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1) > l> V For More TKan THIRTY YEABS Hamii^ .Cognty^s DEPENDABLE NeTOpaper IT'S YOUR COMMUNITY Do somethli^r io heUp make your coiimiumt]^ as good as you think it ous^hfc to be HARNETT COUNTY NEWS CONSTRUCTIVE... Hsra^i 0«ly CoimtyMAt NewspaiMr ... PROGRESSIVE VoL XXXIl—No. 2S 12.00 PER YE AR-Se A COPY Ulliiiftmiy N. C« tliurtdayy Jun« 29, 1960 *T# It HanMtt, IPs In THE NEWS’* In and Out of Lillington PHOOBT ON THB LOT OF ’MUt Never having harbored any but the very poorest sort of opinion of bankrobbera, there’s nothing they could do to change our mind about them, except of course to right about face quit their meanness. But even for that, it’s not treating Harnett county's best newrpspsr with any consideration at all when a rascal stages a bankrobbery im mediately after we go to press. It he was Just going to do it any way. why couldn’t he do it a little earlier ao that we could record his escapade? Pbooey on him and the rest of ’em! 0*0 rttm sxw» OBTs abound Mrs. Jim Shaw took a ride in the Bookmobile with Miss Jean McKay the other day. and Miss Jean Intro duced her guest rider to the folks at the various station stops. When Mrs. Shaw was introduced to a young lady far out in the rural area, the young lady said: “Oh yes. you are the lady who has the strawberries the birds love so uell.” The News has toid of the trying experiences Mrs. Shaw was having with the berry-eating birds. « • * C'RElOr OWNERSHIP The other day as the tree-manl- C'uring crew took a station in front of The News office to give the shade trees a going-over, a young man's tar was standing In the way of the “tree truck" and the driver wanted it moved. He said to the young man: "Is that your car?” ••No." said the young man, “It be longs to the credit company, I’m Just driving it,” as he moved it to a new parking place. EXECUTIVES GRANT AID TO SCHOOL BUILDING FUND VOTE TO RAISE TAX RATE 8 CTS. FOR NEXT YEAR SchcM>l Board Needs $63,863.55 More To Complete Buildings • • • ••KEDBUOS"—^PLAIN ENIMJQH While they were telling the Ro- tarlans cf the activities of the Girl Scoirts in their Day Camp, one of fhe ladles wasn’t so sure about tbe correct name of the little insects that were biting them so much. Was it chlggers, or was it Jiggers? Anyway, she’d heard somebody say both, so when she came to tell of hev experience, she Just said plain "red- bugs.” and everybody knew what she meant. • • * MADE UP LOST TIME The weather and everything seem ed to work against the tobacco farm ers at the beginning of the present season, but tobacco is one farm pro duct that makes up for lost time M it's Riven half a chance, Mr. Gordon Long of Angler was here one dyy last week, and when asked about the caring season in bis neighborhood', he ftated that some farmers would 'begin biirnlng to bacco within a few days. Reports from most sections of tbe count}' state that tobacco Is "looking about as good as usual.” At a Joint meeting of the Board of County Commissioners and the Board of Ed'ucatfon, held Monday night in courthouse auditorium, the tJounty Executives voted to provide |6'3,863.6& to assure completion of school building projects which have been adopted by the Board of Edu cation and approved by the State Board. Plan for providing the fund is to raise the school tax levy from 60 cents, as outllnetl in the tentative budget for 1950-51, to 68 cents. This will provide between $25,000 and $30,000, and the balance of the need ed sum is to be used from the treas ury surplus. County Auditor Herbert Carson states that be expects the surplus to run to probably $76,000, Much of this was derived from receipts on deliriquent taxes incident to foreclos ure proceedings started by County Attorney W. A. Johnson. Old Acc’t. Boole Shows Prices, Wages Were Mighty Low If you had to pay prices now that prevailed fifty years ago, you’d not be worrying over the high cost of living. But then again you might too if you were working today for the wages paid at that time. An old account book has been handed to The News which gives an idea of the “good old days” as they are so often called' now. The little book, a small affair put out by the Acme Fertilizer Company of Wil mington, is yellowed by age, and has been "silvered” through and through —by sllvertish. But most of the memoranda kept in It are still legible. Here’s a sample; A man purchased 10 pounds of bacon at 8 cents, cost i80c. Then he was credited with 2 day’s labor at tiOc a day—which paid for his bacon. But he was a high-priced laborer. Another worked a day and was paid 26c, with which he bought a chicken, price 16c. Another customer bought a half bushel of peas and paid 32c. But his evidently in those family, along with others, consumed a lot of'.bacon days. Six and a quarter pounds went along with his peas. 'Still another custo-mer bought: 15 pounds of bacon, $1.21; one hog's 'bead, 10c; half bushel of corn, 30c; ( 1-4 pounds of Jaw mekt, 20c. He worked' a day and reduced his bill by 40c. The little book records the price 9f corn as 40c per bushel; a plug of tobacco, 5c; «ymp (sorghum), COc a gallon; lard 10c a pound; flour, 3 l-2c a pound; and the merchant paid 15c a head for the chickens he sold for 2-0!. In those days of close prices, the merchant used decjmals up to four oT five figures to get at the sum total paid in or out—one account had tagged on at the end l-2c, but the settlement didn’t show whether the vendor or the enstomers got the benefit of the fraction. Accounts were started in the book in 1897 and were wound up by set- i tlement -during the early part of 1900. Willis Smith Upsets Lead In Fiist Primafy With 30,000 Majority In The Second North Carolina's Next Junior Senator Present at the meeting were ail members of the Commission, and WEEVIL SHOWING three of the School Board members. Motion to take action to provide the additional funds was made by Com missioner Pielde and seconded by Com-missloner Gregory. Commission ers Senter and Tysinger voted in the negative, and Chairman Tart broke the tie by voting in the affirmative. School Board members present were Chairman Thomas, Nichols and Baggett. Before making his 'motion, €om- misetoner Fields asked Cbairnwn Thomas If there would be more re- (Continued on page eight) SUPERIOR COURT ENDS JUNE TERM LAST WEDNESDAY $25,000 Damage Suit Cate Appealed To Supreme Court 0 * let ’EM KNOW ABOUT IT Bill Sharpe stopped In one day last week on his way to Lumbewon. said his company, tbs Carolina Powet ft Light, Is placing a large billboard with a sign letting the pub lic know what "it is.” Bill said so many people came by the OPftL’s big new steam plant at Lumberton and wanted to know "what big factory is that?” The Lumberton plant of tbe CFftL is ono of tbe units placed In North Carol na to make electricity even more abundant. Incidentally, every one who knows anything at a'.l about North Carolina knows that there has never been a shortage of electricity in this State. * * * ANOTHER MYSTERY -ItAi Just another mystery, and it’s of no importance, but we’d'Just like to know why any automobile owner would want white sidewall tires on the newest makes which have steel curtains coming all tbe way down to near the bottom of tbe wheels, cov ering up the "extra-costing” tires. « « « FANCY NAME, PLAIN HOOD Wheeler McMillan, editor of the Farm Journal, says that when ht- went over to Europe on tbs "lie de France” he looked over the menu card before ordering hie dinner, in tending to try some fancy French food. His eye caught "Cassoulet de Castelnaitdary” and be ordered It. He says: "If you run across that food on a menu, by all means order ft. You’ll like It—'It’a good—it's Just (Continued on page two) The June term of Harnett Su perior Court came to a close last Wednesday afternoon after being in session for a .week and a half, a ra ther long session for a civil term of court in the county. The last case that was heard be fore presiding Judge Chester Morris was that of Avant Tart vs. 'D. Archie Edwards and Jamos Ernest Johnson. This case, tor $25,000 damages re sulting from an automobile wreck, took up practically all o.f the second ■week of the session. The case was temporarily ended Wednesday after noon when tbe jury returned a Judg ment awarding Tart $}0,0/00. The defendants immediately gave notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court. I>V>ur other cases growing out of the same automobile wreck are still pending tbe final outcome of ihe Tart case. It will be sometime this fail before the final decision Is known. The next session of the court will convene the first week in September. It will be a one-week criifilnal term. WAR ON BOLL GOOD RESULTS Weevil Count Being Made In County Each Monday "Results are being obtained in t/ie cotton insect control progra'tp that is being followed by farmerk WACKY HOLDUP BRINGS NO LOSS TO ANGIER BANK All of $52,500 Taken Recovered Within. Few Minutes A cap pistol, a tow sack handkerchl^ were only and Implements “H. (] and a arms (Harry) throughout Harnett County,” stated: Hamilton used to rob the First- County Agent C. R. Ammons here today. The County Agent’s office in cooperation with Mr. George D. Jones, Extension Entomologist and Eddie Clement of State College are making boll weevil counts each Mon- da}r in 16' fields throughout the county. Five of these are treated fields and five are untreated fields. These fields for last Monday were located in the following townships: Hector’s Creek, iNeill’s Creek, Stew art’s Creek and Averasboso. The results of these counts are as follows; On the treated fields was 8.3 per cent and on the untreated field's the infestation was 31 per cent. In most cases the treated qnd untreated fields only have farm roads between them. Indications are now that 75 per cent of adult weevils over-wintering have now come out and are in the cotton fields and that 25 per cent of the over-wintering weevils are yet to emerge 'from hibernation. Information this year so far indicates that we have an all time high for the number of weevils to survive winter in this area. The state figures along this line includ ing all the cotton -counties show a comparison as follows; In untreated fields there is infestation ranging from 22.3' per cent to 70.7 per cent of the squares punctured and*' in treated fields there is an infestation on a state level of 3.5 per cent to 24 per cent. This covers fields which have had at least one application of (Continued on page eight) Citizens Bank & Trust Company at Angler of $52,506 Wednesday morn ing of last week. I Within a very few minutes after the would-be robber ran from the bank, he was in custody and the mone/ was being put back in the bank vaults by Cashier Charlie Fields and bis assistauts, Mrs. Marie Roderick, Mrs. Rachel Salmon and* Norman Smith. Not having any way of knowing ■whether the holdup was genuine or wacky, .the bank officials allowed Hamilton to take the monejr, put It in ''is sack, and leave the 'bank. But quick thinking on tbe part of the officials 'brought ready response to their - calls for aid. Henry C. Strickland, Jr., Angler insurance* man, tripped Hamilton with his foot as the man ran along the street a few feet from the bank. Mr. Strick land’s father, Attorney H, C. Strick land, was close at hand and went down with his son on top of the rob ber. Soon two other Angler citliens came up, Edward Matthews, filling station operator, and Norwood 'Dor man, jeweler, and they too helped to subdue Hamilton, holding him til Angler Police Chief Wade Adams ar rived. Chief Adams relieved Hamil ton of his toy pistol and turned him (Continued on page eight) RALEIGH MAN THROWS SURPRISE IN RUN-OFF RACE Total Vote Also Big Surprise, Ruiming Beyond Expectations W114.IS SMITH HARNETT DID ‘ABOUT-FACE’ IN RUN-OFF PRIMARY Reverses Itself and Gives Smith Majority Of 275 Votes Three New Members On Next Board County Commissioners Harnett county’s new Board of County Commissioners, which will be sworn into office on the first Mon day of next De^cembei', will have two old and three new members. Coming from the First iDlstrict, embracing Averasboro township, will be the present chairman, L. A. Tart, of Dunn, who had no opposition in the primary, Mr. Tart will likely re main chairman of the new board, but that of course is left to the mem bers when they meet to organize. . Prom tbe Second District, compos ed of Duke and Grove townships, Robert L. Pate, who formerly served on the board for several terme, comes back to serve again. He was unopposed in tbe primary. Carson Gregory oi Grove, who holde the Second District memberships, was nominated (or the House of Repre- sentmtfvss. In tbe Third District, Charlie G. Fields of Angler, who has served (or the past two years, will be on the board again. He won out in the run off primary over Rufus L. Mangum. In the first primary he had' two op ponents, Mr. Mangum and Leo Betts of Buck'horn. The Third ‘District is composed of Black 'River, Neill’s Creek, Hector’s Creek and 'Buckhorn townships. In the Fourth District a brand new member comes in the person ot Worth Lee Byrd, an electrical con tractor of Lillington. He deJeated J. E. Womble in the run-off June 24. In the first primary he had two op ponents. the incumbent J. A. Senter and Womble. The 'Fourth District embraces Lillington, Stewart’s Creek and Anderson Creek townships. 'Representing ^ the Fifth District,, composed of Upper Little River, Bar becue and JohnsonvIUe townships, Will be B. P. Ingram of Mamers. He will take the place of Paul Tysinger of Barbecue, who declined to run LOCAL FUTURE FARMERS ATTEND WHI'TE LAKE CAMP Prof# J# H. Blocknion and! Eighteen Chapter. Members Enjoy Annual Encampment The Ltlllngton Chapter ot Future Farmers accompanied by Prof. J. H. Blackmon attended their White Lake camp last week along with other PFA boys from all over the state. The Lillington group left tor camp on Monday, June 19 and returned on Saturday, June 24. Each day at camp was filled with recreational "activities such as soft ball, volleyball, baeketball, ping pong, shuffle board, and- swimmiug. Denning Smith and John McLeod ot the Lillington Chapter were declared the Champion shuffle board players of tbe entire camp. The following members ot the Lil lington Chapter attended camp: Richard Byrd, Bunnlevel; Dewey Adams, Hill M-urchison, and Jack Pegram, Bunnlevel R-1; M, B. Wade, and Bonny Ballard, Lillington iR-3; Billy Mason, John McLeod, Leo Mc Donald, Fitzhttgh Jobieon, Leo Kel- Harnett voters did a complete about face in the run-off primhry for United States Senator last Saturday. They also turned out in larger num bers than in many years. A total of 7,061 votes were cast in the Sena torial nomination. Of the 7,051 votes counted, 33'8i8 were for Prank P. Graham and 36-83 were for Willis Smith. This is a reversal of the results of the first primary of May 27th when Graham ran ahead ot Smith by about 1000. votes. The upset was a complete surprise to Graham supporters in Harnett county, who felt confident that their favored candidate would win in the county by somewhere around the’ same margin as in the first primary. Surprising to all, too, was the huge vote. Not until the returns were in did anyone venture an opinion that the total vote would be larger than in the first -primary—around 6500—but tbe popular -belief was that it would fail anywhere from 10 to 25 per cent below the first vote. Both the forces for Smith and for Graham were very active during the run-off campaign, and continued that activity throughout Saturday (Continued on page eight) LOCAL VFW POST TO STAGE DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT Prizes Will Be Given In Contests; Main Street Festival Scene Another of .those delightful, pleas ing, and enjoyable street dances will be staged tomorrow (Friday) night June 30, in Lillington, by Lillington Post No. 671'1, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Official announcer for the events will be Carl Byrd, and prizes will be awarded in the various contests which will be held on Main street with entrances blocked off for tbe benefit of the merrymakers. Music will be furnished for the dances as wel) as tor the entire fes tival. Each year the Post conducts these fun festivals In order to raise funds for completion of its but which stands on the east side ot Front street north of the N-S railroad. Officers of the Post expect to make the 1960 event outstanding from the point ot attendance. Voters of North Carolina surprised everybod)’, including themselves, in last Saturday’s run-off primary to decide between Frank Graham and 'JVillts Smith as to which should be the State’s next Junior Senator. The total vote ran near 550,000, far greater than any estimate made previous to election day. That was one surprise, .\nother was the over coming by Smith of a 53,000 lead by Graham in the May 27 primary, and sealing up the heights to around 30,- 000 majority over Graham in the run-off. Heated argument and an intense drive for votes marked the short campaign between June 7—the date Smith called for a run-off—and June 24. But most participants in both camps have followed the lead of the contestants—the shaking of hands and extending congratulations. .\IU( H SVITTCHING Notable in the run-off primary the switching. Evidence in the was total vote shouts that many who voted for Graham in the first r-ace turned to Smith in the second. Observers who looked tor an ex planation ot thia turn-over saw in the recent U. S. Supreme Court de cision a solar plexus blow to the Graham candidacy. Smith, thousands of voters reasoned, would be the best man to represent North Carolina since the race question was brought to the fore. Of minor effect, it is thought by political observers wUI\in the Demo cratic Party, was the issue of "gov ernment spending.” Clinching tbe statewide popularity of Graham, however, was the fact that more than a quarter of a mil lion voters stuck to him throughout the second primary. C. H. Hood Named On Safety Committee 'C. H. Mood of Lillington, head ot Harnett school bus transportation system, has been appointed by John A. Park of Raleigh as a jnamber of the Governor’s committee to studir highway safety. Demonstrations Being Given On Tobacco Sucker Control again, Mr, Ingram serv^ for some- 'ly, Teddy Eason, Leighton Parker, time on the board several years ago. 'and Denning Smith, Lillington «-$; He comes back to the board- as tho Edward- Manning and Jasper Temple, first representative from Upper Lit- Erwin »-l; Wyatt Ausley and Bobby tie River since his term expired. Passmore, Lillington. County Agent C. R. Ajnmons Is starting this week on demonstrations in Harnett fields tor control of suckers on tobacco. The methods have proven successful in tests, he said, and now tbe effort is being made to abow its effectiveness in the fields. Two treatments will be tried. One is with naphthaleneactic acid tablets, the other with -mineral oil. The method for the tablets Is; Top the plant by the tl-me a third to a half of the flowers are open. Use a bluntly sharpened ‘pencil to punch a depression in the pith at the top where tbe top is broken out. Lay ode tablet in the depression and press it down with blunt end of -pencil. Pull suckers. With mineral oil: Top the plant before suckers grow, leaving a stub above tip leaf. Brush oil on stub on top and all sides. The Instructions from tbe Exten sion Tobacco Gpeclaljsts state; "The naphthaleneactic acid and mineral oil are not recommended for general^ use by farmers at this time. The rnfluence on the chemical qualities and aroma and flavor have not been fully evaluated as yet. We would not like to see a large acreage of tobacco treated with these mater ials this year. It a grower Is inter ested-in trying the mineral oil, we suggest that he limit the treatment to 12- to 20 plahta.’’ HARNETT CH.4NGED OVER Voters of Harnett county gave Graham a majority over Smith in the first primary of around 1,600. But in the run-off. Smith ran ahead of Graham by 276 votes. By their switching. Harnett voters managed to get on the winning side in both primaries—something very unusual in this county, according to the oldest observers. Harnett voters, too. flocked to tbe polls in even greater numbers in tbe second primary than in the firs^. On May 27 there were around 1,500 votes cast in the Senatorial race. Last Saturday there were over 7,000 votes registered. Recognizing the ability of both contestants in the Senatorial race, staid .Dmnocrats ot Harnett county wore almost ot one voice in tbe ex pression. "Glad it's over." Campaign managers for both Gra ham and Smith in Harnett county have issued expressious ot apprecia tion to their helpers in the campaign. Lamar Simmons of LUliagton and V. (X Swanson of Erwin were the managers tor Smith, and Attorney W. A. (Bill) Johnson ot Lillington managed (he Graham campaign. LOST COLONY TOP ATTRACTION OF DARE'S COAST Paul Green’s Symplioiiic Drama Opens At Mantoe July 1st The out- has (By Ay«ock Brown) Since its premier in 1937, Lost Colony, longest running door production in America, been the top attraction ot the Dare Coast which has long been famous one ot America’s most unusual vacation lands. Most ot the persons who go to see Paul Green’s sym phonic drama, which opens this year on July 1, remain to spend a vaca tion or plan to return at a later date to enjoy the beaches, sportatishlng, visit the historic spots or Just to relax in the »an and surf. (Coutlnued on page eight) iii ligitfiiitiirifiTlM'Urfrtiliii
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