* WEATHER *
Generally fair and cooler Monday
except for scattered showers and
thunderstorms In the Southeast.
High 80 to 85 in the mountains and
85 to 81 elsewhere.
Eli-.- D aily Akker
THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 7
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 1957
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 175
A HUG FOR HIZZ0NER AND THE JAYCEE
PRESIDENT—Pretty Miss Becky Lee of Dunn, re
cently crowned Miss Virginia, returned to her Tar
Heel home during the weekend to receive the ac
claim of the homefolks. Dunn celebrated Becky Lee
Day in grand style. Now a resident of Roanoke,
Va„ Mayor Ralph Hanna proudly boasted that
“she still belongs to Dunn” and predicted shell be
crowned Miss America in Atlantic City next
month. Becky is shown here giving a big hug to
Jaycee President |Corky Cretini, left, and Mayor
Hanna, right. And you can see by the expression
on their faces, they loved it. (Daily Record Photo.)
• —
Becky Lee (riven Acclaim
Bv The Hometown Folks
Liquor Stills
Are Captured
Two big liquor stills were cap
tured Friday by the sheriff’s de
partment in Stewart’s Creek
Township. |
Sheriff C. R. Moore reported
that he and rural police found 40
gallons of white whiskey at the
scene. 500 gallons of beer and
arrested two Negrdes, Leroy and
Robert Elliott of Bunnlevel, Route
One.
The submarine type stills prov
ed good photographic subjects for
Dunn Dispatch photographer T.M.
Stewart. The Sheriff used the op
portunity to introduce his office
deputy, Mrs. Ramona Warren, to
the sight of her first still.
Mrs. Warren is the secretary in
the sheriff’s office who keeps a
list of all liquor stills captured,
but had never before seen a dis
tillery set up for action in the
woods. A radioed call to Mrs.
Warren’s desk brought her the or
der to report to the scene, which
she did.
If the judges for next month’s pageant
had been in Dunn Saturday night and
homefolks, Becky Lee would be selected
as the next Miss America.
in Atlantic Citj
listened to th<
by acclamatior
For greater love hath no one I
than the people of Dunn have for
the 22-year-old hometown beauty
who recently was crowned as Miss
Virginia and will represent the
Old Dominion State at Atlantic
City.
Rebecca Ann Lee came home
from her stenographic job in Roa
noke, Va. to spend the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbert Lee.
It was Becky Lee Day in Dunn,
and the local folks, “just bustin’
with pride” poured it on — all
day long and late into the nigftt.
All the town’s big brass, along
with other citizens, turned out to
welcome Becky. Store windows
were painted up with messages
of greetings, newspaper ads wel
comed her, and a big reception
Saturday night in the auditorium
of the new Wayne Avenue School
climaxed the day’s festivities.
They Waxed Eloquently
Mayor Ralph E. Hanna and civ
ic lealers of the town vied with
each other in their flowery and
eloquent accolades extolling the
beauty, grace, charm and magni
ficence of the Dunn beauty, each
trying to outdo the other.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Dunn Masons
To Discuss
New Lodge
Members of the Dunn Masonii
Lodge Tuesday night will discus
a proposal for splitting the uni
and forming two separate lodges
In a letter to members today
Secretary W. O. (Bill) Cameroi
told the Masons that “this is pro
bably one of the most importan
meetings you will attend in th<
near future.”
He said a letter from Mrs
Worth Stewart regarding the us
of the lodge hall by a new lodg
has been received and its content
will be disclosed at that time.
Many believe that two lodge
would promote greater interes
and activity on the part of mor
members.
If time permits Tuesday nighl
Herman Green will discuss thre
chapters of the Masonic code. Th
meeting will begin at 8 o’cloel
Refreshments will be served.
Carlie Cotton Under Bond Pending Inquest
Farmer Kills Negro Tenant
bailie ^uncii, ou )cai uiu
Harnett County farmer, is
being held under $5,000 bond
pending an inquest into the
slaying of one of his tenants,
Jessie McLaurin, 30-year
old Negro.
Harnett Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr.
said McLaurin died Saturday nite
in a Raleigh hospital. The shooting
took place sometime between 11
p.m. and midnight and he died ab
out an hour and a half later.
The coroner said Cotten claim
ed at first that he shot McLaurin
only once, but that an autopsy on
the dead man’s body showed l
•mu uccu auui live limes wiin a
.22 caliber pistol.
Cotten told officers that McLaur
in and his wife were having a
fight and disturbing the Cotten
household, so he went to the Mc
Laurin house to try to quiten the
couple.
He said McLaurin advanced on
him with a knife and that he then
shot him. He said he had no in
tention of killing the Negro but
merely was trying to defend him
self.
Later, he explained that he shot
McLaurin only one time before
McLaurin threw a butcher knife
at him and then shot him four
emore times. He said he didn’t re
anze mat me iNegro was Dadly
hurt by either of the shots.
Cotten’s son took McLaurin to
the hospital.
Wife’s Story Different
The Negro’s wife told a conflic
ting story. She said her husband
was sitting on the bed at the time
Cotten fired at him the first time
and that he did not throw the
knife until after Cotten had shot
him. She denied that Cotten kil
led her husband in self-defense.
Bullets entered the man’s breast
side and leg.
Rural Policemen Buck Griffin
and Lee Upchurch and Assistant
District Solicitor Glenn L. Hooper,
(ConUaie* On Pnge t'ght)
J. E. Williams
Named To
County Post
Harnett County commis
sioners, in an unusually
short session Monday em
ployed J. E. Williams of
Dunn as the new delinquent
tax collector.
Williams who is now the tax
collector for the town of Dunn
will begin work for the county
the first of September. His term
of office will run until June oi
1958, salary of Williams was fixed
at $300 a month with a monthly
travel allowance of $125.
For the first time this year, or
a local bill passed by the last ge
neral assembly, delinquent or ovei
due taxes in Harnett will be sel
aside in a special fund earmarked
to build a new or remodeled courl
house.
Commissioners also discussed
but deferred action until Septem
ber on plans to invest delinquenl
monies as rapidly as possible ir
short term U. S? treasury notes
They said they wanted to keer
the county money making money
and swell the court house building
fund. It is hoped that in Septem
ber the new tax collection wil
be in hand to buy the note. Coun
ty Auditor H. D. Carson, Jr. wa
present and said he would checl
with the banks on the proposition
Approve Holiday
In other actions, the board se
aside Labor Day, Sept. 2 as :
holiday for county employes. Com
missioners will meet on Tuesda:
September 3 instead of the usua
(Continued Or Png* Six)
Falcon Camp Meet
Will Open On 15th
GOLDSBORO, N. C.—The Fifty-Seventh Annual Ses
sion of the Falcon Camp Meeting at Falcon, N. C., will
open Thursday night, August 15 at 7 45.
Guest ministers are the Rev.
W. J. Nash of Franklin Springs,
Ga., and the Rev. Paul Hopkins
of Memphis, Tenn.
The Rev. W. Eddie Morris, su
perintendent of the North Carolina
Conference of the Pentecostal
(Continued on fage Eight)
HE LOVES THAT QUEEN—First person to greet Becky Lee
, of Dnnn upon her arrival home from Roanoke, Va., was Vance Dan
C iel, three and a half-year-old son of the Rev. and Mrs. Jack DanieU.
As soon as she stepped out of the car, Vance ran up and hugged her.
1 Dunn celebrated Blcky Lee Day Saturday to pay honor to the
t hometown beauty who has been elected Miss Virginia and who will
, represent the Old Dominion State at the Miss America Pageant
in Atlantic City next month. (Daily Record Photo.)
Brutal Killing Follows Row After Church
Farmer On Dunn, Route 2
Beats His Wife To Death
A 14-year-old boy told of- -
ficers his father beat his dis
abled mother to death to cli
max an after-church argu
ment Sunday at their home
on Dunn, Route 2.
W. O. Barefoot Jr. said he and
his father, Willie Otis Barefoot,
58, had gone to church and Sun
day school in the morning.
When they returned home, he
said his father argued with the 54
year-old mother. She was disabled
by a broken leg enclosed in a
plaster cast. The argument end
ed with the beating.
Members of the family said he
had been threatening to kill her
for sometime but recently had be
come converted and wras active in
his church.
Officers checking the home
found pieces of a .22 caliber rifle
and a double - barreled shotgun
scattered about the room. Bare
foot apparently smashed them
over his wife’s head.
Coroner V. J. Underwood de -
scribed the slaying as "one of the
; most brutal murders I have ever
■ seen.”
I The woman’s head, officers said
■ was crushed into a bloody pulp.
: Barefoot is being held in the
: Johnston County jail. Officials
. have not drawn up charges
against him or set bond.
[ Funeral Pending
i Funeral services will be tield
- at Savannah Hill Free Will Bap
r tlst Church Tuesday at three
I o’clock. The Rev. P. O. Jack
(Continued On Page Eight)
UKE FATHER, LIKE SON—Comedian Red Skelton and his
sori, Richard, 9, join forces to gag it up for photographers in
Paris, as they show off their Tyrolean hats decorated with
travel insignia. Doctors say the youngster, who is on a world
tour with his father and mother, is doomed by leukemia.
Says British Press Attack Nauseating
Skeltons Are Back,
Holds No Malice
NEW YORK (UP)—Comedian Red Skelton and his
eukemia-stricken son returned to New York today fror
Europe. Skelton vigorously denied that the trip was made
made for publicity as charged by several British newspap
ers.
With his arm around his boy,
l-year-old Richard, who said he
vas “feeling fine,’’ Skelton said he
>ore no maltce against the Eng
ish people for their press attacks.
“It was really one newspaper
vhich was responsible for this
hing. A reporter from this news
>aper approached me as we got
>ff the plane in London and asked
ne to give him an exclusive in
erview on the medical aspects of
Richard’s illness," Skelton said.
“I told him I was not a doctor,
hat I was not familiar with medi
al terms and that I couldn’t give
him such interview. However,
i told him that if he wanted such
information, he should write to my
doctor.
Asked For Interview
“A little later, a number of re
porters asked me if they could
come up to my hotel room for an
interview.
“The last man to arrive was this
man who wanted to exclusive in
terview. He asked me, 'What about
this adverse publicity1*’ I said
what adverse publicity? This is not
puuucuy. i iuok my uoy on mis
trip so that he could see as much
of the world as possible.
“We are living a normal life,
rhis was the first time that any
one made a remark like that con
cerning publicity.”
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Johnson Raps
Vice President
On CR Stand
WASHINGTON (UP) —
Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson asserted
today that Vice President
Richard M. Nixon is leading
a “concerted propaganda
campaign” of veto threat
against the Senate version
of the civil rights bill.
"This talk abut the Seate re
fusal to waive the right of trial by
jury being a dilution of the bill is
political propaganda,” Johnson
told reporters.
He was asked about the week -
end report from high sources that
President Eisenhower would veto
the bill if it should reach the
White House in the form evolved
in the Senate.
"It looks like a concerted prop
aganda campaign headed by the
vice president, who heard very
little of the discussion on the bill,”
Johnson replied.
Quotes Nixon
He cited the vice president’s
comment that it was a “sad day”
when the jury trial amendment
was attached to the right-to-vote
provision last week.
“It's a rather rare thing for the
vice president to start lecturing
the Senate, particularly when he
was not here to hear much of the
discussion,” Johnson said.
The Senate has finished amend
ing the bill. Johnson hoped the
final vote passing it could be
taken Wednesday or Thursday.
The bill then will go back to the
House, which earlier in the year
passed a bill which the admin
istration likes. There then is likely
to be a big battle In the House
over whether to accept the Senate
version or to seek a compromise.
The admisistration would back
the latter course, but it would in
volve the risk of a deadlock from
which no bill at all would emerge.
Ike Opposes Proposal
Eisenhower was represented as
insisting that at the very least the
Senate’s jury trial amendment
should be revised so that it would
apply only to criminal contempt
cases involving voting rights. As
adopted by the Senate, jury trial
would be granted in all criminal
contempt of court cases arising
under all federal laws.
Johnson expressed the belief
that judges (generally) would be
able to get compliance with right
to-vote injunctions without use of
ContLan«<j uo race dtx)
Building Permits
$56,600 In July
Building permits totaling $50,500 for new construc
tion and $6,100 for repairs were issued in Dunn during the
month of July, according to a report made today by City
Building Inspector John E. Norris.
i ne largest permit went to w
R. (Bob) Jernigan for construc
tion of a new Sinclair station on
West Cumberland St. to cost $23,
000.
Willard Mixon was issued a per
mit for erection of a $15,000 resi
aence on West Divine Mreet; and
was also issued another permit for
erection of a building at 506 E.
Cumberland St., to cost $500.
Dunn Tractor and Equipment
Company was issued a new eon
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Billy Gives Parents Advice
NEW YORK (UP)—Evan
gelist Billy Graham, con
vinced that juvenile delin
quency can be stamped out,
revealed Sunday; night the
great percentage who have
come forward to make “de
cisions” at his crusades are
between the ages of 16 and
21.
Speaking before 19,200 persons
in Madison Square Garden, Gra
ham offered parents six sugges
tions on how to curb jirvenile
delinquency:
1. "Take time with your chil
dren.’*
2. “Set your children a good ex-,
ample.”
3. “Give your children ideals
for living.”
4. “Have a lot ofactivltes plan
ned for your children.”
5. “Discipline your children.”
6. “Teach them about God.”
Graham, whose crusade to save
New York has been extended
through Aug. 31, said he would
devote the week of Aug. 11 to
teen-agers.
“If the Communists can fill a
stadium with young folks, I don’t
see why we can’t fill the garden
for a week with young people,” he
said.
Blaming parents, churches,
movies, television and lewed litera
ture for the “unprecedented out
break of teen-age violence in New
York at the moment,” the North
Carolina revivalist said, “it seems
that some of our teen-agers have
gone wild.”
SEX URGE TROUBLES
He added that many teen-agers
in America are troubled by the
sex urge.
"Many movies have feateured
sex, sin ar.d alcohol,” be declar
ed. "Millions of teen-agers see
hundreds of acts of violence on
their TV screens weekly. They
can buy lurid, lewd sex literature
on almost any jnewsstand, and
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