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VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N- C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 116
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Parolee Found With Arsenal,
$300,000 In Forged Checks
CHATOM, Ala. (UPI) — A
check forger equipped with an
arsenal of Army guns and am.
munition was held here/ today for
the FBI as a pjarole violator from
North Carolina.
The FBI at Mobile identified
the 6 foot, 7 inch, 210 pound con.
fidence man as Charles Ignatious
Johnson Jr., 28 of Ashboro, N.
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The FBI said he was known to
have passed 50 checks worth a
total of about $6,000 against banks
in Atlanta, Norfolk, Va., Pittsboro
and Siler City, N. C-, DeFuni&k
By HOOVER ADAMS
LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Attorney and Mrs. D. K. Stew
art have adopted a new son_He’s
-a handsome little fellow, too...His
name—why, David K, Jr., natch!...
The Dunn High Band concert Fri
day night was terrific—and then
some, the best ever heard here....
It would have done credit to many
college band concerts....Particular
ly outstanding numbers were:
“Snow White “Fantasy" by the Jun
ior Band; the overture from “Kis
“The Syncopated Clock”
b> the Senior Band, and the trum
pet trio, “Jim Dandies” by David
Hobson, Warren Uzzle and Herbie
Ruark brought the house down....
The Beginners’ Band and the little
Tonettes did themselves proud,
too.It was also a proud night
for Principal A. B. Johnson, the
papa of Stacey Johnson, who won
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JhAWfA
Mothers still Held Without Bail
Carving Suspect
Released On Bond
Mary Sue Evans, a 19.year.old
colored girl accused of helping
her mother critically slash anoth.
er woman, has been released from
Dunn jail under $200 bond.
The mother, Minnie Evans, has
been held on a felony count and
no bond has been set, pending
a further report on the condition of
Dorothy Mae McDougald.
Chief Alton Cobb said the trial
of Mary Sue and a preliminary
hearing for her mother have been
tentatively scheduled for next
Monday.
“If this woman is not out of the
hospital by then, it will have to
be put off until later,” he said,
“and I doubt that she’ll make it.'1
Chief Cobb checked last night
on the condition of the severely
slashed Mrs. McDougald who tool)
knife wound from her face to
her thigh aird, was told she is im_
The Sunday afternoon slashing
was allegedly in rebuttal to an
attack Mrs. McDouglad was re_
ported to have made on Minnie
Evans on Saturday night. Min',
nie was cut but not badly enough
to go to the hospital.
Harnett Chief Deputy Clarence
Moore arrested the Dunn woman
and her daughter after; Mrs. Me.
Dougald was brought to the hos.
pital with slashes on face, neck,
breasts and thigh.
The mother was accused of in.
flicting the blows' with a razor
with "intent to kill” and the da.
ughter of -holding Mrs. McDougald
while her mother carved her. The
daughter has denied that she took
part.
'Cast on his Bread on the Waters'
Neighbors Start
III Mans Crop
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n irAtil* K**AO nnAit ikA i ltn>] f a 1«A <1ahA nAi
«r«Ant2M
,u »» coir)
waters....” had a real meaning for
Emery Tart, a farmer in his late
fifties who was taken to Betsy
Johnson Memorial Hospital Iasi
Friday.
Tart had suffered a serious at
tack while working in the fields
and is still in weak condition at the
hospital.
His wife is dead and four child
ren are in school; the crop year
is slipping away.
So 25 of his neighbors on Dunn,
Rt. 2, were out today plowing his
cotton and tobacco and attending
to other needed jobs.
one, “or it would be too late.”
Last Saturday the same group
had worked on his corn.
An organizer of this friendly
help-out was J. R. Martin, a neigh
bor who was hospitalized five
months last year when a gas tank
blew up and badly injured him.
Tart had been a key organizer
of the force that kept Martin’s
farm going during the long period
that he was in the hospital.
“Everybody loved to do this to
day,” said one of Tart’s friends,
“because he was so good about
doing the same thing himself.”
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i Spring and Panama City, Fla.
Washington1 County sheriff Clay
Locke, Chief Deputy John W.
Hodges and Chatom Police Chief
Lawrence Odum arrested Johnson
as his heavily.laden 1952 Ford
passed through tne south.west
Alabama town.
They said he had a check writ_
ing machine a printing press, a
“stack of checks a foot high tot.
aling about, $300,000 written a.
gainst various companies and oth.
ers, mostly payroll checks,” and
an arsenal of weapons.
He made no attempt to use the
weapsons, althought he had in the
auto, a .45 automatic and' 20 .45
automatic kits, all Army weapons
a .243 caliber rifle, a.22 rifle and
pistol, five hand grenades, ma.
chine gun mounts and about 20,.
000 rounds of ammunition of var.
ious sizes.
The FBI said he had license
tags I from Alabama, Florida
North Carolina and Mississippi.
He |was expected to be returned
to the middle district of North
Carolina, although he also is
wanted on a warrant from Pen.
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prison Terms tor Charlie, Kosena
Burned Youngsters
Parents Sentenced
vt iivii lovagcu
of Rosena and Charlie Smith near
Erwin, both were, away at the
time and three young children
perished in the blazing house.
This week in' Harnett Superior
Court the pair ,were sent to pri_
son for two years each. They had.
been prosecuted on two charges
growing out of the sheriff’s of_
fice investigation of the fatal tri.
pie burning.
The changes against them were
1 exposing children to the danger
'of fire Sad committing fornication
and adultery. For the officers had
discovered that- Charlie and Ro_
d§na Skhfth were not married to
each other. *
Judge Heman R. Clark of Fay.
etteville, presiding at the criminal
term which started on Monday,
passed sentence after they had
been convicted on both counts by
a jury.
On the adultry charge, they
were both given two years straight
time and Judge Clark imposed
muu*muuwi oci»icm,ca iui
exposing the children to fire but
suspended these sentences on' con.
dition the pair remain of good
behavior following their release
from prison.
Blood Clot
Takes His Life
An Olivia man, Cary Campbell
I Howard, 33, died in Lee County
Hospital from internal injuries af
ter he had apparently been on the
road to recovery.
Howard was injured last Satur
day when his car hit a telephone
pole and crashed into a tobacco
barn, knocking it down.
His death was attributed to a
blood clot reaching the heart. For
ty-five minutes earlier a nurse had
given him a drink of water and
his condition was considered
“go^d.”
Born in Harnett county, How
ard was the son of Cary W. How
ard apd Inez Campbell Howard
of Route 6 Sanford. He was a
graduate of Benhaven high school
and attended N. C. State College.
He served ip World War II and
was wounded during combat.
He was a member of Barbecue
Presbyterian church, of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, and sec
retary arid treasurer of the San
ford Boat Club. He had held a po
sition as laboratory technician at
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SIZZLING TRUMPETS of Warren Unle, Herbie Rnark and
Hobson have been receiving a workout lately. The three
school freshmen wer« featured in recent Spring concert.
Band work comes to a climax with the end of the school year.
(Record Photo.) .*-?..^
Crazed Negro
Kills Woman,
Wounds Police
LAFAYETTE, La. (UPI)—A Ne
gro man barricaded himself in a
house today and wounded four po
licemen before he was killed. A
neighboring woman was killed in
the raging gunbattle and two
houses set afire.
A second woman was hit by
a stray teargas bomb and hospi,
talized. Extent of injury to the po
licemen was not immediately learn
ed.
Officers said the Negro man,
not immediately iderjjified, drag
ged two white boys into his home
and tried to tie them up. The
boys escaped and called police.
The Negro area near the La
fayette airport was turned into a
battleground. The Negro shot the
first two policemen to come near
his house and then shot two more
during the hour-long battle.
It was not known at first wheth
er the man died from gunshot
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Fellowship
For Young
Dental Grad
William R. Proffit, son of Harn
ett County’s Superintendent of
Schools, has been awarded a three
year fellowship for graduate study
at the Medical College of Virgin!*
Slated to graduate from the UNC
School of Dentistry on June 1, he
will report Jo Virginia on July 1.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
T. Proffit of Buie’s Creek, he at
tended high school at Campbell
College,, belonged to Psi Omega,
the dental fraternity, at UNC, and
is completing studies for the de
gree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.
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AUTOMATIC LAUNDROMAT OPENS HERE
THURSDAY — William D. Ward, president of
Ward’s automatic coin-operated Laundromat, is
shown here putting the finishing installation
touches to the 20 shiny new washers in readiness
for the grand opening to be held Thursday morn
ing at 10 o’clock. A huge crowd is expect.#
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in the Quinn Shopping Center for the event.
Mayor George Franklin Blalock, pretty Miss
Dunn, Joyce Sutton, Westinghouse officials and
other dignitaries will be on hand. There’ll be
plenty of free refreshments, prizes, etc. and free
laundry for all comers Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. (Daily Record Photo.)
They Graduate on June I i-fc
Dunn's Class tf i^'59 Has 84
Forty girls and 44 boys are in
the senior class at Dunn High
School now headed—via the har
rowing route of final exams—for
graduation.
The exams start next Tuesday
with one test scheduled for that
day, two on Wednesday and two |
on Thursday.
Miss Ophelia Matthews, princi
pal at the high school, said this
will probably be the largest grad
uating class since she has been
at Dunn High.
However, she accounted for the
increase by a change in the sum
mer program.
“In the past,” she said, “stud
ents could sometimes shorten
their work by taking summer sub
jects but now the summer classes
are only for repeats. So our gra
duating class reflects the change
in the summer program.”
Miss Matthews said that over
half of the current class is look
ing forward to going on to col
lege,
“Thirty-five percent is what you
would expect,” she said. "But the
fact that Campbell College i s
within driving distance, and in
this county, enables some of our
students to start college who oth
erwise might not be able to at
tend.”
The graduation ceremonies pro
per will be oh 'June 1 with senior
class president Marvin Wesley
(Tommy) Thompson .stated to ma
ke the major address. Diplomas
will be presented by D. C. Wilson,
chairman of the school board. The
program will start at 8 p.m. in
the high school auditorium.
A number of other special ac
tivities are included in the gen
eral commencement program.
On Friday, May 29, an early
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Rose's Event
Being Readied
A company executive and about
a dozen store managers are in
Dunn assisting Manager John
Moss with preparations for the
grand opening of the newly remo.
deled Rose’s store.
The big Dunn store, one of the
largest of its kind tp be found
anywhere in a town the size of
Dunn, has been completely reno.
vated, air.conditioned and turned
into an ultra.modern self.service
operation.
Here directing preparations for
the big opening, scheduled to be.
gin next Thursday, is Paul Walk,
er of Henderson, assistant person.,
nel director for the entire big cha.
In and a former manager of the
Dunn store.
Mr. Walker managed the Dunn
store for a no- jer of years and
has a grea* ,-jst of friends here.
Store i aagers here assisting
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Would Break Down Broad Categories
Board To Consider
New Zoning Law
A detailed zoning law which
would break down the present
proad categories will be among
epics of discussion as the Dunn
lown council meets on Thursday
night.
Mayor George Franklin Blalock
presiding at the second meeting
since the beginning of this term,
is already on record as favoring
the zoning law changes.
The proposal has not been car
ried into specific form as yet. In
general, the plan is to ‘set up a
series of Business Types and to
assign zoning which might, for
instance, allow professional offic
es or a gift shop in a given area
while excluding a service station.
Other topics on a jampacked a
genda include naming of the city
clerk, city attorney and city man
ager. It is expected that those
now serving will be reappointed.
RECORD ROUNDUF
CATCHER HURT — That oc
cupational hazard of the baseball
catcher, a ball in the snoot, tem
porarily laid up young Dannie Mc
Lamb of Coats. Several stitches
were required to close a wound
from nose to lip. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McLamb.
The board will discuss the long
standing proposal that Dunn add
two full-time firemen to its staff
at city hall. They will consider a
suggestion from Blalock that
court costs be raised for convic
ted defendants in Dunn Record
er’s Court in order to provide in
creased police funds.
They will hear from residents
who object to dogs (even those
properly vaccinated) running
loose: And they will discuss one
1 of Mayor Blalock’s pet projects—
getting the primary and genera;
election combined into a single el
ection ‘’to save expense to* the
town.” *
Shipbuild
T o S top
GLASGOW, Scotland <UPI) -
Millionaire shipbuilder Harrj
Dowsett today engaged two'-,.teams
of lawyers to find some way 01
stopping the marriage of his 20
year.old daughter Katherine to an
ex.truck driver.
^Whlfe the lawyers sweated it
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mici9iuio ifivcdnyuriurv rrcuiuca
'Unwed Moms' Probe Forseen
RALEIGH tUPT) — Rep. Rach.
el Davis, of Lenoir, supporting a
bill to punish unwed mothers, re.
vealed today plans were under
way for a “gigantic” investiga.
tion of illegitimacy on an inter,
state basis. ff—p-,
Dr. Da#is, an obstetrician,
made the statement amid sting,
lng criticism in the House Health
Committee meeting that sponsors
of the bill ‘‘were putting the cart
before the horse.”
Rep. Albert Byrum of Chowan
said he was considering legisla.
tion to study the problems of 11.
legitimacy.
Dr. Davis caid such a study,
to be a compact.type interstate
undertaking was ready for intro,
duction “just as soon as this start
can be made. She said the study
would encompass eight states
and the District of Columbia.
The House committee was con.
sidering a committee substitute
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Acquitted of Intent to Rape
Directed Verdict
On Calvin McNeill
Calvin McNeill, accused of as.
sault with intent to to commit
rape, has gone free on a direct,
ed veridct of not guilty in Har.
nett Superior Court.
Judge Heman R. Clark of Fay.
etteville, presiding at the current
criminal term in Lillington. in.
structed the jury to bring in a
not guilty verdict when the state
had closed its evidence
The grand jury has returned a
true bill against McNeill earlier
in the week and the case proceed,
ed to trial almost immediatly.
, Jerry Kills and Jimmy Waltson,
two youngsters who escaped from
; an offenders' camp and stole an
: automobile, were tried for arson.
They had burned the automobile
, they escaped in.
Both pled guilty a no additional
sentence of six months were add.
ed to the time they are currently
| serving,
Marshall McNeill, accused of as.
! sault with a deadly weapon with
I intent to kill, was sentenced by
! Judge Clark to two years oir the
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But uaims
Some Western
Ideas 'Dirty'
By HENRY SHAPIRO
ITnited Press International
MOSCOW (UPI) — premier
Nikita Khrushchev told a fgroup
of American businessmen in an
interview made public today that
the Geneva foreign ministers’
conference will succeed “or we
would not have agreed to par
ticipate.”
But Khrushchev compared the
West's package peace plan with
Noah’s Ark.
“It contains all sorts of ani
mals, clean and up clean,” he said.
Khrushchev met for two hours
Tuesday With 40 visiting business
and professional men from Miami.
He told them the Western leaders
“propose thjat East Germany give
I up its capital in East Berlin.”
I “It is supposed that East Ger
j many will transfer its capital to
Jupiter or Mars?” he asked.
"No reasonable person can hope
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Husband
Forgives
Plotter
' MIAMI <UPI> —Criminal court
i Judge Ben Willard said he never
before saw anyone who would
“take a woman back and go home
and sleep in the same house with
her at night after she paid some,
one to kill him.’’
But WilifU'd agreed to suspend
sentencing of Mrs. Beatrice Gur.
ley, 41. after she appeared in
court with the husband she al.
legedly trlefi fax have killed.
“You won’t |Tnd another hus.
band like this man in the whole
country,” Judge Willard told her
Tuesday. “If you get in any more
trouble I’ll send you to the state '
penitentiary.”
Mrs. Gurley pleaded guilty to
charges that she paid $1,000 to a
detective posing as a hired killer
j to do away with her husband,
J Hugh, 45. But Gurley said he
j wanted his wife back even though
j she was “mixed up” and needed
J medical or phychiatric care.
Gurley paid for the lawyer to
I represent his wife, paid her jail
bond and stood with his arm
1 about her waist before the judge.
er T ries
Marriage
London and Glasgow, Katherine
and 27-year-old Edward Langley
went into hldtng to establish 15
days residence in Scotland so
they can wed.
They eloped from the Dowsett
j country mansion in Lincolnshire
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