* WEATHER i
Northeasterly winds 20 to 30 miles
an hour tonight over most of state.
A little warmer tonight. Continued
cool daytime temperatures.
VOLUME 11
TELEPHONE 3117 — sll8
DUNN, N. C. 1UESDAY AFTfeEN<k)N, SEPTEMBER 19, 1961
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
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NO. 1«3
THESE THREE BOFS—neither anxious to go
to school nor quite glad to be free of it—are
symptoms of deep trouble. They are among per
ennial truants who eventually constitute a class
of uneducated, adults. Article below indicates
how hard it is simply to jog public agencies into
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helping such youngsters attend school. Public
could help, to a. degree, by keeping the Red Cross
supplied with clothes tor children. Clothes lock
ers here are swamped With men’s work-clothes
End high-heeled shoes but have little or nothing
to offer the child. (Record Photo.)
Barefoot Boys land in School—Temporari
Not Much Help )
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Newton Grove
Bank Robbed
By Woman
The Newton Grove branch
of First Citizens Bank anc
Trust Company was held up
and robbed of an undeter
mined amount of money this
afternoon just before its 2
o’clock closing hour.
Cashier Graham Creech
said a woman weighing a
bout 130 piounds entered the
bank alone, walked to a win
dow and handed a note tc
Mrs. Mary Lee, the teller,
which read:
“If you want your daught
er, Gail, to live, hand ovei
the money. I’ve got a gun in
my piocket.”
Mrs. Lee handed ovei
what money she had at her
w'ndow and the female rob
ber hurried out.
Two FBI agents and num
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By TED CRAIL
, Managing Editor
Harnett County has enough sur
plus high-heeled shoes to reach to
a space station but it has no shoes
for bare-toed little boys.
While Governor Terry Sanford
talks of quality education, better
instruction for the masses, hund
dreds of all-but-homeless young
sters walk the streets.
Their truancy is little noted nor
long remembered. Their failure to
learn to read and write—the ef
fect it has on their own lives and
the life of that community in which
they live—Will not be felt for
years to come.
But it will most surely be felt.
Three such youngsters sat on
a curb outside this newspaper
early today, watching the trucks
go by on Highway 301. The biggest
boy, Tommy Lee, was ll years
old. Kenny Edward Smith was 9.
Tommy Lawrence was 8.
Why weren’t they in school?
“We ain’t got no shoes,” Tommy
declared.
Did his mother know they were
all sitting on the curbstone, wait
ing for some unnamed excitement,
waiting simply for time to pass?
“Sure,” Tommy said. “She I
knows we ain’t got no shoes.”
The boys placidly agreed that
they wanted to be in school and
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First Citizens
Wants To Move
Finance Branch
If the State Banking Commission
approves, Duran’s First Citizens
Bank and Trust Company will
move its histallment loan divis
ion to the Quinn shopping center.
Earl Mahone, vice-president in
charge of operatibns here, said,
"This is just a change in location.
We don’t think there will be any
apposition.”
The proposal before the Com
mission includes a request that
the bank be allowed to change
the name of its finance branch to
the “West Side Branch.”
The application will be ruled on
October 18 during a quarterly
meeting of the commission.
Mahone said the building which
the department will occupy — on
approval of the move — was for
merly built for Larry Baird. It is
)ne of the newest business places
n Dunn.
Accused Liquor Boss Bound Over to Federal Court
Officer Describes Capture
Of Much-Wanted Bill Ivey
A federal officer disclosed to
day that Bill Ivey took a dunking
while Treasury agents were chas
ing him — and he also noted that
a Negro involved in the same
chase had escaped capture.
At an intensely quiet hearing
before U. S. Commissioner Abe
Elmore, agent Dick Ruth was the
lone witness against a man who
admittedly would represent a big
catch for the government Investi
gatera. 4 «M|9UHi
Ivey has so far evaded attempts
by the Treasury men to prove
that he is a big-time liquor bo
who deals in illegal whisky (ai
hence, tax fraud) on a giant sea]
1 hickset and generally smilin
Ivey said nothing at today’s hea
ing. Commissioner Elmore orde
ed him bound over for feder
trial under $1000 bond.
Now and then Ivey whisperc
to his attorney, D. K. Stewai
Stewart prodded the governmei
witness on several points b
made no motion for dismissal
the charges when Ruth had fi
isbed his testimony. Ivey was n
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put on the stand and there were
no defense witnesses.
Only the Commissioner, Ste
wart, Ivey ancf Ruth were at the
quiet 8n m. hearing.
The still which the (federal a
gents had watched was an ela
borate outfit located behind the
lvjuse where Ivey lived. At the
time of his arrest, he had denied
that he owned the land on which
the still was located. That point
was not explored in today’s testi
mony.
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Wedthermen Cagy But
Doubt Ugly Esther
Will Turn Off Here
Ne weatherman wants to call the wrong turn on a
hurricane. ,
Invited by the Daily Record to “give the odds” on
Esther taking a plunge into the Dunn area, a weath
eiman at Raleigh-DUrhain airport said, “I’m not a
gambler.”
This is what he did say:
That Esther would pass east of Hatteras unless it
changes course.
That if there is a curve toward the west, then East
ern Carolina — and Drum — could feel her force.
That this area will get “just the edge” of the storm
if Esther doesn’t deviate 4- and that this will not be
serious.
But the weather expe*t, conceded, “Every storm is
an individual." _ . J*.
Esther is the. storm that the hurricane strategists
hoped to control or. dissipate by seeding. But she prov
ed as hard to handle as any woman.- ' < • ? orn
*. The- weathermen admitted today that' 'Esther had
been seeded 4->. with* no-observable effect. vv>- * *■.
1959 Accident Settled Out Of Coaft
Nancy Glenn Denning^ a 12
year-old Dunn, Route 5, girl.^as
been, |warded $14,250 damages. in
a oomptooniae-’settlement $ef a law
suit for injuries received in an
ass?* icrw ?RF*f
Defendants fti the siift were Ja
mes W/Lee of Norfolk, Va., now
In the Navy, William1 Riddle, for
merly of Dunn Whb is now to the
Army, and Elmon Jernigan of
Dunn.
The girl was a,passenger in th£
automobile being driven by Riddlt
a:*d owned by Lee, when it collid
ed w'ith the vehicle being operated
by Jernigan.
Sh suffered a broken leg and
other serious and permanent in
juries as the result of the acci
dent. The suit was brought by her
mother, Mrs. Mae Denning.
Representing the Dennings were
Attorneys W. A. (Bill) Taylor and
J. Robert Young of Dunn. Attor-i
uey Jim Nance of Fayetteville re-'
presented the deCndanta.
Th case had been scheduled
for trial during the present civil
we ion of Harnett Superior Court
but attorneys reached the settle
ment out of court. • .1
Over ur. Hunters >kk leavew
Resolve Dispute
Leonidas Jackson, Erwin, chair
man of the Harnett County health
hoard, said the group plans a
on a recumulate sick leave oyer a
period of several year. His request
totals around $7,500, a sum not
actotals around $7,500, a sum not
hudgeted in the 1961-62 budget.
The board has countered with
an offer to give him his salary
for 45 days annual leave, and 30
days sick leave which would in
effect continue the physician on
the county pay roll until the mid
dle of November. The board is
reportedly anxious to revolve the
dispute in hopes of employing a
new health officer, an action that
can not be taken until the post
k officially vacated.
Meanwhile, at a recent meeting
(Onttesad — Page Four)
Dag's Successor
May Be Tunisian
UNITED,. NATIONS, N- Y„
,(tyPI)—Informed diplomatic sour
ces said, today the General As
sembly will name Mongi Slim of
Tunisia to, take over the duties of
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold.
Slim was- slated to be elected
president vft the Assembly when
it convenes its 16th regular an
nual session at 2 p.m. EST.
Outgoing Assembly President
Frederick „H. Boland of Ireland
was expected to suggest that Slim
be named as coordinator of the
manifold U. N. functions—a sort
of interim secretary general—in
Addition to performing his presi
dental chores.
\ The Western powers were ready
to support the plan. Hie power
ful Afro-Asian bloc WAS certar
do so. Most of the Latin Ameri
cans were expected to go along.
: The only opposition -was expect
ed from- the nine-nation Soviet
bloc, and perhaps Cuba.
WILMINGTON, N. C. (UPI) -
today with 150 mile an hour wind
to flee while there still was time.
The giant storm, with gusts
“considerably higher” than 150
miles an hour, was expected to
begin brushing the extreme east
ern part of North Carolina early
this evening and to hit the sandy
islands with hurricane force
winds late tonight.
Gov. Terry Sanford issued a
strong appeal for almost total
evacuation of the low-lying Outer
Banks, “now while it is possible.”
The Outer Banks has a perman
ent resident population of several
thousand persons.
Tide up to eight feet above
- Hurricane Esther bore down on the jutting North Carolina coast
s and residents of tne low-lying Outer Banks islands were warned
1 moving toward the northwest or
north-northwest ..during the next
12 hourS'"with only a very slighf
turning toward a more northerly
component.”
Hurricane warnings were dis
played from Cherry Point, N. C.,
to Norfolk, Va., and the Virginia
Capes.
The Weather Bureau ordered a
hurricane watch and gale warn
ings hoisted north of the Virginia
Capes to Cape -May, N. J., in
cluding all of the Chesapeake and
Delaware bays, and from south of
Cherry Point .to Myrtle Beach, S.
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.. Ti4?§, r ,f?f9.. expected four to
eight feet abovfe' normal and’ hitl
er Is * some localities if the hurri
cane should take a little more
westerly course.
“Persons i residing in the WW
lying areas, tents and trailers
should seek high ground and suit
able shelter immediately,” the
Weather Bureau urged.
“Safety precautions should .be
started now,” it said.
Gales extended outward 350
miies except 200 miles in the
southwest quadrant, the Weather
STORMY weather GIRLS — These Hurri
cane Carla evacuees, flooding a Texas hoteL,
looked “more like debs getting read; for the
charity ball than storm refugees,'*
photo.)
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normal were expected to cau^e
flooding along sounds and low
lying areas and cut off bridge
and ferry escape routes.
Severe Hurricane
The lai^e and severe hurricane
was on a path which, barring a
more westerly turn or slowing
down of forward speed, would
take its center brushing past
Cape Hattsras, on the tip of the
Outer Banks, sometime early
Wednesday.
The Miaipi Weather, Bureau
said in its 11 a.m. EST advisory
that the storm would continue
c.
The Miami Weather Bureau lo
cated Esther’s center at latitude
31.3 north and longitude 72.4
west, or about 500 statute miles
and a little south of due east of
Savannah, Ga.
This was some 315 miles south
j southeast of Cape Hatteras.
Cape Hatteras Target
The advisory said Esther was
moving at about 13 miles an hour
j in the general direction of Cape
| Hatteras and said the center
“should pass not far from Cape
Hatteras tomorrow (Wednesday)
Bureau said.
Sanford’s appeal said, “I am
especially concerned that the peo
ple on the Outer Banks move _to
the mainland and higher ground
now while it is possible. I hope
everybody will leave the Outer
Banks now.”
State and federal government,
civil defense, Red Cross and other
agencies were mobilized and
alerted for disaster work.
State troopers toured the Outer
Banks advising residents to leave,
and evacuations were orderly.
Many left Monday night.
No Witnesses Develop in Motel Case
Girl In Delinquents Home
—Her Seducers Never Found
Time nas apparently run oui
on an investigation into the sexual
exploitation of a 13-year-old girl
from the Coats area who disap
peared from her home on July 4.
Discovered ten days later at a
motel between Dunn and Fayette
ville, the girl was rapidly packed
off to a home for delinquents and
tHe sheriff’s department began an
investigation.
It was apparent t>y today that
the investigation had fizzled for
tack of direct testimony.
Rural Policeman Carson Hall
admitted there had been no ar
rests, doubted there would be any
ana said it had proved impossible
to find witnesses who would des
cribe the incidents at the motel.
“In a case like this, you have
to have people Who will talk,’’
said Hall, “and nobody is willing
to. I seriously doubt that anything
further will happen on it (the in
vosugauuui.
The girl herself had related that
she was taken to the motel by two
htys, stayed overnight with them
but didn’t have relations with
mem.
She admitted, however, that
oilier men were later admitted fco
the room in which she stayed and
that these men "had used her,”
Key Harnett Leaders Meet Tonite
Banquet To Kick Off
4-H Club Campaign
r»r\ 11 ntt* ii'i/la
try and the professions will meet
i tonight to hear State farm exten
| sion officials explain details of the
4-H Development Program at a
banquet meeting in the Commun
ty Building at Lillington.
The banquet will be held to of
campaign in Harnttt to raise $25,
1000 needed for 4-H development
work in the county.
Harnett County has a total of
1,500 4-H Club boys and girls In
the 19 school clubs and 10 com
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