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(x)\QjaJJlOA Variable cloudiness with scattered showers or thundershowers this aft ernoon and evening mainly east of the mountains tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and not as warm with widely scattered thunder showers along the coast In the forenoon. TELEPHONE M4I11 FIVE CENTS FEB COPT VOLUME U DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTEI NO. 175 W+at Think TODAY'S QUESTION Two of the big news stories in recent weeks were of Christine Keeler, the girl who rooked a gov ernment and negotiations for a nu cltar test ban. Which held the most interest for you and why? Miss Pamela Hawley Student, King's Business College “You’ll have to admit that any girl who can rock an empire com mands a lot of interest.” Charles Whittenton Desota - Plymouth dealer “I was more interested in the test ban because it was a step toward peace.” Mayor George Franklin Blalock "I’m mere interested to any thin* that may keep peace but I hare no confidence to any agree ment, oral or written, with a Communist. On the other hand, the Keeler affair was interest ing, too, because it is further proof that no matter how high an office a wan (Profumo) may held, he Is still human and his NEW TROOPER FOR DUNN — State trooper Wilson Horton, right, formerly i|C assigned to duty in Dunn, succeeding Trooper George Spain, who was transfei the left is Corporal W.~T. Harris, a popular resident here for several years Thi veteran of four years tit the Marine Corps. He has Just completed basic training Chapel Hill and is now fleaming the ropes” from Cpl. Harris. (Dally Record ild tooper Is a atrol school In Another Exec To Be Assigned Western Harnett Scouting Grows So Fast, Harnett To Be Divided The rapidly - growing Harnett Coupty District of tfce Occonee cftee Council of Boy Scouts -of America — largest district In the county — will soon be split Into two districts, It was announced today. A professional leader. Scout Ex ecutive Dick Walters, now lives In Dunn and serves Scouting through out the entire big Harnett Coun ty district. The change will mean that an additional District Scout Executive will be assigned to Harnett. He will live In Lillington and serve the western half of the county. Walters now directs the pro gram for more than 90 Scout packs, troops and posts with a to tal membership of atiout 18W boys' in Harnett. The average number of units served, nationwide, la only 35. Growth of Scouting in Harnett is a tribute to Walters’ high type of hard-working leadership and to the hundreds of adult leaders who assist him in the program. As an indication of the progress made by the Boy Scout movement in Harnett, ten years ago, there were only 616 boys in 32 units In Harnett; five years ago, there were 947 boys in 50 units and (Continued on Page Stot) L| Sen. Morgan Named | RALEIGH (CPI) — Reappoint ment of three officials to the North Carolina Commission on In terstate Cooperation was announced here today by Got. Terry San ford. Sanford appointed Atty Gen T. Wade Bruton; David S Coltrane, N. C Good Neighbor Council chairman; and Prisons Director George W Randall to new terms expiring June 30, 1965. The commission works with similar commissions from other states through the promotion of uniform or reciprocal laws. The ®(oveimor appoints three members to the commission un der state law. Hie president ot the Senate appoints three, and the speaker of the House appoints three. House Speaker Clifton Blue ap pointed State Hep. Joe E. Eagles of Macclesfield; Earl W Vaughn of Diaper; and Thorne Gregory of Scotland Neck State Senate President Clarence Stone appointed State Sen. Rob ert B. Morgan of Lillington; Ray H Walton of Southport and Thom as J White of Kinston. House Speaker Blue serves as ex officio member of the commis sion Butts Libel Case Is Nearing Jury ATLANTA (UPI) — Wallace Butts’ $10 million libel suit trial neared Its conclusion today with a witness prhallenging the note' that an Atlanta insurance man said he Jotted down while listen ing to Butts talk football. John Carmichael, testifying in Butts’' behalf, said the notes which George Burnett said be made were not the same ones Introduced an evidence earlier In the trial now In Its seventh day. Carmichael, a former employer of Burnett, said he had seen a copy of the notes Burnett said he took while listening to a tele phone call between Butts, former athletic director at Georgia, and Alabama football coach Paul (Bear) Bryant. Today, Carmichael was given a copy of the notes Introduced in the trial, and was asked if they were the same which Burnett said he made last falL Net Same Notes “No, sir, these are not the same notes,” Carmichael said. Butts is suing the Saturday Eve ning Post which printed a story (Continued on Page Six) Plan Reunion A reunion of former members or persons drafted into regi - mental Headquarters uittery US FA of the Dunn National Guard who were mobilised in 1*40 and served dur ing World War H, will be heM at the VFW building in LUlington this Saturday night. . . The battery was later known as HQ. 1M FA group. Dinner will be served beginning about 7 p. m Several from out of state have made plans to be present Those who witfi to attend should con tact William K. Brewer, 906 South Wilmington Avenue, Dunn. mpty Mail ." • ••>»* — - ■ Found On ed Farm ^LONDON (fiPI) — Police found jjpe hideout of the mail train rob bery gang today about 73 hours lifter the bandits had fled with the loot of more than $7 million m history's biggest holdup. Scotland Yard disclosed the eout was: discovered about 11 on a secluded farm 43 miles rthwest of London. ■-“Empty mail bags” were found ■aid Commander George Hathe rill, deputy commander of Scot id Yard. e hideout was a brick house illed Leatherslade farm, about mflfes, from the scene of last unh- lonbery at Cheddlng ’ Hathetfll said this housf looked -^^the gang had left “In fclhejti^&gry.” ■ •‘There were a lorry two LgndrovSrs (Jeep-1) outside.) A pit had bi looked as though they Int bury the stuff,” the Mid. „ ^ Hatherlll said no money was found at the hideout, but that some mailbags had been located. fie said the hideout “resembled an empty cottage.’’ He said it Was located some distance from ■tain roads and warned that po Uoe would keep the area sealed ttt for two or three days while Investigations were carried out. Batherill said he already had drdered a team of finger-print ex perts to the house. ■i fie said he believed the gang had left the house about three file* ago and .that they might have been scared away bjr press publicity. Jim Davis' Sister Dies CLINTON. 8. C—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Emily Davis Jones, 53, of Philadelphia, who died last Wednesday, will be held Wednes day at 3:30 pjn. in Clinton. Bur ial will be in the city cemetery. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Turner Henley of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Kenneth Bicker of Bir mingham, Ala., and Mrs. J. R. Barbour of Hamlet, N. C.; and three brothers, Robert Davis of Atlanta, George Davis of Arling ton, Va., and Jim Davis of Lilllng ton, N. C. She was a registered nurse. Dunn Man Gets Top Occoneechee Post Godwin To Head Council Campaign City councilman O. W. (BUI) Godwin, who served for two terms as chairman of Harnett County's Boy Scout District, has; been ap pointed chairman of the Century Club for the entire Occoneechee Boy Scout Council. , Selection of the prominent Dunn business man- and civic leader was announced today by l?e(lo. Tpey of Durham, presidet of the Dur ham and Southern ‘Railroad and chairman of. the .major member ships of the Occoneechee Council. Mr. Godwih,' Whb had Sefvedeb Century Club chairman for the Town of Dunn for the past seve ral years, will give leadership to the Century Club phase of the campaign in the whole 12-county area that comprises the huge far flung Occoneechee Council. PAST SERVICE PRAISED In selecting Godwin to head the program for the whole coun cil, Mr. Teer said: *T am espec ially delighted that this aggres sive young leader has agreed to serve. He has done a magnificent Job In Harnett County during past yean and X am confident that he will do the same sort of bang-up (Continued on Page Six) O. W. (BUI) GODWIN FIRST OPEN BOLL THIS SEASON — Joe Bud Jernlgan, Shown here with his father, “Cousin Earl” Jernig&n of Dunn, Route 1, Is proudly holding the first open boll of cotton reported here this season. Mr. Jemlgan, retired National Guardsman and OB* of the most popular residents of the area, has 27 acres of cotton this year and reports an unusually jppd crop (Daily Record Photo.) _ Joint City - State - Federal Project Business Study Slated Here - ' \ . - ■ - v n Dunn’s city council has approved plans for a Central Business Study to be conducted by representatives of the State Department of Con servation and Developmtnt and financed Jointly by the Federal government, the Town of Dunn and business firms of the community. City Manager Archie Uzzle said the study would be of untold value to the town and to every bus iness firm in Hie town, as weH as to individual citiaens who will all benefit indirectly. The study will include a survey and recommendations for improve ment of traffic flow, service cir culation, pedestrian .patterns, loca tion of off - street parking; spec ial land use characteristics, site design and landscaping. Participation Vital Total cost of the all - Inclusive study project will be $4,400. Of this, the Federal government will pay $2,666.67, the Town of Dunn will pay $866.67 and the remain ing $866.67 will be paid for by the individual business firms, pooling their contributions. John Donnelly of the Commun ity Planning Division of the State Department of Conservation and Development told the city council It was preferable, in fact, extreme ly important, tnat business firms be allowed to ihare the cost. “The reasoning behind this is that other surveys and studies have shown that when the busi ness man has a personal invest ment in the project, he takes a I much greater. and keener interest in it, and thus it proves far more kceessft*.*— ' .. Chairman Billy Pope of (be Dunn Retail Merchants Associa tion told town officials he feels confident that local business men will support the project whole heartedly and enthusiastically. It was approved by Chairman Myres Tilghman and other mem bers of the Dunn Planning Board before being presented ty the city ^ council. With both boards, ap proval waS unanimous. .•** ; H. -J v Dunn Masons To Play Host . ■ ' : ,t*. ■. * ■/i | I i I The Dunn Masonic Lodge will be host to Masons throughout the 13th District at a School of Ins truction to be held in the Dunn lodge hall on Wednesday night of this week and Wednesday night of next week. Acting Sect. Nick Joseph, a past master of the Dunn lodge, said each of the sessions will be-, gin at 8 p.nt. Dr. Jack Jordan is master of the Dunn lodge and Vincent McBryd of Fayetteville la District Deputy Grand Master. A large attendance f r o m throughout the district is expect ed. 8 Reported Killed LYONS. France (tfPI) — A French airliner with 16 persons reported aboard crashed In east central France today during a do mestic run between Lyon and Lil le, police said. First reports said eight persons were killed and eight seriously In jured. The Paris office of the airline, “Air Inter,” said the aircraft was carrying 12 passengers and a crew of four. Police and rescue serviceg went to the scene of the crash, between the villages of Tramoyes and Saint Andre de Corey, about 13 miles from Lyons. The airliner was said to have struck a pylon. Authorities said the injured sur vivors were taken to a hospital In Lyons. There was no Immediate indi cation of the nationalities of the passengers. Normally, on such short-haul domestic flights, the passengers are French. The crew consisted of the pilot, second pilot, and two stewardess (Continues on Page Six) John H. Herring Much Improved John H. Herring, popular Dunn resident and widely-known bust* nessman, is back at his home here, much Improved after a serious illness of several weeks. “I want to take this opportuni ty,” said Mr Herring today, "to express my sincere and1 heartfelt appreciation to my great host of friends for their many cards, let ters, visits, flowers and other ex pressions of friendship during my Illness. I shall be forever grateful to all of you." For Conferences With City Officials State NAACP Chief Here Kelly Alexander of Charlotte, State president of the NAACP, wa, scheduled to arrive In Dunn about 4:30 this afternoon for a conference with Mayor George Franklin Blalock and other local leaders. The NAACP chief came at Invitation of the mayor in an fort to help resolve some of tension and probfcms facing town. Mayor Blalock wired Alexander ?isf last week that nothing could be accomplished here as long as the Rev. B. B. Felder, local NAACP chief, handles negotiations. He said the minister had lost respect of both white and Negro citizens, neither of whom condone his handling of affairs. Last night In city court, trial of 39 youths on charges connected with weekend disorders was post* ' poned until Sept. 11 when Defense Attorney W. O. Pearson of Ra-b leigh requested jugr mats ior each. _ Trial of a case started a couple weeks ago ms concluded last night when Andrea McKisick of Dur ham received SO days in Jail far trespass. OOP SELECTS HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The Fairmont Hotel was officially se lected by Republicans Wednesday for their headquarters during the 1964 nominating convention, to Its eld at the Cow Palace.
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