. W. Pulbright, D-Ark., chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee: My flrst impres sion is that the over-all budget especially for defenseseems extraordinarily high. This fiscal situation Is a very serious one, and it is going to require a great deal of study.

Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., begged off commenting until he had a chance to study the President' recommendations.

Military Spending Scheduled At $51

could not be removed from his present term.

In giving his decision. Judge Mintz said this defense contention had merit. I have no idea, he added, what the Supreme Court will do in the event an appeal is taken. _____

Judge Mintz found that Austin Accepted bribes of $50 and $200 to fix drunk driving cases for two defendanta in Recorder's Court.

Austin, took the stand Wednesday, issuing a blanket denial of the charges. More than 20 character witnesses testified on his behalf as the hearing ended.

Austin. 36-year-old Four Oaks drug store operator and political figure, also faced a contempt of court action on charges that he tried to influence Johnston County Grand Jurors in their considera-timi of presentments against him. Re has been suspended from office.

Plans

Billion

WASHINGTON (AP)President Kennedy today outlined military spending of $51 biUi(i for next year.

With related programs, such as building of fallout shelters and atomic energy activities, the defense outlays for the coming fiscal year were estimated at $56 billion, $2.6 billion more than this year and about $10 billion more than in 1960.

Crixninal charges of bribery and kanipering with the grand Jury Are scheduled for acttoD next month.

Austin was charged with receiving money from Cecil Edward Braswell, a shipyard woricer. And James Earl Pittman, a funeral home employe, to take care of drunken driving charges Against them.

After Austin denied Uils, his lawyer attacked the character of the two men. saying they would not be delivered in the face of Austins testhiumy.

District Solicitor Archie Taylor scoffed at defense claims that the charges wers motivated by politics. He said despite the claim all the politicians who ap peared spoke on Austins behalf.

Taylor also presented a Ust of 40 (M* more cases from Austins court which had been continued indefinitely or never brought to trial.

Austin said he did not Miier the cases continued. He said Recorders Court 8(dlcltor Pope Lyon took that action.

Austin, president of the Johnston County Young Democratic Club, has been a pcdltical figure tn the area for several years.

There Is no discount price <m 'defense, said Kennedy in his budget message. The free world Imust be prepared at all times to iface the perils of global nuclear war, limited conventional conflict, and covert guerrilla activities. The 1964 budget. ha added, carries forward this adminlstra-tloBis policies to develop and strengthen the flexible and balanced forces needed to guard against each of these hazards... American military strength, the Prraldent said, is the free worldA principal bulwark against aggression. Our military forces are miglity but they roust be further strengUiened and modernized if we are to be able to resist wiy opponent, whatever his choice of weapons.

What will the hugs military package buy? Kennedy tk;ked off these Items:

Young Gunmen Steal Art Works

CARACAS. Venezuela (AP) Troops and pplice began a build-ing-to-buildlng search today of the Communist-Infested Central University for five French Impressionist masterpieces stolen by gun-waving young terrorists who invaded a Caracas art museum.

AuthoriUes believed students from the university made off with the paintings, on loan frcun France and insured for an estimated half a million dollars. Central University Is a hotbed of Castro sympathizers.

Additional land-based Minute-men ICBMs to be placed in dispersed sites, capable of withstanding a surprise attack and hitting back.

A defense spokesman said 159 additional Minutemen will be provided by the fiscal 1964 budget, to lift the planned total in the Minuteman arsenal to 950.

The financing for the last six of a total of 41 Polaris submarines. By the end of next fiscal year, 24 of these submarines with 384 missiles in their tubes will be In operation. The present Polaris fleet numbers 10.

Improved air and missile defense forces. High levels of effort will continue on developing a defense against missiles, including further testing of the Nike Zeus antimissile missile and initial development of the more advanced Nike-X surface-to-air missile, said Kennedy.

A Civil Defense fallout shelter program which the President said

would improve the chances that a large portion of the U.S. population would survive a nuclear attack.

Strengthened counterinsurgen-cy forces to help American allies deal with Communist subversion and covert aggressicm within their frontiers.

For the first time in years, the budget recommendation for the Air Force decreased, while those for the Army and Navy increased. In part this reflected Kennedys view that there is need for more powerful and flexible c(mventional forcesground, sea and airto increase the range of nonnuclear respmse to aggression.

The Air Force spending estl-for the current year is billion, for the new year billion. The Army total Increase from a present $11.87 billion to $12.17 billion. The Navy recommendation goes up from $14.19 billion to $15.10 bUlion.

Budget In Brief

WASHINGTON (AP)President Kennedys fiscal 1964 budget proposes:

Deficit Second biggest in peacetime, $11.9 billion.

Spending Highest in war or peace, $98.8 billion.

Income Pare^ by proposed tax cuts to $86.9 billion. J

Taxes Cuts/^fotaling $13.5 billion spaced over three years; Apparently to start July 1 with personal income rate reductions; partly offset later by $3.5 billion in **reforms.*

Federal debt On next June 30, $303.5 billion; one year later a record $315.6 billion.

Khrushchev Sees Wall Of Berlin

Surpasses Even

Wartime Peak

BERLIN (AP)Soviet Premier Khrushchev today visited communisms bleak and hated wall dividing Berlin and gazed thoughtfuUy

WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy proposed today an unprecedented $98.8-billion budget keyed to deficit-boosting tax cuts which he said would spark the nation toward full employment, production and purchasing power.

Kennedys spending pri^ram for the year starting July 1 would top even the highest of wartime budgets. $98.3 billion in 1944-45, and shoot the public debt to a record $315.6 billion.

Nonetheless, he Insisted it was shaped to put new life into the economy and insure efficient and frugal conduct of the government.

In a message sending his midterm budget to Congress, Kennedy acknowledged the $13.5-bUlion, three-year tax cutting plan he unveiled earlier this week would at first add red ink to federal finances. He estimated the deficit would rise from the $8.8 billion now anticipated this year to $11.9 billion.

Recommendations Kennedy sent to Capitol Hill included:

-Over-all defense spending of $55.4 billion, up $2.4 billion from

for a moment at the American egates and guests.

at the East German Communist | the current year; emphasis on a party conference where the argu-1 strong retaliatory forc^ flexible ment between Moscow and Peking! conventional forces, better air occupies the attention of 2,500 del-1 and missile defenses.

flag fluttering over nearby Checkpoint Charlie. "

Standing ai the point where U.S. and Soviet tanks confronted each other in the Berlin crisis of October 1961, he waved cheerfully to people in West Berlin.

The premier made his excursion to the wall at midday after hearing Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish Communist chief, hail him as the man who saved the world from nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban crisis.

Khrushchev spent the morning

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Eastern States In Line

For A Wanning Trend

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Subzero cold persisted in sections of the Midwest and Northeast today but a warming trend appeared oa the way for most of the eastern half of the nation.

The below zero zone in the Midwest was confined to the extreme eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, western half of Wisconsin, northeastern Nebraska, most of Iowa and in parts of northern Illinois.

In Lone Rock. Wis., one of the nations coldest spots during the severe spell of frigid weather in the last week, the mercury made a rapid rise Wednesday after dropping to 37 in the morning. It was only 3 at 11 p.m. but

Commission Committees Are Named To Facilitate Service

four hours later, the mercury had dropped to 26 below, averaging a descent of nearly eight degrees an hour. It was 15 in nearby Madison.

In Minnesota, a reading of 25 was reported in International Falls and 10 In Duluth. Minneapolis wlUi six below, had Its warmest morning this week.

In the Northeast, lowest temperatures appeared to be confined to Maine, with -23 in Old Town, -21 In MilUnocket and -18 tn Montpelier, Vt. The cold air also swept into New York State Wednesday, dropping temperatures to suteero marks, with records for the date in some cities. But readings generally were above zero this morn

ing.

Seven committees were appointed Wednesday night to make commission consideration more readily available to tne Pitt Oounty Development Commissions executive director.

The reason for the committees Is to help bridge the gap between regular meetings of the fuU commission, established on a monthly basis, when urgent matters needing consideration by members arise.

In other action at Wednesdays aeeting, the commission set a

mMting to consider proposed

ground water survey for Jan. 30. Representatives of the county's municipal governments are scheduled to meet with the commission to discuss that matter.

The commission also gave Chairman Leonard Bloxam power to name a committee to proceed with renovations and repairs to the directors office tn the county Eklwards Building. Bloxam appointed Corey Stokes and J. J. Edwards to study the project, which would cost be-

Note Questions Raised On School Construction

Questions by some Pitt Coun-tlans about the construction schedule of the county's $400,000 Industrial Education Center were reflected Wednesday night in discussion among members ci the Pitt Development Comn^-lon.

fleveral commissioners said their fellow townsmen were wondering when theyll begin to lay brick.**

Lloyd P. Bpauldlng. dlrectur of the center, has reported m the Board of Sducafion that a tentative schedule calls for initial construction by March 15.

That target date, which depends on final state approval of by About Feb. 1, would

place completion of the building around Nov. 1.

Meanwhile, however, Spauldings program has grown since last September to include several courses offered where temporary quarters have been found availAble.

As of this week, about 450 per sons had been trained or were enrolled in claaoes offeivd throuiNi the program.

Dr. O. Sylvester Oreen, executive director of the Development Cocnmisaion. relayed a report that .the prcrame night-class arrangement has exceeded a similar night-lnstruction pri-gram In a neighboring county whose training center is already completed and in use.

tween $1,800 and $2,200, he sali.

Conunissioners also extended authority to a special committee to consider bids from Pitt auto dealers to replace the commissions 1959-model car used by the director.

Outside the cold belts, temperatures were mostly in the teens to the 20s in interior sections of the country. They were in the 30s and 40s along the Pacific Coast and most of the central and southern sectims of the Atlantic Coast.

The board, with 11 of 17 members present, voted to canoel the February meeting*' which coincided with a Feb. 20 area industrial conference in Rocky Mouur.. Members who attend the Rockv Mount meeting will have their $1.75 luncheon paid for from Development Commission fund.s.

Following is a list of the seven committees:

Sites and Buildings: Dal Cox. chairman; Ployd P. Harris, R. B, Michaels and R. E. Boyd.

Financing: Wiley A, Gaskin, chairman; Frank K. Allen and J. M. Horton.

Agribusiness: J. B. Congleton Jr., chairman; J. J. Edwards, D R. House Jr, W. Leslie Elks and J. Alan Parker.

Contacts and Cmnmunlcatlon: Robert Lee Humber, chairman, Corey Stokes, Robert L. Martin and Norman R. Wooten.

Executive Committee: Leonard P. Bloxam, chairinan; Corey Stokes, vice chairman; Dal Cox, Wiley A. Gaskins, J. B. Congleton Jr. and Robert Lee Humber.

Ground Water Survey: Robert L. Martin, L. P. Bloxam, C. Sy(-vester Green.

Area Redevelopment Administration; J. B. Congleton Jr., J. J. Edwards, J. M. Horton, J Alan Parkar and Norman R. Wooten.

Most <i Southern California, southeast Texas, and the Gulf coastal region had marks into the 60s, with 70-degree readings In southern Florida. The moderating trend continued in the Southeast I with early morning lows mostly in the middle and low 20s in Tennessee, north and central parts of Alabama and Georgia and most of the Carolinas. The upper 30s were reported In a few spots In northwest. Florida.

Snow waa indicated during the day from northern Idaho into northern Nevada. Utah and Colorado eastward through Montana, the Dakotas and southern Minnesota. The snow belt also was expected to cover areas across eastern Wycxnlng, eastern Nebraska and extreme northwestern Missouri.

Reidsville Tries Integrated School

Pupils Unready Make Change

DURHAM. N.C. (AP) An opportunity to transfer to predominantly white schools here has been turned down by three-fourths of 183 Negro pupils eligible by court order to make the change.

The City Board of Education disclosed Wednesday night that only 46 of the 183 were assigned to the white schools, effective next Tuesday. The other 137 were granted requests to remain in the Negro schools they jutt now attending.

The board said many of those who turned down the transfer notified the board, however, they wanted to change to the white schools at the beginning of the next school year.

The 183 pupils won the right io change schools when the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a lower federal court to provide for their transfer in the current school year/i

The pupilk were plaintiffs in a consolidated suit brought against the school board after their initial requests for transfer to white schools had been turned down in 1959 and 1960.

Identify Boy As Girl's Strangler

BOSTON (AP)Police Commis-sdoner Edmund L. McNamara

Gomulka demanded that the (Chinese Communists cease theii attacks on Soviet policies and show greater modesty and moderation' in their dealings with Moscow.

Gomulka went right down the jcountries line to make it clear that he was selves.

Space programs costing $4.2 billion, an increase of $1.8 billion: manned space flight efforts to get meet of the total, with the goal of getting a man to the moon.

Foreign aid totaling $4,945,-000,000 with special attention for willing to help , thenk

mente. DiUcm said the rate lulopt-ed for the year, more than an effective daie, would detennire how much less ts taken from each taxpayer.

1 Kennedy's program to Juice u* the economy is adopted in 1963, Dillon said, the budget should be balanced by 1966-67 if not the previous fiscal year. But only if Congress also adopts reforms designed to bring in an-additiCMial $3.5 billion a year, he asserted, can the country enjoy cute Kennedy is recommending and still be fiscally sound.

Budget Director Kermit Gordon report the Defense Department escaped Kennedys economy tat altogether but money requcsis from aU other departments wei e sliced $7 billion to $8 billion.

Declaring false economy would jeopardize the national interest, Kennedy recommended increased spending for defense and space efforts.

Pending a separate message, Kennedy withheld details on his education prcram. He didnt tell whether he again will recommend federal aid for school construction and teacher salaries, a proposal spiked on the religious issue in the last Congress. But he said spending should rise $165 million to $1.5 billion and he requested a doubling to $3 billion of appropriations for immediate and future use. ^

Another bid for medical care for the aged financed through Social Security taxes; a new request for a Cabinet-level Depait-ment of Urban Affairs. Detailed recommendations will be made later for aid to education, farm and other programs.

For peacetime, the anticipated no Inclination to ac-i$l 1.9-billion deficit would be sec-Berlln Mayor Willy |ond only to the $12.4 billion in

backing Khrushchev without qualification in the argument with Peking. He also urged that this argument be taken out of the worlds gaze and be settled by private discussions.

With East German party chief Walter Ulbricht at his side, Khrushchev then went to the wall. He showed cept West

Brandts suggestion that he look at the wall from West Berlin.

He approached the border at the U.S. sectors Friedrichstrasse crossing point.

Brandt, in an Interview early this month, suggested that Khrushchev get a first-hand picture of the real conditions in both parts of divided Berlin. But Khrushchev made no move to cross over Into the West.

In bright sunshine, Khrushchev stood at the first red-and-white striped pole East Berlin.

Poppe, the East German commandant of East Berlin, stood at his side explaining the layout of the crossing point.

On the western side, an American Army officer in steel helmet and combat equipment stood near the dividing line watching the activity in the ea.st.

A line of 10 East German border guard officers stopped pedestrians crossing while Khrushchev was at the checkpoint.

The Soviet premier walked forward to the white line across Friedrichstrasse marking the border between East and West.

Standing two feet from the line Khrushchev grinned and waved cheerfully to a group of Western newsmen six feet away from him.

Then Khrushchev made a gesture with his hand, indicating it was time to go back. The group turned around and walked back into East Berlin.

They disappeared behind the maze of concrete obstacles across

curred under former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958-59. But Kennedy argu^ a 1963-64 deficit Is unavoidable, even at the present level of taxes. The choice, he said, lies between accepting a chronic deficit of Inertia due to inadequate economic growth and a temporary deficit causad by programs designed to generate the economy, increase revenues and eventually achieve budget surpluses.

, The first type of deficit Is a barring entry intOjsigjj of waste and weakness, he Maj. Gen. Helmut argued. The secwid Is an investment in the future.

Kennedy foresaw receipts of $86.9 billion. He offered this reasoning to conclude that reduced taxes will start producing new revenues in the year ahead;

Tax cuts taking effect in 19^ he didnt say whenwould by themselves decrease government income for the fiscal year some $5.3 billion. But two factors trim the net loss from what might have been expected to $2.7 billion. These are a speedup in collection of corporation taxes, which now lag six months, and the advance tal taxable income antipipated from the stimulus of a cut in rates. And despite this loss, receipts actually will increase $1.4 billion from the 1962-63 estimate of $85.5 billion -because of an enlivened economy.

Thus Kennedy sought to rebut conservatives in Congress who denounce rising deficits as fiscal irresponsibility and are reluctant to fv.o ..0,4 ,4oo4,roH ^^t taxcs whco thc government

! ledger is In the red. o Nowhere did Kennedy name the

from breaking through the Com.-! munist barriers. '

BRIDGE MONEY

WASHINGTON (AP) - In his

said 15-yew-old boy has budget message today. President

REIDSVILLE. N.C. (AP)-Two Negro elementary school students' entered white schools here Wednesday for the citys first school integration. There were no incidents.

Herbert Ziglar Jr., a second grade student, began classes at South End Elementary School. Earl Ray Puss, a fifth grade student, began classes at the North End Elementary School.

The City B,oard of Educatlqn reassigned the two students Moih day At the requ^ ol their pArente.

been identified as the strangler of a 16-year-old Roxbury girl on Jan. 5.

McNamara said the Negro youth was wie of four questiwied at headquarters for several hours. He said the youth will be arraigned in Roxbury District Court Ml a charge of being a delinquent chUd.

McNamara said the accused youth has denied any c<Hmecticm with the slaying.

The commissioner said the boy who identified the accused youth admitted being in the alley when the girl was slain.

The body of Daniella Saunders was found in an alley not far from her home in the Roxbury District the night of Jan. 6.

She was the ninth female strangling victim in Greater Boston liT the past seven months. None of the slayings has been solved.

A popular high school Junior, Miss Saunders was bom In Munich, Germany. She was the daughter of an American Negro Army veteran and a German war bride.

Police have said they doubt there was any connection between the slaying of Miss Saunders and those Q the oilier women.

After examining the girls body. Medical Examiner Richard Ford said the girl had not been sexually abused. Neither was Uiere any fWdencA of robbery.

Kennedy asked for $500,(X)0 as a contribution to North Carolina toward the cost of constructing a $4 million bridge across Oregon Inlet in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation

effective date in 1963 on which he based his projection of a tax cut's effect CHI revenues. He held back most details for a special message to Congress later this month.

Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon expressed hope Congress would enact personal tax reductions some time this summer. Taxpayers then would feel the benefits in lower payroll withholdings or lower quarterly pay-

In another ccHitroverslal field, ha suggested total spending of $3.75 blUion on foreign aid. This would include $2.3 billion for economio asstetance and represent a net decrease of $1(X) mllon to the entire program. He asked for an appropriation, however,: of $4.9 billion. Thats Just about what he asked for a year ago. Congress cut out a bUlion.

For all functions of government, Kennedy requested new appropri-aticnis of $96.5 billicxi. These are the figures Congress debates. Appropriations control much of cur^ rent spending, although part of the nearly $99 billion Kennedy proposes to spend has been previously authorized.

The President faces opposition to both his spending and tax plans because the debt they will create.

Last year Congress raised tha temporary Hmit to $308 bJDlon, provldtng for a drop to $305 billion next April 1. to $300 btUkxi oa June 25 and back to the permanent ceiling of $285 billlDn oa July 1.

Says Hollywood Has Lost Touch

LOS ANGELES (APl-Actress Helen Hayes says motlra pictures are in an era. of terrible trouble because Hollywood has lost touch with public taste.

If Hollywood Is still fa the Tennessee Williams era. the rest of the country isnt, the famed stage star said Wednesday.

Hollywood went all arty and then went into the grim, Italian phase, she said. Now its simply in an era of terrible trouble.* Miss Hayes is here to appear in a play.

Where It Goes

WASHINGTON (AP)~Ever wonder where your tax money goes? Heres how President Kennedy plans to split up your tax dollar in fiscal 1964: Defense and foreign aid, 58 cents; space, 4 cents; interest on federal debt, id*cents; agriculture 6 cents; veteranA, 4 cents; all other, 16 cents.

And this is where each budget dollar will come from: Individual income tax, 47 cents: corporation income tax 24 cents; excise taxes, 11 cents; government borrowing, 11 cents; other sources. 7 cents.

Record Year Noted By First Federal Savings & Loan Ass^n

Another record year was reported to shareholders of First Federal Savings dc Loan Association at their 26th annu 1 meeting here Wednesday night.

Clarence B. Tugwell, executive vice president, reviewed the associations performance during 1962 before stockholders reelected directors whose thre3-year*' terms expired. Pollowin? the shareholders meeting, tlie board elected association officers.

In his report, Tugwell said assets of First Federal climbed by $1.224,122.06 during the past yesr an 11 per cent increaseto a new high of $12,516.39'i.74.

Net savlhgs gained $750,U<i0 during 1962, Tugwell tqd, to a new total of $11 369.450.

Tugwells report also dtsclosei the association reported divideiut pa3hncnts totaling $414,979.07, based ona dividend rate ol lour

per cent.

"This high, rate of return on savings and continued improvements in customer service, saW Tugwell, have increased the associations number of savings accounts to 5,094.*

The associations annual report showed a First Federal mortgage-lending volume rose to $2,794.000 in 1962. A great majority of this, Tugwell said, was secured by mortgages on new and existing homes.'*

He reported that $106,712.17 was added to reserve holdings. This Increases total reserves to 5.7 per cent of total savings at year ? end, 'Tugwell said, and noted; Tliat figure Is well above the requirements of regulatory authorities.

First Federal President Dink James, who presided t his 26 h irtraight annual meeting, recalled that tha association during its

26-year history has never repossessed a single home or real estate property on which It hsa a mortgage.

The president commended the loan committee and the loan department for that achievement. He also praised the as^-ciation for always immcdiate^v honoring all withdrawal requeate on savings accounts and for paying a subatantial dlvidend on savings every year."

Directors re-elected included C. B. Tugwell. Kenneth O. lOte, M. K. Blount and C. Frank DeU.

At the board meeting, the lei-lowing officers were rt-tected: , Dink James, president; C B. Tugwell. executive vlee preKl-dent; Roicoe U King, Mcretary; and Allle P. Whitehurst. treAV arer.

Robert S. Messner, fornter loan officer, waa elected ani eeretazy.