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(jJojaihsiA Some cloudiness but generally lair this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. High mostly In the low to mid 80s. Cool tonight. Turn ing a little cooler northeast por tion Wednesday. She VOLUME IS TELEPHONE 89S-S1M - M-S1M DUNN, W. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1963 FIVE CENTS PER COPY "FOUR-COUNTY FAIR time AGAIN — Dunn’s 16th annual Four Co unty Agricultural Falrl sponsored by Dunn Post No. 59 of Ole Ameri can. Legion, swung into high gear last night, and Record photographer Russell Bassford was on the mile - long midway of Palmetto Shows to film these shots. The girls, of course. Just love those cuddly anima Is, it wouldn’t be a fair without a ferris wheel. The biggest drawing card of all, of course, is lovely living dolls like this one at the girlie show. And cotton candy seems to be coming King Sire this year. The mammoth agricultural and entertainment exposition will continue through Saturday night. New fMam A Grifton, ■ _ 'im mM flamming luck too far here today and landed n jail. Yesterday, said Police Chief Al ton Cobb, Harris passed through Rose’s and McCrory’s, two local self service dime stores, gathering up articles. He took them to the check-out cashier, said he was returning them arid wanted a refund. He got it at both places. ’■ ‘Today, Harris returned, but got a little too greedy. Manager John ‘Moss sad he got six pairs of over alls at Rose’s which aroused sus picion. Police were called and he *tas jailed for flim-flamming and public drunkenness. SERVICES SET FOR WED. Funeral services for Miss Her mie Ennis of Richmond, Va., will lie held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Chomartie Funeral Home with the Rev. Frank Davidson of Erwin and Rev. C. W. Kirby officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Ce metery. Announce Birth Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lee Holle man announce the blrtl\, of a dau khter, Sandra Faye, August M at Hex Hospital. Mrs. Holleman is "the former Linda Wring. REUNION SET Descendants of the late Jerry Lee and Bennett Mattsenglll will hold their family reunion at the Blackmans’ Grove Community Building Sunday, September 15. jTiends are invited, and all are reminded to bring a picnic lunch. j Over 20,000 Tar Heels Served (Green Reports 14“% ’ * m m .| mcreaselsy PCA o More than 20.000 North Caro lina fanners were being served with nearly $85 million In short— and intermediate—term credit on July 31, 1803, by the 34 produc tion credit associations in North Carolina, according to Herman P. Green general manager of the Dunn Production Credit associa tion. Mr. Green, who has Just return ed from a meeting of PCA exe cutive committeemen held at Goldsboro, reported that the loan volume of these farmer owned and operated credit cooperatives has increased by 14 percent during the past year in meeting the Increased credit needs of agriculture. The theme of the meeting cen tered on geeping credit service geared to the needs of farmers and Mr. Green said, “it is necessary that North Carolina farmers em ploy more good management - on their farms and do more sound financial planning in order to handle the increased amount of capital required on North Caro lina farms today.” Dr. C. E. Bishop, head of the Agricultural Economics Depart ment at North Carolina State Col lege was guest speaker at the meeting and spoke on “The Chan ging Credit Needs of Fanners." Mr. Green was accompanied to the Goldsboro meeting by the fol lowing officers and directors of the Dunn Association: ,E. E. Seay, president, Sam F. Hudson, direc tor, James L. Warren, Clinton of fice manager and H. Ralph Ken nedy, assistant secretary-treasur er. Dunn Hits Highest Avg. Tuesday Dunn Tobacco Market hit Its highest daily average of the sea son yesterday and its highest poundage in any one day. V The market in Dunn averaged (58.42 per hundred pounds yes terday for a total of 395,130 pounds for a total of 3229,038.80. The quality was extremely good. Farmers continued to pour their tobacco onto the warehouse floors in Dunn last night and today and a good break of tobacco was for cast for today too. Tomorrow the market, along with other markets on the belt will go on a four hour sales day instead of the regular 5 and a half hour day. This means the number of bas kets per warehouse that can be sold win be 800 a day Instead of 1,100 per warehouse thru next : Monday. Tomorrow opening sale will be at the Big Four Warehouse and the second sale is at the Planters. In Slaying of Wife's Lover Thomas Asked To T ake Lie Test A Harnett County man, accused by his estranged wife as the stay er of her lover at Sanford last Wednesday, has been requested by tee County authorites to take a Jfe detector test, it was disclosed today by Lee Sheriff D, F. Hold er. Andy Mack Thomas, about 46, of Ulllngton, an ex-convict and tbe slaying suspect, reportedly has refused to take the Me test, but this fact could not be con firmed today. Meanwhile. Mrs. Thomas, who confessed she loved itarry Woodrow Fouler, 46, of Hanford .although .both of them tyre married to others, has been Quoted as threatening to swear out a warrant for Thomas herself charging him with Fowler's mur der. Fowler was shot to death Wed nesday night about 9 o’clock as he talked on the telephone in a trai ler belonging to Mrs. Thomas In Sanford where she is employed. Thomas has denied the shot gun slaying and claimed he was asleep at his home in Lifflagton at the time. By coincidence, his attorney, state Senator Robert Morgan of LilUngton. filed a suit tor divorce for Thomas against bis wife in Harnett Recorder's Court on the very day of the kill ing. found by Mrs. Thomas and her Fowler wu still alive when teenage daughter, Alice, when they returned to the trailer. Mrs. Thomas said she had been to 111 lington and delivered to her hus band an 11-page letter she had written him explaining that she didn’t love him but loved Fowler. She wild her husband, who re turned In June from serving six months in a Florida prison for bootlegging, had threatened to kill Fowler previously. “My husband is Kean, that’s what I tried to tell policemen,” Mrs. Fowler told newsmen." She said she had warned Fowler her husband was dangerous and said she Just knows he’s the one who killed him. | Three Facing three men and charged them wit] violations of the state prdhibitioi law. Junior Byrd of Banner Town ship was charged with possessing a 200-gallon, vat-type still and SO gallons of mash and with menu facturing illegal liquor for the pur pose of sale. Glenn Johnson of Clevelam Townshif was charged with pos seasing a 00 - gallon, cooper stil and 150 gallons of mash and wit) manufacturing illegal whisky fo the purpose of sale. Delma E. Jemigan of Bonne Township was charged with pos sessing a 60 - gallon, copper stil 140 gallons or fermenting mash, 1 gallons of white whisky, and wltl possessing the distillery and mat erials for the purpose of manu facturing the illict liquor for th purpose of sale. The raids were made by Gleni Cobb, Dailey Stewart, Fulton Moo re, Braxton Hinton, and H. H. Olive Jr. FATHER DIE8 Paul Ledford of Tocoa, Ga., fa ther of Poe Ledford of Dunn, dlec this morning. The body will be at Matthews Funeral Home there Funeral arrangements ar« Incom plete. Purely Political ys Kennedy ion As MONTGOMERY* Ala. (TIPI)— 0ov. George C. Wallace said to day he would obey federal court Oilers restraining nlm from In terfering with racial integration In Alabama schools because he “Oould not fight” bayonets with my bare hands.” .. Wallace, dapper in a blue suit Ipd refreshed after a stormy wdght, said there was little he doald do before the "whole arm ed might" of the United States. "-“The court orders breaches of the .peace. My duty is to preserve -the*peace. The governor la caught i* the middle. “1 can’t fight bayonets with my bard hands.” T le scrappy segregationist said h« rould continue to “resist lntei grat on” by filing court suit* at tacking the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segre gation. The governor said the federali >n of Alabama National ten by President Kennedy ‘another long step toward a dictatorship.” ^ . t "Mr. Kennedy, consumed by his doubtful re-election, is talcing complete charge. The Kennedy forces are laying the predicate for the Jailing of the governor Ala bama/' he said. "Is this being done because it has been anounced that I might participate in some of the presi dential primaries?” Wallace asked. “When we come around to jail ing political opponents we still have taken another long step to ward a military dictatorship and we have several examples of these in banana republics of Central and South America.” RECORD RELEASED Charles Lee Guy, III, son of form er Dana attorney and Mrs. C. L 1 Guy, may be on his way to fame and fertane. Capitol Records, one of the larg est rsmpsnbis in the business, has Just released an album by Guy en titled, ’Prisoner's Dream.” It In cludes about IS or 15 selections ’ written by Johnny Cash and other big - name artists while Guy was serving a prison term in California for slaying hi mother’s boy friend. Too Many Actresses Taking Off Clothes HOLLYWOOD — Stella Stevens says too many actresses are tak ing off their clothes — and Warn ing It on art. "It's insecurity that makes ac tresses pose In the nude—not art. There’s more art when something is left to the imagination,” ar gues the beautiful blonde. What makes Stella’s opinion more newsworthy than most is that she Once posed for a seven page nude layout In Playboy mag azine. "My Insecurity was money lack of jt. I was flat busted—fi nancially.’’ What started Stella off on the nude tirade was a reference to the recent Jayne Mansfield lay out In the same magasine. “Jayne said she did it for art. What a laugh. She’s Insecure a bout her acting ability—and she 'Mwwkadi ' Every actress who announces a nude pose is in the midst of an acting slump. I hope I never have to do it again. I was embarrassed.” 8tella said she posed for the layout not long after 30th Century Fox dropped her contract. “I had a baby son to support I didn’t know a soul in town. I could appeal to. I couldn't go bade to my home town of Memphis be cause 1 was involved in a custody case With my ex-husband and a Judge had ordered that I be thrown in Jail for contempt of court. “I was insecure—and hungry. A photographer and his wife offered me the chance to make $3,000 for the layout. I took them up on it.” Former Resident Dies In Richmond Miss Hermie Ennis, former res ident of Dunn, died Monday at her home, II North Linden Street, Richmond. Va. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Neva Israel of Lumber ton; two brothers, Charles Ennis of Rocky Mount' and Lindsey Ennis of Waxhaw; also several neices and nephews. Funeral services are Incomplete and wiB be announced later by Pretty Teenage "Other Wo man" Says It Isn't True Myrtle: Jury Wrong Myrtle Naylor Is an extremely cute little teenager, shapely, blonde, with a milk and honey complexion and a smile and per sonality that simply glows. As State Senator and attorney Robert B. Morgan of Lillington described Myrtle, “she's as cute as a little doll." So she is, reminding you of the girl-next-door who might have just stepped out of the church choir. She has poise, charm, per sonality, speaks politely In a de lightful cT*vstal-clear voice. She definitely doesn’t atrlke you as the sort of girl to fit the role she played last week, one that landed her in headlines all across the State and had a big part of the population of Harnett and the rest of the State talking and ask ing, “Who is Myrtle Naylor?” For last week in Harnett Re corder’s Court she was cast in one of the leading roles in the sordid, sensational divorce case of Char les and Rose Mclamb, described by lawyers on both sides as ‘‘the meanest, most common case of its kind In all the history of Har nett County.” "OTHER WOMAN” Few people, if anyone, would ever picture Myrtle Naylor as "the other woman” ih a love triangle that ended a marriage of over 15 years. Yet a jury late Friday afternoon found after more than two hours deliberation that Charles Mc Lamb and this innocent-looking little doll had committed adultery MYRTLE NAYLOR and Rose McLamn was granted an absolute divorce, now being ap pealed by her husband to Superior Court, J4yrtJe »y# tHe "Jury was wrong* it just isn’t true.” Brought up by strict parents in a good home. Myrtle gave part of her side of the story today. “Pretty pettier* — that’s what they tell me,” said Myrtle, "and popular — but whot wants THAT kind of popularity? I’m ruined for life ... I think I’U leave the State.’ She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G B. Naylor, formerly of Dunn, and attended Dunn schools before moving to Erwin. There was evidence that Myrtle had been living and carrying on an affair with Charles McLamb, well-known Dunn-Erwin business man. ADMITTED NOTHING “The papers said I readily admit ted being intimate with Charles McLamb,” she related today. “I was asked this three times in court and denied It three times.’’ Rural policeman Carson Hall had testified he went looking for Myrtle at the request of her par ents and found her at McLamb’s home in his bed. The officer quot ed the pretty young girl as admit ting they had engaged in sexual intercourse on a sofa downstairs before she went upstairs to bed. “I have never said that Char I les and I slept together any (Continued on i*nge 6) &50,000 Asked In Case Sent Back By Supreme Cour/ Trial Of Damage Suit Opens Testimony was being heard to day in Harnett Superior Court ir the $50,000 damage suit brought in the death of Cecil Mack Ennis 8-year-old boy. Defendant in the suit is Mrs Sarah Dupree Talley of Angler, s teacher in the Coats school and driver of the car which struck anc fatally injured the child. At an earlier term of court, the case was non-suited, but the State Supreme Court reversed the trial judge and ordered the case tried Mrs. Tally had testified the first time that the youth appeared sud denly in front of her car, explain ing, “It looked like he dropped down from Heaven." The Supreme Court held that he couldn’t have dropped down from Heaven, as claimed, and re manded the case. Dunn attorney Everette Doffer myre and State Senator Robert Morgan are representing the boy’s estate, and Franklin T. Dupree, Sr. and son, Franklin, Jr., are de PRIMITTVE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION The Rev. Lester Lee announc ed today that the Seven Mile Pri mitive Baptist (Association will be held with the Black River Church in Dunn Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Services will begin Friday morning at eleven o’clock; Saturday morning at 9:30; and Sunday at ten o’clock. These are all day meetings. Dinner will be served on the grounds each day. The public is invited to attend. fending Mrs. Talley. First witness was Bill Ragsdale of Smithfield, a surveyor who testified the, woman had 31 feet of visibility in front of her in which to see the child. The fatality occurred Feb. 18, 1959 as Mrs. Talley was enroute to her home In Angler from the Coats school. Bennett May Manage Campaign Judge Preyer In Governors Race GREENSBORO (UPI) — A three-man fight, contrasting the extremes In political Ideologies, Is shaping up for the 1964 North Carolina Democratic gubernatorial primary. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh Is at one end of the political spec trum; L. Richardson Preyer of Greensoro is at the other, and Dan K. Moore of Canton is some where in the middle. Preyer became th second of the three to announce his intentions. He told a hastily-called news con ference Monday that he would resign as U. S. district judge to seek the Democratic nomination. Moore, a former Superior Court judge, had previously announced he would seek the nomination and Lake, an attorney, has all but thrown his hat in the ring. There will be at least one other candidate In the primary — R. 3. Stansbury of Hillsboro — but ob servers feel the fight will be be tween the three previously men tioned candidates. Three other prospective candi dates — Bert L. Bennett, Robert W. Scott and Thomas Pearsall— have not yet committed themsel ves, but it is doubtful that they will enter the race. LAKE SHU OUT FRONT . Lake will represent the conser vative wing of the party, Preyer the liberal and Moore presumably the moderate. Moore has not al igned himself as yet with any group, nor has he Indicated what his platform would be. However, followers, including Sen. Sam Er vin, D.-N.C., have indicated he would take a moderate path. At this stage, the fight looks like one of political ideologies ra ther than personalities, although the effects of the latter will no doubt be felt aa the campaign picks up steam. Preyer said he would withhold (Continued on Page Six) Would Raise County Taxes 50c Per $100 Valuatro n School Vote To Be Oct. 19 The Harnett County Board ol Commissioners, after a well - at tended public bearing Monday morning, voted to go ahead with plans for a $4,000,000 bond elec tion for consolicouon of the coun ty’s high schools. Saturday, October 10th was set as the date for the election. Under the plan, the county’s pre sent ten high schools will be con solidated into three large consolidate ed high schools, with a minimum enrollment of from 800 to 1,000 each. One disclosure that brought rais ed eyebrows at the hearing was a statement from County Auditor Her bert D. Carson that approval of the bond issue would mean an increase of from 50 to 60 cents per hun dred dollar property valuation. This means that a family own ing a home or other property valued additional
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