+WEATHER+ Sunny wi'.h pleasant temperatures today. Clear and cool again to night. Tuesday fair and not much change in temperatures. VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN. N. V. MONDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 19, 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO 223 r THE CORN HUNTERS — Deep Fall, and the threat of harsher weather, arrived in earnest these past few days. At a granary near llanna's Pond birds by the thousands swooped into these - ■ mountains of \vast« com shucks_ seeking little cracked pieces of grain. Most of the provender is fed to cows. (Record Photo.) JhcM JhinqA by HOOVER ADAMS TRAVELERS, BAPTISTS AND ZSA ZSA ON FLYNN Mr. and Mrs Billy Godwin are back from a vacation to Hawaii, which included a couple of weeks at the plush Hoval Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu...“Had a wonderful time.” said Mrs. Godwin this morn ing.See any of those pretty hula girls? "We certainly did,” she re plied as enthusiastically as you’d expect a man to on such a nice topic, “and I’ll tell you right now. they were beautiful.”.. Did Billy like ’em? (Foolish question, of course.)...“You bet. he did." smil ed his pretty boss...“How did you ever get him away from them?”.. “Well," she laughed. “It was a little hard.”.On November 4, Billy's’ father, O. W. Godwin, Sr., his 11-year-old brother, Larry, and a cousin. John D. Jordan, Jr. are leaving for a tour of Europe. Mrs. Godwin won’t make the Euro pean trip... “I couldn’t talk her into flying or going by boat and that’s the only way to get there,” explained Mr. Godwin...It was a quiet weekend in Dunn—that is, quiet everywhere except in the ma ternity ward of Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital. Eleven babies arrived during the weekend One of them was a pretty new daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Striek (Continued On Page Six) Sewage Disposal is Money Problem City Wants 4 Years To Convert System T. F. Armstrong, sanitation en gineer who met with the Dunn Ci ty Council Thursday night, report edly had less favorable news for the town after a new consultat ion with his own superiors. "Thursday night he said he felt we would be justified in asking for lour years to take care of our se wage disposal system.” said Dum\ Mayor George Franklin Blalock. 'The next day he called hack and said that four years was too long.” Blalock said the city will never theless proceed to tile an applica tion asking for the four-year delay before it begins a program to im prove its present system. The mayor stated it is hoped that in that length of time water surplus funds could yield the need ed money so a special bond issue might not be required. Another possible source of funds is the federal government. Bla lock indicated that Congress will be asked to put up 30 percent of the money which will be spent on the anti-pollution moves. “Cities are entitled to that mo ney from the federal government.” said Blalock, “but 1 don’t know how far down the totem pole Dunn will be.” Last year, he said. 100 million was asked from around the nat ion, Ike wanted to give only 20 million and the eventual bill call (Continued on Page Two) ! Mrs. Bruton Will Head Seal Drive Mr J. K. Bruton, assistant man ager of Erwin Mills, was chosen as Chairman of the 1959 Christ mas Seal Sale at a recent meet ing of the Harnett County Tuber j culossis Association. This announ cement was made by Mrs. L. B. McKnight Jr., president of the association, Mr. Bruton has been active in the association for a number of years and is a past president of the organization. At the same meeting the Board . voted to make a substantial con I iribution to medical research at McCain, and to a Tuberculin ! Testing program in' Pamlico Coun | ty. A need for pajamas for indig ent patients at McCain was pre sented by Mrs. R».v Cameron, Executive Secretary of the Asso ciation, and the Board voted to contribute $50.00 to this fund Christmas Seals will go on sale on Nov. 16 and all residents will want to have a part in stamping out i his dread disease. It can strike anywhere just as it struck Red Schoendienst, famous ball player. Expanded Facilities Asked Harnett's Mentally Retarded Remain On Waiting Lists Harnett County Welfare Chief Miss Lela Moore Hall reported today that 18 Harnett children are on the waiting lists but have not yet been admitted to the state’s overcrowded schools for the men tally retarded. She said that case workers close to the situation in their own com munities have estimated that some 28 others here need the care but have not made application yet. J. W. Umstead, Jr., chairman of the citizens’ bond election com mittee which is supporting a drive for funds to increase facilities, said, “Some of these cases are tragic bat there is nothing we can do for them simply because we do not have a bed.” North Carolina voters will have an opportunity to vote for or ag ainst the bond issue on October 27. Miss Hall stated there is a de finite effort here to take all appli cations, even when it is known the child cannot be accepted right away. "We're concerned about finding out how many should be admitted so the information can be present ed to the general assembly by Carson Gregory,” she said "We know when we take them it won’t do much good and that there is no space open for the children at present." For a number of reasons, she stated, the mentally retarded children do not always come rea dily to the notice of county offi cials. (CuBtianed on Pugr •Two) Howard To Attend Fertilizer Clinic K F. Howard, Jr. of Dunn, North Carolina will represent Johnson Cotton Company, Inc., at a two-day fertilizer marketing clin ic October 26-27 at the Seandia Village, Raleigh. N. C. He will par ticipatei along with salesmen from other companies in North Caro lina. South Carolina, and Virginia, in a training session on farmer services. market research and economics of the plant food indus try'. The meeting will be conducted by International Minerals & Chem ical Corporation, Skokie. Illinois, a leading supplier of the fertilizer ingredients phosphate and potash Percy Leaves Prison Today For New Trial RALEIGH tUPIi — .1 Percy Flowers, identified by federal agents as "the bootleg baron of Johnston County,” was released today from Central Prison. His release came three weeks before his prison term expired, so he can prepare defense against a federal tax evasion charge. Flowers was due to be released from the prison Nov 10, after serving an 18 - month sentence for liquor violations. He had serv ed a year in federal prison in Atlanta for contempt of court. Federal Judge Don Gilliam sent Flowers to the federal prison for threatening a government witness during his trial on federal liquor charges in 1957. Johnson Matthews of the State Parole Board said Flowers had been released three weeks early so he and his lawyers can pre (Continued On Page Six) Dunn Man Ends Life With Gun Assistant Coroner Paul Drew has ruled that a Dunn farmer who had threatened several times to shoot himself committed suicide. William Hunter Lee, 52, appar ently found the gun which his son had hidden, put the shotgun to his mouth anl pulled the trigger Police Chief Alton Cobb quoted members of the family as saying Lee had been threatening to kill himself for some time. Lee’s son. Larry, had been us ing the gun earlier in the day for hunting and hid it when he returned home. Mrs. Lee said htr husband told her he was going to bed and entered the bedroom. She re - membered the gun was in the house and was telephoning a (Continued On Pajrp Six) ♦ ■■■ LONG WAY TO GO — Working on financial drive to make Campbell College a four-year school are l ari Westbrook, chairman of the campaign in Harnett, and Carl Fitchett. Jr., chairman for Dunn. They were preparing for tonight's meeting in connection with one phase of the campaign. (Campbell College photo.) To Aioke Campbell 4-Year School Need 2 Million By Xmas Holidays “By the time we go home f°r Christmas holidays,'' said Phil Kennedy, “we'll either have it made or else " Two million dollars is the g"al of those who hope to transform Campbell College at Buies Creek into -i four-year institute I Should the plan go over the j top the freshmen .:o entered this year cou'd e ,e from Camp ■ in tb'- ;ing of ‘63 as the S school's four-year graduates. (C unt.iiued On Page Two) But Two of Flynn's Wives Present Last Lover Avoids Rites HOLLYWOOD iL'PL Services for Errol Flynn today were as quiet as his life was stormy. Less than .VIO persons attended the Episcopal rites at Forest Lawn's Church of tht Kecession al. including this last wife, ac tress Patrice Wymore. and his second spouse. Nora Eddington. Absent was 17-year-old Beverly Aadland, his most recent girl friend a. .1 "protege." The blonde teen-ager was at the home or a San Francisco attorney discuss ing her "interests" in Flynn’s es tate. The dark, glooms day bright ened with sunshine atop the hill on which the church is located as Jack L. Warner, head of Warner Brothers Studio, read the eulogy. In part Warner said: "Errol had trials and tribulations in his life. . . as most everyone has. But he never knew dullness. That is one thing Errol could never have endured. He thrived on ex citement and attracted it where ever he was." Th well - mannered, solemn faced crowd was in direct con trast to the carnival air that sur rounded (he funeral last year of another famed screen lover, Ty rone Power. Most of today’s crowd were older people who stood quietly outside the church. Miss Aadland was a house guest at the San Francisco home of attorney Melvin Belli. Belli dis closed he had been retained by the girl who was with the 50-year old actor when he died in British Columbia Wednesday. "I surely will protect her inter ests in his estate," Belli said. He would not say that he expected litigation over division of Flynn’s estate. "It is a little loo early for that,” the attorney said. "1 will say. however, that Beverly is a very fine girl and that definitely 1 have been retained to protect her interests in the estate The wives attending were his widow, Mrs. Patrice Wymore, i who arranged for the services (Contin*»e8 Low poundage was apparently the sole reason for the fall-off in sales here declared Chamber of Commerce Manager Ned Champion served as sales supervisor of the Tobacco Market. “I asked a warehouseman this morning how he felt about it." said Champion. "He said he realized jthat the poundage was less and said, "1 think I handled more to baceo but it just weighed less," Some tobacco was drowned by the August rains said Champion, and leaf for leaf the tobacco which came in tended to be ligh' r He did not speculate on how badly the low sales would affect general business life here, which depends upon the market for a share of its prosperity But it was apparent that only a relatively high average for what tobacco was sold prevented a disaster for farm er and businessman alike. In 1958 when more than 7,7t>0 - 000 pounds «as sold, the average per hundred was $53 711 and the season's selling unounted to S-t 140,236.32. This year, poundage was down to f> 710 030 pounds but the average held at $58.34 and total sales were $3,331 403 One distinguishing mark for Dunn was the low percentage of leaf which had to b, taken on hv the KCC On the Kastern Belt > a whole, the average was 2 per cent but here it was slightly over 1 3 percent an indication of re latively little sub-par tobacco.