SAMPLE COPY POSTAL PATRON : j fvf * '' tifi CENTS PEB COPT r VOLUME U u 1 1 •u ..rt ■ 1 til CONTESTANTS TOUR COUNTY — These fen pretty girls, Who will b e vying for the title of Miss Harnett County, are shown after lunch It the Big Four Restaurant here on Saturday while on a tour of the Co unty. The contest to being sponsored by. the Ulliogton Jaycees sod will be held at I p. nt Thursday in the county seat. (Record Photo.) JMWWW—__:: V ^ ■■ > - A corn-stealing ring wag broken top by the arrest Friday of three Negro men by the Sampson she riff’s department. Chief Deputy J. X. Warren re ported that 4 Wain View Town ship farmer Shelton Ban, Rt. B, Dunn, notified the officers that shelled corn had been taken from a barn on his farm. Bass checked with several feed mills in the area and found that about *300 worth of shelled com had been sold In the name of the Negroes. : Taken Into custody were Oscar Lee, Sherill Lee and a tenant on the Bass farm, Paul Jones of Rt. 1, Godwin. They were to he given a hear ing today (Tuesday) before Magis trate Taft Bass in Clinton. MELON FESTIVAL RALEIGH (UPI) — The sixth annual watermelon festival sche duled to be held in Raleigh July .17, has been postponed until July 34 because of area weather condi tions which affect watermelon crop production. Jim Graham, manager of the Raleigh Farmers Market and gen eral chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Raleigh Cham ber of Commerce, announced the postponement. gf MILWAUKEE, WU. (UPI) — The president of Jehovah’s Wit nesses, t«ld his cheering follower* Monday .to “preach from the housetops” and not be daunted by opposition from “kings, Judges, generals, priests, pontiffs and Clergymen.” Mr. and Mn. Ken Hester and family of Dunn an attending this convention. “Kingdom preachers on earth must not be afraid,” said Nathan H. Knorr, Brooklyn, N. Y., to more than 51,000 Witnesses attend ing their annual convention. The session was in the third day today of the planned eight-day program. Knorr’* speech was the first ma jor address of the convention and keynoted a massive door-to-door preaching campaign' in the Mil waukee area. A total of 50,000 persons from nearly every state in the union and from Canada are expected before the end of the convention. Knorr told the. crowd the world is in its "final hour and many human lives are involved.” He ur ged his followers to " let the mes sage be heard far and wide as quickly as possible.” “We have every reason to be lieve that there is a lot of demon activity going on these days," said' Knorr. Mafia Gets Blame For 7 Deaths ROME (TIPI) — The dynamite killing of seven police and soldiers spurred fresh demands today for a government onslaught against the Mafia, the notorious Sicilian criminal society. / 4 Five police and two army bomb disposal experts were slain Sun day by a charge of TOT planted in an abandoned car in a ' sUbrub of Palermo, Sicily. It was the wont such massacre in 14 years. (Continued on Page Eight) the Rev. D B. Felder, J>«**d®nt of the Dunn chapter of the NAACP end also president of the Bunn Ministerial Alliance, an nounced today that he mans to tn giitute action against the Barnett County Board of Education to hare b)s two daughters assigned to the aodth Manila Avenue elementary head here. Be said the action would be started within the next few days. The Harnett County Board of BdilH&on Monday denied htt re to transfer one daughter to the fifth grade at South Magnolia due to the fact there is no fifth ode at that school. Bequest that a daughter enter ing the first grade this fall he as jned was denied on the basis that cutties gt Harnett Sigh are equal ly as good If not better than at South Magnolia. Claim Breach ef Promises In another statement released to day by the Rev. MI. Felder, the the right to call off the Malt of demonstrations because we feel that the officials Of the city of Dunn tarn not lived up to their promise to integrate.” - last week, the Rev. Mr. Felder issued a statement reporting that the NAACP was well pleased with the progress toeing made here and that as kmg as progressive steps continued to he taken -that there would he no picketing. •< ' >; Mayor George Franklin Blalock has announced that the city board this week will appoint a Human vtgiatum* Committee to deal with the problem. Today’s statement said the NAACP feels "they (the "c*r of ficials) are ****wg delayed tdchffs to prevent Negroes from having first class dtoenshlp. We in good faith called off demonstrations with (he hope that the city offi cials would f fulfill their promise to local NAACP said It ' U “reserving us. The promise was that pubUc facilities would be made available to all dtiaens regardless of race, or color. No announcement .made relative to this nor has the signs, “White only” been taken down from doors and windows of public establish ments. "We do not feel that these that were promised as a _ fei process of desegrega tion are neeesaarjr to negotiation.' There Is nothing left but for the owners of thaw establishments to desegregate or not. When we en ter a public place, we can’t be as sured whether we are going to be served or given a warrant for tree RALEIGH (DEI) — The State Highway Commission announced today it would receive bids on 14 highway project* July 98 dealing with more than 68 miles of cons truction. The projects include two con struction jobs for rest area build ings and facilities, one in North ampton County on 1-95 arid the other in Rowan County on W6. Included in the project* are: Sampson - Duplin - 30.90 miles surfacing 14 sections of secondary roads and resurfacing 4 streets in Clinton, MDore Drive in Warsaw and SR 1186 in Oarlllila ;** Harnett - 0.86 mile drainage, COUNCIL TO MBtT Dunn’s city council Wednesday night will name a new member of the planning board to eucceed the late Bait Westbrook, award gas, oil and grease contracts and take up a nunmer of other business matters. dent In Challenge Gaulle Italy (UPt) — Presi , in an apparent e to French Presi de Gaulle, wound up t tour today with ter Allied trust and ah “self-sufficient natlona h at the NATO South d headquarters . here, stressed the theme that Western unity is needed the Communtst thread the belief that the improving. sident flew to Naples by after meeting with Pope t the Vatican and agree - Italian President Antonio t negotiations with Rus and should be continued t weakening the Atlantic was flying to Washing t. cutting short his four tour. Originally he was to return to Rome and mb( / Mindful of XVouHes Speaking from a prepared text the President was clearly mlndfui of the troubles within some of Europe’s major governments — Prance, Germany and Italy in par ticular — and he realized troubles of this nature oould complicate the international situation badly. His emphasis on the need for greater Western unity appears to be a direct message to De Gaulle who haJT beer, opposing many po licies within NATO. —I Kennedy said he was taking the opportunity of the speech “to re view . . . my findings an*1 feelings after Id days in Western Europe.” “I have been heartened by their (European nations) increasing strength of purpose and moved by commitment to freedom.” He said that *T shall return to Washington newly confirmed In my convMtbns regarding eight principal propositions.” He broke them down as: — "Our Western European At (Continued on Page Eight) •caudal in an display __ on ___ a wax. statue of Cl at Promendea Wiawcrks KENNEDY IN fcoME — President Kennedy, left, shakes hands with Italian President . Antonio Segni after arriving in Rome. , T Wilson Named In Anderson Creek, Temple Retoms farnett Sheriff Wade Stewart ,y anounrced the appointment of f^Bharles Wilson of Anderson ■Township to one of the riyjMjanciea as a county ru Mr. Wilson;.- about 30 years otd, is a well-known farmer and was highly recommended for the post, pointed out Sheriff Stewart. At the same time today, She Bendorgraft Is Given Post m ■ Si. Lloyd' Pendergraft, 1963 gradu ate of Campbell Colege, bag been appointed associate editor o f Charit yand Children, publication Of North Carolina Baptist child ren’s homes. Pendergraft, who served as pho tographer for the colege news bu reau during his senior year at Campbell, will be assisting with news and feature writing and with photography, according to John E. Roberts .editor of the newspaper. A native of Chapel Hlff, Pen dergraft completed his high school work at Campbell and studied three years at tile University of North Carolina . before returning to Campbell to complete hlgB, A. Mrs. Pendergraft is the former Eleanor Helms Of Durham, They have three children, David, 8; Donna, 3t4; and Brenda, 3. riff Stewart annouij pointment of Carsoij Lemuel Gregory Buck Griffin as He also announced Temple is returning to the Mr. Temple resigned earlier this year to accept a post at Campbell College. AUTHORITY CHANGED Under a bill enacted by the re bent General Assembly, the rural police department was transferred from the county board of. commis sioners to full authority of the’ Sheriff. Under this law, the She riff makes the appointments in stead of the county board. How ever, each appointment Is subject to approval of the hoard. Sheriff Stewart said the .appointments had been approved. The law also provides that the Sheriff can appoint as many as seven rural policemen and Sheriff Stewart expressed hdPe today that he would be able to announce the other two shortly. Harnett’s rural policemen now receive $294 a month salary. In cluding the five per cent raise granted Monday by the county board, and an expense alowance of $145 a month, for a total at $439. (Continued on Page Mfht) GREENSBORO (DPI) — Hie U. S. Department of Commerce said today that all economic fac tors for the first quarter showed a prosperous business trend throughout the seven-state South eastern Region during 1943. Joel B. New, director of the de partment’s Greensboro field of fice, said even customs districts in the area did a $1 billion busi ness, even though a longshoremen strike earlier thls year handicap ped foreign commerce. The Southeastern District in cludes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and the Carolinas. New said deposits in all banka reached a record high of $31.3 billion, loans in federal reeerve banks increased sharply in all sec tions and checking account with drawls totaled nearly $41.8 billion - an 8 per cent increase. Farm receipts during the first two months totaled $821.6 million, a 4 per cent rise, and non - agri cultural employment increased I per cent to nearly 6,600,000. - lUso ufacturlng employment also rose 3 per cent to over 2 million. New called the employment ate- - tistics an "exceptionally bright spot.” !, :_—-—.— . —m— Call#For German Peace Treaty K: War Clouds Still Hang BERLIN (DPI) — Soviet , Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev said to day the “Damocles sward of war” still hangs over the world and Once again called for conclusion of a. German peace treaty. But he again refrained from set ting a deadline for the signing of sneh; a treaty - in his speedh to man raUft Khrushchev -once again reaffirmed hie policy of 'peaceful an Kast Oer coexistence” with the West The remarks' assumed special impor tance because