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uJsuaihsUi Partly cloudy, uite warm and humid today, tonight and Satur day with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers becoming more numerous on Saturday. Pf >r ' >ijB3EnHpfJI f The Record v Vitv ; ' - Gets Results TELEPHONE — m-JU* DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST «, 196S nvr cents per corr NO. This is where it went in.And here is where it came to rest* Dunn Coed Susan Warren Escapes Injury.. .But Car "Really A Mess" Errant Car Winds Up In Middle Of A Store CHAPEL HILL — A 20-year-aId UNC -iced from Dunn escaped in jury when her 1959 Chrysler plowed up to its windshield through the side of E. A. Brown Furniture Corn I pany on Rosemary Street, ip * pel Hill. Chapel Hill Police Lieutenant Charlie Edmonds said the Chrysler was driven by Miss Susan Jane Warren of Dunn. The officer said Miss Warren was heading west on Rosemary Dunn Market's Volume Heavy As the first week of sales on the Dunn Tobacco Market come to an sold may very well come near the sld may very well cme near the million pound mark, a near record on the Dunn market for this perl . od. At, the sam» time the mart 1* . chalking ud another record too. The average stayed above $60.00 a hundred pounds for the second day in a row yesterday though it did s'ump slightly from opening dav’s sales. Thru yest°rdav the mart near ly hit the 750 000 pound mark for ,J the first two da vs of the market. \ Yesterday a total of 333.216 pounds was sold for a total of I $20191180 for a day’s average f of $60 59 a hundred pounds. Loose ’eaf tobacco predominat ed on the market again as on dav but there was also s good’v amount of tied leaf sold. Farmers continued to pour their tobacco in on the market with another full sale today. Monday morning another record breaking sale Is also expected when the first sale will be at the Planter’s Warehouse and the second at the Big Four. Continued On Page Bight Street when her car went through a red light. She was then struck on the left rear fender by a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Amy C. Riggs bee of Chapel Hill, at about 2:19 When hit, the car: jumped the curb on the northwest comer of Rosemary and N. Columbia St reets, sheared off a small section of te city hall steps, struck the building front beneath the chief of police’s window, sped over a shrub, smashed through the wood en side of the furniture store and came to a halt with’ its fron bum per resting near some TV sets. “I heard a woman scream and lroltfri ouside and something hit beneath the window ... I saw a blur and it just kept going,” Chief of Police William Blake said. One of the first to emerge from the store after the crash was E. A. Brown, the store owner. He was on a cane which became Weeiteary after he was struck down by a policy car in a recent accident. ••mils is the second time since December that my business has speed-limit posted right out there," speed-limt posted right out there,” he said surveying the damage Miss Warren, who officers said escaped without a scratch, walked away from the car and its front seat covered with glass fragments. Officer Edmonds said the Chry sler is probably a total loss. He Flying To Texas For Party President Marks His 57th Birthday WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi dent Johnson observed his 57th birthday today with a heavy round of work at his White House desk. He planned to fly to his Texas ranch for a gala birthday party with his family. Johnson was expected to leave for Texas this afternoon after de laying his departure for a day be cause of bad weather Thursday. Johnson was Interrupted frequ ently during the morning with calls from well-wishers, including a tele phone call from former President Dwight D. Elsenhower. The White House said Eisenhower told John son he was thinking of him and “wished him many happy returns." Mrs. Johnson already was at the LBJ Ranch, preparing for a gath ering ton'ght of family members and guests to honor her husband. She was reported to have a few spe cial surprises up her sleeve. Besides the call from Eisenhow er, Johnson received numerous tele grams from foreign dignitaries and others. Press Secretary Bill D. Moy ers said Johnson was so pleased he dictated replies to many of the mes sages and telephones thanks to others in his official family and on Capitol Hill. Since the weather washed out Thursday’s planned flight to his ranch, Johnson decided to put In a few hours work today at his desk to stay atop the critical steel in dustry wage negotiations, the Gem ini S flight and “other important (Continued on Page 8) Twice Condemned To Die, Commuted, Violates Pa role Charlie Phillips Back In Prison ? ■111 Charlie Phillips, twice convicted of murdering hi* wife and twice sentenced to die for the crime, was back in prison today for vio lation of his parole. The Angler tenant farmer was the defendant in one fo Harnett’s most sensational and most wide ly publicized courtroom battles. Nineteen years ago—in August of 1946—Mrs. Etta Mae Phillips, was shot to death at the dinner table of their home. Tried once and sentenced to die. Phillips won a new trial and the verdict was the same next time. T4 Claude Moore of Dunn, Who lat er became sheriff, was foreman of one of the Juries that con victed Phillips. Twice, he was snatched from the very shadows of the death chamber. The second time his death sentence was com muted to life imprisonment. His sentence was cut to 40 years but four years ago. Judge Robert B. Morgan succeeded In haying him placed on probation. Phillips had been living with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr- and Mrs. Willie Hayes of Willow Springs, Route 1, since then. Mrs. Hayes found a suicide note which gave Phillips a new trial while he was on death row. Phillips was arrested in Ra leigh recently and tried for pub lic drunkenness and carrying a weapon, a pistol. The court found he had wilfully violated the terms of his parole and he was ordered hack to State Prison to serve the rest of his sentence. He was brought to the Harnett Jail, where he had been held pre viously on a murder charge, and was carried to State Prison by prison officials Monday afternoon. The Phillips case was the most talked about murder ever to oc cur in Harnett county. Phillips was defended by the late Nell! McK. Salmon, who fought as hard as any attorney ever did to save his client because as he put It, "he's not guilty of murder” (Continued on Page Eight) said the Rlggsbee care received about |150 in damages. No esti mates of loss to the furniture (Continued On Page 8) Will Be Saturday William Prank Stone of Coats, died at Good Hope Hospital in Erwin Thursday. He was 86. He was a lifelong resident of Harnett County and a retired farmer. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 4 p. m. at Overby Funeral Home in Qoats. Burial will be in the Williams family cemetery there. Mr. Stone Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Poole Stone; four 30ns, W. Alvin and Oris F Continued On Page Eight Over 100 Hurt, Property Loss Into Millions CHICAOO (UPI) — A battery of tornadoes and house wrecking winds of jp to 100 miles an hour pounded the Middle West through the night- Authorities counted at least one person dead, more than 100 injured, and damage in the mil lions of dollars today. Many communities were in sham bles. A state of emergency was de clared In battered Lockport, 111., where state and city police sealed off all highways leading into the town to all but authorised traffic. Police were ordered out today to protect against the looting of shattered business places. Police in Chicago Heights, south of Chi cago, reported the arrest of several looters. Follow Same Path The storms, beginning at around midnight and raging until dawn and afterwards, swept from Iowa all the way to Ohio. They follow ed roughly the same path as last April's Palm Sunday tornado disas ter, one of the worst in history, which left more than 250 persons dead. The only confirmed death was in Iowa. Russell Born, 50, of Mo berly, Mo., was killed when the vrflnds tore apart a concrete build .thft on a farm near La Porte City, Iowa. The metropolitan Chicago area was one of the most hearily pun ished by the storms. At 75 persons were Injured in the city and its sub urbs. Hospitals in the Joliet - Lock port, HI., area reported 28 persons Injured and 19 were hurt at Free port, 111. There were 16 persons injured in Iowa, at least three in Indiana and two in Wisconsin. SAMPSON SOLON NAMED RALEIGH (UPI) — Lt. Gov. Ro bert W. Scott today announced the ippointment of state Sens. Ralph H. Scott and Stewart B. Warren to the committee on printing and binding. Schools Open Monday Room Assignments Dunn district principal A. B. Johnson today announced pupil as signments for the local schools. Following is the list: MAGNOLIA AVENUE SCHOOL GRADE 1: GROUP I Mrs. Nettie Motes Godwin James Brent Autdy, Bobby Earl Bennett, Jr.. Gary Franklin Car ter, Carl A. Faircloth, Charles John son, Dempsey Noah Lane, Timothy Joe Massengill, Clayton Allen May nard Tony Franklin Norris, Stan ley Register, Bennett Carl Strick land, Dwight Tart, Robert Weeks. Kathy Kllzabeth Allen, Pamela Denise Beal, Vickie Darlene Brown, Sam Oall Draughon, Robbie Fran Holcomb, Annette Carol Johnson, Peggy June Knox, Angela Kay Lee, Rebeca Lynn Lee, Jane Hope Mc Lamb, Martha Sue Maynard, Myra Thomas, Patay Tyndall, Wanda Kay Wade. GRADE 1: GROUP II Mrs. Sue T. Jackson Wallace Delton Autry, Jr., Robert Kedar Bryan, Ronald Landis Coats, John T. Felder. Robert L. Hodges (Continued on Page Five) Girls Will Be Girls Thigh-High Dresses To Tease The Men .LONDON (DPI) — Girls will be girls, and men will never under stand them. Fashion - conscious working girls are wearing thigh - high skirts this fall, then retreating in horror from the “lecherous gazes” of their bosses, a magazine said today. Writer John Taylor in a meffts fashion magazine, Tailor and Cut ter. admitted he’s as baffled as the next guy. “The whole philosophy is typical ly feminine,’’ he moaned. “Women resort to any trick In order to attract a man’s attention and then they get morally affront ed when you look. ■They wish to appear seductive only whilst they are in a standing position and are assured of a get away. “Sitting down, with their retreat cut off, they wish to tease but not to become personally involved.’* The writer said the demand for short skirts derives from die urge women feel to excite men by show (Continued on Page Eight) TO METHODIST C.UKcH — Manager C W. Howell of Erwin Mills today presented a deed for the Erwin teacherage property to the Erwin Methodist"Church. Left to right are Mr. Howell, Jack Brock, a member of the ell treh board; Marvin West, chairman of the board of deacons; C. Mike Crawford, chairman of the church s trustees, and Thurman Caster, chairman of the building committee. Erwin Methodists ate electing a handsome r.ew church plant. (Daily Rceoid Photo.) -r_-„ .. ... Opens Monday Morning In Lillington Stage Is Set For Tew Trial | Prosecution and defense attor •rteys today ware busy roundini witnesses and making iina preparations for the first degre< murder trial of John J. Tew, Jr. scheduled to be called as the firsi case when a one-week criminal term of Harnett Superior Court opens Monday morning in Lilling ton. Judge Leo Carr of Burlington will pres de over' the term. District Sol. icitor Archie Taylor and Asst. Sol icitor Jake Lamm have given top priority to trial of the Tew case. Solicitor Taylor estimated today that trial of the Tew case, barr ing some unexpected developement, may last for seven or eight days. The 45-year-old Dunn business man will be placed on trial for his life for thp July 17 pistol slay ing of his divorced wife, Mrs. Can dy Suggs Tew. Defense attorney Everette L. Doffermyre today ruled out the possibility that Tew might plead guilty to first degree murder and cemt a life prison sentence. His plea will be “not guilty,” said Doffermyre. Attorneys Robert C. Bryan will appear with Doffer myre in defending Tew. Solicitor Taylor has said he would not accept a first degree plea, if offered declaring, “As far as I’m concerned, it’s the gas chamber or nothing for this man.” The solicitor said today he hasn’t decided whether to try with Tew his alleged girl friend, Mrs. Doris Horne, 37, Erwin divorcee charged BINGO SATURDAY Bingo will be played at Chicora Country Club Saturday night be ginning at 8:30. Dancing will fol low the games. The entertainment committee al30 announced that the club pool will be open afternoons next week and Labor Day. . with being an accessory before aWI 5 . the murder, a crime whietjj carries life imprisonment- upon] conviction. Indications are she will j he tried Separately. Attorney Doffetmyre said today that he and Bryan will maka a (Continued on Page 8) Word Expected This Week County School Plan Awaits Approval H i mot t County School officials are waiting word from Washington on the statuts of the county’s de segregation compliance plan. The county is among the 122 ad ministrative units in the state that •SO far have not received approval from federal officials. The delay has put school officials In a near administrative straight Jacket lack of approval means that some $300,000 in federal funds budgeted for Harnett County schools Is being withheld. • Asst. Supt. R A. Gray said that : !h«' Harnett office has been inform ed that the' county's plan has cleared the educational phases but that it was still in routine legal entanglements Wednesday morning. Gray said he understood that the' jlegal aspects of all plans are given : routine clearance by attorneys of ; the federal education office, i He said that the office hopes ! to have the plan’s approval later this week. A review of the matter will be. among the first matters to come up* Continued On Page Eight NEWS ROUNDUP WASHINGTON — The White House said today it knew of no “authenticity” for reports President Johnson might erase restrictions that are preventing U. S. wheat sales to Russia and other Communist nations. MOSCOW — Cmmunist party chief Leonid Brezhnev said tonight at a dinner in honor of visiting U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser American action in Viet Nam "goes to the limits of cynicism and brutality.” He said it W3s doomed to failure. WASHINGTON — A five-year college aid bill costing $5 5 billion was approved unanimously by the Senate education sub committee today. Dunn Group Attends; Says It's Disgrace Klan, Civil Righters Scuffle By United Press International Ku Klux Klansmen and civil rights workers scuffled in the streets of Plymouth, N. C. Thurs day night before police moved in to prevent the disturbance from getting out of hand. In Elizabeth, N. J.. a Molotov cocktail exploded under a parked car and a “suspicious" fire broke out near a diner where some 200 persons were milling around in the violence marred Negro water front section. Police at Plymouth reported no • injuries or arrests in thg disturb ance. The Negroes withdrew to a church and the Klansmen grad ually dispersed. State troopers and lus patroled the streets to main tain order. The Klansmen, had been attend ing a late rally. Civil rights work ers had been demonstrating for two weeks. A group of Dunn Klansmen and other local cit'zens attended the rally in Plymouth last night. One of them visited The Daily Record office this morning to re port that. "It’s- the nartiest mess down there I’ve ever seen.” He said that at midnight the Negroes, with a few “white agi tators mixed in" were roaming up and down the street, clapping, sh outing, singing and keeping dti zens awake. “The peopU are afraid to get out cn the streets and afraid to go to bed,” h, said. Describing the civil rights workers, he said, “Some of them look like they haven't had a bath or shaved in weeks It’s a disgraceful sight and (Continued on Page •) OPEN ALL BAT SATURDAYS Nathan M. Johnson, Jr, presi dent of Johnson Cotton Co., an nounc'd today that the local es tablishment is open each Saturday afternoon throughout the winter and spring season. The business previously closed at 12:30.
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