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Development
Officers
To Be Installed
Garrett Webb will be installed as
president of the Mary Stewart De
velopment organization at a meet
ing Monday night.
Serving with him will be Mrs.
Gladys Altman, vice president; Mrs.
Gladys Barefoot, secretary; Floyd
Altman, treasurer; Ernest Tart,
chaplain; Mrs. Lottie Weeks and
Johnny Jackson, program chair
men; Mrs. Noami Parker, photo
grapher; Mrs. Eunice Moore, youth
director; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Barefoot, scrapbook; Corbett Coats,
ifiusic director; Miss Carol Webb,
pianist; and Mrs. Johnny Jackson,
reorter.
Joe Downing, agricultural teach
er at Dunn High School, is the
advisor to the group.
The meeting will be held In their
community building on 301 North
at 7:30.
J. T. Barefoot, the outgoing
president, has urged all to attend
especially the new officers.
Dunn Pasfor
To Deliver
r» l
Final Sermon
The Rev. Neill Housewright, the
popular young pastor of Hood Me
morial Christian Church, will de
liver his final sermon as pastor at
the church on Sunday.
Rev. Housewmht, who has won
many friends during a two year
pastorate here, will resume stu
dies at Vanderbilt University.
Solon Endorses
Neuse Survey
Congressman David N. Henderson
today endorsed the survey report on
Neuse River Basin just released
by the U. S. Army Corps of Engin
eers South Atlantic office, Atlanta,
Georgia.
The study recently concluded by
the Corps of Engineers recommends
es the first step toward development
of the Neuse and providing for
flood control, recreational use, Un
proved water quality and other im
provements a concern and earth
dnm at Falls. North Carolina (Wake
County) forming a resevoir cover
ing 11,800 acres at normal full
stage and Increasing up to 23,300
acres at flood stage.
The long-range plan also called
for additional resevoirs at Wilson
Mills on the Neuse, Buckhom on
Coctentnea Creek and Beulatown on
L'ttle River, but recommends only
the Falls project for Unmediate
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KOX-x«-.4*s.-.<nwsmft
THE FACE IS FAMI1JAR—Mandy Rice-Da vies, now playing a Munich. West Germany
night club, above, had a stellar role not too many months ago in Britain's Profumo-Keeler
scandal. The 18-year-old performs as a singer in the night spot.
U. S. Judge Saves Child Rape-Killer
Just Half Hour Before Death
RALEIGH (UPI) — U. S. Dis
trict Judge Algernon Butler today
granted a stay of execution for
Prank Marion Crawford just 30
Ainutes before the 27-year-old
Sj^rteTftwrg, S. c„ NSSfd t6
die in the gas chamber.
Butler granted the stay through
a habeas corpus that was request
ed by Floyd McKissick, a Durham
Negro attorney hired Thursday by
the (NAACP) to appeal Craw
ford’s case to the federal courts.
The Negro, convicted of the
rape-murder of an 8-year-old Ne
gro girl in Winston-Salem last
Peb. 21, was scheduled to die in
the gas chamber at Central Pri
son at 10 a.m.
McKissick claimed in his request
for a writ of habeas corpus that
Crawford’s constitutional rights
were violated during his trial, that
he did not have time to prepare
for hit trial, that his confession
was obtained before he had a
lawyer, and that he was denied
due process of law guaranteed by
the 14th Amendment.
McKissick was given 20 days to
file an amended writ setting forth
additional contentions. After that
the state will be given 20 days to
answer. Butler will then set a
hearing date.
McKissick said that Crawford
was arrested Nov. 29 iq JoqefvUle
and that he remained in jail there
without privilege of counsel or
contact with his family or friends.
He also said that Crawford
could establish his whereabouts at
the time the little girl was killed
and that he could prove his in
nocence.
McKissick said that Crawford
maintained his innocence Thurs
day night when they conferred on
death row and that Crawford was
“overjoyed” when McKissich told
him he would represent him.
McKissick explained that he
was approached by Jack Green
burg and Jim Narbitt of New
York, representing the NAACP Le
gal Defense and Educational Fund,
between noon and 1 p.m., Thurs
day. He said they asked him to
drop all his work and take the
Crawford case immediately.
He said he at first refused, but
then changed his mind after re
ceiving a call from someone, who
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"Might Save Some Other Little Girl"
Child's Mother Says
He Ought To Die
WINSTON - SALEM (UPI) —
The mother of an • - year-old
murder victim said today the man
convicted of the rape-slaying of
her daughter should pay the ulti
mate penalty - death - for his
crime.
Mrs. Vera Marshall Sanders told
Norris Rites Set for Sunday
Erwin Man Ends
Life With Gun
Harnett Coroner Bill Warren to
day ruled the death of Harvey
Norris, W, Erwin textile worker,
as a case of suicide and said no
inquest would be held.
The body of Mr. Norris was
found in the bedroom of his home
at 410 West H. Street in Erwin
Thursday night at 7:40 o’clock by
a stepson, Hollis R. Prince, *,
Coroner Warren said a .18 guage
shotgun was on the bed and that
Norris apparently had rolled off
the bed on the floor after firing
the gun.
m
He said there was ft shotgun
wound in his left chest about the
center of his heart. Constable
Johnnie McDonald, first officer
to arrive cm the scene, said there
were powder burns about an inch
wide around the wound.
OX AND DR8FONDKNT
Members of the family told the
coroner Mr. Norris had been HI
for sometime and had also been
despondent since he and his sec
ond wife separated. He was living
alone at the time.
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the Winston - Salem Journal that
the state would be justified in
executing Marion Frank Crawford,
27, who was scheduled to die at 10
a. m., today in the gas chamber
air Raleigh’s Central Prison.
“People k^p saving that it
won’t bring back my little girl,”
Mrs. Sanders said. ‘1 tell them it
might save some other little girl.”
Crawford, a Negro from Spar
tanburg, S. C., was convicted in
February, 1963, of the rape-mur
der of Sandra Denise Marshall, one
of Mrs. Sanders’ three children.
“Anybody who would do some
thing like that — something that
bad — ought to be put to death”
Mrs. Sanders said. "To do that
to a little girl is the worst kind
of thing.”
Mrs. Sanders, also a Negro,
said Crawford, his mother and
grandmother had pleaded with her
to ask Gov. Terry Sanford to com
mute the death sentence.
"I told them I would think about
it, but I knew right then I wasn’t
going to write any letter to Gov
ernor Sanford or anybody,” she
said. "I didn’t have any sympathy
then. I don’t have any now.
“The people around here want
to see him executed,” she added,
“apd so do I.”
Lee Attends
PCA Meeting
“The increased effective use of
capital is contributing to the terra
endous efficiency in agriculture,
“according to Leland I-ee of Route
2, Dunn. N. C., Vice - President of
the Dunn Production Credit Asso
ciation who has just returned from
attending a PCA Directors Institute
in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Mr. Lee emphasized, “The in
creasing use of capital to replace
certain other resources is one
characteristic of changes taking
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Three Americans
Dead; Johnson
Hushes Aides
BALBOA, Canal Zone (UPI) —
Heavy fighting bioke out again to
day between rioting Panamanian
matis and U. S. Army troops at the
border separating the Canal Zone
frong Panama City.
A|out 300 rock - throwing Pana
manians gathered on the Panama
Clt| side of the border at mid
da* to attack American soldiers on
the^other side. The soldiers used
tear gas and rifle fire to keep the
rioters in check.
Other street mobs attacked the
U. S. - owned Tropical Radio of
fice in downtown Panama City near
the plush Hotel Panama. They
previously attacked and destroyed
the American-owned All America
cables office.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi
dent Johnson conferred by tele
phone today with President Chlarl
of panama in an effort to halt
the mushrooming violence in the
Panama Canal Zone.
Johnson also informed Chiari
that he was sending a top-flight
American diplomatic delegation
headed by Assistant Secretary
of State Thomas Mann to Panama
immediately.
The President also issued what
the White House described as
•Snoh-i earnest Instructions" to the
U. S. military command in the
Canal Zone to do everything pos
sible for the restpration of order
and safety.
Panamanian hoodlums chased
Americans off the streets of Pan
ama City. They turned over and
burned more than 100 cars owned
by Americans, distinguished by U.
S. license plates.
Zone authorities at mid - day put
the casualty toll since Thursday
night’s outbreak of savage street
fighting at 14 dead, including
three American soldiers, and 224
Injured, of whom 344 were Ameri
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In Two-Thirds of Nation
Ice Box Weather
By United Press International
T^ie eastern two-thirds of the na
tion was an Ice box today and
New Hampshire was hit by its
heaviest snow storm of the season
Tt was 2 below in Minneapolis -
St. Paul, Minn., and below freezing
as far south as Atlanta, Ga., and
Phoenix, Ariz. Temperatures were
dropping In most of the central
and north-eastern sections of the
country.
The atorm was so harsh at Ber
lin N. H., that snow plows were un
able to keep up. Between six and
el£>t inches of snow fell and winds
reached gale olocity.
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News Roundup
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government reported today
that the unemployment rate dropped in the nation during December
but cautioned that an adverse trend may be developing In employ
ment of men.
WASHINGTON (DPI) — Republican National Chairman
William E. Miller called on President Johnson today to honor John
F. Kennedy’s “commitment” for television debates between the
presidential candidates in 1964.
RICHMOND (UPI) — State Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., son of
the U. S. senator, Thursday landed his first major committee chair
manship since he became a member of the Virginia Senate 16 years
ago. The 49 - year - old legislator, a Winchester publisher and bank
director, assumed command of the General Laws Committee by
climbing up the seniority ladder.
ZARATE, Argentina (UPI) — Ah- experts searched the scat
tered wreckage of an Argentine airliner today for clues to the
cause of a crash that killed 29 persons Thursday, including four
Americans.
BOSTON, Mass. (UPI) — A Massachusetts Department of
Health official says studies indicated beyond a reasonable doubt
that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer. Dr. Harry Phil
lips testified Thursday at a hearing of the legislature’s Commit
tee on Public Health on petitions to curb cigarette smoking.
CHARLOTTE (UPI) — Representatives of the world’s two
largest textile empires planned to register their official disapproval
with the proposed lowering of tariffs on foreign textile products In
a meeting with the U. S. Tariff Commission today in Washington.
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s
NEW RING—President Johnson’s youngest daughter, Lucy Baines, exhibits a new “friend
: ship” ring and a very nice smile as she poses with Jack Olson, from Maiden Rock, Wis.
Kiser At Lillington; Mabe, Morgan Heard
Last Chance For Harnett
State R"P. Roger Kiser' of Laur
inburg said Thursday night that
voters in the B8 smaller counties
ol North Carolina can carry the
Little Federal plan at the polls
next Tuesday but predicted it
would be a tough fight.
Noting that one or two of the
State’s most populous counties,
can out vote 15 or 20 other coun
ties combine^, he Isaid the big
counties are well Organized and
ready to pour out the voters in
mass while the smaller counties
still have not organized to any
great extent.
“It’s going to take a ten-hour
day for every worker we can round
up to win this election,” said Kis
er, who was in Harnett to address
a meeting of the Lillington Rotary
Club.
Meanwhile, Dr. H. D. (Buster)
Mabe was addressing Erwin Jay
cees at Erwin and telling them the
importance of voting in favor of
the amendment in Tuesday’s elec
tion.
And State Senator Robert Mor
gan was still on the speakers- trail
in behalf of the bill. Last night,
Senator Morgan spoke in Chat
Little Federal
Debate Sunday
Four members of the North Caro
lina General Assembly will debate
the pros and cons of the proposed
"Little Federal Amendment” to the
State Constitution in a special IN
MY OPINION program no WRAL
-TV (Channel 5) Sunday, Jan. 12,
at 6:30.
The program will precjede by
just two days statewide balloting to
approve or disprove changes in con
stitutional procedures for legislative
reapportionment of the Tar Heel
Legislature.
Senator Robert Lee Humber of
Pitt County and Senator David
Clark of Lincoln County will debate
in favor of the amendment; Rep
resentative David Britt of Robeson
County and Representative George
Uzzell of Rowan County will voice
opposition to the amendment.
Each side will have equal time
to state their views and to answer
questions posed by the opposition
and the program moderator.
WH)AL-TV"s Director of Public
Affairs, Sam Beard, will moderate
Capitol Broadcasting Co., opera
tors of WRAL - TV and WRAL
Radio in Raleigh is offering the
one-hour program to all television
and radio stations in the State as
a public service.
IN MY OPINION programs are
produced by WRAL-TV under the
upervision of Sam Beard.
ham County.
Today, Dr. Mabe was in Fay
etteville to debate the issue with
Cumberfand Representative Ike
O’Hanlon.
In his address at Lillington, Ki
ser, veteran and colorful lawma
ker, warned that defeat of the
Little Federal plan would lead to
consolidation of some North Caro
lina counties. Ke said Tuesday’s
vote is the most important single
election since the War between
the States.
“It will be the last chance” for
Harnett and smaller counties to
preserve their power in the Gene
yal Assembly, he said.
Kaiser noted that the 20 flj*t
ing seats in the State House now
belong to 12 counties. “That’s the
only population factor they repre
sent in the House,” he said.
It may be 1980, he said, but the
day will come when only five coun
ties will have the extra seats un
der the present plan of represen
tation — Mecklenburg, Guilford.
Forsyth, Wake and Cumberland.
Kaiser said it means that more
voting power will be concentrated
in the larger counties unless the
amendment is passed.
Man Gets $100 Fine
For Drunk Driving
Seth Thomas Bennett, 55, of
Route 2, Angier, pleaded guilty to
driving under the influence in
Dunn Recorder’s Court Thursday
before Judge Woodrow Hill.
Bennett was given six months
suspended upon payment of a
$100 fine and the costs. It was fur
ther ordered that his drivers lic
ence be suspended for 12 months.
trespassing
Allen B, Wilkins entered a plea
of guilty to trespassing at the
home of Dave Kimmel on W.
Cumberland Street, but pleaded
not guilty to a charge of public
drunkenness.
Wilkins, who claimed he was
he pay $25 fine and the costs,
the time, was sitting in ft rocking
chair in the den of the Kimmel
home when arrested. The defen
dant said he had come to see his
mother.
Judge Hill gave Wilkins sixty
days suspended on condition that
he pay a $25 and the costs.
Stephen McKoy of 1000 S. Lay
ton Ave., Dunn, was charged with
possession and possession for sale.
McKoy entered a plea of guilty
to possession of non-tax paid
whiskey, which plea was accepted
by the court. Judgment was 30
days suspended upon payment of
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Can't Drive For Five Years
$250 Fine For
Assaulting Officer
Boyd Carlton Clayton, of Ben
son, Route 1, charged with care
less and reckless driving and his
brother, Barnes Jones Clayton
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon to wit—'his car with intent
to kill, pleaded guilty in Superior
Court before Judge William Y.
Bickett.
Stedman Ray, Coats police offi
cer, the only witness to testify told
how he attempted to arrest Boyd
for speeding — his brother Barnes
came along and ran his car Into
the officer’s car injuring him, and
damaging the left front fender of
both cars. He had arrested the de
fendant Barnes on occasions be
fore — he had told the officer that
he had been offered $50 to kill
him — but said “when I kill you It
will be for myself.”
Judge Bickett asked for the re
cord of the defendants on traffic
violations before passing sentence
— at last count Boyd had one
traffic case in Lillington Record
ers court, and against him in the
same court. Hie officers were
checking other recorders courts in
the nearby counties to see if they
have records there. The defend
ants were remanded to jail await
ing sentence.
Barnes Clayton was given two
years on the roads suspended for
five years and placed on proba
tion for five years under the usual
terms. Special conditions were that
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