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VOLUME 15
TELEPHONE 892-3117 — 892-3118
DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29. 1964
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WO. 16
SCENE OF DESTRUCTION — This is the flood devastaU.on in the central part of Klamath, Calif.
Pnoto was made from the main thoroughfare, Highway 1G1.
County Board Now Studying Proposal
Anti-Poverty War
May Be Launched
In Popes Bottom
Pope's Bottom in Dunri and an area near Anderson
Creek will be used to laomch Harnett County's war on
poverty, under, a proposed submitted. ,to the county
board of Commis^ioers ,t?y, the Harnett. Community
Selrtfce C&rhnfittee. * * *■’
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The two communities have been selected as the be
l ginning points, for experimental action. , , i
* Harnett's anti-poverty committee, headed by Mrs.
John (Rachel) Spears of Islington, met with the co
unty commissioners earlier this month and presented
t| verl thorcnjBfc And coripifthensive pictjfe of eondi. |
tions |i Harnftfl and recJnmended definif^lictioii.
Chairman Jack Brock and members of the board -
took the recommendations under advisement arid action
is exoected when the board holds its January meeting
on Monday.
“I was extremely impressed with the outstanding
lob done by the committee in .presenting Harnett's
situation, its needs and the remedies for imorovement,"
commented Commissioner Willard Mixon of Dunn, who
praised the committee's services.
The survey report included everything from the
number of homes with hot and cold water, to outdoor
toilet fabilities and such other helDful information
as the number of Washing machines, TV sets, years of
schbol completed, median income, overall health and
dconomci conditions, incidence of venereal diseases, etc.
Vemon Porter is the community service representa
tive.
Fn’lowing are the proposals on what needs to be done:
We Propose to:
1. Furnish breakfast and lunch fbr each child who
comes to school hungry.
2. Suop’y needed clothing, when available.
3. Increase use of surplus commodities.
4. Take casework services into the homes to determine
eligibility for public assistance^ give intensive case,
work services to individual chifflren with emotional
problems: work toward reuniting children with par.
ents, as many of these children are not living at home.
(Continued on Page Six)
Belbin Resigns
Dunn Pastorate
The Rev. W. J. Belbin, popular
pastor of Glhd Tidings Assemblies
of God Church here for more than
four years, has resigned, it was
disclosed today.
He is returning to his native New
Jersey, where he reportedly has
accepted a post in church extension
activities.
His resignation will become ef
fective this coming Sunday, when
he will fill the local pulpit as pas
tor for the last time.
West* Injured
4n Wreck *
Graylon Joe West of Richmond,
Va., "received baclc and chest in
juries in »n accident Saturday
night about 10:30 on Route 3, Ben
son.
He was admitted to Betsy John
son Hospital here.
West, driving a 1957 Chevrolet,
was headed north from Benson
when his car ran off the road and
hit a tree. The accident, happened
near the Casper Johnson Cross
roads
West has relatives In the Ben
son area.
IN THE DOGHOUSE
JOHNSON CITY, Tex (UPI) —
The remaining Johnson family
beagle — “Him” — is In the dog
house.
LKci Johnson, the President's
17-year-old daughter, told hei
father Monday night that Him
should get another dog tag, “»
misconduct medal for chewing up
the paper coffee cups” given to
newsmen at the ranch.
Qunn Cash Registers Rmn Merrily. Merchants Haapv
Yule Biz Here Sets Record
Cash registers in Dunn stores
rang merrily all during the Christ
mas shopping season and ifhe Weal
volume of Christmas buying here
is believed to have 3et an all-time
record.
A spot check of various types
of re-tail business establishments
today indicated ‘that many, if not
most, Dunn stores broke all prev
ious records for Christmas shop
p!ng. 1
These reports are in line with
•n official Dept, of Commerce re
port released a few weeks ago
showing retail sales In Dunn up
over a half million dollars the
first nine months of this year over
the same period a year ago. This
report is based on tax receipts.
And from Manager Charlie Mc
Cullers of the Dunn Chamber of
Commerce today came a predic
tion that Dunn would show at
least a 20 per cent gain in indus
trial payrolls «urmg the coming
j year.
Many Dunn retail stores took
advantage of the long Christmas
selling season this year by re
maining open nights two weeks
before Christmas.
Marvin Raynor, long-time man
ager of Belle's Dept. Store .the
largest In Dunn and one of the
largest In a three-county area,
today reported record Christmas
business.
Better Than Last Tear's Peak
"I Just don’t know where they
all (the shoppers) came from,”
(Continued on Page Six)
Six Americans
Are Wounded
By Comunists
SAIGON (UPP — Communist
machine gunners turned the Viet
namese sky into a shooting gal
lery ‘today, bringing down three U.
S. helicopters ana wounding six
American crewmen.
A U. S. military spokesman said
five of the wounded were in “good
condition” at the U. S. Army hos
pital in Saigon. He said the sixth
American had a “serious’* knee
wound.
The three American helicopters
were shot down and 'two others
hit by Red gunfire this afternoon
as they tried to airlift Vietnamese
troop reinforcements to a vil
lage which had been occupied by
Communist guerrillas for 'the sec
ond time in three weeks.
The Communists overran Binh
Gia village, 40 miles southeast
of Saigon,this morning — just as
they had done on Dec. 5.
American helicopter pilots re
sponded by flying loads of Viet
naftSfesd troops Qn to recapture the
settlement. *
Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun
ners were waiting. They knocked
their first American helicopter out
of the sky ait 2:30 p. m. and an
other at 4:04 p. m.
Both ships went down in rela
tively safe territory two to three
miles south and west of ‘the town.
Their crews escaped injury and
were rescued by other aircraft.
A third helicopter was shot
down at 5 p. m. a few hundred
yards south of Binh Gia. All four
of its crew members were in
jured
Rotarians To
Hear Skinner
Rotary Club activities during the
first six months period will be dis
cussed by Rotary president Pete
Skinner when the club meets to
night at Porter’s Restaurant.
In an announcement made today,
Skinner said he hoped to give the
club an accurate account of accom.
plishmerits achieved during this
period, and of projects the club
hopes to undertake during the next.
six months {
Over $2 Million Worth of Hogs Processed First Year
Dunn Meat Packers Now
Operating At A Profit
SENATORIAL GREETINGS — When Senator-elect Voit Gilmore of this district sends out a Christmas
message, hj puts his whole charming family into the greeting. Senator Gilmore’s attractive Christmas
message this year included this picture of him, Mrs. Gilmore, Geraldine, Kathryn, Susan, David and
S.:ter. Constituents will agree, it’s a handsome family portrait. Sen. Gilmore and Harnett Senator Rob
■t Morgan are now preparing for the opening of tne 1965 session of the legislature.
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Brink's Truck Robbed At Church; City Treasurer Held Up
Heavy Losses In Holdups
CHICAGO (UPT) — The loot ir
the hijacking of a Brink’s armor
ed truck from a Roman Catholic
church was set at $223,000 today.
The FBI and police investigated
the possibility that the robbery was
linked to an almost identical bank
truck looting in New Jersey last
week.
A. S. Genet, president of Brink’s
made the estimate of loot taken
from the Brink’s truck in suburban
Norridge Monday night. Three
masked bandits Invaded the rec
tory of the Divine Savior Church,
tied up two priests, and lay in
ambush for the money - laden
truck to come for proceeds from
Sunday’s collections.
The holdup waJ5 almost a carbon
copy of the $513,000 robbery of a
Brock Begins Duties on Health Board
Dr. Roberts Renamed
Chairman Of Board
Dr. Clarence E. Roberta, prom
inent Dunn dentist, Monday night
was re-elected to four-year term
as chairman of the Harnett Coun
ty Board of Health.
Dr. Roberts’ term as a mem
ber of the board had expired. He
was renamed and then re-elected
to continue serving as chairman
of the board.
The popular Dunn business and
civic leader became chairman of
the board last year upon the re
tirement of Leonidas Jackson,
longtime chairman of the board,
who declined to serve again.
Dr. Roberts has served sever
al terms on the board.
Chairman Jack Brock of the
Harnett County Board of Com
missioners was welcomed as a new
member of the board, which is
charged with the responsibility
for Harnett’s health conditions.
Mr. Brock, prominent Erwin
merchant, became a member by
virtue of his election as chairman
of the county board of commis
sioners, succeeding retiring com
mission chairman Alex Cameron.
Dr. Roberts and other members
of the board of health expressed
appreciation for Mr. Cameron’s
services.
Chairman Roberts is a director
of First Federal Savings St Loan
(Association of Dunn and has var
ious business interests in addition
to his dental practice.
Other members of the board of
health include: Roy Byrd of Bunn
level, Mayor John Aaron Senter
of Lillington; Supt. Glenn Profflt
i>i the county school system, Billy
Lanier, Coats druggist, and Dr.
S. A. Duncan or rsuna.
Dr. Melvin F. Eyerman of Lil
lington, Harnett county Health
officer, serves as secretary to the
board of heaRh.
I DR. LAWRENCE E. ROBERTS
bank truck from in front of St.
Anthony’s Roman Catholic church
at Paterson, N. J., a week ago
Monday.
There were three masked band
'its in both cases. At Paterson they
also invaded the rectory, bound
the priests together, looted the
church safe, ambushed the truck
(Continued on Page Six)
Bill Marsh burn National Official
Bemco To Increase
Advertisinq Outlay
PHILADELPHIA — Bemco Asso
ciates, group of United States and
Canadian bedding manufacturers
has approved a 25 per cent increase
in advertising-merchandising - pro
motion expenditures in 1965 and
will continue with its "world’s
greatest sleeping pill" approach.
W. C. (Bill) Marshburri of Rom
ar - Bemco Co. in Dunn, N. C. is
a national official of Bemco.
The Dunn firm manufacturers the
famous Bemco line of mattresses.
At a Miami meeting of firm
principals, it was decided that the
national advertising- program next
year will be highlighted by a sche
dule of full color island page units
in McCalls magazine, designed to
appeal to the sophisticated decora
tor - conscious female reader and
feature the $79.95 Bemco Quiltor
ama unit.
One of the ads in the series, it
was said, will be used to tie-in di
rectly with a seasonal promotion.
Complete dealer mat service, a
series of video - taped television
commercials, radio spots and some
(Continued on Page Six)
Dunn’s million-dollar meat pro
cessing plant, which wertt into
operation in November of 196, is
now operating at a profit and
the outlook for the future is
bright, President Ralph E. Hanna
disclosed •today.
After a year beset by financial,
labor, and other expected troubles
incident to launching the giant
operation, the plant has been
showing a small but gradually-in
creasing profK since Friday, Dec.
11 when a total of 549 hogs kere
processed.
Steady progress has been made
since Sept. 15, when the plant
located between Dunn and Erwin
resumed operations under a man
agement-lease agreement with
Burrows T. Lundy of Clinton,
president of the Lundy Packing
Co.
The number of hogs killed Sept.
15 totaled onl 126 but the num
ber has steadily increased and
Mr. Lundy, in a report to officials
of the company, said he expects
the number to increase to
least 600 daily early in January.
Lundy’s lease became effective
August 15th and the following
month was spent making changes
to provide a more efficient kill
line and. to provide for increasing
the yield of variety meats. Prior
to that time, variety meat items
were not being recovered but were
being put into general inedible
products being sold in bulk
YIELD TO IMPROVE
'■While the training program has
been effective in increasing the
quality and yield, we have not yet
reached what we consider an ad
equate yield of variety meats
and the program will continue
until such yield is reached,” re
ported Lundy.
The plant is now showing a pro
fit even though principal, inter
est, taxes, insurance and depreci
ation are included as operating
items of expenditure.
During its first fiscal year —
Nov. 11, 1963 through Sept. 30,
1964 — gross sales of the plant
totaled $2,170,764.65. Of this a
mount, $2,111,680.89 went for the
purchase of hogs, and $23,975.33
went for freight and buying com
missions
The plant — erected with money
received from stock sales totaling
$220,860,000 and $865,000 borrowed
from the Small Business Admin
(Continued on Page Six)
NEWS ROUNDUP
MOSCOW (UPI) — A Russian version of “My Fair Lady”
opened here Monday night to a response so warm that one member
of the cast said ‘this production will live a long time.” The cast
got nine curtain calls worn an enthusiastic audience.
ALHAMBRA, Calif (UPI) — The widow and children of
slain Congo missionary Dr. Paul Carlson may return to the United
States next month, according to his brother, Dr. Dwight Carlson.
(Continued on Page Six)
J 7,280 Readings During Every 24 Hours
Time, Temperature In A Flash
Now At First Federal In Dunn
Mark Twain’s commer.i that no
body does anything about the wea
ther is refuted in the Double “TT”
electronic sign installed at First
Federal Savings & Loan Associa
tion in Dunn
Pedestrians and motorists within
four blocks of First Federal
can learn the prevailing tempera
ture and exact time through the
sign’s large flashing numerals.
Executive Vice President John
Simpson pointed out that First Fe
deral has installed this sign as a
public service for the people of
the Dunn Area. In other cities
throughout th|e country, Double
“XT’ Time and Temperature signs
have received a tremendous re
sponse from the public for they
fulfill a needed public service.
The Double “TT” Time and Tem
perature sign is an extremely com
plex and delicate mechanism. Every
24 hour period the unit gives 17,280
readings. Time accuracy to the
minute is assured through the use
of self - correcting synchronous
motors within the unit.
Temperature accuracy to within
a degree is sustained through elec
tronic measurement of the tempera
ture. An official U. S. Weather Bur
eau type cage Is located at First
Federal and sun and wind have
no effect on it.
Even the possibility of power
failure is automatically taken care
of. A special motor takes over
when the power fails and remains
effective for up to 10 hours.
Behind the perforated screens of
the Time and Temperature unit are
262 40-watt lamps. The electronic
brain automatically Selects the
lamps necessary to show the pro
per readings.
Special care was taken by the
design engineers of American Sign
and Indicator Corporation to ach
ieve an effect that would be in
keeping with the building and ita
location.