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N, NOVEMBER 1. IMS
The Record
Gets Results
DUNN, N. C. MONDAY
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MOREHEAD STUDENTS INTERVIEWED — Pictured above are 10 of the eleven certified candidates for the John M. Morehead Award
competition in Harnett County. They were interviewed in the Administration Building at Campbell College yesterday afternoon. These
competing for the award are: (left, seated) Neal Andrew Brown, Lillington High; James Munn Jackson, Lillington High; James Douglas
Johnson, Coats High School; Michael Coats, Coats High; Avery Lewis Moore, Jr., Buies Creek High; (standing) Ralph Devon Lucas,
Coats High! Frederick Shepherd Thomas, Jr., Erwin High; Jesse Clifton Alphin, Dunn High; John W. Thornton, Jr., Dunn High; Al Cravin
Griffin, Boone Trail High; not pictured is James Carl Tudor, LaFayette High.
Man Won't Say
Who Shot Him
!
Alfred Gainey, about 25, a Dunn
Netfro, was treated at Betsy John
son P*«pttal here 8unday night for
bullet wounds and then transferred
to D.uke Hospital m Durham. >
Police Phlrf Alton Cobb said he
understood Gainey was found In a
ditch near the ACL railroad tracks. J
He had wounds from wha£ ap
pealed to be a .22 or .25 calibre
pistol in the head, shoulder and leg.
Police Sgt. J. L. Jones questioned
Gainey at the hospital but he re
fused to tell who shot him or why.
Veterans Begin
Auto Caravan
A group of World War I veter
ans left Manteo this morning on a
trip which will ta^e them across
the state with stops in between.
The men will travel in an auto
caravan from Elizabeth, City and
Manteo and conclude "Operation
Buddy" in Murphy Friday, Nov. 12.
During stops across the state, the
men will have a short tour of news
paper offices. They will be at The
Daily Record this Thursday at 3:00
p. m. Area veterans who are in
terested in joining the caravan are
asked to meet here at 3:00.
The express purpose of the Vet
erans of. World War I of the U.S.A.,
Inc., is to organize effectively for
their mutual benefit, pleasure and
amusement,, giving them the op
portunity and means of personal
contact to keep alive friendships
and memories of World War I.
The Commander of the North
Carolina Department, Lindsey
Swindell, has invited all Veterans
to min in a simultaneous effort to
advance membership during this
month.
Gov. Dan K. Mooce has designated
the month as "World War I Vet
erans Recognition Month,” and has
urged "all the people of North Car
olina to participate heartily in its
activities.”
For Morehead Scholarships
Alphin And Thomas
Gef Nominations
Harnett Cotthty* Morehead Sch
olarship Committee today an
nounced the s e 1 e c t ion of
Jesse Alphin of Dunn and Fred
Thomas, Jr., of Erwin as the co
unty’s nominees for this year and
John Thornton, Jr. of Dunn as the
alternate.
Chairman J. Shepard Bryan of
Dunn said this year’s 11 candida
tes were “,l-he most outstanding
ever,” and 'that each of them was
extremely well qualified and des
erving of a scholarship.
Members of the oommittee wh
ich interviewed the candidates
Sunday at Campbell College^ in
addition to Bryan were Howard G.
Godwin and John F. Strickland of
Dunn; Beamon Rfelley, of Lilling
< on and Dean A. R. Burkot of
Campbell College.
Alphin is ranked third scholas-f
tically in his class, was president
of his sophomoire and Junior class
and is currently president of the
Dunn High student body. He
plays football, is active in other
student affairs, is a leader in his
scout troop and among the young
people of his church.
Thomas, who is a candidate for
the Episcopal priesthood, is rank
ed third scholastically in his class,
is a member of the football and
track teams, a member of the Be
ta, History, Monogram, Math, and
Science clubs, and is a leader in
all d her student and youth acti
tivities at Erwin.
Bryan said the committee was
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Mrs. J. A. Wooten
Dies Today
Mrs. J. A. Wooten of Route 5,
Dunn, died this morning in Betsy
Johnson Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Tu
esday afternoon at 3 o’clock at *
church and^pcmetery to be an
nounced later.' 1 ’
Rev. Walter Reynolds, pastor of
Shady Grove Church assisted by
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Bull and Two Cows Found Dead
Three Men Sought
In Stock Shooting
Harnett County officers searched
today for clues to learn the Iden
tity of three men who slaughtered
a young bull and two cows valued
at $2,000 during the weekend.
The animals were owned by
Floyd Jackson, who said he found
the livestock shot to death and saw
the three men JUmp a hedge and
flee in a car when he entered a
pasture Saturday. Two other cows
were wounded Sunday but not kill
cd
Jackson said a young bull he re
cently purchased for $500 was shot
16 times with 22 caliber bullets.
Mr. Jackson said he knew of no
reason for the shooting.
Legion Chief Launches "Show Your Colors^ Campaign
Carver Confident Legislators
Wont Be Stampeded T o Repeal
State American Legion Com
mander J. A]vis Carver of Dunn
said today there can be no com
promise on keeping Communists
off the state’s campuses and called
On veterans across the state to
impress this fact on their repres
entatives in the legislature.
“We can no more afford t° com
promise with Communists on the
campus than our fighting men can
compromise with the Communists
shooting at them In the jungle* of
Viet Nam,” he aaid.
Commander Carver made the
comment In launching a simple,
yet eloquent and meaningful eoun.
ter measure to the Joud anti-Viet
Nam, anti-draft demonstrations.
Called "Operation Show Your
Colors,” the plan Involves distri
bution of American falg lapel pins
to be worn by all Americans who
are in concert with the U. 8. Viet
Nam policy.
Bach flag carries a card saying:
"Americans are serving the cause
of freedom in Viet Nam. I wear my
country’s flag to show that I sup
pose their efforts.’
The State Legion chief says
the Ame<rican Legion is ready to
carry its fight before the legis
lature if a special session is called.
“I have confidence in members
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Boosters Club
Pw»ns Barbecue
The local Boosters Club, headed
by Wiley Forbes, is sponsoring a
barbecue supper to raise money
for the athletic ttepartmeot M
Dunn Hlglii School.
All local school children are
selling tickets and an award will
be given to the student who sells
the most tickets with high re
cognition to all those who sell
second high.
The barbecue will be held Fri
day afternoon from 4:30 until 7
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American Planes
Attack Three
Missile Points
SAIGON (CTPI) — Viet Cong
Infiltrators today attacked the
Da Nang air base, biggest U. S.
military complex in South Viet
Nam, for the second time in less
than a week. In the air was U. S.
Planes blasted three Comnxinist
missle sites near Hanoi.
The U. S. planes also destroyed
p bridge Ojj the supply route link
ing the North Vietnamese capital
with Communist China.
Communist ground crews fired
at least 10 and possibly 17 Soviet
made surface - to . air SAM mis
sies at .he planes. All missed but
one plane was downed by conven
tional fire.
The Viet Cong attack appeared
to be concentrated on U. 8. Mar
ine and Seabee installations on
Da Nang East, on the peninsula
across the river from Da Nang
City, a bolt. 360 miles north of
Saigon.
T|ie area was hit hard last Th
ursday by Communist suicide sq
uads who slipped through defense
perimeter into the Marine heli
copter base and destroyed 18 of
the choppers and damaged another
22.
Light Session
Heard In Court
Mrs. Fannie Smith, a Dunn Negro
woman, was ordered to pay cost of
court today in Recorder’s Court by
Judge Woodrow Hill while prayer
for Judgement is continued in her
case of truancy. She was ordered
to keep her children in school dur
ing the wafting period.
George Holmes, a 44 year old
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Pulley Land Sold At Buie's Creek
$93,227,58 Sale
The L. C. Pulley, Sr., property |
at Buie’s Creelt, sold at public auc
tion, brought a total of $93,227.58.
Totaling a little over 43 acres,
the land was the first to become
available at Buie’s Creek since the
recent expansion of Campbell Col
lege.
A large crowd attended the auc_
tion and bidding was spirited- One
of the most successful real estate
sales conducted in Harnett recent
ly, the deal was handled by the
Lyman A. McLeod Realty Oo.,
of Buie's Creek and Coats.
The Haekm Corporation of Dunn
bought the two tracks closest to
the college; Graham F. Howard
and C. F. Collins of Angier pur
chased the farm portion of the
land; and a one-acre tract was
purchased by James Koutsis of
Buie’s Creek.
A spokesman for the Dunn cor
poration said today it has not yet
decided what use will be made of
the valuable tract. He said both
student housingi apart ment, and
commercial uses are under consi
deration.
Mb. McLeod said today that he
was highly pleased with the sale.
In Rites At N. Clinton Church
O'Tuel Is Ordained
Info Ministry Here
Rev. Jimmy OTuel was ordain,
ed to the ministry of the Southern
Baptist Convention Sunday night,
at the North Clinton Avenue Bap
tist Church in Dunn.
The Rev. Mr. OTuel is a native
of Goldsboro and Doth he and his
wife, the former Mary Mozlngo,
also a native of Goldsboro have
been active members of the local
church while studying at Campbell
College.
The new minister, a senior at
Campbell, plans to continue his
education in the Spring at the
Southeastern Bap ist Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest. He is
now serving as pastor of the
Pleasant Plains Baptist Church in
New Hill.
Rev. Gerald Riggs, pastor of
North Clinton Baptist Church was
In charge of the spelcal service
and he presented the charge to
the candidate with Rev. Patti Willis,
pastor of the Harmony Baptist
Church in LUltagton presenting the
charge to the congregation.
Rev. Julius Holloway, L*11*10
River Aaaociational Missionary led
the ordination prayer afterwhieh
Mi's. Patsy Wood of New Hill, so
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MV. JIMMY OTCEL
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HINSON GETS SCOUT HONOR — Eric Hinson, so : of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hinson, Is shown above <>
after he received the •‘God and Country Award" 8 nday morning at the Westfield Baptist Church,^
Shown with him are his Scoutmaster Dallas Co. and W. H. “Pop" Twyford, Chicora District Ad-^-rf
vancement Chairniiin for the Boy scouts.
Road Bonds, Court Amendment To Be Decided
Light Ballot Expected
Harnett ejections chairman
Dougald McRae of Liljington pre
dicted today that an unusually
light vote will be cast in Harnett
Tuesday on two issues:
1. A $300 million road bond is
sue.
2. An amendment to the Sta'e
constitution to establish an inter
mediate court of appeals.
There has been but lit le inter
est displayed by citizens at large
in either Issue but interest in the
road bond proposal has increased
somewhat in recent weeks.
Chairman McRae, who urges all
citizens to vo‘ e, said he would
be pleasantly surprised if as many
as 3,500 votes are cast in Harnett.
Pew people turn out for such el
ections in Harnett or elsewhere in
the Sta'es
Polls in Harnett’s 21 voting pre
cincts will be open from 6:30 a.m.
to 6:30 p.m.
Earlier, approval of the bond is
sue was assumed to be a sure
thing but in recent days more and
more opposition has developed.
Opponents poin'. out that the
State already has more money th
an it can spend during the next
four years due to a shortage of
road-building contractors available
and that interest on the issue
Man Held For
Aiding Escape
Harvey Davis, alias Earl Davis,
of Fayetteville was in Harnett
County Recorder’s Court before
Judge Robert B. Morgan during
Thursday’s session for aiding and
abetting .in the escape of three
prisoners serving sentences in Har
nett Prison Camp near Lillington.
The defendant requested a con
tinuance of the case of three
weeks, and the court granted the
request.
Davis allegedly drove his pickup
truck by the cam-p and the prison
(rmtllniiMl nn Paep Six!
would cost, at least $100' mTIIfSfi
They advocate a pay-as-you-go,
; plan to save the hundred million j
i for additional roads.
The other side contends the |
hirt»wa/s aVS WBUf now. The
county board, various cl y boards
within the county, the farm bureau
and other organizations are to
favor of the bonds.
$30,000 Plumbing Supplies Stolen
Dunn Man Involved
In Large Theft Case
A Cumberland County Justice ol
the peace, arrested on a charge
of receiving stolen goods, has been
accused of intimidating and con
spiring with the witness who im
plicated him in the alleged theft
of plumbing supplies, Police Chief
L. F. Worrell said this morning.
The latest warrants against Re
mus Adams, 42, a justice of the
peace who live in the Bonnie
Doone area, were filed at the
Fayetteville police Department to
I
I
day.
Detectives charged Adams with
conspiring with the s.ate’s wit*
ness, Clifton Lee Gregory 45, 1108
West Harnett St.t Dunn, in the
theft? of several thousand dollars of
supplies from the W. L. Smith
Supply Co., 125 Drake St.
Another Arrested
A fourth man. William A.
Strickland, 101 Spencer St., hM
been arrested as Fayetteville d«
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Negro Church Is Dynamited
Another Bombing l
In Craven County %
NEW BERN (UPI) — The Cra
ven County sheriff's department
reported fcoday a Negro church
near Vanceboro was bombed with
dynamite early Sunday.
It was the third bombing in Cra
ven County this year.
The sheriff’s office reported the
St. Jose Free Will Baptist Church
was extensively damaged by a dy
namite explosion early Sunday. The
explosives were either thrown or
placed in the church, a spokesman
said.
The blast ripped weather-board*
ing from both sides of the church_
and ripped out the ceiling.
The church, about two miles
from Vanceboro on Street’s Verti*,
Road, was used once a month. Na*^
gro leaders said no civil rights
meetings had been held there and?,
they were at a loss to explain thw«
bombing.
A church and mortuary in News*
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Board Asked To Restrain State from Giving All to D unn
County Seeks Hospital Funds
The Harnett County Board of
Commissioners was requesed
Monday to take legal action to
restrain the State Nedical Care
Commission from allocating Har
nett’s entire allotment of $1,238,500
to cona ruction of the new Betsy
Johnson Memorial Hospital in
Dunn.
Attorney M. Q. Lee of Llllington
and a group of citizens from other
sections of the county, headed by
Angler banker Haywood Hall, were
srheduled to appear before Chair
man Jack Block and members of
the county board at 2:30 to re
quest that the allocation to the
Dunn hospital be blocked.
Chairman Myres Tilghman and
Attorney James McDaniel Johnson
of Dunn were scheduled to appear
in behalf of the Dunn hospital
board of trustees. Plans are now
being completed for erection of a
The 1
been all
Burton l
in State
new $2,070,000 hospital m
with work slated to begl
next summer. .
Dunn project has
oca ted $1,138,500 h
federal)
funds bv
vuii.l it lodiOll
allocation
ion of