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* WEATHER ♦ Mostly sunny and cooler this afternoon. Fair and rather cold tonight. Saturday sunny and not quite as cool in afternoon. » In- uixtg chri- . " THE RECORD IS FIRST i TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY THEIR BIGGEST NIGHT — Seventh-grader Sonny Surles looks like he’d been frozen spellbound by a beautiful melody. He’s one of several drummers in band which plays its Spring concert tonight. The band is strictly coed and blond clarinetist Jennie Monds is one of many girls who’ll lend their talents to the kind of musical program that would make Elvis Presley ashamed of himself. (Record Photos by Ted Crail.) Hodges Sees School Plan Far Future RALEIGH (UPI) —0«v. Luther H. Hodges predicted today that a school ^incentive fund” similar to the proposed one killed by House and Senate Education com. mittees Will eventually have to be adopted. Hodges told a morning news conference he “was not surprised at the action of the committees" that killed a plan to set up a 10 million fund as an incentive for improving education on the local level. The bill died by more than 5.1 vote in both committees. “I’m a patient man," Hodges said, and indicated he would welt for the state to adopt such a pro. gram. Hodges praised the National Guard units on duty in Hender. son for what he termed “efficient and quick work in restoring or. der.” The Guard was ordered to the scene of a bitter textile strike last week following renewed viol, ence on picket lines at Harriet. (Continued On rage Six) REVIVAL Revival services will begin at Pleasant Grove Free Will Baptist Church Sunday May 17 and con tinue through May 30th. Rev. Bobby Jackson will be the evenge list. Pastor of the church, Rev. A. F. Williamson, invites the pub lic to attend these services. Ser Spring Concert Starts at 8 Synopatiri Will Strut An elaborate Spring Concert featuring youngsters of all ages starts at 8 p.m. tonight at Dunn High School with band director Ernest Black behind the baton. This morning at a mass assem bly he put his band through a rhymthlc rehearsal of some of the featured numbers which are to be played tonight. ' The knees of high school stu dents beat the backs of the chairs in front of them as the band swung through a jazzy bit of melody called “The Syncopated Clock.” Black will introduce his begin tiers’ band at the opening of to 1 night’s program. It is made up of fifth and sixth grader* who started on their instruments only a few, months ago and will be making their first momentous public ap pearance. Grade schoolers trained on the tonettes and the sixth ar.d seventh graders of the junior band will have a part on the program. i The senior band has been in in tensive rehearsal to prepare for this important annual showing. (Continued On Page Six) Union May Test Law At Henderson HENDERSON, N,, C. (UPI) — There were only National Guards men at the gates of the Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills today as ! union officials considered a pos sible legal test of a court order drastically restricting picket ac tivity. SEE EDITORIAL CARTOON ON PAGE « No pickets snowea up wus morning to harass workers re porting for the day shift at the plants. In the past, small crowds of strikers have staged at least token demonstrations during the shift change. The broad court order, which officials of the Textile Workers Union of America contend may be unconstitutional, is credited with halting the strike violence. For Racing And Pari-Mutuel Betting ----- ' Y Local Option Approved Cannon Accused of Multiple Charges Famed Bishops Son Faces Theft Charges MANASSAS, Va. (UPI)-— A “Skimy.livlng” son of a bishop who turned to crime for the mon. ey he used to entertain children was held today on a variety oi charges. Richard M Cannon, 60, is want, ed for fleecing at least 23 banks in three states, stealing a car, breaking parole from San Quentin prison in California, and working a four.state auto license dodge. He is the son of the late Metho, dist Bishop James N. Cannon Jr. of Virginia, who led the fight for prohibition and spearheaded! a group of southern Democrats who swung their support to Republican Herbert Hoover in the 1928 pres, idential campaign because of Democrat Alfred E. Smith’s wet stand. So popular was he among the fhikft-en he taught in the Uttle town of Occuquan near here that (CMttuetf Oat rage Six) < U fU - A nouw Committee gave easy approval today to a local option plan that would legalize horse and dog rac ing in the state with pari-mutuel betting. The bill was opposed before the House Committee on Proposib ions and Grievances by a large number of ministers, chiefly from the Outer Banks area. The bill was admittedly aimed at allow i ing the re-opening of a once • outlawed dog racing track at Moyock, near the Virginia state line in Currituck County. The ministers said the effect of the bill was' to legalize* gam bling in the state. It would, thej told the committee, destroy the moral fiber of North Carolina anc contribute to crime. Supporters said it would hell i poorer eastern counties with theii (Continued On Page tttx) Good Deed Gets Him 15 Stitches An Angler man who tried to help a hitchhiker was repaid lor his efforts—with a knock on the head that took 15 stitches to sew up. Besides giving the man a ride, Calvin C. Tbdd, a 36.year.old Harnett resident, granted him permission to sleep in his car for the night. Half an hour after he had: gone in the house, Todd told officers, he heard noises and went to in. vestigate. He was struck on the head and his attacker fled. Todd called Angier police and, with the assistance of the high, way patrol, a Negro named Cle. Ion Ledgett was picked up and charged with the assault. Todd had,1 first seen Ledgett when he picked him up while dri. ving to Angier from South Caro, lina. After he was hit, Todd al. legedly fired a shot at the fleeing man but missed. Ledgett is in the Harntt County jail. Bings Son Named Papa, Must Pay LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Dennis Crosby, 25-year-old,SftP. of crooner Ring Crosby, today was ordered to pay a young another $350 monthly support for her 17-month old daughter pending trial of a paternity suit naming him as the child’s father. Superior Court Commissioner Victor J. Hayek also ordered young Crosby to pay $2,500 for Mrs. Marilyn Miller Scott's attor ney who agreed that a new blood test will be taken from the child, Denise Michelle, for comparison (Continued On Page Six) Praises Doctors for Stiving Life Godfrey Sobs As He Leaves Hospital Power Shutoff Early Monday On Monday, May 18, 1959 be tween 5 o’clock a. m. and 6:30 o’ clock a. m. there will be an inter ruption of electric service in the business section of Duun. This interruption is necessary to replace equipment at the substa tion serving this arts. All of the work that can be, NEW YORK (UPI) — Arthur Godfrey left the hospital today sufficiently recovered from a lung cancer operation to continue his convalescence in his New York apartment. He broke into sobs in express ing gratitude to his doctors for what they had done to save his life. In discussing his operation with newsmen Godf''y started out smiling but K ^motions got the better of K".i as he proceeded. He dis posed for the first time (Continued On Page Six) would Keep East Germany Under Control GENEVA (UPI) — Russia called on the West today to sign a Ger man peace treaty that would take West Germany out of NATO and keep 17 million East Germans under permanent Communist con trol. The proposal was Moscow’s first answer to the western cold war peace package plan. It was presented to the fifth working session of* the Big Four confer ence by ‘Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, apparently af ter receiving new instructions from Premier Nikita Khrushchev himself. The Russian draft treaty was not new: In fact, it was published by the Soviets last Jan. 10 and quickly rejected by the West as unacceptable. But it was the Soviet Union’s main pitch for an East-West set tlement, and Gromyko let it be known that for the record Russia wanted it put forward as an offi cial proposal. Khrushchev on Spot Khrushchev, on tour in Jji'ovin eia! parts of the Spytet JQHbi, re stated long - 4aij)4in& Soviet de mands in a speech Thursday night while awaiting the full text of the package plan from Gromyko. Soviet propaganda organs al ready were busy attacking the Western move to link the unifica tion of Germany with major con cessions to the Soviet Union on troop cuts and European security, but Western officials were ing the comments as an indication of Khrushchev’s ultimate reaction. Khrushchev was clearly on the First Federal Can Make FHA Mortgage Loans It was announced from Wash ington, D. C., that the First Feder al Savings and Loan Association oi Dunn, has been certified by Commissioner Julian H. Zimmer man as a lending institution ap proved by the Federal Housing Administration to make mortgage loans Insured under FHA’s pro grams. A letter from W. O. Edwards, assistant commissioner of field (Continued On Page Six) IV HIS DEEP ROCKER, with a pillow at his head, Andrew Williamson receives four of the hundreds of youngsters who have come to bis home bearing gifts since serious illness forced him to retirg without finishing out the school I so year. Varying emotions are recorded in the faces of (from left) Mary Williford, Sharon Darden, Donna Carol Lucas and Libby Riddle. (Record Photo by Ted Qrail.) Ailing Janitor Deluged With Gifts '’■•Vouftigsterti of Magnolia Awtfl* School here, have made it "Christ mas every week” for Andrew Wil liamson a surpassingly gentle col ored janitor who has been known to whole generations of the young in Dunn. “Uncle Andrew” is so ill that in March he was forced into pre mature retirement. But every week since then he has been visited in his home by a group of school children and they always come loaded down with presents. Mrs. Shep Bryan, principal of the school, said that before class es end for the year, every child at the Magnolia Avenue school Will have visited him in his home. Sixty-eight years old, he was (Continued On Page Six) Campbell To Speed Expansion Plans Dunn’s. Reverend Ernest P. Russell had a history-making mo tion to put in the air at last night’s meeting of the trustees of Campbell College. His proposal to speed right ah ead and make the Buie’s Creek school a four-year college was en thusiasticaliy accepted. Only a few of the 24 trustees were absent and those who were there voted unanimously for the motion. The Dunn minister had proposed that the shift-over come at “the earliest practicable date." Tiday he admitted. that he did n’t know what that date was and said that extensive studies, plan ning asd fund-raising would have to precede the establishment of the trustees’ goal. Spurgeon Boyce of Durham, chairman of the trustees, will ap (Continued On Page Six) Harnett Ministers Among Sponsors Oral Roberts Crusade Starts His hands are more famous now than his face and his face is one of the best-known in Am erica. Oral Roberts begins his 10-day Fayetteville crusade today in his “tent cathedra?' which seats 12, 500 persons. Six ministers from this immediate area are among the 34 pastors sponsoring his ap pearance there. Pastors who have lent their names to his crusade are the Rev erend B. T. IJnderwood of Dunn’s Gospel Tabernacle, Reveretyl H. : T. Durden, pastor of the Erwin Church of God, Reverend Clayton Guthrie, pastor of Benson’s Pen tecostal Holiness Church, Rever end Gardner H. Altman, pastor of j the Calvary Assembly of God in ; Angier, Reverend W. Fred Pleas ant, pastor of Mt. Pleasant Free Will Baptist Church on Lilling- j ton. Route 2, and Rev. Herbert. j Carter, pastor of Stoney Run Free 1 Will Baptist Church near Dunn. Treasurer of he Fayetteville campaign is Reverend Durden. He was chosen by the other spon soring ministers. Turough his world-wide televis ion show, as well as the mass re vivals throughout the country, Or al Roberts has become the most lamous “healer” of his time. , But he himself says, “I don’t believe in ’faith healers.’ Only God can heal—not any mortal man. All a mortal man can do is have the faith that God can I heal." ) His program is seen in such far i off places as South Africa, A us tralia, British Guiana, Morocco and Okinawa as well as in the Un ited States. He has written nine books and has distributed litera ture in 79 languages. Crusade worker^ will be drawn from the congregations of the sponsoring churches. A training elass was conducted for them iri Fayetteville last night. At a Charleston. S. C., rally, a reporter named Hortense Fitzger ald described the type of occur ence that has made Roberts an international figure < and provok ed plenty of controversy and skepticism, too): ‘‘The young man who drew most attention,” wrote Miss Fitz gerald, ‘‘was Kenny Lott.... He stood on the platform supported by crutches, his left leg held off the floor by a strap. “ -I believe in God,’ he told Mr. Roberts, explaining why he felt he could be healed of his af fliction which his mother said ‘was Perthes' disease or flatten ing of the rip bone.’ * “After prayer with Mr. Rob* erts, Kenny said. ‘I feel like I am healed.’ His mother unhooked the straps on his leg and he handed her his crutches. “ ‘What do you want him to do?’ Mr. Roberts asked the boy's mother. ‘Whatever he- wants to do,’ she replied. ‘I want to walk!1 Kenny cried out — and practically ran down the ramp. ‘‘The huge tent resounded wits the cheers, prayers and applause of the thousands assembled. In an interview later, Mrs. Lott said ah# believed Kenny was cured. ‘I will take him to his doctor for x-rays (Continued On hn Six)
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