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* WEATHER Generally cloudy and little change in temperatures through Thursday with scattered mostly light rain west portion this after noon. Spreading to the coast to night and gradually ending Thurs Etu- D ailg Kewrd THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN. N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 30. 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO 341 1612 WEEKS WITHOUT A MISS—Charlie McCullers of Kinston, right, past district gover nor of Rotary Internaitonal, is shown here pre senting Rotarian Earl McD. Westbrook of the Dunn club a pin for 31 years of perfect attend ance. The prominent Dunn leader has never missed a meeting since he joined the local club in October of 1926. Looking on behind is Club President Carl Fitchett, Jr. (Daily Record Photo.) For 3il Years Of Perfect Attendance Rotarians Honor Westbrook Highway Death Called Accident An inquest jury put down as “an unavoidable accident” the death of George McNeil, 65-yeai old colored man, who was struck on Monday and kocked from Lee into Harnett County. Lee Conuty had jurisdiction be cause the accident had taken place there. The coroner, Dr. J. H. Byerly, reported that Norman Le Cour Olson, a Fort Bragg sergeant, was exonerated of blame in the ac cident which took McNeil's life. The sergeant told the jury, said the coroner, that he was driving alone and it was very dark. Ihe Negro man, he said, was wearing an old army jacket and had taken a sudden step into the road. When he saw him, it was too late to stop. Two other persons testified said Dr. Byerly, that they had passed a Negro believed to be the same man som half an hour before the accidnt took place. They reported that he was than standing in the middle of the road and they had to swerve to avoid hitting him. Dr. Byerly said the dead nan’s wife said she hadn’t known where he was, what he was doing or why (Continued On Page Sevenr Dunn Rotarians Tuesday night devoted their entire program to paying tribute to Earl McD. Westbrook, a man whoi hasn’t missed attend-1 ing a weekly Rotary meet ing since he oined the Dunn club 31 years ago. The club set aside the evening and called it “Harl Westbrook Night” in' recognition of the re markable—almost fantastic record of perfect and consecutive attend ance. Mr. Westbrook, who is one of Eastern Carolina’s leading busi ness men and the head of a dozen or more different far-flung busi ness enterprises, is believed to hold an all-time record for Ro tary attendance. Dunn’s mayor for four years and a city councilman for six years—and the only man in his tory to be named twice as Dunn’s “Man of The Year,” Westbrook t has headed practically every ci I vie organization in the town and a number of State organizations as well. “The ‘town, community and State have been blessed because Earl Westbrook has let some of the spirit and fellowship of Ro tary rub off him onto his many (Continued On Page Two) Coroner Returns Norris Money To Administrator Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., said to day that he had turned over to Mrs. Lloyd Norris the money found in the Coats store of Wal ter Norris, ruled a suicide by an inquest jury. Mrs. Norris, wife of the dead man’s son', a serviceman stationed ! in Virginia, has qualified as ad ministrator of the estate, the cor oner said. Coroner Pate held $155, found in a bureau drawer, until the in vestigation and inquest officially closed out the case. Lloyd Norris and Mrs. Virginia Glovack told the coroner they had expected the jury to decide Norris’s death was the result of “murder by unknown persons” rather than suicide. Norris, who left no note in ex planation of his death, was found on Friday morning with a small blast in his chest from a shotgun fired at close range. The shotgun was beside him on his bed in' the <»nunn«t on Pirr l«n Sheriff Denies Authorship Of Court—Baiting Article Sheriff Claude Moore,' down in bed with the flu,' hotly denied today that hej had written an article attri buted to him in the Harnett County News. “I didn’t have nary a thing to do with it,” said the sheriff. The piece is supposedly direct ed at the United States Supreme Court and in mock seriousness asks about an injunction to make ‘‘my white coon dog . . . hunt with my black bird do«.” Various other questions are ask sd of the Supreme Court in an at tempt at spoofing their attack on the South’s separate but equal doctrine. “Don’t you say that I wrote that. I wouldn’t have sense enough for one thing,” said the sheriff. The sheriff stated he had first j seen the piece when a traveling salesman showed it to him. He agreed with the man that it was “right cute," the sheriff said, and the salesman had urged him to have his secretary make him his own copy, laying it on her desk. Sheriff Moore said the editor of •the Harnett County News, Frank Steele, had apparently picked it up from there and concluded it was the sheriff’s own words. This is the piece as printed by the Har nett weekly: “Sheriff C. R. Moore is in a quandary about some things and he has written the following list of things he would like to know: “Will you help me get the fol lowing information from the Uni ted States Supreme Court. “Before I start my next year’s crop, I would like to get things straight, since the Supreme Court has changed so many things that (Cfenltnaed an Page Tw», like Is Going | To Top Level Talks In Paris WASHINGTON (IP)—Presi dent Eisenhower announc* ed today he plans to go to Paris in December to join other heads of government at the annual meeting of the NATO Council. The President said that before going to Paris he will confer with Republican and Democratic con gressional leaders. The confer ences, he said .would be designed to keep this country on a single track in its foreign relations. While in Europe, the President said he also would like to visit London, but he did not know whether the London visit cou'd be arranged because of the difficul ties involved in his remaining out of the country for any length of time. The President announced his Paris trip at a crowded news con ference, his first in three weeks. Little Rock Calm Other new conferences high lights: He said the Little Rock school integration crisis seems to be im situation soon will be such as to situation soon wil lbe such as to permit removel of all federal forces. wives to buy less in an era of He advised American house- * rising prices and buy more during downward price trends. He did not know whether Georgi K. ^hukov, ousted as Soviet de fense minister, had been down graded, but the President thought the frequency in changes among the Soviet ruling group since the death of Joef Stalin was extra ordinary. The President expects to make an announcement soon on the first in a series of speeches designed (Continued On Page Six) HITCHHIKER —“Bill,” a pet I pigeon owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Blackburn, of Courtland, Kan., catches a free ride on the noggin of Dan Nolan, as the 12-year-old youngster walks to school. “Bill," unofficial town , mascot, is sort of a character. He likes to land on women’s heads and pull their hair, nip at toes of women wearing open- : toed shoes, ride on hoods of cars and chase cats and dogs. 11-Year-Old Girl Leaps To Safety PICKFORD, Mich. (IP) — An 11 year old girl leaped from a sec ond story porch early today suid watched in horror as her mother, father an dsix brothers and sis ters died in a blaze which des troyed their smal lfram house. Rose Carrick, the lone survivor of the tragic fire, was treated far deep leg gash suffered in her leap for life. (Continued on »-are Five) Joins Charles' 'Real Father' At Murder Trial SANTA MONICA, Calif. (IP) —The stepfather of a 19 year-old youth accused of slaying his mother’s fiance has joined the boy’s real fa ther as defense attorney in his ‘ murder trial. John Angus, a retired Chicago attorney now Irving in Las Vegas, Nev., made a surprise appear fance Tuesday as testimony began in the trail of Charles Lee Guy1 III, formerly of Dunn. N. C. “I felt I should do what I could for boy,” Angus said. Charles Lee Guy Jr., a recorder’s court presecutor at Dunn, already had received special permission to as sist in the defense. The youth is charged with the i shotgun slaying last Aug. 15 of j meat company executive Guy F. ! Koberts. Roberts was shot to j death as he slept at a motel here, i [ Mrs. Nina Angus, 36, told police j she had planned to marry Rob erts. | In an opening statement, pros-! ecutor Dep. Dist. Atty. David N. Fitts told the 10-woman, two-man jury, completed earlier Tuesday that the shooting victim was ”in a state of intoxication at the time of his deah.” The court then heard the pre liminary hearing testimony tran script of Sanra Monica Police Qfficer Raleigh C. Wilkerscn in which the offier stated he found a shirt and a tie and a loaded 16 gauge shotgun shell discared Continued On rw Six) MRS. HOLMES DIES Mrs. Celie Holmes of 401 South Washington Avenue died early this afternoon in the Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital in Dunn. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced later. -Goblin-Chasers —— Extra Police On Duty Halloween Nearly every television mu sical show for the past week has been full of goblins, wit ches and Halloween horse play so the big nightitself— a glance at the calendar shows that it comes tomor row evening—may be some thing of an anti-climax. However, the town of Dunn is gearing up to protect itself from any rough stuff by the younger set. Empie Hall, publicity chair man for the Rotary Club, said that, as in past years, his organization is shelling out pay to put all avad able policemen to work that night. Dr. Glenn Hooper, Sr., intro duced this idea of hiring extra policemen to Rotary some years ago. It has worked, says Empie, very well, Last year .he reports, there was no vandalism to speak of, partly because the youngsters were well aware that a large staff of policemen were vigorously .pat rolling the streets. “You know, you have to watch for the older ones, too." said Em pie. “It’s not just the kids who cause trouble on Halloween ” Several churches in town have joined in the attempt to siphon off youthful high spirits into good works. Thus, you can expect some of the bell-ringers tomorow night to be tiny representatives of UNICEF, trick or treating not for themselves but for “the children of all the world." The Presbyterian, Baptist, Chris tian and Methodist Churches ar€ squadronning these helpful trick and treaters and will give each one official name tags and ident fication to separate them from youngsters who are acting strictly on behalf of themselves. “When these ghosts and goblins ring your doorbell,” they suggest, "please have your pennies and (Conttr-ied On Page Two) OPEN HOUSE—The Dunn Convalescent Home, under new management since Oct. 1 and now established in a new location on East Broad Street near the Winn-Dixie supermarket, will hold open house tomorrow. A tour of the home will be given for all interested persons. Hafirs for the open house are 10 until 11:30 a. m.; 2:30 until 5:30 and 6 until 8:30. Owners of the Con valescent Home are Mr. and Mrs. Royce Crump ler and the supervisor is Mrs. Hazel Bennett. (Record Photo.) MAPPING DEFENSE—Charles Lee Guy, III, accused in the murder of his mother’s boy-friend, is shown with his father and defense counsel, Charles Lee Guy ,Jr., of Dunn-. Yesterday the Dunn solicitor was joined at the defense table by John An gus, stepfather of the boy and a former Chicago lawyer. (Unit ed Press Photo.) Harnett Wills Are Probated Arthur Pope Estate Valued $270,808 Wills of a number of well known Harnett County citi zens recently have been probated with Mrs. Elizabeth F. Matthews, clerk of the Superior Court. Arthur Franklin Pope, Dunn’ business man, who died Oct. 1 left a will designating his wife, Mrs. Will Cooper Pope, as execu tor. His estate in real and per sonal properties was valued at $270,808. Real estate owned by Pope at his death was estimated at $161,708, and personal proper ty at $109,100. | The three Pope daughters, Mrs. Josephine P. Mixon, Mrs. Novella P. Rawlings and Mrs. Will P. Pope will share alike in the benefits of the estate. Written in March, 1945 the will was witnessed by H. G. White head and Oscar Strickland. Mc Leod and McLeod of Dunn are at torneys for the estate. Matthews Will In another will, Matthew L. Matthews of near Angier left a will devising all his lands and per- ' sonal property, e arutsiadettipot j sonal property, estimated at around $9,000, to his widow, Mrs. I Ida D. Matthews. The wife was named executor. « The will of Claudia J. Smith of Dunn listed an estate valued at (Continued On ) an Tw»i Core Funeral Thursday At Spring Branch George Sampson Core, 77, of Dunn died Tuesday night at the Stone Nursing home in Smith fieid. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Spring Branch Baptist Church in Sampson County. Rev. Leslie Tucker and the *Rev. Ern est P. Russel will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. He was a native of Sampson County, son of the late John and Rachel Elmore Core. He is sur vived by one son, Clayton Core of Matawan, New Jersey, three dau ghters, Mrs. Marvin Godwin1, of Dunn, Mrs. William S. Godwin, Route 1, Dunn, Mrs. Anthony Gi ugliano of Matawan, New Jersey, two brothers Roscoe V. Core, Rt. iContloned On Pace Mil Scout Chiefs Busy Reorganizing Pack Scout executives here have issued a strong call to all the eight, nine and ten year old boys who want to belong to a cub pack. ° Glenn Foster, manager of the Cottondale Hotel and a key figure in Harnett scouting, announced that on Monday night at the Pres byterian Church a cub pack will be reorganized. This is the pack whose cub master was Skinny Ennis, Ennis, saddled with new duties as chair man of the Dunn recreation com mission, had to give up the post this summer. Foster said that a new cabmas ter will probaly be appointed at the meeting Monday night. There are already two dn mothers for the group, Mrs. Joe Burnette and Mrs. H. W. fleath, and two more will probably be chosen. Or the pack committee are Foster, Tommy Godwin, H. W. Heath and-©wight Mattox. Notices have gone up in Dunn •Continued On Fag* Twui
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