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. <Pj5: Miss Zollars doesn’t go with the prizes — she’s just decorating the array.) New Rates Effective With January Bills City Board Hikes Charges On Wafer Dunn's city council last night in creased city water rates approxi mately 20 per cent, increased tap fees, agreed to install pipe in the Westhaven ditch and approved a bill of $20,430 to be paid architects for the new Dunn hospital by Betsy Johnson Hospital and disposed of other matters. The increased water rates be come effective with January bills. Following Is an account of busi ness transacted, as released by City Manager Archie Uzzle: The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Dunn held its regular meeting on Thursday November 18, at 7:30 P. M. in the Municipal Building in Dunn, N. C. The fol lowing members were present, May or Wm. C. Marshburn, Commission ers W. O. Cameron, Howard Hardy, Sallye B. Whitehead, O. W. God win, Jr., and John Mayo Smith, Also present were Town Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr., Town Clerk T. P. Harrall, and Town Attorney E. L. Doffermyre. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Marshburn after which he gave prayer. Motion by Commissioner Cameron and seconded by Commissioner Har dy that the minutes of the re gular meeting oi November 4, 1965, be aproved. Motion carried. The following bids for a new po lice car were opened: Auto Sales & Service Inc., Dunn, Pi. C., 1966 Ford V8 200 HP 2400.00. 1966 Ford V8 265 HP 2465.00. W As S Motor Co. Dunn, N. C., 1966 Plymouth V8 2?9 HP, 2349.50. V8 270 HP, add 60.00, V8 325 HP, I add 100.00. George Carroll Onev. Co. Inc. Dunn, N. C. 1966 Chevrolet Bis cayne V8 195 HP, 2336.82, V8 275 HP, 2416.56, V8 325 HP, 2466.97. Surles-Rupert Dodge, Dunn, N. C. 6 Cyl. 145 HP Dodge, 2200.92, V8 230 HP Dodge, 2254.01, V8 325 HP Dodge, 2344.41. Motion by Com. Godwin and se conded by Com. Whitehead that the bids be referred to Mr. Uzzle for further study and information. He is to give a detailed report at (Continued on Page 8) Superior Court Judge Henry A. McKinnon of Lumberton today sign ed a temporary restraining' order which stops trustees of Betsy Jotin ,-on Hospital and the Town of Dunn from proceeding with plans or con struction of a proposed new hospital in Dunn which use all State and Federal funds available to the en tire County of Harnett. The order was to be served on Chairman Myres Tilghman of the hospital board and Mayor Bill Marshburn and Judge McKinnon ordered the officials to appear be fore Judge Leo Carr in Johnsion County Superior Court at Smith field Monday, Dec 6 to show catjse why the restraining order should not be continued until the results of a bond referendum have been determined in connection with the construction of a county hospital. Judge McKinnon’a order brings 1 the Dunn project to a dead stand? still. Hospital and town officials are prohibited from any act what . ever, directly or indirectly,.involving ' funds that might otherwise be avail able to the county as a whole. . Under this order, a lawyer satf, the trustees cannot even hold a I meeting to (jiscuss such plans. Dunn’s city council Tlutrsday night approved a partial payment of $20, , 000 to architects drawing plans for the new hospital. There was a question as to whether this check caij now be legally issued without being in contempt of the epurt : order. $200 BOND POSTED The hospital trustees had sug gested a bond of one million dol lar® for any damages incurred by delay as a result of the restrain ing order. Attorney Ross said the Attor ney General’s ofifce had ruled th at only a nominal bond was nec essary and that the required $200 had been posted by county officials. Ac'ing on orders of the county board of commissioners, County Attorney Neill McK. Ross filed the complaint with Court Clerk Elizabeth Matthews in which he charged the Dunn group with at emnting, to usur funds “rightfully belonging and designated for ex penditure for tile benefit of the population of the entire county.” Ross sets forth that the propos ed Dunn hospital would be poorly located in one corner of the town, would not be large enough to serve the county’s needs, that it would place an “unrealistic bur den” on taxapyers of the Town of Dunn,” also that the hosoital has on hand about $400,000 which could be used to adequately mo dernize. renovate and improve the present hospital “without the bur den of ad valorem taxes and CONTINUED ON PAGE S j Continues To Advance Nation s Economy Is Reported Strong WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi dent Johnson held a half hour ca binet meeting today and heard a report that the nation’s economic expansion should roll into 1966 j “on a strong note.” t-. | The cabinet, meeting for the first time since the President’s surgery six weeks ago. also heard a report on Viet Nam from Defense Secre tary Robert McNamara. The President was preparing to fly to Texas shortly after attend ing the cabinet session and reeeiv ing a separate report from Clen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A report from the Council of Eco nomic Advisers to the President and cabinet said the nation’s econ omy continued to advance in Octo ber on a broad front. It said industrial production re versed a September decline and pointed bacz' toward the summer peak reached when factories were building uo steel stocks to be u*el CONTINUED OS PAG* I

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