uJ&cdtksih Pair and not so cold tonight. Lows mostly lower 80s in mountains and 35 to 45 elsewhere. Wednesday, fair and no important change in tem perature. ^NN PIIM LABORATORY 740 CHATHAM ROAD ^ WINSTON SA— WINST0N C failti llecorA --— * —.;rrvr ■_ — .— rrrr cents ' fee corr " ■ Vi - - mo. m DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2«, 1965 jOLCME IB TELEPHONE KUir. — Mt-SlIS T Sheriff Says He, Deputies Joined Klan WASHINGTON (UHI)_— A North Carolina sheriff testified today that he and six of his deputies had join ed ihe Kn Klux Klan in 1963, hut he sa:d they had d^ne so merely to keep an eye on the secret or ganization. The testimony was given before the House Committee on Un-Amer ican Activities by Marion W. Millis, sheriff of New Hanover County, N. e. ' Chief Committee Investigator lioald Appell said that Millis testimony conflicted with previous .statements he had made to in vestigators. Ajjpell said Millis had denied to investigators that he or his deput ies had ever bean members of the Klan. Millis, appearing before the com mittee, said that he did not recall what he had said to the investiga tors. •T was confused,” he testified. The white-haired, 50-year-old sheriff told the committee that he and his deputies had Joined the Klan when a local chapter was formed in Wilmington, N. C. Their purpose in joining, he said, was to observe the organization and to see if it committed any violence. Millis snid he ordered hls‘ de puties to leave the Klan and Quit himself when .he was convinced t.Jjere was jio violence %pd .when ■ rumors” began eircuiafing. Auto Caravan To Stop in Dunn “Operation Buddy”, an auto cara van of World War I veterans, will pass' through Dunn Thursday after noon, Nov. 4, en route to Clinton. The caravan will begin in Eliza beth City and Manteo and conclude in Murphy in western North Caro lina. In each town, the men will tour a newspaper office. They will be at The Daily Recdrd at 3:00. Area veterans have been invited to Join the caravan at the Dv.ly Record office and journey with them to Lumberton. Slops prior to Lum berton will be at Clinton and Eliza bethtown. A rally a 8:00 in Lum berton will highlight the trip. Veterans interested in joining the group are asked to-be at the office on West Cumberland Street at 3 p. m. CHURCH PLANS BAZAAR, FEED — Sacred Heart C atholic Church is planning a church supper and bazaar Thursday night and in connection with it, a $100 and $25 savings bond will be given away in a special drawing. Here, Father Henry J. Becker is shown purchasing the $100 saving bond from Mrs. Janet Signor at Commercial Bank. Barbecue pork and chicken will be served from 11 a^m. til 2Mand from 5:00 - 8:00. A variety of articles will be on sale at the bazaar beginning at 8.00. (Record Photo by Russell Bassford) ___■_ At Pot Luck Dinner Edwards Chosen Scout Head In Benson Bank Robbery No Arrests Yet The head of the Carolina* bur eau of the FBI said in Charlotte at noon today that no arrests have been made in the recent robnery of the First Citiaens Bank * Trust Co. at Benson. Reports had spread throughout town early today that two men and a girl had been arrested. Numerous people called . The Rally Record office to see if the report was true. Saved $4,500 Last Month Harnett Taxpayers Pay Early And Save Many warnet-t uuuuty vaApaycio took advantage of the 1% discount allowed for paying 1965 taxes In September. Colleotions up to now Of State Asso. of Realtors Snipes Renamed As State Director James W. Snipes, well-krtown realtor and insurance mao, has been re-elected as a State dir ector of the North Carolina As JAMES 8NtP«S sociation of Realtors for 1966. James L. Bichsel, executive vice president of the 1,700-member State association, announced the roster of new directors today at the NCAR’s state headquarters in Greensboro. In doing so. he paid high tri bute to Mr Snipes and to the ser vice the Dunn man has rendered the State organization. Mr. Snipes is also president of the local Realtors Association and is prominent in other affairs here. “It is on the shoulders of this new board of directors that the future course of the State Realtors association, and thus the state’s real estate industry, must rest during the coming year," Bichsel said. Be emphasised, in naming the members, that the NCAR board “is not simply a catalog of leading Realtors but U in fact regarded as one of the moat active and hardest working boards of any (Continued -on Page Hyeel for October are just about on a par with last year for he same month. A savings of %% is al lowed during October for 1965 taxes so long as the payment is received in the office on or be fore November 1, 1965. It has been a helyp to us this year for so many of the tax payers to return the statement along with the payment. This al lows us to process the payment in much less time and with great er accuracy. W. Earl Jones, Harnett County Tax Collector, states that “the (Continued On Page Six) R. r. E«w»)rt5 wss ejected Dis ! tilct Chairman of the Chlcora District Boy Scouts at the second annual Recognition Dinner at the Dunn Armory Thursday nlyht. The election of officers followed a night of entertainment and en Joymet by the, porents of scouts in the Chicora District. Dr. Charles Byrd served as mosttr of ceremonies for the oc casion anl the Newport Duo ion sisting of Joe Smothers and Chuck Thomas gave special entertain ment. Both bosy, are students at Dunn High School and are form er scouts. Tom Sherman awarded training awards to Eugene Pope and Heah Hinson after which O. W. Godwin, Jr., gave a 1968 compaign report. Other awards presented during (Continued On Page Six) Miicide iroops Of Communists Lead Attacks SAIGON (UPI) — Communist troops mounted another all-out attack on the U- S. Special Forces camp at Plei Me, today, including a human wave suicide charge They were beaten back within a half hour b myassive U. S. air ond artillery ' strikes. The artillery was provided by elements of the U. S. 1st Caval ry division, whose pinpoint shell ing of Viet Con? positions Mon day night enabled a Vietnamese relief column $o reach the be sieged fortress. It was the seventh day of fight- ; ing at the outpost. 219 miles northeast of Saigon in the Central Highland!). The Ccmmunisis opened up to day with mortars, recoilless rif les and sent suicide squads ch arging to within 25 yards of the Plei Me fence before they were cut down by heavy fire from the beefed-up garrison. U. S Air Force and Navy planes, which have made the dif ference in the week-long fighting, bombarded the guerrillas and th eir north Vietnamese reinforce ments with high explosive bombs, flaming napalm and rockets. Ford Hits Pole, Dfiyer Injured Ezra Everette Rigsbee wa* ad mitted to Betsy Johnson Hospital this morning after hitting a tele phone pole on North Ellis Avenue. Rigsbee told the investigating offi cers, R. H. Alphin and Woodrow Herring, that something came loose under the front of his 1955 Ford and he lost control of the car and hit the pole. Rigsbee resides on Route 2, New ton Grove. Damage was placed at $300 to the car. BOARD PARLEY The town board will meet Wed nesday night at 7:30 to discuss further the building of the new city hall. Funds Sought For Disaster Victims Harnett county’s Red Cross Chap ter with headquarters in the Baer building on South Clinton avenue here, is working with all other Red Cross units in the nation to raise funds for the disaster victims on the gulf coast now destitute still be cause of Hurricane Betsy this fall. Mrs. Grace Swa.-n, executive sec retary of the chapter, said that Southeastern area chapters have already raised $440,000 to go to the disaster victims. Expenditures for mass care dur ing the emergency period and long range family recovery assistance may exceed an earlier $14 000.000 estimate for Red Cross disaster re lief following Hurricane Betsy. Mrs. Swain said that the Red Cross had ascertained that 1,503 (Continued on Page Three) Queen Decorates Idols As Thousands Battle Police Beatles Fans Storm Palace; Ringo Dances A Jig Inside LONDON (UPI) — Beatles fans stormed the gates of Buckingham Palace today In a hysterical effort to see Queen Elizabeth honor their idols. It was the first time within memory that a mob has tried to invade the home of the royal family. !; ' Thousands of screaming teenagers and younger children struggled with police and many climbed the great iron railiplgs around the Queen's home. One boy got mto the palace gr ounds before police grabbed him. A 14 year-old girl, wearing a top hat and a white shirt with Beatle slogans on it, reached the top of thel5-foot.high gates and defied the attempts of police to coax her down. A police inspector finally cl imbed up and got her. The occasion was the queen's aw | ard of the Order of the British Empire to the moptopped singers. At one point during the investiture Beatle Ringo Star danced a jig on the ornate state ballroom of the palace. After the ceremony was over Paul McCartney said of the aueen: (Continued On fip Six) PACESETTERS of the current drive to enlist 1000 members for the Campbell College Community Concert Association are (1. r.) 6ilford Daugherty, the general chairman, and Campbell service society members Judy Pruitt of Fayetteville, Dale West of Gloucester Point, Va„ Mary Lou Thompson of f leigh, and Skip Cun is of Temple, Pa. Miss Thompson heads the Zeta Chi service sorority and Curtis* 5 the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. Tons of Feed Stolen From Coats Milling Co. Coats Firm Hit By Theft Harnett authorities today were investigating the bold front-door night-time theft of two or more ons of hog feed from the Coats Milling Company at Coats. S Sheriff Wade Stewart said to day that the exact amount of the loss has not been determined, but I added, ‘‘They got a lot of it — j about two or three tons or more.” The break-in was discovered Tu esday morning by Paul Pollard, owner of the Purina mill. He said he left his plant, located on busy Highway 55 just south of Coats, a bout 11 P- m. Thieves didn’t bother to go to the back. They just backed a truck up to the front door, broke the lock on the door and loaded up. ‘‘They probably figured it would be less suspicious if they loaded the feed just like they were sup posed to be doing it and they got away with it,” said the Sheriff. Tourists along the highway no doubt thought it was the work of employees. Sheriff Stewart said Pollard told him most of the stolen feed con sisted of hog supplement and oth er high-priced feeds. Only a small amount of change had been left in the office cash box. Meadow Fire Dept. To Serve Chicken E. G. Clifton, chief of the Mea dow Fire Department, announced today that charcoal chicken plates will be served at the fire station on Saturday, October 30, from 11:00 a. m. until 9:00 p. m. The menu consists of a half char coaled chicken with potato salad and cole slaw for $1.00 per plate. Proceeds will go towards purchas ing new equipment for the fire de partment- The fire station is lo cated on Highway 50 about 7 miles east of Benson at the Meadow School. Throws Driver On Top —-- . ;y-r Horse What started out to be a leis urely Sunday afterhaon automobile ride for an 18-year old Rt g Cam eron girl, Nancy Jackson, ended abruptly when she found herself face to face with a riderless horse,, according to State High way Partolman Paul Lucas. Where was the rider? On the \ top of the ear, no less, uninjured. The freak accident occurred when Hqrtey Cull, 18, of Rt. 6, San ford wept horseback riding on a dirf road near his (tome close to Olivia, and lost control of the (Continued Ob P«*f •) At Campbell Suday At 2:30 _ . ■ ' ' : : Morehead Students Will Be Interviewed The eleven certified candidates for the John M. Mo rehead Aw ard competition in Harnett County have been ordered to report for a personal interview with the Har nett County Selection Committee in the Administration Building at Campbell College, Buies Creek, N. C. on Sunday afternoon. October 31, 1*66, at 2:30. The nanves and addresses of the Candidates are as follows: Jesse Clifton Alphini Dunn Hi gh; Neal Andrew Brown Lfllington High; Michael Coats, Coats High; A1 Cravin Oriffin, Mtimers, Boone Trail High; James Munn Jackson, (Continued On Page S) President Parker Cites Need $1800Being Sought By Band Boosters Some idea of the Increased size of the Dunn High band in 1906 could be gathered last Friday night at the Dunn . Lumbetton game when Band director Ernest Black paraded both the Junior and sen ior bands before the 5,000 person* who saw the game. Half of them were not in uni forms. They didn’t have any. Today John Parker, President of the Dunn High Band Boosters or ganization here, said that only one more week remained for the drive to sell birthday, anniversary, civic (Continued On Pa#e C) Also Bound Over In Theft of Auto; Other Cases Davis Held In Theft Of $765 Robert Lee Davis, charged with breaking and entering a Lillington service station and stealing *765 in 2 case and with Che theft of an automobile from Sexton Motor Sales in another case, is awoittng trial in Harnett Superior Opuft. He was bound over at a preli minary hearing held before fcouti ty Judge Robert Morgan- Ju*g6 Morgan found probable cause against Davis and set bond at $2500. M. P. Crews, owner of the serv ice station, said officers found the stolen $765 in an attic over the defendant's bed in bis room. Davis formerly was employed at the service station. Connie Currie, St. t, tlllington. chafed With assault on his girt friend. Martha Mory McNeiU. found a second charge staring hi® in the face, that of non-support of three illegitimate children of Mary’s daughter. Mary Margaret MeNelll judgment *»i continued on the assault inS^b^ ***