JAPAN HIT BY MASSIVE QUAKE
I
No Arrest In
Slaying Of
Marshall Girl
Police authorites today continu
ed investigation into the slaying
of 22-year-old Mary Marshall,
checking out every possible lead,
but with no new developments re
ported.
Police Chief Alton Cobb said
early this afternoon that he and
Johnston County officers aided by
the SBI have been working on a
number of angles In the case.
“We get a lot of phone calls
end we follow up on every little
scrap of information, but most of
them have not proven too hepful,’’
reported Dunn’s veteran police
chief.
Meanwhile this morning, Mrs.
£. S. Marshall of Garland, Route
1, mother of the slain girl, came
to Dunn to claim her daughter's
possessions at a local rooming
house. |
„ Chief Cobb said he talked with
her only briefly.
“She was still too torn up over
the tragedy to talk about it,"
said the chief. She reportedly
broke down once inside the room
formerly occupied by her daugh
ter.
Stores Show
Topless Swim
Suits For Girls
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (UPI) — The
Hess Department Store rejected
today the demands of a group of
women pickets that the store call
off scheduled showings of topless
swim suits for women.
Wayne Holben sales promotion
manger, said 'the suits are to be
received this week from designer
Rudi Gernreich and they will be
shown to customers “but we are
not saying how,”
Seven women, ranging from 30
to 60 years old, picketed the store
Monday with signs reading: “Let’s
keep it clean,” “Bikinis are bad
enough” and “Hess’s, keep the
top>s on.”
The women marched in front of
the store’s Hamilton Street en
trance for 45 minutes before leav
ing at the request of police. They
indicated they were neighbors but
were not affiliated with any group.
Strickland New
Chef de Gore
District No. 5 of the 40 & 8, fun
society of the American Legion,
will install new officers for the
year tonight at 8 o’clock at the Le
gion fairgrounds, it was announced
today by Alvis Carver. Belvin
Strickland of Dunn will be installed
as the new Chef de Gare, succeed
ing Stanley Johnson of Clinton.
Mr. Carver also announced today
that Dunn’s American Legion base
ball team will play (Wilmington
Wednesday night iat 7:45 at Mid
way. ! ____
SHE CAMPAIGNS WITH VIGOR — Vivacious Em ily Preyer, right, wife of gubernatorial candidate L.
Richardson Preyer, was back on the campaign trail in Harnett again yesterday. She’s shown in Dunn
with Mrs. John G. Thomas, left, and Mrs. Dot Snipes, county woman’s manager, center. Mrs. Preyer
reported the campaign is going great and she’s delighted so many Lake supporters are now backing
her husband. (Daily Record Photo by Russell Bass ford.)
At Meeting Thursday
Council Faces Busy Session
Dunn’s city council on Thurs
day night will face one of its bus
iest sessions in recent weeks, ac
cording to the agenda released to
day by City Manager Archie Uzzi5.
The board will take action on
ansigning an architectural contract
for the new city hall, approval of an
interim appropriations ordinance,
and dispose of a large number of
For Operating Liquor Still
Man Fined $500
Elton Bullard of Sanford, Route;
6, caught operating a whiskey dis
tillery in the western part of Har
nett, was given a six-months sus
pended rdad sentence and fined $500
and court costs in Harnett Record
er’s Court.
Bullard pleaded guilty to charges
of owning and operating the liquor
plant, which included two vat-type
stills, caps and four condensers.
Sheriff Wade Stewart’s deputies
testified they also poured out 450
gallons of beer and 108 gallons of
bootleg whiskey and tore up the
still apparatus.
Judge Robert B. Morgan sus
pended the prison term on payment
of the fine and the condition that
Bullard does not violate the pro
hibition laws for two years.
Candidates In New Bern
Candidates Appear
On Same Platform
NEW BERN (DPI) — Dan K.
Moore and L. Richardson Preyer
were scheduled to appear on the
same platform twice today, the
first time the two candidates have
met face-to-face in the second
primary campaign for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
Hie first confrontation was
scheduled at a joint news confer
ence at the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Broadcasters meeting
here shortly after noon.
The two candidates were then
scheduled to move on to More
Lee Reports On Miami PC A Meet
Volume Of Credit
Service May Double
“The volume of credit service to
agriculture by production credit as
sociations may double during the
next decade,” according to Leland
Lee, vice president of the Dunn
Production Credit Association, who
has just returned from Bal Har
bour, Florida, where he attended
the 30th Anniversary Production
Cred't Association Directors’ Con
fc^en^e on June 7-9.
Mr Lee said, ‘‘Reports at the
conference Indicated the application
of capital using technology In agri
culture and reorganization or fann
units are continuing and ths short
and intermediate term credit needs
of farmers will probably double
during the next ten years. The
PC As should continue to furnish
an increasing share of the credit
needs of farmers.”
"The 77 production credit associa
tions in Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina have
provided approximately $4 billion
in credit service to fanner mem
bers since organisation 30 years
ago. The Dunn association has pro
vided $38,317,771 00 to farmers of
this area since organization in De
cember 1833,” according to Mr. Lee.
; ‘The PC As in the tour - state
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head City and appear before the
convention of the North Carolina
Association of County Commis
sioners.
The NCAB appearance was to be
taped to ruse later today by tele
vision stations.
Monday, the broadcast associa
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other matters.
Following is the agenda for the
7:30 p. m. meeting:
Prayer.
Action on minutes of regular
Mr Louis Baer.
Mr. Carl A. Faircloth requests
permission to place house trailer
on Lot 800 block S. Elm Avenue.
Request by Mr. Nick Joseph for
his house and lot on Erwin Road
across from Open Air Market be
annexed to Dunn.
Moving of Rickey’s Hot Dod
Stand away from its present site
to make way for new city hall.
Mr. Malcolm Stout & Mr. R. L.
Gay of State Probation Commission
and Judge Woodrow Hill — want
use of Mayor’s old office in court
room by Parole officer on perman
ent basis, (free rent, free heat to
State Employment Security Com
mission one to two days per week.
Refuse to cooperate and not smoke
in court room - destruction of seats
- it is recommended that all out
side users of town property be re
quired to pay a reasonable rent'
Dunn did not qualify for Federal
permission to bag parking meters
three Bargain Days, Ju'.y 2, 3, and
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3,01)0 Buildings,
Homes Tumble;
At Leasf ll Die
NIIGATA, Japan tUPI) — A
massive earthquake struck a 300
mile stretch of the west coast of
the main island of Honshu today,
■shattering buildings, smashing
bridges and setting off raging fires
that burned into the night.
It was the worst temblor to hit
this earthquake-prone country
since 1923, when 143,000 persons
svere killed in the Tokyo-Yokoha
ina area.
1 The official Japan Broadcasting
Corporation, NHK, reported 22
persons dead, one missing and 196
injured.
More than 3,000 buildings and
houses were destroyed or damaged
by the quake which hit at 1:02 p.
pi. (12:30 am. EST.)
Tanks Ablaze
Seven petroleum tanks still were
blazing furiously in Niigata at 11
p.m. (10 a.m., EDT), and city offi
cials asked for outside help to
fght the flames. The officials were
reported to have asked the Jap
anese Air Self-Defense Force to
air-drop chemical fire-fighting
bombs over the tanks.
A massive relief and rescue ope
ration was being mounted from
many points in Japan to help the
affected area, with TT.S. Air Force
planes, men and equipment on
standby alert to help out when
heeded.
The Japan Defense Agency sent
one company of 150 soldiers along
with nine vessels and 13 planes to
the stricken region.
Judy Merries
Herron Twice
YOKOHAMA (UPIl — A radian
Judy Garland said Tuesday on her
arrival from Hong Kong that she
had married her traveling com
panion, Mark Herron, twice and
might do it again in Japan.
“I think we ought to get mar
ried every place we go,” she told
reporters after arriving here on
the liner President Roosevelt.
The singer displayed a red, lea
ther-bound marriage certificate,
written mostly in Chinese.
Traveling with Judy and Herron
was Showdon Wu, a registered
nurse. Judy said that she was com
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News Roundup
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress was told today that the
only alternative to the recent cut in mail service was higher postal
rates. The speaker was Postmaster General John A. Gronouski, who
told a House post office subcommittee that if the cutbacks had not
been put into effect there probably would be “a six-cent letter now
and a seven or eight - cent letter later.”
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HARNETT DIVERS WIN — In the meet Sunday at Cape Look Out the Dunn Skin Diving Club walked
away with two tirst place trophies plua a bronze fish that went to the individual spearing the largest
fish. Harold “Runt” Suggs, got that honor. Twelve other clubs from state competing. One of the most
valuable members of the Dunn club.is Sgt. Thomas J. Hyson of Dunn stationed at Fort Bragg. Sgt.
Hyson is originally from Connecticut where in 195 9 he won the Connecticut AAU S‘ate Diving Champ
ionship. He is also a certified instructor in the us e of underwater equipment, head life guard and swim
ming coach at the Holliday pool in Fayetteville. Th is photo was taken at the Dunn pool where the divers
work with coach Varney, (by Record hotographer R ussell Bassford.)
Says Rich Boys Backing Him, Preyer AAgr. for Rate Hike
Taylor Says Preyer Is Tool
Of Special Interest Groups
PARKTON — District Solicitor
Archie Taylor of Lillington, in an
address to a rally attended by
wore than 300 people in Parkton
Monday night, declared that
•Judge Rich Preyer is the tool of
the special interest groups and not j
Dan Moore.”
He also charged that Preyer had
slandered the good name "of a,
group of the most outstanding,
most public-spirited men in this
State for no other reason than
the fact that they are supporting
Moore for Governor.”
"I tell you tonight,’’ he declared
to the cheering crowd, “Dan
Moore is proud and all th erest of
THE TALL AND SMALL — Carol Davis, Oklahoma College Queen,
standing five feet, ten inches, towers over Hawaii College Queen,
Karen Uemoto, who is just short of -five feet. Carol is the tallest of
the 50 queens in New York competing in brains and beauty for the
1964 national College Queen title. (NEA Telephoto)
Well-Known Retired Insurance Man Dies
Bales Rifes Slated
For Wed. Morning
Funeral services will be held
here Wednesday morning at 11
o’clock at the First Baptist
Church for Millard Bleecher Bales,
72, retired Dunn insurance man
and ne of the town’s oldest and
best known citizens.
Mr. Bales died Monday after
noon about 5 o’clock in Betsy
Johnson Memorial Hjospital. He
entered the hospital during the
weekend with a heart ailment but
thought he had recovered and had
his bag packed ready to go home
when the fatal attack came.
Officiating at the funeral ser
vices will be the Rev. Tom Free
man, pastor of the church. Burial
will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Bob Baer,
Carl Fitchett, Jr., J. I. Thomas,
Rosemond Godwin, George W.
Williams, Jr. and Raymond Ald
iedge.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Leonidas Jackson, Ty Thomas,
Ken Pate, V. C. Swanson, Aaron
Holmes, Dr. Randolph Doffermyre,
Dr. W. H. Lilly, Dr. C. D. Bain,
C. E. Fitchett, Sr. and J. B. (Doc)
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us in his camp are proud, immen
sely proud, to have the backing of
such men as Nello Teer, Edwin
Jones, Snow Holding and the oth
er great men of North Carolina
who are supporting him.”
“They are the men,” said Tay- a
ler, “who have made North Caro
lina- great and who will continue to
make our State great. Rich Preyer
did everything in his power to get
their suoport but couldn’t so now
he’s sore and calling them names
limply because they’re behind Dan
Moore.”
Taylor, a top advisor to Dr. Lake,
charged that it was Rich Preyer’s
own campaign manager who un
.sucessfully tried to get the bank
interest rate increased to eight
per cent and it was Snow Holding
of First Citizens Bank who success
fully helped defeat such an in
crease. And .now Rich Preyer is
even distorting the truth about
that.”
Taylor, accompanied by City
Councilman Bill Johnson of Lil
lington, drew repeated applause
with his speech and assurances
that Robesor, County will be in
the Moore camp when the votes
are counted.
“Rich Preyer talks about Hold
| ing’s support as coming from a
big bank president, but actually
First Citizens is much smaller
than the bigger banking chains
supporting rich Rich Preyer.
“What about Pilot Life Insur
ance Co. and its 258% million dol
lars?” asked Taylor. “And what
about Jefferson Standard, a $240
million corporation that also owns
the State’s two largest television
stations, and its president, Ho
ward Holderness, a millionaire in
his own right who is handling rich
Eich Preyer’s finances?
“And what about the $243 mil
lion N. C. National Bank, and
$140 million Richardson-Merrell
Corp., owned largely by Preyer and
his family and which just the oth
er day had a fine levied on its
officials by the U. S. government
for criminally failing to warn the
public that one of its drugs could
cause blindness? And. what about
ricr Rich Preyer’s multi-million
dollar Vick Chemical Co.,” con
tinued Taylor.
“WHAT DOES NAACP EXPECT”
“What do these people expect
from rich Rich Preyer?” he asked.
Pointing to 26 Negro precincts
that gave Preyer 20,509 votes,
Lake 301 votes and Moore only
445 votes, Taylor asked: “Wonder
if Rich Preyer considers that spe
cial interest? What has rich Rich
Preyer promised the NAACP and
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Six Killed In
Plunge Of Bus
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) —A Con
tinental Trailways bus with eight
persons on board plunged into Lake
Pontchartrain today after a barge
ripped a 240-foot hole in the cause
way, the world’s longest bridge.
Six persons were killed.
Five bodies were recovered and
police said one body still remained
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It Landed Three People In Court
Child Makes Faces At Woman
Because a five-year-old child al
legedly made faces at a neighbor, 3
persons landed in Harnett Record
er’s Court on charges of assault as
a result of the ruckus that follow
ed.
Mrs. Alice Parnell, who lives In
Wondertown, between Dunn and
Erwin, testified that the daughter
of Mrs. Ludie Mae Weaver made
faces at her and she didn’t like it.
So she went to the home of the
parent, she said, to a6k them to
stop the child from pestering her.
It seems Mrs. Parnell came out
second best. She said the mother
took a stick away from her and hit
her several times about the face
and head, resulting In a $4 medical
bill. Judge Robert B. Morgan order
ed Mrs Weaver to pay it, and re
served judgement for six months
on the condition that Mrs. Weaver
not assault or molest Mrs. Parnell
Pat and Cleo Beds ole were also
charged with assault stemming
from the Weaver - Parnell battle.
Joe Parnell is a son of the woman
who didn’t like to be made face*
at. Judge Morgan continued prayer
for judgement against both defend
ants.
In another assault case that had
no relation to this one. Mrs. George
Bowling of Erwin, Route 1, Pleaded
innocent but was found guilty of
assaulting Michael Benson, age S,
with a belt on May I. She was or
dered to pay the child’* medical
bill and not to molest any child
ren for a period of one year. She
also paid the court costs.