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THE RECORD
/S FIRST
VOULME 9
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 Hfc,
DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 67
BANK
ROBBER
CAUGHT
AS THE CENTURY TURNED — Herman Green, left, general
manager of the Dunn'PCA, was talking with president E. E.
Seay (center) of Turkey and Robert A- Darr (right) of Columbia,
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S. c.. key (inres at th« Silver Anniversary meeting here.
President? Seay has himself been u active member for the full
quarter-century. (Record Photo by Ted Craii.)
Husband Found
Man In Houses
Beat His Wife
Ethel Leggett, a slight colored
women who claimed her estrang
ed husband had jumped oh het
beat her In a jealous rage
told Judge H. Paul Strickland to
day she'd rather “live by herself.’
The judge had suggested that
she, and her husband, Lee> should
try to find a way to get along
with each other. ^
Mrs. Leggett did not mention
any man when she took the stand
to testify to the assault. Later,
when her husband became a wit
ness, and said there was a man
in the house with her, she testifi
ed that he was a fellow who had
dropped by to fix the heater.
The Leggetts had been married
ten years and came here about
three years ago. They have four
children. The wife said she left
her husband because “too many
people were living in the house.’’
She had invitetkjiim, she said,
to come and live with her and he
wouldn’t come. .Now she had de
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New Pastor Coming
To Erwin Church
Reverend Colon Jaeksonl 30-year
old pastor of Sair/ria Q.iptijst
Church, has accepted a call, end
ing the months-long search in Er
win for a successor to departed
pastor Reverend Forrest Maxwell.
Though he will not actually un
dertake pastoral duties at Erwin's
First Baptist Church until the sec
ond Sunday in April, Rev. Jackson
and his wife made their second
trip to Harnett his week.
They were here today to settle
final details. Last Sunday he
preached at both the morning and
evening services in the church
and was given a vote of approval
by the congregation.
If he follows the precedent set
by his predecessor. Rev. Jackson
will 'be in Erwin a long time. Rev.
Maxwell departed July 1 for ano
ther pastorate after serving for
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At PC A Silver Anniversary
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Darr Sees Farming
I Upturn In 2 Years
nvuci i rt. i/wi
South Carolina, predicted anothei
'Oi two of tough sledding
for farmers but stated the long
term outlook for agriculture is
good.
He was the featured speaker at
the silver anniversary meeling
yesterday of the Dunn Production
Credit Association. o/V*
Darr( president of the Federal
Intermediate Crqgit Bank at Co
lumbia, said he* doesn’t believe
that agriculture is "dying or fad
ing away.” •
The individual farmer can cope
with the long-term trends he said,
by keeping abreast of develop
ments, diversifying his crops and
livestock and, if necesslary, us
ing long-term credit to stay in
farming through the bumpy spots.
“PCA,”- he said, “tried to keep
credit needs geared to changes
by intermediate term (five-year)
loans for irrigation, buildings,
machinery, trucks, farm ponds
and other uses.”
/vuu»u «vu pci ^aiuvi yu
for the meeting in the Dunn court
- room. Elected t6 succeed hint*
j self on the board of directors of
Uhe. organization, E. E. Seay of
’ Turkey was again chosen presi
dent of the Dunn PCA.
A member for 25 years, Seay
has been on the board since 1933,
became vice-president in 1935
and president in 1946, holding
thut post ever since.
Herman P. Green,; general ma
nager here, announced thutt‘%he
association’s tot&l net worth
)$412,586. .11 and Income for the
I year ending December 31 w|ga
SI 27,323. 97 in 1958. well up from
the $80,676.13 recorded the year
before.
Net earnings were $19,752-35 in
’58 as against $5,077.48 in 1957.
The figures computed to record
activities of the firm through the
25 years from 1933 to 1958 were
reflective of the activities in agri
culture over that period.
Some 21,498 loans have been
made - totaling over 18 million
dollars - and the association has
continued to grow, 211 members
joining in 1958 alone and the tot
al membership now standing at
1818.
FORCED TO STAND
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) —They
laughed when Walter Jones, 89,
chose to stand while testifying
against Roy Granderson, an old
friend he accused of assaulting
him.
His old friend shot him in the
seat of the pants t^ith a small
bore shotgun, Jones *aid.
Granderson was fined for dis
j charging a firearm Inside Ithe
city.
Said the Judge, 'A Certain Provocation'
Wife Who ShotHusbands Pals
Lightly Fined In Dunn Courl
A 26-yeat+old i Negro wfloman,
Janie Carroll, took the stand in
Dunn Recorder’s Court today to
admit that she had gone out hunt
ing her husband with a gun.
In defense of her actions—she
had fired a shotgun blast that
lightly injured three persons in
cluding her husband’s alleged girl
friend, Bernice McLamb — she
said her husband bad let their
children suffer while he ran ar
ound.
He spent money on women, she
said, while their four youngsters
did not have proper shoes. She is
expecting another child.
Judge H: Paul Strickland fined
her only with court costs, stating
that she acted lawlessly in going
after her husband with a gun but
had “a certain provocation.”
Charged with igssault ajyUh a
deadly #eapon, she was allowed
to enter a plea of guilty to the
lesser count of simple assault.
Dunn police arrested her after
she took a shot that caught Ber
nice McLamb, Dorothea McDuf
fie and Nathaniel Williams. She
fired as her husband and several
other persons emerged from a
house.
| Acting Solicitor Billy Tpylor
prosecuted Mrs. Carroll, ip the ab
sence of Charles Lee Guy, Jr. He
subjected Bernice McLamb to a
sharp cross-examination. The de
fendant said that Bersice had ev
en come to their home to see her
husband.
Judge Strickland admonished
George Carroll, sitting beside his
wife as she rose to receive sen
tence, that he had brought on
trouble by "spending money on
girls.”
Hall Facing
2nd Operatiori
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Allin*
Rep. Dave Hall (D-NC) may have
to undergo a second kidney opera
tion Soon. ■ •
Hart, now serving his freshman
| term in Congress, underwent g
[ series' of laboratory tests at the
Bethesda. Md., n%yal hospital to
determine whether fin operation on
his left' kidney Is necessary. Last
month, he underwent surgery on
his right kidney.
He is a brother of Miss: Lela
Moore Hall, superintendent ©f the,
Harnett County Welfare depart
ment.
Doctors described the first op
eration as a success, and said
Hall is “progressing satisfac
torily.” Should no second opera
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Entertained 60 Men A Week *
Prostitutes Heard
At "Slavery" Trial
KUUK1NUHAM, N. C. (UPI) —
Truck stops along major highways
in North and South Carolina were
pictured in court here as houses
of prostitution operated through
white slavery.
Eight women Justified in federal
court Wednesday that they work
ed as "hostesses” for several hun
dred dollars a week. One of the
j women, all of whom admitted
; being prostitutes, testified she
split her earnings with the truck
stop operator.
The government charged the
truck stops were actually houses
of prostitution. Federal agents
were called to testify that it was
an interstate operation, in viola
I tion of the Mann Act.
| Truck stops charged in the suit
i are located near the Carolinas
state line along U.S. 1 and 301,
; north - south transportation
series.
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Eunice Snuth Will Speak Here
Nigeria Next Stop
For This, Couple
Next June a Chalybeate Springs
woman and her doctor-husband
will set for Nigeria, West Africa,
as Baptist missionaries.
The Woman's Missionary Union
will gather to hear Mrs. Eunice
Andrews Smith on Monday night,
as she tells something of her ex
periences and the preparations
she is making for this venture
Intp Africa, V'
She will be guest speaker at
the wMU’s meeting, slatec^to start
at 8 p.m., in the First Baptist
Church.
Her husband, Dr. Loy Connell
Smith, was formerly assistant re
sident pathologist at the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine.
A niece of Mrs. Beta Whit ten
ton of Dunn and daughter of Mrs.
D. B. Andrews of Cbatyfcrate
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Youth Tries
Suicide As
FBI Arrives
RALEIGH itW — A con
science -striken young insurance
salesman swallowed rat poison tl
day as FBI and police officers en
tered his home In a fashionable
area to charge him with the $17,
094 robbery of a Raleigh branch
bank last month.
Robert (Bobby) Earl Smith, 23,
was rushed to the emergency
room at Rex Hospital where his
stomach was pumped out. He re
fused to talk yith newsmen.
Capt. Robert Goodwin of the
Raleigh police department said
the part-time college student had
confessed to the March 3 holdup,
North Carolina's fourth bank rob
bery of the year.
Godwin said Smith lived with
his mother, who works, in a home
on Buckingham Road. He quoted
Smith as saying that he had been
“feeling bad” about the robbery
for some time.
j As officers entered the house
this morning, Smith surrendered
without resistance. He told of
ficers he "took some poison”
when he heard a car drive ufc in
front of the house.
Paid Off Debts
None of the loot was recovered
at the house, said Goodwin. He
said officers were put on tile trail
of Smith when the youthbegan
paying off debts that had resulted
in a series of bad check charges.
In foct, Goodwin said, Smith
appeared in city court on the d4y
of thqjg-obbery to pay off one debt
and hod purchased a new sports
tar.
He said the youth confessed
usjng the family car, a 1957 Ford
to stage the holdup, using a
license tag (stolen from a car
parked at memorial auditorium.
He later tossed the sttolen tag in
to a creek.
/Records showed that Smith at
tended Campbell College in 1954
56 and--transferred to North Caro
lina State College during 195« 57.
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NQUET—One
of the highlights of the yearifat Coats High
School is the annual Future Farmers of America
Father-Son banquet. A special guest at this
year’s banquet, held Tuesday night, was Addison
Hewlett, Speaker of the N. C. House of Repre
sentatives, who accompanied Harnett Represen
right are, seated: Principal Hal Smith, Speaker
Hewlett; and M. O. Phillips, at teacher and FFA
advisor: standing. Rep. Gregory, who was given
high praises by Hewlett, and Herbert Johnson,
chairman of the Coats school board. (Daily
Record photo.)
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Cold Wave Hits South
United Pres* International
Winter came howling back into
i the South today, dropping tem
peratures and coating some areas
: with light snow.
Two Inches of snow fell at Lees
burg. in^pgtreme northern Virgin
ia durhtgUie early morning hours.
There was an inch of snow at
Winchester and most of the nor
thern portion of the state had
scattered snow and frost.
Some light snow and sleet was
reported in several counties in
Alabama, which was hit by thun
derstorms and strong winds. Wed
nesday. ,
Although the weather bureau
said the snow was not sticking to
the ground in Anniston, Muscle
Shoals and Huntsville, Ala.,
greets were reposted slick and
dangerous.
What could be winter’s final
blast of the season came on the
heels of heavy rain and tornadic
winds that swept the Southeast
Wednesday as colder air from a
snowstorm'that whipped the north
east pressed sduthward.
High wind Wednesday demolish
ed two furniture warehouses at
Burns, Miss. Teiachers and 150
children huddled in a corner of
their -nearby school as the winds
“roared like a tornado,” No one
was injured. r
Tornado Reports
There was at least ose tornado
report in Alabama. The highway
patrol said one. struck Oakhill
Wednesday afternoon, causi n g
some damage to a few buildings,
but there were no injuries.
The patrol said one car was
picked up by the twister, but was
back down on the shoulder of the
road.
The snow that whipped across
the South was on the fringe of a
snowstorm that hit the Ohio Val
ley during the night. The weather
bureau reported the storm was
"clobbering” Cleveland, and six
inches of snow was on the ground
by early morning.
The weather bureau warned
that a wind-whipped storm out of
the Midwest would dump a 60-to
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Will Soli for Under $2,000
Ford And Chrysler
Plan Small Cars
| DETROIT (UPI) — Ford Motor
Co. told Its stockholders today it
plans to introduce a small, Amer
ican-built economy car during the
1960 model year “barring changes
in the market or other circum
stances.”
The announcement jvas the ilr:t
official statement by a major au
tomobile company which indicated
it definitely was convinced at this
time, at least, ’ that there was a
market for smaller cars.
Ford, along with General Mo
tors and Chrysler, previously re
vealed they were developing small
cars which would be introduced,if
there were indications the market
j for them existed. But all of the
| companies Insisted they still were
J not convinced the market existed.
Ford, In effect, now is saying
I the market exists and unless it
disappears again. Ford will enter«
t^> market.
a :
The Ford announcement was
contained in a single paragraph
of a letter from Henry Ford II,
j president, and Ernest R. Breeeb,
chairman, included in a financial
| report op the company.
The Ford announcement follow
I ed closely on the heels of state
ments by Chrysler Corp. President
L. L. Colbert in which he said
his company would match any
small car efforts of Ford or Gen
eral Motors.
GM officials declined comment
after the Ford announcement, but
it was reported it had an entry
ready.
Unofficial reports on the small
cars of the companies give these
general details:
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Criminal Session Starts Monday
Grand Jury Action
Faces Theft Ring
One of the biggest roundups of
accused thieves and stolen-goods
dealers in the history of Eastern
North Carolina has given the
grand jury which will assemble
Monday a full calendar.
In Lillington, where the new
Superior Court criminal term will
start with Judge Heman R. Clark
presiding, most of the 13 youths
(they range in age ~ from their
teens to mid-twenties' will be ap
praised by the grand jury.
| If evidence warrants, true gills
j will be returned and a trial at
this same term is expected.
Harnett County sheriff's offi -
jeers, who broke the case and ha
. ve blamed the youths with rob
beries in a -least three counties,
claim the alleged participants
have admitted their crimes.
This is the actual calendar with
the names of all defendants cur
rently scheduled for the one week
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Peeping Is Denied By Man;
Court Record Being Checked
Jesse Ragland, address Lilling
ton Rt. 2, and somewhere ii
Cumberland county, pleaded 'no
guilty Mo peeping into the hom<
of Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. Stone
in Liilington on Saturday night
He pleaded guilty to trespassing.
Mrs. Stone took the stand tc
tell of seeing the defendant stand
ing, looking in her^ living-roorr
window. J?he positively identified
the defendant from the witness
stand. It was between 10 and 10.30
)
p.m„ she said.
Kagland took the stand to deny
he was peeping. His story was
; that he was running from the
law because he was drinking and
ran between two houses. He said
he didn't know w’here he was. The
I "law" caught him. the defendant
said, and ~he was in jail before he
| knew what the charge was.
| : Kagland refused to give all his
j court record and Solicitor Jake
Lamm ^sent him back to jail while
his court record could be check
ed in Cumberland, Wake, Lee and
' Harnett counties. Lamm said he
tjopnd to be able to complete the
case Thursday.
Mrs. stone b deputy clerk of
Harnett Recorders court. She
lives on Main St. near, the bus
station. Ragland admitted he had
been tried for. breaking and en
tering, but refuted to say where.
Sheriff Wade Stewart said Rag
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