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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
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___ 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. ,
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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.” !,
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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 <rf their timing' el
most on the eve of the scheduled
meeting in Moscow cS Soviet and
Chinese Communist leaders to dis
cuss ..their ideological differences.
.The Sine «• Soviet meeting is
scheduled to open Friday, and at
the very heart <rf the dispute 4e
the /“peaceful cuexkdenoe* poUcy
backed by Khrushchev. The ChU
aese Communist* hold that
is Inevitable if communism is to
be spread around the world.
“We wanteB toe peoples o< the
world to be able to took calmly
into the future,” Khrushchev told
a crowd of *00 in Bast Berlin’s
Werner Seelebinder
“We stand fo£
ence between states with
ent social system,” he added.