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+ WEATHER + Partly cloudy to cloudy, little change in temperatures today, tonight and Saturday with scat tered, mostly afternoon and even ing thundershowers VOL'LME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 28. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY w NO. 187 Most Phones Out in Coats, Erwin Phone Cable Snapped Through The phones quit - ringing Thars. day afternoon for -bout two. thirds of the phone.using popula. tion in Erwin and Coats and the surrounding coun.ryside. An accidental snapping by a natural gas crew brought on the biggest cable crisis ever faced here by the telephone company. Repair crews moved swiftly into action, starting work ab‘>ut four lyes.erday, were on the job all through the night and continued their complicated job today. "We hope to have service com. | pltely res-ored sometime tonight,” said Henry Bridges, local manager for Carolina Telephone and Tele, graph. 1 Even -he hospital in Erwin was temporarily without phone ser. vice, along with two out of every three subscribers over a wide area. But the hospital and some others' had their phones in order again by today as -lie repairmen built the cable together, bii by bit. The telephone company actually knew approximately what had happened before the cable.snap, pet's themselves did. Bridges said the cable, buried a. (Continued on Paee Two) I v WILD ASSORTMEOT of wires have to be care fully paired together as telephone crewmen L. B. Fields (with earphones under his hard hat) and fellow cable repairer E. L. Ovenden (left) struggle to return service to Coats, Erwin area. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Poundage Still Climbing Here On Leaf Market Poundage was still going up on the Dunn Tobacco Market today — graders estimated it might run to 360,000 pounds — and prices kept the market ab-. out three dollars above the av earge for the Eastern Belt as a whole. The market average here Thursday was $59.23 per hund red pounds, almost dead center on the $59.38 average recorded for the complete selling since the tobacco auctions opened. Sales supervisor said 337, 48(> pounds were sold at the two Dunn warehouses yesterday but an even bigger load of leaf was on the floors today. Yesterday’s sales brought a total of $19,895. Stabilization picked up 3896 'Continued On Pa re Two! Dickie Coats in Fatal Crash Erwin Boy Killed At Washington, D.C. An Erwin youth, 18_year_old Ellis Richard Coats, Jr., was fat. ally injured in a car wreck near Washingtn, D. C Local officials believe the acci. dent occured on Wednesday night as the car in which Coats \vas rid. ing plunged off the road. Full in. formation on1 the wreck is lack, ing. Another Erwin boy, Bobbie Me. Caskill, was also in the wreck but j reportedly was released from the hospital after treatment. The two boys had gone to Was. ! hington about three weeks ago | and are believed to have been l working :here in an aluminum I plant. Coats formerly worked fet j an Erwin service station Called Dickie by his friends, ! he was the son of a mill.worker, Ellis Coats, Sr. Survivors include 23 Competing For T obacco Queen T ifle MOUNT AIRY IUPII—Twenty three young beauties, one o f whom will be crowned the 1960 National Tobacco Queen, were kept busy today with rehearsals and preliminaries readying for the crowning climax. The beauty pageant contest - ants began arriving here Tuesday tor the two day festival. The girls represent the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia Today’s program including a news conference, a tea and a luncheon The winner of Saturday night’s program will receive a 51,000 scholarship or cash, a free charm and beauty course in Atlanta and a three day trip to Charles ton, S. C. The new golden leaf I queen will be crowned by reign- j ing tobacco queen Martha Rae : Williams of Myrtle Beach, S. C. ' (Continued on Page Two) | a teen.ag® brother, Ronnie, and a still.younger sister, Diane. The family resides at 208 West C Street in Erwin. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Erwin Church of God. Rev. II. T. Durdin, pastor, and the Rev. Edward Adams will officiate. Bur ial will be in Greenwood Ceme tery in Dunn Ike's Welcome Unprecedented All Along Way BALMORAL. Scotland (UPI> — President Eisenhower, delayed l slightly by another tumutuous greeting, arrived here today and received a royal welcome ol skirling bagpipes and an unsched. uled personal greeting by Green Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, The President flew from Lon. don to Aberdeen and then drove the 56 miles to Balmoral, Scot, land, past tens of thousands of Scots who had streamed in from the highlands to bid him wel. come. He had been given a smi. lar huge sendoff in London Queen Elizabeth broke her an', nounced decision to make no fur. ther public appearances un.il after the birth of her rhird child in January or February and came to the gates of Balmoral Castle to give a personal welcome to the President. It was the first time a U. S. President ever had visited the British royal family’s highland residence. It was the first time a President had ever visited Scot., land. And his flight from London aboard an RAF Jet comet was the first flight by a U. S. PVcsi. dent aboard a foreign plane. Huge Crowds Huge, cheering crowds broke through police cordons again to. clay and surged into rhe roadway, holdmt, up 'uie President. He ar. rived nearly 10 minutes behind schedule on thedriv e from Aber. deen's Dyce Airport where he was met by '-he Queen’s husband, Prince Philip. The Queen’s appareance with her younger sister was not merely a gesture of courtesy to her dis. tinguished guest. She swept aside her “no public appearance” state, ment and the red rape protocol ff'ontinued On Page Two) Big Crowds Go Wild Over Ike LONDON <UPI» —Big crowds ■were old hat to President Eisen. hower — but that was before London. The reception he received here late Thursday was so large and enthusiastic -hat some ol' Lon. i don’s top police officials, with more than 20 years experience in dealing with crowds, said frankly they hau never seen anything like it. Eisenhower said he was over, whelmed after a quarter million Germans roared a welcome in Bonn Wednesday. That could lea. ve him only overwhelmingly over, whelmed by the thunder rolling from a half million to a million Britons Thursday. Pleasantly Shocked Members of the Eisenhower staff said the President had ex. j pected a warm reception but the actual dizzying spectacle was a plcisant shocker. Eisenhower himself was deeply gratified. He regarded he tie. mendous turnout as much more | than a salute to an old soldier j of World War II He felt it was ja thrilling demonstration.as was I the one in Bonn . of Western resolve to be firm and unafraid ■ in a world of tension. | Scotland Yard and London po_ lice officials estimated the thick ribbons of humanity strung along Eisenhower’s 16.mile motor tour from the airport to the U. S. Km. Lossy residence comprised he. tween 500,000 and one million per. sons. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter called the turnout and its 1 breezy atmosphere “really ter. rific." They Liked Ike Prime Minister Harold Macmil. Ian, with a mischievous glint in I his eyes but a tigh. grip on his British reserve, commented drily, (Continued on Page Two) Angier Man Guilty; Must Support Child A dark.eyed Sales girl Tuesday pointed to an Angier man' as the father of her infant daugh er in a bastardy trial in Wake County Superior Court. Jack Womack, 25, who was cor^ victed by an all.male jury of the charge was ordered to pay a $98 hospital bill and to contribute $S per week for the suppor. of the child. Emily Gale Jones. 22. who lives near Fuquay Springs, testified that she and Womack had had sexuai relations on numerous occasions "We were engaged t<> be married,’ she 10ld the court. ‘‘He is the only one I’ve evei had anything to do with," she saic in reply -o a question from De. fense Attorney Robert A. Cot ton. Miss Jones said she had beer dating Womack since 1957 unti! I they ‘‘broke up" after she became | I pregnant. j She quoted Womack as saying, [‘‘I don’t know whatr to d‘>.” La.er, she said he married another girl. Womack, who was accompanied to court by his wife, didn't tike the stand in the trial. Before passing sentence, Judgft William Y. Bicket said, “You know she is just as much res. ponsibie for the support of this child as he is.” Judge Bickett gave Womack a six.month suspended sentence and 1 placed hint on good behavior for | five years. He ordered the defend, tan:, who earns $52 a week, to pay $9 each week for the support of | ,he child and pay the hospital bill. -_____ j How to win a woman’s love, Hollywood style: throw the other fellow out i Floor of 22-Story Building Collapses Atlanta Cave-In Kills J, Injures 15 ATLANTA (UPI) — Tons of con crete-slab flooring caved in today on the lower floors of a 22-story building under construction on downtown Peachtree Street. One man was killed and at least 15 workers injured. The body of a foreman, identi fied only as 'Mandy,” was found beneath the huge mass of rubble i two hours after the cave-in. Witnesses said a section of the second floor crashed to the first floor with a thunderous roar. This floor, in turn, cr.v*lied into the basement level. The 15 injured, sorue seriously ■ hurt, were rushed *j Grady Hos [pital. Several were would - be j rescuers who cimbed upon the i tangle of slabs, and scaffolding to 1 help fellow workers before ihe second cave-in. Some workers “rode down’’ with the floor uninjured. Joined b\ other workers from over t h f building, they clawed away thr debris in a hunt for the foreman A witness said the collapse o( the scaffolding and slabs, each oi which weighed se^pral tons, made a crash that sounded like a long freight train crossing a trestle.” W itnesses described how workers ran in terror as the floors began to givr way and then hurr ied back to try to save lives. Fin ally, a giant dPrrick was brought in to clear the heavier debris. James Wilburn Pritchett, 21, ol Route 3, Carnesville, Ga., said he considered himself lucky to be alive, "Oh brother, and how!'1 after riding down the second cave in. He was hospitalized for cub and abrasions. “I was walking down the scaf fold when the first thing 1 knew it a slab of concrete came in boys were calling for nelp “1 was able to dig myself out and started helping the others out w'hen fhe second slab came down.” Reuben Rrogdon, 2fi, of Buford. Ga., also hospitalized, said *1 was pinned under — it takk me ' about two minutes to get out.” A first roll - call indicated two men were trapped but one later turned up ininjured DIED SUDDENLY Edgar L. Be -t, 75. of 700 North Ellis Avenue, d; .1 suddenly at Johnson Cot*' Company Store, Friday aftr „.i. Kuner. jirangements are in- i complet 1 he building was being con structed for ihe Georgia Power Co. James Cannon, employe of a liquor store directly across a street from the site, said he v.as watch ing when the first cave-in occurr ed. "I was watching over there and could see men running,” he said. ”1 called the fire department 1 couldn't tell hardly what hap pened I talked to one worker and he couldn’t tell me how many were in there. “It was a loud crash I could not feel it jarring, but it sounded like a freight train, a long train, crossing over a trestle. “It looked like some of them were buried in the wet concrete.’’ 4 » DOWN THE DECADES Mrs. Ockie I’arker has her grandchildren. Sh,> is Kti years old. (Kecord worked on one tobacco crop aiicr another, still Photo by Ted Trail.) rises early from her bed to erade the leaf with At 86, She Grades Tobacco And Has a Daily Shot I! She Had It To Do Over Again, She'd Just Do It Over Again, Mrs. Ockie Parker, whose farm ing experience goes clear back to the time when people hardly thought ol' raising tobacco, was one of the first to turn to that crop and she’s still at it. For the past three week-, .she's been getting up at 5:30 in the morning and working all day in a shaded pack-house. She is 86 years old. Next to oldest of the nine broth ers and sisters of the late Nathan Johnson, Sr.—who left the farm to start a mammoth Dunn based merchandising business—she raised just, as many children as her moth er did. Ten of them. Widow In Thirties And had to raise them mostly by herself because her husband left her a widow when she was in her thirties. She’s still raising “her baby”—54-year-old A. B. Parker, youngest of her children, and a partn r with hi3 mother on the family farm on Dunn. Route 2. A long time ago Mrs. Parker tri' d to retire but found Mie isn't emotionally equipped for sitting still ths whole y tr and minding other peop'e's business l:k they do in the city. She moved into Dunn for five years but says that big-town life didn’t suit her. So back went (Continued on Page Two) Destroys Scale Shed Fire Strikes Again At Pepper Factory Fire struck aaain at H. P Can. non and Sons just before 2 o', cl' ck this morning and destroyed three sets of scales and the metal, ti pped shed which housed them. It was the second fire this week at the pepper- Hiant —the first hid been out only a little over 30 hours when the first depart, ment was called out anew. Howard M. Lee. secre.ary.trea. surer ,,f the Dunn fire crew, said the blaze «as "mysterious in ori. gin" and no cause has been as. signed The loss, which will run several hundred dollars, was reportedly not covered by insurance. Fire i Chief Ralph Hanna led 22 men to the scene They to. k approj%_ mately half an hour to get the fire out. An earlier fire at *he pepper plant on Wednesday was concen_ trated in a storage warehouse. The fire department was n°t call, ed when it first broke out but Chief Hanna, a member of Dunn Enterprises, Inc., which owns the proper y, went out to investigate, found the deep..smoldering fire was starting to blaze anew and brought out the fire crew. Firemen, called from their beds last night, went home again at 2:23 a m.
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