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iVnaihsA Lows tonight about 15 in the moun tains ranging to tipper 20s along the coast. Wednesday generally fair and not so cold. Dunn Stores Open Til 9 P. M. Until Christmas VOLUME 15 TELEPHONE 892-3117 — 892-3118 DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 15, 19«4 five cents PEE COPT NO. 1 ? I MURDER SCENE RE-ENACTED — The Saturday night slaying of Waymon Spence by Richard Smith at the home of Anna Jones is renacted in this photo in the room where the killing occurred. The Jones woman sits on the same couch where Smith sat and points, as though wiUi a .12 gauge shotgun, at Charlie McLean, another eye witness, who’s standing in the same spot where Spence stood. The close range blast left a hole in Spence the size of a lemon. His body staggered and fell in front of the stove, jelow is the Jones home, just before the wire fence was removed, as ordered by Judge Woodrow Kill. (Daily Record Photos by Russell Bassford.) Four Children Die In Apt. House Fire Hotel Fire Kills One, Hurts 6 MADISON, Ind. TJPI — One guest was killed and at least six others were injured today when a $500,000 Are destroyed the Hill side Hotel in this scenic Ohio Riv er city. Hours after the pre-dawn blaze, the dead man was identifed only Horace Tarf Is Appointed Congressman David N. Hender son today announced that he has named Horace Tart of Fuquay Springs, Route 1, an alternate no minee to the United States Mili tary Academy, West Point, New York. The son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Tart, he Is a senior at LaFay ette High School where he is Presi dent of the student council, an officer in the FFA and a member of the Beta Club. As an alternate nominee, wheth er Tart will win admission to the Academy is necessarily dependent upon whether other nominees are successful in meeting the require ments for admission, but Hender son pointed out that the great maj ority of cadets actually accepted by West Point from the Third Dis continued on Page Six) as Richard Brown of Maryland. Fire chief Harold Lohrig said his body was found in the hotel’s ruins. Five of the injured, suffering mostly from smoke inhalation, were described in “fair” condition in King’s Daughters Hospital. An other was treated and released. Most of the 30 guests rushed out of the structure in their night clothes into 15-degree cold and were taken to other hotels. The biaasSbroke out about 4 a. m. EST. Fire officials said it may have started in the hotel’s kitch en, but the cause was not im mediately determined. The injured were taken to King’s Daughters Hospital in Madison. One of the victims leap ed from a second-story window. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. UPT — A wind-whipped fire flashed through a two-story wooden apartment DEAR SANTA Dear Santa, Please bring me a Johnny 7 oma and a biycle. Yours truly, Connie Thompson Route 2, Box 2 Lillington (Continued on Page 4) house early today In the crowd ed Puerto Rican section of this city, killing four children as they slept. Three of the children were from the same family. Their parents and three of their other children were burned, all but one critical ly. _ Man, 26, Held In Rape of Girl, 17 RALEIGH TJPI — A 26-year-old Raleigh man was scheduled to ap pear at a hearing today on charges of kidnaping and raping a 17-year.old high school student. Police said John Edward Jones was charged with kidnaping Phyl lis Marie Hamm as she walked home from high school for lunch, driving her to a remote area and raping her. Miss Hamm told police Jones threatened to kill her if she did n’t get in his car with him. Jones and Miss Hamm are both Negroes. MASS ARREST CHICAGO UPI — Two 19-year old youths today faced grand theft charges after they were seized Monday while trying to re move a 400 pound safe from Holy Name Cathedral during 6 a. m. Mass. ;V,V • TV Dealers Ask To Be Heard On Cablevision Phone Co. Wants Finger In Pie The Carolina Telephone & Tele graph Co. wants its finger in the jJio*!*able pie of cable antenna te'evis'cn. Officials of the company today asked the Town of Dunn not to grant the franchise to anybody else without giving them consider ation. , A phone company memorandum said the company wants to operate the antenna service itself or install the cables on its poles and lease it to somebody else. “In other words,” concluded City . Manager Archie lizzie, “the tele phone company wants its finger in the pie and a share of the pro fits.’’ Already Granted The phone company was a little late on the matter of a franchise, however, because at its last meet (CONTnroKD ON PAOS 8) All But Two Of 44 Charges Are Thrown Ouf CHARLOTTE UPI—A Superior Court Judge today dismissed all but two of the 44 indictments drawn up in an investigation of irregularRies in the police de partment. The state planned to appeal sr;me of the cases, all involving neglect of duty charges against police Chief John S. Hord and six other officers, to the State Supreme Court. judge James F. Latham left standing a felony indictment a gainst patrol Sergeant T. W. Wit hams, who was accussed of of fering a $250 bribe in connection with a traffic aaccident, and a manslaughter indictmertt against Mrs. Helen Virginia House Kuhl man in the death of her infant son in 1953. Williams and Mrs. Kuhlman have entered pleas of innocent. Latham, in dismissing the in dictments, ruled the policemen were employees of the city coun cil and not public officials. He said it was the council’s duty to take action in such cases and not the court’s responsibility. The ruling upheld the conten tion of the 10 defense lawyers al though the state attorney gener al’s office, in a brief, contended the state had always considered policemen to be public officials. “I do not think the statute un der which the officers were in dieted attempts to cover the acts of employees of the city council,” said Latham, ‘‘I’m even more con cerned by the fact that I think the grand Jury asked a petit Jury of this courtly to substi tute Us Judgment for the judg ment of the city council.’* Latham said it was the coun cil's business to hire and fire po licemen and if neglect was charg ed R was the council’s duty to look into the matter and take ac (Continued on Page Six) ICY VISIT TO GEAR MANUFACTURER — L. H. ( 3iL. McLamb and his son Dan. shown above with Loren Laub, Sales Manager of the M & W Ge;»r Company at left; have just returned from a visit to the company headquarters in Anchor, Illinois w nere they unoerwent an orientation course in the Company’s products and an all too unforgetable ex perience .with Illinois snow and icy roads. Take Orientation Course At M & W Co. McLambs Visit Gear Factory Mr. and Mrs. L. H. (Bill) Mc Lamb and their son and daughter in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dan McLamb have just returned from a trip to central Illinois where the Mc I^unb’s senior and junior, went through an orientation course on the products of the M & W Gear Company, The M & W Company who manufacture products for 1 power farming are shortly opening a southeastern branch in Dunn, under the management of the Mc Lambs. The operation will be located it 6800 square feet of space on Route 3, Dunn (Benson Highway) where it will share space with the Me Lamb Electric Motor and Supply NEWS ROUNDUPS WASHINGTON — The administration today counted on a Supreme Court decision upholding the public accommodations sec tion to encourage voluntary compliance with the civil rights law. UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. — African powers at the United Nations, smarting under a tongue-lashing by U. S. Ambassador Adlai S. Stevenson, today took stock of their position on the Congo crisis. JERUSALEM, Israel — Preier Levi Eshkol’s resignation raised the possibility today that David Ben-Gurior would return from the collective farm to Israel corridors of power. PARIS — The United States will urge NATO to take urgent steps to meet the mounting perils of the nuclear age, it was learned today. BELMAR, N. J. (UPI) — Mistletoe and pcinsettias, both symbols of the holiday season, are also deadly poisons. Cases Aired In Harnett Court Man Must Pay Assault Victim A hearing was held In Harnett Recorder’s Court for Wallace Vin son who had been tried at an earlier court for assault with a deadly weapon on Jesse McLean, and given two years on the roads suspended and placed on proba tion for five years on conditions. Probation Officer M. R. Stout brought him before the court for probation violation. Special con dition of his probation was that he pay around $1,000 in dodfcor and hospital bills for McLean who was shot near Lilllngton, and was con fined to a hospital for a long period. Vinson was to pay the sum in weekly payments of $36 which he had not done. Judge Robert Morgan gave the defendant until Tuesday to pay Judgment. . •. Other Cases James Harold Dorman, Irwin, speeding 68, costs. Williams Stephens Davis, Rt. 7, 8anford, disobeying stop sign, PJC on (5 fine and cost, (remit all fine except $10). Jimmy Ray Hudson, Rt. 1, Bunn level, operate without insurance, fail to transfer title, $1; and cost, (remit all cost except actual cost). Bobby O. McCaskill, Rt. 1, Er win, who was tried and sentenced on Nov. 19th on a charge of driving after license revoked, and assault with a deadly weapon and given 18 months on the roads had his sentence suspended and de fendant was placed on probation for five years on conditions he pay a fine of $100 and costs in 30 day*. Manuel D. Ortiz, Jr., Fort Bragg, speeding 70 mph, PJO on (Oonttnued on page Sbrt Company. The area of the south-, eastern United States, at present j covered by several M & W sales- i men will continue to be covered by the same men with the added ad vantage that an inventory of pro ducts and parts wilt now be carried in Dunn, Bill McLamb. for twenty-five years an International Harvester dealer in Dunn, and his son Dan are both well known to farmers and implement dealers alike in this area. The establishment of this enterprise gives the promise of a thriving new industry in Dunn. Routine Session Thursday Night Council To Meet Mayor George Franklin Bla lock and members of Dunn’s city council apparently are faced with a light routine session for Thurs day night at 7:30. Only a few items are on the agenda released 'today by City Manager Archie TJzzle, as follows: Mr. George Carroll and Mr. Robert Bryan with reference to closing of a portion or all of the alley between Clinton Avenue and Wilson Avenue and running from Pope Street to Bay Street. Fire Department asks Board to (Continued on Page Six) Civil Defense Event Termed Success Morgan, Griffin Address Meeting Major General Edward F. Grif fin, State Civil Defense Director, declared here Monday that North Carolina’s program of civil de fense Is growing and “getting stronger all the time.” “With the tense international situation,” he said, “more and more public officials and private citizens as well are coming to realize the need for a strong civil defense program.” Gen. Griffin made hie remarks in an address at the quarterly con ference of the N. C. Civil De fense Association, which ended a two-day session at the Ho»tel Cot ton Dale. Approximately 100 registered for the event from across the State. County officials as well as city officials and local leaders throughout Harnett also attend ed. Harnett Director Carl E. Lucas of Erwin and Assistant Director Prank Lewis of Lillington were hosts to the event. Gen. Griffin spoke on, "The Present Status of Civil Defense in North Carolina.” State Senator Robert Morgan of Lillington spoke at a luncheon (Continued on Page Six) Barn, Machinery Damage Totals About $10,000 Estimated damage was placed between $8,000 and $10,000 to a barn containing farm equipment on the J. T. Jackson, Jr., farm on Route 2, Dunn. Cause of the Are, said Howard M. Lee, secretary of the Are de partment here, is not known. The alarm was sounded last night about 8:15 by Wade West, an employee of Carolina Power & Light Co. While sixteen rr<en remained on call at the station, nine men were sent to the scene. A tractor and some of the disks and plows were saved, a member of the family said today. Short Causes Fire An International cotton picker received about $30 damage when Are broke out due to a short in •the ignition system. The Are occurred Monday morn ing about 10:27 on the farm of Alsey Johnson, vice president of Johnson Cotton Co., near Dunn. Lee said that six men answered the alarm and sixteen remained at the station. WOW To Fete Falcon Orphanage i The Erwin WOW will entertain at a Christmas party for the child ren of the Falcon Orphanage Thursday night. The party will get underway at 7:30 in the high school auditorium. A program will be given by the children and Santa Claus will be present to distribute gifts to them. The public has been extended an invitation to attend the festivities. Reynolds Dies in Switzerland LUCERNE, Switzerland (UPI)—R. J. Reynolds of 'the North Caro lina tobacco family, died here Mon day, a spokesman at the St. Anna Clinic announced today. Reynolds was hospitalized Sun day with an undisclosed ailment. His body remained at the clinic pending completion of funeral ar rangements. Reynold’s wife was with him when he was hospitalized and when he died. Thompson Charged In Sunday Accident Dunn Policemen Bruce Massen gill and O. T. Wilson charged Wel don Thompson of Dunn with fail ure to yield right of way in an accident that occurred at the in tersection of North Magnolia Av enue and East Harnett Street Sunday afternoon. Thompson, driving a 1967 Olds mobile North on Magnolia, hit a 1959 Chevrolet operated by Mrs. Mary E. Lee of Dunn, who was traveling east on Harnett. Both cars were damaged about $200 each. Collects On $1.14 Premium; Policy Never Issued Jury Awards Dunn Woman $3,000 Insurance Verdict A jury in Harnett Recorder’s Court has ordered an insurance company to pay a $3,000 claim in exchange for receipt of a $1.14 premium on a policy that was never issued. The verdict was returned In favor of Mrs. Patricia Godwin of Dunn against State Capital Life Insurance Co. on a policy taken out by her husband, Sher wood Godwin, just 11 days before he was killed in an automobile ac cident on July 12, 19*3. At the time of the tragedy, Mrs. Godwin didn’t know her husband had purchased the $1,500 double indemnity insurance policy. She found a copy of the application and a receipt for $1.14 as the first month's premium among her husband’6 personal effects after his death. Mrs. Godwin testified that she contacted the local agent, who sent her to >the company’s office In Raleigh. The company refused to pay the claim on grounds that since no policy had been issued she had no claim. A few days later, the company refunded her the $1.14, which she refused to accept. Her attorney. Ben DeBerry of the Lillington law firm of Morgan, Williams, DeBerry and McCor mick, argued to the Jury that re ceipt of the $1.14 from Godwin made the contract binding and hat the Insurance company should »e ordered to pay off in full. (Continued on Page Six)
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