U T. . WINSTON SALEM, N. C. DUNN VS. TARBORO TONIGHT AT 8-REGIONAL PLAYOFF UkaiheJi Partly cloudy through Saturday. Little change in temperatures to night. Lows mostly 30s In moun tains and north portions and ar ound 43 elsewhere. Rather cool Saturday. The_ Gets Results TELEPHONE 8X3-311. 8X2-3118 November is, iscr, mvi ■ cn is era cue. NO. Fire Damages Norris Home, Storage House Damage was placed at $2000 to the Elbert Norris home and its contents when cooking food caught fire and spread throughout the kitchen Mr. and Mrs. Norris were not home at the time, but the baby sitter sounded the alarm at 9:43 this morning. It started from food cooking according to Howard M. Lee, secretary - treasurer of the fire department. Firemen confined the blaze to •the , kitchen at the new brick home at 40$ S. Elm Avenue The cabinets, ransfe, walls and ceilings were extensively damaged. Four trucks were sent to the scene ahd 23 men answered the a'arm, tjee said Mr. Norrig is employed at Al phin Brothers and his wife at Howard Johnson’s Restaurant. RURAL BLAZE A vacant storage building only two feet away from another struc ture which houses a grocery store, cafe and packing plant caught fire Thursday afternoon. Firemen were summoned to the Floyd Altman store, three miles north of Dunn on 301 Highway about 2:20. Lee said sparks from burning trash set grass surrounding the building on fire and it Quickly spread to the storage house. Firemen saved a possible disas trous fire which could have cost $50,000 or more The building was valued at $2,000 but only $500 damage was sus tained. No insurance covered the loss, Lee said. Ten firemen answered the call while 13 men remained at the sta tion. Minor Offenses Are Heard Here Judge Woodrow Hill heard a variety of cases in Recorder’s Court Thursday. Sherwood Jemigan, 31-year-old Dunn man was tried on a charge of expired operators license and Was ordered to pay cost of court. Tried for assaulting a female was Weldon Smith, a Dunn Negro who was ordered to pay cost and told not to molest Flora Mae Brown, a Dunn woman, in any way. Paying cost for following too closely was Willie Felton Smith, a 26 year old Dunnite. Tried for public drunkenness were Max W. Langdon, 41, of Ben son; William Hill, 48 of Dunn: Bruce Sills, 39, of Dunn; Herman Lanyley, 31, of Dunn; Willie Spearman, 46, of Dunn; Clif ton 7Elliott Wade of Dunn; liizeie Young. 33, of Dunn; and I James Byrd 43, of Dunn. All of these paid the eost of court. Other eases heard were Mel (Continued On Page 6) PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY — As County Comrn .jsioner Willard Mix-a b.niles his approval in back ground, Mayor Bill Marshburn an] other city officials sire shown here digging the first shovel of dirt to start construction of Dunn’s new city hall. Left to right holding the shovel are: Commissioners Bill God win, Mayo Smith, City Manager Archie Uzale, Mayor Marshburn; Comm ssioners Howard Hardy, Bill Cameron and Paul Perry. (Daily Record Photo by Russell Bassford.) ± Mayor Marshburn, Other Officials Take Part Ground For City BY EAKL CAMPBELL Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Dunn city hall Were held yesterday a. 4:00. A fairly targe si ze crowd was on hand to watch Ma yor Bill Marshburn and city com misgloners proclaim the good news. The project got started under former mayor George Franklin Bla lock’s reign and will take the place of the present city hall which la decaying rapidly- The building, ac To Local 250 At Erwin Sun. Nite Scott To Speak Lt. Governor Robert Scott of Haw River will address members of Lo cal 250 of the Textile Workers Un ion of America (AFL-CIO) Sun day ni?ht at 7 o'clock in the un ion hall at Erwin. Plans for the visit by the popu lar State official were announced today by Lloyd Byrd, business man ager of the union. Mr. Byrd said Lt. Gov. Scott will speak - on matters of interest and importance to the group. President Smith will preside and all members are urged to be pre sent for this important meeting. Give Troops Landing Guidance Erwin Sergeant On Viet Combat Team Bong Son Special Forces Camp, RVN—Aid Force combat control lers In Vietnam are tough men with a tough job But, in the words of a Tactical Air Command vet eran, “We’re proud of our unit and proud of the work we do.” Speaking was T-Sgt. Stanley P. Williams, 32, of Erwin, N. C., member of a three-man Combat Control Team that had flown into the Bong Son Special Forces Camp in the Republic of Vietnam. With him were TSgt. Albert E. Adcock, 28, of Christopher, 111., and M-Sgt. Gordon F. Hamblin, 36, of Utica, N. Y., team chief. They had a special reason for being at Bong Son. Their Job this time was to give landing guidance, either by radio contact or with ground light signals, for Fairchild C-123 Provides airllftinp South (Continued On Page 8) Biggest Increase Since War Started U. S. Casualties Take Jump WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United states suffered J08 combat fatalities in Viet Nam during the week ended Monday, raising? the total XT. S. war dead to 1,095 This was the largest weekly in crease ever shown on the weekly tabulation of casualties, released by the Defense Department. The largest previous increase was 85 tor the week ended Nov 5. , Hie new figure for American Wounded wee 5,981, an Increase of 158. The wounded during the pre vious week had totaled 918. Tile Pentagon also identified SI more American servicemen killed In Viet Nam combat. While the 31 didn't affect the weekly total, it brought the number of military men killed since 1961 to 1,122. The new figure for combat dea ths as of Monday wag four more that the number Identified as of Wednesday. However, identificat ions are held up three or four days while the neat of kin are being notified. There are now M Americans missing and 27 known to have bean captured la Tlet Nam, the tabulation showed. These totals were the same for the previous week. The number of American dead from causes not due to hos tile action increased from 391 to 402. A recapitulation of reports to the Pentagon shows that since the first attack on Pile Me Oct. 19, the United States lost more than 300 men killed in Viet Nam. During: the same period, the South Vietnamese lost more than 750 killed, while more than 3,500 Communists dead were counted. cording to architect George Jer. nigan, promises to be one of the hires of its kind, and will cost about $330,000. The event was attended by all of the town’s office staff, the city commissioners and some of the .county commissioners. Mayor Bill Marshburn got things started by introducing Rev. Eu gene Ensley, pastor of the local First Presbyterian Church, who offered prayer. Then the mayor in his opening remark* said "This event is a sign of progress and <8 uo (Mnnifuoo) College Would Be Separated from UNC Rule Raleigh iupd — Dr. Lee Jenkins today proposed convert ing East Carolina' College to a separate regional university. Jen kids, president of ECO, said the e«*t needs the “encouragement s#«m a regional university in Its Itiefcrtland. This university can economically and efficiently J>e established by the conversion of East Carolina College. l| Since the eas ern university should be a whole university eq uipped to offer a whole university program, it should continue to Operate as a separate unit rather than as a branch. There would be hi) advantage in bringing the east, •ftn university under the admin jjdtgated umberella of the Consoli fitted University,’’ he said. || Jenkins addressed a luncheon fngeting at the Faculty Club of North Carolina S'a-e University at Raleigh to launch Farm-city week in North Carolina. He spoke in place of Gov. Dan K Moore who was originally scheduled tc address the luncheon. The speech was Jenkins’, how ev*r, and was not Moore’s speed delivered by Jenkins. It wag go & thi ace o Moohe meant the governor lepi his prestige to the proposal. • V “If present growth’ of East Caro lina continues,” said Jenkins, “the enrollment in 1970 will be over 16,000. An institution so large as this cannot afford net to have a full program.” <= "It seems to us that the prep aration for regional university status should begin' as soon as it is feasable.” Jenkins staid the fact eastern North Carolina is the least de veloped part Of the sta'e "is a matter of great concern for all of us, particularly for eastern North Carolinians, undoubtedly, the pre sence of a number of leading edu CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 mcjjvsicu wav Hfn/vna maonf fha o»/i«orn r»r* 1 Doctors Are Optimistic Hits Hands Cut Off, Both Sewed Back On WASHINGTON (UPI) — A 47 year - old meat cutter was re ported in satisfactory condition to day with both his hands sewed back on after being severed in an accident Thursday. The victim, Joseph Weisz of nearby Hyattsviile, Md-, lost both hands when he triggered the st arting mechanism of a meat chop ping machine he was repairing. Fellow workers Immediately ap plied tourniquets to stop the bleed ing and Weisz was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. His severed hancs were taken along in a paper bag. Surgeons at the national or thopedic and rehabilitation hos pital replaced the hands in deli cate Ihours-long operation. They CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Supported Morgan Amendment Gilmore Explains Why He Opposed Ban Law By heavy majority the General Assembly has voted to amend the Speaker Ban Law so as to place on the trustees of each state-sup ported college and university the responsibility and control of cam pus appearances of speakers who are communist r fifth Amend ment pleaders. I voted with the majority. This action aparently removed the threat of disaccreditaton of these schools, and hopefully it will ease the ill will which has divid ed, many sincere citizens across the state. I helped write an amendment to the legislation which would have required each school affected to supply monthly to tts trustees a list of those speakers defined by law as subversive types. H>e amendment failed, but in my opin ion it was desirable as a reas surance to our citizens that trus tees were exercising their respon sibility to watch for subversion on our campuses Trustees of sta*e schools of higher- learning have met within recent days and declared an ac ceptance of the responsibility for speaker control on their respec tive campuses as required by the new Speaker Ban policy. Governor Moose, as Chairman of the Great er University Board of trustees, has given the state his guarantee that he will direct and supervise ail necessary campus controls. Those who favored the Speaker Ban Letw can be assured that the law has served to impress educa (Continued on Page 8) Hearing Set for Dec. 6; $200 Bond Posted i Court Order Halts Work On Hospital i j TT, mmrtt ii PRETTY GIRL, PRIZES, TOO — Lucky ticket holders at this year’s “All American” Motorcycle Scrambles being) ryn- fb>t Fort Bragg . December 5th will ride away on three gate-prize '“bikes” shown here by Pam Zollars, Miss 82d Airborne Division. Tickets for this thrilling Class “A” benefit event are now available at F’ort Bragg or through Fayetteville merchants. The public is invited.