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+WEATHER+ Cloudy and little change in tem perature today, tonight and Satur day with occasional light rain or drizzle. VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 30. 1959 NO. 233 NO MATTER V.'IIAT wild new designs for Halloween are cooked up out of papier mache and silver foil, old-fashioned pumpkins are still available to those willing to go through the rou tine of carving; them hollow and giving them a face. Sexton Lee holds up a couple of good specimens at his neighborhood store on West Harnett Street. (Record Photo.) Half-Million-Plus To Boost Harnett Secondary Roads JhoASZ ctiiik JhinqA hy HOOVER ADAMS I). K. FINDS NEW YORK IS NO PLACE FOR HONEYMOON! There’ll be great fun at Chicora Country Club Saturday night. The occasion will be the club's annual Masqueradc-Hallowe’en parly and dance. ...A costume is required for admission and the best-costumed man an<j woman will receive $10 each... The Quintones of Raleigh will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs Ben Hartsfield had a wond erful time in New York ..“We sure didn't get much use out of our hotel rooms,” said D. K. this morning. “We kept going all day anc| all night, too.”...They saw Andy Griffith's play and also the Charles Boyer-Claudette Colbert hit. ..And how did he like Boyer and Colbert?."Oh,” he thought for a minute, and then confessed, “To tell you the truth 1 don’t re member; 1 was too busy watching that other girl in the play. Man, she was a knockout!”.. Which goes to prove that men remember the pretty figure of a gill much longer than the face of a celebrity. Anyway, D. K. had a lot of fun ... “There’s one thing about it,” he observed, “New York is no place for a honeymoon—you just don't have time for anything like that!”.. (Continued On Page Six) The State Highway Commission will spend some $18 million on the secondary roads program in the next year and over half a million will go into construction and main tenance in Harnett. Sam Beard, a spokesman for the Highway Commission, reported that the maintenance allotment for Harnett is $408,251.12 and the con st! uetion allecation is $164,900. Construction projects which have received approval at state and lo cal levels include a $23,400 job of grading, draining and soil surfac ing on U S. 405 to 1441. Among other construction pro jects approved is the rebuilding of bridge No. 66 on road 1103. It will be at new location and ap proaches will be built—at a cost of $3500. On road 1430, an allotment of $9000 will pay for grading, drain ing and soil surfacing. On road 1132 a three-tenths of a mile center section will be graded, (Continued On Page Eight) Mr. Faircloth Died Thursday Mr. MiCager Blackman Fair cloth. 78. of 709 South Magnolia Avenue, Dunn died Thursday night in the Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital. He was a native of the Clement Section of Sampson County, the json of the late Arthur and Mar garet Faircloth. He was one of the organizers and charter members of the Second Baptist Church and a life deacon. He operated the West’s Grocery Store on South Magnolia Avenue and was well known in this area. His wife, Mrs. Ida Ellen Fair cloth died in 1933. Funeral services will be held Continued On Page Four Says Publicity, "Pure Poison" ",Blackmail" Parson Admits Assault YANCEYVILLE (UPI) — The Rev. Tommy Swinson. accused of using his nude wife in' a scheme to blackmail another Baptist min ister, admitted today he struck the Rev. C. A Hamby but denied conspiracy and blackmail char ges. Hamby, pastor of the Tuxedo Baptist Church md sometime ho use guest of the Swinsons. is the complaintant in five warrants di rected against the couple. The Swinsons now are free under $2, 000 bond each pending a hearing in Recorder's Court Nov. 10. “The only thing they (news papers) have gotten right is that 1 beat him,” Swinson confided this morning In the living room of his four - r"Om cabin "Yes I did: And I say it.” Referring to publicity about the case, the Dalding 51-year-old prea cher said, “there's all this poison gone out all over the world. It's all pure poison. There ought to (Continued On Page Eight) ■ — — No Privy For Post Office This Year HALLANDALE, Fla, (UPI) — Each Halloween for the last 32 Ijears pranksters have dumped an outdoor privy in front of the down town post office here. But this year, vows Police Chief Bob Aiken, that tradition will come to an end. To make sure, the city’s entire j 13 - man police force and 17 , trained reserves will be called to duty to see that the tiny wooden building with the crescent on the door stays where it belongs. Wherever that is. “I’m serious about stopping it this year,’’ said the chief, adding craftily, “But I’m not telling any body how we’re going to do it ” Last Halloween, Aiken publicly pledged the privy would not be placed in trout of the courthouse. He stationer men in daCk places around the building. Then, an off-duty policemen was injured in an auto accident at the other end of town. The police force rushed to the scene, \\ihen they returned, there was the out house. in front of the post office. Joy Girl, Man Held In Death PITTSBURGH ’ (UP1> — John L Hart, 26, and Patricia Kister. : 19, both of Pittsburgh, Thursdaj were ordered held for the grand | jury. They are accused, of the rob bery - murder of Wiiliam C. Que rey. 49, Rockingham. N. C. Miss Kister, described by wit (Continued On Page Six) Progress In United Fund Drive Reported Major George Franklin Blalock, Campaign Chairman of the 1959 United Fund said today that the people of Dunn were cooperating better than heretofore in the drive to keep down drives, and in the aim to help those who can not exist witrout help To every person, mm or cor poration who would like to know that an orphaned child in this area who had no home or relatives to go to, or who had no one to turn to, could be cared for in one of our nearby orphanages. Or who would like to know that any child who could get no break fast before going to school, and who would have no lunch at school except an underwriting ag ency in the United Fund made it possible. Or who would like to know that some progress was being made in finding out the cause of cancer through cancer research, and the cause of heart disease through Heart Research because the Unit ed Fund had made a contribution to that appealing agency. Or who would like to know that when disaster hits a home like a fire or a tornado, or a flood, or any unforse’eable calamity that there is a Red Cross in Dunn who first sees and helps, and reports later. Or who would like to know that an underprivileged. unfortunate human being could get temporary assistance at the Salvation Army Headquarters here long enough to land a job or get relief under more favorable circumstances. Or who would like to know that a trained Scout Executive is at hand to guide and train your boys (Continued On Page Eight) BJg Children's Day Tomorrow Fair Nears Splashy Climax The Four County Fair here will reach its splashy climax tomor row with a scheduled Children’s Day expected to bring hundreds upon hundreds of youngsters from liftrnetl and surrounding areas. Midway attractions, many of which are specially aimed at chil dren. will run' at reduced prices from noon through five o’clock for youngsters. Children will be admitted free at the gate. The fair, sponsored here by the Amreican Legion, has faced recurrently bad weather and to night will be playing opposite the Dunn-Clinton' game which is ex pected to attract the biggest foot ball crowd of the season. However, the fairgrounds starts to hum at six o’clock and will be going long after the (halfbacks have retired to the shower rooms. Many rides and carnival games are open each evening and local attractions include the Jaycees both where members of the club can be dumped from a diving board into a pool of water by baseball-tossers who hit the bull's j eye. Ada Jackson, local restaurant manager who tried unsuccessfully to dunk Jimmy Suggs, i furniture dealer, took her revenge in a womanly way after missing the bu!l’s-eyp several times while try- I ing to dunk him. She rap inside the pen and pushed the bull’s eye through with her hand. Result: a very wet Suggs. Penn Premiers Shows, which operate the Midway attractions, is billed as the largest motofized show now on the roads. The Le gion fairgrounds is supplied with plenty of free parking space. In addition to Midway events, key farm exhibits and booths ar ranged by home economics clubs, schools and other groups are on display. Earl Maynard is heading the re vived fair for the American Le (Continued On Page Six) Everybody Wants To Be Royalty A surprisingly large field is in the running for four openings in the royal family appointment for Halloween. When the high school holds its annual Halloween carnival tom orrow night in the Dunn High Armory—it starts it seven and is under the sponsorship of the stu dent council—all the home rooms down through seventh glade will have a stunt or game open But interest is likely to center in the crowning of the king, the queen, the prince and the prin (Continued On Page Six) — Except For The Bars'— Quite Wonderful, This Office The upheavals in Harnett Coun ty court-house where a once-in a-generation modernization job is going on has temporarily displa ced the sheriff’s office. Mrs. Edna K Newton, secret ary and general censulter in the ! sheriff’s office, says she finds the new office kind of wonderful and qd$et and bjossedly removed from all the turmoil. There’s only one real disudvan tage to it It has bars on it. While the construction men prowl over the building — the $200,000 modernization will com pletely transform the appearance of the court-house—Mrs. Newton has been treated to a stay in the jail. The cell in which her activities are now located is right next to the jail office. It has been fit j ted up attractively and. unlike the prisoners, she can move aboul as she will. In spite of the obvious color fulness of her new office, Mrs. Newton has steadfastly refused to ! allow any photographer to take a picture of her there Perhaps wary that it might be I hard to explain s<>me day, if the picture were brought out, just what she was doing in a jail cell. FROM TI N VS HUT TINY — This economy-size tiger runs loose in Tex;'* hut i- jine of many animals now traveling with Penn Premiere Shows. Young eves will o-h- his fieree little face during Children's I>av tomorrow. And. kids, he's not really a tiger—he’s called an ocelot. Twice the size of a house-cat hut a thousand times js tough. (Record Photo.) Unusual Outfit Uncovered Harnett Liquor Raids Are Interesting Work One thing about the folks in the illicit liquor business in Harnett County — they make the non-tax pRiri whiskey operations of the sheriff’s department pretty inter esting work. Proof that all stills aren't just "run of the mill" outfits was again unvieled near here Wednesday when sheriff’s" deputies uncovered an unusual giant-sized outfit in a high noon raid Located in the Black River Township, about halfway between Lillington and Angier, the opera tion was going full blast in a wooden area approximately one mile back of the North Harnett School. According to the officers, a 30 horsepower boiler keyed the still, and it was connected with a steam- ; type pressure cooker with a ca- , parity of 800 to 1.000 gallons. Truck Radiators From the pressure cooker, the “booze in the making" was piped along through two truck radiators which were being used as conden sers. anj standing by to take care of the booze after it wound up in > the receiving kegs were 33 wooden barrels of 180-gallon capacity each Th(, usual near-by creek wasn't j handy at the scene, but the inves tigation revealed that the crafty liquor-makers had been using a hose to siphon water from a near- . by fish pond! Dunn Man Recalls a Ghostly Doom-Crier Three Times The Bell Rang Out A Death i An essay in yesterday’s Daily Record which took a dim view of ghosts and other psychic phe nomena brought forth from Rus sell Bassford a tale out of his own childhood Surely it is one of the strangest of modern ghost stories. The Record believes it may rank with the classics in the field — and the day before Halloween seems a good time to tell it. — ■ A - *■ - - Ed's Note.' By TED ( RAIL Managing Editor They were a naturally supersti tious people who lived along the eastern shores of Maryland in 1915 A conclusion jumping people, you might say — Russell Bass ford remembers, for instance, that once when a house burned down in the neighborhood, hot-temper- - ed men from around the neigh borhood gathered under a tree in his father’s yard. They had decided the house burning must be the work of an immigrant who had moved in Me was blamed for the arson on such excel' „ evidence as, "He don’t t like an American, even.” Uassf" * lather, a construct -«■ ion engineer and a man of con siderable calm compared to most of his neighbors, rose to a rare outburst of cursing and prevent ed this makeshift posse from con victing a man merely because he spoke a broken English. George W. Bassford. unlike lys wife, was not the kind to be rat tled Not by humans And not by (Continued On Page Si*i In addition to all this equip ment, a 1951 Dodge pic'kup was also eonsficated at the scene The officers stated that two men were present as they ap proached the still but one got away The man arrested at the scene w as Johnny Manning Jr . Negro of Johnston County. According to the deputies, the still was located on the farm of (Continued On I’age Fights Avalanche Is Caused By Heavy Rains MEXICO CITY (UPIi — An avalanche caused by heavy rains obliterated the village of Minatit lan with a sudden blow that may have snoffed out 800 lives, re ports from the storm-devastated west coast disclosed today Swarms of scorpions and taran tul is attacked th° injuried survi vors when the rain-loosened side of the Copales Mountains thun dered onto the village and tore l(K)st, the nests of the poms' nous insects arachnids. Frantic appeals for anti-venom serum were radio ed to Mexico City. The disaster at Minntitlan was only one of a series that hit Me xico's Pacific Coast Tuesday when a storm, described as a cyclone, wiped out a dozen villages and killed more than 1,000 person Many hundreds were still un counted for. The fate of 1 ,<KK> persons Ln the flooded Own of Zacoalpan in northern Colima state was still in doubt. An aircraft pilot who flew over the area on a relief mission said only the church steeple was protruding abov,. the flt'Ori waters. Ten coastal villages were re ported wiped off the map by the storms and high tides. Tcir small freighters were sunk, including the passenger - freighter Sinaloa with 27 dead Three American women on the Sinaloa were miss ing-Mrs Lucille Petit of Laguna Reach Calif . and Mrs. Margaret Gower and Mrs F. R. Harris, hoth of Acapulco. Mex. Must Die For Raping Granny BURLINGTON (UFri —A Negro convict was sentenced Thursday to die in the gas chamber after an all-white male jury found him guilty ol raping a white grand mother. An Alamance Superior Court jury deliberated less than three hours before returning the verdict against Jesse Graves. 36 It did j not recommend mercy. Judge Leu Carr of Burlington I sentenced Graves a few minutes (Continued On Page Six> Two Men Injured As Car Hi1s Wires Two white men in their middle twenties were injured seriously enough to be hospitalized last nite as the car in which they were tra veling struck the guy wires to a light pole. William Luther Carroll. 27, of Harnett County, had lacerations ol' the head and Robert Dalton, 27, of Andersonville, S C . had se vere bruises and possibly other in juries Highway Patrolman \V T Har ris, who investigated the wreck, said he has chared Carroll. : legedly the driver of the car a th operating on the left side if die I road Harris said the ear went oft the (Continued On Page Sixi Gray Is Acquitted On Larceny Count Willis Gray ol Erwin, charged with larceny of personal property belonging to Joseph S Coats, found not guilty in Harnett Re corder's Court by Judge Robert B Morgan Sr in Tuesday’s session Coats had accused the defend ant of taking an antique copper lamp and one antique bookshelf of value less than $100 on Au gust 31. 19a9 In a second warrant against the same defendant enlarging him with defrauding Coats by selling the affiant’s fixtures in his store. Gray also was found not guilty Assault Case Nol Prosed When Annie Lee Ennis of Coats refused to testif> against her hus band. Osbert Ennis, in an assault on her She was taxed with the costs of court In another warrant she charges non-support. Having in his possession a cer tain amount ol intoxicating li quor on the 16th das of October when officers raided his premises, Wade Evans of Coats is minus i (fine in the amount of $147 70 ainl I court costs. Clarence G Murray. Raleigh i Rt 3 pleaded guilty to giving a worthies- check in the amount of $16 40 to Serrell Cameron for Sexton Motor Sales Prayer to (Continued On Page Slx>
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