+WEATHER+ Considerable cloudiness and little change in temperature today. Partly cloudy and somewhat cold er tonight and Tuesday. VOLUME 10 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 21. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 13 War Bride, Daughters Awaited Death Korean Mom Ready To Starve FORT WORTH. Tex. (UPI) — The world looked a little brighter today fur Mrs. Marie Mackey, 25, a Korean war bride, and her two daughters, Beverly, 2Vz, and Judy, IV*. Yesterday it looked hopeless. Mrs. Mackey and the two girls were sitting at home quietly awaiting death from starvation. They hadn’t eaten for two days. "In Korea, people without food or money usually just wait to starve to death,” said police pa trolman K. I. Haddix, who found the family after a neighbor re ported hearing the children cry all night. “It looked like she Mrs. Mack ey had resigned herself to the fact they were going to die. They were just awaiting death.” Haddix said there wasn’t a crumb of food in the house when he found them. Beverly was wear ing only a pair of panties and Judy was wearing a diaper. Although Mrs. Mackey spoke little English, Haddix learned she hadn’t seen her husband in four days. In just a few hours Mrs. Mack ey and the children had more food and Christmas gifts than they ever dreamed of. While they were at a hospital, Mrs Mackey’s husband Jack, 26, was arrested at a washateria. He denied he had neglected his wife and daughters. “I took them some carrots, night before last,” he told police. Haddix had $3.82 in his pockets. He went to a nearby grocery store and spent it all on bread and milk. The store owner matched that amount and a cus tomer chipped in. When he re turned to the house, Haddix had $10 worth of food. Man Is Guilty In Corn Theft First case to come before the Harnett recorder’s court Thurs day was that of Harry McClutch eon charged in two counts of lar ceny of corn from Mrs. Paul Tur lington. The defendant pleaded not guil ty on both counts but- was found guilty, and received nine months in the first and the same in the second. He was committed to the road on the first, while the sec ond nine months was suspended. The corn has been gathered and shelled by the tenant on the Turlington farm who had missed the sacks on Saturday. They were found in McClutchen’s crib. Rural policeman L. L. Upchurch, inves tigated the robbery and told how he found the corn, five bushels, at the FCX store in Dunn where the defendant had carried it to sell. The other sacks were found in the crib. Upchurch said that his investigation had shown (Continued On Page Eight) JEEPERS, WHAT A RABBIT — And it belongs to Arthur Allen, who can’t account for the strange, acrobatic posturings of his pet but thinks they’re wonderful. Arthur took rabbit to Scout net show Saturday, won a first-prize for “Best Trained Pet.” Record Photo by Ted (’rail.) Ernion Godwin Photo of Cage Star Joni (Circa 1975) Says Dunn City Manager 'Joint Planning With County Needed' City Manager A B. Uzzle, Jr., said here today that a joint plan ning agency for Harnett County and the city of Dunn may be vit al to future development of this area. Mayor George Franklin Blalock last week pressed a move to seek active consultation with the coun ty on zoning provisions to keep “obnoxious businesses” off the re sidential outskirts of Dunn. Uzzle said there are several problems on which a joint appro ach might be of value. He suggested that the responsi bility toward rural fires of the county and the city might be dis By Duroc Swine Breeders Turlington Renamed To National Post Members of United Duroc Swine — Registry held the personnell of the organization’s board of direct- | ors intact for the coming v?.ir ij when they gathered for the an nual meeting in Peoria on Dec- 1 ember 5. Included in this capable group is the vice-president, Mr. H. A Turlington, Sr., Dunn, N. C., who s was re-elected to the board and It subsequently named to succeed e himself in the vice-president’s chair. * Few men in the official family c have earned comparable respect r and warm regard enjoyed by Mr. e Turlington throughout the Duroc fraternity. | f A member of the Registry for £ “1 don’t trust him." I Seanfield Crash fakes 5 Lives GIRARD, 111. (UPD — Five per ons. including two children, were illed early today in the crash ol light plane in log and snow The plane, a Cessna 175 bound rom St. Louis to Springfield, 111., rashed in a bean field about a lile snuth of here near Illinois 4 bout five miles west of U. S 60 The Barry Funeral home said jur of the bodies, those of a man woman, and two children, were (Continued du Page Five) | cussed within such a framework Dunn commissioners accepter I Blalock's proposal to approach the ] county board on zoning and are i planning to meet wiih the coun I ty panel. (Continued on Page Five) Tells Crowds He Came To Ask For Peace By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter MADRID, Spain (UPIi —Presi dent Eisenhower arrived in Spain today on the last leg of his peace journey around the world and ma de another plea for “peace and friendship in freedom." The President told welcoming icrowdSi including Generalissimo Francisco Franco, that he cam* here "with a message from the American people to the Spanish people” about “a brighter future in cooperation for the noblest of all human causes: peace and fri endship in freedom." Eisenhower’s plane landed at nearby Torrejon Air Base at 4:22 p m. 10:22 a m. EST after a flight from Paris where he at tended a Western Big Four heads of government conference and discussed serious Franeo-Ameri can differences with French Presi dent Charles de Gaulle. The Western leaders invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to an East-West summit meeting in Paris next April 27 in the continuing drive for world peace. The President will wind up his journey to three continents with a visit to Morocco tomorrow and a return to Washington tomorrow night for the Christmas holidays. First in Spain Madrid seemed determined to outdo - or at least match - the best of tie welcome Eisenhower has received so far on his dra matic tour that has taken Viim to parts of Europe, Asia and Africa and which will wind up with a televised report, to the American nation Wednesday night. When the President’s plane set down, the skies were darkening (Continued on Page Five) Dancer Jailed, 'Forqof Child FORT LAUDERDALE, F 1 a (UPII — Mrs. Maria Leen, 24. who sent her 5-year-old daughter alone and penniless on a 42-hour bus ride from Miami to New York, told police here today she "for got” to warn anyone the child was coming. Mrs. Leen, a nightclub dancer, sat in jail here facing a vagrancy charge as she told how she p;it the tot on a bus and told Iter she was going to live with her step father, Jung Leen. Dunn Attorneys Are Opposing Counsel Inquest Tonight in School Bus Case In Clinton tonight there will be j an inquest into the death of Ray Frank King, 6-year-old Negro j schoolboy, who died in Dunn af ter an accident at a school cross ing. Highway Patrolman D. D. Wil j liams said the youngster was try j ing to board a school bus when i he was struck by a car allegedly driven by B. H. Bass. Bass, 62-year-old resident of Roseboro, Route 2, told the inves tigating patrolman that he didn't realize the bus was stopped until I he was too close to the boy to av I oid hitting him. Two Dunn attorneys will be on | opposite sides and represent the (Continued on Paee Five) THE SPIRIT WAS THERE — These elabor ately costumed Dunn folks were part of large scale tableau at Baptist Church which started on church steps, continued into the church yard and included livestock on the hoof. Robed as wise men (top photo) were Wiley Oakley (left) and Roger Thomas. In lower photo, Joseph (Emmett Aldredgr) reaches for hjs staff. Mrs. AldredRe (right) was appropriately east as carpen ter's wife. (Record Photos by Ted Crail.) UNC Students Trying Poll In Harnett Two political science students ! from the University of North Car olina will spend part of their Christmas vacation trying to dis cover which way the wind lies for a number of rumored presiden tial candidates. Larry W. Johnson and J i m Weaver, both graduates of Coats High School, said they expected to poll approximately one hundred persons next week. Several hypothetical matches have been set up (Nixon vs Ste venson, Rockefeller vs Lyndon, etc.' and those contacted arc ask ed to name their choice The pre-election poll is a spe cial project Johnson and weaver adopted Their results will be presented to the university and I the results announced to news me (Continued on Page Five) Baptists Tableau Stops Passersby An icy blast of weather didn't stop the First Baptist Chui'^h from starting its dramatic living tableau of the Nativity last night. Travelers along BToad Street congregated in front of the church as a wave of Christmas music washed into the chill air. Sheep were stalked to the lawn of the church which was spotlight ed al various points to pick out a group of angels, waiting sheph erds and the manger scene itself. This was the first time in three years the tableau has been pre sented. The costumes alone are a ma jor undertaking. Each night through Christmas Eve the Page ant be given for three hours— from 7 until 10 o’clock. And Says the Judge, "Some body's Lying" Lady Cries Rape, Attorney Says Hooey i The way in which a 24-year-old Negro cut his tongue—and had to ' have it stitched together again— became one of the key issues in an attempted rape hearing held ! today in Dunn Recorder's Court. A powerfully-built Negro wo ! man. seven years older than her I alleged attacker, claimed she had tried to bite it off just before she was knocked cold. Ernest McDowell was charged ! with attempted rape rather than the completed crime because Ann Matthews claims she was battered unconscious during a struggle in the back seat of a moving car and doesn’t know what happened af ter that. The defense did not offer its own explanation of how McDowell cut his tongue but otherwise coun tered her story at ev«ry point. Judge H. Paul Strickland, said, “Somebody is lying,” concluded he didn't know who It was—aud had Mcuoweu oouna uvn iui j uti *n n Harnett Superior Court under f $1000 bond. i r Ann Matkins. as tall as most 1 men and considerably heavier ishe 1 refused to tell her weight on the stand and Judge Strickland gallan- 1 tly let her withhold it), admitted s that she was rr,r than able to 1 protect herse”- 10m men. i ( "When t e something to pro- \ tcct my- ..ith,” she said. Shi d McDowell’s attack on Cl LOMli; Ul'ti out uj;uiai«vu or allegedly raping another wo lan and "laughing” because he ad not been attended to by po ice. Defense attorney Duncan C Vilson rip-roared his way into a tand-up argument over whether e had the right to shout at the omparatively colored prosecution witness. "You can’t shout at my witness," (Continued On Page Eight) Four shifts of shepherds, angels, wise men and others are required (only one shift of sheepl and they take their places for 45 min utes. Seventeen people are requir ed in each shift. Convict Takes Four With Him For Christmas ROCKY MOUNT (UPI) — A convict commandeered a prison truck taking a road gang to work today and raced off with four other prisoners who didn’t have time to climb out of the truck cage. Prison officials were uncertain of whether the four had joined in the escape plan or were unwilling companions of Lacy Webster, the driver of the truck. The road gang of eight prison ers was being unloaded from the rear of the caged truck at the time of the escape. Three prison ers had filed out and were pick ing up tools when the fourth one, Lacy w — Thomas Oliver Moore, a 35-vear-old bandit murderer who was to have been named by the FBI tomorrow as one of its "ten most wanted men” was killed in a weekend traffic accident, authorities said today. The FBI identified Moore as a ‘•sullen, unbalanced criminal.” He was killed Saturday night with Er (ell B Miller, 30. LaAfayette, La., in a high speed accident. Miller’s lather, Roy, reached in Dallas, Tex., theorized that his son hacl been kidnaped by Moore end wrecked the car deliberately "to call his bluff ” Tulsa authorities described Mil ler as "a clean young man.” They said he had a passport and was planning to leave soon for Central America to work as a helicopter pilot. LOS AN OKI ES (UPIi—Convict author Carvl Chessman today was sentenced to die in the San Quen tin gas chamber on Feb. 10. mark ing the eighth lime his execution has been set since his conviction nearly 12 years ago. Former Teacher Tells of Assault Terrorized Wife Through With Mate "This Christmas is no different than any other Christmas,” Alice Chandler tcld a Dunn judge this morning. "On January 15, I'll have been married six years and I can t take any mote There’s been beatings and kickings, knocks and bruis es.” Mrs Chandler, a Negro woman and a former teacher with an M A. degree, accused her husband of terrorizing her in a darkened house and boasting he could kill her and get away with it. "lie said he could kill me and pretend he’s crazy and they won’t be able to do anything about it " Judge H Paul Strickland or dered her husband, Edward Chandler, to leave her alone or face a year in jail. He suspended the jail term on condition he pay a fine of $10 and court costs and comply with restrictive orders placed on him by the court. Chandler, taking the stand in his own defense, admitted t h e assault — he was accused of put ting a knife to her throat and choking her—and said, "1 was damn sorry about it.” Said Dunn solicitor Charles Lee Guy, Jr. 'You ought to be horse whipped.” The husband related that after he was charged by police he had returned home and found his w ife had taken their 5-year-old child and left to live elsewhere Asked by the judge whether there was a chance for reconcili ation, Mrs. Chandler said no. ‘‘I’m afraid of him,” she said ‘T don't trust him.”