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iOsudthstfi Decreasing cloudiness and warm this afternoon with scattered sh owers in coastal area. Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight arid Tuesday. Lows tonight 56 to 6S in mountains and 67 to 73 elsewhere. jOLUME U TELEPHONE 892-311% The 18th annual American leg ion Four County Agricultural Fair and Livestock Show will open to rt grt at 6 p. m. at the fairgrounds on Jonesboro Road with crowds ex peeled to be the largest ever. Gates will be open to the public tonight at 6 p. m. with Kiddies' Day Wednesday. Admittance for this day for school children will be free for 12 years and younger from 4 to 8 p. m. and ride tickets will be 10 for a dollar during the festivities. A nigttly feature will be the fam ous Zacchini Cannon act, in which Madalena Zacchini will be shot out a nnon several hundred feet into f Amusement and entertainment attractions will be on the midway. R‘ turned to Dunn by popular de ni ai. ., Endy Shows promises that this year’s fair will be the best possible. Commander Glenn Cox and Fair Manager Robert L. Smith today expressed hope that all of Dunn and surrounding areas would come visit the fair and enjoy the festivi ties. ■ te money is offered for agri - Jtural premiums, livestock, farm, home and school exhibits. SPECIAL TRAINING Navy Lieutenant Commander Neu land O. Collier, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Collier, Sr., of Wafte, is at val War College, Newport, R. I. The 10-month school provides an understanding of the fundamentals of warfare, with emphasis on the operational functions of command. Mafia Reported In Hofei Move NEW YORK — Mafia hoodlums are trying to muscle in on the $50 million investment in new motels, cabana clubs, night clubs and marinas in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, a high police official said recently. At least one motel proprietor has been beaten for refusing to give a share of his business to undeifworld figures, the official said- Other business men have reported being threatened. These facts came to light fol lowing the arrest of Carmine Lombardozzi a chieftain in the Brooklyn Mafia "family” of Carlo Oambino, with a bookmaker and a woman companion in a motel restaurant in Sheepshead Bay. Three other men. all reported ly with Mafia connections, were arrested while they set at an other table in the same establish ment. Still another underworld figure, Joseph (the Ninx) Livoti, reportedly an “enforcer” for Johnny (Bath Beach) Oddo, wsa seized at a near-by cabana club. “These arrests are part of an operation against Brooklyn mob sters,” said the police official, who asked that his name not be used. BETSY PASSED THIS WAY — Famed Bourbon Street in the French Quarter is a shambles after hurricane Betsy ripped through New Orleans. ».NEA Telephoto) TRENTON, N. J (UPI) — A le gislative committee was told here that college coeds who worked at a state mental hospital attended drunken parties at the institution and had sexual relations with in mates. The committee investigating con ditions at Greystone Park State Hospital also was told that con Lillington Woman Is Held In Slaying Mrs. Betty Ruth Williams McKay, 22, of Lillington, Route 1, was be ing held in the Harnett County jail without bond Saturday in the shot gun slaying of her estranged hus band, Thomas McKay, 20. Harnett Coroner Paul Drew said McKay was brought to Betsy John son Manorial Hospital In Dunn for first aid and died While being trans ferred to Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill. He was shot in the groin and died from loss of blood, the coroner said. Sheriff Wade Stewart arrested the woman shortly after the shooting, which happened about midnight. She made no statement about the shooting Immediately. McKay was a sawmill worker. Coroner Drew said he was un decided about an inquest. She was jailed IS minutes after the shooting, by Harnett Deputy Roger Lyon, Stewart said. Previous Trouble Reported Father Is Charged With Shooting Son James Thomas Smith, 21, shot by his lather during an argument Sunday night, was reported In a satisfactory condition at Memor ial Hospital In Chapel Hill. Shelton Smith, BT of 206 West Carr St., the father, was released from the Dunn Jail under $500 bond Monday afternoon for the assault. Police Chief Alton Cobb said the father told him the boy was advancing on him with a knife when he shot him in the hip with a shotgun. He said the boy had caused him trouble previously and once had struck him in the head with a gun. ' The father is employed at Dunn Ice & Fuel Co.; the son is unem ployed. . Chief Cobb said doctors had advised him the boy hhould re cover. barring unexpected compli cations in his condition. Lyon reported that Mrs. McKay readily admitted the slaying. Stewart quoted Mrs. McKay as saying she and her husband had re turned from an o''tug to their home three miles east of Sanford X milt from NC 210, and an alterca tion ensued. She was quoted as say ing she took the shotgun and kill ed her husband from three feet away. The sheriff said today the date for the hearing has not officially been set, but that he expected it would be held Tuesday. Tax Collector Makes Report Total Harnett County revenue during August from taxes and oth er sources totaled $193,127.69, it was announced today by Tax Collector W. Earl Jones. Taxes amounted to $25,094.20, he said, and revenue into the county’s six funds totaled $168,033.49. Tire Blows, Auto Topples Thomas Ruffin Brown. Jr., 37, of 15 East James Street, Lilllng ton, was treated for arm injuries after his auto overturned Sunday about 7:30 p. m. near Lillingtcni. State Trooper D. W. Padgett said Brown, operating a 1959 Opel sta tion wagon, was traveling east on XT. S. Highway 421 approximately two miles from Lillington when the left front tire blow out. Brown told the officer that he applied his brakes after traffic in front of him began slowing down. The tire blew out and he cut to the right to avoid a collision causing the vehicle to overturn. Brown’s arm was out of the window at the time the auto toppled. victed sex offenders virtually had run of the institution operating loan shark, bookmaking and lot tery operations. Lloyd W. McCorkle, commission er of state institutions and agen cies, admitted the alleged impro perieties “may very well be true.” The hospital is in Parsipanny-Troy Hills, N. J. “You must have gambling and sex whehever you have 10,000 per sons together, McCorkle said. Roljert Noonan of the Morris County prosecutor’s office testified that a nurse at Greystone had told him: “You can go into the ward, ord er any drink, and they (the pat ients) Will mix it for you.’> Noonan said the attendants bought the liquor for the patients “as an accommodation.” He said one former attendant told him he once opened a linen closet door and found an inmate and a girl at (Continued on rage fS) Klan and Negro Both Planning Rallies Tonight PLYMOUTH (UPI) — "Ex tia" highway patrolmen were ar- j riving in Plymouth today as Ne %Y««s and Ku Klux Klanamen b ith planned night rallies. Trial was set In Superior Court for four persons facing charges which grew out of racial dis turbances in Plymouth almost two Weeks ago In still another development, the Rev. Riiph D Abernathy, a top official of the southern Ch ristian Leadejship conference, was to meet with D S Coltrane, the state’s top racial troubleshooter. Coltrane, chairman of the State Good Neighbor Council, was ex pected to urge Abernathy to hold off anv civil rights demonstra tions. Abernathy scheduled a new3 conference at 4 p.m. Highway Patrol Commander Col. David Lambert said “extra patrol assistance is being sent in to the Plymouth area to aid lo cal law enforcement officers in the event they are needed.” Negroes scheduled a rally at a local church while the Ku Klu* IC14n planned to meet nearby in rufal Washington County. Sirena's New Shop Is Open Siren ate Gift an<i Flower Shop opened its new home Saturday morning during ribbon cutting ce remonies at 9 a m. Lilli ngt on Mayor Bill Randall presided over ceremonies at the en trance to the new air-conditioned building at 22 West Front Street. The new building houses the flower shop. Mrs. Sirena Byrd. ow ner announced. The old location at Maln_ and Front streets will con tinue to handle -S® items. she said. The opening continued with an open house Sunday in the new building. The expansion will provide an even more complete service to cus tomers, Mrs. Byrd said. In addi tion to her husband, Troy, employ ees include Mrs. M. T. PheSts, Mrs. Layton Upchurch of Coats. Nancy Brown, Celta Thomas and Annette Dawson. Prospect Revival Begins Tonight The Rev. Frank Davenport of Goldsboro will begin a week of revival services at the Prospect Free Will Baptist Church Monday night. The Prospect church is located just off highway 421 between Er win and Buies Creek. Services will begin each evening at 7:30 and conclude at the 11:00 service on Sunday, September 19 The Rev Mr. Davenport is the pastor of the Faith Free t^ill Bap tist Church of Goldsboro and a noted leader and builder. In ad dition to his pastorial dutiesi Mr. Davenport is associated with the State Office of Free Will Baptists and Goldsboro Christian Schools, a Christian Day School operating in Goldsboro. Prospect Church will also ob servt its annual Homecoming. September 19 at the conclusion of revival services. A goal of 400 in attendance for Sunday School which meets at 9:45 a.m. has been set. In addition to the Sunday School and the preaching service at 11:00, dinner will be spread on the grounds and fellowship and singing will follow in the church. The pastor, the Rev. Eugene Hales, and the church extend a (Continued on Page 8) r auatti — REV. FRANK DAVENPORT Says It Would Not Ban Communists Morgan Rejects Friday's Plan SHINING UP_Actress Ann-Margret is used to saftwtfsa*s Riddle Appeals; Must Serve Other Term Womans Attacker Given Two Years _ Carl Riddle, -31, of Erwin was in the Dunn jail today tried in Dunij Court-today-on two charges after a pretty young secretary for a build, ing supply firm identified him as the same man who attacked her Thursday afternoon. Judge Woodrow Hill dismssed the attempted tape charge against Red dle and gave him two years on the assault charge, suspended on pay ment of $250 fine and court costs. Riddle gave notice of appeal ti Superior Court. Riddle was already under a 30 day suspended sentence for public drunkenness. Judge • Hill ordered Riddle to serve this 30 days and he was taken to the roads to begin his sentence. police Chief Alton Cobb said Miss Henrietta Maynor, 18, picked Riddle out of a police line-up and that he has been charged with as sault on a female and a second charge of assault on a female with intent to commit rape. Miss Maynor told the court today the man walked into her office at John David Lee’s building company on East Broad St., forced her ag Light Court Session Today A 31 year old Erwin man in Dunn Recorder’s Court today gave notice of appeal when he was given a two year’s suspended sentence and fined $250 for assaulting o female. When tried earlier by Judge Wood row Hill. Carlyle Riddle was found, not guilty of assaulting a female with intent to commit rape. Onzle Hudson of Dunn was ord ered to pay $25 weekly for the sup port of his wife and child when tried on an inadequate support charge. Hudson gave an appeal notice. Also tried today were Larry Way ne Sanders, Dunn, no operator’s license, $25 fine and cost; Matthew McLean, 38, Dunn, driving too slow ly, cost; John D. Sanders, 54, Dunn, reckless driving, $25 and coat. aiflst the wall, with his arm around her neck and warned that he had a gun. “If You’ll go into the back room and do what I say I won’t harm you.” she quoted him as saying. The girl said he had opened the drawer of her desk as though searching for money. She said he ! never did say exactly what he wanted. Her screams flrghtened him aw ay and she ran next door to Stri-1 ckland’s’ Auto Service for help H. | D. Strickland. Jr. phoned police after he and others could not find the man in her office. Chief Cobb, Sergeant J. L. Jones j and Deputy Carson Hall took Bid- i die Into custody a few minutes later. Cobb said Riddle claimed he had just left the alcoholic ward of State hospital but a check sh owed he had Just left the Wilson County jail, where he said he had been held for three weeks prior to acquittal on auto theft charges. “Riddle said if he did it he was too drunk to remember it,” related Cobb, who added, “He had been drinking but was not too drunk to know what he was doing.” State Senator Robert B Mor jan ot Lillington said Saturday hat if officials of the' University >f North Carolina refuse to *a mre citizens that communists will >e kept off i’s campuses, then 'they must assume full responsi bility for the ill effects they claim ;he cclnmunist speaker ban law night cause.” Morgan, president jjrotem of the Senate, expressed “regret and dis appointment” when asked to cont inent on a story by United Press international which quoted “a hi ghly-placed source in the univer sity" as erpresaing “doubt” trust ees would adopt an anti-Commun ist speaker policy. Sen. Morgan emphasized his position has not changed from that he outlined ip a speech at Dunn July 4 and tliat stated when he appeared for the American Le gion before the commission August 12 He also said that a proposal by UNC President Wiliam Frida iy« not acceptable, and actually wo uld not regulate visiting speakers. Appearing before tbe Commun ist Ban Commission Wednesday, Sen. Morgan said he did not bel ieve the legislature would return power to regulate speakers to trustees until they adopted a strong anti-Communist policy such as they already have in effect at Bast Carolina College, Morgan at that time declined to comment m Friday’s statement that' the law must be amended or fepealed be fore he would propose any changes in the university’s speaker policy. “I do not believe this law sh ould be repealed or amended in any way until after and only af ter trustees of all the Institutions have taken firm action to guar antee to the people that com munist and other undesirable sp eakers will be prohibited,” said Morgan. Explaining the difference be tween his position and that Of Friday, Morgan said: We say at East Carolina, we have no desire to have the .communists, period. The regulations which Dr. Friday says he will propose to his board if the law is repealed contained no restrictions on communists or others covered by the law from visiting the campuses. They mere ly provide that each Chancellor may, if he deems It appropriate, required a senior member of the faculty to be present and that questions be allowed. This seems to me to say thal such persons will be allowed to appear. “The Issue is simple,” said Morgan. “UNC officials objected to this law passed by the legislature in keening with the wishes of the people on grounds it constituted outside political interference wh ich they say threatens accredita tion.” He went on to cite the East Carolina policy which asserts that is not necessary for communists to appear on the campuses, and pointed out that such policy was adopted voluntarily and has ac tually been in practice during the entire 56-yeer history of the col fContinued on Page 6) Evangelist Hemorrhaging Graham Suffering From Complications ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) — An associate of Dr. Billy Graham said today the evangelist was suffering complications following prostate surgery but the Mayo Clinic said his condition was “excellent.” The associate, Grady Wilson of Charlotte, N. C , said Graham had a “rough morning” and would have to be hospitalized several more days. He said that for the first time since the Thursday operation he was “greatly concerned.'1 The clinic said however, that th*| surgeon who performed the opw»;*. tion felt there was “no questiflipt? over relapse” and he was “not, cerned ” The elini< evangelist would Hospital to
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