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Mostly sunny and moderately warm thi^ afternoon aiut'Saturdfty. Generally fair and mild tonight. High temperatures . today around SC in mountains and in 80s else where. - _ FIVE CENTS PEE COPT DUNN, V. C. FKIDAT AFTERNOON, VOLUME U Life Saving Classes Here Begin Tuesday Junior and sepior llffe ' saving classes wii be taught at Tyler Park Pool beginning Tuesday (July 9) by Robert Winston. Classes will meet at 6 p.m. that Tuesday. Those interested in the classes can cal the locai poll (892-7990) or sign up at the pool. Yankee Col. Will Visit Aveasboro Earlier this week,, the Battle of Gettysburg was re-enacted up at Gettysburg, Pa. The battle won’t be renewed here, but two distinguished Yan kee soldiers will pay a visit Sun day to Ohicora Cemetery at Averas boro battleground near Dunn to pay tribute to the rebel soldiers. Colonel Frank C. Ballinger of the 100th New York Volunteers and one of his aides are coming to Har nett’s famed battleground at the invitation of Major Wade Lucas of Erwin, Captain Malcolm Fowler of Lillington and Private Sion H. Har rington of Erwin. Major Lucas said today Col. Bal linger, who resides In Towamda, New York, will be happy to meet local citizens at Chicora Sunday a bout noontime. A brief ceremony will be held, said Lucas. Sanford Names Dees and Grier RALEIGH (UPI) — Gov. Terry Sanford today appointed William A. Dees Jr. of Goldsboro and Jo seph W. Grier Jr. of Charlotte, to eight - year terms on the North Carolina Board of Higher Educa tion. The two new members are ex pectde to assume their duties on August 1 for terms which expire June 30, 1971. Dunn Bargain Days Conclude Saturday A large crowd of shoppers were i Dunn today to cash i non sav ings during thetown’s Bargin Days today and Saturday. Merchandise is drastically re duced in all the stores and free parking accommodations is being provided. ATTEND YOUTH CAMP — A group of boys and girls from Pope’s Chapel Church who attended a youtih camp at Holly Springs last week are shown w ith some of the handicraft work they did at camp. Left to right are Brenda Davidson, Mrs. Louola Autry, Danny Parker, Earl Dunn, Linda Thamtoo, Alice Mae Barefoot, Gail Autry, Mary Dunn, Roger Dunn and Rebecca Parker. An interesting note to their work is that all the articles were made from popcicle sticks. (Record Photo.) Traffic Toll Mounting Rapidly By United Press International The National Safety Oouneil hoped today it could scrap Its predictions of a possible record for highway death over the Indepen dence Day weekend. Despite perfect driving condi tions and heavy holiday traffic in almost all sections of the country the traffic fatality count was run ning behind expectations. Close to 200 persons had died since the start of the 102-hour weekend. But barring a deadly spurt on the highways, it appeared the safety council’s pre-holiday estimate of 5S0 to 660 traffic deaths by midnight Sunday vould not be reached. It was even pos sible that the total would fall be low 500. The traffic death record for a summer holiday was set last Me morial Day weekend when 525 fa talities were counted. The high mark for an Independence Day weekend is 509, set in 1961. A United Press International count at 1:30 p.m., EDT, showed 188,,traffic • fatajities since 6 p.m. Wednesday. ! ._ Drownings 188 Now Asst. County Supt. Gray Is Named To School Post Chairman Bob Baggett of the Harnett County Board of Educa tion today announced the appoint ment of Robert A. Gray, 35-year oM veteran principal at Boone Trail School in Western Harnett to serve as assistant superintendent of Har Lands 106-Pounder Mrs. Bob Leak of 1209 Erwin Road, Dunn, is proving to be the champion fisherwoman of the en tire area, if not the State. The popular -Dunn woman keeps bieaking records with her prize catches at Topsail Island. On Tuesday morning at 8 a.m., Mrs. Leak landed a 8-foot, 2-inch long Tarpon weighing 106 pounds. She made the catch off Paradise Pier, using a 6/0 Perin Reel, 40 pound test Trilene monofilioment line. She used live bluefish on a singe hook with a foat rig. It took an hour and 45 minutes to land the fish, which was beach ed a quarter mile north of the pier. The prior record at Topsail was 82 pounds, caught by Mike Swo den, a teenager from Jacksonville last year, at the same pier. Mrs. Leak, whose husband is a member of the Dunn staff of Car olina Power & light Co., has legion meet tonight me Dunn American Legion Post win meet tonight at 7:30 at the Legion Fairground. , Commander ^frOvn Satterfield urges all mem bers to be present. caught two King Mackerel this year, one weighing 15 pounds, the other 17. Sne caught tour last year, the largest weighing 20 pounds: Mn. I** Md Ms nett’s schools. He becomes a full-time aide to County Supt. Gl«|nn T. Profflt, who has held the post for many years and has proven to be an ex tremely popular school administra tor. Beamon Kelly has served as as sistant to Profflt for a number of years. Gray’s appointment ended speculation over Ore Job which In cluded the names of Principal Joe Hawley of Coats and C. P. Ste wart, manager of the Harnett ASCS office. , Gray had Just enrolled for sum mer classes at TJNC when the ap pointment was made. He canceled Hie courses Immediately. Supt. Profflt said Gray will as sist In general administrative dut ies. Kelly has been in charge of Instruction. A native of Stokes In Pitt Coun ty, Gray became principal at Boone Trail seven years ago. He is a gra duate of Bast Oatytiha College where he received a BS in math and science and later his M. S. de gree. He first served as principal at 1% Magnolia JBchool in Duplin County, later was principal at Fai son three years before coming to Harnett to assume the Boone Trail poet. Mr. and Mrs. Gray and their children, Robert, Jr., U, and Dian ne, 4, reside now at the Boone Trail teachewtye. The family will move to LHUofton, but she will continue teaching at Boone Trail Gray's successor at Boone Trail has not been named by the district Boating .. a Planes .. 1 Fireworks . 1 Total . 806 I California ran up the wont holi day death total with 31. Pennsyl vania had recorded 18 highway fatuities. There were 12 in both Indiana and New York State and 10 In both Ohio and Texas. Negroes Get : ' A d vice Front i ’ ■ * Nisei Paper SAN FRANCI8CO (CPI) — A Japanese - American newspaper editor has called upon local Negro leaders to “do a little soul-search ing” of their own and “make a concentrated effort sincerely to better themselves.” “We have yet to hear any Ne gro voice ‘blaming’ themselves for their social malajustment," said Howard M. Imazeki, English editor of the Hokubei Mainichi in an editorial in the Nisei newspa per. “We feel it i* difficult indeed for us Nisei to really apreclate the suffering and agony of our Negro Americans.” Imazeki said, adding that Japanese-Amerlcans faced discrimination the same as Negroes. “Twenty-one years ago about (Continued on Page Two) Reception For inese Reds |ery Chilly , OQOOW (UPI) - Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders, lock ed in an all-out Ideological battle lor leadership of the Communist f#hrld, today held their drat meet in their showdown Moscow The Chinese delegation got a By reception when it arrived an - atmosphere electrified with tllity by a last - minute ex age of bitter charges. Chinese Communists and a high-level Soviet delegation went behind closed doors several hours liter and met for an hour and 45 jfltfnutes. /'-The first meeting was held In the modernistic House of Recep tions in the Lenin Hills section of lgescow, where it was understood the Peking delegation will be stay Ing during the negotiations. Chief Soviet delegate Mikhail ov, the Kremlin’s senior ldeol had suggested to the Chi i. ok their arrival that the first be held Late this after th«rc was no announce where It would be held. 'Newsmen, however, finally spot ted the delegates arriving at the House of Receptions and clocked them out an hour and 45 minutes later. k !i ARRIVAL IGNORED Hie Chinese negotiating team flew hi by special plane from Pek ing gnd was met at the airport by Sustov. , , The'Russian press Ignored their arrival altogether. Neither the of ficial radio, the ffcgf newslagency ;or the government - newspaper Iz vestia announced’ the arrl^l. Iz vestia’s gdition rdfled off the pres ses four- {tours after the Chinese arrived. ’ i > .5 ifi ■ It was believed today’s meeting was devoted largely < to procedural and protocol matters and the de legates would get* dowh to busi ness Saturday. TEEN-AGE TWIST—Eighty-five feet of ripped and twisted steel guardrail rammed right thraiigh thia car—and through the driver—on a road in Florida. Driver waa a boy, IS. Kennedy Replies To Mr. K$ HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI1 — President Kennedy told Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to day that he shares the Russian leader’s expressed desire to “move forward with understanding” to ward solution of East-West prob lems. “The world has long passed that time when armed conflict can be the solution to internation al problems.” Kennedy told the ? His JShfifcs Jnj a message cabl-i iejd to towuMch'ev ThVirsday. and1 made public tile vacation'White House today*;'It jgas a reply to the premier’s mess«te .to Kennedy congratulating Vfju Jfefjited States on its July t celebration of' the 187th anniversary of independence. Warren To Make European Tour James W. Warren, agent for Home Security Life Insurance Company, has been selected as as sistant delegate leader for a spe cial assignment as photographer and newswriter of the group for the First North Carolina F.F.A. Goodwill Mission to Europe, ae cording to Oliver O. Manning, state delegation leader. Mr. Warren was selected for the assignment because of his position as publicity chairman for the Dunn Underwriters Association. Mr. Warren, 24, was honored by the Navy in 1960 for his achieve ment in attaining and surpassing the United Fund Goal set by the Commander Training Pacific. He was stationed at the U. 8. Fleet Sonar School at San Diego, Calif., (Continued on Page Two) And Escaped Convict Almost Did "I'll Go Back On A Slab" MILWAUKEE, WU. (UPI) — It was a tableau of despair. The mother looked at the re porter and said: ‘Td give any thing to know his thoughts.” The father looked out a window and said: “tie's my son but he’s gone berserk.” The son said he would go bock to prison “on a slab.” Michael Weston, 22, almost got his wish Thursday when he was shot twice in an Eastside tavern by two police officers. He was in critical condition. < Police said Weston, an escapee from a prison farm five days ago, admitted he shot and killed The odore Adams, 19, early Thursday and tried to lose himself In a huge crowd that poured into downtown Milwaukee to sse • draus parade. "HIM Mtolml ****” But mom than 00 police officers kept Weston In their net, and got him Just after the parade started on information received from a tipster. Detective Inspector Har old Breier and Detective Sgt. Ed win Shaffer said they found Wes ton on a bar stool, with a red handkerchief covering a tevolver In his lap. As Weston removed the hand kerchief, Brier and Shaffer each fired. One bullet caught him in the left Cheat. •1 should have called police right away," the young man’s fa ther told a reporter. “It could have saved that boor’s life he killed last night. But who thinks of things like that?" Folic* said Weston told Burn be killed Adam* when Adacds Went Jta the BMfer A 17-year-oWilrl fri end Weston had slapped:. Found Refuge Authorities said Weston and the girl were out Wednesday night and she fled from him when they quarreled. She found refuge in c car parked near her home. Thf car was occupied by Adams and Santo Curro, 18. Weston, chasing top girl, saw her ducking behind the back seat of the car. He ordered all three out of the car, slapped the girl and demanded money from Adams police said. Authorities said tb girl told them Weston drew a small caliber {automatic and he and Adams struggled. Adame whs Shot through th> heart and was dead on arrival a1 County Emergency Hospital. Thf .vwvtf.ing occurred shortly after mid “The American people are grate ful for your message of good will," the President told Khrushchev. SIGNIFICANCE NOTED The Kennedy - Khrushchev ex change might have more signific ance than the usual flow, of holi day amenities in view of the fitao Soviet dispute over KhruehcbiV’W (Continued on Page TWO) The Kennedy Girls BOSTON <UPI> — Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, wife of Atty. Oen. Ro bert P. Kennedy, and their eighth child, a 6-pound 14-ounce boy, were in “good” condition today at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The child, the couple's fifth son, was delivered at 6:48 p.m. Thurs day by Caesarean section by Dr. Roy J. Heffernan. The baby was about a week ahead of schedule and was born 88 minutes after a frantic helicopter flight from Cape Cod. The newest arrival Is President Kennedy’s 13th nephew. He Also has six nieces. It was not known immediately whether the Presi dent, who arrived at his summer home on Squaw Island Thursday only a feW minutes after Ethel had left, would visit the hospital. The attorney general, who show ed the red-eyed and weary signs of roW#* expectant fathers, Jok ingly' *npBWnc»d to" newsmln, ‘ They tell he was the beet looking child ever bom at St. Btt znbeth’s.” Among the first he called was his father, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, at the Ken nedy compound at Hyannis ***** “I told my father he looked Juft like him. “He’s got a strong face, |d*t like his grandfather — a lot of character. He’s a very good look ing baby. And, oh, he’s got blggk hair," Kennedy said. HYANNIS, Mass. (DPI) — MfS, Joan Kennedy, wife of Sen. Ho ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., had a sore throat today but otherWtti was in good condition foUowts| surgery for an abscess. (Continued on Page Two) New Miss Harnett Crowned Dana Bullock Wins Lillington’s annual July 4 street dance and celebration, staged last night under sponsorship of the Jay cees, was reported as the biggest and most successful over. Pretty Dana Bullock, daughter o' Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bullock, who reside about five miles from Ul lington, was crowned as Miss Har nett County for the coming year. The new^prd given away as t prize at Mw Street dance was won by Roy Cameron of Ullrngton, Route 2. The fun and celebration lasted until late in the night and a good time was had toy all. NEW FOR SUMMER ~ LONDON (DPD — The Aus tralian Wool Board today intro duced a new cool color called "tickled pink.” DANA MUiOCK
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