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♦ WEATHER + Chance of a few afternoon or ev. ening thundershowers in the mountains, otherwise generally fair and a little warmer this afternoon tonight and Friday. VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AFTERNOON, MAY 28, 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 122 ~Lr . '«»t>. IW) anxiously scanned courthouse at LUUngton as Ns constructin' crew batterejHieUfower with heavy weight swinging from a crane, At right IS truck-mounted crane used to demolish tower with partially decapitated tower in the background. County officials were evacuated during the frontal assault on the old landmark. Riggs said there is always a possibility that a section of tb* building may cave in during demolition action. He pointed to cracks in courthouse structure wnicn could have concealed an underlying weakness. While the bell toiler was being destroyed at the front of tlif'bnUdbl. a big crew was busy at the rear carving out foundations for big addition. On completion in November, the renovated courthouse will look like a completely different structure. Seen here with Riggs is Ozie Ashworth, who lives down along the river and said he liked to watch the construction boys at work. (Record Photos by Ted Crail.) Actor Says U. S. Taxes Broke Him HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Bud Ab bott, straight man of the Abbott and Costello comedy team, said today a government tax audit has left him broke. “And all my ao-called pals sud denly don’t know me any more now that the booze has stopped flowing,” the 63-year-old star told L'nited Press International at his home, which is up for sale to help pay the taxes. “The government took It all but peanuts. The thing that did it was when they disallowed a half mil lion dollars of deductions. Then they put a lien on practically ev erything." Abbott, white-haired, shorn of his mustache and heavier than in the days of his great successes, said in hi* rumpus room: “One? tax guy asked me, ‘Where do you ,ppt off wearing 25 shoes? t f»ky $9 for mine.' I an swered, T make so much a week. How much do you make?’ So he said, ‘Well, 111 allow you half.’ Ht went down the line and picked (Continued On Page Six) nazing rronr or county courrnouse Bell Tower Comes Crashing To The Gr ound The county courthouse was evac uated this morning and a big crane boom swinging a heavy stone weight cracked and crashed against the building’s massive bell tower, toppling it to the ground. While the entire county stafi stood by, Foreman John Riggs oi Hunt Construction Company of Durham stage-managed the razing of this landmark, long visible on the hill over-looking the approach to Lillington. It was an important step in the complete overhaul, modernization and expansion of the courthouse which will transform it, by early Winter, into an up-to-date, greatly enlarged county headquarters. The bell itself proved difficult to disengage and had to be taken free of the tower before the raz ing could begin. It was released by" hand by several construction works climb ing through a narrow cubicle, and : then lowered to the court-house | yard by the crane. The top of the tower went first. This afternoon the razing operation was to extend down its entire 'length to the ground, so that the ieffectlye front of Che building will Ibe its unembellished front wall. ' Exact date for completion of the project has not been $et but Lof ton Tart, chairman of the Harnett County board of commissioners, estimated it as late November. “The man told me,” said. Tart, “that he’d better be out of her before Christmas or he’d be in (trouble. This modernization will be ac complished—with Hunt Construc tion Co. as the basic contractor— at a total cost of approximately $200,000. Most of the money is available now. The rest will be as the job progresses. Tart said delinquent tax money, which is being diverted into the fund for modernization, will cover the cost. Pool Will Open in Jig-Time _ ___ Hutaff And Recreation Board Plan Upsurge This Summer The swimming pool is going to be available almost as soon as the customers are. Seventeen hundred hot and play.hungry kids will hit the streets next Monday and Henry Hutaff, chairman of the Dunn Recreation Commission, said the opening of the pool should not be far behind. “We hope to have it open some, time at the first of the week,” he stated. fater is already pouring into pool atid negotiations have started to obtain a swimming in_ structor who will give the lessons that will start at the pool soon aft President Appeals for Progress Ike Meets With Big 4 WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi dent Eisenhower personally ap pealed to the Big Four foreign ministers today for progress at the, deadlocked Geneva confer ence in order to justify a summit meeting. , The President conferred in his office for about a half hour with the foreign ministers, and Rus sia’s Andrei Gromyko said after ward that it was a “pleasant and useful conversation.” The Write House said in a statement that the President “ex pressed the hope that on their re turn to Geneva the foreign min isters would Dc able to achieve that measure of progress which would make a subsequent meeting of the heads of government desir able and useful.” ‘‘The President said that he had followed the Geneva confer ence proceedings with close at tention,” the White House said. “He expressed the hope that the thorough exchange of views that are taking place there would lead to a better approach to the solut ion of the problems that confront us in Europe. He, of course, stressed the necessity of finding peaceful solution to our prob lems.” i Before leaving the White House, Gromyko told newsmen when asked what he thought of progress at Geneva and his hopes for the conference: “For ourselves, we would like to see it a success.” Although the conference lasted for 30 minutes, about 10 of them were taken up in posing for pic tures. The 20 minutes remaining appeared to preclude any discus sion of key problems in detail. Only the four foreign ministers were present for the conference with the President. Inasmuch as all spoke English, no interpreters were needed. er Vacation Bible Schools con. elude. ; j -The recreation department’s ba_ I sic nine.weeks program will go (into high gear around June 15, said Hutaff. . He could not give a final word [ on the professional staff who will manage the recreation events yet today. Jim Brown, high school athletic coach, was the director last year and Hutaff said he has been in contact with Brown and assistant Whitney Bradham. Biggest addition to the Recrea. tion program this summer is like ly to be a five.week day camp now in the planning stage. This would provide activities at Tyler Park similar to the well.organized activities offered to colored ytrnng. sters at Harnett High. There would be supervised play at the park for youhgsters aged five to twelve, said Hutaff, under the program being planned. “This would include arts and crafts, nature study, games, ath. letic activities, storytelling,” he said, “What we want is a well rounded program.” Hutaff said he felt an excel, lent and sympathetic board is concentrating on recreation and said, “We’ll go as far as the funds available. The pool operates itself —it costs about $3000 to operate and it takes in about $3000. We get checks from the city and from the United Fund. We’ll have a (Continued On Page Six) Funeral Set For Friday At 11 Mrs. Dave Kim me I Dies After Illness Mrs. Annie Lee Baer Kimmel, 44, prominent Dunn woman and member of one of the city’s lead ing families, died early Thursday morning in Betsy Johnson Mem orial Hospital in Dunn. She had been ill for several months and gravely ill for t h e past few weeks. Mrs. Kimmdl was the wife of ■ Dave Kimmel, prominent Dunn I merchant, and the daughter o f * Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baer. Hsr father, one of the oldest merely ants in the city, business, finan cial -and civic leader, was Dunn’s “Man of the Year” for 1958. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11 o’clock from the B’-owiv-Wynne Funeral Home in Rale>~ . Rabbi Abe- W. Rchoen of v 1 Meyer Synagogue in Ralei"'- und Dr. Murray Can (Con.uiued On Page Light) Shot 300 Miles Info Space In Missile Nose .CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — Two little monkeys flew 300 miles into space today in the nos« cone of a Jupiter missile and were recovered alive. The flight of the two pint.sized simian's. Ale and Baker, gave science important new data need, ed to insure the safe space flight of man. Brig. Gen. John H. McNinch, chief of the Army’s Medical Re. search and Development Com. mand, said 6Vi hours after the Jupiter firing that the monkeys were retrieved "alive and in per fect condition.” McNinch said there would be no further information on the ef. fects of the journey on the mon. keys "at'.this time.” The monkeys, first to be recov. ered alive from a space flight, spent about 15 minutes on their flight which got to a height of about 300 miles. Their nose con space ship plopped down in' the Atlantic 1,500 miles to the south, east near Antigua. Able and Baker are scheduled Ui be taken to Washington and displayed Signals Not Heard Monkey Able, the more educat ed of the pair of space travelers, was to have sent a type of tele, graph signal1 back to earth during the flight ,by pressing a key at. tabbed to her body. No signals Were picked up, which may have been caused ,b.v a malfunction of the instrument or because Able refused to perform as trained. Able, an American rhesus weigh, ing seven pounds, and Baker, a, i one _ pound squirrel monkey, | spent about 15 minutes on the ) 1,500 mile flight and traveled i about 300 miles into space - not I high enough, according to the scientists here, for radiation ser. iously affect- them. - The nose cone was recovered intact and was on board ship In less than two hours after the launching. The two monkeys were housed in separate containers . Able inf a 250_pound capsule and Baker in a smaller one that was 914 by 1214 by 614 inches. Housed in Comfort Able, lying on her back with her knees drawn up to provide max. imum resistance from the forces <>f gravity, wore a special space suit and was equipped with ear phones. She reclined on a fiber glass contour couch in an air con. ditioned chamber with a private heating and cooling system. Baker was attired in a helmet of molded plastic with a' soft chamois lining. She lay on a molded bed made of two layers of rubber. Navy Capt. Ahston Grabiel, dj. rector of research at the Navy school of medicine, Pensacola, Fla., said “it would appear as though there was remarkably lit. tie chapge1 in the monkeys’ be. havior during the first 14 min utes of flight.” This period took the nose cone almost to the point of re.entry into the earth’s atmo. 'sphere. __ Daughter, 17, Faces Charge --—■ ■ .——.*.... J New Arrest Made In Razor Attack Seventeen-year.old Hettie Marie Evans Was arrested today—in fc move fo^wing the arrest of hef mother aftd older sister more than a week ago—in the slashing at Dorothy McDougald. Judge H. Paul Strickland, pre, siding in Dunn Recorder’s Ourt, had been prepared to hear evl. dence on the felony account against the mother. Minnie Evans. But the defense objected that there weren’t enough defendants. Mrs. McDougald. a good-l<>oking 23.year.old colored woman, claims that the mother and her two da. ughters collaborated in a brutal razor assault during which she was slashed from face to thigh. She was in Betsy Johnson Mem. orial Hospital for about a week following the Sunday afternoon melee May 17. Sheriff’s Deputy Clarence Moore., who Investigated the case, originally arrested only the mother and Mary Sue Evans, But today Mrs. McDougald claimed that Hettie and Mary Sue had both held onto her body and made her target for their mother's attack with the razor. The two daughters are charged with aiding and abetting in the assault, a misdemeanor for which they will be tried in thf local court. Minnie Evans, accused of wielding the razor "with Intent to kill," will be sent before the grand Jury and tried in' Harnett Super ior Court if Judge Strickland finds the evidence strbng enough to warrant bonding her over. Dunn attorney Duhcanr C. Wil_ son acting as a private prosecutor (Continued On Fag* tft*> Becky Jo Cannady Salucatorian Orphanage Heads Son Tops His Class rMm ■ i BECKY JO CANNADY Edward Earl Johnson, who start, ed in the first grade the same year his father came here to'take charge of the Free 'Will fluillst Orphanage, was named today as the valedictorian of the aenior class at t)unnr High School. It was no surprise to his class, mates. For several Weeks, it has been , common knowledge that he had outdistanced all scholastic compet ition in the Class of ’59. The title of salutatorian remained in doubt until today with three girls all „ given a strong chance going into ' their last set of final exams. High School Principal Ophelia Matthews announced shortly be. fore noon that tije^salutatorian* will be sparkling Becky Jo Can. rvady, Student Council secretary and Beta Club member who had already been awarded a small scholarship at East Carolina Col. lege. Becky Jo lives with her aunt and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Britt of 206 South Wilson Avenue. Johnsorr, the valedictorian, is the son of orphanage superinten. dent. Reverend J. Edward John son. They live on Dunn, Route 4. His father said that Edward Earl's immediate plans call for studying electrical engineering at North Carolina State College but added, "I wouldn't be surprised if he goes into the ministry.” He recently was Youth Week speaker at Lon^ Branch Free Will Baptist Church. Reverend Johnson said his son has mingled with the orphanage children since earliest childhood and that they “have all been treat, ed alike.” Twenty.three youngs, ters from the Baptist institution are enroliled in' the Dunn schools, a number of them in high school (Continued Wn Png* Six) Union Leader Angrily Replies to Mayor Wont Leave Henderson HENDERSON, N. „C. (UPI) — Union leader Boyd Payton angrily declared today that he rad “no ‘ntention” of leaving this strike tense community as suggested by Mayor Carroll Singleton. “In fact, some businessmen are thinking of having a secret ballot oc .vhether he or ,1 should leave town ” said Payton, director of a violence-marked strike against the Harriet-Henderson cotton mills. Singleton reaffirmed his stand today that the situation would be improved if Payton would leave Henderson. “I’ve asked him to leave two or three times (publicly) and I hope he'll get out,'\said Singleton, who blamed Payton for the violence connected with the long strike by the Textile Workers Union of America. Payton, Carolinas TWUA direc tor, said he has been “deluged with assurances of support and requests for me not to leave.*’ ‘*|’ve got a job to do here and I’ll leave only when members of the .union ask me. to go and not before,” he said. Payton said his l^as been the “loudest voice” raised against violence in Henderson, which he attributed to Singleton and Gov. Luther H. Hodges for their part in state troopers and then National Guardsmen here to (Continued Om Nn Six) Baby Deaths In Plastic Still Rise Baby deaths from plaitic bags are mounting steadily despite ed_ ucational campaigns launched by manufacturers, distributors and the press. More than 30 infants hav* suf. located this year with the deadly bags plastered against their faces. The National Safety Council has (Ceattaaad 6n fan Hu) (
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