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NO. 37
New York Man
Fatally Hurl
Near Godwin
A New York man was fatally in
jured in a one car accident Tues
day afternoon and his wife is in
critical condition at Wake Memor
ial Hospital in Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Spitale
of Patchogue, Long Island, were
traveling south on 1-95 and
smashed into a bridge abutment
in Cumberland County.
The investigating patrolman, J.
E. Everette of Fayetteville, said
Mrs. Spitale, 54, was driving the
1962 Cadillac and apparently fell
asleep. He added, if the car was
equipped with seat belts and in use,
they probably would not have been
hurt so much.
The couple was enroute to Miami,
Fla., to visit his brother, Attorney
Leonardo Spitale. They have two
children, a daughter, 18. and a
son 19.
The body will be shipped to Pat
chogue today or tomorrow. Mr. Spi
tale was 56.
Destroy Stills,
Arrested One
Local treasuryy agents arrested
William Roy McLamb, 20, of Route
3, Dunn, Monday morning at a
distillery in Averasboro Township.
He waived preliminary hearing be
fore U. S. Commissioner Abe Elmore
and was placed in Jail in lieu of
$500 bond.
Art Bryant, agent In charge of
the local post, said this morning
that investigation is incomplete
and other arrests are expected in
the case.
In operation was a 467 gallon
submarine type still. Also destroy
ed were 450 gallons of fermenting
mash.
Raymond Moore, Bill Terrell and
ABC Officer Red Pope made the
arrest.
Gets Another
On Tuesday in Meadow Town
ship of neighboring Johnston Coun
ty, two unregistered distilleries
were destroyed. One consisted of
a 60 gallon submarine type with
200 gallons of fermenting mash.
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Nelson Cited As
Sales Leader
David W. Nelson, local associate
of the Raleigh agency has been
cited as a national sales and serv
ice leader for the Paul Revere Life
Insurance Company. His combined
A*8 and Life production for the
year ranked him among the top
106 of the company’s more than
1300 representatives according to I.
N. Hudson, area general agent.
Mr. Nelson has been associated
with the Worcester, Mass, com
pany since 1959.
Mr. Nelson is a member of the
Merchants Association, the North
Hills Club, the Hayes Barton Meth
odist Church and the Kiwanis
Club.
KICK OFF LUNCHEON — Leaders Of the Hamect County Heart Fund Drive are shown here at a
luncheon last week when they made Plans for the county’s drive next month. In the photo are Attorney
Wiley Bowen, chairman for Dunn; George Joseph, Jr., of Erwin; Mrs. Robert Morgan president of
the county drive; Robert H. Kelly, Erwin chairman; and Rosemond Godwin of Erwin, (Record Photo
by Russell Bassford)
Congressman David N. Henderson
said today that the bill to require
owners of so-called places of pub
lic accommodation to admit all
customers regardless of race and
to force employers to accept Job
applicants regardless of race and
other features of the civil rights
hill now being debated is “un
warranted, unnecessary and will
be totally Ineffectual to accom
plish what its advocates really
want.”
Congressman Henderson will be
the speaker Thursday night at
Lillington’s annual Distinguished
Service award banquet.
He warned that “it give the
Justice Department authority it
1ms never had before and should
not have now to proceed against
State officials and private indivi
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Now In Debt, Seek $12 Million
Republicans Open
Money Drive Tonight
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Re
publicans hope to get out of debt
tonight and start building a $12
million war cnest to finance the
Claims Wife
Was Unfaithful
LOS ANGELES 10PI) — An
elderly retired carpenter who ad
mitted strangling his 70-year-old
wife and sealing her body behind
a plastered bedroom wall must
spend from five years to life in pri
son for the crime.
Superior Court Judge David
Coleman handed down the sentence
Tuesday after Joseph J. Lewis, 72,
pleaded guilty to a charge of mur
der.
The mid - mannered Lewis was
arrested after neighbors, worried
over Mrs. Lewis’ absence, summon
ed officers to the home and they
found her body behind a newly
painted wall.
Lewis claimed his wife had
been “unfaithful.”
OOP national organization for
the 19W political campaign.
About 25,000 Republicans arc ]
expected to pay $100 a plate in
21 cities, which will be linked by
closed circuit television for a one
hour round of pep talks.
The diners will hear former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
speaking from Detroit and form
er Vice President Richard M.
Nixon from New York. They also
will hear two announced candi
dates for the presidential nomina
tion — Sen. Berry Ooldwater,
speaking from Pittsburgh, and
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, from
Los Angeles.
Others tn the television lineup
include Pennsylvania Gov. Wil
liam W. Scranton, from Indiana
polis; Michigan Gov. George Rom
ney, from Washington; Sen
Thruston B. Morton, Ky., from
Houston, and OOP National Chair
| man William E. Miller and Rep.
Bob Wilson, Calif., both from
Cleveland.
The GOP expects to net about
61 million for its national party
organization after payment of ex
penses which include $250,000 for
the closed television circuit.
Three Killed Over Russian Territory
American Plane Shot Down
WIESBADEN, Germany (UPD
- The Soviet news agency Tass
announced In Moscow today that
a Russian fighter forced down a
u. S. Air Force Jet trainer and
that it crashed in East Germany,
kflling the three American airmen
aboard.
A high-ranking U. S. Air Force
officer said the unarmed T» Plane
was “Probably shot down" by So
viet jet tighten after It strayed
across the border Into Commu
nist East Germany. Three officers
were aboard it on a local training
flight when it disappeared Tues
day.
Tass id the U. S. T39 plane
crashed near Vogelsberg about 20
miles northeast of Erfurt "after a
Soviet fighter took measures"
against it. The announcement was
cot clear as to whether the plane
was shot down.
“The Soviet fighter had to take
measures in compliance with air
defense instructions and as a re
sult the intruder plane crashed,"
Tass said. “An inspection of the
crash site showecr that the intru
der was a military jet plane of the
T3# type belonging to the tf. 8.
Air Force. Three corpses of ser
vicemen woe found.”
Tass jafct the plane was inter
cepted by the Soviet fighter over
the town of Muehlhausen.
“The intruder did not react to
the conventional signals demand
ing it to land and continued its
flight deeper into the territory of
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Attempt
ist One
Thursday
KENNEDY (UPI) — The
ted States, opening a two-day
bleheader, today launched itfc
tity Saturn-1 ^rocket in an at
* io orbit a' ‘flying junkpile”,
> Jvorld’» heaviest satellite,
ta lj-stork, Saturn-1*. fore
ver of rockets destined to take
astronauts to the moon this
le, lifted from a massive con
Jaunchlbg pad at 11:25 a.rr>.
lentists * hoped to send the
:t’S entire second stage — 84
and 37,700 pounds of nose 1
burned or- rocket casing
sand ballast — into art ot
•angin? drom 160 to perhaps
-niles above earth.
Itf would fee the heaviest satel
lite lever launched since the best
Sovfet Union has accomplished is
estimated at about 15,000 pounds.
It siso would be perhaps the most
useSss. The Saturn-1 second stage
carried nothing in the way of a
working payload.
Scientists on a firing complex
about two miles away were in the
mid»t of preparations for the sec
ond fhalf of the space doublehead
er — a planned attempt Thursday
to locket an 808-pound Ranger
probe more than 230,000 miles to
take closeup picture of the moon.
. ftfl°Tr'g launching was nation,
ally televised. The 164-foot black
and white rocket carried a televi
sion camera aloft in an attempt to
flash back to earth for the first
time the separation of the first
and second stages of a rocket.
FIRST CHAMP
DETROIT (UPI) — Ted Lindsay
was the first member of the De
troit Red Wings to win the Na
tional Hockey League scoring
championship. He accomplished the
feat during the 1949-50 season
when he tallied 23 goals and 55
assists for 78 points.
Cliff Alphin Speaking
At Long Branch Sunday
Clifton Alphin, son of Mr. ana
Mrs. Jesse Alphin of Route 4,
Dunn, will be the speaker at the
11:00 worship service at Long
Branch Church Sunday morning:
His subject will be “Work, While
it is Still Day.'*
This service will bring to a cli
max the church’s observance of
National Yquth Week.
Clifton is a sophomore at Dunn
High School where he is president
of his class. He is an eagle scout
and is presently, working on the
Clod and Country Award.
Serving as the superintendent
of the Sunday School will be Mike
Beasley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har
old Beasley. He is a sophomore at
Dunn High School.
Other young people of the
church will be serving as teachers
and officers in the church and
Sunday School this week.
The Crusaders for Christ and
their invited guests will enjoy a
banquet Saturday evening at 6:00
in the church education building.
Miss Jean Hudson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hudson, i»
president of the youth organiza
tion, and Vicky Williams, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Wil
liams is secretary. Jean and Vicky
are both students at Campbell
College.
Rev. Leonard Drew is the pas
tor of the church and has extend
er. a cordial invitation to the
public to attend the morning ser
vice.
V__ f
strictly defensive
MONTREAL COTI) — Defense
men accounted for only 22 of the
first 319 goals scored in the Na
tional Hockey League.
MIKE BEASLEY
• CLIFTOpr ALPHIN
a nd iff ate Coming To Dunn Feb. 13
reyer Names Strong
Leaders In Harnett
V
ROBERT C. BRYON
JOHNNIE WILBOURNE
MRS. DOT SNIPES
MAYOR GEORGE F. BLALOCK
Seven Jurors Picked
JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) — Five
fresh Jury prospects including two
Negroes were questioned by lawy
ers today to determine whether
they will round out a jury that will
try Bryon De La Beckwith for the
1963 ambush slaying of Negro
leader Medgar Evers.
Seven of the dozen men need
ed for the trial were accepted by
both sides Tuesday night. Testi
mony was expected to begin late
today, barring unusual complica
tions in obtaining the full jury
slate.
Dist. Atty. William L. Waller
questioned each of the new jury
prospects in their views about the
racial climate and their own con
victions about the possibility of
sending a white man to his death
for killing a Negro.
Clifford Holloway, one of the
Negroes, was asked by Waller
whether he and Evers were close
friends. Holloway replied that
they were not
“It was reported to me that you
said the day after Evers’ death
that you had lost the best friend
you ever had and it made you so
sick you could not work that day,
Waller asked. “Is that true?”
"I didn’t say that,” the Negro
responded.
Holloway, who is 59, works for
WEATHER FORECAST
Five - day forecast for North
Carolina: Temperatures will aver
age near or slightly above normal
during the period Thursday through
Monday. A little warmer Thursday;
cooler Friday and Saturday and
warmer again Sunday and Monday.
Precipitation will average about, an
inch, occurring Thursday and Fri
day.
the Illinois Central Railroad, has
a 10th grade eduoation and has
been voting in Hinds County since
1146,
Both Holloway and the second
Negro questioned said they had
heard of Evers but had not at
tended his rallies and knew noth
ing that would prevent them from
rendering a fair and impartial ver
dict.
Bryan-Wtlbourne
To Co-Manager
Vote Campaign
< .i
Ji^dg,e, L. Richardson Preyer of
Grednsboro today announced a
str&ng team of prominent and out
standing business and profession
al leaders to mahage his guberna
torial in Harnett County.
Young Dunn attorney Robert C.
(Bob) Bryan of Dunn and John
nie Wilbourne of Lillington, one of
the county’s top business leaders,
will serve as co-managers of the
Preyer forces in Harnett.
Both are regarded as top lead
ers in their field and highly influ
ential throughout the county.
Mrs. John K. <D«t) Snipes of
Dunn, who played a key role as
woman’s chajrman for the Ken
nedy-Sanford campaign four years
ago, was named as Woman’s Chatr
man for the Preyer farces in Dunn.
Dunn Mayor George Franklin
Blalock was announced as finance
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Library
Workshop Held
In Erwin
A two hour library workship was
held in the Erwin School Library
on Tuesday afternoon for the
purpose of evaluating the work
being done to improve school li
braries in Harnett County, to dis
cuss problems in book selection, to
leview end-of-the-year report
forms, and to discuss other phases
of library work that are signifi
cant to librarians.
Arrangements for the workshop
were made by Dr. N. E. Jones,
Principal of Erwin Schools, Miss
Frances Walser, Erwin Librarian,
and Miss Bessie MassengiU, Ele
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New First Citizens Director
Med I in Is Elected
Director Of Bank
Ralph Medlin of ■ Benson has
been elected to the Board of Di
rectors of First-Citizens Bank and
Trust Company. According to Ro
bert P. Holding, Jr., chairman of
the statewide banking institution’s
general board, Medlin assumes his
position immediately.
A native of Johnston County,
Medlin is president of Medlin
Dorman. Inc. or Benson, a gene
ral merchandise and farm supply
firm he established in 1930. He is
also affiliated with Medlin Trac
tor and Implement Company of
Benson, and has farming interests
in the area.
BUIE’S CREEK GRAD
Medlin attended Buies Creek
Academy prior to engaging princi
pally in farming and later in busi
r ess. A Methodist, he is a member
of the Elevation Methodist Church
near Benson where he serves as
chairman of the Finance Com
mittee and has been a member of
its Board of Stewards. Medlin has
served as a trustee of Johnston
County Memorial Hospital since
1C48.
The new bank diector is mar
ried to the former Nora Dorman,
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