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* WEATHER * Fair to partly cloudy, less humil and cooler this afternoon; highest temperatures 79 to 85. Cooler to night; lowest temperatures 47 to 53 in mountains, 58 to 65 elsewhere. VOLUME 5 GRAND JURY REPORT IS DELAYED WATCHING FOR “ENEMY” PLANES—Tom my Godwin prominent Dunn contractor and mem ber of Dunn’s Ground Observer Corps, Is pictur ed here with field glasses keeping a constant vigil into the sky for possible “enemy” planes. Dunn’s unit is now taking part In a three-day alert and JJfWM atilUo JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Dunn will be well represented at the Debutante Ball In Raleigh Friday night Mince McLamb is not going but he’s dying to see his good friend Doug Butt, in a full dress suit ...Mr. Mac phoned us yesterday to request: “I sure would like to see a picture of Doug in his monkey suit in the Daily Re cord.”—They usually eat break fast together at Porter’s every morning —There’s a great de mand for bids to the ball here from those who can’t get them L. A. DeLoria of Detroit, whose son mar ried Talbot Stewart’s daughter, Lk Fay Saturday, is one of the pro duction bosses for Chrysler in the motor metropolis... Paying us a visit the other day, he told what the new Chrysler will be like . . “There won’t be any such things as gear shifting in the new Chrys ler,” he revealed. “It’ll all be done by push-buttons.”... He said there would be three small buttons on the steering wheel . DeLoria was driving a specially-built Chrysler and it’s a beauty.. District Solici tor Jack Hooks and an SBI agent (Continued on Page Two) NEGRO CARVES ANOTHER; TAKES YEAR WITHOUT SHRUG Rich Drama And Dullness Make Court Very Colorful By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer Court is always the same. Sometimes there is a note of drama, the urgent drumming of a lawyer’s voice as he rises to the occasion. More often there is only a humdrum ming of minor, unimportant sounds listless question ing that makes you forget that lives are at stake and a destiny is about to be decided. V Superior Court which is now convened in Lillington, gets what might be called the cream of the cases, for it’s the Important ones or the highly debated ones that arrive there. Even in Superior Court, though, there ia a flavor of dullness or casualness much of the time. CARVED SHOULDER Yesterday a young Negro boy TELEPHONES Sll7 - 9118 It Is the duty of the observers to spot “enemy" plane# which might be flying too low to be de tected by radar. Godwin is one of scores of patri otic local citisena serving in the corps. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crs.il.) DRUNKEN DRIVER, 3-TIMES LOSER, GOES TO PEN Jackson Gets Two Years In Prison Samuel Travis Jackson of Dunn proved to be a three time loser in Harnett Superior Court today and found out that drunken driving doesn’t pay. Jackson is off to the prison gang for two years, and there’s no pay ing out in his case. Only because of the mercy of Judge Malcolm Sea well , Jackson didn’t get six years in prison in stead. He could have. Jackson was convicted on three charges of driving drunk. Judge Sea well sent him to prison for two years on the first charge and gave him two years each on the other two counts, but allowed the latter to run concurrently with the first. That means Jackson will have to serve only two years. APPEALED CONVICTIONS • Jackson is a man who believes in fighting his court cases. He was convicted three times in the Dunn court and fought the convictions on through Superior Court. OTHER cases This morning, Clarence Graham was acquitted on charges of as sault with a deadly weapon. Hubert Tyler pleaded nolo con tendere, which maens he is not contesting, to charges of receiving stolen goods. Sentences has not been passed. Evander Canady of Dunn got 60 days in jail for public drunken was called up, and took a chair in front of Judge Malcolm Sea well, and listened as another col ored man testified that the boy, Floyd McNeill, had used a pocket knife on his shoulder. The man undid his shirt, at the Judge’s request, and both prosecu tor and Judge took a look to see if a wound was visible. From the front row, you couldn't tell.' The She Batin Xtrnm) ness. He had appealed convictions in the Dunn court. Aging Mother Gets "Gift" From Jurist Superior Court Judge Malcolmn Seawell, now presiding over Har nett Superior Court, is a man with a big heart. Jethro R. Tew of Dunn found that out yesterday. Tew must serve 30 days on the roads for public drunkenness but, thanks to the goodness of Judge Seaweli, he’s going to have a chance to help his mother celebrate her birthday first. He wont have to spend his mo ther's birthday behind bars. Tew was convicted on three counts of public drunkenness. Judge Seawell ordered him to serve 30 days for the first charge and (Continued On Page Eight) prosecutor and the judge both gave this man, Garfield McNeill, a bad time. They asked how the knifing happened, and he said well, he was Just having a fish sandwich on Saturday night and he wouldn’t say much more than that. LIQUOR WITH THE FISH Judge Seawell remarked there must have been liquor with the fish sandwich, and Garfield said no, and Judge Seawell said well that was remarkable and Garfield remained very stoic. He didn’t say say what happened to Floyd that he drew out that pocket-kirffe. His whole theory was that Floyd had had “a spell.” What did Garfield have to do (Onttmi m Page Twe) DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1955 Farm Bureau Opens Drive II i For Members 1 'Leaders from all sections of Ham nett County met last night in L»*- ling.on at the Court House for li “Kick Off Meeting of Farm BAf | reau ” (Mr. James Tart, president Os Harnett County Farm Bureau, pre- ! sided. Mr. Paul Shackelford, Dis trict Field Representative introduce ed the guest' speaker, Mr. A. C El wards of Hookerton, N. C., pa*V State president or Farm and now president of Green Coun- 1 ty Farm Bureau. There ware ap proximately 56 farmers at th* meeting. (Mr. Edwards insisted that farmers should support their <m program and the way to do it Is by joining “Farm Bureau.” * gave the prices of tobacco durw the depression and of today. “Whit would happen this year to our to bacco farmers if we did not h&vaj a support price?” he asked. “Witlw the high cost of producing tkifl crop if we did not have a support! (Continued On Page Six) f « Man Wounded In Break-In | Cumberland County and Harnett i County law enforcement officers! todtjr continued Investigation of as break-in staged at a grocery store near Bunnlevel last Monday night by several men, one of whom re portedly was wounded by the bro ther of the store owner. Rural policeman A. W. O’Qutnn or Harnett Couny reported the break-in occurred at a store owned by Theodore MoLamb three miles south of Bunnlevel toward the Cumberland County line. O’Quinn gave this account of the accident: The store was entered by prizing open a rear door with a song piece of timber. A quantity of cigarettes were stolen and the intruders left in an automobile. Hearing noise from the store at the house 75 yards away, MdLamb’s brother and the brother’s son not identifed further, returned, armed with guns, and stationed them selyes near the store. Later a car returned to the rear of the store and three men started inside. McLamb’s brother fired a shotgun blast and one of the trio fell. The other two men pulled their apparently wotyided compan ion back into the car and the in ficers discovered blood stains on fleers discovered blood stans on the ground near the store during a preliminary investigation. STUDY GROUP - Shewn here are a group of bank employee who recently attended a 42- hour course on "Negotiable Instruments.” tanrht by R- L. Spenee, seated. Two previous courses have been taught, one on Fundamentals of Banking" and one on "Commercial Law.* Mooting at tha “HUCKLEBERRY” JACKSON HURT IN ( WRECK Pictured here is the 1948 Chrysler in ; which R. B. (Huckleberry) Jackson, well-known jfef Dunn man, was injured this morning. Policemen B P au l Stogsdill and R. H. Alphin said the accident occurred when Jackson’s car and a 1950 Nash driv j en by Charles H. Jordan of Rocky Mount, a Coast IF Line engineer, collided at the intersection of S. K., Magnolia and Best Street. Jackson’s car turned over and righted Itself. Officers said -« nave iiu&ur investigation Kjm of conditions in the county court J M ■ Al J and the grand jury report and re tsir I o upen - Here Jvlonddy w - »The American Legion’s Bth an jaual Four-County Fair, bigger md |»tter than ever before, will open mere Monday night and continue throughout the rest of the weak. llxObatnnan George Jfrankliii' £ju lock of the Legion’s fair committee announced today that because of recent heavy rains the location of the fair has been moved. The fair will be set up ;n the big area between the Jonesboro road and Hanna's pond, a short distance from the usual fairgrounds. Bla lock said the condition of the fair grounds was such that the heavy equipment could not be taken in. This year’s premium list has been expanded, an outstanding program of free acts booked and there will be many big special attractions at the fair. Beam's attractions, an outstand ing carnival company, will furnish the midway entertainment. Enoch Holtwick Will Oppose Ike WINONA LAKE, Ind. (IP Dr. Enoch A. Holtwick. professor em eritus of history and government at Greenville, 111,. College, got off to a head start today in the 1956 presidential campaign. The 74a(year-old Holtwick was nominated by the Prohibition Party at its convention here yesterday to become the first candidate in the running for the presidency. First Citixens Bank Building in Smithfield for the study course were left to right, James Strat ton, Clinton Langs ter, W. T. Emmart George Bro derick, all of Smithfield; James Rabon and Charles Turlington both of Benson; Ermon Godwin Jr. of Dnnn; and Haywood Hall of Angier. “Huckleberry” apparently was doing aome “low flying.” His left band was caught between the car and ground and smashed until hospital said it looked like it had been through a sausage grind er. Dr. W. W. Stanfield, attending physician, said his injuries were not serious, however. Jordan was not hurt. Jackson was arrested a few weeks ago with a load of whiskey. He is a patient in Dunn Hospital. (Daily Record Photo by George Perry Lee.) Jurors Drawn For i Harnett Court Term f s< Jenning Says ' Ike To Win 1 j ; State In '56 WASHINGTON North Caro lina Republican State Chairman 1 Ray Jennings of Taylorsville today predicted that state Republicans will win five congressional seats and that President Eisenhower will win the Tar Heel vote in the 1956 elections. South Carolina Republican chief D F. Merrill of Easley, also said that his state will vote for “Ike—if -. 1 he decides to run." The two Carolina Republicans t j are in Washington for a four-day f j Republican campaign school which 3 will be highlighted by a Denver breakfast with President Eisen j; bower Saturday morning. 1 \ Jennings said Republican cam j i paigns are planned for the Fifth, -! Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Elev (Continued on Page TwoJ <■ The Record Is First 4 IN CIRCULATION . . . NEWS PHOTOS ... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Names of 72 Harnett county, citizens whose names have been drawn for the terms of Superior Court which begin Oct. 10 and Oct. 17 were announced. Those drawn for the term start ing the 10th were: i R. O. Ennis, Dunn; RAy'Camer-e on, Olivia; Clarence Hicks Cannady, Dunn; C. J. Howard, Fuquay, Rt. a; Denver J. Bethune, Erwin; H. SC. Smith, Fuquay, Rt. 2; L. A. (Continued On Page Eight) Lett Gets 8 Months ; Other Cases Heard James Earl Lett. 19-year-old Ne gro of Erwin, Route 1, drew six to eight months on the roads in Lil lington’s Recorder’s Court Tues day. He was convicted of driving drunk, resisting arrest and speed ing. Lett, who had pled not guil ty, is appealing to Superior Court. Bond has been set at $1,500. CHAMBER MANAGER RESIGNS Carroll Returning To Mount Olive Manager Ed Carroll is leaving his post with the Cham ber of Commerce and will return to Mt. Olive, where he 1 has farming and business interests. Dunn _ kM . i M" ■ ■ 1. "There's for development they man. In many a ays. th.s f inimu- SHt 'm. nitv has an easy wav to so t ini- jflflttC prove itself compared to other wBUm places." JsjfetiiiffiiEM 'l r UfM take effect on or before Oct 15, plans to return to Mt Olive with children Jimmy. 18. Tumm.e ,U! and Betty 9 Jimmy is about to leave for North Collette State Col lege at Raleigh Tommie and Betty are enrolled in the seventh and fifth tirades in Dunn ' ftp*-’ *-- The resignation was announced f by Emmett Aidredge, president of H « ? ff *’’ *•}» the Chamber of Commerce He said it had actually been tendered tlie board some weeks previously H||| but the actual ‘‘letter ot resign- mfilfi /£ a lion" did not go to the board until - .■■ '■ ■ (Continued on Page Two) ED CAKROUi^^^ Scheduled For Friday; Heavy , File Reported The Harnett County Grand Jury resumed sitting today and continued its in vestigation into alleged mis handling of cases in the county recorder’s court but the formal report of find ings and recommendations was delayed until Friday. District Solicitor Jack Hooks, after conferring with Foreman Ce cil Fuquay of Coats, told newsmeu the report definitely would not be , - made until tomorrow. The solicitor said the investi gation covered a period of two years or longer, dealt with a great number of cases and witnesses, and is so voluminous that it was im possible for the report to be com pleted before the end of today’s session of court. Solicitor Hooks and SBI Agent W. W. Melvin burned the midnight oil last night reviewing evidence uncovered in the extensive probe. Th SBI and the Grand Jury have made separate Investigation MANY WITNESSES County Judge M. O. Lee, Solicitor Neill McK. Ross, members of the county board of commissioners and every law enforcement officer in the county m addition to scores of ether witnesses have been question- A »n the matter. INDICTMENTS PASSIBLE Possible indictments against both Judge Lee and Solicitor Lee have been hinted as in the offing. Questioned about this, Solicitor Hooks declined comment except to say, “It’s possible.” He said it would depend upon the evidence and that he had not yet had an opportunity to complete his study of the facts uncovered, by the SBI. ' • Superior Court Judge Malcohnit Seawell of Lumberton, presiding (Continued On Page Eight) Lillington court was preceedlng to handle cases as usual on Tues day. Meanwhile, an investigation of the court’s records extending back over the past several years was being conducted (see story page one today). MOORE THIRTY DAYS Entering a plea of guilty to . (Continued on Page Two) NO. 198
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