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MANN FIIM LABORATORY
740 CHATHAM ROAD
WINSTON SAIEM, N. C.
DUNN, N, G. WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 1.
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Expanding Aid To North Viet Nam Against U. 5.
MORE COMING — Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara congratulates troops of the U. S.
First Air Cavalry Division which mauled North Vietnamese regulars in the la Drang and Chu Pong
Mountain battles. McNamara, touring installations and battle areas in Viet Nam, announced more air
cavalry units would be formed. (NBA Radio-Telephoto)
Says Accreditation Is Educate
Would Outlaw
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) — The
Richmond News-Leader suggested
editorially that Southern states
should outlaw the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools.
The organization is meeting here
for its 70th annual session as ah ac
crediting agency. ’ The newspaper
was clearly disappointed that a
dramatic encounter between the or
In Hospital Dispute
Hearing Delayed
Superior Court Judge Leo Carr
Monday will set a date and time
to hear evidence and arguments
on an injunction filed against lo
cal town and hospital officials to
prevent use of the county’s en
tire allotment o fState and Fed
eral funds for construction of a
new hospital in ”'unn.
The suit was brought by Coun
ty attorney Neill McK. Ross for
the County of Harnett on in
structions of the county board of
commissioners at the request of
citizens residing in the rest pt
the county who feel that a large
county hospital should be built
and that all the available money
should lot be used -for. a loeal
hospital at Dunn
Hospital ancr county officials
had been ordered to appear' be
fore Judge Carr in Johnston Su
perior Court at Smithfield Mon
day to show cause why the order
should not be made permanent.
County Attorney Ross said today
that Judge Can- nad advised hint
and hospital attorneys to appear
[Monday for purpose j# lotting
fa day and Iiout later in the week
for the hearing. Judge Carr point
ed out that with the large num
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State Must Reapportion
January Session
Appears Likely
GREENSBORO (DPI) — North
Carolina’s General Assembly like
ly will be called into special ses
sion in early January to draft con
stitutionally acceptable plans for
legislative apportionment and con
gressional districting.
Legislative leaders indicated as
much following Tuesday’s ruling by
a three-judge federal court here
that existing apportionment and
congressional boundaries were un
constitutional. It was unlikely the
state would appeal to (he U. S. Su
preme Court.
The state was given 60 days
- until Jan. 31, 1066 - to correct
inequities in both houses of the
General Assembly and among con
gressional districts in accordance
with the Supreme Court’s “one
man, one-vote population formula.
The court said it would write its
own plan should the styte fail to
comply.
CONTINUED ON PAGE S
ganization .and the ij(taU( govern-.
ment of North Carolina had fail-'
ed to cotne to pass.
The legislature in‘.North Carolina
ran afoul of the SACS when it a
dopted a law which, In effect, as
sumed for the General Assembly,
powers of censorship.
The newspaper , said 1‘In the
grand world of mifeifc-have-beens,
we had projected a dramatic en
counter this week between the
’Southern Asaociafflut : ef ■ Colleges
'and Schools and th^ Worth Caro
lina General Assembly,
“In a great ceremony of huff
and-puff, the SACS would announce
to a startled world that the once
noble University of North Caro
lina no longer merited academic
accreditation. Famoii" professors
would leave, t'e student ranks
would thin out. the buildings would
fall Into decay. And all because the
North Carolina legislators, in a fit
of pip ire over academic irresponsi
bility. had passed a silly law in 1^63
banning Communist speakers from
State universities,” the editorial
said.
The newspaper continued. "Two
weeks ago, the General Assembly,
thoroughly cowed by the matriar
chal dominance of the academicians,
convened in special session at Ha
leigh and averted the impending
catastrophe. For all practical pur
poses. communists mav once more
hold forth at Chapel Hill.,.,”
The newspaper, an old hand at
advocating “interortsitjop,” advo
cated “that the Southern states In
dividually oyght to pass laws for
bidding spy state-.aupnprted school
or college from belonging to or
navinv dues to tin, SACS. If all
the Southern spates withdrew as g
bndv. accreditation would he shown
up for the blackmail racket it Is —
a device of th# schoolmen to make
state legislators knuckle down to
their wishes."
The editorial continued. “As a
bit of student high' lints, bringing
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Man Caught At Three Stills
Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tut
agents swooped down on a three -
atlll liquor operation in the Bunn
level section of Harnett County
early today.
They arrested James Williams, M,
of Rt I, Linden, who allegedly waa
operating (he stills.
Charged , with manufacturing
whisky, William waived prelimin
ary hearing before TJ. S. Commis
sioner c. Wallace Jackson and was
bound over to Federal Court far
trial in Raleigh. He was released
under (600 bond.
Officer* said they found three
480-gallon submarine type , stills
and 1,350 gallons of fermenting
mash. The raid occurred at 6:30 a.
m
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
United States has solid evidence
of a major eflpansion of Com
munist Chinese military and eco
nomic aid to North Viet Nam,
authoritative sources said today.
Peking has stepped up the flow
of both war materials and indus
trial supplies to the North Viet
namese, they said. In addition.
Red Chinese engineering troops
have been sent to help repair the
rail line linking Hanoi with south
ern China.
At the same time. North Viet
Nam has undertaken a major pro
gram to improve the series Of
Jungle paths known as the Ho
Chi-Minh Trail, by which war
materials and troops are sent
through eastern Laos and then
into the Viet Cong held area*
of South Viet Nam.
The
State Department, com
menting on reports from intelli
gence sources oh the intensified
Peking assistance, said Red China
has extended “more than $600
million in economic aid to Hanoi.”
Tiie , 'sumption is that tt is con
tinuing. the department said.
Alonzo Moore
Dies Today
Alonzo Moore, 68, of 203 West
*E' street, Krwtn. died this mom
inp ii^ Duke Hospital In Durham,
i Vetms a .ifUre^l • Aaxli(l*iv«fc
plojpee of Erwin Mill*.. . ;
f* Funeral serVrad Will be h#W
Friday at 3 o'clock from the Cro
tnartie’ Funeral Home. Rev. D. A.
Hardin will officiate and burial
Will follow in Erwin Memorial
Park.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Hose Morris Moore Butler,
Broadway Rt. 1; three sons, Wil
liam A. of Killeen, Texas, Rudolph
of Erwin ant* Willie C. of Ra
leigh; two daughters, Mrs. James
Li. Norris of Raleigh and Mrs.
Beren Butler of Erwin; two
brothers, Thomas W. and Hassell
E. both of Erwin; and 12 grand
children.
The family will be at home with
Mrs. Butler at 400 South 13th
Street in Erwin.
CHRISTMAS TREE SALE
To further their many projects
for the town, the Dunn Jaycees will
be selling Christmas trees begin
ning Monday (Dec. 6) at Tyler Park
with proceeds going Into the trea
sury for this purpose. An assort
ment of sizes will be on sale.
SANTA SAYS: “MEET ME IN DUNN AT THE CHRISTMAS PARADE4'
State Forest officials in Har
nett Cou'-ty today were investi
gating the possihiliy tvc.t five for
est fi.”3s which ha’’. been re
ported within two days around
two miles east of the State Prison
Cftnp at Ullington were deliber
ately set.
William Holder, operator of
Cameron HUl fire tower said to
day that Harnett Ranger J. Ellis
Byrd and other officials were in
vestigating the manner in which
the forest fires started.
Holder said one fire on Sun
day afternoon, starting at 2:30 p.
m. burned 14 arces before it was
brought under control. Monday af
ternoon ih the same area another
fire broke out which burned three
acres and a little later the same
day a second fire which seared a
half-acre. Monday night between
8:30 and 8:30 p. m., a fifth fire
was reported. All fires were on
NEWS ROUNDUPS
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI will sing hymns and
psalms with non-Catholic church leaders attending the Ecumenical
Council in a special Christian unity ceremony Saturday.
CLEMMONS, N. C. — A short bandit, his face swathed
in bandages, held up the Northwestern Bank of Clemmons today
and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash. The bandit, who
had red hair or was wearing a red wig, locked four women and one
man in the vault.
BERLIN — West Berlin began to collect money today to
give a Christmas present to tne famiHea of Americans killed fight
ing In Viet Nam “in defense of the free world.’
Hollywood Physician Indicted
Claims Doctor: Made
Her A Dope Addict
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A
Hollywood physician was under
indictment today on charges he
turned noted acneeniwa-iter Sally
Benson into a narcotics addict by
prescribing a -magic medicine.”
Miss Benson, 68, told state nar
cotics investigators she paid the
physician a total of $30,000 in a
year and a half period in which
be visited her Brentwood home
two or three times. dattjr.
Og. Paul S. Bn. 33, presently
in Camarillo State Hospital pend
ing, a sanity hearing, waa indict
ed by the county grand Jury Tues
day on 38 counts of narcotics vio
lations.
investigators alleged Miss Ben
son, now cttred of the need for
narcotics, was given codein and
demerol.
Mias Benson earns about $100,
000 a year Investigators said- A
native of St. Louis, Mo., she au
thored the novels, “Junior Miss”
and “Meet Me hi St. Louis.” She
collaborated on a number of movie
screenplay* including “Anna and
the King Uf Siam" and she wrote
the acreeh play for Bvis Presley's
“Vive Las Vegas.”
swampland owned by tolls Lee
and partially covered with pines.
Holder said that at one of the
fires the rangers found the fire
scattered ana none of the blaze
was meeting on their arrival, add
ing evidence that the fires were
deliberately set, probably with
matches. Rangers used a tractor
and plow unit tobring the fifes
under control.
Holder said that the investiga
tion is continuing, ho arrests have
yet been made, he said.
Sharp Drop In Harnett This Year
Ginning Is Off
Cotton sinning In Harnett
County dropper* sharply during
the past season according to the
latest report released by the U
S. Department of Commerce.
The report shows that up to
November 1, a. total of only 7,
675 bales had been ginned in Har
nett, as compared with 11,989 bales
at the game period a year ago.
In neighboring counties, the fig
ures were; ... ■
Johnston, 3,317 in 1965, com
pared to 7,098 in 1964; Sampson,
11,001 bales in 1965 as compared
with 15,520 in 1954; Cumberland;
3,413 bales this year as compared
with 4,277 bales the same period
last year.
Dinner Session At Coats
Harnett's Airport
Committee Meets
The Harnett County Airport
Committee, made up of prominent
businessmen from all sections of
the county appointed by the Har
nett County Board of Commis
sioners on Nov. 1, held a dinner
meeting at the Barefoot Grill at
Coat* Mortday night to further
discuss sites for a proposed coun
ty airport and whetting interest
in one.
Nathan M. Johnson Jr., of Dunn
is chairman of the airport group.
Members of the group discussed
a Federal Aviation Agency film
entitled “The Best Investment We
Ever Made,” a movie about how
one town attracted more industry
by building an airport.
This film will be shown to in
terested groups.
Members present were Keith
Finch, Dunn contractor; Larry
Barnes, Angler insurance man;
Jake Lamm, Buies Creek attor
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Large Throng
Expected To
Welcome Santa
The Dunn Christmas Parade
scheduled this Friday night prom
ises to be one of the most spec-;
tacular Dunn has ever had.
Fourteen commercial floats
flanked by lcv*'y girls and scou'.
troops in th' r-3inlty are to par
ticipate in tr event.
Riding along wit the local coHt
misslbners, the Mayor, and oth
er town officials will be State
Commander of the American h0
gion Alvis Carver.
Miss Dupn, Miss Benson, Miss
Hbbbton, Miss Angler and other
beauties are expected to decorate
floats sponsored by local mer
chants and business firms.
The parade is to begin prompt
ly Friday at 7 o’clock and is to
travel from Orange Avenue to
Broad Street and to turn left at
Magnolia Avenue and travel on
Edgerton Street back to the Dunn
Armory.
Bands will be represented from
Erwin High School, Four Oaks
High School, Hobbton High School,
Coats High School, and Dunn
High School. Both the junior and
senior bands from the local high
school are scheduled to partici
pate.
An added attraction this year
will be covered, wagons from Mid
way High School as well as an
tique ohrs owned by John Min^gj^
or Fayetteville. ^ :1
THfc Southeastern 3A team from
Dunn High School will sponsor
a float as well as Coach Eagan's
Midway School athletic depart
ment.
Santa Claus, will appear in per
son at the end of the parade
Among those businesses spon
soring floats this year include:
First Federal, Johnson Cotton Co.,
Godwin Building Supply, Perry
Brothers Tire Co., Commercial
Bank> F|TSt CitiSfept Bank;
- Sotftft r itiver Electric Corp.,
Dunn. Fiimlture, Lt»e Moore Oil
Co., Lewis Bear’s, Roses’, Thomas
Walgreen Drug Store, Dunn Pro
auction and, Credit, MeCrorv’s,
Provdent , Finance; Carver-West
Equipment Co., Page & Nixon Tire
Co., Home Savings & Loan, The
Village Shop; ' —
The Dunn Jaycees, the Puna
Lions Club, The Dunn Kiwanfs
Club, and the Rotary Club.
The local stores will remain
open until 9 o’clock the night of
the parade, will close as usual
on Saturday night, and will re- ,
main ope„ until 9 o’clock until
Christmas beginning Monday,
Tentative line-up for the parade
follows:
Police escort, MaJ’or Bill Marsh
burn. Bill Cameron, Mayor Pro
tem;. Town commissioners, Billy
Godwin, Mrs. Sallye Whitehead,
Mayo Smith, and Howard Hardy;
Abe Elmore, president of Cham
ber of Commerce; Tommy God
win, president-elect; and Charlie
McCullers, executive sec. treas.;
the American Legion Color Guard;
State Commander of the Ameri
can Legion, Alvis Carver; Dunn
High School Jr., Band; Commer
cial float; Scout troop of Erwin;
Antique car; Carolina Power St
Light float; antique car: two cov
ered wagons; athletic float from
Midway; commercial float; Erwin
High School Band; antique car;
commercial float; Hobbton High
School band; Miss Hobbton, Pins
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Mother, Son Burned In Rescue Effort
Six Children Die In Fire
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (UPI) —
Six children were trapped by a
fatal fire which raced through theii
two-story frame home in nearby
Taumbauersville late Tuesday night.
The mother and oldest son were
burned in futile attempts to reach
then.
Five of the bodies were recovered
today and firemen searched through
the burned wreckage for the sixth
victim.
A seventh child, Alonzo. 13. was
pulled from the burning building
by his mother despite burns she
suffered when her clothing caught
fire. Alonzo was in Quakertown
Community Hospital suffering burns
and smoke inhalation.
State police said the mother, Mrs.
Chester Allen, was working jn a
nursing home at nearby Richland