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+ WEATHER + Fartly cloudy, continued quite warm and humid this afternoon, tonight and Thursday with rather widely scattered afternoon and ev ening thundershowers. Ein- ZB aity Kiser VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 19. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 180 » First Day's Leaf Brought $163,000 Dunn Averaged $4 Over Belt Supp' i'ters of the local leaf mar. kei were jubilant today as first, daj figures showed, that the Dunn warehouses hud averaged four dol. lars more per hundred pounds than the Eastern Belt as a whole. "We felt it was a fine way 'to start "if." said Sales Supervisor >ied Champion. Champion, who is also the Charpber of Commerce manager here, said the average price yes. terday was $60.84 for the 267.. 536 pounds sold at the Planters’ and Bie Four warehouses. Belc re the day was out, farm, ers front this area had checks for $162,758 covering the firs..day sa. les. Today, Champion reported. Planters was again well . stocked with tobacco, selling until 12:45 p m. when the scene shifted to the other warehouse. There was no. quite as much tobacco 1 oday," sard the sales supervisor, "and quality was Woman Killed Near Smithfield SMITHFIELD <UPI> — Thelma Laura Richmond, 46. a Sarasota, Fla. schoolteacher, died here Tuesday of injuries suffered Sun. day in a head.on collision on U. S. 301 near here. The Highway Patrol said tha't Isaac V. Dewitt, 34, of Newark. N. J., Negro driver of the other car involved in the wreck, would be charged with manslaughter. Hoax Proves Very Unfunny MIAMI (UP1)—The man’s voice on the telephone was calm and matter-of-faet. "Mr Sams, I have bad news for you. Your wife and three children have been killed in an accident,” tire voice said. The message cut through Ern nest Roy Sams, 37, like a knife. For five agonizing hours Tuesday he felt life was no longer worth living. Then he learned it was a hoax. His wife called from Jessup, Cu., to say everything was fine and that she would reach Miami by Wednesday afternoon in the family car. The Highway Patrol said it was (Continued On Page Six) Arnold Charges Were Misstated Jesse Frank Arnold, Lilling tun body mechanic injured in a wreck early Sunday morning:, was incorrectly stated in The Daily Record to have a drunk driving charge pending against him from a previous wreck. Court records disclose no such unfinished charge. In July, 1958 he was accused of drunk driv ing but this charge was dismiss ed with leave to reopen on re commendation of the court’s so licitor. Arnold’s wife, Vera, said the paper was also wrong to Quote “unfounded rumors” that a gun had been on his person when the wreck occurred this Sunday. She s’ated that the only guns he owned were in the house with her at the time his car crashed through a curve on the prison camp road. Arnold is currently in Veter an’s Hospital at Fayetteville. Fight stitches were taken in his head. He suffered one bad head gash but other injuries were not as serious as first feared. The Record deeply regrets having misstated the status of epurt charges against Arnold. The suggestion that he was car rying a gun at the time of the accident was described in the original news account as a ru mor which officers had been un able to corroborate, slightly down from the opening.” Today’s averages were not avai. lable at press time. Yesterday’s full.dress opening included speeches by local dignit. aries. Although rain has somewhat cut the size of the crop, farmers for the mos'. part are not dis. heartened and a reasonably heal.' thy marketing session is expected inquest Calls It 'Unavoidable' Driver Released in Fatal Wreck I * An inquest jury last night found no criminal negligence on the part of Johnny Eugene Johnson, a 38-vear-old Negro of Route 1, Linden, who was driving the car which carried Leroy McNeill to his death. McNeill, 47, a resident of Route 1, Erwin, was a passenger i n Johnson’s car when it plunged through a curve last Friday even ing on a rural dirt road in the Beaver Dam section. Following testimony in which it I was claimed that a blowout had i sent the car off the road into a fatal, top-up spin, the jury ruled McNeill's death an “unavoidable accident.” Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., direc ted the inquest at the court house in Lillington. The jury panel in cluded Fred Parker, Neill Black, Dougald McRae, Carrel Vaughn, Robert Parker and Patrick E. ! Quick. Highway Patrolman W.O. Gra (Continued On Page Six) FAMILIAR FACE — The Reverend Lewis Morgan, who left a pastorate at Dunn’s First Baptist Church ten years ago, visited here this w'eek alter vacationing with his daughter at Holden's Beach. He is now pastor at Petworth Baptist Church in Washing ton, D.C., and daughter, Cynthia, 17, has been chosen studrnt council president of the 1100-student high school which she attends in the nation's capital. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.) But Rockefeller Wedding. Is Strain Anne Maries Papa Is Paying The Bill M. Raye To Divorce 6th Hubby NEW YORK (UPI> — Comed ienne Martha Raye will shortly seek a divorce from her sixth husband, former Westport, Conn., policeman Bob O’shea, her man ager, Nick Condos, said today. Condos, who was Miss Raye’s fourth husband, said she tele phoned him Tuesday night from Miami Reach and reported that she and O’shea had separated. "She is deeply distressed," Condos said, "Because she want ed this marriage to last. I can’t tell you what happened. All I know is that it’s over and she is (Continued On Page Six) SOGNE, Norway (UPI)—Kris. | lian Rasmussen, who never had any trouble keeping up with the Hansens, found his bankroll badly strained today by trying to keep up with his daughter's prospective in.laws, the Rockefellers. The re ired smalltime store, keeper is footing the entire bill for the marriage Saturday of his beautiful daughter Ahne Marie to Steven Rockefeller, and friends and neighbors fear his determina. 1 tion to make the affair "foerste. * klasses” first- class may tax his 1 resources. ' The church fees and the cham. pagne reception and dinner to fol. t low, with the meal served on t procelaine generally reserved for s royalty, probably will run over ; 10,000 kroner about $1,400 s This probably is less than a day’s income for Gov. Nelson 1 Rockefeljer, father of the bride, r groom, but it is a big bite into ; < (Continued On Page Five) jl SLEEPY SHOPPER — Old beauty contestants don't fade away and die, they sret married and have babies. That's what happened to Mrs. Charles Williams, a former contestant in the Miss Coats contest, but her baby, uninterested in tbe glamorous eye of the camera, you Id not he awakened for love or money as mother carried him on a shopping tour through Dunn. (Record Photo by Ted ('rail.) Beatniks Introduce A New One LONDON (UPI) — London’s leatnik population which inhabits he city’s expres^o bars has taken p a sadistic game to get spend ig money. 1 Several teenagers who turned 11 p with scars on their hands soid ■ he game involved seeing who can tand the lighted end of a ciga- ‘ ette the longest. The competitors put money into pot and then place a one pound ote on the back of a beatnik’s ( land. : Someone else runs the burning 1 nd of a cigarette along a silver i trip woven into the note to pre ent forgery. The pound note does I lot burn but the competitor's I (Continued On Page Six) 1 Aunt Recalls Earlier T Cobb Still Woman's Chii* of Police Alton Cobb said oday that no further evidence has leen turned up to contradict the uicide claim in the death of Este ir.e Thompson, 27-year-old Dunn olored woman who died of a >istol shot through the stomach donday night. Temporary disappearance of the leath weapon, a .32 calibre pistol, md other unusual circumstances iad made authorities hesitant to iccept her death as a suicide. However, Wilbert Thompson, a Dunn negro, has confirmed that le took a gun from her several lours before she was fatally shot Skeleton Of Rich Woman Is Found SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) — i skeleton and skull, found 300 I ards apart <>n a remote logging I oad, have been1 identified as the i emains of a wealthy Washington, ' i C. widow who disappeared a ear ago on an auto trip with a 'oung ex.convic".. ( She was Mrs. Paul Putney, 72, I aIijlj \*|as List; sefc-n (leaving a < darysville, Calif., motel with : pnble.plagued Larry Lord Moth, trwell, 42, once suspected, but ’leared, of killing his mongoloid iuaghter. Mrs. Putney was ear. : •ying $50,000 in securities and i sash. Marysville is 90 miles from the teavily.wooded Sierra area where d!rs. Alma Freeman, searching or pine cones, stumbled over the tones Sunday. The remains were den.ified Tuesday by dental clmr. ;es supplied by Washington pol_ ce. Sierra County Dist. Atty. Cor. Ion L. Smith said he would not lie any charges until h(. round tut if Mrs. Putney, widow of a state Department official and col. ege professor, met with foul play, rite State Bureau ot Criminal Identification and investigation s trying to do ermine the cause >f death. In Washington, Motherwell’s vife refused to discuss the where. (Continued On Page Six) Harnett Needs 5 More Teachers School Managers Hit Busy Season Four new school buses have ar-, I ived in Lillington as part of ten t hat will replace outworn buses n the- Harnett school transporta- 1 ion system. i There were many other signs of i ctivity among school administra- ; ors as the county prepared to ; ign in students om September 2 nd hold its first full day o f i chool on September 3. i Superintendent of Schools Glenn c Proffit, who attended the an- t ual conference of Tarheel sup- s rintendents last week at Mars | i [ill, said legislation affecting i eachers was prominent among he topics of discussion The National Defense Act which nakes federal funds available, on : matching basis, for the teach ng of modern foreign languages nd math and science courses was ,lso a topic. While Harnett will not teach ny modern language in the ele nentary grades at the beginning t lhe school yr , Protfit said hat a survey ,o be made after chool sta-' to determine how dequate ' teaching staffs would (Con.iiiued On Page Six) < hreat Checking * « I # Suicide and said she wa> threatening to take her life at that time. Following the investigation yes (Continurd On Page Six) I Blonde In Swim Suit Before Judge DURHAM (UPI> — Officials and observers in' Recorder’s Court did a double.take Tuesday when a blonde in a "very small" black bathing suit appeared before the bench. (Continued On vage Sir) Miss Too Many Meetings and You're Out Rotary Club — It Owo Rules, Own The Koiai'y Club has an inner i design as closly reasoned as one I of Michelangelo's chapel ceilings, j Under Rotary rules, for instan. j ce. every member must fill a cat. ' egory and no category is allow. ! ed to become overloaded. This insures a club thai balan. ces out with many men of many kinds, involved in a wide span of work interests. I Current president Robert C. Bryan fits into the classification' I for lawyers. This was open be_ cause his father, J. Shepard Bry_ an, senior partner In the local law firm and one of eastern North Carolina’s more distinguished Ro_ tai'ians, had passed, for long ex_ perienee and achievement, into i past service classification. The Rotary membership system \ Ten Arrested Near Here, Dope Locally Grown RALEIGH (UPI* State anti Federal agents ended a long un dercover investigation today with a .series of arrests which they said broke up a multi - million dollar marijuana ring in Wake and Cum berland counties. SBI Chief Walter Anderson said the arrests began Tuesday night and were completed this morning. Ten Negroes, including two wom en. were arrested in the raids. Two truckloads of marijuana were seized in today’s raid in Cum berland County. Agents confiscated 25 pounds of marijuana in the possession of William Bryant of Wake County who had received it from Led (Continued On Page Six) High Point Man Held In Rape PALATKA, Fla. (UPII—Wilson Edwards, 23, Might Point, N. C., was held under $5,000 bond to day on a charge of statutory rape of a 13-year-old local girl. Also held was lAlvin Mooney, 23. Galax, Va., who is charged with contributing to the delin quency of a minor. The girl and an 11 - year - old companion were in custody o f juvenile authorities. Both men pleaded innoctspt when arraigned before Peace Jus tice C. R. Kemp. Kemp bound the men to County Court. Has Its Formulas is also flexible to the extent that a businessman in a given field can take in an “additional active" member of his own firm. This and other Rotary pathways were explained to the club at a meeting Tuesday night which was set up as a Club Forum. Represent atives of various committees dis. cussed the organization and in_ (Continued On Pace Six) BACK-SLIDING CHRISTIANS are an every day occurrence but here's a pastor who looks as though he mirht bP about to do a front:slide right off the roof of the church. Actually, Rev. C. II. Tarker was in good hand*—the best; bu he did have tt.e nard Job of painting Pope’s Chapel with not too many helpers. It will take another couple of weekends to finish th«. job. (Record Photo by Ted Crmil.)
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