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For More THan THIRTY YEARS Haniett County’s DEPENDABLE Newsp^er -*WB IT^S YOUR COMMUNITY Do something to help miJce your community as gti|M you think it ought to;|>e HARNETT COUNTY NEWS CONSTRUCTIVE... Harnett's Only Countyseat Newspaper ... PROGRESSIVE Vol. XXII—.No. 48 $2;00 YEAR—Sc A COPY Lillington* N. C., Thursday, December 7, 1960 **lf It Concenss Harnett, IPs In THE NEWS** In and Out of Lillington OUT.OP-SCHOOL TRAINING Some five dozen Boone Trail stu dents now know more about the heavens and earth than they would probably sver learn In their dally ' classroom lessons. They went to Chapel Hill last Thursday to visit Hie Planatarlum and witness the Christmas pageant. It M’ouid be a bit "previous,” of course, for any of the students to pick out a “hanging around" spot on The Hill when and if they pursue their studies there, but It is a fore gone conclusion that all of them who do eventually become students at the T'nii’crsity will make the grade at the Planatarlum first—and often. * • * KKWKR HOGS LIVING The swine population of Harnett county has greatly decreased since ■ he advent of cold weather that has held its grip upon this immediate territory longer than usual. In commenting on this, Harnett County’s Tax Collector Duncan Ray remarked to The New’s the other day: "A lot of hogs have lost their lives during this cold weather.” Then he inquired: "Do you like chitterlings?” Duncan, who was born and reared in the country, replied to the same question: “No." • « * ‘TP I’M ALIVE” A local citizen was telling about ih ’ questions put to him when he was taking examination for driver's One question, he said, was: "To whom must-you report an accident it you have one?” The dutiful citizen said he an swered it this way: “To the nearest officer of the law —if Tm allvi.” * • • •‘THEM DAYS GONE" This is an old one but we'll tell ii again for lii.' of those who may not have heard It. A certain local man (finish the siory and you’ll see why we can’t mention his name > was approached by a friend with a request that he join the Wildlife Club. “Let me talk to my wife about It.” he said. Nex; approach: “Well, how about that ii.e-'tlj rship iu the Wildlife Chib?” 111., friend asked. “Guess I can’t,” was the answer. “When I mentioned to my wife about joining the Wildlife Club, she shot back at me: 'Pipe down, big boy, your wildlife days .are over’.’’ * « * HAD IT ON HIM Names of prospects for contribu tions to the Boy Scout fund were be ing handed around to members of the Lillington Rotary Club last Thursday night, and when a certain name was called out, one club mem ber sang out: “Let me have his name, I owe him a bill and I know I can get a dona tion from him.” « • * DOLL BABY NEEDS Did you know a doll baby must have a comfortable bed just the same as real folks do? In the opinion of one four-year-old daughter of a prominent couple, they certainly must. When asked the other day what she wanted Santa Claus to bring her, she promptly replied: “A comfortable set offsprings for my doll baby’s bed.” * * * “BIGGEST CHRISTMAS EVER" Manager Van Hoy of the Puquay- Varina Chamber of Commerce is au thority for the statement that the up-and-coming Twin-Town “will have the best and biggest Christmas ever” this year. Van Hoy lets it be known that lights, decorations, Santas, and all of the things that make a Christmas big and betler'are already Installed. ' Now all that's needed is for the shoppers to come along and com plete the scheme. Note: Thousands of Harnett folks will do that very thing. * * * LOOK HERE, HOMEMAKERS! Progressive homemakers are never completely dutlsiled with what they know. They are constantly seekUig to learn more. That’s what makes tliem progressive. You’ve got to be modern nowadays to get -the best out of life. This is -by way of calling your at tention to the articles on The News’ Parm Page. Particularly written for home makers is an article that gives more (See IN AND OUT, page 2) i Pfe-C^tsteas ‘White Lightnin’ Rudely Jd^ed By Harnett ‘Law^ NOVEMBER IS BIG MONTH FOR STILL RAIDERS Lar^re Quantity Of Beer, Whiskey Taken With 23 Stills Harnett County oKlcer.s made a haul of large proportions during the month of November In th=lr raids on stills in the county. Altogether they brought in 23 stills from raids in Lillington Township, Stewart’s Creek, Averasboro, Buckhorn and Upper Little River. The officers also took four men along with them that were captured at the stills. In one of the biggest months In a Jong time, the officers also discover ed a large amount of the illegal liquor when they swooped down on the .stills. The total amount of beer at all the stills came to a total of 4,350 gallons, while as much as 132 gallons of whiskey were found. Constables Preston Porter and W. F. Bethiine combined to make Stew art’s Creek the Township with the most number of captured stills dur ing November. Together they raided eight stills there and found a total of .1600 gallons of beer, with Porter making seven of the finds and Be- thune the other. A list of the officers and the stills they captured is as follows: Constable W, P. Bethune, 2 stills in Lillington, 750 gallons of beer and 50' gallons of whiskey: 1 still in Stewart’s Creek, 200 gallons of beer. Constable R. H. Butler, 4 stills In Averasboro, 700 gallons of beer; 4 stills In Lillington, 800 gallons of beer; 1 man, S. J, Clark. Deputy Sheriff K, C. Matthews. 1 still in Lillington, 300 gallons of beer. Constable 0. R. Pearce, 1 still in Averasboro, 46 gallons of whiskey: 2 men, Troy Iver and Spugill Mo- Dougald. Constable Wade Stewart. 1 still in Buckhorn, 36 gallons of whiskey; 1 man, Joe McKeithan. Constable B. E. Sturgill, 1 still in Averasboro, no beer. Constable C. C, McDonald, 1 still in Upper Little River, 200 gallons of be-’r. Constable Preston Porter, 7 stills in Stewart’s Creek, 1400 gallons of beer. ^Comedy of Errors’ Saturday New Executive Take Over, Organize, List Appointees Love-making in the classic vein Is demonstrated by Peter Pagan and Monie May, who supply the romantic interest in the famous Barther Theatre’s production of Shakespear's “The Comedy of Errors”. The color ful and spirited comedy will be pre- j sented under the sponsorship of the I Cape Fear Music Festival Associa tion at Campbell College on Satur- 'dny, December 9th at 8:00 o’clock. Tickets available at door. Revival in Progress at Mamers Tabernacle A series of services at the -Fhill Gospel Tabernacle at Mamers began last Sunday night with Evangelist Rev. James Pope Sr. o» Fuquay Springs preaching. The services are being held each night at 7:30 through this week and next, with special singing at each meeting. Rev. S. M. Ellington Is the pastor. TAX PAYMENTS RUNNING CLOSE TO LAST YEAR’^ Collector Ray Gives $408,983,09 Amount Collected to Date In his report for November, suo- mitted to the County Commissioners Monday, Tax Collector D. P. Ray showed that tax payments for 1960 are running close to the record of payments to the same date last yaer. Collections to November 30' of the 8651,058.92 levy for 1950 were only .10 per cent lower than at the same time last year. Payments to November 30 were $408,983.09, or 62.i8'2 per cent of tho total levy. Last year at the same date they were 62.92 per cent of the levy. Balance on the books is $242,075.- 83 as of December 1. Collector Ray took in $64,146.8i5 during the month of November, In cluding $5,162.72 in delinquent pay- I ments. I Current tax payments were $48,- 984.13-. Other revenue jvas $68,391.- 70, In items as follows: General county fund $8,046.19; county school fun& $10,386.42; old age assistance $13,854.50; aid to de pendent children $8,807.62; veteran farmers training program $13,364.- 02; child feeding program $3,'8:32.- 70. Total receipts were $1‘12,538.56. Men Of The Church Meet Wednesday Men of The Church of the Lilling ton Presbyterian Church will meet at the church at 7 o’clock Wednes- iay night of this weak. The’dinner will be served by jClrele No. 4. All members are invited to attend and enjoy the fellowship. Register Collects $759.10 In November Mrs. Inez Harrington, Register of Deeds, in her report submitted to the County Commissioners for Nov ember showed that receipts of her office for the month were $759.10— all of which came from recording legal Instruments. There were five ai-my discharge .papers recorded, for which no fee was charged, and 38 marriage licenses sold, report of which will be included in the next quarterly statement. 15 MEN WERE INDUCTED INTO ARMY THURSDAY Former Clerk of Court Chaffin’s Son One of Group The draft board and the army ctfll- ed 15 more Harnett County men into the service last Thursday, November 30 as a new call for- pre-inductipu, examinations came through to the local office. The pre-induction order which came last week called for '66 more men to be sent for examina tion on December .15. Robert Chaffin, son of L M, Chaf- , fin who retired as Harnett’s Clerk 'of Court Monday, was one of the 115 men Inducted Thursday. Chaffin received notice from his local board some weeks ago that he had passed his pre-lnductioa examinations. The list of the 15 men inducted as released by the local draft board i.*? given as follows: Alton Luther Warren, Dunn R-4; Wm. Howard Altman, Dunn H-4; Robert Johnson Chaffin, Lillington; Marshall Gene Stewart, Coats; Moses Lee Talton, Angler; Romie Monroe Langdon, Jr., Lillington R-2; Janies Alexander Holder, Broadway R-1; John Wesley Elliott, Bunnlevel R-1; Johnny Martin Cox, Olivia; Nathan Burnett, Angler R-2; Roland Carr Godfrey, Broadway R-l; Hugh Shel ton Norris, Erwin; Carlton Erwin McLean, Coats R-l; Charlie Hugh Matthews, Dqnn; Jack Harrington .-Vvery, Erwin. LILLINGTON IS GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS Streets, Stores and Homes Decorated For Yultide Season Santa Clause- Is just around the corner, or rather, he Is just above the chimney, and Lillington is mak ing elaborate prepurutious (o greel him In grand style. Some of the store.s began fixing the “Christmas Look” in their windows a week ago, and this w-'ek still more are joining in the holiday spirit. Tuesday morning this week Worth Byrd and his electricians got out the town's Christmas equipment and began putting up the decorations and lights on the streets that are a tra ditional part of the annual seasonal activities. Mr. Byrd said that ha hoped that he will have the job of putting up the decorations and lights completed by W'.>dnesday night. The citizens of Lillington are hustling around getting ready for Christmas also. Many home are being decorated and next Tuesday the Junior and Senior Women’s Cl'Ubs and all other women in town are in vited to Inspect five homes that will be specially decorated for the event. Merchants are working overtim's' trying to satlsfy^ll their customers at this, their busiest time of the year. As always the Lillington stores have gotten their stocks filled In advance so that they will have wide selections and -the people are taking advantage of that. Merchants still look for that traditional last -minute rush, however, and are urging as many people as can to shop now Instead of wa,jting until the Chirst- mas Ev3 pinch is upon them. All of the citizens of the town are joining together in issuing a cordial invitation to visit Lillington during this Y'Uletide season. Sees ’Em Come and Go MRS. INSZ HARRINGTON Harnett’s Register of Deeds, who took office in 1936, has Just seen the eighth Board of County Com missioners, to which she is clerk, take up the reins of office. Incident ally, in all of the sessions of the Commissioners since she has been clerk, Mrs. Harrington has not been absent one time. Biennial Ceremony Checks Out Old, Swears In New Officials The law providing that incumbent county officials to hold office “until their successors are elected and qual ified” went through the legal process Monday at noon when the retiring i’oard of County Corn'mlssloners took A last fling at the Job of managing Harnett county, ending their session at high noon and leaving the Com missioner’s jchamber open for their successors who took office and re paired to the room to start out all over on another biennium of county .'xecutorship. Chairman' of the Harnett County Board of Elections H. C. Strickland cif Angler was-mmiter of ceremonl’^, and the "swearing in” -took place in the courthouse auditorium. Retiring Clerk of Court Lee M. Chaffin administered the oaths. Members of the new board are: Lofton M. Ta^t ot puu, reelected; Vice Chatrinw C. Q. Fields of An- j gier, reelected; R. L. (Bob) Pate of Erwin, B. P. Ingram of Mapiers and I Worth Lee Byrd of Lillington. ' It wasn’t new to Mr. Pate and Mr. Ingram. They had served on the board 'before. For Mr. Byrd It was his first experience as a- county offi cial. Harnett Duke Alumni Meet In Erwin The Harnett County Duke Alumni Association held their annual most- ng at the teacherage in Erwin last Thursday night. Thu Association elected James Snipes of Dunn as ■president, Rev. W. M. Latta of Erwin, vice president, J. R. Cathey of Erwin, secretary- treasurer, and Mrs. Hem’y C. Tur lington, representative to the Alumni Council. Clarence (Ace) Parker, Duke All- American grid star of 1936, deliver ed the main speech of the evening. He reviewed the past football'season of the Duke Blue Devils and discuss ed the Duke expansion prograin. Parker stated that the school would depend heavily on its alumni -for the funds to -be used in the expansion program. At the close of his' talk, Coach Parker showed movies of the Maryiand-Duke football game. The 'meeting was -presided over by the retiring president, Mrs. Gilbert Woodworth of Elrwln. You Won’t Want To Miss This, Folks! Mr. and Mrs. Hesikiah Stepen- fetchet announce the engagement of their (laughter, Hepsibah (Grady Johnson), to Mr. Icabod Trlmble- dunk (Mack Norwood). The wedding will take place December 14, 1960, in Lillington High School. The bride will announce her' at- t.'iidants in the next issue of The Harnett County News. January Jurors Have Been Drawn Th.> following are to serve as jurors for the Criminal Term of Harnett Superior Court ^thlob con venes January i8': Averasboro; Arthur B. Norris, Gordon Baker, Wallace McLamb, Eugene Lucas. Barbecue: A. J. Coleman. Black River: K. L. Gardner. M. C. Hockaday. Buckhorn: Charles M. Carroll, Sherwood Truelove, Alton A. Qlive, M. L. Lee, O. O. Tutor, J, B. Dewar. Duke: Walter M. Vann. Grove: Herman -F. Ennis, Bari -Avery, Tom H. Wilmoth, Otis Clifton Har-inon, Eugene Ferrell. Lillington: J. J. Stone, Garland F. Stone, J, L. Hamilton. Neill’s Creek: Oscar Tysinger, Bernice Pollard. Upper Little River: J. D. Brp^, Jr., T. R. Spence, Fred McDonald, B. F. McLean, Thelma B. Buggs, Alex Womack. SQUARE DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT A square dance will be held at the Community Building Friday night, December 8, from 8 until 11, spon sored by the Junior Woman’s Club. Proceeds from this dance will be given to the Community Building Fund. marriage announced Mr. N. V. Stephenson of Angler announce the marriage of his daugh ter, Miss Javian Stephenson, to Joe D. Partin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mil- dard S. Partin of Angler, on Friday, December 1 in the Angler Baptist Church. Court Clerk’s Reporl Shows Nov. Receipts Clerk of Court L. -M. Chaffin, in his report for November, submitted to the Board of County Commission ers Monday, showed that receipts of his office for November amounted to $3,798.89, itemized as follows: From probates $284.'3); from civil and criminals actions and special -prcKcedings In Superior Court $285.- 35; from fines in Superior Court $939.00; from trust commisai^is $16.04; from civil and criminal ac tions in Recorder’s Court $584.20; from fines in Recorder’s Court Fl,- 690.00. Accompanying the report was the acknowledgment by D. P. Ray Jr., Tax Collector, showing that he,had received checks for the above sums. This was Clerk Chaffin’s final re port befo-e turning the office over to the newly installed Clerk, Robert Morgan. Auto Deaths During October Highest in One Month Sdnce*41 others to take the oath of office j were; Neill McK. Ross, Solicitor of the R eorder’s Court; W. E. (Bill) ! Salmon, Sheriff; Walter Lee Johnwn,! Surveyor; Robert Morgan, Clerk of i Superior Court. { Judge of the Recorder's Court Floyd H. Taylor and Register of! Deeds Mrs. Inez Harffngton were not | subject to the ballot this ysar, their ' terms having been extended to four years by the 1949 legislature, I Only a small crowd outside of the county officials was present. The day' was ushered in by inclement weather which undoubtbdiy kept many away, from tile ceremony. Service Officer Gives November Report L. B. McLean, Harnett' County | Service Officer, has submitted the! following report of bis activities for! the month of November: Letters in 71, letters out 89, long distance calls 38, field trips '3S, in-1 terviews 292, education 1, on-tbe-Job training 20, compensation 4b pension j 6. loans, P.L. 346 A N.P. 277. hoa- J pitalization''10, burial benefits 1, lo- gal or business advice 281, commit- 'ments 4, out-patient treatment .12, * miscellaneous 297; total 1434). * Motor vehicie traffic accidents brought deat> to 119 persons during October, the highest figure for any month since 1941, the N. C. Depart ment of Motor Vehicles reported to day. One hundred and fifty-two per sons W'3re killed in October of IMl. October, IfiSO, also marked the first time the fatality figure has pass ed the 106> mark since '1946 when January of that year saw 161 killed, and December, 103. October of this year listed 1,174 persons injured in 2,866 reported ac cidents. This marks an increase of 20 per cent in injured and 16 per cent in reported accidents over Oc tober' 1149. Collisions between motor vehicles^ and with fixed objects, and motor vehicles mnniiig off roadway ac counted for most of the increase ot injuries ami reported accidents. Col lisions of motor vehicles showed an increase of 715 as compared with October of last year. -Deaths from this type of accident reached an all- time high of 63 during October 1960. Six persons were killed when tteir motor vehicles struck fixed objects. During the. same period last year no fa'tallties resulted from this type of accident. - Fatalities resulting from motor vehicles running off roadway increased 26 per cent over the same period of 1949. More than half of the drivers in volved in accidents were guilty of at least one violation. Ot the 4,547 drivers involved In accidents, 164 were driving intoxicated at the time of the accidents. Driving on the wrong side of the road accounted tor 513 acedents tnhile 367 drivers were guilty of speed violations. During October, 23 pedestrians were kllle(i and 163 Injured in ill8 accidents Involving pedestrians. This (See AUTO DEATHS, page 2) 3 NEWLY ELECTED COMMISSIONERS ON COUNTY BOARD All Day Session Marks Initiation Of New Members The new Hurneit County Board o'" ComiuissiutK i‘s officially met for business (or th-' first time after their swearing-in to office Monda> at l.-Jfi OH .Monday afternoon. And thiy .stayed there until 5:36 that afternoon for one of the longest afternoon sessions the board has seen in som-j months. The new members of the Board were not entrely lost, however, as two of their number were members of the former Board, and two others. Mr. Robert Pate and Mr. B. P. In gram, have been commissioners in the past. The old board, which did not retire until 12 o’clock noon on Monday, carried on business as usual during the morning and then went into the courtroom at noon for the swearing-in exercises. TART REMAINS CHAIRMAN In an executive session called im mediately when the new ooard went Into its first meeting resulted In the electing ot board officers and com mitteemen and the appointment of county appointees. Mr, Lofton A. fart, chairman ot the retiring board, was selected again by the new board to serve as chairman. Charles O. Fields, the other member of the re tiring board, was chosen as vice- chairman, a position he also held with the other board. APPOINTMENTS W. A. Johnson was appointed as County Attorney the same position he held with the former board. -Rob ert (Bob) Pate is the new purchas ing agent for the County Board. Th'> County Home Committee is compos ed of Mr. Tart and new commissioner B. P. Ingram. The still committee has Mr. Fields and new commissioner Worth L. Byrd as its members. The courthouse committee hgs as its three members commissioners In gram, Byrd and Pate. Appointments to county offices came next on tho agenda in .the executive session. All appointments were at the same salary that the positions carried heretofore. J. R. -Mason was reappointed as superin tendent of the County Home for one year; Bsrles Johnson was reappoint- ed_ Tax Supervisor for one year: Herbert D. Carson, - Jr. was reap pointed as Auditor for one year; and M. O. Lee was reappointed as Vice- Recorder to serv-e at the pleasure ot of the board. ROOKS TURNED OVER ) After the executive session war brought to a close the new board began on its regular business. The first activity was to hear a report ot Thurman Ennis, CPA from Dunn, in which h-e gave an account ot the findings of an audit of the books in the Clerk of Court’s office. Ennis said that he found that the books balanced and that all accounts were in order. On the basts of that audit new Clerk of Court Robert Morgan accepted the records of the clerk’s office turned over to him by out going clerk Chaffin. Clerk Morgan then proceeded to swear into office the three appoin tees ot the board, Berles Johnson, John R. Mason and Herbert Carson, Jr.. Morgan then told the board-mem bers that when be becomes accus tomed to the duties of his office he will -begin a campaign to settle up all the accounts in the office in ac cordance with the last report of the Grand Jury. Morgan said that he would receive advice in this activity from the Clerk of Court of Wake Connty. NEW CONSTABLE Angjus Cameron appeared before the board on the behalf of William Burton Castleberry in a requeet that Castleberry he appointed as constable in Barbecue Township. The office was left open when no one was el'eet- ed to IP in the hmt election. The Board appointed Castleberry to the post for a two year term. The board then drew a 36- name Jury list for the one week term of criminaf cohrt which will begin Jan uary 8, 1961. The board discussed at some length the power granted to It to give disabled World War II veterans (1^ BXTOUTIVBS, page 2)
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