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DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11, 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 174
Search For
Jet Fuel
Given Up
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
government today wrote off its
search for “exotic” new jet fuel
for future atomic bombers despite
an investment of more than 200
ndllion dollars in the project.
The Air Force closed out its 110
million dollar high - energy fuel
program with an announcement
late Monday and the Navy was
ready to announce that it would
shut down the Gallery chemical
plant at Muskogee, Okla.
The Navy plant is a 38 million
dollar facility and. according to
cificial sources, other Navy expen
ditures on “zip" fuels over the
years would put that service’s in
vestment at more than 100 million
dollars.
by HOOVER ADAMS
REV. ERNEST P. RUSSELL
MARKS UP A NEW RECORD
Congratulations are in order to
the Rev. Ernest P. Russell, who
celebrated his tenth anniversary
a couple Sundays ago as pastor
of the First Baptist Church o f
Dunn.
He now holds the distinction of
having served Dunn’s largest
church longer than any other min
ister in its long and proud his
tory.
The Rev. Mr. Russell has an
impressive record of achievement
here. Since he came here on Au
gust 1, he has received a total
of 724 new members into the
church with total membership
now at 1,071.
And the church budget has been
increased from $22,247.15 to $59,
472.40.
Even if he hadn’t done such a
splendid job and accomplished all
these things, the minister would
still be entitled to special distinc
tion.
If you aren’t a Baptist perhaps
you don’t realize the significance,
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JhincfA
EVEN A CAUTION SIGN, warning motorists to
slow down as they come into town, was not proof
against accident. Marvin Johnson, 11 (foreground)
and his friend David Alabaster, 11, curiously in
vestigated scene where a soldier powdered through
blinking caution sign—Marvin is holding the re
mains—and put this massive crinkle in a new
telephone pole. Power lines overhead broke and
the light company had to work last to restore
service through part of the town. (Record Photo
by Ted Trail)
Mingo Teacher Gets Principal's Post
Buckhorn School Dropped,
Lafayette Gets Students
A key change in the county
school set-up will be the elimina
tion of Buckhorn Elementary
School with pupils from that com
munity to be transported to La
fayette, announced Superintend
ent of Schools Glenn T. Proffit to
day.
There will be one new principal j
in the system. Donald L. Johnson, j
who has been at Mingo School in
Sampson County, will succeed J.
C'. Hawley at Anderson Creek
Hawley will become the head of
the school in Coats.
Proffit said that Harnett County
still has 15 teaching vacancies for
the Fall term which will start
September 3.
"Most of these are in four
schools,” he said. “Anderson Creek,
Migier, Erwin and Coats.”
He expects qualified teachers to
be accepted for these positions
within the next two weeks.
Proffit, in announcing t«e Sept
ember 3 opening date, told teach
ers their pay will start twm days
prior to that and they will report
for duty on the 1st.
“One of these days,” said Prof
fit, “will be used for teachers’
meetings in Lillington and in the
local schools. On September 2, the
children will spend part of the
day at school. Books will be issued,
fees collected, assignments made
and other routine matters ... at
tended to.
‘ All schools will operate on a
full day’s schedule on the third.”
Extensive changes are being
made in the county office. Private
offices are being provided for the
supervisory staff, and an assembly
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BIG MAIL-OUT — Nearly 12,000 farmers from
here to Kosebcro will receive these oversize leaf
lets on the plans for the August 18 opening of
the Dunn Tobacco Market. Glenda Skinner.
Chamber of Commerce, secretary, and four key
men la th« promotion of the local market look
over the shipment just before mailing- Left to
right are Bert Alabaster, Louis Baer, Frank Betote
and Vtd Champion. Other members of the market
promoters committee are Raymond Cromartie
and Bob Henderson. (Record Fhoto.)
Five More Hurt
In 3 Accidents
By TED CRAIL
Record News Editor
In mid-afternoon yesterday three persons from the Wade area
were seriously Injured as they proceeded toward the cemetery in a
timeral procession.
Last night at 3:110—as many could tell from their electric clocks—
a 20-year-old soldier crashed through the blinking caution sign at the
north city limits of Dunn and smashed into a telephone-pole with line
cracking force.
Near the Bien Jolle garment factory, outside the city, there was
another bad wreck.
These were merely the latest episodes in a hugely mounting
accident loll that threatens to give Harnett ore of the worst years in
Its history.
The fatality count was at sixteen by the end of July but Corporal
George Stewart, head of the Harnett Highway Patrol, said that if the
county follows Its usual pattern “the next five months will be the
worst."
Here are the details on yesterday^ wrecks:
Cora House. 64, John Roberl
Hnirr. 63. and his wife, Virginia
Hairr. 59. were in Betsy Johnson
Memorial Hospital today after a
wreck at the intersection of East
Harnett and North Wilson.
They had attended the funeral
of Coy Williams at Pope’s Chapel
and were in the back seat of a car
ai the tail-end of the funeral pro
cession.
Police patrolman R. If. Alphin,
directing traffic up ahead of the
procession, did not see the acci
dent John Snipes, a local insur
ance man and driver of the car
which struck them, told Alphin and
Policeman Earl Allen that lit
thought he haj the right-of"wa>
and had not seen the procession
Cars from the funeral were pro
ceeding through a stop sign.
The officers staled there will be
no indictment in the case.
Dr. W. W. Stanfield said. “They
were all shaken up pretty bad
ly.”
It will be another day before
the results of x-rays can be ob
tained. While he does not believe
their injuries to be critical, there
is the possibilty of fractures in
the case of Hairr and his wife.
Mrs. Hairr is the more seriously
injured of the two women, the
doctor said.
All three will be in the hospital
for at least several days.
I Salvatore Conti, the 20-year-old
•paratrooper who hit a caution
light and bent a telephone pole
last night, throwing out part of
the town’s power supply, has
been transferred to the hospital
at Fort Bragg.
Police who investigated the ac
cident here said he suffered injur- .
ies of an unknown extent as his
car tore down the yellow blinker
light and hit the pole hard en
ough to crack power lines’in two
The hospital where he w a s
shortly taken was in the part of
town which suffered a power
sbuj off.
Robert Hadley, m.-niii' er of Car
olina Power and Light, said re
pairs and switching by a line crew
restored electricity to most of the
affected part of town within a
very short time. One section was
out for approximately an hour.
Conti’s car did noi make the
slight curve which swings traffic
on 301 south into the long sweep
down Dunn’s North Ellis Avenue.
Policeman Jack Black and Car
son Hall are investigating the ac
cident but no charges have been J
placed as yet. Conti, a member |
of the 82nd Airborne, is a native ]
of New Brittany. Connecticut. His ,
1951 Oldsmobile was a total loss.
Damage to the town’s blinker
light and the telephone pole was
estimated at $250.
Dr. Lilly Has 9 Wreck Patients
At Hospital, Most
Victims Doing Well
j James C. Byrd, a 26-year-old
| resident of Erwin, Route 1, suf
[ fered head injuries in a wreck
| near the Bien Jolie garment fac
■ tory last night.
His condition is not serious anc
he will probably be released frorr
Betsy Johnson Memorial hospital
HOUSTON, Tex. <UPI> —“Old
Reb" Walter Williams, 116, lay
near death today. His physician
said the end was “only a matter
of days” away from the last Civ.
il War survivor.
Dr. Russell Wolfe said the aged
Confederate veteran was ‘‘sink,
ing” and has to be fed through an
eyedropper.
“He’s getting weaker every day.
There’s no tiling we can do abo|jt
it,” Wolfe said. Williams has been
able to take only a mixture o*f
milk, eggs and water for several
days.
The old Rebel recently won a
battle with pneumonia, during
which he spent about half the time
in an oxygen tent.
Williams became the last Civil
War survivor when John Sailing,
112. died on March 16, 1959. The
last Union veteran, Albert Wool
son of Duluth. Minn., died if
August 1956.
William moved to Houston six
years ago to live with his daught.
er, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles. Since
that time he has been almost
blind and deaf and totally bed,
ridden.
here tomorrow. Highway Patrol
man W. C. Harris is investigat
ing the circumstances of the
wreck.
Dr. William H. Lilly, who has j
nine patients still hospitalized j
from the tragic run of wrecks j
which began this weekend, said
that the seven New Yorkers in
jured in the Sunday afternoon
smashup near Ma’s Kitchen are
all showing signs of recovery.
He said all of them, including
Solomon Spiegal, 50. of Queens.
Long Island, and Mrs. Mary An
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Faced With Loss of Child
Woman Creates
Scene In Courtroom
A twice married Harnett Coun.
ty mother threw Lee Superior ,
Court into a dither Monday Morn
ing with a weeping scene, when
ordered by Judae Clawson L. Wil.
liams to place her three.year.old
son in custody of Harnett Welfare i
Department.
The incident was an outgrowth
of a habeas corpus hearing this
morrring before .lodge Williams to i
determine the custody of Daniel
Wayne Brown, son of \Teil Kid- :
ridae Brown and Evelyn Lee Dar. '
roch Brown Armstrong. The two.
year hassle over the child is based ’
upon the couple having been di.
vorce.d and custody or the child .
given to the father, who is now in ]
nn army hospital partially paraly- ]
zed. i
Several months ago a Harnett j
Superior Court placed the child i
in custody of its maternal grand. |
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest i
DaiToch. until the divorce pro.
feedings could be settled. " i
The older specified the child to ’
be kept in the State, but Mrs. Arm i
strong, the mother, removed the ’
shild to Washington agains court
irders. The father of the child
»-as able to locate the child last,
veek.
In the meantime, the divorce
lad been granted and the child
'iven to the father.
The plaintiff sought to show
he mother was unfit to have cus
ody of the child. One such affi
iavit. was signed by Bruce Scott,
vho alleged he lived with the da_
’endent eight months in 1956 in
iVashington as man and wife. At
.hat time the plaintiff alleges he
css overseas.
Billy Taylor, attorney for Mrs.
Armstrong, who remarried in
March of this year, moved for a
jostponement as he did not expect
i custody hearing. Judge Williams
rranted the request over protest
if plaintiff attorney Robert Mor_
:an. The hearing is scheduled fhr
text Monday morning at 10 a. m.
t was then the judge ordered the
■hild placed in custody of the
Velfare Department, and the j uti
le asked the sheriff to escort the
voman from the court room.
a moral monstrosity—Ike Misinforms
Tarheel Negroes
Oppose New Judge
WADE LUCAS
Lucas Appointed
ro New Firm
Wade M. Lucas, a 40_year-o^
vpteran body mechanic, .has
iceepted a position with the new.
ly formed Dunn Motor Company
m Highway 301 South.
Father of five, Lucas is an Air
Force veteran and spent 31 mon.
;hs in service, mostly in the Paci
'ie Theatre. He started as a body
mechnic in 1941 with the A. &
Parker Motor Co. His home is
it Falcon.
( RALEIGH (UPI) — North Caro
lina Negroes apparently will seek
to block the appointment of Alg
ernon Butler of Clinton as pre
siding judge of the state’s U. S
; Eastern District Court.
| Alexander Barnes of Durham,
t editor and leading Negro Repub
lican, said Monday night that the
nomination of Butler to succeed
retiring Judge Dun Gilliam of
Torboro was a “moral monstros
ity and a political blunder.”
Barnes said it was “another
case" of President Eisenhower
“being misinformed.” He charged
that Butler “has not proven his
ability to deal impartially with
matters pertaining to Negroes.
“I am a Republican but I was
a Negro first and I shudder to
think what will happen when a
question of the rights of a Negro
has to be decided by Mr. But
ler,” Barnes said.
“I don’t mind working with Mr.
Butler to gain votes for the Repr
ublican Party but I am afraid to
trust the fate of my people in th$
hands of Mr. Butler in a court*
, room.'*
Barnes charged that stat? GOP
leaders had chosen Butler “with,
out any regard for th? opinion <3f
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YOUNG HUSBAND PINCHED
Claude J. Burnette, a 21-year
old husband, has been charged
with simple assault. His wife, .An
nie, took out a warrant for tin;
colored youth yesterday. He was
arrested and later released under
$50 bond.
Singers Booked on Morals Rap
Four Platters Had Three Nudes
PTVPIMM A T! / 1 T ni \
CINCINNATI, Ohio (UPI)—The j
four Platters, a nationally-knownJ
singing group. were to appear in
municipal court here today on
morals charges. Police arrested
them at a hotel with four 19 year
old girls early Monday.
Charged with aiding and
abetting prostitution were David
Lynch, 30, El Centro, Calif.; Her
bert A. Reed, 31, Los Angeles;
Sam Williams, 31, Hollywood, and
Ervin Robi, 26, El Centro. ;
Also appearing in court were {
the girls, booked on charges of j
prostitution. 1
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'Tales Greatly Exaggerated'
Jean's Maligned
Says Former Owner
Tales that a lot of fights and
crapes have taken place at Jean's
irill. said Mrs. Robert Lee. only
rove that a lot of folks don’t
now what they're talking about.
Mrs. Lee and her husband bo.
light the grill five years ago. Tho.
ugh they are now relinquishing
it for another business, she ob
jected strongly to an article in
the Daily Record which asserted
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