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y_' Considerable cloudiness through Wednesday. Occasional scattered showers or thundershowers occur ring in mountains & near the coast tonight and becoming more numer ous on Wednesday. SJttf JJailij fl #©LCME U TELEPHONE Utilh — MC-S1U DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1965 nvr cent* per corr JESSE HELMS Wed. At 5:30 At Robbi-Ann's Helms To Address Church Group Here Jesse Helms, vice president of WRAL-TV in Ralegh and one of the best known television person alities in the South, will be the principal speaker at the annual ban quet of the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, Inc. Wednesday night at 5:30 o’clock at the Robbie -Ann Restaurant. Plans for the appearance of Mr. Helms were announced today by tfee Rev. Herbert darter, • general ropferint^hdent of . the denomina tion which has approximately 300 churches in five Southern states and four foreign countries. Attending the banquet will be general officers, department heads and members of the headquarters office staff, along with a large number of special guests. “We are delighted,” said Supt, Carter today, “that Mr. Helms has agreed to speak at our annual banquet. We regard Mr. Helms as one of the South’s most powerful and most effective spokesmen for freedom, democracy and constitu tional government today.” MV. Helms is heard daily on the popular program of editorial com ment entitled, “Viewpoint,” which is carried by a number of radio stations and published in many newspapers in addition to being telecast. Foreign Delegates Arrive Church Conference Opens Here Wed. The annual two-day conference of the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church. Inc. will convene Wednes day morning at 11 o’clock at the denomination’s headquarters in Dunn. Ministers and delegates from 275 churches in five Southern states and foreign mission fields around the globe will be here for the event, announced today by the Rev. Her bert Carter, 32 year old general superintendent, who will preside. Missionaries from Hawaii, India, Mexico and Costa Rica have already arrived in Dunn and other foreign delegates will arrive before the opening session. Supt. Carter said the two-day program will include addresses by outstanding speakersi, missionary programs, a business session, ord ination rites for new ministers and a full schedule of other activities. principal speaker at both of the night sessions will be Dr. Talmadge Spence of Washington, D. C., who is also speaking nightly at the an nual camp meeting being held in (Continued on Page 6) | China Claiming 3060 American Trows Killed SAIGON (UPI> — U. S. B.72 bombers from Guam rained tons of bombs on a Viet Con? concen tration today near Chu Lai while air force fighter-bombers struck again at a railway bridge barely 30 miles from the Red border. One U. S. plane was shot down over Communist North Viet Nam today but the pilot was rescued. TOKYO (UPI) — The official Chinese Communist newspaper Monday said the Viet Cong had “wiped out” more than 3.000 IT. S. troops and downed 500 Amer ican planes during the first seven months of 1965 The Peking People's Daily al so cla’med that 110 000 South Vietnamese troops hnd been kill ed, wounded, captured or induced to desert during the same period. Communist guerillas slipped a i full mile ins'de the U. S. air base ! defense perimeter at Bien Hoa j early today and damaged 49 U. S. and Vietnamese planes with inortor and possibly artillery fire. Casualties were reported “light” and no deaths were reported. Student unrest was reported growing at Hue, the ancient cap ital north of Da Nang, where 2.000 students 'protested for the fourth consecutive day against the mili tary government, efthscription and? alleged failure of tr. S troops to differentiate between Viet Cong and innocent civilians. The North Viet Nam air strike today was the Lan Bun bridge in the Red River Valley Benson Man Faces Trial Cecil Lee Williford, 28, of Route 2, Benson, was charged with viola tions of the liquor laws following a' raid of his premises in Meadow Township last week. Johnston County ABC Officer James Barefoot said officers un covered two 480-gallon, submarine type stills in an out building be hind Williford’s home apd 774 gal Ions of non-taxpaid whisky. , He said Williford was charged with possessing an n>tral distillery and materials for the manufacture of Illicit liquor and possession of non-taxpaid whisky for the pur pose of sale. Officer Barefoot said Williford was scheduled for trial August 27 in Benson District Recorder’s Court | and was released under a $500 : bond. i Participating In the raid with Officer Barefoot were Johnston County ABC Officer Jim Britt: Rav Moore and Roscoe Tedder, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Investi gators of the TJ. S. Treasury De partment: and Harnett County ABC Officer Red Pope. HAS SURGERY Mrs. Elizabeth Starling Cofing t.nn of Wade, is very sick in Cane Pear Valley Hospital in Favette voi whp-e she underwent k'dnev surgery Sun. She Is not allowed visitors. Record Prices Seen For Opening Tomorrow Dunn Warehouses Filling Up $ Like a giant wall to wall carpet of golden leaf Dunn’s tobacco warehouses were slowly filling up today preparatory to the opening pf the market tomorrow at 9 i'clock. Farmers, however were urged to li bring their tobacco in to mar prices for the tobacco were being forecast by warehousemen here; First sale tomorrow will be at the Big Four Warehouse on 301 north while second sale will be breaking opening day at Planters Warehouse on 301 south. Leslie Hobh3 of Clinton will be Dunn auctioneer this year. Warehouse personnel for the season began arriving here yes terday. Tobacco Company buyers will begin arriving today for the op ening of the market tomorrow. There will be a full set of buy ers representing every tobacco company in the world on the mart. Leland Lee and J. M. Smothers will operate the Planters ware house again while Norman Hardee, Jack Calhoun and Tom Smothers w’ll operate the B!g Pour. Hardee, president of the Dunn Tobacco Board of Trade, has pre dicted record average for this year . Tobacco, while expected to be light, is expected to be of excel lent cigarette quality as the mart opens tomorrow and a record opening day’s sale from a pound age standpoint is expected. A short informal ceremony will (Continued on Page •) ENOCH ELDRIDGE GODWIN, SR. Owned Godwin Produce Co. Funeral Wednesday Enoch Eldridge Godwin, Sr., 66, of Benson, Route 2, owner and op j erator of Godwin Produce Co. in Dunn and one of the top agricultur al leaders in this section of the State, died Tuesday morning about 1 o’clock in Johnston Memorial Hospital at Smithfield. He was one of the organizers and! the first president of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Association. Mr Godwin had been in ill health for about a year and had been in and out of hospitals for several months. One Of the largest farrfrers in the area, Mr. Godwin pioneered in the (Continued on Page 6) Sight Missile Over Cal, Cooper And Conrad Keep On Spinning SPACE CENTER, Houston <UPI> — U. S. space champ Gordon Coop er and his talkative copilot Charles Conrad sighted a Mlnuteman mis sile launched into the heavens from California today on the fourth day of their reoord-shattering endur ance flight. “I see it, I see it” Conrad glee fully reported as the 61-foot Air Force missile shot from Vandenberg Air Force base near Los Angeles and arched through space toward a target in the Pacific. "We can still see it very clear ly,” he reported moments later. It was the first time "STrAmerican astronaut has sighted a rocket streaking into space. The Gemini 5 astronauts got six pictures of the spectacular shot. They had missed sighting a similar Minuteman launch Monday at Cape (Continued on Page 6) At Joint Meeting Here Monday Night Shriners/ Leaf man To Hear Henderson Congressman David Henderson of. Wallace will address a Joint meet ing of Dunn Shriners, tobacco buy- i ers, warehousemen and everybody j else connected with the Dunn To bacco Market next Monday night at 7:30 at Camp Alice, on the out skirts of Dunn. Louis Baer, prominent Dunn mer chant and one of the founders of the local tobacco market, will be host for the event and will preside. Entertaining the tobacconists has become a yearly tradition with Mr. Baer. Congressman Henderson will speak on a subject appropriate for the occasion, according to Sales Supervisor John G. Thomas, who announced plans for the gathering. DAVID (HENDERSON Solicitor Gives Cose Top Priority Tew Trial Will Beg In Harnett On Mon John J. Tew, Jr„ 45-year-old Dunn business man, will go ori trial for his life Monday in Harnett Superior Court for the July 17 pistol slaying of his divorced wife, 40-year-old Candy Suggs Tew. Assistant Solicitor' Jake Lamm announced today that District Sclicitcr Archie Taylor has given the Tew tr!al top priority and it will be the first case called when court opens Monday morning. Judge Leon Carr will preside over the term*. A special criminal term of court is being arranged for late in September and most on the other cases set for trial next week will probably be heard at that term. Trial of Tew is expected to take | up the entire week. State Senator Robert B Morgan will represent the Tew family as private pro.erutor and Tew is be ing defended pv Attorneys Ever ette L. Dnffermyre, and Robert C. Bryan and J Shepard Bryan of Dunn. SBI Agent Bill O’Daniel com- i pleted his investigation into the ease last week and turned his re port over to Solicitor Taylor and i today witnesses were being sum- i moned to appear Monday morn in?'- -.. .* Defense Ready Tew is being held in the county Jail without bond and Attorneys D ffermyre and Bryan, pushing for early trial, said today they will be ready Monday morning. Solicitor Taylor has announced he will demand tlfc death penalty | for Tew. His attorneys have de I dined to say what his defense will be but there are indications they will claim he shot her to death in a moment of insane jealousy.. “If there was ever a case of premeditated, deliberately-planned and executed first degree murder, this is it,” said Asst. Solicitor Lamm today, "and anything less than the death penalty would be a gross miscarriage of justice.” Solicitor Taylor has indicated that he would not even consider acceptance of a plea of first de gree murder, which would auto matically mean a life term. Berger Leaving For Viet Nam Specialist 6 Otha L. Berger, left | today after spending the week - i end with his wife and children, | Mrs. Plorese Berger of N. Rail road Ave. Dunn. Specialist Berger was In route from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. to join the 93rd Evae. Hospital un it in Ft Riley Kansas, which is .scheduled to go to Viet Nam soon. Students Should Register This Week All students who have moved to Dunn this summer, or are transfering schools, please re gister at the proper school this week. If not sure of proper school phone 892-2167. “As far as I’m Concerned, it’s the gas chamber or nothin;; for this man,” said the solicitor. Sons Reconciled It was learned today that Tew’s sons have been prepared by at torneys and members of the fam ily to expect their father to get the death penalty, if the jury con victs him and refuses to recom mend mercy. The prcsecut'on lawyer* ed the two sons they planned to a died to that possibility. At least one of them is exj to testify against Tew. Tew, well-to-do furniture chant who owns extensive . mer reai (Continued on Page 6) TASTE TEST — Miss Eva Adams, director of the U. S. Mint, ' tries out the first of the new, silverle3S quarters for biting pro - perties. The Philadelphia Mint has begun producing the new coias marie,, of-copper and .nickel to relieve the silver shortage. (NEA Telephoto) / . At End of Current Session Associate Justice Rodman To Retire RALEIGH (UPI) — Associate Justice William B. Rodman, Jr., will retire from the State Supreme Court at the end of the current session, Gov. Dan K. Moore an nounced today. Moore said he would issue i com mission to Rodman as an: emergency justice effective Aug. 30. “On behalf of all North Caro linians, I express gratitude to Jus tice Rodman for his outstanding, services as a legislator, the attor- j ney general of North Carolina, and as an associate justice of the Sup reme Court," Moore said. “We are extremely sorry he is1 leaving the court but are pleased that his services will still be avail- ’ able in his status as an emergency justice.’* Rodman was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1956 by former Gov. Luther Hodges. He was elect ed in 1958 to a term which expired in December of 1062. In 1962, he was . elected to a full term Which would have expired Dec. 31, 1970. Before going to the court, Rod man served as attorney general by appointment of Gov. Hodges. He was a state senator in 1937 and 1939 and was a representative from Beaufort County in 1951. 1953 and 1955. ■ | I New Students To Register Friday Erwin Faculty Registration for all new students who plan to enter the Erwin Pub lic Schools will be held at the of fice of the principal on Friday, August 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p m. New pupils registering for the first grade are required to present birth certificates, records of im munization, and records of physi cal examinations Transfer students are to present their report cards and - or any other records from their previous schools. Parents of children who have not been assigned to the Erwin School by the Harnett County Bo ard of Education must complete and sign a request for assignment Necessary forms may be obtained from the principal at time of re gistration. Pupil-Teacher orientation will be held on Monday, August 30 begin- j ning at 8:20 a.m. All fees are to be paid at this t'me and books are to be issued. It is highly im portant that every member of the student body attend- this session, j All buses will operate on this date ! and school will be dismissed by i noon. The cafeteria will open on Tuesday and school will begin ojW' oration of its regular 8:20 a m. to 3:15 pm. schedule. However. taMu chers will be on campus from '.fcwh air«. to 4 p.tn. and parental ore encoupaged. The Erwin ' Schoo's "wIUl{Jf(fe r with a ' cwffflP ' i.lenders wfcVh is ’tease of s4x teachers ovfP'JjMf!* "ear. Two additional teachers lW|y but leek of both suitable (Continued on Pago
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