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(OsudhsA Considerable cloudiness with evening thundershowers tonight. Tuesday variable cloudiness and not as warm. Siw Baily JWtnril The Record Gets Results 3 -.. i,UME U TELEPHONE 892411% — 892-S1U DUNN, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AU.OUST 23, 1965 FIT* CENTS PM COrf NO. m n ;» ; Dunn Leaf Market To Open Wed. Hardy Predicts High Tobacco Prices Despite the heavy rain of the spring and the summer that played havoc with much of the tobacco local tobacconists today were pre dicting a better crop that was at first looked for as the prepared for the opening of the 1965 tobacco season In Dunn Wednesday morn ing. They also expected a big break of t'bacco opening day. First Sale on Wednesday morn ing will be at the B'g Four ware house operated by Norman Hardee, Jack Calhoun and Tom Smothers. Second sale will be held immed iately afterwards at the Planters Warehouse on Wednesday operat ed by Leland Lee and J. M. Sm others. Each warehouse will sell 1,100 baskets of tobacco a day. Leslie Hobbs of Clinton will be the auctioneer for the season here. For the first seven days of the market loose leaf tobacco will be sold along with tied tobacco. Go vernment support will be given to the tied tobacco throughout the season. Warehouse personnel began work ing at. the two warehouses getting ready for the market opening, the 18th year of th# local mart. There will be no formal opening at the Big Four Wednesday. Only a few words from the Supervisor of welcome to the farmers. Farmers were already bringing In their tobacco to mark today. * .President Hardee of the tobacco board of trade predicted a record dWSrage feif the xhaihet for HMf year. ; ■'" % Despite water damage from rain and sun in the area farm extern sion agents In the various counties surrounding Dunn, including C R Ammons of Harnett, said that the tobacco was better than they Mrs. Ben Atkins Hurt In Wreck Mrs. Benny F. Atkins, 50, of 306 W. Harnett St., was hospitalized as the result of a two-car collision that occurred at 12:20 this after noon at the corner of W. Harnett and N. McKay Ave., right near her home. This is one of the most dan gerous intersections, in toyn and numerous accidents have occurred there in the past, many of them serious ones. Mrs Atkins was headed east in a 1963 Thunder-bird, and Aaron D. Wood. 50 of Four Oaks, Route 2 was headed north in a 1965 Ch rysler. Mr. Wood said he was unable to see the other car at the nearly blind crossing and was cited foi failing to yield right-of-way. Mrs. Atkins was admitted to the hospital with a broken nose and other injuries, the extent of wh. ich were not determined Immed iately. Her Thunderbird was a total i loss. The bumper was torn off the j new Chrysler. Sgt. Joe Davidson and Patrol man Jimmy Mozingo investigated. had anttc pati'd and though ther ■vould be less of it, what was brought to the market would be in excellent quality. The government cut the tobacco -rop nearly 25 percent tnis year, a crop is operating under acreage and poundage control this year. Farmers had one thing they were thankful about this year. If me rains nave cut wicn yu under the poundage allotment Irt any Instances they can add the less to their poundage quota next Continued On Page Bight TOMATO TALK—Williom A V Cecil, left, rice president and treasurer of the Biltmore Company, talks tomatoes 1 -iLiuX.II Smith aaricultural engineer for Carolina Power & Light Company, A successful plan for growing and marketing*the dwarf salad tomotoes shown here was implemented by the Asherille Agricultural Council to help in crease farm income in the area. Astronauts Fire Maneuvering Rockets From Spacecraft Gimini 5 Going Eight Days SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles (Pete) Conrad blasted themselves into a new path with maneuvering rockets, .today in the third’ ciay of their space voyage and with all systems “go” for a full eight-day flight. Precisely at 12:50 p. m. EDT while In contact with the Guaymas, Mexico, tracking station, the Gem ini 5 roekets “burned” to lower the high point of orbit by 12 miles and send the spacecraft off after an imaginary “phantom’’ rocket for a rendezvous experiment Well-Known Dunn Woman Dies Lanier Funeral Set Tuesday At 2 P. M. Funsral services will be held her< Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Elsie Baggett Lanier of Dunn, 55, widow of Homer J. Lanier of Raleigh. Mrs. Lanier, member of a well known Dunn family, died Sunday in Betsy Johnson Hospital here. She had been ill since suffering a stroke in December of 1960 and was a patient at the Dunn Rest Home. She suffered a second stroke on Friday and her condition became i gradually worse. Mrs. Lanier served for 11 years as a deputy In the office of Harnett Register of Deeds Inez Harringtiri in Lillington and for 13 years prior to her illness held a position with Bryan Rock and Sand Co. in Ra leigh. Her husband, co-owner of the Lanier-Womble Cloahlng Store in Raleigh, has been dead fod a num (Continued on Page S) Pays No Taxes, Not Authorized To Do Business In N.C Eure Calls Southern Asso. An Unauthorized "Monster" RALEIGH (UPI) — Secretary of State Thad Eure suggested Satur \ day North Carolina could form it* own accreditation association to eli minate the threat to ita schools because of the Speaker Ben Law. Eure was applaudecThy members of the Federation of All Veterans as he called the Southern Assocla t'on of Colleges and Schools a ••monster" “This outfit was incorporated in a county clerk’s office In Georgia five days before the passage of the North Caro' na Speaker Ban I/iW," said Eure. “It is not authorized to do business in this state. It doesn’t pay a penny tax here. It has no legal status here. It has not hied a process agent here. Yet, it is at tempting to exedclse more power over the legislature than the Con stitution has given the governor of the state. lit fact it has served notice on our governor that un less the law is repealed, accredita tion of the colleges of our state may be withdrawn. “What a monster,” he said. Eure, an author of the Speaker Ban Iiaw, urged its detention and observance. He was critical of pro fessional educators who, he said, live on a public tax levy and at tack the legislature. Ctontinued Qa Page »ghi The apparently successful maneu ver occurred at the end of the 32nd orbit. “Right on the money,” the as tronauts reported. At 12:56 p. m. EDT, they enter ed the 33rd orbit off the southeast coast of the United States. Work Load Hectic Mission oontrol said the astron auts were over west Texas or New Mexico when they fired the after maneuvering rockets. Refreshed by plenty of sleep, Cooper and Conrad reported their heavy work load was getting hectic, but they happily undertook the fContinned On Page 8) Soft Landing On The Moon May Come Soon MOSCOW (UPI) — A top-rang ing Soviet space official today said Russian ssientists have begun pre parations for a soft landing on the moon. He did not elaborate and set no target date for the attempt to land a satellite on the lunar sur fare without destroying the ve hicle. At the same t!me, Mstislav Keld yshpres’dent of the Soviet Aca demy cf Sciences, hailed TJ. S. space feats and told a news con ference that Soviet scientists were “following with interest” the cur rent flight of Gemini 5. Newsmen asked Keldysh about the charge made by the official Soviet news agency Tass that the United States had launched Gemi_ ni 5 morel v to beat the Russians Without sufficient preparations. Tass Critfies Scientists “X haven’t spoken to anyone on Gemini 5.” he replied in jest ^Therefore it is hard to judge.” hTass had accused U. S. Scien sts Sunday of taking risks with |he lives of the two American astronauts in an effort to surpass le Russian record for the long it manned 3pace flight. I Keldysh called the news con h'ence to report, on Ru8Sia’*\£jond # space probe which took piotures of the back side the moon. He said valuable information on a soft moon landing has been ga thered and studies would continue. Two /previous report-id Soviet moon landing attempts earlier year apparently failed. Lum. crashed into the moon on May 12.'Luna 6, launched June 8. miss ed the moor by 100,000 miles when it failed to respond to a radio command from earth stations. Plan Mars Probes Keldysh also said the Soviet Union planned to explore Mars by means of probes. But added It was difficult to say whether plans would be ready the next time the red planet is in a pdoper position from the earth. COTTON GINNED TODAY C. L. Tart Ofn No. 2 in God win ginned the first bale of cot ton today and it was probably the first ginned in the area. The cotton is owned by L. D. Baggett of Route 1, Godwin. The bale wei ghed 513 pounds and Tart is pay ing 50c per pound. On 5th Anniversary At Spring Branch Rev. C. Gary Long Resigns Pastorate The Rev. C. Gary Long, 30-year old pastor of the historic olf Sp ring Branch Baptist Church near Dunn resigned the pulpit Sunday on his fifth anniversary in that pastorage. Chairman Wayne Lee of the church’s board of deacons immed iately called the church into a business conference and the mem. bership unanimously voted to ask Long to reconsider. When he ad vised his decision was final, the resignation was accepted With rd gret. The Rev. Mr. Long, who prea ched his first sermon at the age of 15 and has spent half his life in the ministry, said today that he has no plans for the future but that he and his family will return to his hometown of Charlotte, where they recently have com pleted construction of a new home. A nine-member pulpit committee (Continacd Pm *) _ REV. GARY LONG Courts, Welfare, Law Enforcement Agencies To Assist Harnett Declares War On Truancy, Dropouts With the opening of schools for the new term on August 30. the Harnett County Board of Corn. nissioners is p’anning an inten sive campaign to reduce truancy and dropouts. County and local school offic ials, court authorities, the sheriff's department, county welfare offic als, and the local police and other 'aw enforcement officers in each town are being recruited to assist n th's all-out effort. Ctmm’ssloner Willard Mixon of Dunn, who brands truancy and dropouts as among A’ county's most serious problems, lid today that county commissioners will hold a joint meeting with the county board of education within the next few days to work out details of the campaign. “Taxpayers are having to spend too much money providing these 'chords, special courses and other educational opportunities for any person to fail to take advantage of them," said Mixon. He said truancy is also costing texoayers heavily in the form of welfare pavmonts and the cost of -rime as by-products of the fail ure of parents to keep their ch ildren in school every day of hv term that the student is phy sical! v able to attend. erountv commissioners, said M:xon, havi been discussing the oroblcm for about a year and have iee'dRd that the school attendance ’aw in Harnett will be enforced ' ven if it takrs jail sentences for parents, loss of welfare assistance 'nd other drastic measures to do It. Mixon said se made his own personal survey during three weeks of the last school year and on some days “counted as many as 30 schol-age children loafing up and down the streets with no ap parent legit’mate reason for not being in school.” He said the board had evidence Cutting Victim To Be Quizzed Hamett'County sheriff’s officers said today that officers plan to take Walter Glenn Ray, 48, Lillington white man to Raleigh this week for further questioning about an emasculation Ray recently suffered at his home. Ray, who lived alone just north of Lillington, had been dismissed from Cape Fear Valley Hospital where he was taken after a son arriving from Richmond, Va. found him bleeding on the porch of his house. Ray told officers that he was castrated by three or four young Negroes, but intensive search fail ed to give any clues to substantiate this contention. The sheriff’s office said today that no arrests have been made in the case, nor have any charges been made against Ray. Ray was partially emasculated last summer. PROFFIT IN HOSPITAL Harnett School Supt. Glenn Proffit of Buie’s Creek underwent surgery today at Memorial Hos pital is Chapel Hill. that same principals have padded their daily attendance reports in order to retain larger teaching: staffs than required. Commissioner Mixon said the - ——-BUM——IM—— qounty board would rcue#t tne board of education for additional truancy officers, (“I think they call them by the fancy name of (Continued on Page >) DIZZY ART—“Vertigo" is the title of this pinwheel like painting by Casper, Wyo., artist Robert Wehrli. The seven-foot canvas in strqng red, yellow and green, is mounted on a pivot so that it can be rotated for proper, dizzying effect. Mamers Area Six Face Federtot Liquor Charges ---fr All From m 'T~fr n §A r * % Six Harnett County men were arraigned before U. S. Commission er C. W. Jackson at Fayetteville on a variety of liquor law viola tions. The men were identified as Wade John Ashworth, 7, James Daniel Ashwodth, 23, and Samuel Scott Ashworth, 17, all brothers of Box 663, Mamers; Fred Douglas Burns, 47, of Lliungton, ki. i; ana to ward McKoy, 45, and Ernest Pem berton, 35, both of Lillington, Rt- 3, The three Ashwojth brothers are white while the other three are Negroes. Each of the accused was bound over on $500 bond for appearance at the next term of district court (Continued on Page E ght) When Car Overturns Five Youths In jured Five occupants of a 1963 Ford were hospitalized Saturday night after an accident which demolished the .’ehlcle. Hignwav patrolman Bill Grady of Erwin sa'd the acatfent occurred at a curve just before the D & E cut off near Chicora Country Club. Michael Roger Mann, 17, of Lil lington was driving the For-] own ed by his father, Roger Mann, west, toward the club, when it rounded a curve, ran off the left shoulder and overturned. Trooper Grady said speed was apparently the cause of the acci dent. Occupants in the car were Ed ward E. Breeden, James M. Jack son, Lonel McDonald and Dwight Stogsdill, all of Lillington. It is not known how seriously the boys were injured. The accident happened about 10:30 p. m. CAR HITS BIKE Saturday afternoon Patrolman (Continued on Page Sight) Addresses State's County Commissioners At Ashe vine \ Gov. Moore Plugs Road Bonds ASHEVILLE (DPI) — Gov. Dan K- Moore cranked up his mountain - to ■ coast campaign In support of the proposed $300 mil lion road bond issue. Moore told the annual conven tion of the North Carolina Assoc iation of County Commissioners that passage of the Nov. 2 referen dum is “absolutely essential ” Chairman Jack Brock,of Erwin and Commissioner W. J. Cotton of Kipling are representing Harnett at the meeting. The state Is rapidl oyutgrowtng a road system that might have been adequate a decade ago but no longer is. the governor said. The cost of roads is contin ually going up. If we wait, the norease in cnnstrustion cost will more than match the interest we will oav on the bonds. Unless we Continued On Pace Eight
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