f VOLUME 14 (jJsudthah Generally fair and rather cool to night. Friday, gunny and continu ed mild. TELEPHONE 89* - 311’ — 39* - 3118 DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1964 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Webb Is Fined $1,000, Therlo Barefoot $500 Robert Earl Webb of Dunn, Route 2 was given his choice of serving five years in prison or paying a $1,000 fine in U. S. District Court at Raleigh yesterday on charges of violating Federal liquor laws. Webb chose to pay the fine in stead of going to prison. Webb was also convicted in an other liquor case and was placed on probation for two years. He was one of a number of de fendants arrested by Federal ATU I Agents working out^ of the Dunn office. Therlo Barefoot of Benson, Route 2, who has been tried in Federal Court on previous occasions, plead f'dft guilty to possession of fruit jars and other materials for use in manufacturing, and was fined $500 and put on probation for three years. He was represented by Attorney D. K. Stewart. Other sentences included: Eugene Norris of Dunn, Route 3, $200 fine and three years proba tion. Joe R. Norris, of Dunn, Route 3, $200 fine and five years probation. William Roy McLairib, Dunn, Route 3, sentence suspended for three years. James Leonard Avery and Millard David Smith, both of Four Oaks, three years in prison, suspended on $100 fine and probation for three years. Eugene Barefoot, Jr. and Charles Earl Radford, also of Four Oaks, were given three years each, sus pended on payment of $200 fine and three years probation. Donald Ray Adams of Dunn, three years in prison, suspended on $200 fine and three years probation; Carlyle McLamb of Dunn, case dismissed for transporting. Curtis Washington Wilkins of Dunn, Route 2, three years in pri son, suspended and put on proba tion for two years. Ernest Edward Capps of Dunn, three years, $50 fine and probation for three years. His son, Kenneth Capps, arrested with him, was put on probation until 1964, when he wDl become of age. Erwin To Hear Union Leader' William Barbee of Raleigh, State president of the AFL-CIO. will speak to members of Local 250 of the Textile Workers Union of America (AFL-CIO) in the union hall at Erwin Saturday af ternoon at 3 o’clock, it was an nounced today by Lloyd Byrd, business manager of the union. In addition to an important ad dress prepared for this occasion, Mr. Barbee will 6how an excellent color movie, entitled, “Program For Progress.” This movie shows how working people can attain a greater voice in affairs of thair government. Mr. Barbee is well known in Er win and is one of the South’s most popular union official*. A large crowd is expected to hear him Saturday at Erwin. i SSS But the jam is understandable. Rome’s auto population has jumped 500,000 in 10 years. Cope Plans Important Meeting Friday Nighf Dawkins Elected To Head Erwin Political Committee Lacy Dawkins has been elected a; the new Chairman of CORE, the Erwin Committee on Political Education, it was announced to day toy Lloyd Byrd, business man ager of Local -30 of the . Textile Workers Union of America (APL CTO) at Erwin. Harnett's Third This Week Angier Man Killed James Howard Wilson, 45, of Route 2, Angier, was killed instant ly early Thursday morning about 12:35. Harnett County Coroner Bill Warren said the victim, operating a pickup truck, apparently went to ulsleep and failed to make a curve. The fatal accident occurred on Highway 210 about a mile south of Angier towards Lillington near the Vicinity of Wilson’s home. Coroner Warren reported that the pickup hit a ditch and overturned three times. Wilson was killed in stantly when crushed by the steer ing wheel post in the chest. Coroner Warren and State Troop er Paul Lucas investigated. Wil son was alone and no inquest will be held. Wilson was the third person killed on Harnett County highways within a one week period. No Apparent Motive Wife Of Prominent Doctor Is Slain SOUTH PITTSBURGH, Tenn. (UPI) — Authorities said blood hounds would be brought Into the search today for the “person or persons” who shot the wife of a prominent doctor without apparent motive. The body of Mrs. Carolyn Hav ron, 43, mother of three, was found early Wednesday by her husband, Dr. J. B. Havron, and her youngest son, DJana, 8, a second grader. Sheriff Ernest Haskew said a bout 10 officers, Including two state investigators, searched the Pitts burg Mountain area. Coroner R. H. Hall ruled Mrs. Havron was murdered “by per son or persons unknown.” Hall said “we haven’t found a motive. All her jewelry and rings were still there.” Havron, on duty at the South Pittsburg hospital, was away from the residence for the night. Hall said Mrs. Havron was shot “once in the head — In the left temple.” Mrs. Havron was not criminally assaulted as far as investigators could tell, the sheriff said. Haskew said the boy came in to his mother’s bedroom - where the body' was found - about 7 a. m. to shut off the alarm clock. He said the child called his father who summoned police and thlen came home. The back door was open, Haskew said, and at least one window was unlatched. In GOP Presidential Fight Ike Declares He's Neutral HARRISBURG, Pa. t^PI) — Former President Dwight D. Eisen hower today proclaimed his strict neutrality in the Republican presi dential race and said he would not try to "dictate” a choice tor tne party’s nomination. Returning to Pennsylvania after a five - month winter stay in Calif ornia, the general said It would be neither “practical nor wise” to pick a candidate "and expect all the Re publicans, Just, like a herd of sheep to run that way." At an impromptu news conference held as he alighted from the pri vate railroad car which had car ried him from , the west coast Eisenhower pledged support to the choice of the GOP national conven tion, rejected speculation he would become part of any “stop move ment” and said President Johnson could be beaten with the "right combination” of platform and can didates. Owtttaea Position Summing up his position, the I former chief executive said: "I Just know whoever Is nom inated I am going to support. And I don’t want to be — after all, I am an ex-polltician — I should not be in the position of trying to dic tate to the Republican party what it should do. I am going to sup port It In its decisions and do Whatever I can — I can’t do very much.” When queried by newsmen on re ports of OOP plans for his leader (Oontbnwd on Page Bis) .^r.nuns* u. “ The purpose of this committed is to educate union members on political matters and to work for the election of candidates who are favorable to legislation which will benefit the working people. Mr. Dawkins is a former busi ness manager of the Erwin union and a longtime leader in affairs of the town and county. Others elected to the commit tee were: Boy Tyson, secretary; Denver J. Bethune, Mrs. Ruby Stewart and Mrs. Vera McCas klll. Mr. Byrd said an Important meeting of the committee will oe held Friday night at 7 o’clock and all members of the union are in vited and urged to be present. Report Tenants Living In Real Squalor WASHINGTON (UPI) — Two Republican congressmen said to day they found shocking squalor on Alabama farm land owned by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. “If the President is sincere in ^his poverty program, he should Lave demonstrated his sincerity e long time ago by assisting these people who are living in such de jlorable conditions on the John lon land in Alabama,” Rep. Dave Martin,