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i S' (Osuodthah Fair or clearing and less humid tonight and Saturday. Somewhat cooler tonight. VOLUME U TELEPHONE *9*-3U< — 892-S118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTfRNOON, JUNE 25, 1965 Gets Results nvr cents pee corf Terrorists Bombs Rip Restaurant; US Sgt. Executed 8 Americans Killed In Viet I % Commies Say Other Americans May Be Executed SAIGON (UPI)— Two terrorist bombs ripped through a floating restaurant on the Saigon River tonight killing and wounding doz ens of diners. A U. S. spokes man said at least eight Ameri cans were killed- v' Volunteer rescue workers at the scene said they loaded 24 bodies upon a truck. The victims included Americans, Vietnamese, a German, a Swiss and possibly a Trench woman, victims .of the hail of shrapnel frofti the bombs. The explosions came shortly af. ter the Communist Viet Cong an nounced the "reprisal” execution of a captured American Army sergeant - Sgt. Harold George *vBenn^tt, 25, son of JHrs. Pauline ' Benndtt of Perryvilli, Aik. The Communists warned there might be further executions of the 12 Americans held by the Reds. Authorities* said there Were so eomptte^-from hospitals and mor ‘ ■ many persons wounded exact fig ures of the toll were still to be gues ground the city. Many of (Continued on Page 6) I ’ UNC Student Had Dope Pills CHAPEL HILL (UPI) — Chapel Hill Police Chief W. D. Blake to day confirmed that about 100 cactus "buttons” found at the apartment of a university student who ap I parently committed suicide were | a narcotic. Blake said the buttons were pey ote - a nacotic that causes hallu cinations when eaten. He said the pepote had been analyzed by the State Bureau of Investigation aft er it was found in the apartment ■ of David B. Snelling of Asheville. ISnelling died in a fall from a window of a second . story apart ment in Chapel Hill June 4. The Orange County medical examiner ruled the death an apparent sui cide. Blake said no final report has been received on an autopsy per formed after the death. - cnu, SCOOTS III III III <11—>1 "ill 1 Scouts of theXnmn-ISrwftr-Falconapw Thursday »«H dedication rites for a unique little chapel donated to Camp Alice by Wesley Coates, well-known Dunn business man. The little chapel is Just large enough to permit one girl at a time to go Inside for prayer and meditation. Left to fight are Mrs. Eugene Huggins, local Girl Scout leader; Mr. Coats; Rev. Wallace Kirby, who gave the prayer, and Louis Baer, prominent Dunn merchant who donated land for the campsite years ago. The camp was named in honor of Mrs. Coates, who was local Girl Scout leader at that time. About 80 girls attended the Day Camp this week. (Daily Record Photo by Russell Bassford.) Urges Members To Persuade Reds To Negotiate LBJ Marks UN Anniversary SAN FRANCISCO (CPI) — President Johnson, marking the 20th anniversary of the United Nations, urged its members coun tries today to persuade the Com munists to agree to negotiate an end to the war in Viet Nam. In a speech prepared for birth Town Warns Property Owners Weeds, Bugs, Snakes Weeds are growing higher and higher and a lot of property own ers are not cutting them, City Manager Archie Uzzle said today. Moeqitltdes are breeding fast. The town fogging machine is fighting them. !Cook-out fans may be getting some of the fog on their hamburgers and hot dogs —Snakes are crawling. Cutting the lots will help all of these. The town is making a survey of all lots needing cutting (Continued on Page 6) Family Waits For News Of Healing "Miracle" Injured Dunn Officer Making Pilgrimage to Lourdes Shrine The 31-year-old wife and four small children of a retired Dunn Army Captain today were an xiously awaiting: word of a mir acle from Lourdes, France. Captain Howard V. Hudson, 44, paraylzed from the collar bone down as the result of a broken neck received in a fall Jan. 4 of last year, was scheduled to be emersed in the waters of the j Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes [last Sunday. Mrs. Hudson said today she had | received a couple of messages [ from her husband’s companions on the pilgrimage but no word as [to the result of his emersion in |to the waters believed for more an two centuries to be holy. lfisdloM doctors have frankly I told Capt. Hudson only a mir |acie could ever restore the full of his body. t- — •T’m not a Catholic,” said Mrs. an today, “and I don’t put too much faith in it, tout we’re Assistant Dunn Postmaster Don Melcher, who drove Capt. Hud CAPTAIN HOWARD V. HUDSON son, his brother-in-law, to New York week before last for the plane trip to Barcelona, Spain and then the pilgrimage to the shrine, (said Capt. Hudson ap peared extremely hopeful as he prepared for the trip across the Atlantic. “He was real excited about it," said the Dunn postal official. “I know it has helped his spirit and his mental toutlook if (no other good comes from it.” An other brother-in-law, Billy Vann, accompanied them. An official Catholic publication, “The Question Box,” says, “No honest inquirer can rightly ques tion the miracles wrought every year at Lourdes through our Lady’s intercession, for no court in the world so carefully weighs the proofs for an alleged miracle as the Bureau des Constations of that City.” A member of the Congregation allst Church, Mrs. Hudson frankly (Continued on Page «) day ceremonies at the Opera House here, where the United Na tions was bom In 1945, Johnson said that “clear and present dangers in Southeast Asia cast their shadow across the path of all mankind.” “The United Nations must be concerned,” he said. Johnson flew here from Kan sas City, Mo., where he had breakfast with former President Harry S Truman, who commit ted the United States to support of the United Nations in a Speech at the same San Francisco (Continue* on Page 6) lane Crashes ind Explodes liter Takeoff TORO MARINE BASE, Calif. I) — A KC133 military jet air isport crashed and exploded In t rain and fog today, killing persons — 72 Marines and an Force crew of 12. e plane, similar to the Boeing commercial jetliner, slammed mountainous terrain 4V4 miles ,h of here only minutes after ing off from this Southern ifornia base at 2:45 a. m. In a He. Officials would give only Honolu lu as the plane’s destination, but Hie re was speculation the Marines Htjre ultimately bound for Viet Nam. Charred wreckage was scattered oBtr a wide area approximately 10 miles Inland from the exclusive befech communities of Balboa, New port Beach and Laguna Beach. Radio and radar contact with the craft was lost shortly after |«eoff but search efforts were Mpnpered by the rain, fog and low cpuds that blanketed the South ern California coastal area this morning. Two San Diego sheriff’s deputies *t the Solano Beach substation nj|ar here reported hearing an ex. j plosion shortly after the plane todk off Vut it wit not until three hours later that a search party 'discovered the wreckage in the mountains between here and Irvine Lake. Names of the victims were with (Continued on Page 8ix) Angier Student Is-Accepted WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. — The North Carolina School of the Arts announced today that David Mc Swain of Angier has been accept ed as a student to major in per. cusskfh. The acceptance of Mr. Mc Swain came after auditions held as entrance examinations {to enroll exceptionally talented students for professional training in music, dan ce and drama. He is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. B. McSwain. and he is one of 83 students who passed the second series of auditions held here June 11, 12 and 13. One hun dred and nineteen were admitted after the first series of auditions held in April. Charged With Killing Husband Sampson Woman Held In Slaying CLINTON (CPI) — A 26-year old woman has been charged with murder In the Wednesday night shotgun slaying of her mill work er husband. Authorities Thursday charged Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Poster with the shooting of her husband, James Earl Poster. 87. Sampson County Coroner Coleman Carter said Poster was shot in the left side of the head with a 12-gauge shotgun. Pre liminary hearing will be held in Mayor’s Court at 8 p. m. Mon day. ! During July 4th Weekend Predict 400 To Die CHICAGO (UPI) — The Na tionai Safety Council said Friday a record traffic toll may result from the three-day Fourth of July weekend. The council estimated that be tween 470 and 570 persons would die in traffic during the 78—hour holiday, which begins at 8 P- m. Friday, July 2, and ends at 11:50 p. m., Monday, July 5. Last year 510 persons were kill ed on the nation’s streets and highway* during the Fourth of July weekend, a record for a three-day Independence Day hol iday. The council also estimated that between 23,000 and 37,000 persons would be injured next weekend, and that motorists will log about ) billion miles of travel. During a comparable non-hol iday summer weekend 435 persons probably-would die in traffic mis haps and another 30,000 would be injured, the council said. Dunn's New Hospital Will Help Situation *11 Harnett Losing Welfare Cashf REV. EUGENE C. ENSLEY Dr. Appleby foP^a^h Ensley Installation Is Set For Sunday The Rev. Eugene C. Ensley will be installed as Minister of the First Presbyterian Church here this Sun day, June 27 at the eleven o’clock worship hour by a Commission ap pointed by Fayetteville Presbytery The installation Commission will be composed of Dr. James Appleby, Director of Field Work and Pro fessor of Evangelism at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond. Dr. Louis LaMotte, Professor at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, The Rev. James Grubb, recently ap pointed Chaplain at Butner, N. C. and ruling Elders, Dr. C. W. Byrd, W. Guyton Smith and Louis P. West of the First Presbyterian Church of Dunn. The sermon for this occasion en. titled “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ” will be delivered by Dr. Appleby. Dr. Appleby is a native of Missouri, received his education at Davidson College, Union Seminary, New College, University of Edin burgh, Edinburgh, Scotland and Yale University. Before going to Union Seminary he served pastor. Dunn Man Dies After Accident Coroner Paul Drew today ruled that Needham H. Bryant, 81 year old resident of Rt. 3, Dunn, died of a heart attack after his 1952 Ply mouth was struck in the rear by a 1958 Ford operated by Ronnie Hall of Erwin. The incident occurred in front of the Bryant home near Old Field Church. Coroner Drew stated that Mr. Bryant got out of his car, told by standers that he was all right and sat on some steps at a nearby house. The man apparently died of a heart attack, he added. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 o’clock from Pleasant Grove Free Will Baptist Church. Officiating will be Rev. W. O. Las siter. Survivors Include three sons, Mel. ^in Henry, John N. and Willh Green of Dunn, Route 3; one daughter, Mrs. Lonnie Stargel, of Dunn, Route 3, 11 glandehildren. The body will remain at Cromar tie Funeral Home. ates in Maxton, N. C. and Ander son, S. C. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa; National President of Gamma Sigma Epsilon, a Chemical Fraternity, Ki wanis Club, The Masons and Fay etteville Presbytery. Dr. Appleby (Continued on Page 6) Third Hospital Hay Be Needed, Stewart Asserts Harnett Welfare Director Ro bert Stewart estimated today that approximately $50,000 of county welfare funds is being sent out of the county each year because of inadequate, hospital facilities in the county. That amount paid to out-of county hospitals represents Just part of the loss to the cpmdfer's economy since it does not colter doctors’ fees, laboratory t«ts and other medical charges. And with passage of medicare, he added, “this $50,000 represents just a drop in the bucket to what will probably be spent on medical aid to the indigent in the future. Director Stewart made his re marks to members of the Harnett County Board of Commissioners at a budget meeting and told them the county badly nee<jg?a hospital of not less than 900 and said even one that large might *ooh prove groeaty iwaU. i equate. The Town of Dunn Is preparing to start construction on a new $2,070,000 hospital with llo rooms to replace the present Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital but Stewart said it wouldn’t be any where near large enough to fill the need. The hospital is to be erected with a chassis large enough to provide for future ex pansion to 200 beds or more. Stewart had high praise .fa* both Betsy Johnson Hospital to Dunn and Good Hope Hospital at Erwin and said both are doing an excellent job with the facilities they have available. Last year, he. said, the county Continued on Page Six Miami Meeting Opens Baptist Alliance Is Given Challenge MIAMI BEACH (UPI) — A pro minent Baptist minister challenged the 11th World Baptist Alliance congress Friday to preach the Oos pel of freedom to all the world. Herschel H. Hobbs of Oklahoma City told nearly 20,000 delegates from 77 countries at the start of the six-day meeting that one of the problems of today is failure to discern between true and false freedom. (Rev. Tom Freeman of Dunn’s First Baptist Church and a num ber of other Baptist pastors of thte' £ area are at the event.) “Man exercises false freedom 1 when he feels free to do what he *; likes and true freedom when he is i free to do what he ought,” sal® Hobbs, pastor of the Oklahoma City First Baptist Church and former • * president of the Southern BaptUt Convention. The alliance represents 25 million Baptists — 22 million from North America — in HI countries an® Continued on Page Six i . Pageant In September Eight Beauties Seek Miss Angier Title Eight Angier lovelies have de clared their intention to vie for the “Miss Angier of 1966” title, in a contest to be held in September as part of the yearly Harvest Festi val. Jaycee president Maurice Man gum and pageant chairman Bobby Hilliard announced Thursday night they were happy with the quick response they received and are looking forward to getting applica tions from several more Angier girls before the deadline of June 25. ' -- To enter, Angier girls must have reached their 18 birthday by June 1, 1966. The fi»t practice meeting is slated for Thursday night, July 1 Directors of this year's page ant, assisting Mangum and Hilli ard will be Mrs. Maurice Mangum. Mrs. Bobby Hilliard and Miss Jerry . Sue Adams. Those who have submitted appli cations to the Jayceets are Winter jean Adams, daughter of Mr. and ' Mrs. Lac am* Adams; Debbie ®aine Broad well, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. BroadweD, Jr.; Hay Frances Butts* daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Butts; Martha Men
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