dJwihsUi Mostly clear and no important change In temperatures tonight and Friday. ■ AtinwE is TBXKFHONt BM4ir. - DUNN, N. C. MANN PIIM LAB ORATORY 740 CHATHA1 WINSTON SA] vM*j»qtD TO Gets DAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2S, 1965 nvr cents ras corr MU. Hospital To Be Sold; Other Matters Aired New Dunn City Hall Work To Begin Soon Dunn’s city council Wednesday night voted t<* go ahead with con s’ruction of the town's new city | hall, agreed for the present Betsy Johnson Hospital building to be sold and disposed of other business mat ters. Low bids totaling $285,275 on the new city hall were accepted arid Ben Hartsfield, head of East Caro lina Construction Co., the general jjf contractor, said he expected to be gin work in about ten days. V The board was advised that trus Vres of Betsy Johnson Hospital Mve received an offer on the pre st%t building for use as a nursing Mayor Bill Marshbum and' the commissioners approved plans to advertise the property and sell it to the high b'dder on condition that it be used for a nursing home and that it will become available upon completion of the t°wn’s new hos pi'al. The present 85-bed hospital will be replaced by a modem new 117 room structure to cost $2,070,000. The following minutes of last ( night’s meeting were released by City Manager Archie Uzzle: A special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Dunn was held on Wednesday ni ght, October 27, 1965 at 7:30 p, m. with the following members pres ent, Mayor Wm- C. Marshbum, Commissioners William O. Canv eron, O, W. Godwin Jr., Sallye B. Whitehead. Paul Perry and Mayo Smith. Also present were Town Manager AiyB. Uzzle Jr., Town ''“Clerk T. P? Harrall. and Town At_ torney E. L. Doffermyre. The pur pose of this special meeting was to discuss the bids received on October 21, 1965 on the new City Hall. The meeting was called to or der by Mayor Marshbum, after which Commissioner Whitehead gave prayer. Mr. Myres Tilghman, Chm. of the Board of Trustees of the Bet (Continued on Page Pour) No Decision RALEIGH (UPI) — Gov. Dan K. Moore said today there is "no sub stance" to speculation, that he has decided to call a special session of the legislature on the speaker b:in law issue. Moore said he would not make such a decision until he receives the report of the Speaker Ban Study Commission. He said he has not received the report and does not know at this time what the com mission will recommend. Moore said he expects the re port will be ready in a week or so. Chairman David Britt of Fair mont had set Nov. 10th as the tar get date for the commission’s re port. ’ERK NOW, ’ERE NOW — A covey of London Bobmes found Beatiemaniu aunost too much to handle when Queen Elizabeth II presented the Order of the British Empire to the Liverpool quartet at Buckingham Palace. Teen-age fans of the mop-haired music makers stormed Palace f°r * glimpse of their idols In a wild melee unusual for the staid British capital. (NEA Radio-Telephoto) Little River Group Reelects Gentry, Freeman Baptists Rap Rise Of Klan ■ The Little River Association of 34 Baptist churches, in a unani mous standing vote at its 90th annual session, adopted a resolu tion deploring the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the burning of the cross, urging Baptists to a void the Klan and its program and to give themselves to the preaching of the cross and its message. Rev. Thomas M. Freeman, pas tor of Dunn’s First Baptist Church, released a copy of the resolution to the press today. The action was taken after the annual sermon preached by the Rev. Douglas Fanner, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Erwin, who used as his subject, "The Place ot The Cross.” In his sermon, the Erwin pastor referred to the misuse of the cross and the Rev. Mr. Freeman pointed out that. "Th* Association seemed Believes Strength Exaggerated Moore Reports State Has 618 Klansmen RALEIGH (UPI) — Gov. Dan K. Moore said today his informa tion is that the Ku Klux Klan has only 618 “hard core members in North Carolina.” Moore said he regrets very much North Carolina has been the scene of activities disclosed by the House - Un-American Activities Committee i but thinks the strength of the klan has “been exaggerated.” Moore said while disclosures in Washington "may serve some use ful purpose in informing the public concerning the KKK, I regret very much that the state of North Caro lina should have been the location Continued On Page Pour Senter Renamed Veep; Mangum Is speaker Farm Bureau Reelects Gregory Farm people are the least un_ drrstood of all, the Harnett Coun ty Farm Bureau was told Tues day night. Speaking was B. C. Mangum of Rugemont, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. Mangum told the annual meet ing of the Harnett group that If the farmer were not the least under* - stood, “they would be treated d*^‘ ferently" Mangum’s address was the high lit of the' banquet held in the LUllngton School cafeteria- Some 350 members attended the meet Mangum said that “first of all, we need to have an under standing of ourselves and how we fit into the nation’s economy ” Gross farm income has gone up 22.1 percent in the period of 1947-1964. At the same time, he said, production costa have jump ed up 71.9 percent. And farm income la about the same as 1939 while oth er business income has trippled CARSON TV-' ^ GtSTOft* during those same 26 years. Man gum said. However, Mangum said trat, food is the best buy ever. A total of 18V4 cent* of every dollar goes for food. Farmers still are the low man on the income ladder, the presi dent said. While the per capita increase in income amounts to $105, the farmer has received only *1. Mangum urged farm folk to be come more involved in organiza tions. "This will take a together i ness on the part of all farmers. Unification in a strong organiza tion is the only t°°l available.” This is the best way to make people more aware of the farm ers’ plight, he said. Carson Gregory of R-3, Angler was re-elected president of the Other officers elected were John Aaron 8ent*r of UlMngton, first Continued On Page Pour , ready to make a strong statement.’ | Noting that "The Impression haj Continued on Page Pour) Damages Put At1 $10 Million Perhaps More j DA NANG, South Viet Nam (UPI) j — U. S. Marine patrols moved out today In pursuit of Viet Cong units ! who did an estimated $10 million da mage to U. S. planes in simultane- ‘ ous suicide attacks on two Ameri- t can installations. The Communists, who destroyed or damaged 47 U. S. aircraft in the j midnight attacks, were stopped be- i for$ reaching their primary target, 1 the main airbase at Da Nang, it j was disclosed. Maj. Gen. Lewis Walt, command er of U. S. Marine forces in Viet Nam, said at a news conference the guerrillas were spotted and chased by alert leatherneck units and heavy artillery before reach ing the center of the Da Nang complex. It also was disclosed today that more than 600 Viet Cong were known dead in three other cam paigns. A spokesman said 582 rebels were confirmed killed in the past 16 days ■by Vietnamese troops guarding the rlcg harvest in Phu Yen province. 230 miles northeast of Saigon. > Thirty-seven Viet Cong were kill ed Wednesday by American para troopers of the 101st Airborne Di vision in “sniper valley.’’ 270 miles northeast of the capital. Bodies of at least 201 guerrillas were found around the Plel Me U. S. Special Forces outpost In the Central highlands, where an eight days siege was bi oken this week. .yhe Communist commando teams succeeded today in assaults at the Marble Mountainair facility east of 1 Da Nang, 385 miles northeast of Saigon, and the Chu Lai air strip (Continued on Page Four) First Available Near Campbell College Big Land SaJe Slated At Buie's Creek Sat. A big crowd and spirited bid_ ding is expected when the L. O. Pulley Sr. property is sold at pub lic auction Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at Buie’s Creek. Sale of the approximately 46 acres, first land to become avail able near Campbell College’s campus since its expansion, is being handled by Lyman A. Mc Leod, head of the McLeod Realty Company at Coats. I Art Roberts of Harrodsburg, Ky., a famous auctioneer, will do the selling. The property is located on the Main Street in Buie’s Creek and, points out Mr. McLeod, is ideal for residential development, stu dent housing, apartment housesi factory sites or farming The 1965 crop allotments con sist of 5.68 acres of tobacco, 2, (Continued on Page Four) He Wrote Before Reds Killed Him They'd Kiss The Soil Back Home In U.S.A. CHICAGO (UPI) _ To his former teacher, Ber. Hard Masny mailed a theme that rated an “A“. So the teacher, Mrs. Marjorie Mooney, read to her class the words of Bernard Masny. Bernard, Mrs. Mooney told the class, had been a student in that very room at Fenger High School. He was not of high academic acheivement, Mrs. Mc/,ney said, and had trouble especially with composition. Mrs. Mooney told the class she helped Bernard with his theme assignments. This encouraged him to stay in school and be graduated with his class in June, 1964. Now Mrs. Mooney read from a letter Bernard wrote to her. It was written in Viet Nam, for shortly after leaving high school Bernard became a marine. “A person may curse out his country," Bernard wrote, “but if he were here, he would kiss the soil of the United States. “People never know how good they have it until they go to war," Bernard wrote. Then he described how it is when voU're being shot at by a sniper. He said the sniper missed. But shortly after mailing the letter, Marine Ber- < nard Masny, 19, was kilted by the Viet Cong. Mrs. Mooney told the class: “He always wanted to do his share for the school - I think he has." Then she folded the letter. Her class in Anter lean history was dismissed. Son of Benson Town Employee, Buddy Are Accused Two Accused In Bank Robbery Arraigned ' 1 111 l 1 I T f 1 1 ! t M HI II 1 II I I N 11 I l V ' 1 1 1 I I i V I M t ! t I r 9 f I I I I I 11 I # * MIKE TYSON Mike Tyson To Complete In Charlotte Dunn Has Winner In Ford Contest Auto Sales & Service Co., local Ford dealer, announced today that j William ^Michael (Mike) Tyson is the winner in the 9-year-old group j in Zone E of the Ford - Motor Company’s Pass, Punt & Kick Con test. Mike is the son of Mr. and Mrs W. M. Tyson of 901 West Divine Street_ Dunn- His father is em ployed' here by Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. He is a student in the fourth grade at Wayne Avenue School in Dunn- More than 100 boys parti cipated in the local contest spon sored by Auto Sales & Service and Mike was tops in the nine, year-old group for the entire Zone E territory of the State. “We are particularly proud that a local boy has won the oppor tunity to participate in the Char, lotte competition, said president Henry Sandlin in making the an nouncement. The winners at Charlotte will go to Baltimore and the winners at Baltimore will get a tour of Washington, D. C and a trip cul minating in the national finals in the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla. Sixty bays, aecomponied by their parents, will be in the finals in Miami. Parents will accompany win. r.ers through each phase of the competition as guests of The Ford Something For The Wives, Too TOKYO (UPI) — Businessmen irisitlng Japan often find them selves Invited t° sta* dinners be cause Japanese traditionally leave their wives at home. To solve this problem, Tokyo’s new hotel Otani announced today It will open a doll-making sqhool Fpr wives left with time On their lands in a strange city. Motor Company. This contest is sponsored by Ford Motor Co., and Ford Deal ers all over the USA each year. It is known as the Pass, Piint & Kick contest for boys age 8 thru 13 years of age. Last year 601,459 boys across the country entered this contest. In the local contest Mike was high scorer. He won a Baltimore Colts Continued On Page Four NORFOLK, Va. (UP!) — Two sailors charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation <FTM> with the largest bank robbery In North Carolina this year were ar raigned here early this morning before U. S. Commissioner Gilbert Swink. The two are being held jn l eu of $50,000 bond each. No trial or hearing dates have been set and the two have entered no plea. Officials said the men would probably be tried in North Carolina, but no extradition pro ceedings have been started as yet. The two, assigned to a de stroyer bosed here, were arrest ed Wednesday night at the Nor folk Naval Base and charged with the $61,000 robbery May 23 of the Benson, N. C. branch of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Smithfield, N. C. The FBI identified them as Douglas Truman Caudle, 20, a native of Benson, and Burge C. Franks, 25, a native Tennesseean who has lived here for the past (Continued on Page Four) Girl Friend Helped Solve [Bank Robbery Benson police chief »Aaroa | Johnson said today that the girl friend of one of two sailors charged with the May 32 $01,000 robbery of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Co. branch at Benson provided the missing facts needed for solution of the case. Twenty-year-old Douglas Tru man Caudle, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Caudle of Benson, and an other sailor, Burge Franks, 25, of 1 Tennessee, were taken into cus tody when their ship landed t$t ! Norfolk Wednesday and ate being held under $50,000 bond awaiting hearing. Caudle’s father is a longtime employee of the Town of Benson on a street department labor crew. Chief Johnson said young Caudle had never been In any trouble previously to his knowledge. Chief Johnson, whose close work with other officers receive# (Continued on Page Four) For Graduate Study At ECC Lee Is Awarded ECC Fellowship OREENVILLE — A Harnett County student has been awarded a teaching fellowship for gradu te study at East Carolina Col JULIUS DONER LEE. «. lege during the 1965-’66 school year. 1 1 Julius Doner Lee Jr., a 1965 tummer school graduate of ECO began his duties this Quarter. Lee, a native of Dunn ia Harnett County, is assigned to the School of Business. He has an AB degree. He is among 65 college grad uates currently working as teach-' Ing fellows in 14 departments of instruction at East Carolina. Teaching fellows are from ECC’s Graduate Selection is based on performance, ability in a i»'d field and promise of cess in the ECC master’s program. tinder the supervision of laf professors, they conduct classes and handle other ing assignments ,While W toward graduate degrees at Cardin*. - Lee is the of Rev. Julius Doner Lee of

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