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6)staihsh Considerable cloudiness with showers about 80 per cent of mountain area, partly cloudy else where and warmer over state this afternoon and tonight. The Record Gets Results VOLUME 15 TELEPHONE 892-3117 — 892-3118 DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, 1964 FIVE CENTS PER COPT NO. 17 RussellSays US. Has No Business In Congo Mess WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. I Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., said today It would be “nothing less jg|than a tragedy” and “a monu ment to poor statesmanship” if the United States gets involved 'in the Congo as it has in Viet Nam. The chairman of the powerful [Senate Armed Services Commit tee told newsmen: “If there is any place in the world we haven’t any business it is the Congo.” Russell said there were “a half : dozen countries in Europe that, have a greater stake in the Congo ; and a greater historical associa ! tion there than we do.” “If we let them dump this on us, we have lost all pretense of statesmanship,” he added. Russell said he had hopes that President Johnson would not make such a mistake. However, he said, “there are some people’’ in the government “who apparently are anxious to get us involved every where.” The veteran lawmaker, who toured U. S. military installations in Europe this fall, said he always had feltthe United States made a mistake by becoming involved in Viet Nam, but he conceded that getting out now would be difficult. “The time is about at hand when we are going to have to reevaluate our position to Viet Nam and decide whether there is m any possibility of saving those who are a little bit indifferent to their own salvation,” he said. Federal Charge Is Facing Man Ralph Ed Smith, 21, of Peoria, Illinois was ordered held for trial ir. IT. S. District Court at a pre lintinary hearing held here to day for taking a stolen aiftomo bile across State lines. U. S. Commissioner Abe Elmore found probable cause against Smith and ordered him held under $1,500 bond for trial at the next term of U. S. District Court in Raleigh. FBI agents who arraigned Smith said he had admitted stealing a 1962 Thunderbird in Peoria. He was arrested near Clinton. Wrench Services Friday At 2:00 Raymond Wrench, 53, of Route |l, Godwin, died suddenly at his piome Wednesday morning He was a native of Sampson !ounty, son of the late G. L. and essie Carroll Wrench. He was a armer and a member of the Min o Camp No. 1034 Woodmen of the orld. Funeral services will be held Fri ay afternoon at 2 o’clock from obert’s Grove Free Will Baptist urch. Rev. David Hensley, pas if, and Rev. Lonnie Caton, pas >r of Corinth FWB Church, will WILL IT STARTS? — An auto lies buried in mud left behind by the Klamath River when it came out of its banks at Klamath, Calif. (NEA Telephoto) Old Age Pensioner Wins Football Pool Jackpot $2.80 Bet Wins $620,525 LONDON (T7PI) — An old age pensioner of 77 today won a foot ball pool jackpot of $620,525. The lucky man was Joseph Al mond, a retired insurance agent in Hove, Sussex. His win was one of the highest — but not the highest — ever paid in the pool. And all of it is tax free. Almond’s win came in the weekly "treble chance” pool op erated by Llttlewoods, Ltd., of Liverpool, one of the country’s major betting firms. The ultimate successls to pick eight ties which, credited at three points each, give the bettor 24 Two Inaugural Balls Set Everybody Welcome RALEIGH (UPI) — Disappoint ed seekers of tickets to the gover nor’s inaugural ball won’t have to miss the affair after all. In an unprecedented move, gov. elect Dan K. Moore announced Tuesday he has asked sponsors to hold a simultaneous affair to ac comodate all North Carolinians who want to attend. The Raleigh Junior League and American Legion Poet No. 1, co sponsors of the event, said the inaugural affair was sold out for the first time in history with 2,000 tickets sold. Requests con tinue to pour in for the ball to be held at Memorial Auditorium. “So that these people will not be disappointed, Mrs. Moore and I have requested the committee sponsor a second dance to be held at the same time,” Moore said. The official party will attend both affairs, he added. Will Direct Sheltered Workshop Bass Is Named To Fayetteville Post J. Milton Bass of Dunn today was named director of the Cum berland Sheltered Workshop. Bass, 30, is a graduate of North Carolina State College, with a major in industrial arts. From 1958 until 1962 he taught indus trial arts in Fayetteville City Schools. Since 1962 he has op erated a crafts and novelty store in Dunn, and has served as a manufacturer’s representative for sporting and recreational goods in Southeastern North Carolina. He is also chairman of the Dunn Recreation Commission. Announcing the appointment, chairman Russell Crowell said the board of directors had investigated a number of prospects, and con cluded that with his training and experience Bass was Ideally suited for the position. Bass will begin his new duties Jan. 1. By starting then, Crow ell said, Bass will be able to as sist in the selection and pur chase of equipment, visit centers in other states, solicit contracts and, in cooperation with the Vo cational Rehabilitation Office, re (Continued on Page Six) urvey Shows Harnett Homes Have: TVs Than Tubs Or Showers lore Harnett County homes have Revision sets than bathtubs, show er sanitary toilets. (tnd more homes own TV sets radios, washing machines, ne freezers or automobiles, se Interesting figures are In in a survey on conditions the county made by Harnett’s ^ti-Poverty Committee and sub ftted to the county board of com BsHners. survey embraced all of the "tv’s 48.236 citizens, of whom _ are white an 13,440 are Ne There are 11361 white famil i and 2,618 Negro families. Harnett’s farm population totals 15,241, of whom 11,311 are white and 3,930 are Negro. TVs Lead Everything Television sets lead the field a mong luxury and convenience Items as well as what most citizens re gard as absolute necessities. A total of 7747 homes have both hot and cold piped water while 3530 have no piped water. Homes having water-connected toilet fa cilities total 8,106 while 5,356 have other type toilet facilities or none at ah. Homes having a bathtub or show er total 7524 while 5954 haves nei ther. A total of 8951 homes have TV sets, 7153 have automobiles, 8394 have radios, 5705 have washing machines, 2790 have no washing machine; 4698 have one or more home freezers, 7676 have no home freezer. The average income for Hamettt citizens is $2972 annually or $1860 for males and $780 for females In cases where both the husband and wife work, their total income aver ages $3847. The average income of Negro citizens is 81,488, $846 for Negro males and $389 for Negro females, j points. :| On last Saturday’s treble chance coupon only seven games ended in draws — and Almond accom plished the almost impossible by having them. His eighth pick add ed two points, giving him in all 23 — and the jackpot because that was better than any other of the millions of Britons who play this pool each week was able to do. The smallest total money that can be bet on “treble chance” is two shillings, six pence (35 U. S. cents) due to a series of com binations covered at one penny each. Almond said he actually bet one pound $2.80 for his strike. I. S. Casualties Viet Nam low Iota! 161 SAIGON tUPIl — Six more j Americans have been killed, wound ed or captured in separate clashes w^ith Communist guerrillas, it was rfvealed today, • The U. S, military headquarters here reported that two enlisted advisers to the Vietnamese army’s 3 It'd Banger Battalion are “miss ii ig.” But eyewitnesses to the clash between the rangers and an estl- i niated two battalions of Communist} tjoops said the two men were cap tured. A spokesman for the U. S. mil itary said two other enlisted mem bers of the U. B. Army Special Forces were killed this morning when Communists overrun an A. merican camp near Lai Khe, some 35 miles north of Saigon, Meanwhile, American military | sources at the site of a three day j battle for control of the town of Birth Gia, 40. miles southeast of j here, said another two American helicoptermen were wounded today by Communist groundfire The reports increased the num ber of American combat casualties thus far in December to 167. It was the bloodiest month for Americans since the United States decided to build up its forces in South Viet >iim in 1961. *With one day left of December, American combat casualties thus far numbered 16 killed, 149 wound ed and two known missing and re ported captured by Communist guerrdlas. The highest number of American casualties previously recorded in a single month was 155, of which 11 were killed and 144 wounded, in November of this year. NEWS ROUNDUP LEOPOLDVILLE (T)pti _ the lives of 87 white hostages 1**? WaS Messed today for from the town 0f Wamba before n °ff by Congolese rebels reached it. before Congoleae and mercenary rescuers WASHINGTON- mpn o en attacked Defense Secretary d Z ®®rry M. Goldwater who y “Mt* «h ,h. N.,ioni, a™”"’’’' p,,n *° ASPEN, Colo (UP!)_rpy. romp in Colorado's exclusive Aspen *K*nne^y clan continued its mark of the family's eight-dav holldav ^'’68 T* &t the mif1way 2* "»* snow'rovrered slopes of ZZ^ °f Kenned^ 13 late Tuesday with the arrival of tol Color:ldo increased to Peter Lawford, both sisters of the late l y Smith and Mrs 7------ late President, and their children Lettuce Cigarettes Get Varied Reaction SAN FRANCISCO (UPD — The world's first lettuce cigarettes went through a small-scale mar ket test Tuesday and won limited endorsement. "It tastes like barley" .... “It’s aromatic . . . “acrid” . . . "sharp” .... “cool" . .and “tastes like burning leaves smell” were a mong comments from a selected group of office workers. Some were regular chain smokers, others non-smokers. The lettuce cigarettes’ manu facturer. Perry Resnick, was here to talk to prospective distributors and meet with lettuce growers from the nearby Salinas Valley "There’s no tobacco, thus no NEW TEAR’S EVE SERVICE Rev. James David Tart and Rev. Leon Tart will speak at a special New Year’s Eve service beginning at 7:30 at Beulah Baptist Church on the Jonesboro Road. A testi monial service will also be a fea ture of the evening. The public is invited to attend. nicotine, so they’re safer,” said Resnick, president of Guardian Smoking Products Inc., an Okla- i homa firm. Although he admitted the let- i tuce cigarettes don’t taste like i tobacco, Resnick said "curiosity” is on his side. The cigarettes, complete with Alter and looking almost exactly like their tobacco cousins, will sell for 42 cents per pack initially. Cars Collide Near Hodges Crossroads , A 1955 Thunderbird driven by Larry Ennis of Route 3, Dunn, was damaged about $550 when it collid- t ed with a 1961 Plymouth driven by L. P. McIntyre of Erwin, Route 1, Monday morning about two miles , west of Dunn on the Red Hill ( Church Road near Hodges Cross- ( roads. ] Ennis was making a left turn at t the crossroads at the same time that McIntyre was attempting to ] pass. < No, charges were preferred. c At Wayne Ave Shopping Center In Dunn Tax Listing To Begin Monday Tax listing will begin in each i if Harnett’s !3 townships Monday ; Horning at 9 o’clock. Harnett tax supervisor Thomas Mien said today that everything ; is in readiness. Listing will be done from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily and until noon on Saturdays. Averasboro residents will list moral SUPPORT — Executive Vice President John Simpson of First Federal Savings and Loan looks on as a watchman puts finishing touches to a fancy new electronic sign that gives both time and temperature in a flash. Operated by 262 40-watt lamps, the electronic brain flashes time and temperature 17,280 times every 24 hours. “Just another community service by First Federal,” smiled Mr. Simpson. Delayed By ABC Election Benson Beer Vote Slated For Jan 30 A referendum to decide “Shall jeer be legally sold and licensed within the corporate limits of the rown of Benson by “on-premises” md “off-premises” sales will be leld .there Saturday, Jan. 30. The election to decide the ques ion of beer sales was scheduled :o come up earlier this year, but was postponed because of the coun ty-wide election on state liquor itores this fall Following the receipt of a peti ion signed by 348 local citizens, he board was required by state law o set the date for a referendum. The vote January 30 would le galize the sale of beer only, if jassed. Since Benson voted dry in ;he liquor election (by 15 votes), ;he town is not eligible as a site 'or a liquor store at the present :ime. Liquor stores have already been approved in the McGee’s Cross roads and Meadow areas in south ern Johnston County, since these (Continued on Page Six) at the Wayne Avenue Shopping i Center in the rear of the Ds«R Laundromat beside Lynch’s Drug Store. Local listers for the county will be Mrs. James Yates and Mrs. George (Jo Jo) Williams. Mrs. Prances Stewart will be present to list for the Town of Dunn. Allen said all tangible personal ! property and all real estate must I be listed. (He described tangible I property as ‘‘touchable” property, such as machinery, furnishings or automobiles. "Intangible’’ proper ty, such as stocks and bonds, are ; not taxed). All such property owned on Jan. ; 1 must be listed by the person who owned it at that time, he said. Only under certain unusual i circumstances can a person have someone else act as his agent to list for taxes. Real Estate He reminded property owners too that real estate is not auto matically listed, and must be list ed by its owner. There Is a wide spread belief that real estate is listed automatically, he said. But, he said, no county has yet de vised an automatic listing service that has been accepted by the State Board of Assessment. Mr. Allen warned that as a penalty for late listing his office may add 10 per cent to the tax bill, and must add not less than $1. Any person who willfully fails or refuses to list, or conceals property, commits a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, imprisonment or both, he warned. Listing will be carried on dur ing the entire month of January, and if the Board of County Com missioners acts, it will be extend ed until Feb. 15. This has been done in years past. It cannot be extended beyond that date. Proxy Addresses Rotary Club Rotary Club president Pete Skinner spoke on what the club has achieved during his first six months in office at the meeting Tuesday night After the address, said Howard M Lee, publicity director of the club, the men gave Skinner a ris ing vote of appreciation. The club also planned means of raising money for the Boys Home at Lake Waccamaw. Johs Watts, a freshman at UNC at Chapel Hill, was a guest and Rev. Carlton Best gave the in vocation. Herman Green was in charge of the program. Until Other Shortage Ends No More Cartwheels WASHINGTON (UPI)—It will be a while yet before Americans who like to spend silver dollars have more of the cartwheels to jingle in the pockets of their jeans. Treasury Department officials said they have no more plans to mint more of the coins, which are still in demand as currency in Western states, until the cur rent coin shortage is over. After requests by Western mem bers, Congress gave the U. 8. Mint permission last summer to make 45 million more of the cart wheels, the first authorized since 1935. But officials said tile mint is too busy producing other coins (Continued on Page Six) Killed Taxi Driver On A Dare Boy, 74, Confesses Slaying WASHINGTON (UPI) — Police aid today a 14-year-old boy had idmitted killing a Washington ax| driver just before Christmas, le was said to have done it on . dare. The victim was Charles C. lutherford, 46, father of four hildren who had been driving a ab for two years after retiring from the Air Force Rutherford was found dead in his cab in southeast Washington Dec. 30. He had been shot in the head. Police said they arrested the boy Tuesday night. They said the boy told them some other youths dared him to pull a holdup and 1 to show them, he got a pistol and hailed Rutherford’s cab—the first that passed. Officers said the boy was Quot ed that when he arrived at the address he gave Rutherford he started to pay for the rtda, but then shot the driver and took his billfold and changwaakar.
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