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(jJ&jcdtPwi At or ner freezing late today. Part ly clcady through Thursday with snow flurries in the mountains. Colder today and tonight. Continu ed cold Thursday. VOLUME U TELEPHONE m-UlT • M-IU1 ftVE CENTS PER COPT For Home Delivery of THE DAILY RECORD Phon.e 892 - 3117 For non-delivery of your paper, phone The Record office before 7 p. m. and a copy will be sent to you by special carrier. 1 ■ 3 237 ERWIN, DUNN FIREMEN COMPLETE LIFE - SAVING COURSE —The Erwin Fire Department, which organized Harnett’s first Rescue Squad in 1960, has held the first in four courses, attended toy both Erwin and Dunn firemen. Instructor for the first series of classes was Dawson Nethercutt of the State Insurance Commission. He is shown here with the firemen after presenting them certificates. Left to right are, front row, squatting, John E. Norris, Jr., Lewis Joseph holding, Barry Glover, mascot, C T Tumage and Asst. Chief James Glov- < er; center row, kneeling, Harry Duquette Charles Talley, Larry Johnson, Eugene Pope, Clebert Daniels, Larry Smith, Pat Jones and Leek . Coats; standing, Rudy Stehenson, John E. Norris, Sr., Billy Butler, Rayvon Jernigan, Jesse Davis, Billy Barfield, Willis Meseer, Bruce Mo Lamb, Kelly Home, Erwin Fire Chief R M New, Clifton Royals, H C White and instructor Nethercutt (Daily Record Photo toy Russell Bass ford) Wellons Heads Scout Drive t¥** Calvin Wells, well known Dunn businessman and realtors, will head thja upcoming (Dunn Olrl Scout fund drive starting this Saturday, it was announced today. A.t the same time, Wellons has called a meeting of potential work ers as a kick off affair for the drive at the Chamber of Commerce office at 7:0(1 Friday night. He said today the meeting would be a short one and that those at tending will get out in time to at tend the Staunton - Dunn Jayvee football game %t 8 at Dunn High School. 'y'i: Cit ■ 4 (Continued on Page 8ix) Organized In 1960 By RUSSELL BASS FORD One of the finest organisations in Harnett County and one which isn’t as yet fully appreciated by the majority of citizens is the Erwin Rescue Squad. Organized in I960 by the Erwin Fire Department, it has already saved several lives. R. M. (Red) New is chief of the Erwin Fire Dept. Part of the equipment is an aluminum boat on .a trailer with a jeep to pull it plus necessary Judge Exonnerates Mrs. Helen Tripp Mother Freed In Abandonment Case Mrs. Helen Tripp, 39 - year.old Dunn woman, wag acquitted' in Harnett Superior Court Tuesday on charges of abandoning her four children, oldest of whom is only nine years old. Judge WHS Burgwyn directed the* "not guilty” verdict after As sistant District Solicitor Jake Lamm and private prosecutor Wiley Bo wen of Dunn sent about a half dozen witnesses to the stand. Each of them testified they did not regard the woman as a fit mother and said she willfully a bandoned the children Oh July 27 after previously announcing plans to do so. Indicted By Husband The charge was brought against the woman by her husband, Moses Tripp, Jr. after she had indicted him In a counter warrant on charges of assaulting her. Both were convicted in Dunn city court and the wife appealed. Defense Attorney D K Stewart (Continued on Page Six) grappling hooka, diving gear etc. The main vehicle is a converted ambulance that utilizes every cu bic inch of available apace for specialized equipment such as complete first aid kids, respira tors, lnhalators, pulmotor, cut ting torches, axes and hatchets of tool steel that can hack through metal, hydraulic Jacks and all of the other gear necessary to do the job quickly. Other features that add to the efficiency of the equipment are hundred foot hose extensions for the torches, pulmotor and oxy gen and the other respiration equipment. These extensions would be very useful if a man a ere trapped at the bottom of a hundred foot ravine In a wreck ed car where he had to be cut free by torches or If he were over come by carbon monoxide at the bottom of a hundred foot well. Recuesitation could be started at the bottom and continued on the way up where seconds could be the difference between life and death. What really makes it tick as a rescue squad is the planning that went Into it whereby specialists from every field were recruited. There are experienced acetylene men for the torches, electricians Who could extricate a man from a tangle of hot wires, engineers end others who have gone and (Continued on Page Six) Non-Baptists Won't Be Allowed On Board Freeman Wins WILMINGTON (UFD — The Baptist State Convention today defeated a proposal to allow elec tion of non-Baptiste and out-of state resident* to the Wake Forest College board of trustees. The proposed amendment to the Convention Constitution fail ed to carry the necessary two thirds majority of the 3,300 Bap tist* voting. The messengers to the Con vention began voting on the oon troversial issue at 12:50 pja, BBT after defeating a move to refer the proposal Bade to a committee. The proposal would have allow ed at least tour non-Baptists to serve on the board among M out of-state residents. This proposal was a compromise designed to allay fears of op ponents to the move to allow non Baptists to serve on the board of trustees of. the largest Baptist in North Carolina. The Rev. Tom Freeman of Dunn, « member of the board, meanwhile moved that the Con vention appoint • B - dumber committee to study the original proposal for one year. Freeman’s motion was sailed on the Study Committee to suggest a program of academic develop ment at Wake Forest aiming at university status, under the pre sent trustee structure and Con vention control. Carolina Baptists opened on a note of unanimity with the elec tion of William Perry Crouch, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Asheville, as the Convention’s new general secretary-treasurer. The fireworks followed Tuesday afternoon when the Wake Forest proposal was put to the delegates. Freeman told the Convention that “Baptists are very wary of : ' (Continued on Fags Six) LEXINGTON (DPI) — Pleas of innocent were withdrawn today by three young Negroes accused of killing a white man during a ra cial riot here last June. Two of the defendants, william Chester Johnson and Rooseelt N. Smith, changed their pleas to guilty engaging in a riot, repre senting a second major reduction tn the charges against them. The third, Joe Psole, entered a plea of no contest to charges of second-degree murder. x Solicitor Lonnie Her bin Jr. originally charged the three; with first-de gree murder, reduced it Tuesday to second-degree and agreed to acceptance of the plea to lesser charges today. t*-: The change in pleas came afr ter one hour and 18 minutes of conferences between defense at torneys and Herbin. Says Thompson Asked To Keep And Marry Her MINNEAPOLIS Minn. (tJPI) — The attractive dark-haired wife of a -St. Paul truck driver said today on the witness stand that she ginned an offer from Tilmer Eu gene' Thompson to set her up in ah apartment. -She said she told the little St. Paul criminal attorney "I’m not interested in being kept” and hung uk ^on him. v ' Mrs. Jacqueline OleSen, the lqfig-awaited “mystery woman” ® the Thompson “murder for hire” trial, nervously testified *to many meetings with Thompson, including one in which She said he‘•Offered to put $10,000 in the bank for her if “you would marry me” or something to that effect. She said she replied negatively to that offer, also. Thompson, 36, is accused of mas terminding the murder of his pre ty wife, Carol, 34, a housewife on whom he had amassed $1,056,000 in life insurance. The state charg es the motives for the slaying were money and a mistress. Prosecutor William B. Randall has said he would prove Thomp son .nu» [ "Just give me” H more moffths” to secure enough money for them both to live on. That conversation allegedly was In January or February. Mrs. Ole sen testified today that sometime After last Christmas Thompson called her about the apartment. Carol Thompson was murdered by a bludgeon-stabbing cm March 6. Nervously rubbing her hands down the side, of the witness box — she had been crying outside be fore being called as the state’s 38th witness — Mrs. Olesen testi fied: •fl told him I wasn’t Interested. I was kinds mad. I said “You think you can do anything with your money and I’m not interest ed In being kept.’ I hung up.” Describes Building . She said Thompson described the building, said It had garages, and joked about her not having A car. She said she never went to see the apartment. After lunch one day in the sum (Continued on Page Six) IN OfltiiN DRAMA — Appearing a* Neill 8ykes in the Campbell Player production «f Paul Green’* 'The Field God" at Turner Audi torium Nov. 14-18 will be Lloyd Byrd of Dunn. Sue Johnson of Clin ton (right) plays the feminine lead. NEW CHAMBER OFFICERS — Pictured here with retiring President Herman Green, left, are new officers of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce, elected this morning. Left to right are, Mr. GreOJj, who has enjoyed a very successful year; Treasurer Earl H. Mahone, President Paul Perry; Vice Presi* dent Ellis Barbour and Manager Charlie McCullers. (Daily Record Photo.) Barbour Vice President, McCullers Renamed Paul Perry, operator of Perry Brothers Tire Service and one of the town’s most active young ci vic leaders, has been elected Pre sident of the Dunn Chamber If Commerce to succed Herman Green for, the coming year. He and other officers named to day will be Installed formally at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet on January 27th. Ellis Barbour, well known local insurance man and realtor was named Vice President of the Chamber for the Coming year while Dunn banker Earl H. Ma hon e was reelected treasurer. The board retained General Manager Charles L. McCuilers for another 12 months. New directors declared elected P 0. Planning Stock Survey Postmaster Thad Poe announced today that Rural Mail Carriers and Star Route Contractors will begin distributing December 1, 1963, Livestock Survey cards to farmer patrons on their routes during the week of November 18. Your Post Office assists The De partment of Agriculture each year in making this and two other sur veys. Livestock cards returned to their carrier will be mailed direct to The N. C. Crop Reporting Service in Raleigh. Information from each card, if properly reported, will then be tabulated and combined with other reports to give indications of changes in livestock on Tar Heel Farms, These indications will also be used to establish estimates of the 1963 calf crop,' milk production, lamb erop,. wyjol production, and the fall pig crop as well as farm ers Ians to have sows farrow in (Continued on Page Six) Go-Kart Was Hit With Great Force Members ef the family said to day that Willard Whittenton. 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oras Whittenton, was operating : his go-kart along the highway about two miles from his home When struck and fatally tejurod Sunday afternoon by a speeding automobile. A report appearing In several (Continued on Page ShO by the board meeting today were J. M. Johnson, Roy Tew, Ray* mond Cromartie, Jr., Paul Drew, Abe Elmore, John T. Simpson and Paul While. .... .. The new directors were sfected by balloting of the membership (Continued on Page Six) Anti - Communist Bill Most Popular Law North Carolina Senator Robert B. Morgan of Lillington said today the Ihw banning Communist and fifth amendment pleaders from the use of state facilities was “the most popular piece of legislation in my memory.” During his four-term legislative career the senator has voted on hundreds of pieces of legislation. "But never in all my experiences,” he said, “haye I had so many peo ple approach me about any piece of legislation as the anti-Commun lst bill.” He sajd that of the hundreds who have made a special point to see him and discuss the bill “not one single, solitary soul has been against it; they all just want to make sure that it is never repeal (Continued on Page Six) Cqrver Praises Thad Eure Robbins Says Law Wont Be Repealed W D. Robbins of Willard, na tional committeeman of the A merican Legion, predicted here last night that the North Caro lina legislature “will never vote to repeal the anti-Communist speaker law.’’ In Dunn to adress a ladies’ night supper of the American Legion, Robbins added: “The reason the legislature won’t repeal the law Is because a vast majority of the' ci tizens ire heartily in favor of it.” Robbins said he had discussed the law personally with PresHMnt Bill Friday of the Greater Univer sity and had made his position clear to Friday. “About the only people who *» (Continued On Page Five) Dunn Man Facing Trip! Hinson Is Indicted , On Charge Of Fraud The Harnett County Grand Jury Tuesday returned a true bill of in dictment charging Eugene C. Hin son, former Dunn insurance man, with filing a fraudulent insurance claim and converting the money to his own use. - " ' Hinson, popular Dunn youth and •widely known; racihgcar driver and sportsman, is the son of Har vey T. Hinson of Dunn, Route 3, prominent merchant, political lead er and a member of the Sampson County Board of County Commis sioners. A capias for Hinson’s arrest 1*s issued Immediately after g r a %fl jurors returned their indictnJtt. Dunn attorney D K Stewart, jjp is defending Hinson, is exp^H to ask postponement of the txtal until the next term of HaiiMt Superior Court.