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DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 9. 1965
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PARATROOPERS
391 COMMIES
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REV. RAYMOND POTTER
Gospel Tabernacle Gets
Rev. Potter For Pastor
The Rev. Raymond Potter de
livered hts first Sunday sermon
to the congregation of the Gospel
Tabernacle £Mrch Sunday. The
well-known North Carolina minis
ter eddies tS Dunn from Watfa.ce,
N. C. Rev. Potter takes the place
of The Rev. J. Donor Lee who has
accepted the Job as Superintendent
of the North Carolina Conference
of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.
The Rev. Mr. Potter has served
< In the ministry of his denortdi^a
tion for the past 26 years. He is
married to the former Shirley
Austin of Washington, N. C.
A native of New Bern, Mr. Pot
ter served In the pastorate of the
church of Aulander, N. C., before
taking up his duties at the Pente
costal Holiness cnurcn in wauace.
He served the church there for
four years before accepting, the
call to the Gqgpel Tabernacle.
The Potter’s have four children
Stephen, Berry; D(#lt EBB San
dra. Their ages range from 6 to
13. They have already moved into
the church parsonage 'at 1300 West
Haven.
Mr- Potter was asked about com
ing to Dunn, an dhi9frepjy wa* ‘T
like Dunn and I am Inking for.
ward to serving the people here.”
In his Sunday sermon Mr. Pot
ter ofefred his help to the local
church, and solicited the coopera
tion and help from the church. He
also ass.ured the church that the
object of his endeavors would be
to benefit the church.
1500 Now On Duty There
17-Year-Olds Get
Exemption In Viet
flWASHINGTON (UPI) — De
fense Secretary Robert S. McNa
mara t°day ordered all 17-year
old servicemen exempted from ser
vice in Viet Nam.
Approximately 1,500 soldiers, sail
ors and marines of that age are
| now on South Viet Nam duty. The
i directive does not apply to 17
year-olds aboard 7th fleet vessels
off Viet Nam.
McNamara said the new policy is
effective immediately. He directed
the armed services to “cancel or
modify orders for any 17-year-olds
now destined for Viet Nam.”
The minimum age for servicemen
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Dunn Grid Star Honored
Eddie Crabtree On
Shrine Bowl Team
Dunn High Football star Eddie
Crabtree has been selected for the
North Carolina Shrine Bowl foot
ball team which will meet a col
lection of all-stars from South
Carolina Dec. 4 in the annual Sh
rine Bowl Charity game in Char
lotte.
Crabtree is the only Harnett ath
lete to attain this honor.
A brother, Bill Crabtree, Jr., al
so played tackle in the Shrine Bowl
game of 1956. They are the only
two brothers ever selected for this
recognition.
Etnth are sons of Mr. and Mrs.
William Crabtree of Dunn.
W Eddie's selection was announced
today by Head Coach Clyde Wal
ker of Raleigh’s Broughton High
l School, who will coach the Tar
[ Heels in the annual classic.
I The Tar Heels lead the series
Continued on Page Six
EDDIE CRABTREE
Bitter Jungle
Battle Occurs
Near Saigon
SAIGON (UPI — An outnumber
ed battalion of American paratroop.
ers, supported by artillery fire and
air power, killed at least 391 Viet
Cong regulars Monday in a bitter
Jungle battle sear Saigon.
The men of the U. S. 173rd Air
borne Brigade tracked the hard
core guerrilla force to its sanctuary
in the Communist stronghold known
as "Zone D,'‘ 35 miles northwest of
Saigon. -
Bugle - blowing, fanatical guer
rillas surrounded the Americans
twice, and attacked with flame
throwers, thermite grenades and
suicidal machinegun charges.'
Each time the Americans beat
the guerrillas back.
Mop-up patrols confirmed the
Communist ddad by body count
today. Unofficial estimates said a
regiment of guerrilla regulars was
involved in tht fierce six-hour bat
tle.
American observers said they ex
pected to find more Communist
bodies as patrols swept the area.
One heavily wooded ection where
fighting was heavy had not been
searched for enemy dead.
American losses were reported as
••moderate." A U. S. helicopter fly
ing an evacuation mission for A
merican casualties was shot down
today over the battle ground, and
sporadic shootlrig continued.
| U. S. Helicopter Downed
Viet Cong gunners claimed a se
cond U- S. Army helicopter today
In a separate battle about 15 miles
west - southwest of Saigon. One
crewman aboard the UH-1B ‘cop
ter was killed when it crashed, but
the others were rescued. The heli
copter was supporting an operation
by Vietnamese rangers.
During Monday night. U. S. Air
Force B52 bomber* based on Guam
blasted Comfunlst targets in Zone
D, less than 10 mile from the area
of Monday’s big battle. The zone
Is laced With tunnels and bunkers.
SLATE REVIVAL
St. Matthews Pentecostal Free Will
Baptist Church near Erwin will hold
a revival this week. Sister Pearl
Hall from Fayetteville will be the
guest speaker with services at 7:30
nightly. Rev. Weldon Byrd, pastor
cordially invites the public to at
tend.
First Federal
Group In Dallas
Four officials of Dunn’s First
Federal Savings and Loan Associa
tion are in Dallas, THexas, attend
ing the annual convention of the
National Savings and Loan As
sociation.
They will hear addresses by some
of t*»e nation’s top financial and
savings and loan experts.
The Dunn representatives Include
President John H. Wellons. John
T. Simpson, executive vice presi
dent and general manager; John
Ingraham, and O. W. Godwin, Jr.
They flew to Dallas Sunday and
nrtii to Dunn Friday.
CAMPBELL SERIES FEATURE — Edmond Karlsrud and his Men
of r.'ng quartet will open the. artist reries ol the Campbell College
— Community Concert Association at 8 p. m., Nov. 15. in Turner
Auditorium.
To Open Concert Series
Men Of Song At
Campbell Monday
A concert by the Men of Song
quartet next Monday night will lift
the curtain on this year's artist ser
ies at Campbell College. Sponsor
is the Campbell College-Community
Concert Association.
Leader of the singers in Edmond
Karlsrud bass baritone. He is known
to Campbell audiences for perform
ance here four years ago. Still under
40, Karlsrud, who trained at the
University of Minnesota and the
Julliard School of Music, is a vet
eran of the concert stage, having
made over 1,000 appearances. He is
well known in the Eastern United
State as organizer and director of
vocal ensembles.
The younger members of his trou.
pe, Paul Solem, Carrol Alexander
and Bruce Peyton, are highly train
ed professional singers with back
grounds of solo performance in ma
jor concert halls. Choral appear
ance have seen them at work in
settings as diverse as grand opera
and Radio City Music Hall.
I Sale of Association memberships
in the general community area be
gan last week and will continue
through this week. Other programs
include Thomas M. Holt, baritone,
Jan. 18; The National Players in
“Romeo and Juliet, Feb. 22; the
National Opera Company In “The
Secret Marriage, March 24; and,
as a bonus offering, the massed
choirs and college band of Camp
bell College In their annual spring
concert, April 26.
Membership drive chairmen are
Rev. Lewis Beal and Howard Mat
thews, in Angier; Ralph Delano, in
Benson, Mrs. Howard Beard, in
Coats; Mrs. Barnje Miller, in Er
win: Ophelia Matthews and Ro
bert Cannadp, in Dunn. Laura Kim.
bell, in Fuquay Springs and Mrs.
J. Williford, in Lillington.
Memberships may also be reserved
by mail or by phoning Lillington
893-4111, Ext. 25. Assessments are
$2.50 for students and $5 for adults.
Guilford Daughtery alumni direc
tor at Campbell College, is general
chairman of the series drive.
Places Any Facility At Disposal
LBJ Wires Ike
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (TJPI) —
President Johnson, concerned over
the illness of former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower instructed
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc
Namara today to place any needed
governmnt facility — from planes
to doctors — at the lisposal of
ithe Eisenhower family.
“You are so much in our th
oughts that an expression like
this is hardly necessary. Millions
of Americans who regard you with
such high affection and respect,
joined by millions of people th
roughout the world who share that
feeling are saying ‘get well Mr.
President’, Johnson told Eisen
hower in a telegram.
Suffers Chest Pains; Under Oxygen Tent
AUGUSTA Ga. (UPI) — For
mer President Dwight David Ei
senhower, 75, suffered chest pains
early today and was placed un
der an oxygen tent at the Ft.
Gordon Army Hospital.
“He is experiencing no difficul
ty in breathing. He's in good sp_
irits and he’s doing well,” an Ar
my spokesman at the hospi al re
ported.
Two heart specialists were in
attendance end two others were en
route frqin Washington.
The general was wearing pa
jamas and was carried into the
hospi al on a stretcher about 2
a.m EST by soldiers following the
ride from his summer cottage
nearbjn
His wife Mamie was at the
hospital and his son, John was
enroute from his home in Penn,
sylvanla
A hospital statement said the
five-star general was "under
constant observation.” The ezact
nature of his illness was not dis
closed.
Ksenhower, who suffered a
heart attack in lCSS, had not been
til recently and had played 18
holes of gdlf Monday on the par
three short course at the Augusta
Na ional Golf Club where he main,
tains a cottage.
But late Monday night Eisen
hower began to feel the chest
pains and Dr. Louis (LM) Battey,
an Augusta heart specialist was
summoned. The trip to the hospital
followed.
The hospital said at 7 a.m.,
Eisenhower was sleeping comfor
tably. Tests were being run.
Dr. Battey was joined at the
hospital by Dr. Harry Harper, an
Augusta cardiologist.
In addition to Dr. Battey and
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'Plane Crashes
In West Harnett
FAYETTEVILLE (TJPI) — An
Army U6 Beaver aircraft of the
18fh Airborne Corps crashed and
burned late Monday night 10 miles
north of Spring Lake, seriously
injuring the pilot.
An 18th Airborne spokesman said
2nd Lt. Alvah A. Wallace of the
82nd Aviation Battalion, was admit
ted to Womack Army Hospital at
Ft. Bragg in serious condition.
The spokesman said the aircraft
was returning to Ft. Bragg from
Ft. Benning, Ga., when the crash
occurred:
Lt. Wallace lives with his wife in
Fayetteville hut his hometown Was
listed as Bloomfield, N. J.
HESTER EXPRESSES THANKS
Paul Hester, well-known Dunn
insurance man, today expressed
appreciaton to his many friends
for all of the cards, visits, flow
ers and other expressions to him
during his recent confinement at
Watts Hospital. Mr. Hester, has re_
turned home and is much improv
ed.
TURKEY SHOOT
The Moose Lodge’s weekly utr
key shoot wwill be held Wednesday
night beginning at 7:00 behind the
lodge. The lodge will furnish shells.
Mixon Fights Hard For Dunn Project But Outvoted 3 To 1
Hospital Dispute Headed For Court
Haimetit County's continuing
hospital row is headed for the
courts and possibly a long, hot
legal battle.
County Attorney Neill McK.
Ross is expected to file an In
junction within the next ten days
to prevent Betsy Johnson Hospital
In Dunn form obtaining the coun
ty’s entire allotment of $1238,500
ln State and federal funds for
erection of a proposed new $2,
070,000 hospital in Dunn.
The Harnett County Board of
Commissioners, in special session
at Lillington Monday nighti in
structed Ross to take this action,
and also voted to ask the Hospital
Administration at Chapel Hill to
conduct a survey of the county’s
hospital needs and to order a
county-wide bond election On erec
tion of a larger hospital to serve
the entire county.
It was indicated today that the
actual date for the bond election
will be set within the next few
days so that election machinery
' can be set up before the matter
reaches court.
Members of the county board
voted 3 to 1 for this course of ac
ion Monday night despite vigor
ous and urgent appeals from Com
missioner Millard Mixon of Dunn,
who pleaded with his fellow com
missioners to “consider the grav
ity of this action you are about to
take."
Commissioner J. K. Womble of
Lillington made the motion to
grant the request of the citizens
group, headed by Atfomey a*. O.
Lee of Lillington and the motion
was seconded by Commissioner
missioner Mixon rose again for a
Last - Minute Plea
In a desperate last-minute plea
before the vote was taken, Com
missioner Mizon rose again for a
final appeal t° the board not to
take action which he said would
delay the badly-needed Dunn
project, would prove costly to the
Dunn project and would penalise
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In Raleigh Wednesday
Morgan To Preside
At ECC Session
East (Carolina College trustees
will meet in Raleigh Wednesday
in response to Governor Moore’s
request which accompanied his call
last Friday for a special session of
the General Assembly to consider
the Speaker Bah Law.
The ECC board wil have its spe
cial session in the office of its
chairman. State Sen. Robert B.
Morgan of Lillington. Sen. Mor
gan, president pro tempore of the
Senate, is scheduled to call the
meeting to order at 2:30 p ro.
Governor Moore, in calling the
legislature into special session,
asked trustee boards of the vari
ous state-supported institutions of
higher education to meet no later
than Frilay to consider and act i
on the report submitted last Fri
day by the commission he appoint
ed to study the ban law.
East Carolina’s trustees adopt
ed a statement in September which
contains the sentiment of the Britt
commission’s report. That state- .
nient was presented by Chairman
Morgan and President Leo W.
Jenkins to a commission hearing
in Raleigh on Sept. 8.
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MRS. JOHNSON DIES
Mrs. Edgar A. Johnson Sr., 66,
of Benson died Monday. Rose Fu
neral home has charge of arrange
ments.
Roundup
VATICAN CITY (UPI) — A major crisis flared 111 the
Ecumenical Council today over the surprise issue of church in
dulengces.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Committee on Un-Amer
ican Activities today recessed its hearings on the Ku Klux Klan
until Jan. 4.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Solicitor Generaal Thurgood Mar
shall asked the U. S. Supreme Court today to rule that an 1870 law
empowers the federal government to prosecute “lynch mob murder.”
MANILA (UPI — War hero Ferdniand E. Marcos took an
early lead over Incumbent Philippine President Diosadado Mac
apagal tonight in an election marred by terrorism and killings. Six
prsons were slain today in election day violence.
Protests War And Hatred
Another Pacifist, 22
Sets Self On Fire
NEW YORK (UE1) — A tt
year-old pacifist poured gasoline
on his clothing and set fire to him
self in front the Un*ted Nations
before dawn today in a protest a
gainst war and “all the hate in the
world.'1
The youth, Roger Laporte, a one
time Roman Catholie seminarian,
burned himself a week to the day
after Baltimore quaker Norman R.
Morrison's immolation on the steps
of the Pentagon in protest against
U. S. policies in Viet Nam. La
pone auenueu a pacuisi rany issi
Saturday at which Morrison was
eulogized and he was reported vi
sibly moved.
Police said La porte was a col
lege student and a volunteer work
er for the leftist Catholic Worker,
an organization active in pacifist
and anti-Viet Nam protests.
Laporte suffered burns over 95
per cent of his body after soaking
himself with gasoline from a two
gallon can and igniting his cloth