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DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY A1
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RIDING HtGH IN THE SADDLE — Otis Jackson, prominent Dunn
business man alid owner of the local Plggly-Wiggly Store, was caught
Irj this pose by a Daily Record photographer. It’s one way of saying,
"Hurry and ride on down to Piggly Wiggly's big anniversary cele
bration.” One feature of the event is a real, honest-to-goodness
money tree — Just filled with the beautiful green stuff.
Water, Hospital Bond Issue March 24
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Low Interest Rate
The local Government Commis
sion has sold 1475,000 in Town ot
Dunn water bond anticipation
notes to First Citizens Bank &
Trust Company, at the low Inter,
est rate of 1.7484 per cent.
Interest on the Dunn bonds was
among the lowest in issues total
ing $1.25 million by the com
mission for the towns of South
port, Mount Olive, Conover and
for the County of Moore. Only
the More County notes soid for
less 243 per cent. Southport
bonds, for instance, sold at 4.0G5.
This is an indication of the
good financial condition of the
Town of Dunn.
Branch Bank & Trust Co. was
second low bidder on the Dunn
bonds at 2.78 per cent, ‘and Wa
chovia, the ohly Other bidder, of
fered 3 07 Iter cent.
These shrot-term notes will be
paid off on March 14 when the
Town of Dunn will Issue and sell
bonds foputhei Watr improve
ments eand Also for the new hos
pital.
The short-term borrowing en
ables the town to go ahead with
the work before bonds are sold.
SOCIAL
IN CAPE FEAR VALLEY
Mrs. D. B. Register is a pa
tient in Cape Pear Valley Hospi
tal Fayetteville.
In Highway Damage Cases
Three Get Verdict
Three Harnett County resident*
were awarded verdicts totaling $6,
000 In Harnett Recorder’s Court to
day in three lawsuits filed against
two Concord brothers as the result
of a highway accident in Wilming
ton last October 24.
Earl Stephens, 32, of Dunn, and
Julian Flowers, 25, of Coats, were
awarded *1500 each and Stephens'
wife, Thelma, was awarded *3,000
damages.
Each of them had sought a ver
dict of *15,000 each. The three
cases were consolidated for trial.
Attorneys Everette L. Doffermyre
and James McDaniel Johnson, re
presenting the plaintiffs, had al
leged that each of the three had re
ceived pr inful, serious and perman
ent injuries. Mrs. Stephens’ injuries
were most serious.
According to the evidence, the
Cook vehicle ran into the back of
the car containing the three plain
tiffs.
Defense attorney* Max McLeod
and Robert C. Bryan argued that
the plaintiffs were guilty of con
tributory negligence and asked that
they not be given $15,000 each asked
for.
Dr. Clyde Sheehan of Smithfleld,
formerly of Dunn, and Dr. Randolph
Doffermyre of Dunn testified for
the injured parties.
"Soft Landing Is Possible
R«d Missile Heads For Moon
MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet
Union’s unmanned Luna-7 space
ship, raced at almost 3,000 miles an
hour towards a possible historic
umtt - landing" on the moon Such
j i landing- could pave the way for a
I m.ntiad night to the earth's satel
| life, '
, % The Russians, keeping the space
*■ ship's mission secret, announced
only that the 1%-ton Luna-7 would
"reach the moon” at 1:08 a. m.
Moscow time Friday (8:08 p. m.
EDT) Thursday night.
A ‘‘soft-landing” — a highly com
plex task - would help the Rus
s Ians grab back some of the space
headlines which have been mono
polized recently by the American
Ranger and Gemini space'shots.
There was no official word on
whether a soft-landing — In which
the rocket would ease down on the
lunar surface without destroying
Itself or Its equipment - wouflf he
attempted.
Some Western experts did not
rule out the possibility that Luna-7
might be put Into orbit around the
moon. iJIJfl
Says Conference
Might Possibly
Result In Peace
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI)
— Britain today proposed that both
sides stop fighting and end inter
ference in Viet Nam, then join in a
conference “under whatever aus
pieces might promise success.”
“From that,” British Foreign
Secretary Michael Stewart told the
General Assembly, “Let us get a
situation in which South Viet Nam,
and North, is firmly guaranteed a
gainst attack Let us have a pro
gram of rehabilitation, administer
ed by the United Nations, to repair
the ravages of war.*.’
Britain and the. Soviet Union are
co-chairmen of the • ltfff !j 3 Oei|*a ■
Conference on Viet Nam which
many countries have denianded re-’
convene. However, Stewart did noti
limit his
that body.
call
iTIlSf
negotiations to
it?
He said a (Commonwealth mis
sion, spumed by the Communists,
stood readyr,to - go to J^orth Viet
create the conditions ip which gov
ernments1 ian emefge in South and
North Viet NamV truly representa
tive of their peoole; in which South
and North shall be completely neu
tral, with no foreign troops or bases
and able by their free choice to
determine their future relationship
to each others1' , ' 10 $)li Oi I.
Three On Trial)*
For Assault
i Three young rtiieh of the' Warn
*ers ,area, Wade Ashworth hia
brother, J. D. Ashworth, and Bill
Taylor, were on trial In Harnett
Superior Court today on multiple
chapes.
Hadh of them Is charged with
assault with a deadly weaoon on
Landon Womack and Wallace
Douglas and trespass.
State Senator Robert Morgan,
representing the defendants, en
tered a formal plea of "hot guil
ty.”.
According to testimony the
three defendants went to the
home of Douglas, a N«ero. and
assaulted Douglas and Womack, a
white man.
Th«v o'-’nioa fii-t .7 p Ash
worth held, a "un on thpm Wh’le
the other two men assaulted
them.
The defendants denied the
charges, claimed they went to the
Douglas home to pick up a Negro
man to work that an argument
followed, and that nobody had
a eim.
Rev. Sam Stephenson testified
that all three of the defendants
had a bad character This is the
area in which citizens have pro
tested about lack of law enforce
ment and the minister has been
ope of the leading protestants.
"Have you ever invited elthea
of thes« defendants to go to
church?" Morean asked the mini
ster. He admitted he hadn’t.
The case was expected to take
the rest of the day.
WASHINGTON (tJPI) _ Pres
dent Johnson today ordered an A
Force plane sent to Viet Nam
bring to this country for treatmei
and training 60 paraplegic Vietnan
ese soldiers who otherwise mlgl
die for a lack of medical care.
MR. GOOD FOR YOU EGG CttVE-AWAY — Wake county 4-H’ers
and Mr Oood-FOr-Youv that Mf egg man from the N. C. Marketing
Association, will team up in a 'giant give-away at N. C State Fair
the week of October 11-16. In an e|Tort to aid the visually handicap
ped, the team will give away ha}d-cooked eggs Monday through
Friday of that Wetk to any afnd ah fairgoers at the Home Industries
booth of the N. C. Commission fon the Blind. In return, they would
i like for you to be a “good egg" awi.buit.ane of the Mr. Good-Far-^,
* You stuffed toys on display in the-booth. Even if you don’t buy, you
| are still welcome to the eggs.
Coming To Li/lingfori Toes. *
Highway Officials
To Visit Harnett
RALEIGH — A tentative sched
ule for an inspection tour of the
Southern and Middle Piedmont
October 12-15, inclusive, was an
nounced today by the State High
way Commission. It will be the
fourth of a series undertaken by
Chairman Joe Hunt and other top
Commission officials in company
with the various Division High
way Commissioners.
Unless otherwise indicated, the \
visits with local officials and civic
leaders will be held at the coun
ty courthouses in the various
counties involved.
The Piedmont tour will cover
21 counties and include portions
of Highway Divisions 6, 8, 9, 10,
12 and 13.
The tentative schedule:
Chairman Hunt and His party
will leave Raleigh at 8:30 on Tues_
day and arrive in Lillington at
9:15 a. m. They will leave Lil
Ungton at 10 a. m. for Fayette
ville.
This will be the first visit to
Harnett for Chairman Hunt since
he took office. He is very popu
lar in Harnett and has many
friends throughout the county.
Shoots Two,
Kidnaps Five
WICHITA FALLS, Tex. (CPI) —
P£>iii&“ today called off a search
fdr Delbert Garmon, 28, a wound
ed ex-convict who shot at his wife
and a policeman in Wichita Falls
and then kidnaped five persons in a
wild flight into Oklahoma.
Police said they “assumed” he
was in Oklahoma In the El Reno
area, where he was last seen. He
eluded searchers, however.
“There are too many places for
him-bOJhide,” a sheriff’s deputy said.
Party Leader Raps N. C. Law
Communist Party
Against Ban Law
RALEIGH — The public rel*t<
tioijs director of the Communist
Party II. S. A. today issued a
statement calling for repeal of
North Carolina^ controversial
Communist Speaker Ban Law.
Contacted by Raleigh TV sta
tion WRAL at Communist Party
U. S. A. Headquarters in New
York Arnold Johnson said the
Speaker Ban Law should be re
pealed for the following reasons:
“The Speaker Ban Law violate:
the 1st Amendment and is un
constitutional. It violates academ
ic freedom and in this sense Is
destructive of the basic purpose
of the University ”
The Communist Party spokes
man continued:
“The Speaker Ban Law limits
the area tn which students can
Wpperly probe. No student can
asffdrd to ignore the Communist
viewpoint, and no serious admini
strator can deprive a student
of the opportunity to examine the
Communist viewpoint. The Speak,
er Ban Law violates the basic in
terests of our country„ the United
States”
Johnson concluded :
I am prepared to come to any
campus and he’p restore the Bill
of Rights, teh Constitution and
academic freedom to that cam
pus.”
The Communist Party spokes
man declined to answer a ques
tion as to whether he wou'd seek
to testify before the blue-ribbon
Commission now investigating the
impact of the law.
Committee Elects Lillington Attorney, OKs Bonds
Penny Is New Demo Treasurer
James H Penny, popular young
Lillington attorney, has been elec
ted treasurer of the Harnett
County Democratic Executive
Committee.
He was ele ted by special meet
ing of the committee Wednesday
night, called by Chairman Me'll
Mcic Ross to elect a successor
to the late Roger Mann of Lill
ington.
MV. Penny was nominated by
A. J S^enhenson Jr. of Lit Ins
ton- Wley Bowen of Dunn sec
onded the nomination and hi-1
election was unanimous.
The new party treasurer has
been practicing in Lillington for
the past few years and is regard
ed as one of Harnett’s up-and
coming young leaders
Members of the committee a
dopted a resolution paying high
tribute to the services of the lit?
Mr- Mann, and praised his many
years of ieadership and devotion
to the party.
In tother . elections, the com
mittee adopted a resolution un
animously endorsing the State
rord bond ls’ue and calling on
all citizens to vote favorable on
Nov. 2
Chairman Ross urged the pre
cinct leaders to complete their
quota of tickets for the annual
Aveock Dinner as soon as pos
sible.
Event Claimed
Big Success
Mayr W.H. Randall Jr.; general
chairman of Lilliflfton Town and
Country Days to^dy characterised
the weekend event “as highly,
successful.”
“This was purely a goodwill ges
ture from local Industry and mer,
chants to our farm folk to ex
press our appreciation for their
trade. All events were free and
there was no money-making In
volved," said Randall.
He said the fashion show giv
en Thursday night at the school
and the Saturday afternoon pa
rade drew high praise from spec
tators. Interest was also lively in
the drawing for prizes offered by
Lilllngton merhants Saturday
night on the courthouse square
Several combos played and as for
the barbecue supper at the Com
munity Center Saturday Randall
reported, “It was a sell-out. All
of the barbecue was gone by 8
p m.”
The Lilllngton Chamber of
Commerce plans to hold the event
again next year “but with some
few changes,’’ Randall said* We
like to think we learn something
every year.”
Area Churchmen
Receive Honor
Dr. Louis C. LaMotte. director
of the Department of Adult Edu
cation and Summer School at St
Andrews Predbyterian College in
Laurinburg^ has been named mod
erator nominee of Fayetteville
Presbytery for 1966.
Approzimately 170 ministers
and elders who were delegates
from 97 churches of the Pres
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SAIGON (UPI) — U. S. military
strength in Viet Nam reached a
new high of 140,000 men today when
the final elements of the 1st in
fantry Division camie ashore at
Vung Tau, 37 miles southeast of
Saigon.
A U. S. military spokesman said
the 15,000-man “Big Red One” divi
sion would join the division-sise
Marine Corps Third Amphibious
Force and the Army’s 1st Cavalry
Division as the major U. S. fighting
forces In Viet Nam.
About 4,000 troops of the 1st In
fantry have been in Viet Nam for
some time and have seen combat
[against the Viet Cong. The re
mainder of the division completed
the move from Ft. Riley, Kan., to
day and the division headquarters
flag was planted On South Viet
namese soil for the first time.
In other developments:
—A Marine patrol from Da Nang
led by an Australian officer, Capt.
Link Harris of Brisbane, took on
a Viet Cong squad of infiltrations
and killed one of them. There were
no Marine casualties.
— South Vietnamese Prime Min
ister Nguyen Cao Ky returned to
Saigon after a three-day visit to
Malaysia
—Senators
Nevada, Steph
and Daniel B.
land — all Democrats
the capital on a six-day tour—oi
American military installstaon^Jn
Viet Nam.
—A Vietnamese Justice Ministry
source disclosed that Robert
ball of Salt Lake City, Utah,
go on trial Oct. 21 for the
of his superior, jack Ryan,
a Vietnamese woman last
Ryan was head of the puhile
division of the V. 6. operations :
si on.
BALLOONS GALORE—Actress Anita Ekberg has her
hands too full trying to keep her perch on a merry-go
round while neck deep in balloons for this scene from a
new film, “The Alphabet Murders.’’
fTC Calls Adi false
IVilUC
En4|Titec^feejii!i£ wo
1 WASHINGTON UPI) — The
Federal Trade Commission (PTC?)
has ordered a ( halt in what it
said was false and deceptive, ijd
vartising claims for titeritol, a
iron and vitamin preparation k
The commission Wednesday
night dimedted ' the • J. S, Wil
liams Co. and its advertising di.
Vision, Parkson advertising agency
to stop misrepresenting the ef
fectiveness of Geritol liquid and
tablets.
The PTC particularly took is
sue with claims that Geritol is a
good energy, reslpfpr, a?#, m
eliminate ..that, tiredness, loss^ of
strength nervousness, ‘ trrltn&lf
ty,ete., VdtW- be 'caused by i#bn
dpftcirttisy. Tt-premises tf&t a
person whb1- takes ©eritbt eaii be
gin feeing better Hi‘a dlty. <*•"
PTC Chairman. • Pawl Rand Dix
on said in an opinion that the **i_
denee showed that tired aesg' la
not a generally reliable indicntiflo
of iron defieinecy. to tact he/SHtd-.
“there is little relationship
tween the tiredness symptoms 3»d
iron deficiency." - . si*
Policeman's Daughter Was Victim
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LOS ANGELES .UPI) — Four
of five young men were: convicted
Thursday of charges stemming
from the group rape of the teen
aged daughter of a police lieut
enant who shot a youth he mis
takenly thought participated in
the assault.
The fifth defendant was acquit
ted of charges arising from the
sexual assault on 19-year old
Shirley Diane O’Neal
George Ulatowskij 18, NOftfc
ridge, Maltthew Melville, 30, at
Chatsworth, and Ford Wood, -30,
Northridge, each were convicted
of two counts of forcible rape aflH
two counts of aiding and abetCWg
rape
Erick Forrest, 1#, of Reseda
was convicted of three counts of
aiding and abetting the rapw.
Ronald Wood, Ford’s 21-year.-.)d
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