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t I ~—-- 1 1 + WEATHER + Partly cloudy and warm today wiUi scattered afternoon and ev ening thundershowers. Tuesday jiartly cloudy and warm. "TOTAL SELLING IS THE DAILY VOLUME 10 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N- C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1960 NO. 127 FIVE CENTS PER COPY TRUCK HITS BRIDGE — Rookie Patrolman Charles VV. Rogers surveys crumpled trailer-truck which crashed into a bridge spanning new Inter state 95 on the Harnett-Cuinberland line. The out-of-state driver, hauling big load of potatoes, crashed through a barricade marking unopened part of the highway, swerved across road and hit bridge stanchions. He suffered minor injuries. The company suffered about a $10,000 load. (Re cord Photo by Ted Trail.) Sanford Making Reply Today Lake For Sound Finances Hill Can Call For Runoff An official recount of Harnett ballots has given judge candidate Woodrow Hill the chance to call for a runoff—If he wants to. Though the unofficial tally In dicated that incumbent judge H. Paul Strickland had received a six-vote majority for re-election, the recount indicated a dead tie. Judge Strickland] still had a good lead over his two opponents but the combined vote for Hill and Ruby Tart came to 1028, ex actly the same number of bal lots cast on behalf of Strickland. ‘‘We counted twice and had the same result both times,” said Harnett elections board member B. F. McLeod. “Woodrow can have a runoff if he wants dt but he hasn’t said yet whether he does.” Tart, as low man, will not have the option of calling for a run off. Hill has 10 days from the date of the May 28 primary to make up his mind about a runoff. At stake is the judgeship of Dunn Record er’s Court. Judge Strickland and Hill were both in Lillington to receive word of the official tally. RALEIGH (UPI) — Segrega tionist I. Beverly Lake has chal lenged Terry Sanford, a young mo derate, to what is expected to develop into North Carolina’s first gubernatorial battle based on rac I ial issues since the turn of the century. Lake called for a run - off with a statement that the issues had been boiled down to segregation and state spending. Sanford replied less than two hours after Lake’s statement Tu eday with a charge that his op ponent was “bringing on integrat ion when he stirs this question up.” The 42 year old attorney who led a field of four candidates in Saturday's Democratic primary agreed to fight Lake, 53, on the issue of financial policy but called the question of integration a “false issue.” Sanford called off a trip to the mountains today to reply to what he called a personal attack on him by gubernatorial opponent I. Beverly Lake. Sanford said he was cancelling the trip “because of the unwar i^nted and vicious attack on me yesterday. I do not intend to be abused by Professor Lake and I vill insist on keeping this cam paign on a high level of an honest discussion of honest issue,” he said. , The Fayetteville attorney said the issues on which he based his campaign were “a positive pro gram dealing with roads, new in dustry, higher farm income, and the lifting of opportunities for our children in the public schools. “I am not afraid of Professor Lake’s smearing insinuations,” San ford said, “and I do not intend to (Continued On Page Two) Local Nurse Is Injured In Accident A nurse who had gone off dut: only a short while earlier wa wheeled back into the emergenc room of Betsy Johnson Memoris Hospital around midnight las night. Mrs. Ramona Lida Powers wa one of three victims — the other were James Elton Martin, 22, am Sherwood Lucas — in a car wrecl at the intersection of Pope an< Elm. A report by police officers Ja mes Southerland and E. J. Wha ley indicated that the 28-year-oli nurse will be charged with fail ing to yield right of way. Mrs. Powers was described a the driver of a car proceeding oi Elm Avenue and Martin was re portedly the driver of the ca coming down Pope. Chief of Po lice Alton A. Cobb said there i a stop sign at the intersection. At the hospital, it was state* that Mrs. Powers worked! the 3 to-11 shift yesterday. She is i practical nurse and has been em ployed at the hospital, on an* off for several years. All three accident victims re mained hospitalized today. Th* police report stated that Marti! and Lucas have back and head in juries and that Mrs. Powers wa: (Continued Oa Page Three) Baptist Parson Married 12 Times Minister Facing Charges HOLLYWOOD (UPI> — Glynn Wolfe, 12 times wed and divorced, never had much to say of mar riage, but he thought ex - wives were okay. Today he has his doubts even about ex-marital partners. Wolfe, 46, a Hollywood hotel man and recently ordained minister must appear in court Thursday for arraignment ctn felony charge brought by ex-wife No. 8, Peggy Spencer. She complained to police that Wolfe choked her, threw tier on the floor and kicked her last Thursday when she refused to sign papers so he could sell the hotel they jointly own. Miss Spencer manages the hotel and several of Wolfe's other for mer spouses also live there. Up until last week, Wolfe never tired of telling how happy he and his ex-wives were, and how well they got along. He even went to court Jan. 18 to help No. 10, Shirley Lou Espy, 23, get a divorce from her latest husband. Three or Wolfe's oth er ex wives accompanied him tc court. But Monday, police arrestee Wolfe on the felony count, charg ing he used force to try to obtair Miss Spencer’s signature. Misi Spencer signed the complaint aft er she was admitted to a hospita for treatment of abrasions ant possible fractured ribs. “Ah, that Peggy,” said Wolfe a: he was released on $2,625 bail. "She made up the story abou my beating her to keep me fron (Continued Crn r»s« '!'»•* Baby Nearly Drowns In Family Pool Scout training in artificial re spiration paid off for 10 year old Terry Godwin when his two year old baby si“ter was taken from the family swimming pool with a fish net. Found minutes after she had disappeared, the little girl, Lisa Godwin, was floating in the pool. Mrs. Billy Godwin, the child’s mother, is a registered nurse. She and son Terry applied artifi cial respiration as the baby was rushed to the hospital. All this happened Friday even ing. Though Lisa was kept at the hospital until the next day, she has now returned home and two locks have been put on the swim ming pool. She wouldn't have entered the first time, a family source said, except that the gate was acciden tally left unlatched. It was her 5 year old sister, Mar sha, who first found her in the pool and called for help. So every body had a hand in rescuing the two year old from a near-drowning. New Dorm Going Up At Campbell With applications already pro - cessed for over 100 more resident women than the present campus is designed to handle, Campbell College today announced imme diate beginning of a 65-bed dor mitory on its woman’s campus. The construction is additional to the larger James E. and Mary Z. Bryan dormitory for women announced earlier to begin this summer for use in 1961. It will r be finished for the coming fall s term. " A three-story unit of three-room 2 suite arrangement, it will be pla t ced immediately north of Treat dormitory, to which it will be , connected by a lobby and recept (Continued On Page Six) I I City Seeks Stop On Bureau's Order City attorney Howard Godwin was expected to file a petition for a rehearing today with the North Carolina fire rating bureau. God win informed tow'n officials that this should result in an automatic stay of the threatened move which would raise Dunn s insurance rat es. Mayor George Franklin Blalock said an investigation of the legal remedies available to the town in dicated that administrative pro (Continued on Page Three) Scott Is Named Anaier Principal B. C. Scott, principal of White ’ ville High School, has been elec ted principal of the Angier School, succeeding Mr. R. G. Banks who resigned to accept the principal ship of Dixon School in Onslow County. Mr. Scott has been in the school profession for the past 15 years, the first seven as mathematics and science teacher and the past eight as high school principal. During the past year he has serv ed as principal of Whiteville High . School which houses the eighth grade along with the high school, having four elementary and 20 i high school teachers. From 1956 to 1959 he served as principal of ; the Rowland School in Robeson County^ (11 elementary and 7 high sihool teachers). For the three i years previous he was principal (Continued On Face Two) K. G. BANKS SPEARS OF FLOWERS were used by juniors to make the arch through which Dunn sen iors marched yesterday in a special Class Day assembly. Juniors holding these flower wands are (clockwise from left) Ann Tart, Bootsie Cunningham, Jean Johnson and Mary Mac Hamil ton. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.) ' Summer School Opens Monday Summer school wil be offered for high school work beginning at 8:00 A M. Monday June 6 at Dunn High School. Only repeat courses will be offered, and in the fields of English, Algebra, Biology, U. S. History, and for other sub jects for which there is sufficient demand. A course In Typing is to be of fered both as a repeat course for (Continued On Page Two) School Starts Again August 31 Summer Vacation— It's Really Here Jazz Riot Quelled By Police Dogs LONDON (UPI)—London bob bies Monday night used snarling police dogs to scare 2,500 rioting jazz fans into order at an East London park. The dogs, growling and tugging at their leashes, routed teen-age ruffians who for 90 minutes had been belting law officers with (Continaed on rage Two) At three o'clock today, seven teen hundred students at Dunn High, Wayne Avenue and the Ma gnolia Avenue Grammar School — not to speak of thousands in the county at large — went whooping home. Summer vacation is now official ly underway and school won't take up again until Fall (though it is slated to start at the relatively early date, August 31.) For the seniors, commencement is still ahead. .In Dunn, Dean A. R Burkot will give an address at 8 p. m. tonight at the high school auditorium. In Erwin, seniors were the speakers at the Monday night graduation exercises. Seniors also spoke last night at Lillington. Many awards were passed out (Continued On Page Three) -From Mussolini And Others——— A Few Words For The Class Of '60 By TED CRAIL Managing Editor Despite the impression that the young of this nation are killing each other off in gang wars, an unusual number of them manage to survive. At Dunn High School, for in stance, more than 80 have lived to graduate with the Class of ’60 and will be present at tonight’s ceremonies in the school auditor ium. It’s true that some have drop ped out to feed the pigs, or work at filling stations. But as far as I know, there have been no eas ' ualties knocked off with black jacks or bludgeoned with raft poles. This doesn’t guarantee that no sne will leap at the commence ment speaker with a switch-blade and try to carve '60 on his chest. Still, I have a sneaking suspicion [hat it’s a rather well-behaved (Continued on Page Two) Harnett Folks Going to World Alliance For Flight To Brazil, Teacher Given Tutoring Her students might find it cur ious to know that Miss Ophelia Matthews, principal of Dunn High School, has fallen into the hands of a tutor. Darrel Moore, a clever young student from Chapel Hill, spent last Sunday teaching her to say strange things like “bifteck.” I This is Spanish for beefsteak and Miss Matthew has also learned to say (but not to spell fur nonSpain iard newspaper reporters) the words for ham and eggs, bottled water and other phrases she might reed when she gets a Brazil. Reason for the tutoring: like thousands of others from all parts of the globe, she will go to the Baptist World Alliance, a huge international church gathering which starts in Rio de Janeiro in late June. Both Miss Matthews and Mrs. Wade Brannan of Dunn will at tend from here In a party includ ing Miss Matthew’s two sisters, Evelyn and Hazel Matthews uf Kipling, and Katherine Shanks of (Continues on Page Five) * Nixon Urges Firmness In Handling Reds WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi dent Eisenhower warned t h e Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion allies today not to relax their vigilance against any Communist aggression or subversion in the Far East. The President spoke at a White House lunch for SEATO members after Vice President Richard M. Nixon told them that in future dealings with Russia there must be “firmness without belli-< gerence” if “we are to keep our differences from resulting i n war.” Nixon also said the free world henceforth probably will put more of its faith in traditional types of diplomatic negotiation, but he did not rule out future summit con ferences. Eisenhower said that on tne occasion of the SEATO conference opening today “we can take much satisfaction in the fact that our first objective of preventing fui> ther Communist domin ati o a through aggression or subversion in the treaty aTea has been realized.” Vital Organization “However,” Eisenhower added, “we cannot afford to relax our vigilance or slacken our cooper ative efforts to further the high principles of the Pacific Charter.” “No defensive alliance of which we are a member faces greater challenge or protects a more vital segment of the free world than SEATO,” he said. Members are Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippin es, Thailand and the United Sta tes. Investigating Fatal Collapse At Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) — Authorities promised today to in vestigate why private operators were permitted to build the make shift stand that collapsed just be fore the start of the Indianapolis 500 race, killing two persons and injuring more than 75. “The speedway shouldn’t per mit those types of towers to be erected,” said Marion County Cor oner Roy B. Storms. Speedway officials said they wo uld issue a statement later today after a conference with attorneys. (Continued <w Pare Five)
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