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+ WEATHER + Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid today, tonight and Wednesday with a few widely scat tered afternoon and evening thun dershowers. Etu- jg any Kein-so VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 179 Sister of Dead Woman Takes Lie Test Dunn Suicide Checked As Possible Murder Plot By TED CRAIL Keeord News Editor Besnice McLean, a sister of the 27-year-old colored woman who purportedly committed suicide here last night, was whisked to Raleigh for a lie detector test ear ly this morning. Chief of Police Alton Cobb said the death of Esteline Thompson, who died ten minutes after she ar rived at the Erwin hospital with a pistol slug through her stomach, will be carefully probed. “Some aspects of it don’t look too good,” said Chief Cobb. Bernice and seven other local Negroes questioned by police were released at 2:30 today. They had not been put under formal arrest. Chief Cobb indicated that this does not end the investigation, howev er. Gun Disappeared Most mysterious factor in the supposed suicide was the tempor ary disappearance of the weapon, a .32 calibre pistol. “’It’s not reasonable to sup (Continued On Pate Two) 33 Firemen Hurt I In KC Explosion KANSAS CITY. Kan. <UPI) — A tidal wave of flaming gasoline | erupted from the explosion of a 'storage tank today, injuring at least 33 firemen, many critically. A Catholic priest at the scene said he administered the church’s final rite to five men, two of Harnett Concern Attains Honor Wilbournes Now In Southern Group J. E. Wilbourne of Wilbourne j Furniture Co in Lillington and j Dunn, anrounced today that their stores had become an affiliated member of the Southern Living Stores. Southern Living Stores with headquarters in High Point. North Carolina, the heart of the greatest concentration of furniture produc tion in the world . . . Furniture land USA ... is a group of lead ing furniture stores in the South , that have joined together to in crease their purchasing power and the effectiveness of their merchan casing efforts. Mr. Wilbourne advised that the new affiliation with the Southern Living Stores is a part of Witil bourne Furniture Co.’s continuing policy of expanding facilities and customer service. Through the Southern Living Stores his com pany will have multi-million dollar buying power advantages not ord inarily available to an individual store. SAVES FOR CUSTOMERS Through the combined buying power of the Southern Living (Continued on Page Two) aSmmmmai .. / ■> . ... _ n THEIR OWN. PRIVATE air-conditioning system was in use by Robert Dale Beasley. 7, and brother Thomas. 5, as the leaf market opened. The w’eatber was as hot as an auctioneer’s sales-pitch so they opened their shirts and met the world with cool stomachs. That’s their grandmother. Mrs. R. D. Beasley, behind them. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.i whom “were dead or dying.” All the injured were rushed to hospitals. A General Hospital at tendant said 13 were brought Ihere and we "don't know yet if I hey are all alive.” Some 30 to 40 firemen were struck by a stream of flaming gasoline when the tank, the last r.o four 1.800 - gallon containers, exploded. The flaming liquid knocked sev eral of the fire - fighters to the ground. Spectators, who had been held a block away by police barri cades, rushed in with police and ambulance drivers to assist the injured. Screams of (he burned firemen were audible for several hundred feet. The victims, blackened by smoke and the searing heat, were rushed to hospitals in ambulances, which rcltp-ned immediately for more patients. General Hospital announced it (Continued On rare Two! Montana Hit By Series Of Mighty Quakes WEST YELLOWSTONE. Mont. <CPI)—A series of mighty earth quakes smashed into southern Montana near Yellowstone Park Monday night and early today and a reported 16 persons were killed. Montana highway patrolman Robert Spears said there could be 25 dead in the main slide and the toll “could go even higher.” The quakes brought an 8.000-foot mountain tumbling down, threat ened to shatter a dam on the Madison River and endangered up wards of 150 campers in the river valley. Helicopters from throughout the western states, some carrying para-medics, were sent, to the scene, near the Idaho, Montana anj Wyoming boundaries. The earthquakes, felt through out the Pacific Northwest, began shortly before midnight Monday. Foothills near this western cn-1 trance to Yellowstone National Park were cracked open like egg shells by the trembling earth. Eyewitness Report A Belgrade., Mont., pilot who flew over the area, A1 Newby, and Gallatin County Sheriff Don Sker ritt of Bozeman, Mont., said the north shore of the lake behind the dam was cropped off six to 15 feet, submerging the highway there. The south shore heaved up sim ilarly six to 15 feet as though the whole lake were tipped like a sau cer. The mountain, 1500 feet above (Continued on Page Two) Custody Still Undecided Says Mother Unfit To Rear Her Son A father appears to have gain, ed the first round for custody of his three year old son. During a habaes corpus hear, ing in Lee Superior Court, to determine the custody of the child, Daniel Wayne Brown', Judge Clawson L Williams, postponed the hearing. At that time the mother. Mrs. Evelyn Lee Dar. roch Brown Armstrong, was plac ed under a $1,000 bond to assure her appearance with the child in court Monday. The hearing Monday did not materialize. The mother, who re. married again in March after hav. ing been divorced from the child’s father, Neil Eldridge Brown since presented a doctor’s certificate stating she was un.ible to go th-o. ugh a hearing at this time. Mrs. Armstrong is expecting a third child in four weeks. The father contends, through his attorney. State Senator Rob ert Morgan, that the mother is not Woman Held In Burglary BURLINGTON (UPI) — A 38 year-old woman was held under $8,000 bond today on charges of burglary and possession of bur glary tools Police arrested Mildred Ray Ingold of Graham, Monday night in the empty home of Marvin McAdams, who is away on a visit to Ohio. Officers said neighbors tele phoned police to report a prowler around the McAdams home. Po lice said they found the Ingold woman hiding in a bedroom clos et. They said her poc^etbook con tained a small screwdriver and an ice pick. A paper shopping bag on the back porch of the house contained a large screw driver, a combination screwdriver hammer and pliers. 3. suitable person because of her moral character to have custody of the child. The mother, through (Continued on Page Tvro) — Good Pen Pals — Girls At Top In Scouting Three young Dunn «'irls have I —equivalent to the Eagle rank won their way to the highest rank for boys. in girl scouting by such diverse I Mrs. Oiese Hudson, their sc-oul actviities as collecting sea shells, I leader and Jeanette’s mother roller skating, gardening, learn.'said they are the only girls it PATSY, JEANETTE AND KAY i ing I'h* Morse Code and writing to pen pal$ overseas. Jeanette Rowles, 13, Kay Al. Dunn to be dev' d to than rank this year Aceordin<~ • o Jeanette, one of phin, 14. and Patsy Jackson, 14. 1 tier big'. thrills as a scout have all become Curved Bar scouts! (Cun' aued on Page Two) OLD-TIMERS IN THE TOBACCO GAME, but still looking as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as a youngster bringing in bis crop, these brothers were on hand for tlie opening of I be Dunn market. Roth M. E. Hobson (left) and W. B. Hobson (right) farm near Dunn, (Record Photo by Tod Grail.) Farmers Stream to Leaf Opening-One on Wheel-Chair Dunn Markets Average Better Than Belt By TED TRAIL Record News Editor They came barefoot md in slio. es to 'he Dunn Tobacco Market today. Some farm families were their Sunday best and some stra. ight out of the field. Junius Barefoot, a 76-year_old farmer bitten by arthritis, came in a wheel.chair. I For Barefoo. and for all the others, the first news u'as gnod news. The opening average of $00._ 85 put Dunn somewhat over the average leaf price on the E iS ern Belt markets (reported by United Floss as $59.891. The fira. tobacco went at 70 inputs i pound reported sales su_ ' pervtsor Ned Champion', and be longed >e S. D. and Jim Whitting, ton. That was at the Big Four warehouse where the auctions be. gan ibis morning after a brief ro. *und of .speeches by local dignit I a l ies. ‘ I think :he farmer and the to. baeeo men were both highly plea, sed at the way it was going,” said Champion, who doubles up as sal. es supervisor on the leaf market and manager of Dunn's Chamber 1 of Commerce. "None of the tobacco in the ' early sale was turned over to the federal stabilization corpora 1 ion.” Planters Bursting The Big Foul', operated this year by Tom Smothers and Jack Calhoun, had only a moderate sale this morning. It ran to 62* 226 pounds—sold for a total of $37,868. At Planter’s where King Ro. belts and J. M. Smothers are in charge, '.he whole right side of the warehouse was lined with clock and Champion estimated gleaming leaf. A sale stai ted there at 11 o’, that the legal limit of 2200 bas kets would be ud.ioned by some, i time this afternoon. Smothers, he said, has been working the Dunn area for about a month to alert farmers to local facilities for selling their leaf. The first nine rows of tobacco a1 Planter’s came from the farms of Dunn Mayor George Franklin Blalock who was lead . off speak. | er in the ceremonies that kick ! ed the market open. Blalock Happy Blalock told the assembled farm, ers, anxiously waiting to see what their tobacco would bring, that he has been selling on the Dunn mar s ior years "and I’ve always been satisfied.” He also told them that buyers came into Dunn armed wuth the (Continued on Page Two) CRIPPLINC; ARTHRITIS that has out him in a whwl-chair couldn't keep Junius Barefoot (above) away from the opening of the local market. A. H. Westbrook, a tenant on his farm brought 570 pounds to the warehouse this morning. Busy newslady at left is Mrs. A. B. Izzle. Jr., wile of Dunn's city manager. Belt Prices $53 To $57 RALEIGH 1UPI1 —Sales open. >d on the huge Eastern North Carolina Flu'.Cured Tobacco Belt oday with early prices nudging he predicted $58 per hundred po inds figure despite an apparent ■onservative r pproaeh by buyers. The eff'-imated general average or the first hour of sales on sev. eral Eastern Belt markets ranged , c between $53 . $57 per hundred v pounds, compaied to an average > "f $58.35 per hundred last year. ‘ Most baskets were bringing $40,. ■' $68 per hundred with a practical ! ( top ot $69. t e The volume of offerings was $ fairly heavy with some markets : bserving full sales but quality ;as generally lower than 6n first ales last year. Practical Top The Federal-State Market News .ervice at \Vils«>n reported low. st sales were $10 and the high 71 with the practical top at $09 < Continued on Psge Two)
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