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Borne cloudiness but generally fair
and warmer tonight. Variable
cloudiness Tuesday and a little
warmer. Highest today In the 80s.
Lows tonight generally in the 40s.
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SELECTION COMMITTEE AND NOMINEES — Chairman J. Shepard Bryan and other members ot
the Harnett County Selection Committee are pictured here with the tw*> seniors nominated tor More
head Scholarships at Sunday afternoon’s meeting. Nominated .were Cliff Butler, seated, left, and Chuck
Byrd, seated right. Standing are: Judge Howard G. Godwin, Chairman Bryan, John F. Strickland
and Dean A. R. Burkot, who selected them. (Dally Record Photo by Russell Bassford.)
Robert McLean, Jr. 17-year-old
Negro youth of Godwin, appeared
in' Dunn Recorders Court before
Judge Woodrow Hill on a multiple
of charges.
McLean was arrested two weeks
ago toy Policemen Donald Nordon
and i. L. Jackson, Jr. after a
chase which carried them into Cum
berland County. McLean was char
ged with speeding, hit and run, and
careless and reckless driving. He
was also charged with assault on
officers but since the actual of
fense occurred In Cumberland Co.,
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Barnett County Morehead Award '
Committee to compete further for I
the coveted Mo rehead Scholarship ■
Award worth $5400.06 to each win !
ner.
The Harnett County Selection 1
Committee conducted an interview 1
with fifteen applicants in the
Campbell College Administration 1
Building {ram 2:00 P. M. to 6:30 I
P. M„ after haying personally re
viewed the individual record of '
each of the fifteen applicants from ,
the Senior Classes of the ' High ,
Schools of Hamett County.
The two Harnett County nomi- (
bees were certified to the District ,
Committee today. The two sheet
ed High school Seniors will meet «
the District Committee in Raleigh
mi a Ate early in the year 1004
for further Interviews.
Clifford R. Batter, Jr. ,
Clifford Butler is the son of ,
Mrs. Alice Tart Butler and the ,
late Clifford R. Butler of UMl (
North mis Avenue. He la one of (
the best high school athletes in ,
Eastern North Carolina, having
Vice President of Over Two Million
j
Carter Is Given ■£
High Church Past
The Rev. Herbert Carter of
Dunn, general superintendent of
the Pentecostal Tree Will Baptist
Conference covering the Caro*
linas and three other southern
states, has Just returned from
Montreal, Canada, where he was
elected Vice Chairman of the
Pentecostal Fellowship of North
America.
•;He was also elected to the exe
cutive committee of the group and
at editor of the PFNA News, of
ficial publication of the body of
almost 20 Pentecostal denomina
tions and many independent con
gregations with a combined mem
bership of approximately two mil
lion.
' Now only 30 years old, the Rev.
Mr. Carter is believed to be the
youngest official of the far-flung
organisation.
He succeeds Bishop J. A. Synan
qt Franklin Springs, Oa., who was
ofevated to toe poet of chairman.
- ‘-The annual convention ended
Friday hi Montreal, wring ton Ha
and crowding the 1000-seat Evan
gel Pentecostal Church in the .
world’s • second-largest French- 1
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iron monograms in football, bas
tetball and baseball. Recently he
ras picked by the Coach of the
forth Carolina Shrine Came Team
o play December 7, 1063 in Char
otte between North Carolina and
South Carolina.
Besides his outstanding athletic
irowess young Butler has been ac
ire in Student Government ac
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Slated By
TV Network
LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s
iommercial television network
announced today it will Show a
eries for newlyweds on such subl
ets as honeymoons, sexual Intef
ourse, birth control, infidelity and
livorce.
The network, Independent Tele
ision (ITT), said the series. “AD
Lbout Marriage,” would run for
bur weeks and will be ‘'controver
ted, dealing frankly and realistfcal
y with present - day marriage.”
Among the topics, a spokesman
aid, would be. "Is a honeymoon
, good idea?” “mat is normal sex
lfe?” “Sexual difficulties found in
emales and males,” “Major meth
od of birth control”, and “Sexual
elatlons during pregnancy and
fter.”
Driver Courses
Driver Education Representative
>f Motor Vehicles announced that
Dempsey Miller of the Department
(river education courses sponsored
iy the vehicles agency have been
icheduled for'(his area.
Traffic safety education was
nade mandatory by an act of the
IMS General Assembly for all 16*18
rear old youths. Miller explained.
New courses getting underway
ire being offered, in compliance
Mth the law and will be available
a each county. They are designed
« supplement regular high school
bluer training and to meet the
leeds at those young people to
she* such training is not available.
High school students win have
Scheduled
Says Thompson
Told Girl He'd
Get Freedom ~
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. <UP»
The prosecution told the jury in,
the trial of accused wife killer i*.,
Eugene Thompson today that
would show Thompson told his girl
friend early in 1982, “just give me.
li months" and he would be fros.
to marry her. ,
The little, crewcut tow' - heart,
who is accused of masterminding
a plot to do away with his church
worker wife, Carol, M. flushed seer
let many times about the faee and
neck during the one-hour opening
statement by prosecutor William B.
Randall in Hennepin County Court
Thompson, 35, w«a a rising St/
Paul criminal attorney until tiiei
savage bludgeon - Stab murder of
Carol Thompson, mother of four,
in their Highland Park heme t»
St. Paul last March 6.
Reveals Girt Friend
Randall, his six - foot - throe
frame hunched over a little blue
lectern sitting on the counsel ta
ble, jabbing two skinny finger eon
Stantly toward the jury box, stood
only 10 feet from the shting de
fendant when he brought out the
existence of a girl friend.
He said the state would
Thompson had financed her
.
“ " ih
the night V got with Carol,*1
doll saMCi^o .
His voipa rising in «
cadence, Randall said the
would sh<rp that Thompson in 13
months gMtge Carol*i murder had
accumulated *1,068,0001 in accidental
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ake Organization Is
“MISS COATS HIGH” contest will be held Saturday night In the school auditorium. Pictured here are
the contestants from the freshman and sophomore classes. Freshmen, top row, left to right, Vicky Ste
wart, Susan Faircloth, Charlene Trogden, Joy Bowden, Sus Johnson and Nancy Cummings. Sophomores
are Glenda Flowers Debbie Jones, Ruth Sorrell, Carol Franklin, Teresa Byrd and Sheila Dupree.
Miss Coats High" To Be Crowned
•Rir Coat* Chapter of 'future
Homemakers of America, advised
by Miss Faye Clark, is sponsoring
the “liisa Coats High” contest on
Ssttirday^dggjtit, November 9, at 8
o'clock s£flthe school auditorium.
■Mie event is sponsored annual
ly by the-FHA Club of the school
iipd' the twenty-four contestants
are -selected by the faculty. In se
lection- of the contestants, the
faculty chooses six representatives
from each class on the basis of
Has Crirhinl Record Hole
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For Robbery Of Bank
Twenty - lit - year-old Charles
Ihomas Johnson, former Dunn
man who was arrested during the
wCeksnd at Daytona Beach, Ha..
Mid charged itth the $10,403 hold
up of a hank at Kenly last Tues
lay, has a criminal record In
Dunn.
However, except for one Federal
liquor violation and conviction in
1A6T, other offenses were all of a
minor violation a check of court
records today showed.
Johnson left Dunn a few years
ago. His last known employment
here was as a service station oper
ator. The FBI said he also Work
ed at a service station not too far
from the Kenly bar* for several
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Dunn High Junior
Succumbs To Illness
Ronald Lea non Groves. 11, ol
Route 4 Dunn, died Saturday at his
Home alter* lew Illness.
He was bom » Harnett County
md was a. member of the junior
slaes at Dunn Wfh School. He had
Uso attended Needham Broughton
High School it| Raleigh and Roa
noke Rapids HJfti School.
Surviving ate his parents, Mr.
rod Mrs. O. D. Groves of Route 4;
His wife, Mrs: Mrs Alma Roberts
drove* and * shn, Ronald Jeffrey
rf the home; one brother Gene
droves of Raleigh and a sister,
Unda of the heme; his paternal
grandfather, Claude Groves, Sr.,
rf Route 4, and his maternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrl. a.
Haynot of ttaMh" ' /
Funeral services w*r<! held today
it * p. m. la the Mount Carmel
Shurch of Gad by the Rev. Mer
rtn Jemtfan end *» R«r, Millard
Haynor. Burial w»s in the Antioch
I their personality, beauty and poise.
[ Freshmen contestants this year
include: Vicky Stewart, Susan
Faireloth, Charlene Trogden, Joy
Bowden, Sue Johnson and Nan
cy Cummings.
Sophomores are: Glenda Flow
ers, Debbie Jones, Ruth Sorrell,
Carol Franklin, Teresa Byrd and
Shelia Dupree.
Representing the Junior Class
are: Judy Mabry, Sondra Ennis,
Christine Johnson, Linda Ruth
Barefoot, Bettie Jo Turlington and
June Bowen.
Seniors vying for the title are:
Bess Watkins, Judy Ennis, Bren
da Coats, Becky Ennis, Ann En
nis, and Sandra Wolf,'
A “Miss Congeniality” will, be
selected by the contestants.
On Friday prior to. the pageant,
a tea will be held honoring the
contestants, their mothers, the
high school faculty and the judg
es.. . .
Admission or advance * tickets
are 50c for children and 75c adults.
I
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UFI)
—Mme. Nyo Nyo Dinh Nhu, First '
Lady of the deposed South Viet i
Nam government, .disclosed today <
she has asked the U. S. State De- i
partment ‘‘to guarantee my safety
on my return to my country.”
Mme. Nhu released the text of 1
a telegram she sent Sunday to
Secretary of State Dean Rusk In
rtiich she said she planned to re
urn to her homeland to “take
sare of my husband and chlld
'en."
Her husband, former South
Vietnamese strongman Ngo Dinh
*hu, and her brother-in-law, de
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Other Candidates
Still Seeking
Their Manager .
RALEIGH (UPI) — Raleigh At
ty. I. Beverly Lake said today he
would announce during November V
whether he would1 become a can
didate for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination next year.
Lake, in a carefully worded
statement, gave every indication
he intended to again seek the no
mination which Gov. ferry San
ford won from him in the first at
tempt in 1960.
“I expect to announce before ^
the end of November whether or
not I shall be a candidate for go
vernor in' the Democratic pri
mary,” Lake said. ** -
Lake, defeated in o bitter sec
ond primary by Sanford, made
the announcement at a special
news conference called after a
weekend of conference# with some
of his campaign workers.
“I already have my state man
ager, two regional managers, and
many county managers and pre
cinct workers,” Lake said. He said
“the announced candidates are
skid' to be loOkftig for* e*mpag»
managers.**
Lake declined to mention any
names in connection With top
posts in his campaign otganiaa
tion. However, he singled out
Alex Brock, Raleigh businessman
who has been raising funds for
the expected campaign, for praise.
SUCCESS IN FUND-RAISING
Hie former Wake Forest law
professor said Brock, in two weeks
has "had substantsd success” In
raising money for the campaign.
Lake said when he was first men
tioned as a possilite candidate
that money would be a major fac
tor In his decision.
The “Lake for Governor Com
mittee” which has maintained of
fices to Raleigh suporting his can
didacy submitted a report to Lake -
this past weekend. Lake, men
tioning no details of the report,
said “I was greatly encouraged.”
He said he was also “very much
pleased by the acceptance of the
job” of state campaign manager
by the person he selected. State
Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett
was Lake’s campaign manager in
the last election.
Lake said he would announce
the names of persons who would
be his campaign ledaroa “if and
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Hanna Withdraws To Take Campaign To People :
Fred Byerly Named To Board
Harriett Superior Court Clerk
Elizabeth Matthews Saturday an
nounced the appointment of Fred
M. Byerly, Dunn insurance man,
to fill out the unexpired term of
Loftoh A. Tart on the Harnett
C-orinty Board of Commissioners.
Byerly, a brother of Bay Byerly
if Sanford, veteran legislative
reading clerk, will become District
One’S first new county commis
libner since the late Chairman
Fart took ofifce 17 years ago.
Mrs. Matthews, in naming Byer
ly, said she was accepting the re
commendation of the chairmen
ind vice chairmen of the four
kverasboro Township ' Democratic
preempt chairmen. Th«f district is
made up of four Averasboro pre
Cizicts, with all fou£; verting places
located in Dunri. ‘
Byeriy .was the only person no
minated. . ./ . *
Former Dunn Mayor Ralph EL
Hanna announced Friday after
soon several hour* prior to the
meeting thak.Be withdrawing
| his name from consideration after
i some of his leading supporters ex
pressed dissatisfaction with man
euvering that had been going on
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k COMMISSION** BIWI
between Byerly and membcn of
the committee.
“Under the circumstance*,” said
Hanna, “I prefer to take my canf*
paign directly to the Democrat* J
Mf Averasboro Township in the
primary next spring. I will he
nappy to meet Mr. Byerly on the
sampaign trail and at the ballot
boxe*.’’
Harnett Democratic Chairman
Neill McH. Ross presided at the
meeting in the Dunn courtrooms
Before calling for nomihattow*.
Chairman Ross paid brief frdmtf
to the late Chairman Tart, dafe,
elating:
"This, of course, is not the
time and place for a proper eutot?
to Mr. Tart. That will eoene later.
But I would agy to you that if you
are trying to find a man g(
qualifications, Ibn afraid yod
would took in vain because he -
a -meet uouenal man, a#i of the
ablest I was ever privitodged to
terve with.
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