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PAGE TWO BULLETINS MOSCOW (IP Moscow was buzzing today over its first world premier of a Western film since the Commu nist revolution. Rene Clair's French film “Great Maneu vers,’’ starring Gerard Philipe and Michele Morgan, was shown at the Savcinema Club for the first time Monday uight. CHICAGO (IF/ Motorola, Inc., said today it has dis covered a manufacturing technique for turning out a “re volutionary new 7 very-high-frequency transistor on a mass production basis. The firm's president, Paul V. Calvin,, said the transistor can become practically applicable to military electronics gear, home and car radios, and tele vision sets. LENINGRAD (IP. British sailors aboard the aircraft earner Triumph got a look at new Soviet naval construc tion Monday despite Russian efforts to prevent it. BONN, Germany UP? Soviet and West German dip lomats will begin negotiations this week in Paris on de tails of establishing normal diplomatic relations between the two nations. COLOMBO, Ceylon UP) Buddhist monks today plan ned a march on the House of Representatives W ednesday to protest a Communist supported bill to make Sinhalese and Tamil the official languages of Ceylon. NEW DELHI, India UP/ Burmese Premier UNu ar rived here from Calcutta today on his way to Moscow. Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru gave a reception for him tonight and he was to leave on Wednesday. WASHINGTON UP? The United States,, already sus picious that Russia may be trying to get a foothold in the Middle East, today studied a new Soviet bloc offer of economic aid to Egypt. DENVER UP? President Eisenhower scheduled bu siness conferences today with Sherman Adams, his chief assistant, and other members of his staff in his role of directing the government while recovering from the heart attack he suffered Sept. 24. PITTSBURGH (IP? Negotiators for Westinghouse El ectric Corp. and the CIO International Union of Electric al Workers attempted today to settle a strike by 44,000 workers which has idled 30 company plants across the na tion since last Sunday midnight. PARIS UP/ Premier Edgar Faure goes before the Na tional Assembly today for a Vote of confidence that could topple the 21st French government since the war and bring international disaster to France. HARTFORD, Conn. UP; A multi-million dollar re habilitation program moved into high gear today in the seven state area battered by flood waters which have claimed almost 50 lives. f WASHINGTON UP- —\sen. W. Kerr Scott said last night the administration’s power policies will “backfire” in the faces of those who are trying to shove them down the throats of the people.” NEW YO R K UP/ St. Lawrence Mills of Canada, which supplies newsprint to 300 newspapers in 35 states in this country, announced today it is increasing the price of its product $5 a ton, effective November 1. RALEIGH, N. C. Higher prices were paid on the East ern and Old Belt flue-cured tobacco markets yesterday, but prices held fairly steady on the other two major sales belts. UP Hurricane Katie reeled across an At lantic expanse with waning strength today but still was considered a potential threat to ships. WASHHINGTON UP The Navy says its tiny A4D jet attack bomber which has set a new world speed rec ord of nearly 700 miles an hour around a closed circuit course can fly even faster. MOSCOW UP Mrs. Erika Glaser Wallach, adopt ed daughter of Noel and Ilcrta Field, has been freed from a Soviet labor camp and is in Moscow awaiting transpor tation to the West, it became known today. PARIS IP/ Playboy Emperor Bao Dai announced today he had “fired” South Viet Nam Premier Ngo Dinh Diem who has called a referendum in an effort to end Bao Dai's role as chief of state. An estimated 3 million Vietnamese will vote Sunday on whether to oust the ab sentee emperor or the prime minister. Diem is expected to win a resounding vote of public confidence. WASHINGTON UP Assistant Defense Secretary Gordon Gray said last night the University of North Car olina board of trustees will consider his proffered resig nation as university president next month. Gray issued a statement recalling that he submitted his resignation last June but the executive committee of the trustees declined to accept it. DURHAM UP Some 700 officials and towns throughout North Carolina will attend the 46th annual convention of the North Carolina League of Municipali ties here next week. UREENSBORO UP The North Carolina committee on nursing and nursing education will seat two new members and hear reports of a recent survey of the state’s nursing resources at its quarterly meeting in Raleigh ’ Friday. MEMPHIS <(P? Tennessee state laws requiring seg regated schools were ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge who gave his approval to a plan for step-by-step integration In state-operated colleges. BURLINGTON UP- John T. Burnett, 44, Negro of Burlington pumped six shots into another Negro today, aOharynUy police said, because the victim told Burnett he didn't believe he wou)<l shoot. Deputy Sheriff J. A. Jones said Burnett is being field without benefit of bond pending a preliminary hearing into the death of Paul Terrell. 24, of Burlington. 1 Tales Os B.v MALCOLM FOWLER Beginning at the mouth of Rock fish Creek 6 miles below Fayette ville, there is a well defined ridge which slants up through the Hay mount section of the city. It wanders on out through the mam post of Fort Bragg and the town of Spring Lake before drop ping down to cross Lower Little River at Manchester. After crossing the river, the ridge begins again, running north west between McLeods' Creek ou the east and the Overhills estate of the Rockefeller’s on the west. At Spout Springs it takes an al most due west course into Moors County. Just before it enters Moore it veers slightly northwest through Cameron and on into Carthage. In that distance of 50 miles it crosses only one large stream: Lower Little River. In ancient days the feet of thous ands of buffalo, notorious haters of water, had pounded a well marked trail as they followed pas turage from the mountains to the lush meadows below Fayetteville. Indian tribes in the Blue Ridge foothills utilized this old buffalo trail in their annual journeys to the sea below Wilmington. There they would feast on shellfish and sicken themselves with huge draughts of youpon tea. Then wan. pale, shaken - but cleansed - they would head back for {heir moun tain homes. In time the buffalo vanished but Indians were still using their old trail in 1753 when David Smith came wandering up it. Reaching the top of what we now call Cameron’s Hill, the view so entranced him he entered a claim for 100 acres on the south side of the hill. The grant for this tract was is* sued to Smith Aug. 1, 1753 and was described as lying, “on the south side of a hill called M:. Pleasant 1 mile from the head of a branch of Barbaque Creek.” This was the ancient way of spelling present Barbecue. It was derived from two French words, “barb” for bread and “que” for tail, mean ing from “whiskers to tail.” Thus a hog Is cooked from whiskers to tail when barbecued. David Smith must have found a better view elsewhere for on July 24, 1754 he sold the tract to John Martinlear, who kept It a little longer - until Aug. 1, 1753 when he sold It to Duncan Buie Duncan and his wife, Sarah, held it until Oct. 10, 1772 whan they sold it to Alexander McDonald. Buie added a bit to the descrip tion of the tract stating that it was located on the south side of the main road. This Alexander McDonald's wife was named Annabella, half-sister of the famous Flora McDonald. It was to their home that Flora and Allan McDonald came when th»y arrived in North Carolina in 1774. They lived there until sometime in 1775 when Allan and Flora moved to Killiegrey, their new home on Cheek's Creek, l’S miles Northeast of Pekin in the lower part of Montgomery County, in all probability Alexander and Anna bella went with them for on Feb. 10, 1776 they sold the tract to Daniel Cameron. Witnessing the deed were Kenneth McDonald and John Cameron. On Jan. Is, 1739 Daniel deeded this tract to his son Allen who thereafter went by the name of Hill Allen to distinguish him from a dozen or so other Allen Camer ons living in that area. This then is the early history of this historic hundred acres. A few miles below the hill th*t buffalo trail intersected the Yad kin Road, and it was down this road that Hugh McAdam, the great Scot divine, rode when he came into the Cape Fear country from Pennsylvania in 1755 seeing souls to save. That he found plenty is evidenced by his journal, wherein he wrote: "Thursday January 29, 1756. Preached to a small congre gation. mostly Highlanders, at Al exander McKay's up the Yadkin Road, who were much obliged to me for coming and highly pleased with my discourse. Though, alas, I am afraid it was all but feigned and hypocritical for they stayed around the house all night drink ing and carousing.” As a result of McAden’s visit tha Reverend James Campbell came down from Pennsylvania in 1757 and established the Presbyterian churches at Bluff in till McNeil settlement on Cape Fear River Long Street, a few miles south of Cameron’s Hill and now part of the Fort Bragg Reservation, and Barbecue, six miles to the north. Most of the settlers around the Hill attended Church at Barbecue. One of Barbecue’s early pastors was Colin Lindsay who, according to tradition, was bom several years after his mother's burial. Stricken with a mysterious ill ness. Mrs. Lindsay was certified as dead, the wake duly held and n*-r remains buried in the family ceme tery. The night of the burial grave robbers exhumed her body to steal a valuable rihg from one of liei fingers. The ring couldn’t be re moved and one of the ghouls whip ped out a knife to sever the finger. At this moment Mrs. Lindsay re covered from her cataleptic trance TXE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. Western and screamed. So did the robbers as they created another road through the surrounding under growth in their mad flight. Some times walking, sometimes crawling, Mrs. Lindsay made her way baeic to the house, knocked weakly at the barred door. What a dramatic situation! The dead and buried returned to life. What would her husband say” What would he do? Mr. Lindsay’s footsteps ap proached the door. The bar was removed and the door swung open outlining him in the light of the candle he held aloft. For a long moment he stood, stolidly regard ing his mate so recently returned from the grave. Then: "Are you in the flesh or the spirit?” he asked calmly. "In the flesh* she answered faintly. “Then come on In the house and put on some decent clothes. You look terrible.” And that's the way it happened, so says tradition. Mrs. Lindsay was nursed back to health, and six years later her son Colin was born. When the great Presyterian re vival of 1801 swept the South Rev erend Lindsay fought it bitteriv. denouncing the shouting, rolling and general hysteria of his parish ioners. He would begin each serv ice with the request that. “The devil’s children would keep quiet while God’s children listened to His holy word.” | His efforts were futile .and on one occasion a member called John Sipall became uncontrollable "Ee-eyow!” he screeched "I'm gonna climb yon tree an’ fly to heaven like a bird!” And started to do just that. “I’ll cure ‘ini,” promised a dour old Presbyterian named Barksdale, pulling a rawhide whip from his wagon. A few lashes brought the climbing Small down from his and back to his senses. He later thanked Barksdale for saving his life. "For.” he said simply, "I was that carried away I’d a tried to fly to heaven like I said I would.” Another of Barbecue’s ministers was Dougald Crawford. Tradition says he fell in love with the lovely daughter of one of the church el ders. was rejected by her and be come mentally unbalanced. “Crazy as a coot!” pronounced one old Scot after listening to him. By the time of the Revolution there was a flourishing settlement around the Hill with a cooper s a tannery, a turpentine dis tillery and Merchant John Camer- DESOTO SEULEL *The new 1956 De Soto is hotter than shish kebab. Don't miss it. Out Wed nesday, October 19, at spur De Soto Dealers. (Freely translated fromthe Armenian}* i Harnett on's trading post, which was a short distance away. The Revolution over, peace cgme again to Cameron's Hill to wipe out the mepiories of the bloody days when neighbor fought neigh bor and life often hung by a pre carious thread. For fifty years the settlement continued a somnolent existence until in the 1840’.s when the sawmills came and systemati cally obliterated the great forests of long leaf pine. It was then that the Fayette ville and Western Plank Road w r as built by Cameron's Hill to Salis bury. Samuel Johnson constructed an inn near the lull and the vil lage became known as Johnson ville. This was the boom period of the town, and under the leader ship of J. W Cameron. Colonel Alexander Murchison. Daniel Me- Diarmid. Christopher Monroe, A C. Buie. R. C. Belding and others, sawmills and turpentine distilleries flourished and soon long trains of wagons loaded with lumber and naval stores were rumbling down the plank road to Fayetteville Evergreen Masonic Lodge was chartered, a postoffice and new stores and shops built, and pro minently identified with most of she work was the eccentric San Johnson. When the Cape Fear locks and dams were being built above Aver asboro Sam went over for a look. The locks didn't impress h-m but the swarthy-skinned, ear-rtnged Hungarian and Slovak workmen did. A few days after his visit Sam was celebrating his birthday and while tipsUy ‘‘skinning cats’’ from the limb of an apple tree he fell on his head. When he re covered he persisted thereafter in wearing gold rings in his ears. It was in his inn that one rs the greatest temperance lectures ever delivered was composed by the crusading prohibitionists, the Reverends Malcolm Mac Neill and Neill McLauchlin. For half a day the two minis ters had labored fruitlessly over their task of wTiting a forthcoming temperance lecture. After lunch, Archie McLauchlin. a brother of the Reverend Neill McLauchlin, brought a jug of brandy to their room. Though Presbyterian discipline might be strict on some matters in those days it was temperate where the drinking of hard liquor was concerned - - even when guz zled by ministers and prohibition ists. At sundown when Aiofcie re TOBACCO Jfe Is Really gHi SELLING GOOD IN SMITHFIELD There Are Ho Block Seles. Drive In, Sell And Return Home The Same Day. Join Yeur Many Friends Who Are Getting More Mmey For Their Tobacco In SMITHFIELD. SAtfS mt THIS BfIHQ MADE DAILY A. H. POLLARD GENEVA COATS AND JUNIUS SNEAD, ROUTE 3, BENtfON " ROUTE 2, CLAYTON 7 POUNDS " PRICE AMOUNT POUNDS PRICE amount * y lc * $194.54 282 22 c S !2H2 274 ■Jojc 191.30 242 7sc JJM? 252 70c 176.49 256 73c 183.34 g3# 7sc 171.36 290 72c 211.70 Si 71c 1*3.18 60c 66 00 u \.sey l-, • . . ( 45.92 11*2 $840.10 $963.20 AVERAGE $71.07 AVERAGE S*9.PQ turned he found the jug empty and the tw’o composers retired - - fuily clothed - -for the night. But the temperance lecture was finished and it remains a classic to this day ‘‘For,” as was pointed out, “nothing helps like self ex perience.” Standing on the Monroe Road near Johnsonville is Archie Mac- Gregor's dram tree where he al ways halted for a final snifter be fore going to Fayetteville. Archie's clan always celebrated old New Year’s night with a danc ing and drinking party. Now, danc ing was strictly prohibited by his church, and on one occasion Archie was hauled before a session of the elders to explain his dereliction. He plead guilty, told them of the ancient custom of his clan and concluded simply: ‘‘An’ so ye may session an’ ye may session but so lang as MacGregor lives an’ auld New Year’s night comes. MacGre gor will crook his arm an’ Mac- Gregor will shake his toqj& One is struck by the agt? of those buried there: 80 years, 85. 90. Back when the temperance society was organized at the Hill the new members would be taken out to the cemetery and shown the stones of those oldsters. Then they would be taken to thte grave of Tippy Dan Cameron to show them the evil effects of alcohol. Tippy Dan died at the age of 68 Four miles vyest of Johnsonville, near Mt Noriah colored church, is the huckleberry bog where over a hundred Indians from Drowning Creek were massacred by the Cape Fear Indians shortly before the coming of the white settlers The slain warriors were burled to Cameron. The spot is marked by an oak tree somewhat larger than the surrounding blackjacks. In re cent years the moulid has been much despoiled by souvenir hunt ers and the ground Is lettered with fragments of bone. This entire area of Western Har nett was once covered by forests of long leaf pine. These friendly forests provided a livelihood for the settlers for over a hundred years. The trees were first boxed for turpentine, which was distilled, barreled and hauled to Fayetteville for sale. When the trees had been exhausted of their turpentine flow they were cut. Some were hauled to streams feeding the Cape Fear and floated downstream to the river. There the logs w r ere assem bled into rafts for the long trip to Wilmington. The bed of Lower Little River is littered with logs w r hich never reached the Cape Fear. A good sized raft would bring from S4OO to SSOO at Wilmington. TUESDAY AFTtyNOQN, OCTOBER 18, 195 b t ; • mmma ■ Sa&Mß&r&lSLmlZh, HOG-TIES JUDGES—Faces of the fudges aitol fair officials »t toe Putnam County Fair at Ottawa, Ohio, were somewhat red when this picture of them was^ It happened at the swine show.' The call went out for produce of dam in the Spotted Poland China class. Several exhibitors entered the ring with their animals. As judging was about to be gin. Willis Bradford, of Wapakoneta. walked' to with an wtnful of 11-day-old piglets, set them down and waited for the judges to declare him the winner. Spectators laughed and the judges looked concerned. When they questioned Bradford’s right to bring in the little pigs, he told them to look in the rule book. They looked at the rule for produce of dam and found someone had erroneously added a date providing that animals entered to that class must have been farrowed "bn or after Aug. I, IMS- Sc technically, Bradford’s piglets were the only ones eligible for the class. Amid laughter, Bradford removed his animals and juug ing proceeded on “intent,” not the “letter" "of the IhW. Pines not suitable for tun timber were converted into boards, fence rails and shingles. Scattering while oaks supplied staves for making tar and turpentine barrels. Trees that were fat enough - lightwood - were stacked in kilns and burned for tar. A fair sized kiln would run 30 barrels of tar which sold for four to five dollars per barrel at Fayetteville. With the passing of the pines the area grew up in worthless blackjacks. Today these blackjacks are being rooted up by bulldozers. Fields of tobacco and other crops cover the region. It has been found that with proper fertilization and cultivation this Sandhill country grows the finest cigarette tobacco In the world. Thus today we find this once barren and sparsely settled pari of Harnett blooming like the rose and becoming thickly populated. In fact, there is not another sec tion of Harnett that ftp* progres- sed like the townships of Ander son Creek, Barbecue and Johns n vdlle Hard top roads, electric line., and lately - telephone lines criss cross the area, bringing modern conveniences to the peoole But the haunting air of anient days and deeds still hangs over the rolling hills. In fancy, one can see Archie McGregor taking a final snifter at his dram tree; listen to Findlay Chisholm instruct his stu dents In the mysteries of the Hire 's or -watch Flora MaD 3n »'d alttin by her spring gazing with trag-; eyes into the sunset even as he world was beginning to fall to pieces about her. It is a land of a glorious past but a still brighter future. Nebraska leads the nation in the production of alfalfa meal. A total of 350,000 tons were produced in 1954, more than a fourth of the total output In the country.
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