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VOULME 9
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31. 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 188
QUINN'S OPENS VEYV CARPET DEPART
MENT—Quinn's of Dunn, Inc. today is announc
ing the opening of a big and complete new carpet
department, featuring the beautiful high-quality
line of Janies T. Lee carpeting, one of file most
famous brands on the market. Pictured here
looking over one of the more than 100 beautiful
samples on display are, left to right, Carlton T.
Barefoot, Bob Henderson, manager; Joan Jerni
gan. and Mrs. Grover C. Henderson, owner of
th«> big furniture concern. The new carpet de
partment is one of the most complete to be found
anywhere. (Daily Record I’hoto.)
Davis Sent to First Offenders' Camp
Safe Robber 1:
Sentenced
JhiL&si
Juttle
JhinqA
by HOOVER ADAMS
BEAUTY PAGEANT JUDGING
IS SHORT BUT HEAVENLY
For a man who admires pretty
girls 'and is there a real man who
doesn't?) and who just loves to
be showered with attention bv
thejn (and what man doesn't?)
there's no.hing that can compare
with serving as judge at a beauty
pageant.
And when the occasion happens
to be Jim McMillen’s National
Tobacco Queen pageant, then it’s
the mostest of every.hirvg because
it's extremely tough for a girl to
meet the strict entrance require,
ments.
Exactly 22 out of the 23 girls
were already holders of one or
more beauty titles.
Which meant of course that be.
ing a judge this time was just a.
bout as close to Heaven as a fel.
low can get and still be brea.h.
ing.
Trying to pick a single beauty
out of so many lovely dolls is, in.
deed, a tough job, but the pre.
liminary judging duties—getting
to know the girls—is just won.
derful and more than' compensates
• Continued On Page Five)
John Benjamin Davis, 19.year.ol
Negro whose $1600 safe robbery
at Dunn's Open Air Market qu_
ieklv turned into a fiasco will be
sent to a young offenders camp
fur a 12 months.
Judge W Reed Thompson, pre.
siding at the criminal term of
Harnett Superior Cour: which
started this morning in Lilling.
ton. rejected Davis for straight
probation after inspecting a re.
port by the probation officer.
“I hoped you might be a good
subject for probation,” said the
Judge, ‘‘but I find you are not a
fit person Because of your youth,
I am going to impose a mighty
light sentence."
Chief of Police A!'on Cobb,
and other Dunn officers made
complete recovery of the $1600
.stolen from the Open Air safe
last June 23. In fact, they recov.
|ered more than the amount belie,
j ved to have been stolen.
Judge Thompson's final action
in disposing of the -case was to
order that $16 and a ring, seized
along w’ith the total currency,
be returned to the 19 year old
defendant.
t For Dunn police. It was almost
as hard to track down '.he money
as it was to track down the thief.
It changed hands several times
after stolen by Davis and hidden
in a chimney.
BELL INDICTED
The Harnett grand jury today
re.urned a murder indiemtent a.
gainst Theo Bell in the alleged
gambling killing of Grover Lee.
With defense counsel, Robert
Young, beside him, Bell rose in
court to plead not guilty.
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Couldn't Remember Banging His Wife
But Judge Convicis
Him Of Assault
C. D. Carrin, charged with as.
saultir.g his wife while in a drunk,
en condition, told the court he
was too drunk to remember as.
saulting his wife when he faced
the Judge in Harnett Recorder’s
Court Tuesday of this week.
His wife showed clearly the
bruises on her arms where he al.
legedly twis.ed them. She told
the court he had assaulted her at
least five titnee since he was hal.
ed into court in' July. He was gi_
ven a suspended sentence at that
time.
Judge Robert Morgan. Sr.,
found it a fact he had violated
his suspended sentence and he
' was ordered to the roads for the
, 12 months sentence. In the last
i assault he was given an addi.
tional 18 months, which was sus.
pended.
(Continued on Page Two)
First Dip
Into School
On Wed.
Parents who aren’t straight yet
on sehool opening only have one
more day to get the facts.
In Harnett County, Wednesday
afternoon will be a get-it-ail lined
up period for school-children all
the way through the high school
grades.
The students are to appear at
school on Wednesday at 1 p.m.
There will be no study-classes but
there will be official enrollment
and payment of fees. .
School will release on Wednes
day at approximately 3:15.
On Thursday, classes begin on
regular schedule, ,8:30 unjtil 3.
Lunchrooms will operate.
said it was i he first time he had
evt/' indulged in a high.speed
chase with the quarry apparently
unaware that anybody was after
him.
Before he was knocked uncon,
I scious bv .he wreck which ended
his harrowing ride, Theodore De,
Berry of New York City terroriz.
ed any number of drivers whom
fortune had put in his path.
Some, Moore said, had to dri,
ve into ditches to escape him.
Casper Parker, a 22_.vear_old Spri.
ng Lake man, didn't make it and
was hit by DeBerry in' the left,
hand lane.
Tn his wake, -he colored New
Yorker had left one another nick,
ed car. which he hit in passing,
ana at least one disgusted police,
man who had outrun his jurisdict.
ion trying to catch him.
Patrolman Moore, who picked
up DeBerry's trail after Angler
Policeman Wocdrew Hockaday
gave it up. said he saw “some
excellent driving" by those who
removed themselves from the er_
ratic path of the strange,rtavehng
car.
“He wasn’t paying me one bit
of attention.'' said Moore, “even
hough 1 had my siren going.
“1 don't think he even knew l
was there. And Hockaday doesn't
think he knew he was there. Ap.
parently he was just about oblivi.
ous to everything.”
Parker, driving alo.it v
struck by the DeBerry car, . y |
been hospitalized a'. Dunn's Betsy
Johnson Memorial Hospital. They
were x.raying him today for chest
injuries but Dg. William Lilly said
he did not consider his condition
unusually serious.
DeBerry himself is suffering
from a possible skull fracture,
lacerations of the face and of the
left arm. Thrown from his car
into a side.di’-eh, he was only
partly conscious when the pur,
suing patrolman came up t-o him
after the wreck.
After convalescence, he will
face charges of driving while un.
der the influence, speeding and
hit and run driving.
Moore said, he hadn’t charged
him with any of the legal conse.
quer.ecs of trying to outrun offi,
eers of the law because as far
as he could make out DeBerry was
not trying to outrun anybody—
just proceeding on his way.
Angier policeman Hockaday ob.
served the DeBerry car coming
through Angier and gave chase
Before Hockaday abandoned the
trail, and radioed ahead to the
Harnett sheriff’s office, DeBerry
had run several cars off North
Carolina 210.
Patrolman Moore then picked
up the pursuit, spotting him four
miles north of Lillington.
“When I first saw him,” said
(Continued on Page Two)
Wild Highway Chase Ends in Collision
Terrorized Drivers
Hiahu;fiv Pflt.rnlmon T C
Forced From Rood
TWO <TIIIJ)Kk\ were hurt but all escaped
without injury in this Sampson County collision
I'he wreck happened about midnight five miles
Iroin Dunn. (Record Photo h> M. T. Strickland.)
I
Erwin Union
Will Vote
Tomorrow
A hot election is expected at
Erwin Tuesday when members of
Local 250 of the Textile Workers
Union of America, CIO, go to the
polls to select officials to head the
fast-growing union during the com
ing year.
A. Fitzhugh Lee, popular tftisi
ness agent of the union who is
happily facing the election with
out opposition, said today there
appears to 1/ considerable inter
est in tht. various contests.
He predicted that the total num
ber casting ballots may reach 500 j
or more.
Voting will take plact. from 5 j
a m. to 5 p m. in a tent erected i
behind the Post Office.
"We want the members to be
cool and comfortable when they |
come to vote,” explained Lee.
President Luke Smith, now com
pleting his fourth term, is oppos
ed by Lloyd Byrd, now serving as
record secretary, and by David
Griffin, a member of the executive
(Continued On Page Seven)
Two colored youngsters who es.
caped injury in the same wreck
that killed their 34.year.old father
will be key witness against Willie
Mark McCoy.
The 19.year.old McCoy, a Negro
| resident of Route 2, Angier, has
! denied that he wcis .he driver of
the car which plunged off a coun.
ty road Saturday afternoon.
Coroner R. L. Pate. Sr., said
McCoy claims it was Willie Clegg,
killed when he was thrown from
the car, who was driving.
But Willie Moses Clegg, 9, and
R' bert Earl Cle^g, 7, both agree
tha; McCoy was the driver, the
coroner stated.
Pending an inquest, McCoy has
been held in :he county jail at
Lillington. He is charged with dri.
ving while under the influence,
driving without a license, speed,
ing and careless and reckless dri.
ving
Pate said .wo witnesses who
saw the 1950 Ford pass their h".
use shortly before the crash ha.
ve also identified McCoy as the
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Who's Your Teacher, huh? Find Out Here
Getting a new (jog or a new
teacher are events of about equal
importance in the life of any red
blooded schoolchild
The central headquarters of the
school system for Dunn district
has taken msrey on all those an
xiously awaiting the moment when
they will know who thei: teacher
is.
In the following list, all pupil
assignments in grades two through
four are given Pupil assignments
for grades five through eight will
t appear in tomorrow’s Daily Record,
j First-graders do not have teaeh
; er assignments yet. They are to
meet in the auditorium at Magnolia
j Avenue School.
SECOND GRADE
MRS. BALDWIN — Susan Tew,
j Andy Anderson, Pam Smith, Vicky
Norris, Dona Outlaw, Hugh Jack
son, Jimmy Suggs, Betsy Guy,
Darinda Williford, Ronnie Radcliff
Walter Car oil, Brenda Pope, Mike
Truelove, Joyce Smith. Glenn
Strickland, Ann Young, Janet Bry
i ant, Billy Ray Ha’' s, Andri Harts
■ field, Alcy J' -on, Billy Row
les, Rickev '1 efoot, Jimmy Cot
| tie Caro' Lever, Sheila Whit
ienton. . .ay Ann Jackson, Milton
I Hudson, Donnie H^use, Dickie
Bennett, Randy Riddle, and Joey
, Thomas
, MRS. BRADHAM — Vicky Hal
ford, Ricky Young. Linda James,
, Willard Griffin, Sally MeCausley,
i Willie Jones, Kim Poole, Linda
Ray Tysinger, Jimmy West
Durwood Strickland, Eula Mae
Bass. Karel Kotlas, Elaine Moore,
(Continued On Page Five)
• Hospitalized from Midnight Wreck
Schoolbell Won't
Ring For Nancy
Ten.year.old Nancy Gwen Ben.
ning probably won’t be going to
school before Christmastime.
Seriously injured in .a midnight
accident in Sampson County, she
was hospitalized here last night
and Dr. William C. Lilly said
multiple fractures to her leg would
keep her in bed for a long time.
A brother, Jimmy Ray Detln.
ing, 12 injured in' the same wreck,
had both legs hurt but Dr. Lilly
s.tid he will probably be out of
the hospital in time to attend
school in a few days.
Besides her fractured leg, Nan.
ey is suffering from severe fac.
ial cuts. These are not expected
to leave scars, however.
Both drivers involved hr the
two.car collision have been cited
to court. They will face a Clinton
judge <>n Tuesday
Highway Patrolman J. S. Saint,
sing, who investigated the wreck,
arrested Elmon C. Jernigan oi
Route 2, Dunn, a young man in
his twenties, for allegedly improp.
er signalling.
Specialist Fourth Class William
Riddle, driver of the car in which
he youngsters were riding, was
lited for improper passing.
As the pa.rolman reconstructed
he accident, Jernigan had alleg.
idly started to make a left.hand
urn at the same time the Riddle
ar was pulled ou. to pass. When
they struck, the ’49 Chevrolet
iriven by Jernigan was carried
105 feet from the point of irrt.
3a Ct.
Site of the wreck was five
niles east cf Dunn on Highway
55. Riddle's '59 Ford stopped oil
he shoulder of the road and the
jther car landed in a ditch.
Riddle, a serviceman, had re.
j'Tiedlj just returned from ov_
trseas and will report to Fort
I Gordon shortly.
I The two children hurt in the
1 wreck are the son and daughter
I of Mr. and Mrs Koy Denning of
Route 2, Dunn.
Buddy Lee and Joe MeLanib
were both in the ear with Jerni.
gan but none of the adults were
seriously injured.
Summit Meet
Is Up To Nik,
Declares Ike
LONDON (UPI)—President Eis
enhower said tonight he favors a
summit meeting if Russia’s Nikita
Khrushchev shows that he wants
peace as much as the West does
Eisenhower told British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan during
an unprecedented joint television
radio broadcast that his meetings
with other Western statesmen
have disclosed their convic
tion that peace is imperative.
"If we are to have a summit,''
Eisenhower said. "Khrushchev
must understand that as you and
I do "
A Foreign Office spokesman
said Eisenhower and Macmillan
had discussed the telecast in gen
eral terms from time to time But
they got down to cases as to its
actual content only shortly before
they went on the air.
Earlier in the day. Eisenhower
returned to London from Che
quers, the Prime Minister’s of
ficial county residence, and
drove to St. Paul’s Cathedral to
visit the memorial dedicated to
those Americans who died in
Britain in Wfc'rld War II
Eisenhower and Macmillan held
a series of conferences Saturday
and Sunday w'ith their foreign
ministers and a small group of
top advisers at Chequers
Discuss Coining Meetings
They discussed the forthcoming
Eisenhower - Khrushchev meet
ings. the Communist drive against
the free w’orld. means of strength
ening NATO, disarmament, West
ern defense, nuclear test ban ne
gotiations the forthcoming United
Nations General Assembly meet
ing and the Red Chinese threats
against Loas and India’s north
ern frontier.
COMMUNISTS — New Delhi.
Dalai Lama appeals for United
Nations verdic; on Tibet; even
Indian Communists worried about
Red Chinese attacks on Indian
soil.
I safety Checks Final Preliminary
Natural Gas Near
But Date Not Sure
i Vinson L. Beechum, manager of
j North Carolina Natural Gas, said
j the opening of service here is near
at hand but it won’t quite make
th shot,for date of September 1,
"I’m afraid it will not be tomor,
■row," said Beechum "We have
[ tied into our operating station
but were going to make sure we
have no loss of pressute in our“
fhn'eR be (ire Ive (five anybody
gas."
Beechum s ated that R V. Wi_
seman, distiiet superintendent for
the B division, was expected in
Dunn today to make a survey of
the situation here.
"We’re trying to pressurize our
lines nw and are pulling hard
for in early opening." .said thi
Dunn manager.
'Continued uti Pa^e Tvo»
Gilbert New Phone
Engineer For Area
William A. Gilbert has been as- t
.signed as Group Engineer for the !
group of exchanges in the Dunn
area served by Carolina Telephone I
and Telegraph Company
These exchanges include Dunn. t
Benson. Four Oaks. Lillington. i
1 Clayton, Smithfield and Princeton. 1
according to an announcement by j
District Engineer O. L. Smith of
Fayetteville.
Smith said the transfer of Gil- i
bert to Dunn was part of a reor- i
ganization of district Engineering
functions throughout the area serv
ed hv Carolina Telephone. Under
this plan, each of the company's
three districts will he subdivided
into areas designated as Engineer
ing Groups. Each group will be
headed by an engineer respomible
to the district engineer for out
side plant engineering within that
(Continued on Psge Two)
WILLIAM A. GILBERT