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...District (Lake Charles) since 1952, champion of wildlife conservation; of injuries sustained when he was struck by a swerving tractor-trailer while standing on a parking strip off a 4-lane highway talking to a patrolman who had stopped him for speeding; on Interstate 85, near Gastonia...
...Issue. Most talked about reason for Southern restlessness is Jack Kennedy's Roman Catholicism. "We haven't come as far from '28 as I thought," said a North Carolinian last week. Kennedy is being openly chastised from many a Protestant pulpit. Dr. Ward V. Barr of Gastonia, N.C.'s First Baptist Church says flatly: "I fear Catholicism more than I fear Communism...
...studied economics at Harvard ('17), helped to edit the Crimson. In World War I, as an infantry major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year-old Spence Love went to his father's home town of Gastonia, N.C., persuaded local residents to put up another $80,000 to buy control of a clangorous old cotton mill. When cottons sagged and real estate surged in 1923, Love sold the plant for $200,000 but kept the machinery. He moved it into a modern plant that industry-hungry boosters built...