+WEATHER+ Generally fair west, considerable cloudiness east portion, not quite as cold east of mountains today. Generally fair tonight except con siderable cloudiness continuing coastal sections. Frost or light freeze inland. Tuesday mostly sun ny with slowly rising temperatures. VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 I)UNN, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 195;) FIVE CENTS PER COPY vo ovsi FERTILIZER MARKETING program is re viewed by plant lood industry representatives irom this area at sales training clinic in Raleigh, The meeting was sponsored by the International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, a supplier of the fertilizer raw materials phosphate and potash. Among <>9 participants from 23 companies were these five from Johnson Cotton Company, Dunn, N. C. Left to right, seated: L. A. Hall, Autryville; and Herbert L. Johnson, Coats; left to right standing:\ViIey Jackson, Godwin; Kenneth How ard, Dunn; and Sidney G. Howell, Lillington. Cancer Victim, Given Up To Die Eats Way Back 1o Health Three Deacons Are Elected At a congregation&i meeting fol lowing the morning worship ser vice yesterday at the First Pres byterian Church, Edward F. Ebel ein, Jr,, Dr. Jack W. Jordan, and Herman VV. Lynch received a ma jority of votes east and were elect ed to the Board of Deacons to the class of 1962, to serve for a three-year term. Also nomina/ted for the oflice of Deacon were John E. Ingra ham, John W. Welborn, Bruce M. Brown, B. A,. Bracey, Locke M. Muse, and Oliver VV. Knox, and from among these, three will be elected to the Board of Deacons at an adjourned meeting of the congregation to follow the worship service on next Sunday morning. SI SI SENOR NEW YORK (UPI) — Thirty five policemen at a station house in the Bonx began learning Span ish Thursday night. In their first lesson they learned how to say: “Stop, or I'll shoot.” BREMERTON, Wash. (UPI) — | .Joseph W. Mayerle, given up to | die seven months ago, today was looking for work and doctors were hoping that he may be a living cure for cancer. Seven months ago the 37-year- j old ex-bartender walked out of the Seattle veterans’ hospital after | doctors had told him they couldn't do anything t0 save his life. An exploratory operation showed his lungs were shot-through with can cer. He weightd 126 pounds. He had (Contlnuert On fage Two' 7 Killed In 4-Way Smash-Up ROCHELLE, 111. (UPI) — Seven persons were killed today in a llaming wreck of three trucks and a station wagon that blocked traf fic on U. S. 30 for more than (Continued on Page Five) Stills Hit, Three Accused By ATU Smokehouse, chicken house, fo- ■ rest or field — it's all on big hunting-ground to U.S. treasury agents who crack down on illicit stills. Last week, the ATU men were having luck in a variety of locat- : ions and arrested three men in three raids. Rural Policemen Get Two In Raid Harnett rural policeman caught two men red-handed when they moved in on a small vat-type still just east of Maynard’s Lake near Erwin. The raid conducted at 8 o'clock! Sunday evening brought in Clar-1 etae D. Porter, 28-year-old white man of Fayetteville, and James VV McNeill, 23-year-old Negro of Dunn, Rout* 3. Deputy Sheriff B K. Sturgill said that neither man had been able to post the $500 bond and both have remained in jail. They will be tried tomorrow in Harnett County Recorder's Court at Lill ington. Some 250 gallons of beer and six gallons of whisky were seized at the distillery site. Big haul of stills came on Oct 3ber 29 when three 379-gallon stills jnd 2 476-gallon stills along with some 1023 gallons of mash and 5 gallons of whisky. 'Continued on Pa*e Two) TWAIN'S REPLY When Mark Twain was editing a newspaper in Mississippi, he received a letter from a reader who complained that he had found a spider in his paper. He wanted to know' what it meant. Twain replied . . . “Dear subscriber: finding a spider in your paper was neith er good luck nor bad luck. The spider was merely looking to see what merchant did not ad vertise, so he could go to the store, spin his web over the door and live a life of undisturb ed peace.” Public Loses Confidence In TV Shows WASHINGTON OJPI) — Broad casting Magazine reports the pub lic’s confidence in TV programs — especially quiz shows — drop ped sharply after Charles Van Doren confessed his appearances were rigged. The industry publication reach ed this conclusion as the result of two national opinion polls. One was taken before Van Doren told his story to House investigators. The other came a day after the testimony. “A national hero fell from grace last week and with him I fell the public’s opinion of him md the medium that pushed him nto national prominence,” Broad casting said. The magazine said the second loll showed that more than half if the viewing public now wanted io more quiz shows. More than naif slso had lowered their opin ion of the TV industry after hear ing Van Doren. the same poll showed. The magazine’s report came Sunday as Sen. Jacob K. J ary its —A gang of safecrackers holding 11 country club caretaker hostage shot it out with 75 policenieu sarly today and then escaped. I'he caretaker's wife who had locked herself in the clubhouse jffice, kept, an open telephone ine to police throughout the gun mttle. Officers swapped shots with the 'aii- until one broke free by using ho caretaker. John McDonald, as i shield. At first light, police ushed the club but found the 'llicr gunmen had slipped away. I’hey believed there were three or our in the gang. When the officers entered the lub. they found Mrs. McDonald ' here she had stayed throughout he 3 1-2-hour fight—lying on the iltico floor with an open telephone ine to police headquarters. She and her husband were un lai ined. One policeman suffered cut on his hand when ho and ne of the bandits exchanged hots through glass doors. Vrea Surrounded St Petersburg police, reinforc <1 bj highway patrolmen and hcrilt s deputies threw up a cor on around the entire Lakewood esidential section of southeast t. Petersburg. They believed the nrimcn were hiding in woods in (Continued On Page Five) Jublic Warned 3f Cranberries U VSMINOTON lUPI — Arthur Kiemminfs, secretary of health, ducat ion and welfare, warned the ultlic today that the 1958 and 1959 rnnberry crop in Washington and tregon contains a caneer-produc residue from a chemical weed iller. Hemming told a news confer nee that the Food and Drug Ad linistration turned up evidence tst week that a weed killer called minotriazole which caused cancer 1 the throid of rats, had been Red on the cranberry crops in to.se two states. Both Men Guilty In Found Assault Monroe Atkins, Lillington, was7ti f' und guilty in Harnett Recorder’s p court of assault with a deadly j weapon — either a razor or a a knife — on James Ray. The de pended sentence from his honor, A fudge Robert Morgan, on' condi- u Georgian Held In Multiple Bank Theft Mart Seined Nile Depository Boxes |C( a i w ' 1£ 31 at Si cc JACKSONVILLE, Fla, — A young Georgia man today was j charged with seining in bank night depository chutes with a paper bag. Federal agents said Horace Jackson Pendley Jr. took some $1,000 from two local bank chutes and had employed the same i method at banks in Miami. New ! Orleans and Baton Rouge. Clyde Erwin, Jr. To Address NCEA The Harnett C"unty Unit of he North Carolina Education As- ( ociation will meet on Monday ! f1 ■vcning, November 9. at 7:30 in 1: he Lillington .School auditorium. ,v 'lyde Erwin, Jr. will be the speak- e r He is a regional field worker lith the National Education As- f: ociation. si FBI Agent D K Brown said he paper sacks were inserted ut (Continued on Page Five) n he remain of good behavior, iy C D Codrington and Betsy ihnson Memorn] hospiial §175 id pay court costs. In a counter warrant, Monroe ikins, indicted Raj for assault ita a deadly weapon, a shot °tt him. Rav was given a < months suspended sentence mi ndition he net molest Atkins id pay costs of court. Lillie Ruth Smith, Route 1. Br in had her case of larcet.r of a 52 Ford mtorm bile on October st found frivolous and malicious id prosecuting witness Curtis nith was taxed with costs of urt. Pay Or Else Curtis Weathers. Lillington. Ro e 5 was ordered to pay into (Continued on Page -Two) motorists ignored bignals Nobody Would Stop For Pinned Driver Thom.is Clinton MeLaurin, Jr , I to driver of a sandwich truck ed >und him.self sandwiched among f. r is cars and unable to get out \va hen he overturned near Kipling fiv lily Saturday morning I Though lie was on.y 30 fee (111 out traffic on L’ S. 401, not a 'he ml would stop to Investigate. It, sounded his horn He blink his lights. Firmed in the truck three-quarters of an hour, lie tched two transfer trucks and .* ears ignore his signals. 'inally. at 6:15 a m., P: L Me re. who lived nearby, heard honking, cum* oui of hi> p,o (Continued on rage Two)