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* WEATHER 4 Considerable cloudiness this af ternoon with some light drizzle or rain in mountains. Cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday morning. A i si ■J THE RECORD IS FIRST VOULME 9 . TELEPHONE 3117 —'3118 DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 27, 1959 FIVE CENT PER COPY NO. 36 astn SHE'S REALLY HAPPY—Regardless of that paw in her eye, Diane Williams, 12, of St. Petersburg, Fla, is a happy girt. She cuddles Lucky, given her by a kennel owner after another pet dog she owned was killed by a car. Racing Charged In Auto Crash Jh&M Jtittte JhwyA By HOOVER AJ^AMS JUST A SMALL OUtTIT— $13-$ 14 MILLION A YEAR : Daniel R. Toll of Tulsa, Okla homa, vice president of Engineer ing Construction Company, was in Dunn today to inspect progress being made on the laying of pipe lines for tn* North Carolina Na tural Gas Corporation. His company is laying the pipes for the gas concern. Toll was telling us something about his company, which also owns oil and gas interests in Cuba, Bolivia and Other foreign coun tries as well as in Midwest and Southwest states. “Our company," he explained a little apologetically, “is really just a small outfit,” pointing out that last year’s volume of business was “only about $13 or $14 million.” "And you say your company is just a small outfit?” we asked?” “Oh,” he said, “that’s nothing in the oil business." BIRTHDAYS: Today is the birthday of County Attorney J. Robert Young....Yesterday was the birthday of Annette Barefoot. Wode Brannon, Jr. and Raymond L. Cromartie, Jr. s LITTLE NOTES: Dunn High Seniors have picked one of their own members, Tommy Thompson, president of the class, to deliver this year’s commencement address. .The Rev. Jack Danleil of Farm ville, until recently pastor of Hood Memorial Church, has been in vited to deliver the Baccalaureate sermon.Dunn Rotarians will not (Continued On Page Two' A prearranged race between two teenage youths driving late model cars ended in near disaster late Saturday night, the State Highway Patrol said this morn ing. Ronald Cleo Moore,14, son of Cleo Moore, a Wade storekeeper, faces trial for pre-arranged rac ing and hit and run driving as a result of the incident. Another teenager, Lawrence L. Hayes, 18, South Stewart St., Rae ford, also is charged with pre arranged racing. According to the investigating patrolman, J, L. Wilson, Moore and Hayes were attempting to “find out which car would go the fastest” , They drove side by side along the old Dunn Road north of God win at high rate of speed, Wilson said. Hayes pulled ahead of Moore and then attempted to make a right turn from the left side of the road. Wilson said Moore’s car struck the ^Hayes auto, swerved off the (Continued On Page Two) Hopped-Up Slayers Are Sought NEW YORK MUPI) — Police screened Broadway’s garish jazz hangouts today for the couple that knifed to death the assistant man ager of Birdland and stopped at the checkroom for their coats on the way out. The slain man, Zachariah (Irv ing) Leyy, 36, will be buried to day at Paramus, N.J. Police were working on the theory that his slaying was a case of vengeance and mistaken Identity by assail ants who were “hopped up” on narcotics, ., : ■ , j; Levy tangled with a burly, sandy-haired man In his early 40's and a younger pony-tailed, red haired companion near a service bar in the famous jazz joint at (Continued Ou Page Six) Will Name Man, Woman, Young Man of Year -- f Top Chamber Event Thursday The best-kept secret In town is the slate of winners in the annual selection here of a Man, Woman and Young Man of the Year. On Thursday night, the news, will be out for good. The com mittee which labors on this mat ter traditionally reveals its choic es during the annual banquet of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce. Ticket sales have reportedly moved briskly this year, with a number of local clubs planning to attend in bloea, but those who want to attend can * still obtain tickets ($2 per person) at the Chamber office. Instead of an outside speaker, some local crystal-gazing will form a major part of the program on Thursday night. Broadcaster John Thomas will m. c. all events and call on Cham ber committee heads to take three or four minutes each and present “a look into the future.” They will diagram some of the goals they hope to achieve during the forthcoming year. Thomas said that this part of the program will be staged to (Continued On Page Two) Funeral Set For Johnson Wane/ Cleveland Johnson, 71, of Lillington, Route 1, died at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital at Dunn. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, 3 p.m. at Nelli’s Creek Baptist Church near Angier. The body will He in state from 2-3 p. m. The (body will remain at the Hatcher-Skinner & Drew Funeral Home in Dunn until taken to the church. The Rev. Jack Holt, pastor, the Rev. Charles B. Howard and the Rev. G. Scott Turner will offici ate. Burial will be in the Neill’s Creek Church cemetery. The body will lie in state for one hour prior to the services. Active pallbearers will be W. A. Johnson, Findley Chambers, John T. Johnson, Lewis Johnson, Hector Green and Tommy John son. ..v~-i, Honorary pallbearers will be Na than M. Johnson, Sr., Dr. Bruce Blackman, Dr. Leslie H. Camp bell, Bob Harvey, Mr. Laughintot, Joel G. Layton, Jr., J. E. Womble, John Spears, Charlie Upchurch. Mr. Johnson was the son of Archie and Annie Johnson of a family long prominent in the af fairs of Harnett County. Johnson was a native and life long resident of Harnett County and was a farmer by occupation. He belonged to Neill’s Creek Baptist Church. Sur-^vora Include his wife, Mrs. Minnie Matthews Johnson; four sons—Berles C. Johnson, county tax supervisor; Corlis M. Jonson and Caswell Johnson, all of Lil lington, Route 1; and Ellis C. Johnson of Fayetteville. Four sur viving daughters are Mrs. Lee Beal of Route 1, Lillington; Mrs. Cad Upchurch of Dunn; Mrs. Jarvis H. Langdon of Fayetteville and Mrs. John H. McPhaul of Fay etteville; fifteen grandchildren and two brothers—A. G. Johnson and Rex Johnson, both of Route 1, Lillington. Three sisters — Mrs. E. V. Greene of Route 1, Lilling ton; Mrs. Fanny Harrington of Buie’s Creek; and Mrs. W. L. Chambers of Buie's . Creek. — Jet Drive. -In Has One ...' Are Special Deputies A Good Idea? A few weeks before h/s Jet Drive-In was opened, Thomas Du pree, Sr., leaned out of a car win dow and told what he was trying to build out there. He said he felt like the young sters of the community were en titled to a niqe place where they could dance and have fun and where a few rough ones wouldn't spoil it for everybody. Sometime later on—the date la n’t quite c«eay—an effort was made to have the Harnett County board of commissioners appoint a special officer who would keep or der there. The commissioners declined to take this action but Mrs. Inez Harrington, who records the meet ings. recalls that the person who spoke for the Drive-In on that oc casion told her he would "get somebody and pay him himself." Present Sheriff Wade Stewart said his predecessor, Claude Moo re, first appointed John Smith to act as a “special deputy" for the Jet drive-in. Sheriff Stewart said he continued this appointment. Of* ficials of Dunn Recorder's Court say that Smith has identified him self, when examined in the wit ness chair, as a former Raleigh policeman. (O—thud Ob rugs Two) x l MEDICAL SOCIETY HEADS — Dr. Bruce Blackmon (left) or Buie’s Creek took office recently as president of the Harnett County Medical Society. Vice-president (at right) is Dr. D. C. Woodall of Erwin. The local society has voted unanimously to opprove an upcoming bill that would make the Salk vaccine man datory for children before they reach school-age. Millions Proposed For Depressed Areas WASHINGTON (UPI) — Thirty nlb* Senators from both parties tossed a new challenge at Presl dest Eisenhower’s economy cam paign today by calling for a 375 million-dollar program of aid to depressed areas. The measure is patterned close ly after one the President vetoed as too costly last August. It con trasted with the administration’s request for 55 million dollars next year to help areas hard hit by unemployment. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), who planned to Introduce the bill on behalf of 32 Democratic and 6 Repcblican co-sponsors, denied that it would be inflationary. He maintained that "dollars spent to promote production by otherwise idle or inefficiently employed re sources. . .would in fact be anti inflationary.” Veto Election Issue ^Eisenhower’s veto was a big is sue in many distressed' areas in last year’s congressional election campaign. Democratic leaders have made it clear they intend to push similar legislation through Congress again this year. Douglas, in a statemest pre" - pared for introduction of the bill, told the Senate the legislation would: —Establish a 100-million-doilar revolving fund for federal low - interest 30-year loans for industri al projects is industrial redevel opment areas. —Set up another 100-million-dol lar revolving fund for similar loans for industrial projects in rural redevelopment areas. Cites Chronic Unemployment —Provide still another revolving (Continued On Page Two) Dunn s Aitrea aiaiock meets one Lady Rebels Part Of Cuban Scenery Dunn’s Alfred Blalock, who those to sit it out in Cuba rather than evacuate, obviously isn’t in dutch with the new regime. In photos received here, he can oe seen posing familiarly with the proudly - bearded rebels whose swift ascension to power was ac When Blalock returned to cuoa after spending Christmas is Dunn, he told his son (George Franklin Blalock) that the blowup could come within thirty to forty days. It happened even quicker than that. Mrs. Blalock and Mr. and Mrs. David Blalock of Bunnlevel . t'1 ccmplished earlier this month. Blalock pointed out that in one photo, the gun-toting rebel beside him is a lady from the Sierra Malstre. There were 2000 rebels in this camp, he noted. Half a do zen appear in the photograph with him. left for Key West while the riot ing and other offshoots of the final Rebel thrust were still taking place in Havana. But the wealthy former lumber man from Dunn decided he had nothing to fear, stuck to his Cu ban home. Designed To . Overtake USA Before 1970 MOSCOW (UPI) — Nikita Khrushchev launched the Soviet Union today on an hi-storic econ omic offensive he said would win “millions to socialism, and van quish the forces of war. Khrushchev was buoyant and jovial as he put forth his tax free seven - year plan before a cheering Communist Party con gress and said it was aimed at ending the cold war by making Russia supreme over the capital ist. world. With it he put an Implied doc trine that neither hot war nor cold war is inevitable in the face of growing Communist economic power, and a plan that will in crease Soviet production 80 per cent by 1965. “The seven-year plan is a de cisive stage in the economic com petition of socialism-and capital ism,” h? said. "This plan wiil greatly influence the entire inter national situation and prove a new triumph of Marxism-Lenin ism. “Our successes in the fulfillment of the plan will attract to the side of socialism millions of adher ents," he said. “They will lead to the strengthening of the forces of peace and the weakening of the forces of war.” Taxes to End As a token of t^he Communist system’s rising strength, he said, the direct taxes on Che people will be abolished in the “near futurV He then called for an 80 per cent increase in overall pro duction to bring Russia abreast of the West. The smiling, wisecracking Kru schchev mentioned that Russia had rockets and intercontinental ballistic missilee, but , his aims appeared to be to convince the world the Russians and commun ism would win out by replacing military force with economic pow er. The immense scope of the plan — higher industrial production, (Continued On Page Two) Block Estate Fights Tax Claim GREENSBORO — Several wit nesses were questioned in United States Tax Court here this morn ing concerning the activities and health of an elderly Wilmington industrialist in the years Immedi ately preceding his death in 1954. Jessie L. Marshall told the court the late William Block was at the offices of Southland Manufactur ing Co., of which he was founder, regularly until 1953, the year Mar shall succeeded him as comptrol ler of the firm. The company manufactures shirts in Wilming ton and Benson. The government, which claims the Block estate owes $22,196.16 in taxes, is seeking to show that gifts made by the industrialist to members of his family were pre 1 sented in contemplation of death and, therefore, were liable for In heritance taxes. _l_i qvaartHfcuU IN THE SPOTLIGHT— Photographer Bob Colllna (Bob Cummings) , shows enthusiasm over his assignment to make glamor photos of Mamie Van Doren, guest star in "Bob Meets Van Doren” on “The Bob Cummings Show” Tuesday, Peb. 3 on the NBC-TV Network. Mack McCoy Hold for Murder Man Hit With Chair Dies Monday Night 4 Newton Grove Man Loses Left Leg •A corn shelling machine caught the leg of a Sampson County man over the weekend and injured it so severely tnat amputation was necessary, it was reported by Sampson Memorial Hospital. Tne accident, which happened near Newton Grove, involved John Hill, 25, of Newton Grove, Rt. 2 He was working at the machine when his left leg was caught in a conveyor belt. The trappen mar was dragged into the moving wheel of the sheller. The amputation was made be low the knee, after physicians de (Continued On Page Two) | Last night at 10:25 a 38-year-old Coats Negro, Adam Oats, finally met death after lingering since Sunday. This morning Harnett CounFy ■ authorities charged Mack McCoy, Oats' housemate, with murder. ^ They had been holding McCoy in a Cell at the county jail since Sunday under a temporary char ge of assault with a deadly weap on with intent to kill. The deadly weapon was a chair. McCoy is accused of bringing it down on Oats’ head so forcibly that it has now taken his life. H|arnett Chief Deputy B. E. Sturgill said he broke the news to McCoy this morning that Oats had died and that he would be charged with murder. “He didn’t have anything to say about it,” said Sturgill. The officer said he does not v know the circumstances that led up to the fatal assault. Pending an (ContiiMkefl On Page Two) 3 Stills, / Man Taken In Sampson Six officers, one of the largest still raiding groups ever employ ed, found three stills and one man charged as a bootlegger over the weekend?” Just before daybreak Friday Deputies Worth Lockerman. J. E. Warren, Gordon Smith and Gra ham Butler, accompanied by ABC Officer Ira Hatch and Constable Hugh Lee, sneaked up on a two still outfit in Plain View town - ship. It was ready for operation, but nobody was around. The officers destroyed a 600 - gallon and 200-gallon still, 1,000 gallons of mash, a condenser, cap, and copper kettle. Next the posse went to Newton Grove township and found a re cently operated 250-gallon outfit, torether with a half gallon of "su gar head.’’ The arrest canie.when the depu ties went to the home of Rob Hill, 80. Negro of South River township near Garland, armed with a search warrant. T he y found 72 cans of beer, feur pints (Continued On Pace Six) : • r \ j By TED CRAIL Record News Editor It started out as a routine pick up of a youngster going fifty-five miles an Hour in a 35-mile zone. But it unravelled the tangled thread of some twenty car thefts in three counties and gave a new insight into the perambulations of a busy youngster named Jerry Sills. Jerry, just 17, wouldn’t tell the whole story at first. He finally told enough to implicate four friends, as well as himself, in stealing, joyriding and sometimes wrecking other people’s cars. All the boys supposedly involv ed in the auto-snatching operation are from Erwin, said Harnett Chief Deputy B E. Sturgill. BY THIS MORNING, when he was taken to Fayetteville for his first hearing on a grand larceny charge. Sills had counted up the number of cars he had lifted. Policeman Paul Stogstjill of Dunn, who took him to the Fay etteville court, said the youth de clared there were 14 lifted in which he was directly involved. “Apparently there were other* taken that he had no part in,” said Stogsdill The officers are not entirely sa tisfied with Sills’ statement be - »h**y feel he is enjoying bit trouble a little too much. “He seemed quite proud when he was put under $1000 bond thl» morning,” said Stogsdili. In Fayetteville, he was given s preliminsary hearing—the Friday night theft or a car which police found him in when he croesed a speed-clock in Dunn on Saturday. AT THE POLICE STATION, a *M license plate found in the seat of the stolen car is currently on view. Chief Alton Cobb said Sins had intended to switch plates on the stolen car, substituting the dis • carted license (left by someone (Continued On Pago Two) fi
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