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-1 4 WEATHER + Fair and not as c(>o] tonight, lowest 65-74 Friday variable clou diness, warm and humid with scattered showers or thundershow ers. Gm Bzcilg Keser « TOUJME 10 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JUNK 16, 1960 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 139 CANCEL IKE’S VISIT VIEWS MODEL — Reverend Joseph Creech already knows what 'new North Clinton church will look like on completion. It will closely para llel this Mt.* Elam church, shown in photo, built on the same plans. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Start $31,000 Building Program North Clinton Church Will issue Bonds For Sanctuary Jhsube ctittle JhiiuyA by HOOVER ADAMS ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL DOLLS—AND JUST PASSING Approximately 25 beauties from Europe and the Middle East will pass through Dunn (a low blow— why can’t they stop overnight, anyway?) two weeks from today enroute to the Miss Universe beauty pageant in Miami... They’ll be traveling via Greyhound bus and it's all part of a stunt to help promote and publicize Highway 301.The foreign beauties will fly to New York and the trip south starts there.They’ll spend the first night in Washington, the sec ond night in Rocky Mount and hit Dunn about 10:30 the following morning.They could drop Miss Paris off for a couple hours or so, anyway....There’s one ray of (Continued on Page Five) North Clinton Avenue Baptist Church expects to use “The Broadway Plan'' of church fin ance to raise funds needed for a sanctuary which will rise on the church grounds. The Reverend Joseph Creech, disclosing plans for the expansion program, .said the Broadway Plan is a bond-issuing program which will make the financial load bear able for the church. Last night, the mother church— Dunn’s First Baptist Church on Broad Street — proposed to ar range title to the present building in which the North Clinton con gi egation has been meeting. Mr. Ellis Godwin, is chairman of the building committee which will spearhead the campaign to raise a sanctuary. The sanctuary will adjoin the present building, which is the educational plant and will continue to house; activities of the church. Nearly $3000 has already been placed in the building fund by the North Clinton congregation. The RECEIVES DEGREE Walter H. Jernigan received his B. S. degree in business adminis tration from the University of North Carolina last week. While at the University he was initiated into the scholastic fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa and the profess ional fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi. Harnett School Enrollment Falling Rural Exodus Means Loss Of 8 Teachers The teacher allotment cut for Harnett County is higher than local officials had predicted and underlined the falling population ! in rural areas here. Harnett Superintendent of Schools Glenn T. Proffitt, an - nouncing there will be a net loss of eight teachers, said the reas ons are (1) crop acreage reduc tion (2) mechanization of farms and (3) exodus of labor to indus trial ateas. It has also been claimed that the school enrollment boost which came from “war babies” (more children were born during the waf than before or after) has run its coiurse in grade school levels. The Dunn district will actually gain one high school teacher and Erwin will lose an instructor in the elementary grades, gain one for high school, to balance off. But the only other school to gain a teacher will be Johnsonville School Where, like Erwin, there ^Continued On Page Six) Five Couples Get Divorce Civil Court in Harnett county adjourned Monday at noon after the granting of the following di vorces: Mrs. Janie Strickland Holder from James Allen Holder; Mrs. Maggie D. Melvin from B. F. Melvin; Mrs. Imogene W. Stew art. from Joseph H. Stewart; Car ol Langdon Humbert from L. J Humbert; and Helen Johnson Wade from Marvin Wade Jr. Brevity of the court was due to the fact that the State Bar As sociation meets in Mytrle Beach, S. C., on Thursday, and all mem bers expect to attend. Next week Judge Q. K. Nim oeks of Fayetteville will preside in what was expected to be Judge Wrn. Y. Bickett’s last term in Harnett for Spring term. The reason for the change in Judges is not known. Recorders Court on Vacation Recorders court in Lillington is on vacation for the week. The j'ud'ge, Robert B. Morgan Sr., and family, and solicitor Jake Lamm and family left yesterday for a week’s stay at Cherry Grove S. C. where they will spend the week. They expect to attend the State Bar meeting. Everyone in (Continued On Page Five) Slams Him On TV Program Pearsall Raps Dr. Lake, By United Press International A veteran state legislator who gave his name to the “Pearsall Plan” has disputed gubernatorial candidate I. Beverly Lake’s claim that he wrote the state’s pupil assignment law. Rather, said Thomas J. Pear sall of Rocky Mount, Lake was “making speeches throughout the state suggesting the abolition of public schools and the establish merit of private schools” while a committee was working on legis lation and lining up public sup port. Pearsall’s comments came in a televised program Wednesday night which saw him throw his support to Terry Sanford in the June 25 run off primary. Both Lake and Sanford carried their campaigns to the mountain counties today after Sanford's televised program Wednesday night from Charlotte and Lake’s Rowan County rally. Sanford was on a hand - shaking tour today while Lake attended a breakfast and coffee hour in Asheville and a luncheon in Wavnesville before returning to the Piedmont for a rally tonight Asheboro. In his • y at Spencer, Lake took is- with Sanford’s charges (Continued On Page Six) Terry Accused Of Deal With Kennedy Forces RALEIGH — Robert Morgan, who is managing Beverly Lake’s gubernatorial campaign, lashed out at Terry Sanford today for what he termed a “secret meeting" with representatives of Sen. John Kennedy, Sanford at a Monday news con ference denied having met with Kennedy. Morgan charged Sanford had misrepresented the facts when he said he had not seen Yobert Ken nedy in Raleigh last week. “Mr. Sanford did see Kennedy in Raleigh and had dinner with him at a swank Raleigh motel last Thursday night,” Morgan said. The Harnett County attorney said that “people of North Caro lina will bear 'the expense of whatever national political set up results from this secret meeting." Morgan said Sanford's program of a “new day” for North Caro lina is a “day of confusion and misrepresentation for the people of North Carolina." In another statement issued from Lake’s headquarters, local manag ers were alerted to watch for “fly ers or newspaper advertisements” which are supposed to be in sup port of Lake but which are act ually designed to “hurt Dr. Lake’s campaign." Morgan said that he has it on good authority that the flyer, r.rid ads are being distribut ed. —t Baseball Bat Hit Hard But Not Lethally Judge H. Paul Strickland con cluded that Floyd McNeill was trying for a long hit but not a homer when he hit Leatnond Col vin with a baseball bat. In Dunn Recorder’s Court this morning, the judge convicted Mc Neill of assault with a deadly wea pon but did not find him guilty of the felony charge of “intent to kill.” The injured man testified for the prosecution but the defendant did not take the stand. Testimony developed that McNeill resorted to the baseball bat during an argu men over a woman. Judge Strickland gave McNeill six months in jail but suspended the sentence on condition he pay a fine of $35 and costs and pay a $17 doctor bill for Colvin. Dunn police picked McNeill up after the knocked-cut Colvin was found in a street here. Mother Married To Get Name For Baby Man Is Acquitted; Baby Wasn't His A Fayetteville man, charged with non-support of a child the mother admitted wasn't his, was acquitted by Judge Robert B. Mor gan in Harnett Recorder’s Court. Mrs. Nellie Louise Chestnutt Royal of Erwin had indicted her husband, Furman Royal, who now resides in Fayetteville, for failing to .support the three-year-old child. Mrs. Royal admitted on the wit ness stand that Royal wasn't the father of her child. Doesn’t' Love Hint She said she didn’t love Royal (Continued on Page Five) VITAL CHOICE — Sue Ross, 17, of Buie's Creek had already bought one swimming suit, tried on another iu Dunn department store. Many girls bought theirs as long ago as February. Sue says it's harder to pick out a bathing suit than a dress because you can't have nearly as many. Most girls settle for just one. want it to do things for them. (Record Photo by fed Crail.) But You Can't Buy A Bikini In Dunn Suits That Cling Sure Click By TED CRAIL Managing Editor Any girl who wanted to buy a bikini in Dunn would have a hard time finding one though beach ad dicts are returning with word that the sands are full of them. At White Lake on Sunday, I only saw one girl in a bikini. She pranced around at length but the fact that she was just three years old seemed to diminish interest. "We don’t have bikinis because (Continued On Page Six) Good Fun, Cheap Babysitting Godwin Twins Lead Day Camp To gether Jeanne and Joanne Godwin, the twins who were formerly a sen sational combination on a champ ionship Dunn High basketball squad, have another job to do to gether. They have been appointed lead ers of the Day Camp for Dunn youngsters which will provide fun in the park through some other wise dull afternoons. Though primarily intended to give the young a good time and keep them out of mischief, the program will also be a boon to mothers. Day Camp will run. Mondays through Fridays, from 9 to 1 o' clock A dollar-i-week fee will be charged for youngsters taking part. Though the fee-basis is an in novation here, Recreation Direc tor said miothairs will probably find it an agreeably cheap form of babysitting, which their chil dren will be begging for. Youngsters six to 12.can take part in the Day Camp program There will be daily games and activities .— krokay. badminton, shuffleboard, four corners, horse shoes, story circles. It gets underway next Monday. Youngsters interested can sign up now at the pool or call the Day Camp directors, Jeanne and Joan ne, at 2019. Actress Does Not Like Actors HOLLYWOOD — Honey-blonde unmarried nctress Lori Nelson, explaining why she hasn’t been whisked away by a handsome leading" man with a mansion in , Beverly Hillsi a sports car and a small ranehero, said: "I don’t like actors." Select Swim Club to Form These Girls Will Swim To Music Don’t be surprised if Dunn lias a Water Pageant late tins summer A former member of the Dol phis at Women's College i.s .start ing a swimming club for teenage girls and will teach them some oi the .same aquacade tricks that the movie mermals have explored Her class won’t get wet until next Monday but Mrs. Mac Tur lington was ready to do her all for the town recreation program which her husband now directs. she s a lot better swimmer 'han I am,’- Mac said as he an nounced that the swimming club has been added to the program for the summer. If the group comes along as ex pected. the public \\*ater Page ant will be slated. Mrs Turlington — the former Mary Lou Wjestbrook—will sign up reasonably advanced swimmers and teach them a series of water figures, many performed to mus ic. Kishi Bows To Rioters, Calls It Off TOKYO (UPI)—Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi’s qro - Western government bowed to Communist led 'violence today and canceled President Eisenhower’s trip to Japan because it could not guar antee his safety. The President accepted the de cision with regret in Manila, where he wound up a three-day visit to the Philippines and sailed for Formosa on the next leg of his Far East journey. In Seoul, the South Korean gov ernment announced that the date of Eisenhower’s visit there has been advanced from June 22 to June 19 in view of the Japanese cancellation. June 19—Sunday—is the date Eisenhower was to have arrived in Tokyo. Kishi announced his decision personally following an emer gency meeting of his Cabinet, while an estimated 25,000 leftwing ers milled outside and screamed for his resignation. Victory for Leftists The cancellation was hailed as a great victory by international communism, Kishi’s political op position, and by leftist stu<$er}t and union groups here which had staged a month of violent dem onstrations‘against the visit. Europe viewed the decision as a major setback for the West in A*ia and p propaganda victory few- the Kremlwr Japanese newspapers expressed shock, shame and regret over the move, although most conceded i* could not have been avoided. i Sen. Johnson Riding High AUSTIN, Tex. <UPI'— Sen. Lyn don B Johnson iD-Tex.) rode the crest of an unprecedented victory wave in Texas today and will head a national convention delega tion solidly backing him with 61 votes for the Democratic presi dential nomination. Johnson carried away every conceivable honor that could1 be I bestowed by the state Democratic convention Tuesday. He dealt his liberal foes such a smashing de feat they couldn’t even muster orces to send a rival delegation to the national convention. Johnson acted like a presiden tial aspirant — despite his cur rent unannounced status — and flashed t "V-for- victory” sign when his home state Democrats ste-cd a seven-minute demonstra tion . Johnson teamed with backers of Speaker Sam Rayburn and Gcv Price Daniel to gain these vic tories: Chairmanship of Texas’ delega tion to the national conven ion. Endorsement of the delegation for the presidential nomination "so long as his name may be be. fore the Democratic national con vention.”
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