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REPORTERS for the county as Campbell’s Million Dollar Cabinet effort topped its goal in Harnett County
Saturday morning toured Campbell’s new library a Idition, one object of the drive. With President L. H.
Campbell (left) are W. L Corbin. Dunn; Archie Taylor, Lillington; Joe Ruark of Dunn; and Senator
Robert Morgan.
Campbell College Drive Continuing
Harnett Has Raised $119,000
Harnett County has raised $119,
000 in a continuing, drive to get
Campbell College financially ready
to stand review for accreditation
as a senior institution.
This was announced at the col
lege Saturday morning on the coun
ty’s Campbell College Day, which
county committeemen had set for
first report of progress. In the cur
rent statewide effort of Campbell’s
Million Dollar Cabinet, it tops the
county’s minimum goal by $19,000.
The preliminary accounting gave
as amounts tallied to date In Angier,
$9,000; Buies Creek, $59,000; Coats,
$4,000; Dunn, $41,000; and Lilling
ton, $6,000. Except for Buies Creek,
all reports are incomplete, and some
communities will make their first
accounting later. Dunn is expected
'an exceed its $50,000 qouta.
As principal speaker at the meet
ing, Senator Robert Morgan called
the college the area’s main attrac
tion for industrial development and
said that the school, long recog
nized as one of the leading junior
Was Financial Failure
Worlds' Fair Ends
NEW YORK (UPI) — The
1964-1985 New York World’s Fair
closed early today with an attend
ance explosion, a wave of vanda
lism and an admission of finan
cial failure.
Formal closing ceremonies for
the billion dollar extravaganza
were minimal - flag lowerings at
sunset, a fireworks display and
the booming of an old Swedish
cannon.
Fair president Robert Moses
announced that the fair had only
| $10 million instead of the $30 mil
lion ©rgi^ally promised to demote
to demolition and creation of a
permanent park.
The fair wound up with a two
year total attendance of 51,607 037
more than 10 million above the
1958 Brussels fair. Moses, had co
unted on 70 million.
Many of the pavilions were hit
by vandals, and some closed sev
eral hours early because of th
efts and disorders among young
sters tired ©f standing in the
long lines.
Dunn Members Attending
Christian Church
Assembly Begins
RALEIGH (UPI) — “The church
now finds itself in the embarrass
ing position of following when it
thought it was leading,” a region
al assembly of the International
Convention of Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ was told today.
Samuel F. Pugh, editor of the
World Call, told the four-state as
sembly the church also found itself
in “the doubly embarrassing predi
cament' of refusing to put into
practice some of the principles for
which it has stood for centuries.”
About 1,000 delegates from the
Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and
the District of Columbia are at
tending the regional assembly here.
The assembly started Sunday night
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colleges of the South, has already
“achieved distinction” in the state
since its shift to senior standing
four years ago.
President W. L. Corbin, general
chairman of the drive in Harnett,
said that he hopes that Campbell
College Day will become a hall
mark as the people of the county
continue each year in regular sup
port of what Campbell is doing in
the county.
Other community representatives
present at the college for the re
port meeting were Joe Ruark, co
chairman for Dunn and Archie
Taylor, chairman for Lillington.
Ruark Cleared
Of All Blame
A nine-year-old boy was killed
instantly about 13 miles west of
Wilson Saturday when shrucn by
a car driven by Herbert Taylor
Ruark of Dunn.
State Highway Patrolman C.
J. Cole statod that investigation
showed that Robert Thomas Hin
nant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro
land Jennings Hinnant of Route
3, Kenly darted into the car’s
path.
The investigation has been com
pleted by the State Highway Pa
trol and the Wilson County Coro
ner, and a final ruling has been
made that the accident was un
avoidable- There were three eye
witnesses to the accident in addi
tion to the occupants of the car.
All witnesses testified that the
child darted down an embank
ment and directly into the path
of the car. The driver was com
pletely exonerated and no charges
were preferred.
GUILD MEET TUESDAY
The Wesleyan Service Guild of
Divine Street Methodist Church
will meet at 8:30 Tuesday night at
the home of Mrs. Earl G. Vann.
The meeting will follow the evan
gelistic services at the church.
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Says It Keeps Enemies Off Campus
Carver Praises Red Ban Law
State American Legion Comman
der J. Alivs Carver of Dunn, in
a speech dedicating the new home
of. Leonard Moore Post No- 71
ini Clayton Sunday afternoon,
struck out vigorously at “the de
monstrating peace marchers, the
pacifists, the opposition orators
and others who aid and abet or
give comfort to the international
Communist conspiracy.
In an obvious reference to the
Viet Nam demonstrators, Carver
said: “The American Legion be
lieves that concessions to Or ap
peasemen o? communism leads
only to eventual subjugation- The
Legion believes history has clear
ly shown that we must respond
to acts Of aggression promptly
firmly and with strength suffi
cient to stop the aggressor and
let him know that we mean busi
ness.”
Reiterating the Legion’s sup
port of the North Carolina law
which prohibits communists from
speaking on campuses at state
institutions, the Saate Legion
chietf declared:
“We believe parents of college
students in North Carolina are
with us in the belief that no Com
munist, however pleasing, how
ever gratiating and however de_
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Fred Taylor
Heads Board
Of Campbell
Fred Taylor of Piiiehurst was
made president of the board Fri
day afternoon when the trustees
of Campbell College met for the!
regular fall session. He succeeds
I. B. Julian of Fayettevlle whose
«-erm has expired.
Rev. James C Cammack pas
tor of Snyder Memorial Baptist
Church Fayetteville became chair
man of the executive committee
succeeding W. M. Womble of San
ford. Newly elected vice-president
is Dr. Donald Moore of Coats who
replaces Mrs. Hunter Strickland
of Four Oaks. Lonnie D. Small
of Buies Creek continues as sec
retary and treasurer.
Others retiring from the board
at the end of four-year terms are
Dr. John H. Horne Greenville;
Mrs. W. H. Jones Kinston; B. Y.
Tyner Raleigh; and Rev. Harry
D. Wood Leaksville.
The trustees adopted a $2,784
000 budget for the present fiscal
year an increase of $300000 and
approved the audit for the fiscal
year ending June 1. Auditor
D vid Allen of the firm of A. T.
Allen met with the board to ex
plan the audit.
ATU Agents Nab
Erwin Men
Three men from Route 1, Erwin,
were arrested while operating an
illegal whiskey distillery at 11:00
Sunday morning by local ATU
agents.
The men - Danny Williams, 31,
George Arthur McNeill, 32, and
James Hugh Smith, 35, all Negroes,
were taken before U. S. Commis
sioner Abe Elmore yesterday after
noon, where each waived prelimin
ary hearing and were released un
der bonds of $500 each.
The still was set up’ in Stewart
Creek’s Township and consisted of
a 480 gallon submarine type outfit
Destroyed with the distillery were
300 gallons of fermented mash, sev
en gallons of non tax paid whiskey
and a variety of equipment and ma
terials used in the operation.
THE RIGHT QUESTION? — At Campbell College s i iior co-ed Gloria Watterson of Fort Bragg quizzes
Rev. John R. Claypool, speaker for the annual fall week of preaching (Oct. 11-15), while campus student
Newspaperman Ted Malone of Coats makes mental notes. Dr. Claypool is pastor of Crescent Hill Baptist
Church in Louisville, a favorite church of Southern Baptist Seminary students and faculty.
One Killed, Two Others Hurt
Harnett authorities today were,
continuing investigation into a
Saturday afternoon automobile
accident ’ that killed Mitchell
Wiiker, 50, Negro, of Bunnlevel,
ridute 1, and put two other occu
pants of the automoblie in hos
pitals.
Coroner Paul Drew said the
driver of the 1961 Pontiac lost
control of the vehicle near Kelly
Coleman’s Store three miles west
of Bunnlevel on Rural Paved road
No. 2031
He said the automobile travel
ed .,400 feet off the left side of
the road into a field and turned
over four times.
Walker was dead on arrival at
Cape Pear Valley Hospital at
Fayetteville. Alex Maynor, 17 was
taken to Rex Hospital in Raleigh
and Joe Lewis Maynor, 30, own
er and other occupant of the car,
is in Betsy Johnson Hospital in
Dunn.
Walker died of head and chest
Tuesday Nite At 7:30
Erwin Mass Meet
A Mass Meeting will be held at
the Erwin High School Auditor
ium in Erwin, Tuesday night,
October 19, 1965, at 7:30 p.m„ for
the purpose of discussing a pro
posed Fire District for the Erwin
Fire Department.
The proposed Fire District will
be from Erwin to Black River go
ing East, and from Erwin to a
point extending four (4) miles
North South and West of Erwin
Fire Station.
All property owners residing
within the proposed Eire District
are urged to attend
"This is a very Important meet
ingi Your presence is requested,”
said Fire Chief R. M. (Red) New
in calling the meeting today. Dr.
New is also chief of the Erwin
Rescue Squad.
Chief New and others favoring
establishment of the fire district
plan to ask the Harnett County
Board of Commissioners to call
an election in the district, to be
known as the "Erwin Fire Dis
trict.
If approved by the voters, a
special tax on all taxable pro
perty in the district would be
leved to pay the cost not to ex
ceed .15 cents per hundred dollar
valuation for the purpose of pro
viding fire protection in the dis
trict.
Now Total Nearly Eight Million Lbs.
Dunn Tobacco Market
To Close Wednesday
The Dunn Tobacco Market will
close for the season at the com
pletion of sales on Wednesday of
this weeki Sales Supervisor John
O. Thomas announced today.
Sales to date on the local mar
ket totaled approximately 7,700,000
pounds. Considering the 26 per
cent acreage cut, this means that
total volume was about the same
as last year when a new record
was set by the rapldly-srowing
market.
PrO”p general speaking i)«ve>
been higher.
Norman Hardee, head of the
Big-4 Warehouse, has been re
elected president of the Dunn
Tobacco Board of Trade
J. M. Smothers of Planters
Warehouse was re-elected vice
president; and Mr. Thomas was
re-elected secretary - treasurer
and sales supervisor.
injuries.
Coroner Drew and Stat5 troop,
er Bill Lucas said it has not
been determined which of the
three men were driving the car
and that the condition of the In
jured men is such that they could
not be questioned immediately.
Dunn Woman Gets
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$4,000 Verdict
Mrs. Martha W. Jackson, 46, of
Dunn, Route 2. has been awarded
I $4 000 damages for injuries sus
tained in an automobile accident
here on Dec. 31, 1964.
The Dunn woman sued Mrs. Mary
Graham Jones, 50, of Fayetteville,
for damages totaling $35,000 but a
jury in Harnett Superior Court a
warded only $4,000.
The accident occurred at th?
Jonesboro Road cutoff leading
from 1-95.
Mrs. Jones was indicted for fail
ure to yield right-ofway but was
acquitted. The suit against her,
filed by Attorneys D. K. Stewart
and Bobby Bryan for Mrs. Jackson,
contended she was at fault.
It was alleged that Mrs. Jackson
had suffered severe and permanent
injuries about the abdomen.
Defense Attorneys Wiley Bowen
and Senator Robert B. Morgan put
on witnesses in an attempt to
prove Mrs. Jackson was guilty of
contributory negligence.
Jurors deliberated an hour and
five minutes before returning their
verdict.
Goldsboro Mon Held
Johnston Youth
Slain Near Benson
Bernard Daniels, 27-year-old
Goldsboro man, is being held in
an undisclosed jail without pri
vilege of bond in the Saturday
night slaying of Allen Gale
Wheeler, 18 son of Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Wheeler of Pour Oaks
Route 2.
Police Chief Aaron Johnson said
eye witnesses told officers that
Daniels went up to Wheeler about
9 o’clock Saturday night outside
the Dalrylee Drive-Inn four miles
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All Four Shot
In The Head By
Berserk Mother
LAUREL Md. (UPI) — The
e trangjd wife of a formrT Kan
sas congressman apparently went
berserk early today and shot
their four children to death a*
they slept, police said.
Later, Mrs. Denver D- Hargis,
37, went into hysterica, when she
was confronted by her 44-year-old
husband and another woman.
The couple had been separated
for about three months, poUfce
sa d and Mrs. Hargis twice had
called her , estranged husband’s
home in Vienna, Va., to threaten
the lives of their children
On her way to an arraignment
on the murder charge Mrs. Har
gis met the former congressman
and the unidentified woman.
"What you got her here for,"
she screamed, kicking and wrest
ling with police
She was subdued and taken to
the nearby Waterloo state po
lice barracks. Police there had
been alerted earlier by Hargis
who said there might be “serious
trouble” at his wife’s apartment.
Police found the doors and win.
dows of the apartment locked.
Using crwbars, the state po*
licemen entered the apartment.
'three of the youngsters, Br
enda, 2, Michael, 8, and SandTa
Hargis, 12. were dead. The fourth,
Debra, 5, died en route to a Port
Meade hospital. All had been shot
I once in the head with a .25 cali
j bre pistol.
j Mrs. Hargis was picked tip »
' short time later in her automo
bile on a downtown street.
A homicide charge was expec
ted to be filed against her later
today, police said.
Hargis. 44, is a former mayor
of Coffeyville, Kan., and served
one term in the 86th Congress
from Kansas from 1959 to 1961.
Hargis, who started his law
practice in Coffeyville in 1948,
served as mayor of the city in
19'3. 1965, and 1957. Following his
defeat for re-electioh to Congress
in 1961 he joined the Defense
Department as a consultant.
Over 2090 View
Doctor's Body
Pinal rites were held Sunday
afternoon October 3 at the St.
John Missionary Baptist Church
for Dr. Conrad Belfleld Codring
ton °ne of Dunn’s most prominent
and well-known physicians. He died
Sept. 29 in Betsy Johnson Hos
pital following a lengthy illness
Dr. Codrington was known as a.
great humanitarian and the theme
of the services carried out his
purpose in life, Service to Man
kind.
Rev. B. B. Fielder pastor, offi
ciated and was assisted by Dr
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Annual Meet At Sanford: Strickland On Board
Ross Heads District Bar
County Attorney Neill McK.
Ross of Lillington is the new
president of the 11th Judicial
District Bar Association.
The prominent county seat
leader, who is also Chairman of
the Harnett Democratic Execu
tive Committee, was elected by
acclamation at the annual busi
ness session of the lawyers held
Friday night at Sanford.
Lawyers of Harnett, Xxje and
Johnston County, along with their
wives attended the business and
social session.
Pope Lyon of Smithfield was
elected vice president; Marshall
Woodall of Lillington is tbe new
secretary- ti easorer.
Executive committee members
elected were: H. Paul Strickland
of Dunn, Harry Cannady of Ben
son; and Lowry Betts of Sanford.
Friday night’s annual dinner
meeting proved that if there la
PRESIDENT SOSS
one thing lawyers enjoy more than
listening to stories, it’s telling,
them.
The meeting, hosted by the Lee
County Bar Association, began
with a social hour before dinner,,
at 6:30 pm.
Following opening remarks by
W. W Staton, Sanford, District
President, W. W. Seymour, bead
of the Lee County Bar Associa
tion, Resident Superior Court
Judge Bill Johnson of Lillington
and Burlington’s Judge Leo Carr,
the principal speaker was Judge
J. Frank Hoskins of Burnsville.
Judge Huskins was recently ap_
pointed to the newly created post
of director of the administrative
Office of the Courts of North Ca
rolina by the Chief Justice of the
N. C. Supreme Court, Blnery B.
Denny.
The first four men. as w*H aa
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