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OLDEST AND YOUNGEST — Miss Minnie
Guy, at 78. was the oldest attendee yesterday as
the Guy family held its big annual reunion at the
home of Cumberland County Sheriff L. L. Gji.v
just beyond Wade. The Dunn lady made a speeeh
directly especially to her young kin-folk, warned
them against too much face make up and said
she didn't wear face powder as a young girl—
“just bath powder all over." Next to her in the
dinner line was the youngest attendee at the re
union, tiny James Pettiletti who raised his plate
for a big helping. (Record Photo by Ted ( rail.)
Blonde s Testimony Convicts Two
Flirtin' Blamed In Wreck
Earl Norris
Seriously Hurt
In Tree Crash
Injured as the car he was rid
ing in crashed into a tree, Earl
Norris was sent to Chapel Hill
hospital yesterday evening for
speed treatment.
He was the worst injured in a
wreck which sen three other per
sons to the hospital.
Garifield Bass, 33. with a neck
injury, and Willie Norris, 15, with
internal injuries, will both re
main in Betsy Johnson Memoril
Hospital here.
Ten-year-old Lester Gerald
Thorpe was examined in the emer
gency room but found to have es
caped injury. He was sent home
The Norrises are residents of
Dunn, Route 5, while Bass lives on
Route 1. The accident oeeured
around noon-time on Sunday. Fur
ther details were not available.
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Car Stripped,
Then Burned
Except for traffic accidents all
was quiet around Lillington over
the weekend. On Friday night, 10
miles west of town a 1953 Ford
* was stripped and then burned
Authorities still do not know the
owner, but the incident is under
(Continued on Page Two)
Testimony of a trim, good-look
ing blonde spelled trouble for two
youths involved in cases which
were tried in Dunn court this
morning.
Merle Jean Pope , was a witness
for the state against Joseph Me
Lamb Dawson, tried for his part
in a car wreck. She was also a
witness against youthful Charles
Nordan. accused of larceny.
Duncan Wilson, who took over in
the Dawson trial as a private pros
ecutor. claimed that the youth
carelessly crashed into the back of
the car Merle was driving while
“flirting with her."
Dawson was charged with care
less and reckless driving and fol
lowing too close. The Pope car
was described as a total loss. After
Dawson’s car struck it. it bumped
Into another car ahead.
Judge H Paul Strickland con
victed the young driver over his
plea of not guilty. He sentenced
him to 60 days, suspnded on pay
ment of court costs and a $150
payment to Merle's mother for
their damaged 1950 car
Charles Nordan, accused of
stealing fender skirts and hubcaps
from Vincent M. Stokes, Catholic
priest, and Thomas Altman, cross
examined the same girl when she
turned up as a witness againsf
him.
He asserted he had never seen
the stolen parts until he came on
them where she was.
Judge Strickland convicted him
on two counts of larceny and re
ceiving. He entered an appeal in
both cases. Appeal bond was set
at $200. He did not immediately
supply it and was placed in the
Dunn jail.
Calvin Watson Drowns In Pond
Victim's Father
Claims Premonition
By BETTY MILTON
Record Staff Writer
The father of a 28-year-old co
lored man who drowned this
morning because he misjudged the
depth of a pond claimed, as his
son’s body was brought to shore,
that he had a premonition of dis
aster
Around two o'clock last night,
claimed Calvin Watson’s father,
he thought he hear dh!s son’s
voice calling him He rose, went
outside his house and looked ar
ound He found no-one
When he returned to his bed.
the elder Watson asserted, he told
his wife th^t “something bad”
was going to happen This morn
ing when he arrived at his son’s
home he found that he had drow
ned in McWhiercer Pond and the
sheriff and others were dragging
tor his body
The father, obviously shaken,
I On un Bed O* hft r«*)
Airman Faces
Hit And Run
Driving Count
Highway Patrolman David Mat
thews quickly tracked down Mack
Weldon Jones, 21-year-old airman
suspected of a hit and run driving
offense.
Jones was seized near Dunn fol
lowing a wreck on U.S. Highway
301
Matthews said investigation In
dicated that Jones was parked on
the shoulder of the highway and
suddenly turned into the line of
traffic.
George Watson Howlel, Jr., 27,
of Wickcliffe, Ohio, was the driv
er of the other car
Jones was charged with careless
and reckless driving and hit and 1
run. He is currently on leave from
Craig Air Force Base at Selma,
Alabama.
Damages to the Howlel car were
estmated at $350 and to the other
vehicle at $100.
Matthews said Jones admitted
fleeing the scene and told him "he
didn't known why he did ”
Fire Chiefs
Hear Seaweil
LUMBERTON <UP1> — Slate
Atty Gen Malcolm B Seaweil
urged North Carolina fire chiefs
today to expand their public re
lations programs and activities to
create good will on the part of
the public
"The best way I know- of for
chiefs of various fire departments
to promote good public relations
is for them and their men to un
derstand that a fire department
exists for one purpose—and that
is to protect the property and the
lives of people within their juris
dictions," he said
Speaking at the three - day
71st annual convention of the
State Firemen's convention. Sea
well said that fire chiefs can
work through schools, through the
press, through radio and televi
sion and other programs to keep
the public informed of the activi
ties of the fire department
"Each fire department can pro
mote good will, and in the long
run. bring citizens of their com
munities to the point where they
Continued on Page Two*
Sen. Goldwater
Says New Labor
Bill Is Hoax
SOUTH BEND, !nd (UPI) —
Sen Barry Goldwater H Xri*
charged Sunday night the Krnne
dy • Ives labor control bill is "a
hoax on the public" because the
Senate failed to follow recommen
dations of the McCellan Commit
tee
Goldwater speaking on the
Manion Forum over a radio net
work, said the Senate "shocking
ly" refused to act on two of the
committee's five recommenda
tions for labor legislation and
“actually adopted a provision di
rectly contrary to a third ”
The Kennedy • Ives bill was
passed by the 'senate and is pend
ing in the House Goldwater is a
member of the McCellan Rackets
Committee
"It is clear that the Senate In
accepting the bill, not only rejec
ted the well-conceived proposals
of the administration hut repudi
ated its own creation, the McClel
lan Committee, which had spent
so much time, effort and money
onstrated the need for strong and
effective laws" Goldwater said.
Sen Karl Ft Mundt H-SD‘ has
accused House Democrats of fol
lowing the wishes of "labor bos
ses" in delaying action cm the
Senate - passed labor reform bill
Mundt said he thought both un
ion leaders and House Democrats
were willing to accept the Sen
ate bill as written but do not want
it strengthened
For this reason, he said the
bill has been left on Speaker Sam
Raybum’s desk for five weeks
following Senate passage in what
Mundt said amounts to a "legisla
tive phenomenon.” Mundt. a
member of the special Senate
Rackets Committee In a local tele
vision interview Sunday.
ALL TIIKl ( Oi l It I \T — H'llfrmi'lun «»
entrep, main courv and dr»»«-M in I llllnaton «hi»
wrrkrnd »•, a frrr watrrmrlnn fraal aat hrld
ihprc. X ini»nc Ihf rrlrhranl* »rre (ahovr from
Irft ( uuhIi# \frifl < llff Vnuiioito I'rnrliiiw
Srnlrr i»f I llllitfliin lam Slrmr. of Kulr •
• rr*h ami BpII» la»»e Mrarilrt nl I'nrt I audrr
dalr I lurid*
Plenty of Fun and Watermelon, Too
Watermelon Day
Success
He III I n 'III IU\
Htriifit County farmers turned
out In a Ihg way for Watermelon
Day. held in Lillingtou on Satin
(lay Although the temperature
wasJiot everyone enjoyed the fun
which Included the Judging of Itar
netts finest melons a watermelon
rating contest and finally all the
melons the public could eat frv«
There were around sixty melons
on display and the judges finally
flicked the melon of Mitchell
Thomas ol l.lllington. (tout • It a*
180 Gallons Found In His Corn Field
Cleo Moore Faces
New Liquor Charge
Cumberland County ABC officials said today a warrant charging
a whiskey Law violaUon has been issued against Cleo Moore, well
known Wade storekeeper.
Issuance of the warrant fol
lowed discovery of 180 gallons of
non-tax paid whisky Friday In
a corn field on Moore’s farm.
ABC officers Perry Dees and
Bobby Caldwell, who found the
liquor in 360 half-gallon fruit Jar*,
were scheduled to attempt to serve
the warrant on Moore today
Moore already Is facing a fed
eral court trial in September on
earlier charges of possessing a
still on his farm, near where the
whis'key was discovered
In Sampson County Just a few
days aiio. Moore was flnet-d $1 (MK)
and cost* In a liquor violation.
PRKACIIKK — Paralyzed t«r
more than twenty years. Kn
James l'»e Jackson of lllxson,
Tenn., U currently coiidortinx
a revival at Renivon s (hurtii of
find. Me preache* from an am
iuilanrr stretcher. Kev. < II
Dean*, pastor of th.- Itenson
church, has Invited the public
to the services which lie sill at
7:45 nightly
On Visit To Her Son
Nannie Best, 86,
Dies . In Brevard
Mrs Ross Smith Best died un
expectedly in her sleep early Sun
day morning while visiting at the
home of her son in Brevard. N C.
Eighty-six years-old, she had
been known to every Dunn gener
ation since 1900 when she move
here with her family.
A doctor's daughter and a grad
uate of Peace College, she used
to go riding with her father in his
horse and buggy when he made
the rounds of his patients
For forty-two years, she taught
a Sunday Schoolclass at Divine
Street Methodist Church.
In the family and among her
friends. Mrs Best was called Nan
nie Tall and dignified, she remain
ed a steady churchgoer even after
giving up her Sunday School
teaching.
She lived here at 20d South
Orange Avenue
(Cootinoed oa Page Six)
i
MRS. L. J. BKHT
( the Second Ih'ai wen1 'o Tom
Champion of Hunnlevrl HoiKi 1
and third plate vtrnf to (' V
Connelv of l.llHnttton, Houle 2
Setton t\ ink (ontrtt
The watermelon eatlntf i-onteai
j vta*i the blmtrtt aluartlon of all
j The roidettanla atarted titln* at
a rfi|'i<t purr hut a* Uwhr
k:••( ami fuller th*\v <luwt*d
ciDWkii comidfriblv Aft**r a wry
Ju»c*\ tatr Hoitr, S«*nit19i wan Or
ch»mJ thr winwi hut only aftrr
hr tot^KiriK'd Id pound« of fir
in** Ion
M millnufd «>n I’agr hi it
He Was Riding In Trunk
Weird Accident
Hospitalizes West
Aubrey West ml)' think twice
tiffin c hr lake* a ride In the
»i uiik of a car again
Actually, he told a highway pa
trolinan from hi* hospital tied
he vui Ju«l li»kinv fin a latllr
Aubrey's wife Klma wav driv
ing the family nr with trailer
attached while her husband rode
In the trunk to try and find the
tourer of tlie elualve rattle
A lorry came Andrew Itutfu*
Hobbt In a 'V) liulek Sudan and
hit the bark of the trailer The
H'Way Machines
Blocked Him
Friday around noon a lttf>7 Chev
rolet pickup drrven try J It Rul
lard of I.lllington ran Into the
hack of a Ibtifl Itutck (topped hy
i a con«truetion err* at the bridge
i approaching I.lllington
The aar. owned by C K Me
Daniel, was driven by James A*
bury Hodge of Fayettpvllh
After the accident Milliard wall
ed ataiut five minutes and then
started to drive awav officers
claimed hut eouldn't when hr
was bloeked by road work equip
ment
No one was Injured In the aeel
dent Damage done to the Hodge
car wat estimated at SIV)
Hullard was placed In the Har
nett County Jail and eharged with
drunk driving Jack Temple was
the im< -.ligating officer
| trallrr hit tin rear of the Wt’nl :
ear and Aubrey landed In the hi>« !
pit a I with Internal Injuries
Highway I'atridnian David Mat
thewa. who reported the fluke ar
< idem «aid the ratrnt of West’a
ln)urb a had not been determined
lie la In Helay fuhnaoo Memorial
Moaptlal in Dunn
lloblm haa been ehurtfed by the
patrolman with following Iimi
cloae
Aubrey and hla 21-ye»r-old wife
live on Koute I. liunnlevel lie la
employed by a Dunn dairy firm
Says We Won't
Abandon Friends
In Face Of War
LONDON I'PI Secretary of
sufr .John foster Dulles i*ld to
day the United State* would «rt
n*# at great risk" to preserve
Hie Independent e md Inli'frttjr of
the Haghct ul Pact Motions
In i tough worded speech to !h«<
opening oolnii ..I the Baghdad
I'ui council (peeling here Dulles
explained llir reasoning behind
l S md ttrtttsh ,u 'Ion In I eh*non
and Jordan Hr also said the West
will not appear in the role of "de
fendant* or criminal* In the dork *
at any icimntlt meeting on .the
Middle fait
Dulles loot the meeting (hat the
l nlled Stale* bad no fear of the
Soviet In Ion In acting is It did
We had the feat that attv de
l ent pet von ha of w it ' he aald
bu| not to the egtent of a ban
tinning 011r friendi "
Mi Raid the5 Soviet* at*' trying
In i >| |!.ilm mi th,- world a feat
of war "Ni' we do not eypeet to
pal that prli e for peace '
I ho|n* this ha a t>ie n proven by
the I S .mil III 'Mill action In tile
Lebanon and Jordan, tie iaid
I hi I i i told ga A tail member-*
thev need have no fear "that If
Ihev were faced with a ihnil.tr
situation there would lie failure by
the United state* to act even at
great risk to maintain the inde
prudence and Integrity of imr
friend* "
l>U Ilea* Word* underscored a
pledge given by ltrlfl«h Prime
Minuter Harold Macmillan that
lhe Itaghdad Part alliance ringing
Km»la'» »onthem frnnller* would
continue “a* a mean* of collec
tive aecurltv "
The paet’a strength was shaken
bv the lra»|l revolt earlier this
month Iran at 111 U a member, htit
observer* espected the new revo
lutionary regime probably would
pull util of the alliance
At present, the other member*
sre Turkey. Iran Pakistan and
lirKaln The United State* I* not
t full member although It ha* ad
hered to several major rommlt
ee«
As today'* meeting got under
way ilrltUh Prime Minuter Mar
old Macmillan pledged that the
It ightlad Pact alliance would con
tinue a* "a mean* of collective
cecurlty ”
Dulles was reported In ronver
latlon* with pact delegates to have
laid the United Slate* would be
ready to join Kttssla In an arm*
unbar go to the Mldeas*
Inquest Thursday
In Fatal Smazhuo
Muir th«n four mid a half
month* after a bitter xinaahup
that Look two lives an inquest
will Ire held In tht Dunn court
room on Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock
Coronet H I. I’ate Sr , of Er
win said the long delay was nec
cxtary because of prolonged bo*
pltallzatlon of survivor- Three
'men who lived through the wreck
will Im- called on a* witnesses
On the civil front. suit are al
ready piltnit U|> with Orortfe ' ./»
Jo' William* of Dunn. candy
wholesaler a-kinst tl2»’i <*s> In a
null aitalnsl the widow of Colin
I’ark* Money
Money who llnyercd III days
after he aietdent died on March
IB lit tti i 'H-\ e a ■ old « iv trull
workrr from Honda Route ?
Suit for *100 00) ha- alio b-cti
rnttrril on behalf of tin e»t it of
Thurman Donia l.uffmatt. I->• .
old Hlkin man who - . -'ll! {
w ith Money and died In th> «rw «
The early morning arrldrut oc
I'Urred at the new complex In
ter«> < (ton near the Quinn Shopp
ing ('enter I* wa< foggy and
thlnm-h fog -till covered the area
when Highway Patrolman David
Matthew- arrived on the -eerie
William- randy truck, loaded
for hi- morning run and the -aw
null worker-' car had collided un
der tin* -topllgtil
More Than 180,000 In New York for Convention
Witnesses Break Records
NEW YORK (UPfi- More than
1 HO 000 Jehovah's Wllnemn pri
parer} »<>r)av for the second ses
sion of the largest religious con
vention ever held In this rtty
The eight-day Divine Will In
ternational Assembly with witnes
ses from scores of foreign lands
‘opened Sunday Ln a jam-packed
Yankee Stadium and the Polo
[•round*
A detail of 100 policemen di
rectrd trafflr ami handled over
flow crowd* \n estimated 117 000
persons were In or around Yankee
Stadium and the remainder pack
rd the Polo Ground*
The Witnesses, who believe that
signs indicate the Imminent end
»f the world, climaxed Sunday's
meeting with the graduation of
the 31st class of the Bible school
of Gilead. South Lansing, N V
They were addressed by Nath
an Knorr president of the Watch
Tower Bible and Tract Society of
final name of the witnesses
The 103 students have complet
ed a five and one-half month
course to prepare them for mis
sionary work In foreign lands