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♦ WEATHER + Partly cloudy and rather warm to day, tonight and Thursday. VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 175 Fire Hoses Drench From New 'Human Crowd, Eight Arrested Barricade' in Little Rock For 8000 People, A Lot of Names New York Has Brooklyn—Only Dunn Has Eleven Light City Jury Trial Granted Platters' Fans Jam Police Court CINCINNATI. Ohio — Four male members of "The Platters,” £ rock ‘it’ roll singing combina. tion, have been granted a jury trial on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution. A crowd that filled Police Court to overflowing listened quietly Tuesday as Judge A. L. Luebbers set Aug. 28 as the trial date. He fixed the bond of the four Negro singers at $2,000 each. They pr<^ vided the bonds and were re. leased. They had been out on $1,000 bond since their arrest Monday in a downtown hotel with four 19 year.old girls—three white and one Negro. The four girls also asked for a jury trial on charges of prostitu. tion and their trials were set for Aug. 28, Their bonds also were fixed at $2,000. The men charged in the case are David Lynch Jr., 30, and Tony Williams, 31, both of Hollywood, Calif.; Herbert A. Reed, 31, of Los Angeles, and Irvin Robi, 26, of El Centro. Calif. The crwdo—older persons as well as teen.agers. both white and Negro—began gathering more than three hours before the case was called. For a time, the courtroom was jammed with persons standing, Judge Luebbers finally ordered the courtroom cleared gf all per sons except those who had seats. Then the jam in the corridors became so great extra policemen were summoned to keep the | would.be spectators lined up so other persons could pass in the hallway. TOBACCO MEETING An instructional meeting for personnel employed as Tobacco Marketing Recorders in the East ern Belt is being held today in Goldsboro. Mr. Byrd, Helen Betts, and Mary F. Purdie are attending. Modern Rest Home Slated For Dunn Dunn is scheduled to get one of the finest, most complete and most modern rest homes for the aged and inf>rm to be found anywhere in the State. It will, in reality, resemble a resort-hospital with all the enjoy able conveniences and the friendly atmosphere of homelife. A prominent Dunn business man disclosed today that he is now ne gotiating for property for location Crosby And Son In Bitter Rift LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)—Gary Crosby, eldest son, of crooner Bing Crosby, admitted today he is bitterly estranged from his fa ther. \ "We just don’t get along," he told United Press, International in to the crooner. “The other boys can invite him if they want,” he said. “Ain't gcnna bother me in the least.” There have been reports from friends of the Crosby family that Bing might slip into town quietly Dennis. Crosby, like crooner’s other sons, does »-hat he pleases—wed Showgirl Pat Sheehan. bn exclusive interview. Garv, 26. said Bing has not yet conri<. to s"e him and his three br , — Dennis, Philip and Lindsay — in their smash new nightclub act at the Sahara Hotel here And, he added, he has no in tention of extending an invitation some night to catch the show, which began July 28 and will end .Sept. 3. But in Hollywood, Bing’s broth er and business adviser, Larry, said. "I doubt it. Bing has no such plans that I know of. Dne reason (Continued On Page Five) By TED CRAIL. Record News Editor A stranger coming to Dunn might well imagine that Harnett County Is infested with all sorts of strange communities, oddly named and Colorfully inhabited. "Oh, he live down there in 'Skeeter Bottom”—"Now might be she’s in Cagletown”—“Red Bo_ ne, boy, that girl over there in Red Bone—” And only slowly does it dawn on you that all are here, all are part of Dunn. For some reason, though Dunn scarcely measures eight thousand people, it has almost as many sections as towns which number their population in the millions. Blinking Out Brooklyn or Manhattan each contain enough people to settle a new state—or a small country— but here, when a run of eleven houses was set up, almost imme. diately it was named “Eleven Light City.” (Continued On Page Five) of the home. There is a possibility, he said, that it will be completed in time to begin serving the senior citizens of this area before the end of the year. The local leader requested that his identity not be disclosed at tiiis time as it might hamper ne gotiations for a suitable location. "Price of property just naturally has a habit of going sky-high when the owners know it's wanted for such a project as this, he said. For the past few weeks, he has been touring the State visiting oth er rest homes and plans to take the best ideas from each and in corporate them Into plans for the Dunn institution. | He said that while it will be the j utmost and the very last word in all the modern new innovations, cost to guests will be held to a minimum. There "ill be recreation rooms, television, supervised entertain ment and recreational programs of interest to the aged. There will be s^perate wards and rooms for bedridden > patients to insure them absolute quiet and rest. A trained staff of nurses will be employed. “The community already has one or two private homes engaged in taring for the aged,” he said, “but fhere has long been an ef^ent need for an up.to-date institution of his sort which would meet the strictest Stale standards and requirements. “In fact, he said, it will be far above and much better than the State requires for licensing, and will be a real asset and credit to the town and a joy to the guests and their families." Paddlewheel Has Rocket fn Spine WASHINGTON <UPI> — Ex plorer VI, the Paddlewheel satel Itie circling the earth, carries a ; secret designed to save its life from kibitzers or possible sabo teurs. The secret Is the frequency of a receiver to which scientists on .earth from time to time send ra dio commands governing 30 dif ferent functions built into the sat ellite. • n **■*; ft, DEMONSTRATION IN LITTLE ROC K — Stu dents Rather before now-defunct Raney High in Little Rork, Ark., to protest token integration on eve of school opening-. Kaney High was the pri vately operated high school that went kaput for lack of financing. iDramatic Bid Mode For Farmers Leaf One of the biggest single mail-, ings ever made from the Dunn post.offiee went out today to tob. acco farmers throughout the area which the local markets hope to serve. A dramatic full.page briefing of the facilities which await them in Dunn will ai-rive in the mail box of nearly 12.000 farm famil. ies from here to Salemhur? The Dunm Market Promoters, a special action committee of lo_ j cal businessmen, are making a determined effort to attract farm, ers to the warehouses here. '■ Besides cogent arguments on the prices leaf has earned here in past years, an impressive sweepstakes in prizes is being arranged. This will kick off on August 22, a Saturday, following the August 1 opening of The Big Four ail'd Planters Warehouses here. First prize to be given away will be a big home freezer. There will be a tw'o o'clock drawing in the town parking lot just off Broad Streei. I Farmers who sell their leaf on the local market will receive , chances in the drawing, <me chan. I ce for each hundred dollars of tobacco sold (or portion thereof). Louis Baer, Raymond Ct'omar. tie, Frank Belote, Bert Alaba^ ter and Bob Henderson were all saluted by Chamber of Commerce Manager Ned Champion for the effort they have put into the cant, paign to build up the market here. Champion, who will act as sal. es supervisor, also had some stra ight talk on sales procedures dur. (Continued On Page Two) Out-of-Court Settlement Reached Lees Court Back To Original Owners An out.of-court settlement has put Lee’s Azalea Motor Court back in the hands of the original own. ers. Dewey Whittenton, car deal, er and former manager prc tern of Dunn, announced today that he and the Lee family “are not on the outs with each other—we set tled on a friendly basis." Suit had been entered against Whittenton by the Lees after he had taken over the tourist court, ' located i.n North Ellis Avenue, in settlement of a debt, According to Whittenton, the court had been deeded to him by Clel Lee, an' Arthur Murray teacher and son of the court's founder, Eldridge Lee. The Lees entered suit to have (CdnlinuPii On Page Two,' They Sent Him Off Quickly Vann Buren Beasley \ Gets His Wish Vann Buren Beasley, 23-year-old police fighter who had asked that he be “sent off as quickly as pos sible," had his wish. Sentenced to serve a six months term for assault and resisting ar rest, he was sent off the same day he was tried after spending a night in the Dunn Jail. The encounter with Dunn police man Paul Stogsdill and E. J. Wha ley was one of the bitterest of its kind. He broke loose from the officers and started fighting them after he was arrested for tearing I clothes off his wife. During the fight with police, several residents on North Ellis watched as htt tried to get to a lumber pi'e to grab a weapon. He was blackjacked to bring him un der control. He pled guilty to three counts in Dunn Court on Monday and So licitor Charles Lee Guy called for a sentence that wo-'ld deter others inclined to fig1' the police. After he - placed In jail on Sunday, r' aley allegedly flooded (Continued on Page Five) Three Rapists To Get Chair LAGRANGE, Ga. (UPI)—Three Negroes were convicted Tuesday night of raping two young white women and were sentenced to die in the electric chair. A jury of 11 white men and one Negro deliberated five hours be fore it returned a verdict of guil ty without* a recommendation of mercy against George Alford Jr., 18, of Day tin, Ohio, and Clifford Johnson, 22. and Brannon Epps. 25, both of LaGrange, The verdict carries an auto matic death penalty, and presid ing Judge Samuel Boykin imme diately sentenced the three to be executed in the state penitentiary in Tatnall County on Oct. 2. The defendants showed no signs of emotion when he announced sentence, Tuesday’s testimony in the swift, two-day trial came from the two victims, a thrice-married 20-year-old woman and her 18 year-old. unmarried cousin. The Negroes were accused of abducting the women from their escorts as they were Returning from a danee here, then taking them to a lonely road. Both victims denied submitting voluntarily and said they had been threatened and feared for their lives. The three Negroes said the women had numerous opportuni ties to get away if they had want ed to. Defense attorneys insisted that the women had submitted volun tarily. Police Bloody Two Demonstrators LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UFI) — es on a Ulrong of angry segregatioi Schoool today and pol'Ce bloodied break through their lines. A few hours earlier thaee Nej School, in the city's wealthiest sect Police were .here in force, and on watched the girls enter the buildin inside were available. Segregationists decided to cente <eene of liots when it was 'ntegrab Negro hoy was to enter this afternoc The march began after the denilonsflrators heard a speech from Gov. Orval Faubus, on the Capitol grounds, in which he promised victory for segregation but asked the crowd to refrain from violence. Oonftderate Flag Then about 1,000 marchers be gan the trek of a mile to Central High School. They were led by mtn carrying five American flags and one Confederate Flag. Police were waiting for them. Chief Eugene Smith had called all but four of his policemen from Hall High as soon as he learned of the march, and they formed human barricades across streets near Central High. The scene rapidly became rem iniscent of that in 1957 when Pre sident Eisenhower ordered in 1,000 paratroopers to keep thP peace and protect nine Negroes who in tegrated the school. Smith ordered hoses turned on the demonstrators as a last re sort. Part of the crowd fell back hut a few stood up to the stinging streams of water. Eight Arrested Police arrested a total of eight persons at Central, including four women, three men and a teen aged boy. The boy and a middle aged man were bleeding from wounds on their heads. Another man was crying. He said he had been cracked across the ribs with a night stick. Twi boys with a U. S. flag stood up to the streams of water from fire hoses. The flag began to waver and another teen-ager rushed up to he'p hold it. An old woman across the street turned her back into the water and cried: “You’re not going to make me move.” Six girls, standing up to the powerful stream and drenched from head to foot, sobbed and screamed. Another girl screamed over and over, “Communists! Communists! Communists” Smith had appealed over a loud speaker system for the crowd to disperse before he ordered the water turned on the crowd. “Get out of here.” he ordered. "I respect the American flag as much as anyone, but not when it is used this way.” Firemen turned high-pressure *~os list demonstrators at Central High the heads ot two men trying to ?ro girls had entered Hall High ion, without any sign of trouble, ly a small number of spectators g No reports on their treatment r their attention on Central High »d two years ago and which one in. In onswer, there were yells of "S-O-B” and screams from wom en in the crowd. Police Lines Hold Police used their nightsticks when the demonstrators tried to break through the human barri cade around Central. “This still looks bad,” a police captain said. “Right now, they don’t have a leader. It looks like thot’s what they’re waiting for.” Firemen dropped their hoses in the street, but left them running so they could pick them up im mediately and turn them on the crowd again. Students Checked Students arrived to begin the Irm and police checked their identification carefully to make sure that no agitators slipped through in the guise of students. They hit the middle-aged man when he made an assoult upon their lines. Blood gushed from his head and he fell. Two policemen picked him up and put him in a patrol car. The governor had appeared on the Capitol steps in answer to calls from the crowd and after a committee went to his office. “I see no use for you today to be beaten over the head aud jailed," Faubus told the crowd. (Continued On Page Five) Political Tension Rises In Cuba HAVANA, Cuba < UPI)—Internal political tension mounted today vith unconfirmed reports of fighting in Las Villas province and increasing signs that the anti government conspiracy has not been completely wiped out. F.vens pointing up the tense sit uation include these: Suspension of telephone com municatioi's with Las Villas pro vince by government ordnr. ■Continued arrests ot p rsons suspected of participation in the plot, wi’h some estimates running ns high as 11.000, including many in the interior oi the island. Premier Fidel Castro’s failure to appear Tuesday night for a (Continued on Page Five) "" White Lake Episode ■■■■ Alligator Shooting Chills Skin-Divers The crystal waters of White Lake don't look quite so inviting low to skindivers since a seven, ind.a-half foot alligator was <nocked off while trying to gob. ale up some game birds. Charlie Hildreth, local jeweler and sportsman, said that he and three other enthusiastic skin.di vers from Dunn have been skin, diving for the past five years with, in 50 yards of the spot where the alligator met rts end. The shooting of the btp ‘gator created quite a sensation along White hake, where dozens of Dunn folk are accustomed to spend their leisure hours. Hildreth said that Bob Wicker, a highway superintendent, was the marksman who polished it off. Wicker, he stated, was down on the beach and noticed what might have been a log moving dong in the water. But an ominous sort of log. It had a moveable tail. He dashed back in the house to get his gun and by the time he came out again the ‘gator was “up on the shore trying to de vour some prize game roosters.” (Continued on Page Five) Youfh Gang Linked With Rape Attempt CHICAGO (UPH—A spent bullet • linked 1 gang of six young men . today with the shooting and at tempted rape of a waitress, their thud known victim. The six were arrested Tuesday and three were identified by two young women as the men who heat and raped them. The waitress was shot when she resisted her attackers. The bullet with which she was wounded was traced to the gun carried by one (Continued On Page Ftvn)
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