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VOLUME 12
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 10, 1962
FIVE CENT PER COPY
NO. 10?
Realtors Warn
Citizens Of
Racketeers
With the spring home repair and
.improvement season once more
at hand, Dunn home owners were
warned today by John T. Simp
.son, president of the Dunn Board
of Realtors, to beware of racke
teers operating in this field.
“The eagerness of many home
owners to repair winter damage
to their residences or to take ad
vantage of the favorable spring
weather in making additions or
improvements is commendable,”
Mr. Simpson explained. “As Real
tors know, home maintenance is
an essential factor in conserving
property and neighborhood values
and standards. And as long as our
home owners contract with our
many established, reputable re
pair and maintenance firms for
services and products, results will
be good.
“Unfortunately, however, spring
always brings a return of fly-by
night operators who annually
‘take’ the public for millions. It
is against this latter group that
home owners should be on guard.”
Mr. Simpson said that in issuing
his warning he was following a
suggestion made to all Realtors by
their national organization, the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
(Boards. He pointed out that NAR
EB and its members have consist
ently sought tp protect the inter
est of property owners in an
fields.
According to the Dunn Realtor
(Con tinned eg Fare Five)
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COLONEL BROWN ORDERED
THE GALS TO COVER UP!
Colonel Jack Brown of Dunn,
who flew home last week from
Izmir, Turkey, has given us the
inside story regarding the now
(famous order he issued last win
ter that made headlines in prac
tically every daily newspaper in
the world.
The handsome young Colonel
(a full, chicken-colonel, if you
please) has the unique distinction
of commanding two U. S. Air For
ce bases with total personnel of
more than 4,000, including wives
and other civilians attached to the
big bases far east in the land of
the belly dancers.
It was the civilian wives who
caused the dashing Colonel to dic
tate to his secretary an order that
henceforth WACs, Army nurses
and civilian wives and daughters
would not appear in public wear
ing shorts, bikins, tight toreadors
and other such garments — or
lack of same — which might in
flame the passion of man.
“Howcum, Colonel?” we asked
the other day as both of us visit
ed his father, Jack Brown, in Bet
(Continued on Page Five)
AND HAM BISCUITS AND COKES, TOO—
When G. S. Tucker A Company stares a sales
event and celebration, it r°es all out and does It
up big:. And especially wTien it’s the company’s
76th birthday. The Mr Eastern Carolina furniture
concern is “ow celebrating: its 76 years of hirhly
successful business operations. At the Dunn store
on East Broad Street, Manarer D. E. Brewer is
showing: his appreciation for the public’s long
and loyal support by offering some of the biggest
home furnishings values ever. Not only that, Mr.
Brewer and his staff are serving free ham bis
cuits and Cokes as an added touch. The popular
Bunn store manager is shown here in front of a
big banner hailing the sales event. Mr. Brewer
extends to all citizens a hearty invitation to visit
the store and help celebrate. (Daily Record Photo
by M. T. Strickland, Jr.)
Admits Morals Conviction
Man Is Fined $150
After Accident
. Luby Kirtz Cole, 27, of Fayette
ville, formerly of Benson, was giv
en a 90-day suspended sentence
upon the condition that he pay i
$50 fine and court costs for care
less and reckless driving In Thurs
day’s court session.
Cole, driving a Ford panel truck
ran into the rear of Kenneth Gor
don Hairr’s 1956 Plymouth as
Hairr was making a left turn
into his home on 702 E. McKay
Avenue.
Bielfore judgement was render
ed, Cole’s employer, Ramson Tew
of Fayetteville, spoke up to give
him a good character reference
and stated that Cole had been
working for him since he had got
ten off tbe roads, that he had
been doing well.
When asked by Judge Woodrow
Hill why he had served a term on
the roads, Cole replied, “For
shacking.”
Not understanding his answer
the Judge asked again.
Cole answered, “For living with
a woman and not being married.”
“Was it a white woman or a
Negro?” asked the Judge.
“They say she was a Negro.”
Cole stated.
Cole, who has a long record of
several offenses, served 18 months
for possession of whiskey for the
purpose of sale and fornication
and adultery.
Indian Charred
David Strickland, 21-year-old In
dian of Route 4, Dunn, was with
Cole at the time of the accident
and was charged with public
drunkenness. Strickland received
a 30-day suspended sentenced up
on payment of the costs.
Haywood Goodwin, 42-year-old
(Continued On Page Two)
GOP Candidate Must Serve Time
Babcock Is Given
Active Prison Term
WINSTON - SALEM (UPI) —
Charles H. Babcock, Jr., member
of the Reynolds Tobacco family
and a candidate for the XT. S.
Senate, today was ordered to serve
a year in prison.
Babcock, 30, grandson of R. J.
Reynolds, was ordered Jailed for
one of 16 traffic convictions he
has had since 1953.
The sentence was a suspended
term imposed tor his 15th convlc
tion here last month. Municipal
Court Judge Leroy W. Sams ac
tivated the term today when he
ruled on the latest conviction.
Babcock, however, may appeal to
day’s judgment and the jail term
would be held in abeyance.
The conviction was on the same
charge as the one last month —
driving while his license was un
der suspension.
(Continued On Pam live)
TV Actor
Is Visitor
Here Today
Gregory Walcott, a star of the
TV thriller-diller “57th Precinct”
spent an hour or so in Dunn today
visiting his first cousin, Dwight
Mattox, well-known local mer
chant.
Mattox bad just left the local
hospital after two weeks illness
and went to his store to find Wal
cott arriving there at about the
same time.
The sharp-shooting TV detec
tive, whose real name is Bernard
Mattox, was accompanied by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Mat
tox of Rocky Mount. They had
been to Red Springs to visit the
actor’s brother. Rev. James Mat
tox.
Mattox and his famous cousin,
who grew up together in Wendell,
had a fine time reminiscing over
a cup of coffee at Thomas Wal
(Conttnued On Page Two)
Dorinda In
2nd Spot At
Chadbourn
Miss Dorinda Avery, popular Er
win High School student, was the
first runnerup in the annual
Strawberry Festival at Chadbourn
yesterday.
The pretty Erwin lass, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Frank
Avery, was sponsored by Carl’s
Super Market and entered ip com
petition by Erwin Jaycees.
Dorinda is a cousin of the cur
tent Miss Erwin, Nora Avery, and
was escorted by Ben Ward, of
Fayetteville, district sales super
visor j)f Carolina Telephone &
Telegraph Co.
BRITISH BEAUTIES
LONDON (UPI) — A legal bat
tle in the high court over spon
sorship of a beauty contest Tues
day brought forth this definition
of a British bathing beauty:
Wade Funeral
Friday At 11
CHAPEL HILL (UPI) —Funeral
services for Jake Wade, sports in
formation director of the Univer
sity of North Carolina will be
held at 11 a. m. Friday at the
Episcopal Church of the Holy Fam
ily here. Burial will be in old
Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Coaches and others or the Ath
letic staff at the university will
be honorary pallbearers.
Wade, 61, died of a heart at
tack Wednesday.
(Continued On rate Two)
Raps Kennedy
Requests For
Greater Power
WASHINGTON CUPI)— Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
charged today that President
Kennedy’s requests to Congress
tor greater executive power rep
resent “the real threat to liberty
in this republic."
Eisenhower, while attacking the
Kennedy administration’s domes
tic program, praised his Democra
tic successor tor his firmness in
foreign affairs and dealing with
Russia. 1 I
In protesting “the strenuous ef
forts of the Kennedy administra
tion to increase greatly the power
of the executive branch of the
government," Eisenhower listed
five specific proposals made by
Kennedy. He said these were “on
ly a few of the recent proposals
to vest more authority in an ever
growing federal bureaucracy.”
Eisenhower also told a crowded
news conference on capitol hill
that he and Republican congres
sional leaders saw no “enthusi
asm or sense of priority” in the
administration’s various investi
gations of the Billie Sol Estes
grain storage scandal.
Under his administration, he
'said Democratic congresses seem
ed to conduct investigations of the
executive branch with greater
speed.
He applauded Kennedy’s ac
tions to fight off the Communists
in South Viet Nam, but expressed
concern about encouraging a coa
lition with the Communists in
(Laos.
He questioned the constitution
ality of the pending literacy test
jctvil rights bill, now being debat
ed by the Senate. The proposal
has been endorsed by both politi
cal parties.
Eisenhower met the press after
conferring with Republican Sen
ate and House leaders.
The conferences with congres
sional leaders were designed to
explore a host of questions con
fronting the GOP.
BULLETINS
VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)—Government troops retreating from the
fallen provincial capital of Nam Tha were reported today to have
fallen back to within 10 miles of the Thailand border.
COLUMBIA (UPI) — The man for whom the Lindsay C. Warren
Bridge across the Alligator River was named pictured the structure
Thursday as the final link of a single intercontinental route linking
Atlantic with Pacific.
(Continued On Page Five)
Economy In Yam Production
Peacock Believes
In Pre-Sproufing
C. D. Peacock of the Meadow ■
community, Route 2, Benson, be
lieves sweet potato growers can a
save up to $50 per acre in seed 1
potato costs by a method of pre- i
sprouting he has used successful- I
ly for the past two years. «
Peacock describes the process l
as simplicity itself. He built a |
slatted floor in the basement of |
his curing house, about six inch- f
es from the ground. He put his ij
seed potatoes in baskets and stor- *
ed them on the floor hooked up a
115-volt humidifier and was in the
potato-sprouting business.
Peacock wet the floor beneath
the potatoes and kept the humidi
ty at 85 per cent. The curer main
tained a temperature of 85 deg
rees. Aifter 30 days, sprouts grew
to about two inches. The potatoes
were then rempved and placed in
the standard type bed.
The pre-sprouting method gives
40 per cent more plants per bush
el of seed potatoes, Peacock has
found. Pre-sprouting also makes
more plants available for the firs*
pulling, ensuring ah earlier and
more uniform crop.
(Conttawd On Page Two)
C. D. PEACOCK
Democrats To Turn Out Saturday
Reelection Of Ross
Seen At Convention
Ousted Chairman May Succeed Veteran Lead
Hight May Replace
Secretary Steele
& movement is underway, led by a strong: faction of the Harnett
Democratic Executive Committee, to unseat long-time party secretary
Henderson Steel of Lillington at Saturday’s convention and replace
Mm with Howard (Peewee) Hight of Buie’s Creek, it was learned toAy.
; Those spearheading this maneu
ver now are claiming they have
enough votes committed to make
the change.
Mrs. Bob Pate of Erwin is being
backed to replace Mrs. Eugene
Lasater as county vice chairman.
Mr. Steele, who retired recently
as publisher of the Harnett County
News at Lillington, has served the
party as its secretary for more
than 30 years and is by far the
oldest party official in the county.
Convention after convention
throughout the years, the re-elec
tion of Mr. Steele has been almost
automatically routine. He knows
the workings of the party and its
history as no other citizen of the
county.
OUSTED BY PRECINCT
Last Saturday, flight, the man
they propose for secretary, was
thrown out as Democratic Prechict
Chairman in Neill’s Creek No? 2
by the largest crowd ever to at
tend a precinct meeting anywhere
in Harnett County. Hight and all
other members of his committee
failed to win re-election and were
not even nominated. The Rev. Ro
bert Newton was elected chairman
to succeed Hight.
One of the best known party
workers in the county, Hight, af
ter he was voted out, reportedly
HENDERSON STEELE
made a very bitter speech in which
he recalled his 25 years of faith
ful and continuous service to the
party.
He went on to blame Campbell
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To Spend $24,000 Here
TelephoneCompany
Planning Expansion
Judge Sets
Knifing Bond
At $5,000
Attorney Robert C. Bryan ask
ed Judge Woodrow Hill In city
court this morning to set bond fov
Oria Junior Pressley, 27-year-old
Negro who has been held without
priviledge of bond in the knifing
of Pearl Clegg otf Route 1, Dunn.
The Judge promptly set the bond
at $5,000.
Attorney Bryan stated that he
didn’t think that Pressley could!
raise that sum of money for bond
but that he might be able to raise
$500 and asked for the bond to be
set at that amount.
Pressley has been held since
Saturday night pending the condi
tion of the Clegg woman, who is
in the Betsy Johnson hospital with
over 500 stitches taken to close
the knife wounds.
The Judge said that it had not
been proven to him if her condi
tion had improved but said he
might reconsider lowering the
bond if proof was given her condi
10-Year-Old Girl v
Struck By Car
Joy Fay Barefoot, aged 10, of
Rt. 2 Dunn, was slightly injured
Saturday in front of her home
ten miles ea^t of Newton Grove
on NC 55 when struck by a car.
(Continued' on Page Six)
Improvement and expansion of
the Dunn telephone exchange Is
now underway.
H. C. Bridgers, local Carolina
Telephone manager, said today
that a $24,000 program is in pro
gress to expand the company’s cen
tral office equipment here.
Included in the project will be
Installation of equipment to pro
(Continued On Page Two)
Mrs. Lasater
May Not Be;
Body Enlarged
The re-election of Lillington at
torney Neill McK. Ross ag Coun
ty Democratic Chairman and the
replacement of Mrs. Eugene H.
Lasater as county vice chairman
are expected when Harnett Demo
crats gather in bienniel conven
tion Saturday at high noon at thh
county courthouse in Lillington.
A large outpouring of the party’s
faithful from all 21 voting pre
cincts of the county is expected
and Chairman Ross has announced
that all of the various candidate*
will be presented and given *
chance to be heard.
Nothing is a certainty about the
election of officials to head the
party’s county organization be
cause upsets have been known to
occur overnight or even at the
last minute, but the best informa
tion available today was that Ron
is in and Mrs. Lasater is out.
Attorney Ross secame chair
man of the party after Myres
Tilghr^ n of Dunn resigned back
(Continued On Page Five)
Road Requests
Granted By
County Board
The Harnett County Board of
Commissioners, in monthly ses
sion, approved several road peti
tions, granted a leave of absence
to a tax department aide and dijr,
posed of various other routine bus
iness matters.
W. B. (Red) WilUams df Ang
ier requested that he be given -a
leave of absence without pay due
ing the months of May, June, July
and August, to resume his dutk$
on September 1. His request was
approved.
Road petitions approved \yer*
as follows:
To open up the north end of
that street into U. S. 421 known
as Lucas Street in East Erwin.
To black top the extension of
Ash Avenue for one and a fourth
miles and to black top that road
known as the Guy road in Avera*
(Continued On Page Five)
Over $1400 In Prizes
Coats Rodeo Set
For Sept. 14-15
The Town of Coats’ annual
Tractor Rodeo will be held on Fri
day and Saturday, September 1*
and 15 with a total of $1400 in
prizes to be given away by merch
ants of the town.
Plans for the annual event were
announced today by L. E. Me
Knight, prominent Coats druggist
and executive chairman of the ev
ent, and Lewis Dupree, the adver
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Makes Him Sick At Stomach
Reynolds Of Wife:
"Money, Money"
DARIEN, Ga. (UPI) — Tobacco
heir R. J. Reynolds, who describes
himself as a most generous fellow
when he’s drinking, went back to
the witness stand in his divorce
trial today to share more of the
life he lived with two wives.
Wife No. 3, Muriel, was a nag
ging woman who made him sick
at his stomach, Reynolds told the
jury he hopes will give him free
dom from her.
Wife No. 4, Anneraarie Schmitt,
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