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(Oswdth&h Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid today, tonight and Saturday. /OLUME 14 TELEPHONE 89* - Sill — 892 - 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 19, 1964 FIVE CENT8 PER COPY NO. M4 Council Given Budget Figures For Next Year Dunn’s city council Thursday night received the preliminary budget for the 1964-1965 fiscal year from City Manager Archie Uzzle and disposed of a number of other business matters. The new budget about the same as that for this year calls for ex penditures of about a half million dollars. Tax valuations have not yet been received from the county. It will be up to the council to review the budget requests of the various departments and cut or increase the items as it sees fit. Mayor George Franklin Blalock end the council deferred action on signing a city hall contract with architect George Jernigan, Jr. of Wilmington until it can oe checked by City Attorney Max Mc Leod. The contract calls for a fee of eight per cent plus extra charg es for additional service, etc. It is the extra charges portion the coun cil ordered checked. The board ordered gates erected to make Elenor Ave. a dead-end Street behind Patio Grill; about the center of the block, and to make dead end streets of Godwin and Duke at Magnolia because of speed and traffic problems in those residential. areas. *•' a request for location of a house trailer was denied, curb and gut ter requests approved and other minor items disposed of. Mrs Emily Preyer To Visit Sampson Mrs. L. Richardson Preyer, wife of the gubernatorial candidate, will visit Sampson County Tuesday on a handshaking tour. Her tentative schedule will be Newton Grove, 11 a.m.; Salemburg, 12 noon; Roseboro, 12:45 pan.; -and Clinton, 3 p. m. Reject Topless Swim Suite Glamour Gals Say "No" HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Holly wood glamor girls modestly drew a curtain around the new topless bathing suits for women today. They should be worn only in pri vate, several bosomy ladies of the cinema said. Stella Stevens, a shapely blonde, said, “X think they’re terrible. Why bother with the top half? If I was going to do that I’d go all the way. To me, It’s half of a bathing suit. And they’re probably more expensive than the full ones. You know, may be they’ll come out with a top half for men.” Mamie Van Doren and June Wilk (Continued or Page Eight) FORMER WAKE FOREST STAR HERE — Len Chappell, former basketball star at Wake Forest College, was in Dunn this week and left town driving a brand new 1964 Bonneville Pontiac convertible. The All American, now with the New York Knickerbockers, NBA, was at Campbell College as one of the in structors at the basketball clinic being conducted there. Paul Strickland, Jr., of Strickland Motor Co. is shown here presenting the keys to Chappell. (Re cord Photo by Russell Bassford) Fight Over Estate May Be Shaping Up Bank Is Named Administrator For Pat Rovifailles Estate Harnett Superior Court Clerk Elisabeth Matthews today ap pointed the First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. to serve as administra tor of the $67,000 estate (all in cash) of Mrs. Patricia Lee Rovi taille, 19-year-old Dunn woman, who died in Auburn, Cal. on June 8. Meanwhile, three different law firms have been employed as a fight appears to be shaping up o'er the inheritance. Mrs. Rovitaille, wife of a Que bec, Canada soldier now facing (Continued on Page EightJ charges of Army dissertion, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lee of a well-known Dunn family. Her father was • merchant here for many years. The money was left to her by her mother, who named First Ci tizens Bank as her guardian. Rovitaille, the husband, could not be named to administer his wife’s estate due to the fact that he is an alien. BRYANS REPRESENT HUSBAND J. Shepard Bryan and Robert C. Bryan of the Dunn law firm of Bryan and Bryan, employed to re present Rovitaille, had requested that Mrs. Lynn Monds, a secre (Continued on Page Eight) Teague Revival To End Sunday New Church For Dunn Plans for the erection of a new church in Dunn to be known as Faith Cathedral were disclosed to d.ny by Evangelist R. W. Teague of Kannapolis, who this weekend I is closing a highly successful re I vival meeting here. Formation of the new church is an outgrowth of the evangelis tist meeting, at which scores of people have professed faith. The revival will close Sunday night, with a specrar vtsaling service set for Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Rev. David L. Sanders of Fayetteville will serve as pastor of the new church. Its members will meet temporarily near Bailey’s Crossroads. Details of the new church organization will be an nounced later. The Rev. Mr. Teague, one of the State’s top evangelists, said today he has been highly pleased with the success of the revival. It is being held in a big tent on the fairground road, with special music at each service. Fires Started From 75 Tanks Still Blazina NIIGATA, Japan (UPI) — A strong new earthquake struck Nii gata 'and parts of northern Japan today, adding to the fear and damage of an earlier temblor that struck the region Tuesday. There was no immediate indica iton of what effect the latest quake had, but the Sendai weath er bureau said it registered three on a scale of five. Tuesday’s quake registered five on the same scale here. The newest earth shock register ed four in Sakata in Yamagata prefecture north of Niigata. Earlier U.S. Air Force planes parachuted additional chemical loam over tnis western wonsnu city to help fire-fighters trying to douse the last remaining flames in oil refinery fires caused by the initial quake. Pour days after .the first earth quake struck a few petroleum storage tanks in the port area were still ablaze. More than 75 huge steel tanks have been destroyed and the Sho wa Oil Co. said the damage to its refineries was in the neighbor hood of $15 million. Niigata is Japan’s biggest oil city. ty. . NOTHING NEW There were no new developments I today in the wm-olved slaying ot Mary Marshall. SBI Agent Bill O Daniel said investigation ia con tinuing and that some progress *» being made but that it may be sometime before an indictment is brought. ' WALKER GETS $800,000 FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI) — A state district court jury today awarded former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker $800,000 in damages in a libel suit against the Assoc iated Press. He had sought $2 million dam ages for accounts of his part in the Sept. 30, 1962, segregation riot at the University of Mississippi. News Roundup v EDWARDS AFB, Calif (UPI) — President Johnson viewed a display of American air might today — and reminded Californians they are getting the lion’s share of the federal money that pays for it. . ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (UPI) — A grand jury refused today to negotiate with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on ending ra cial strife here, raising the possibility of new demonstrations in the city. . NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) — Z. T. Osborn, Jr., former attorney for teamster president James R. Hoffa Friday was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and fined $5,000 for his conviction on jury tampering charges. (Continued on Page Eight) Recognition Given To Angier Soldier Master Sergeant William P. Sur les, a member of the non-commis sioned officers logistics program at Erie (Fa.) Army Depot, has received a Certificate of Achieve ment for outstanding performance of duty. Sergeant Surles.wh o has been at Erie since September, 1962, has ceived orders for an overseas as signment. The citation read as follows: "As a member of the Non-Com missioned Officers Logistics Pro gram he served as Operations NCO (Assistant to Director for Supply and Transportation) Erie Army Depot during the period 19 September 1962 to 31 May 1964, performing his duties in an out standing manner. His energetic and skillful application of sound professional knowledge in assisting in the establishment of local ope rating procedures and in the in terpretation of general policies, directives and regulations issued by higher authority was highly com mendalbe and of inestimable value tc the Depot.” “His spirt of cooperation and the assistance and support ren dered in supply problems contri buted materially to the successful fulfillment of the mission of Erie Army Depot. Master Sergeant Surles’ outstanding accomplish ments and sincere devotion to duty (Continued on Page Eight) WILLIAM P. WARREN Jernigan Wins 4-H Camp Trip Michael Jernigan of the Plain View 4-H Club' has won a free trip to 4-H Forestry Camp to be held June 22-27 at Camp Millstone near Elylerbe, N. C. Michael won this trip for hav ing the best 4-H Forestry recod book in Sampson County. Richadd Wallace, a 4-H agent in Sampson County, will also at tend the Forestry Camp as coun selor. The camp is sponsored by Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jernigan Route 5, Dunn. j Former Dunn Girl Wins $468 Mrs. Frances Warwick of Clin ton, the former Della Frances Stone of Dunn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Stone of Route 1, won $488 - 25 of groceries she scooped up in five minutes at the J&W Red and White Store in Clinton yesterday morning. She was one of two winners in the Goldsboro area in the Pepsi Cola Shopping Spree Contest, Opens Monday At Westfield Dr. Casper Warren Will Hold Revival One of the most noted sons of the First Baptist Church of Dunn will come to town, next week to lead in revival services in a mission of the church that will become a new Baptist Church, the fourth one in Dunn, on June 28. He is Dr. C. C. Warren, who grad uated from Dunn High School and completed law school at Wake For est College. He practiced law for two years in Dunn before entering the seminary to study for the min istry. He was ordained to the gospel ministry by the First Baptist Church in September, 1922. He will be preaching next week in the Westfield Mission, which meets in the Dunn Youth Center on West Broad Street, across from the Bar becue House. His first sermon will be on Monday night at 7:30, and he will preach each night through Saturday, and each morning, Tues day through Friday, at 10:30 a. m. He will preach on Sunday morning at 11:00 and also at the organize tion service lor the new church at 3:00 p. m. on June 28 (Continued on Page Eight) DR. CASPER WARREN Belk's Bids $40,000 For Dunn's City Hall CONFESSES SLAYING — After Indianapolis police exhausted a false lead on the slaying of 2-year-old Terri Robbins, her mother confessed she was the slayer. Mrs. Yvonne Robbins, 23, above, said the child was injured and it was a mercy slaying. A “hate” note had been planted to mislead police. (NEA Telephoto) Evidence To Be Heard Tuesday Night Jury Is Impaneled For McLamb Trial A jury was impaneled Thursday night to hear the case of Vernon Monroe McLamb of Dunn, Route 3, charged with assault on Dunn school principal A. B, Johnson rnd creating a disturbance at Dunn Rich School. It took until nearly 10:30 to se lect the six-man jury and Judge Woodrow Hill ordered a special session of court for Tuesday night at 7:30 to hear evidence in the case. Selection of the jury was start ed two weeks ago but the panel was exhaus’ed and a special venire of 50 others was summoned. The trial had been continued two or three times prior to that and numerous witnesses in the case voiced discontent at the long, drawn-out procedure. Finally Impaneled on the jury were: Roy Barbour, S. W. Lang don, David Whittenton, J. T. Her ring, 11. C. Smith and Donald Rangdon. SLOW PROCESS Most of the special venire of 50 was exhausted before these six were approved by private prose cutors J. Shepard Bryan and Ro bert C. Bryan and by defense at torney D. K. Stewart. Most of them were excused by the court on grounds they had formed an opin ion or disqualified for other rea sons. Attorney Stewart used all three of his challenges to excuse from DAY CAMP Day -..amp sponsored by the Dunn Recreation Department is now underway at Tyler Park. Pam Bass is in charge of the children ages 4 years and up. The camp is opened five days a week with a charge of 25c for the three hours, 9 a.m. to 12 noon. REVIVAL SERVICE Revival services will begin at Mt. Carmel Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church Monday and con tinue through the 28th. Rev. Mrs. Pearl Hall of Fayetteville will be speaking nightly. The service begin at 8:00, Rev. Lester Byrd, the pas tor, has extended an invitation to the public to attend. The church is located on 242 Highway. service on the jury three well knowri Dunn citizens, Lloyd Coats, Jr., Jesse Weeks and Willie Biggs. The prosecution offered no objec tions to any of the jurors. Stewart examined jurors as closely as he would at a first de gree murder trial and attorneys in the case clashed several times. McLamb, a well-to-do farmer, allegedly went to the principal’s office, bolted the door and knock ed Johnson down twice on a row over Johnson’s refusal to let his son out of school a half day with out either signing an excuse or giving a reason for wanting to be absent. Bids On Lots About Half Of Purchase Price Dunn’s historic old city hall went on the auction block here Friday morning and the high bid of $40,000 was made by Belk's De partment Store. Two vacant lots owned by the town were also auctioned off but brought only about half the a mount the town paid tfor them several years ago. The 100x140 foot lot beside Modern Laundry n oN. Clinton Ave. was bid in b Hugh Willie Tart, local business man, at $5,000. The 200x140 foot lot behind the laundry was bid in by Herman Strickland, owner of the laundry, at $7,500. These two lots, which connect in L . shape had been bought by the Town of Dunn in 1956 for pos sible use as a city hall. The Town paid $20,000 plus $2,500 interest for the two. The cify council recently select ed the old George Pope property instead for a city hall and all three pieces of property were put up for „ sale today to secure ! money for construction of the new structure. Known as “the municipal build ing,” the present city hall has a colorful past. It has served the town during the years as an Opera House, motion picture theater, for indoor circuses, carnivals, etc. and is now used as a city court room .It has been condemned as unsafe for at least 15 years or more. ONLY TWO BIDDERS Marvin Raynor manager of Belk's and Louis Baer of the Louis Baer Department Store, another mercantile firm, were the only bidders on the city hall. Raynor started the bidding at $35,000 and Baer ran it up to $40,000. Under terms of the sale, bids on all three pieces of property must stand open for ten days tot see if anybody else will raise the amount. The top price offered by Beks’ is the minimum which the city coun cil said it would accept for the property. John W. Hensdale of Fayette ville, owner of the Dunn and Fay (Continued on Page Eight) Now With Hatcher-Skirmer-Drew Price Takes New Position In Dunn Hallie K. Price, a licensed funeral director with ten years experience, has joined the staff of Hatcher Skinner-Drew Funeral Home in Dunn, it was announced today by Charles Skinner, senior partner in halue k. price the firm. In announcing the enlargement of the staff, Mr. Skinner also dis closed that a beautiful new chapel with a seating capacity of 250 has been completed and is now open to the public for inspection. One of Dunn’s oldest business firms, the funeral home was or ganized here in 1912 by the late J. L. Hatcher, who later took his son-in-law, Charles Skinner, into the firm as a partner In 2957, the firm was reorgan ized and the name changed to Hat cher-Skinner & Drew. Other part ners are Paul B. Drew, recently elected as Harnett’s coroner, and Pete Skinner, son of the senior member, v Mi. Price atended Hugh Morson High School and Hardbarger’s Bus iness College in Raleigh. Veteran of Pacific He served six years in the armed forces, four of them on duty in the South Pacific. He rose through the ranks to the grade of Sergeant. Soon after World War n he came to Harnett and has resided hare (Continued on Page Right)
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