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fOLUME 14
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Enthusiastic Event Tonight At 8
Over 300 To Attend Rally
Chairman Tart
Stresses Need
For Facilities
The largest group of men and
v.omen devoting. their time to a
single community project will
gather tonight at 8 o’clock in the
Wayne Avenue school cafeteria to
begih the final push in the bond
issue campaign fo ra badly-need
ed new hospital in Dunn.
“If the tidal wave of volunteers
who will be asking Dunn to build
for a greater tomorrow is a sign
of a new day, then shortly our
community will be able to boast
of medical facilities second to
none for a town this size,” said
leaders of the campaign.
An amazing number of 314 lo
cal residents are participating in
the move to take the town’s need
for a modern, efficient, specializ
ed medical center to the voters of
Dunn. That’s the number of cam
paigners who will meet tonight
before they begin the task of call
ing on every voter before the
March 28 election.
These campaigners, a citizens’
committee representing persons m
every walk of life, have the task
of presenting the need for a hos
pital on a person-to-person basis,
tc make sure that no person in
the future shall be deprived of
proper medical care here due to
lack of adequate facilities.
“They are giving unselfishly of
their time and energy to insure
that every voter is made fully a
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BINGO CANCELED
Due to an important meeting of
workers for the Hospital Bond Is
sue ,the bingo at Chicora Country
Club scheduled for tonight has
been canceled.
Chas. Howard
Speaking At
Erwin Revival
The Erwin First Baptist Church
begins its season of Jubilee Revival
March 22-29. Celebrating 150 years
of Baptist work on the American
continent, Southern Baptist chur
ches are endeavoring to make 1JM54
a year of great spiritual awaken
ing.
Rev. Douglas Farmer, pastor of
the church said “We are fortunate
indeed to have a man of the
spiritual dimension, power, and
depth of Rev. Charles B. Howard
to lead us in our meetings. We
feel that God has providentially
made it possible for the people of
our area to hear Rev. Howard in
these crisis ridden days.”
Rev. Howard is in great demand
throughout America as an evange
list and convention speaker. His
influence as a great preacher and
teacher of much wisdom is far
reaching.
He is a former Chairman of the
Department of Religion at Camp
bell College and pastor of the
Buie’s Creek Baptist Church. Rev.
Howard has been spending ‘-he
latter part of hig life in a full-time
evangelistic capacity. At the same
time he has assisted thousands of
college students through the Ho
ward Education Foundation. *
Mr. Howard will be with the Er
win First Baptist Church begin
ning on Monday night the 23rd
and running through Easter Sun
day.
All evening services will be at
7:30 p.m. The public is invited to
vice. It is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
attend these meetings.
COATS JAYCEES ERECT SIGNS — Coats Jaycee leaders stand before one of the two “welcome”
signs they recently erected at the northern and southern town limits. The signs were lettered on old
se vice station signs. Jaycees from left are Buck Senter, vice president; Harry Roberts, secretary; Grady
Matthews, president; Linwood (Goat) Pleasant, social director, and Harry, Allen. (Photo by Charlie
Hamilton.) _
Boosting Attorney' General In Wisconsin
Pros Move In For Bobby
a
MADISON, Wis. (UPI) — A
movement to boost Atty, Gen. Ro
bert P. Kennedy for the vice pre
sidency had Wisconsin Democrats
in a turmoil today.
A high-ranking Wisconsin De
mocrat told United Press Inter
national that veteran party pro
fessionals had moved into the
dairy state on behalf of Kennedy
Third To Announce
Black Enters Race
In District Four
Gov. Wallace
Beats Johnson
In Fla. Poll
PENSACOLA, Fla. (TJPI) —
Gov. George Wallace of Alabama
wag “elected’’ president of the
United States Wednesday in a
vote among the 3,800 employes
of the Chemstrand Corp. plant,
here.
The election was part of a com
pany move to acquaint manage
ment and employes with govern
mental and political affairs.
Wallace won the Democratic
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Earl Black, Anderson Creek mer
chant, is the latest candidate to
announce formally his candidacy for
District 4 county commissioner.
Black’s entry makes it a three
way tie so far with Robert Redfem
and J. Early Womble, both of LI1
lington.
This is Black’s second try for the
seat. Two years ago he led the
ticket in the District 4 townships
of Llllington, Anderson Creek and
Stewart’s Creek.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Black, he lives on R-l Bunnlevel.
He is married to the former Paulia
Cochrane. They have a son, Earl
Jr., eight years old.
Black, 34, attended Anderson
Creek School, and is a veteran
of Army service in Alaska. He is a
member of the Anderson Creek Ru
xitan Club and Flat Branch Pres
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Not Allowed Near Crash Site
Russia Blocking
Aid For Airmen
WIESBADEN, Germany (UPI)
— The Russians today blocked
American efforts to find and help
three American airmen shot down
over East Germany Tuesday de
spite a demand for their prompt
return by the U. S. Army com
mander in Europe.
Gen. Paul L. Freeman made his
request In a letter sent Wednes
day night to Gen. I. I. Yakubos-1
ky, the 8ovtet commander in
Germany, saying he wanted the
three U.S. Air Force officers “re
turned as soon as possible.’>
It was announced at U. S. Army
European Headquarters in Heidel
berg that three “search parties”
were sent to the scene where the
RB66 twin-jet reconnaissance
bomber was shot down by a So
viet fighter when it strayed into
East Germany.
But a spokesman at the U.8.
Embassy in Bonn said:
“As far as we are aware, the
teams have not yet been permit
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for a behind-the-scenes bid to win
over the state delegation for the
attorney general for vice presi
dent.
The source told UPI this move
ment was on a much more pro
fessional level than the Draft
Kennedy Committee formed here
f ather th’s week by two Milwau
kee businessmen.
The Wisconsin primary does
not allow for a write-in vote. Gov.
John Reynolds, after a meeting
with President Johnson in Wash
ington Wednesday, .said a write
in drive for vice president was “a
little asinine.”
The entry of Alabama Gov.
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Says Kennedy
Trying To
Destroy Union
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. <TXPI>
*— Teamsters President James R.
Hoffa today was sentenced to
ifeight years in federal prison for
trying to bribe a jury that heard
ronspirocy charges against him,
“I stand here today and state
I am innocent,” the 51-year-old
presiceirt o* tne nation’s largest
labor union solemnly told Federal
District Judge Frank Wilson, who
Iternly rebuked Hoffa in hand
-,g down the sentence.
Hoffa drew four years on each
t two counts of jury tampering
fnd was fined $10,000.
His attorneys already have an
nounced plans to appeal the con
viction by a 12-member federal
jury last week all the way to the
Supreme Court if necessary. Hoffa
is expected to remain free under
$75,000 bond pending the appeals.
Others Sentenced
Three of Hoffa’s fellow defen
<|ants in the case, which was heard
during a marathon seven-week
trial here, were sentenced to three
years by Wilson. They were not
fined.
They were former Nashville
teamsters local president Ewing
,l£sng; Detroit teamsters official
L41ry Campbell; and Nashville
Negro handyman Thomas Ewing
Parks. Each had been convicted
on one count of jury tampering
end could have been sentenced to
five years and fined $5,000.
After court adjourned, Hoffa
spoke to reporters on the steps of
the courthouse.
“I have never witnessed any
thing such as I have witnessed in
Chattanooga, Tenn., duing the
past eight weeks," he said.
, He said he had told members
of his union, "The zeal of Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy will be to
destroy you unless you give in.
“1 urge you not to give in,”
Hoffa said.
Going to Florida
There was a scattering of ap
plause from spectators gathered
around the union leader who then
walked away to his hotel. He said
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Photo Of Oswald Red Salute Blocked
Ruby Trial Nears End
DALLS (UPI) — A $350 a day
New York psychiatrist today cap
ped the defense effort to save Jack
Ruby from the electric chair with
testimony that he was mentally
il) and legally insane when he
shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
Assistant defense attorney Joe
H. Tonahll created a stir when ne
tried to introduce a blow-up of a
photograph of the accused assas
sin holding his manacled right
hand up in a Marxist salute.
“Joe get that thing out of here,”
ordered Judge Joe B. Brown.
Dr. Walter Bromberg, the de
fense "ambush” witness, main
tained that Ruby Instinctively and
automatically shot the accused as
sassin in a “blackout.”
Ruby looked haggard but calm
as he sat listening.
There was speculation the slay
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New§ Hound up
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a result of anti-American demonstrations by Cambodians Wednes y.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy is
inclined toward accepting tthe Democratic nomination for v ce'Pre
sident if President Johnson asks him to run, sources close to Kennedy
said today.
NEW YORK (UPI) — Jazz musician Louis Satchmo Arm
strong, undergoing treatment here for a heart ailment was re
ported in satisfactory condition today at Beth-Israel Hospital.
VERO BEACH Fla. (UPI) — Slugging outfielder Frank How
ard of the Los Angeies Dodgers today announced his retirement
from baseball in a letter to General Manager E. J. Buzzie Bavasi.
SAIGON (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara
concluded his inspection of South Viet Nam’s U. S. - supported war
against Communist guerrillas today by pledging more American aid
now and as long as it takes to win it.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The administration has made an
apparent retreat from a heretofore firm position that interest on
rural electrification loans be limited to 2 per pent.
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MIAMI PASTOR AT CAMPBELL — Out for a bit of sun between assembly periods at Campbell Col
lege Wednesday, Rev. Charles Stanley, left, speaker of the morning, chats with Rev. Don Bowen, pastor
of Lillington Baptist Church and a trio of coeds from Florida. The Rev. Mr. Stanley, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Miami, is speaking nightly through Sunday at the Lillington church._
Miami Pastor Addresses Campbell Students
"DoiYt Be Dead Fish," He Advises
By Philip Kennedy
The Rev. Charles Stanley from
Miami, on a preaching mission at
Lillington this week, made a side
trip to Buies Creek and the Camp
bell College assembly Wednesday.
But he didn’t come, he told the
college students, to preach them a
sermon. His purpose was to tell
them some of the simple facts of
a free life.
Freedom, Stanley showed, is a
thing that' everybody wants: those
that have it; those who do not
have it — “red and yellow, black
and white.” But freedom is not
free; it has a price. The price is
duty. To be free and stay free,
people must be able and willing to
take on and handle the repsonsi
bilities of free men.
Stanley spent some time in Rus
sia last summer; and he came back,
he said, convinced that American’s
don’t know how well off they are.
The Russians, he showed, are a
disciplined people, partly because
they are afraid not to be. In a
police state everybody spies on
everybody else, and people do what
they are told to do or take the
drastic consequences. Stanley thinks
that Americans, because of irre
sponsibility and indifference, are
heading fast In this direction.
‘‘Let me say this to you,” he told
the students. “You and I have got
wonderful liberty and freedom to
day that we don’t have any guar
antee we’re going to have tomor
row.”
Most Crucial Time
College students in particular, he
said, cannot go on thinking as their
parents have thought — that they
can leave the dirty work to some
body else and “leave the govern
ment to our congressmen.
Calling the present time “the
most crucial time in the history
of our nation since the Civil War,”
Stanley told the Campbell students
that no generation of students has
ever had more personal responsi
bility than they have.
Saying that young people all over
the world want to study In Ameri
can coHejjgs^ he . out that
every student has more influence
on the shape of things to come than
most students realize. “Students a^
round the world are conscious,” he
said, “that you are setting the ex
ample for them and for their lives.”
American young people are un
der examination; and the Miami
minister fears that they may be
flunking the test. Too many col
lege students, he said, are float
ing down stream.
“A dead fish can do this,” he
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Facts About Cancer To Be Presented
Cancer Education
Group Is Announced
Twelve educational leaders were
announced today by the Harnett
County Unit of the American Can
cer Society which has a goal this
year to reach every person in the
county with the education pro
gram of the American Cancer
Society.
The announcement was made by
Mrs. Guyton Smith, chairman of
the Crusade in the county.
The Harnett County Unit would
welcome the opportunity to pre
sent its program to each commu
nity in the county. Any organiza
tion, etc., should contact the can
cer co-chairman for their commu
nity.
The following are serving as
education chairman for their
town and community: Angiar,
Earl Grey; Coats, M. O. Phillips,
Anderson Creek, James Watkins;
Olivia, Sanford Lee; Boone Trail,
Tom Marshall; Buies Creek, Mrs.
Robert King; Dunn, Wiley Bowen;
LaPayette, Tommy Keith; Lilliag
ton, Don O’Quinn; Erwin, Mrs.
E. H. Bost. Mrs. Ruby Parker and
Mrs. Ida Hinnant will have charge
of the Home Demonstration Clubs.
If further assistance is needed
Mrs. Guyton Smith, president, or
Joe Downing, education chairman,
should be contacted.
“Cure rates for cancer are now
1 put of 3; however, with current
knowledge, know-how, drugs and
equipment, 2 out of 4 could be
cured’’, said Mrs. Smith. “We can
save these additional people only
by properly informing them on
what they can do to help void
death by cancer. Physical exami
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Estranged Wife
Shot By Hubby
DURHAM (UPI) — Mrs. Cath
erine Deese, 45, was shot today
at the shop where she worked in
Lakewood Shopping Center.
Police arrested James Lawson
Deese of Concord/' the woman's
; estranged husband, in connection
with the shooting.
Authorities said Deese stopped in
| the curtain shop where Mrs. Deese
worked, pulled out a pistol and shot
her in the chest.
An unidentified bystander grab
bed the pistol from Deese and slug
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Candidate Faces Busy Schedule Here On 24th
Preyer Visit Plans Made
Gubernatorial candidate L Rich
ardson Preyer of Greensboro will
return to Harnett on Tuesday,
March 24 for a busy day and night
of campaigning that will include
a civic club speech, person-to-per
son campaigning, a barbecue supper
and other appearances to be cli
maxed by a mammoth county - wide
rally at 3:30 that afternoon in the
county courthouse at Lillington.
Plans for Judge Preyer’s visit
were disclosed in a Joint announce
ment made today by his Harnett
co-managers, Johnnie Wilbourne of
Lillington and Attorney Robert C.
Bryan of Dunn.
Mrs. Preyer Coming
Mrs. Preyer, once voted “Miss
Personality” in Greensboro High
School, will accompany her husband
to Harnett but will travel the coun
ty separately on a tour arranged by
Chairman Dot Snipes of the Lad
ies-for-Preyer committee and will
be honored from 4:30 to 6 p. m. at a
reception in the Woman’s Club in
Dunn.
This will be Judge Preyer’s se
cond visit to Harnett. He appeared
here briefly for a coffee hour last
month and received a warm recep
tion from a large and enthusiastic
crowd that turned out to greet him.
Judge Preyer is regarded by
many as the front - running candi
date for the State’s top office and
his county managers said today the
Preyer tide i* rising rapidly in a
county which previously was prac
tically conceded to one of his op
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