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DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
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Over 40 Models
In Lillingfon
fashion Show
Lillington’s annual Town and
Country Days celebration will get
underway Thursday night at 8 p.
m. with a full-fledged Fashion Show
in the high school auditorium.
Mayor Bill Randall, chairman of
this year's celebration, pointed out
today in making the announcement
that this is the first time a fash
ion show has been held in Lilling
ton as a feature of Town and
Country Days.
Exhibits of farm and home pro
ducts will be on display in Lilling
ton through Friday and Saturday.
A football game between Lilllngton
and Ramseur will be played Friday
night at 8 o’clock and the annual
.parade will-be. held Saturday at 3
p. m. There will be a string band
contest and dance Saturday night.
Lilllngton merchants are giving
away $400 in prizes to lucky ticket
holders during the event.
Miss Flossie Ezzell is chairman
of the fashion show event, and A.
Lincoln Faulk, manager of Dunn
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Three defendants who allegedly
apld bootleg whiskey to a Federal
undercover agent were free under
bond today facing charges of violat
ing Federal liquor laws and de
frauding the U. S. government of
alcohol taxes.
All three were arrested on war
rants served by U. S. Deputy Mar
shals Bob White and H. B. Mc
Oregor, assisted by local ATU offi
cers.
Cecil Lee Williford, 28, of Ben
son, Route 2. is charged with sell
ing 60 gallons on August 20 and
another 60 gallons on August 27 to
undercover agent Rufus Embrey of
Columbia, S. C.
John M. Wilkins, 28, of Dunn,
Route 2, is charged with selling
59 Mi gallons to Embrey on August
?o.
Linwood Ray Norris, 21, of Ben
son, Route 2, is charged with sell
ing 12 gallons to Embrey on August
3K)th and offering to sell him an
other 15 gallons on Sept. 24 when
the agent went back to arrest him
for the first offense.
Wilkins and Norris were arraign
ed before U. S. Commissioner Abe
Elmore in Dunn today. They waived
hearing and were ordered held for
trial at the next term of U. S.
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JAYCEES HOST DISTRICT MEET — A large crow d of Jaycees from District 7 gathered at the Ameri
can Legion hut here Wednesday night. Playing host for the big event were Dunn and Erwin Jaycees.
Giving the keynote address was Rep. Billy Britt of Smithfleld, left foreground. Seated with him is Den
nis Pope of Smithfleld, 7th District vice-president. Standing (left to right) are Freddie Breeden of St.
Pauls, national director of the East Central Region; Ray Sparrow of Cary, administrative national
director; Darrell Hill of Fayetteville, vice president o f the 9th District; and Archie Wood, Dunn JC presi
dent. (Record Photo by Russell Bassford)
Names More Communists Allowed To Spec:!: on Campus
GREENSBORO ~ Two state sen
ators took sharply opposing views
here Monday as to the amount of
Communist activity in North Car
olina.
Sen. Robert B. Morgan of Har
nett County said the state has a
history of producing a national
Communist leader “about once
every generation.” He cited the late
Paul Crouch and Junius Scales as
examples.
After 54 Years Slumber
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Big Volcano Erupts;
Many Feared Dead
MANILA (UPI) — volcanic
Mount Taal which had slumbered
for 54 years In a lake 35 miles south
of Manila erupted today with ex
plosions that hurled a ball of fire
nearly two miles high. Hundreds
were feared dead.
Governor Feliciano Leviste of
Batangas province said 1X7 per
sons were known to have been kill
ed, including a man who survived
the great 1911 eruption which took
an estimated 3,000 lives. Three of
the dead were struck by lightning
in a thunderstorm meteorologists
said was caused by tne eruption.
Estimates of the number of per
sons living on the volcano isle
ranged from 2,000 to 6,000. and
the Philippine Constabulary said
many of them had been evacuated.
Manila newspapers put the number
of dead at 1.200 to 2,000.
President Diosdedo Marapal head
ed a rescue mission from Manila
but operations were hampered by
the smoke and steam and a heavy
rain. Volcanologists warned that a
stronger explosion could come
Wednesday, causing tidal waves on
the lake. >
Christian Church Event Acclaimed Big Success
Overflow Crowd Attends 7 6th
Anniversary Of Dunn Church
An overflow crowd,' including
many former members and visi
tors from out-of-town, joined the
local membership Sunday in cele
brating the 76th anniversary of
Dunn’s Hood Memorial Christian
Church.
T The event was acclaimed as one
of the most successful religious
events of the type held here in
years. v -i
One of the oldest churches in
the area, the original building of
Hood Memorial was the first com
pleted church structure in tfce Town
of Dunn and was finished Just three
years after the town was first es
tablished.
Dr. Charles E. Diets® of Wilson,
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Christian Churches, de
livered the morning sermon, An
Interesting history of the church
Was presented by Lorotpan C. Du
‘ pree, Jr., who is a grandaon of one
of the founders and who heads a
committee wjrtch is writing a his
tory of the local church.
A roll call of the membership
was taken by Miss Bertha West
brook, the church Clerk. .
The Rev. Carlton Best, who pre
sided over the service, recognized
special guests, large family groups
and direct descendants of the
church’s original 18 founders.
One member present, Mrs. Black
mon Lee, Sr., was bom the same
year the church was organized here.
Her family has been prominent in
the church for many years.
Among other large family groups
recognized were the Tarts, Surles,
Lees, Holidays, Bells, Woods and
Duprees.
The Rev. Mr. Best acknowledged
greetings and expressions of regret
from two former pastors unable to |
be present, the Rev. John Gard
ner of Falmouth, Kentucky and the
Rev. F. W. Wiegmann. now paetoi
of the Downey Avenue Christian
Church in Indianapolis, Ind.
Among out-of-town guests who
registered for the anniversary ob
servance were:
Rev. and Mrs. John Browning of
nsilihflulil Mrs. M. F Maasev of
I Morgan said there has been Com
munist activity off and on at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill since 1930, when he
said a Communist cel! was first,
established there.
“Communist speakers have ap- ;
peared from time to time on the
Chapel Hill campus even in the
late 1950s and in the 1960s,” he I
said.
Sen. L. P. McLendon, Jr., of
Greensboro said he agreed that,
there is a Communist threat to the|
Western democracies, but said he
did not believe the Reds are concen
trating on North Carolina.
Morgan and McLendon gave their
opinions at the closing session of >
the 11th annual meeting of the
North Carolina Savings and Loan
League at Sedgefield Inn. Their
subject was the Speaker Ban Law.
Morgan upheld It; McLendon said
the law Is unconstitutional, and
ought to be repealed.
The law prohibits Communists
and persons who have pleaded the
Fifth Amendment from speaking at
public colleges and universities.
McLendon called the law “patent
ly” unconstitutional because it
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Judge Declares
He's Lucky To
Escape Chamber
udge W. H. S. Burgwyn today
arnett Superior Court sentenced
ear-old Kenneth Jackson Bare
foot to serve 25-30 years in pri
son for the robbery-slaying of Lyn
wood Ray Lee, a Dunn restaurant
operator, and told him “You're
mighty lucky not to be going to the
ga* chamber."
•‘North Carolina has a bad crime
retiord and Harnett is one of the
(heist notorious counties in the State,
especially for murder, and this is
onfe of the worst eases of all,” de
clared the veteran jurist In pass
ing sentence.
•‘You’re guilty of first degree
murder; you’re guilty of first de
gree burglary, either of which could
have sent you to the gas chamber,
and you’re also guilty of burglary
wtyh firearms," Judge Burgwyn told
foot.
udge Burgwyn praised Attorneys
J. Shepard Brvan and Robert C.
Bryan for their defense of Bare,
foot and told him, "Only by the
grace of God. able defense counsel
and the merry of this court are
yo» getting off so easy.”
asistant Solicitor Jake Lamtr
private prosecutor D. K. Ste
, representing the Lee family
Judge Burgwyn that Barefoo
committed a "bold-bfoodt*
premeditated robbery and murder
and strongly recommended that hi
be given the maximum punishmen
under the law, which is 30 years.
The prosecution on Monday accept
ed a plea of guilty to second de
gree murder.
Barefoot, who has already spent
about half his life ,in prison, was
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KENNETH BAREFOOT
Prominent Banker, Democratic Leader
Roger Mann Funeral
Will Be Wednesday
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon for Roger
Milton Mann,. 47, well-known Is
lington banker.
/
He died Monday.
Mr. Mann was vice president of
the Bank of Islington, and a native
of Harnett County. He was a vet
eran of World War n and a mem
ber of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. H« was a member of the
North Carolina Bankers Association
and a member of the Lillington
Presbyterian Church.
Prominent in the Democratic
Party, he was treasurer of the
Harnett Democratic Executive
Committee and had served in that
post for many years.
Rev. Robert Part will conduct the
services at * p.m. Wednesday at
his church.
Survivors include his wife, Sarah
Lee Mann; one daughter, Kathy
and one son, Michael, both of the
home; his mother, Mrs. Clarence
Mann of Lillington; four sisters,
Mrs. Lonnie, Betts of Rt. 2, Fuquay
-Varina, Mrs. Leslie McOehee of
Raleigh, Mrs. Fred Holloway and
Mrs. Robert Johnson, both of Lll
lington; three brothers, Rex of
Sanford, Lynn of Chapel Hill and
Sam Mann of LUlington.
ROGER MANN
Signs Statement In Stabbing of Husband
Linden Woman Admits Killing
Chris-:
tian and the la(e Tyrone Power demonstrate the latest
dance craze at a party near Rome. Romina, 14, (left)
and Taryn, 12, dress in keeping with the new dance.
I Debbie Grows In Intensity
Hurricane Watch
Is Ordered Today
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - Tripi
cal storm Debbie, steadily grow
ing in intensity, sent gale winds
lashing the Mississippi and Ala
bama coast today and the Weather
Bureau ordered a hurricane watch
from Louisiana to Florida.
The Weather Bureau urged coas
tal residents to flee in the face if
approaching tides.
The storm that suddenly built
from a tropical “depression” in
the Gulf of Mexico was moving at
10 miles an hour up "Hurricane
Dr. Campbell
Is Retiring
RALEIGH (UPI-The Mere
dith Collge Board of Trustees
today announced the retirement
of the school’s president. Dr.
Carlyle Campbell, effective Aug.
31, 1966.
Campbell, age 70, came to Me
redith in 1939 as one of a line off
coeglie presidents. His father, Bap
tist minister Dr. J. A. Campbell of
Buie’s Creek, was founder of an
academy that later became
Campbell College. His brother. Dr.
Leslie Campbell, is president at
Campbell now.
During Ounlpbell’s administra
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CR Prosecutor Is Removed
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. <UPI' — A
circuit Judge bluntly removed
State Atty. Gen- Richmond Flow
ers from prosecution of a civil
rights slaying case today after
the state had vigorously contended
it could not get a fair trial.
Circuit Judge T. Werth Tha
gard then told the circuit prose
cutor to proceed with the prose
cution of Tom Coleman, 52, a pop
ular "citieen deputy” charged With
manslaughter in the shotgun Idl
ing of a White mlnistrial student
„Thagard, after a heated dis
cussion, removed Flawers and his
top assistant, Joe Gantt, from the
case and returned It to Circuit
Solicitor Arthur Gamble.
Flowers was not in court but
his top assistant argued repeated
ly for a continuance of the trial
on grounds the atmosphere was
too much against the prosecu
tion’s side in Lowndes County and
that a key witness oould not come
to the trial because he was in
serious condition In a Chicago
hospital. i V
Coleman was <m trial for first
degree manslaughter apd assault,
which carries a- maximum sen
tence of il ye*« on convictiont In
the slaying of Episcopal
lan *—“— »»--**•- ..
Jonathan Daniels of
who was blown apart by a
shotgun blast in front of a'SBajfr
nevUle grocery store shrotly aft#*
he was released from Jail foUoMi
ing a civil rights demonstration. • f
Critically wounded at the “
time was The Rev.
ris roe. a
who was to have
witness for the
Thbgard at 01
ed to bold Onatt ia
court but did not.
Alley,” packing winds up to 50
1 miles per hour.
Winds were extending 200 miles
from* the center of the storm as
it approached an area batered less
than three weeks ago by Hurricane
Betsy.
At 8 a m. CST Debbie was cen
tered at latitude 26.2, longitude
89 5, about 280 miles southwest of
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A 48-year-od Linden woman *•
being held in the Cumberland Coun
ty jail without bond today on a
charge of murdering her husband
Sunday.
James Pi*3ton Smith, a Rt. ),
Linden Negro, was pronouncfd
dead at, Good Hope Hospital In
Erwin Sunday afternoon, where
his wife, Agnes, Lee Smith, and
15-year.old son had taken h m by
auto.
Mrs. Smith signed a statement
after questioning by Cumberland
County sheriff’s deputies.
Bought Liquor
8he said her husband asked ter
to go with him to Fayetteville
about 5 am., Sunday, but instead
he drove her to the home of. *
woman named Frances Maynor,
who lives off U. S. 401 North.
They bought some whiskey
there, Mrs. Smith sa’d, and her
husband drank it. They went back
home about li a.m., and Mrs.
Smith went into the house, leav
ing her husband in the car. ”
She said he called her outside,
grabbed her by the arm, and threa
tened to kill her, She said he had
a knife in his hand, and she grab
bed a piece of broken glass from
the car and stabbed him in the
chest with it.
She called her daughter Louise,
she said, and they changed JameV*
clothes while h® sat in the car.
Weeding from .wtwnd -
3he said she put a piece of tape
over the around, and sent for her
15-year-old son Nathan, who drove
f then back to Frances Mbyrpr’a
house.
Still Talking
Mrs. Smith said her husband
was lying in the back seat of the
car at that time, but was still
talking1.
They drove to Erwin, where a
doctor at the hospital told them
Smith was dead, and had been
dead for some time.
Louise Smith, a 17-year-old
daughter, signed a statement say
ing her parents had quarreled fhi
night before, after her father
came home drunk.
She said about II a.m. Sunday
her father threatened to kill her
mother, and her mother took a
long-bladed knife out of her pursfe
She said her mother did not
use the knife, however, and she
and two other children managed
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France's No. 1 Sex Symbol
BB Is 31 Today
PARIS (UPI) — Brigitte Bardot
turned 31 Tuesday, still France’s
No. 1 sex symbol, but pressed hard
by the younger “ye-ye” stars.
The pouting, tousled “sex-kitten”
reigns as the top film queen of
France and a tradition of her coun
try along with the Eiffel Tower
and the Arch of Triumph.
Brigitte Bardot is one of the
world’s few personalities known in
stantly by initials, along with JFK,
LBJ. etc., and the French press re
cords. her every movement and
mood.
But their attitude is one of af
fection toward a veteran tradition.
The French women’s and teen-age
magazines devote more space nowa
days to “ye ye” singers Sylvie Vgp
tan, Sheila, Frahcoise Hardy and
Miss Vartan’s husband, Johnny Hal
liday.
Brigitte has settled down to mak
ing only One film every two years.
Her next to be released is “Vtva
Maria."
The pert - nosed star is spending
her 31st birthday at her secluded,
walled beach home at Saint Trope*,
the fisherman’s village that BB
made famous Just by going there.
With her was her u&ual
Band” — her retinue of pals
usually surround her, including ;
Sagouri, a Moroccan-born
m who has been her steady
tor more than two years.