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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
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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
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| 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,"
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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<ebster, stepped to the
ground.
He darted around to the truck
cab, found the keys in the ignition
switch and sped away. Four pris
oners, who were to have followed
Webster out of the truck, were
thrown to the floor when h«
lurched off along U.S. 64 about
six miles west of Rocky Mount.
The convicts abandoned the
truck after traveling about three
miles. They took off on foot
*hrough a wooded area, prison of
ficials said
Officers brought in bloodhounds
to aid in the search. By noon,
none of the prisoners had been
recaptured.
Wanted Bandit
Dies in Wreck
TULSA, Okla. (UPI> — 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.”