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NORTH CAROLINA Fa* and
warmer today, except cloudy,
with rate in coastal sections this
morning. Partly cloudy and net ae
cool tonight, except cooler In coast
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VOLUME n
Campbell Plans
4 Gymnasium
Building Soon
Campbell College’s expansion
program will be signally boosted
May 3 when formal ground-break
ing ceremonies will be observed, as
students and friends look forward
to the erection of a new gym
nasium. It is exnected that actual
• work on the bluldlng will begin by
mid-summer, announces President
Leslie H. Campbell.
Ground-break Inc will be an ad
ded hfehlipht of May Day Satur
day: May 3, wh»n Eugene ("Red”)
McDainel of Kinston and "Pat”
Bvrd of Mainers will be crowned
May king and queen bv Don Per
cise of Goldsboro and Eva Town
send of Fairmont. Coronation fes
tivities will be held on the campus
• circle at five o’clock that after
noon. For that occasion hlgh-school
seniors will he guests of Campbell
College for Hospitality Day.’
Camntjalt's expansion activities
are designed to serve not only the
students enrolled at the college but
neighboring communities as well
volunteers C. W. Hart, head of
Public Relations h“re. The new
Rymnasinm will be available for
tournaments and other athletic
• events in this area. Similarly
Campbell* lighted outdoor* play-
Mng field Is available for night games
by high-school teams throughout
the county.
The project, of paving roads and
drives on and near the campus Is
already underway.
Renovatioru of the Home Ec cot
tage will be completed by next
term, together with plans to en
large the department In order to
0 meet increasing needs of student
" body and community. Miss Cath
erine ,Campbell, with her Master’s
degree from WCTTNC, after two
years of teaching Home Economics
at the University of Ohio, reutms
to her Alma Mater to head the de
partment.
The college farm of .130 acres
no\*-*hoaat**4» increased herd oL
Hertford and Holstein cattle. Fqf
M well a* to the present enroll
meftt, a newtype of counseling ser
vice to wU) schools is orovided
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Bill Graham, Ike
Confer In Paris
• • PARIS m— Evangelist Billy
Graham visited Gen. Dwirht D.
Eisenhower today and said the
gswswl told him that the correct
revival of religious Interest tat the
United States was necessary for
the country.
"We most have It," Elsenhower
said, aeoerdtac to Graham 1
Graham said he sad then—era!
did net dlstinm politics and that
the visit was "prtosarfly private.”
~ "General Eisenhower was ex
-9 tremely Interested la the revival
of religions Interest heftac dlspter
rd throughout Jmerlne ” he said.
Graham matbi sis—hewer as
saying that L ' own ytHgiin Is
"Pretes)-.nt—ns< hsr—d that,"
Allen's Wife
Named Executor . ‘
_ Last win and testament of Wi]-
• Item Herman Allan, Bunnlevel mer
chant. who died recently was pro
bated on Monday in the office of
the Clerk of Harnett Superior Court
Allen. In a brief will, left all his
personal property, household and.
kitchen furniture in their residence
at Bunnlevel. and money on hand
and In the bank to his wife, Mary
B. Allen. He directed that other
property should be divided among
relatives as the general law directs.
Mrs. Allen, named as executor,
• qualified on Monday and as the
will stated, servwd without bond.
The wOl was written April IS, IMS.
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• Mr Muse will conduct the meet-
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NEW JUDGE'— Milton O. Lee of Lltengtoo was sworn In Monday as Jndge of Harnett Recorder’s :
Court succeeding the late Judge Floyd Taylor. Lee, who has been vlee-reeerder, was appointed by
the county commissioners to serve untU a Judge Is elected this fall. He took his oath before Acting
O'.erk of Corn* Elisabeth If; Matthews. And to make it official, the Jndge had to affix, his stgnatAre
to his oath. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewbrt). y i
Lee Is Appointed Judge
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HOLLYWOOD (W Actress Anne
Sterling, savagely beaten during "an
hour of hell and humiliationwas
treated at Hollywood Leland Hos
pital today while sheriff's deputies
investigated discrepancies in' her
story.
The platinum blonde television
actress told- , Investigators four
“thugs” pounced on her and drove
her to a house above Sunset Strip
early yesterday where they "boat
and .humiliated" her. . ; f”.
Miss Sterling said she lost con
sciousness and the next thing she
remembered was running down a
road and stumbling Into a friend’s
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Democrats Launch
Fight Against Ike
WASHINGTON IP) Rep. John ,W. McCormack’s sur
prise Mast at Gqn. Dwight D. Eisenhower was viewed in
some political circles today as a tipoft to Democratic
strategy against the general’s growing strength, as a GOP
presidential candidate. , * v
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr..
(R-Maas). chairman of the Eisen
hower-for-President campaign, said
McCormack’s statement yesterday
looked like the opening of a "Dem
ocratic attack" on the general.
NQ. 1 THREAT
Lodge said tt is "official recog
nition” of Eisenhower as the "No.
1 threat to their hopes for 1*63."
McCormack. Rouse Democratic
leader, denied that ,he was sending
up a “trial balloon” for the Tru
man administration when he criti
eteed Eisenhower for staying on in
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She was rallied to the hospital
where she was getting along nicely”
and prpbably will be released today.
Officers said they would question
her again when she was released.
BRAISED PROM FEET TO NECK
Doctors said the actress' body was
“bruised from her feet to her heck”
as if she had been beaten with a
cane.” *
Dr. IJenry W. Ephraim, who treat
ed Miss Sterling, said she “recetv.-
ed the brutal beating by someone
versed in this dubious art” i
The actress collapsed in hysterics
after giving officers her version of
the beatings.
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his European military post while he
Is “an active candidate” for presl
dent. , "? (
The Massachusetts Democrat said
he h»d not conferred with anyone
about hix statement, but “I felt
that somebody ought to say it.”
He said there was no connection
between Ms action and the return
yesterday of Democratic National
Chairman Prank E. McKinney from
Key West, Fla., where be conferred
with President Truman.
Several Ifoy Democrats said pri
vately that they consider the Mc-
Cormack statement an administrs
tl They C p^itedmit V Sjat the Demo
crats cannot effectively attack Eis
enhower as long as he holds the
European military post.
Many Democrats also feel, a* do
mote Republican backers of Sen.
SfaffsLlSKß9££«s
mt toe on tne tougn ones.
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DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1982 ~
Harnett Recorder* Court faced
.With a heavy docket today «d&
O. Lee-on She bench, bjlt
hiks been airvteg as vice-reeardw
for nearly a year, yesterday was
appointed: by .the county commis
j sloners as Judge of the Recorder’s
» Court shcoeedin; the late. Judge
r. Floyd Taylor.. *
i At tee: same -time, the commls-
I. sloners named L. ; M. Chaffin, for-
I mer clerk of the .Superior court,
i as vice-recorder replacing Lee.
, Both new officials took the oath
* of office before acting clerk of
' court Elisabeth Matthews, using
* the same Bible on which the late '
' Judge "Taylor took his oath as
s ‘clerk of court, a post which was
Ms first !n a long line of public
( offices.
The new Judge wM serve until
the post is filled to the November
election. Meantime, Lee, Chaffin,
John R. Hood and others have been
discussed as possible candidates
for the JudgesMp to the Demo
cratic. May primary.
Salary of the Judge of the Har
nett Recorder's Court, pet by the
legislature, to 5300 t month. Several
months ago commissioners fixed
the salary of ted vice-recorder at
<3B for each My served on the
bench. YestontKqommtesloners or
<r«Mimtod on two*
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I In Robbery Os Bank
NEW YORK (TO A former convict nonchalantly
> tapped an Index finger on the shoulders of Willie (The
I Actor) Sutton and Thomas (Scup) Kling In court today
I and named them as his partners hi a $63,942 daylight
( bank robbery two years ago.
The confessed bandit was John
• DeVanuta. Beamingly unperturbed.
’ he took the stead yn the seventh
day of th* Sutton-Kllng trial in
Queens County Court and calmly
; recited chapter and verse of the
! it, slippery WUlte
. "most wanted” on the FBl’s M*t of
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Big Ceremony
Is Planned Here
For April 28th
Duhn’s \Natfonal Guard
Unit, Battery B of the 113th
Field Artillery, today was
announced as the bestr-train
ed unit in the entire Third
Armv and high-ranking na
tional an4> state military
dignitaries * will come to
Dunn on Monday, April 28th
to present the award.
' The announcement was made by
Lt. Col. Clarence B. Shimer of Ra
leigh. O-t training officer of the
North Carotor* military unit.
Colonel SMmer said it is the first
time in historv that the honor has
come to North Carolina and de
clared. "It is the Mghest honor a
National Guard unit could aspire to
receive”’
The Third Army includes Nation
al Guard units in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Mississippi and Tennessee.
BLALOCK IS COMMANDER
Captain George Franklin Blalock
now on spectel duty as an umpire
to. the Longhorn Maneuvers, is com
mander of IdPjto’s guard unit, and
Lt. Edward Hffde is acting com
mander. NelsdnXee is Warrant Offi
cer in charge-of the administrative
office.
Colonel SMmer said toe training
trophy is awarded taM year for
performance to training, jO the best
trained unit in the Arngß-The award
will come to Dunn's unit for its out
standing performance during IMI.
Lieutenant General John C. H.
Hodge, commander of the Army, or
(Contented on Paid Two)
Mias Raclnd Clifford, president of
the Harqett County Unit of the
North Carolina Education Associa
tion, hgi, announced that eleven
delegates Will attend the statewide
meeting to be held in Asheville
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Delegates include, to addition to
Miss Chfford, Superintendent of
School* Glenn Prof fit. Principal H.
H. Hamilton of Lillington, Principal
D. T. Stutts of Erwin; Principal A.
B. Johnson of Dunn, Principal R.
Hal Smith of Coate. Mrs. Gladys
PMlUps and Mrs. Nell Williams of
Coals. Miss Cornelia McLauchltn
of Ulltafton, president of tee North
Central District of N.CJK.A., Miss
Bessie MsssengiU, a county super
visor. and Mrs. B. C. Pridgen, pres
ident of the classroom teachers of
Harnett County.
Following a band concert Friday
evening, Robert Aura Smith, editor
of the New York Times will speak.
D., Hiden Ramsey, editor of an
Asheville paper, will also speak dur
ing the meeting. State officers are
to be elected and will be installed
Saturday morning during a business
meeting,
criminals-master minded tee op
eration. Kling, he said, was almost
poverty stricken before the rob
bery and again two yean after
wards.
TAPS HIS SHOULDER
When Assistant Disk A tty.
Jains* P. McOrattan asked De
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MR. RAY M TODAY Pictured heiW> Raymond L Cromartie,
Sr., pioneer Dunn resident and business leader whs today is oele
bratlng his 80th birthday. Mr. Ray, as everybody in this Motion
knows him, came to Dunn about 00 years ago and since that Unm
has been a leader In affairs es this section. Asked today hew HOC<
was celebrating, Mr. Ray touched and replied, Tm Just behaving \
I myself.” He’s supposed to be in retirement, but works hard every,
day. He is Dunn’s eldest business man. (Daily Record photo by
John Lewis).
Jim Is Organizing! ;
A NewXM°nizatiod
Jim McMillan, Die organizingest organizes who ever
organized an organization ini this highly-organized town
today was organizing a group of women -to organize an
other organization. x
The purpose of the organisation i:
will be to organise the voters and '
get them out to tee ballot box on :
election day. McMillan feels that
Dunn badly needs a League of Wo- )
men Voters.
Since he happens to belong to the <
opposite sex, he is organizing a
group. of women to organize this
organization to better organize the
voters. His role is simply.that of ;
an organlber, if you please.
BORN ORGANIZER
Since McMillen came to Dunn
about a year go. he has organized, i
pmong other things, tee Dunn In
Youth Strips Girl,
Then Murders Her
SAN FRANCISCO —(W— Ramon
Rodrigues, 18, said today that hi*
17-year-old girl friend fought “like
a wildcat” trying to beat him off
before he pummeled, strangled and
stripped her in San Francisco's
Mission Park. t
Bandages covered the livid fin
gernail scratches left on his face
by the young girl's desperate at
tempfci to resist him.
The youth was Charged with sus
picion Os murder late last night
some lS 1-3 hours after the body
of "model student” Hilda Rose Pa
gan was found in bushes of the
pirk sitthln the shadow of the high
school she attended.
The girt, regarded as a steady.
; churchgoing young dtiaan by her
family and teachers, had numerous
. dates with Rodrigues before theta
fatal encounter, he told officials.
•tte hoy said they met at a neigh
. borhood social chib late Sunday.
. sad oonsumed mast of a fifth of
whiskey before they reached the
park where he “started to mate
low."
RE-ENACTS CRIME
f Rodrigues re-enacted the estate
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RALEIGH —Today's sgg.and live
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formation Clinic, Dunn's Little
Theatre, a public speaking class, a
Democra(s-For - Eisenhower Club
and helped organise the Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
And teat doesn’t include his
efforts in helping organize various
community drives and campaigns
“I Just like to be doing some
thing,” declared Organiser McMil
len today. He confessed that po*-
slbily he’s just a bom organiser.
CAN BE VALUABLE
Mr. McMillen declared that, with
approacMng elections, a League of
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for police yesterday afternoon. Of
ficers had to string rope barri
cades to keep hundred es of the
girl’s fellow students and curious
onlookers away from the spot
where, the boy said he killed her as
she resisted his advances. I
Denying he raped the girl, Rod
rigues said she rejected a “pro
position”,' then:
FOUGHT LIKE WILDCAT
“I bit her and she began to fight
back lige a wildcat. I Mt her
several times; I don’t know how
many”.
Then, he continued, he went
home and changed out of Ms blooti
spotted clothes. Later he came
back to the park and Md Hilda
Roee* body after first tearing off
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Truman May Be
Asked To'Make
WSB Changes
WASHINGTON apt Mo
bilization authorities said
today that President Tru
man may be asked to change
the wage Stabilization
Board’s steel wage recom
mendations if they arefotmd
to violate wage ceißngsLJ!.
A spokesman for Defense Mobili
zation Director Charles Wilson
said the board’s wage zeoomijej*
datlons are being reviewed nowl&y
Economic Stabilizer Roger L.
Putnam.
REPORT IN 48 HOURS ”I’*
He said Putnam is expected to
.submit a formal report to WUson in
the next 48 hours and that Putnam
then can turn the question over Jo |
Mr. Truman.
Wilson said last night on his re
turn from a conference kith Mr.
Truman that the board’s recom
mended wsge increases, amounting ,
to 17 1-2 cents an hour In three
installments spread over the next
18 months, "would be a serious
threat” to the economic stabilise*
Uon program.
MURRAY ACCUSES WILSON' j
Philip Murray’, president of the
CIO and of the steelworkers union, -.«*
angrily accused Wilson of trying to
“wreck the entire wage stabilize-
Oaa program."
jttfeee Industry membere<2^y^p>4(|
member of said
not quit the board. But yJSS'I
a statement that ’ they think Hie
board “should be disbanded *
higher authority.” \
fic™°of the United FunUtfflfe
Workers of America CIO b*A
conferences today with flghP *SWj
ers of nearly 1,308 strlkinir’Rfe!■
ployes of the Thomasville-ChiiH^Bk^:|H
RALEIOH lib— The Ui 8. Su
preme Court w4U review fi|ta 'Con
victions and death sentwe#jp
attorney H. O. Taylor said 4qdSk
worker Jack Wall. 38, jnejSSj
gree murder changeln^thewhosgigi
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