I . 1 - ? A.-. i - A , v . fr ' i t i , ,J; I 'i v .,m A'V'' ,Kft' "' i ?"rt 1 a. 1 s 4 ' f LET'S CiSE: V 4 , KENAKSVItK ' 1 Two Sections 16 Pages This Week A, V J ( , : r - . VOL.'ilrv, 0.,347't, 'SECTION ONE f VOL. Zl, V, ,NO. 34 - gECTIOff ONE A Three Murder Tria Jn Docket Here As Superior Court Convenes Next Monday; Judge William On Bench ( Court will convene Monday, Aug ust 30. with Judge Clawson L. Wil 1 lims' presiding, for one week term ' of criminal cases and one week for ; Civil cases. , - ' , ' . Fifty-one cases docketed for the : first week' include three for mur . der. On trial for murder will be Wilbert Dixon, Willie 'James and Bessie Mae Tann. Five cases of as sault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill ' are lodged against Willie Jackson '.Willi L. Swinson, Gerald Merrltt, George Henry Sim mons and Simon Chasten. Ten cases ' of possession of non tax paid whis , key involves Yancey Taylor, .Julius Herring, J. M. Smith, Wiliam Ban; perman, John Henry WiUiami, Ed ' gar Tyler, J. T. Whaley, Stephen ' Wiley, Ira Blount and William Hen . ry Blount. c D. C. Brewington, Tom Everett, George Henry Simmons and Marion James face trial on forgery charges with robbery charges against Nor man Graham , and Tommy James Hall. Other cases involve operating au tomobiles while intoxicated, speed 'ing and careless and reckless driv ing. Forty-seven civil cases are sched uled for the second week of, court. Blind Merchant -Robbed 3rd Time Authorities In Pink Hill are re doubling their efforts to nab bur- . jglars who looted about $700 worth of goods from blind merchant who operates a service station near here. ' Ike Houston's station was robbed for the third time this year last Friday night when thieves broke in to his store. 0 Be Here Friday ',. The following boys will receive merit badges at the Kenansville District Court of Honor .of Boy Scouts Friday: Litch Huie, scout lifeguard and rowing; Larry McCullen, forestry and nature; Fred Baars, rabbit rais ing; bookbinding and cycling; Walk er Stevens, cycling, coin collection, landscape gardening, Journalism, painting, public speaking, woodcar ving and canoeing. They were recommended for the .badges at a meeting of the Troop 20 Board of Review of the Warsaw Boy Scouts last week. Neil Bradshaw Loss Barn and Tobacco A tobacco barn, its contents and some extra tobacco, which was housed under the shelter, which be longed to Neil Bradshaw, about two miles from Pink Hill was destroyed by fire about 1 a. m. Tuesday. The Pink Hill Fire Department received the call but arrived too late to save the structure but was instrumental in helping save a pack house near by. : Dance Mans for WnmMBSet Grady-Outlaw Reunion and Square Donee will be held this weekend at . the'B- F. Grady school. On Saturday night at 8:30 the an nual square dance, sponsored by , the Grady P. T. A. will get under .'way in the newly enlarged and re modeled Grady gymnasium. Music will be furnished by the "Pine State , - WILSON Volume of sales was etremely light for Eastern North ' ''" Carolina flue-cured tobacco during V i ' opening week. Average prices by ( ' grades were generally unchanged to "j lower when compared with the first jgte ' ' two days last year reports the Fed OT !ral-Stata Market News Service. ;, Gross sales through Frldayi Aug y. list 20, totaled only 11,519,499 pounds T and kYeraged $52.91 per hundred. ' This average war 66 cents under ' that of tha first five day! last year ' , ' when 4435,137 gross pounds sold lor - $53.47. Volume of sales is ex pected to be light for the next few t ' days as growers art busy harvesting . their croj"'";.li:f'-;vvv-ft-'t' Leases in grade averages centered , on primings and lugs. Averages tor - primings iwarst .dowaw mainly $1.00 ' to $5.00 and lugs $1.09 to $2.00 per kwdrd Minds; Better quality of ;eriags ot leaf, cutters and smoking Some 1954 Hunting Regulations Given ' North Carolina has - selected a split-season on doves for 1984. The first season begins September 10 through September 29; the second season begins December 10 through December .29. The daily bag. limit is 8; possession limit 8. Hunting shall begin at 12:00 o'clock noon each day and end at sunset. . Rail St Son The season shall begin Septem ber 1. through November' 9. The daily bag limit on rail shall be IS per person; the possession limit 30. The daily bag limit of sora shall be 25; the possession limit 25. Hunt ing shall begin 30 minutes before sunrise and end at sunset. Sweet Potato Haryestiiig Demonstration At Lanier's Farm Near Magnolia Sept. 3 . By V. H. REYNOLDS A sweet potato harvesting demon stration will be held September 3 at 10:00 a. m. in Mr. A. Lanier's potato field near Magnolia, N .C. This field is beside the dirt road which branches off U. S. Highway 11? at Henry Qulnn's store, about 1 ; mile south of Magnolia. The field is j 1V4 miles down this dirt road from Henry Qulnn's Store. Mr. H. M. Covington, ( Extension Horlculture Specialist from State College will demonstrate the new est methods of digging, grading and packing sweet potatoes tor mark in es Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, located . on the Kinston highway, will be the Host Church to Metho dist of the Duplin charge in the 5th Sunday Fellowship service to be held Sunday, August 29th. Metho dist from Kenansville, Magnolia, and Unity churches will meet at 11:15 for a worship service, a din ner on the grounds, and a meeting of all officials of the charge. The 5th Sunday Fellowship serv ices were begun last fall for the purpose of creating i, closer fellow ship among all congregations of the charge, and to raise the charge's pledge to the United College ap peal. Tlu first fellowship service was held at Magnolia in November. Since then services have been held at Kenans v'.le and Unity. Wesley, 'the oldest church on the charge, lias been in the process of remodeling this past cliuch year and njvv nave the churcn in the best repr.ir fn recent years. The congregtich of Wesley is most an xious for the other congregation? to worship with them and to see the m'.'.y improvements made. Frlend of the church are also, warmly invited. Rev. J. G. White, pastor of the charge, will be in charge of the service, and Mr. Otis Ridga, charge lay leader, .will preside at the bus iness meeting.- V Playboys" who will be accompan ied by "Uncle Pete Kiker" of ra dio station WELS in Kinston. The music .-is' being furnished through the courtesy of the Kinston Tobac co Board of Trade and a large crowd ' is expected' to attend from Kinston The dance is not Just con fined, to the Grady-Outlaw clan, rt eaf were mostly steady to $2.00 ilgher. The practical top price was 68.00. i- , , v A larger percentage of primings and lugs was offered for sale. The proportion of leaf decreased, also less nondescript was sold, A small Increase occurred in the ration, of lemon colored marketings. ... Principal sales consisted of low to good lugs and primings, low and talr leaf and nondescript, v; vv -' Receipts ot the Flu-cured" Stabil ization Corporation under this Gov ernment loan program amounted ,to around t& of weekly grots safes. During the first two days last fear M was placed Under loan. ' " Beginning Monday, August 23, all markets will start opening on a full, time scale which allows tha sale of UM baskets per, day lor ch jet of buyers. During opening week, sales operated ott a $0 basis. , , v KfcNANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA i... ''' . .'; ; iiiii mmiij-mmm- ,11 ; i , INTEfeSTED SPECTATOR As Sister Mary Jacqueline dis plays near-perfect bowling form, the ball she started to throw sits on the alley behind her, apparently watching the nun's follow through. The ball1 slipped from her grip in the alleys of Lewis Aeronautical College in Lockport, 111., where several nuns took their turns on the alleys. et. Several types of potato diggers will be demonstrated. Proper handling of sweet pota toes at harvest time is very impor tant if the farmers expect to get j a good price for them. A good crop of sweet potatoes can very easily be . ruined by improper handling. All farmers who plan to. sell pota toes this fall are urged to attend this demonstration. The demonstration has been ar ranged .through the cooperation of the' Agricultural Extension Service and the Magnolia Sweet Potato Market, ledlMercer Takes Care Guests Kenansville has a guest room for persons who visit the town on official business with no place to stay. Now, persons in town will be guests of Grady Mercer. Mercer, county judge nominee, purchased the old Hamp Williams house which was located on the new hospital site. After the house was moved, he decided to remodel it and convert it into an apartment house. The building now has six apart ments, all furnished. There are four with three rooms and two with two rooms. Five are rented. The other one' is "kept vacant all the time for town guests, Mercer said. The new apartment house is lo cated on the old "Bone Yard." He said the Bone Yard used to be Ken ansville's "hitching post" where most of the towns visitors assemb led in days goie by. All persons With horses and or mules tied up in the area while on business trips to the county seat. In this fast moving age, Mercer said, visitors can trade horses the modern way in his t-ew apartment. which Includes nearly everyone in Smith, Albertson and Glisson Town-J ships .but its wide open to every one according to Mr. H. M. Wells, principal of the school and Emmett E. Kelly, president of the P. T. A. which is sponsoring the dance, the plans this year are for the biggest square dance that has ever been held in Albertson. On Sunday7 morning at 10 o'clock the . Reunion 1 will . get under way with Sunday School in the school auditorium.), Malcolm Grady will conduct the Sunday School, using th ; International Sunday School lesson. The Collection will go to some orphans home or charity or ganization... ' i Following, Sunday School presi dent Lewis .Outlaw? of the Grady- Outlaw Literary and Historical As sociation will call the meeting to order Paul D. Grady of Kenly and Rev. AbnW, 'Outlaw of Elizabeth City will be the principal' speakers and 4t course the reunion would not be complete without Judge Grady who will take part Following the program a picnic dinner will be served and every family attending la expected to bring a wall tilled basket as tha Re- union is known for its bountiful "Chocolate' picnic diMT lis wait at an Interesting program, t leylhap (Sunday 'm. " Briefs RET. A. D. WOOD HERE Rev. A. D. Wood, formerly of Charity was in Kenansville this morning with a group of Boy Scouts from Colfax where Mr. Wood now lives. He was taking them to'Swans- boro for several days encampment. He said several other car loads, were following him. GRADUATE ECC Five Duplin County students re ceived B. S. Decrees and one re ceived a M. A. Degree when sum mer school commencement at East Carolina College was held on Fri day afternoon. Dr. G. Kerry Smith, executive secretary of the Associa tion of Higher Education, Washing ton, D. O, was the principle speak er for the event. Mary. Sue Burch of Kenansville: Feggp Ann Cm of SlcMands; Mar. tha Catherine Dickson of Rose Hill; Mamie Rouse Fordham of Albert son, and Mary Lou ' Phillips of Warsaw received B. S. Degrees, while John Patrick Harmon of War saw received his M. A. Degree. The Duplin County graduates were among the 158 candidates for degrees at the summer school com mencement. GRADUATE A. C. C. Four Duplin County students graduated from Atlantic Christian College in Wilson at its summer Commencement exercises last Fri day. Those receiving degrees were Rosa W. Hollingsworth and Marsh all Ross Jones, Warsaw; Victor Hol land Turner, Calypso and Louise H. Wells, Albertson. CSA MEETS FRIDAY The Citizens Service Association will meet in the court house here at 8 p. m. Friday, August 27th. The public is 'cordially invited, presi dent Raymond Price announced this week. TO PAVE 6.25 MILES Bids will be accepted September 7th for grading and paving 6.23 miles from a point on an 18-foot paved road about 1.9 miles north of Turkey, east and south to a point about four miles southwest of War saw. TO PREACH HERE SUNDAY Rev. William Peters of Raleigh will fill the pulpit in the Grove Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning at 1 11:15 a. m. The public is cordially invited. NEW HOME The house recently completed by Penney Building Supply, Inc. was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Booth. The Bill Helton's will' move in Thursday. 62 Year Old Negro In Woods James Jackson Smith, 62 year old Negro was found dead in a patch of woods near his home in Smith Township Tuesday morning. According to H. D. McKay, who was named acting coroner. Smith left his home Monday afternoon about S o'clock and was last seen at a neighbor's house that evening. He left the neighbor's and headed towards his home through a patch of woods, searching for some hogs. He carried a shot gun but it was not loaded. When he failed to show up the next morning a hunt was midH Tifld-he 'was found about a quarter' of a' telle from tha house dead..Mark showed ho drug th gun, in .tha dirt Jot .several yafds before ha died. He was oa his hands and kneea. Ms in quart was &eltl It k was decided ha died from a heart attack. i ' r THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1954 Rose IjosetOneSusbectExonerctted New Fire Alarm System For Warsaw Chief John A. Johnson an nounced today that the installation of a new fire alarm system for the Town of Warsaw. The system works on cable pairs leased from the Carolina Tel. Co. Now instead of calling just one telephone as in the past, there are four telephones located in differ ent sections of the town that can re-?ive fire calls. These phones are; the City Hall 315, The Esso Servicenter 9121, Chief of Police Firl Coomhs Res. 309, and Fire Chief John A. Johnson Res. 658. When receiving a fire call at any of tlje' above numbers, the alarm can be immediately turned on by means of keys located near that phone, after receiving the call and sounding the alarm a call is then made to the Fire Station number and the first fireman to get to the station answers the phone and gets the location of the fire. This new system will enable the Fire Dept. to leave the fire house five to ten minutes sooner, which often times could mean the differ ence in saving a building or losing it. The Fire Dept. urgently requests 4 all the residents of the town of Warsaw to make a note of these four numbers handy to the phone for use In time of fire. Still Destroyed In , Monday evening, in Smith Town ship, deputies' W. O. Houston and Maron IX Shivar destroyed a steam type still along with fifteen 250 gallon vats, six steel barrels, two zinc wash tubs, three tin buckets, two wooden barrels and thirty feet of galvanized pipe. No arrest was made. Beulaville Negro Killed In Lenoir Woodrow Wilkins, 26-year-old Negro of Beulaville, became Lenoir County's ninth highway fatality for 1954 when he lost control of his car on a rural road near Pink Hill Monday afternoon and careened in to a ditch. Wilkins was thrown clear of the car and sustained a broken neck. He died shortly thereafter. He was traveling alone at the time of the accident. Sgt. John Laws of the State High way Patrol said Wilkins was driv ing on a straight road about one half mile west of Pink Hill when the fatal mishap occurred. Sgt. Laws blamed a fast rate of speed for the wreck. Wilkins lost control of his car and it left the road, crashing into a ditch. The car turned over at least once and was demolished. Sailor Indicted On Serious Charge David Bradham, son of Joe Brad ham, is out under a $500 bond after waiving a hearing on a warrant signed by Robert L. Simmons charg ing he "did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously intice, persuade, harber, conceive and induce an indigent child, Nancy Marie Simmons (age 15) to leave the Kenansville public school without the consent of the authorities of said institution, there by contributing to the deliquency of a child contrary to section 110 47 of the Consolidated Statute of N. S." According to officers Bradham went to the Kenansville school Tuesday and took a number of girls bff for, presumably a ride. All but Nancy Marie were carried or went to their ' homes. Nancy Marie re mained with him and was carried to a home of a Relative on Wednesday. Wednesday officers Revell and Ward Carlton arrested ; Bradham at his home' where they found him asleep. He was committed to Jail but is out under $M bond, tfe is ln tha Navy. 'Q 4,' , V1i.'. I Evesung srvleee tor the' rerir- el at tha Warsaw Baptist Church; begfamlng Sanda,y, August tMh. !iU begm at . aa.. taateaeV at T:N as BWrteasty Rev. hV Mecfleaa GaitUar, ef tha first Baptist Chare ef Laartnoarf will do Ue praaahmg. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Counties; (4.00 outside this Hill Bank Robber On FAMILY REUNION By SAM One hundred and two gathered in a picnic area annual get-together. President John Ivey of of the impressive program began at 11:30 Mrs. Alice Ivey Simkins of Golds- boro, the oldest of the family, gave the devotional and lead the group in prayer. IVunutes of the 1953 reunion were read by Mrs. Robert Ivey of Golds boro in the absence of Mrs.. James Dawson, of LaGrange, secretary. Reports from the various fafmi lies were given and the memorial was read by Mrs. A. L. Marshburn of Goldsboro Election of officers for 1955 was held with Norwood May of Rt. 2. LaGrange, named president. Dr. James Dawson of LaGrange was elected vice-president; Mrs. Adele Itage of Raleigh, secretary; Mrs. V. L. Marshbourn of Goldsboro, reasurer, and Misi Mamie Ivey of it. 3, LaGrange, historian. Youngest Ivey present was sev-jn-weeks-old Major Jeffry Ivey, ion of Mr. and Mrs. Major Ivey, Jr., of Fremont. Only military Ivey present was 2nd Lt. Junius Kenneth Maxwell, USA, of Pink Hill, who is statiened with his airborne tank outfit at Ft. Bragg. ' Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Homer Thomas of Elizabethtown joined their cousins for the day. Mrs. Thomas is the former Miss Ethel Ivey Parks of Goldsboro. Her hus band is principal of the Dublin High School near Elizabethtown. Mrs.' Thomas will teach tha second grade at Dublin this year. Ethel Thomas told the story of a first-day first-grader at school who refused to go back the second day. Her parents asked the little girl why she refuifed to return to school. "Well," the child answered, "When I got to school the teacher put me down at a desk and said 'You sit there for the present.' I sat there all day," she complained, "and the teacher never gave it to me.' Just before dinner hour, Mrs. A. K. Holmes of Piney Grove, the his torian, presented a letter from Wil liam H. Ivey, of Milledgeville. Ga'., to his unseen cousins up in North Carolina. Mr. Ivey's letter in part read as follows: I am happy to greet you in this way at the Ivey Family Reunion, but would be more pleased to see you all face to face. It is by request of Cousin Marie Holmes with whom I have recent ly corresponded, that I am giving you a bit of information about my "Georgia Branch" of Iveys. Anyway, I shall look forward to leing with you some time in the future, as in the 137 years of the separation of this branch of the Iveys and the Wests. I've never heard of any of the kin up there making a visit down here nor any of the kin down here making a visit up to the relatives up there. Away back, in the year 1817, Rob ert Ivey and wife Elizabeth West Ivey, with several children, togeth er with Joseph West and family left out from up there to make their home in Georgia. They brought with them their belongings, includ Civil Defense Chief Start Air Raid Drills Training Program Advocated by Department ef Public Instruction and N. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers. RALEIGH State Civil Defense Director Edward F. Griffin today advocated that training of school children in safety procedure dur ing air raid alerts be started with the least possible delay after the opening of the fall school term. Full Instructions have been placed in the hands of school superintend ents and local PTA presidents, he said. 'Civil Defense In Schools", a handbook of Instruction, issued last year by - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles T. Car roll, in ' accord with State Civil Defense policies, is a -simple adap tation of "what-te-drf activities in event of emergency -diking "school hours. Assistance from the local Civil Defense Director in translat ing tha Instruction into action would be helpful, but not essential. Grif fin said; The handbook- was sent to all school superintendents city iveys In $3.50 per year In Duplin and adjoining area in N. C; $9.00 outside N. C. The Pines BYRD members of the Ivey family of the Cliffs Sunday for their Seven Springs was in charge for the day. A business houi ing cattle and probably slaves ii they had any at that time, but it is- of record that each had many slave later on which were passed on' to their heirs by their wills, which are recorded at Baldwin County Court House at Milledgeville. They had to use wagons and may be buggies and carriages to movt in, as railroads were unknown un til about twelve years later. They settled on farme about D miles southwest of Milledgeville near Camp Creek Primitive Baptist Church which was organized the same year, 1B17. Mr. W. H. Ivey pointed out the offshoots of many branches of the Ivey iam'.'v tree. He told of Robert Dorsey Ivey, who moved to Baker County and acquired 5250 acres of land and a old mine. Mr. Ivey's grandfather, Charlie Ivey, acquired 5000 acres of land in Wilkinson County, Georgia. A rail road station near his home was named "Ivey" in his honor. On account of his being slight ly crippled in one foot, he did not go to the War Between the States, but worked his slaves on his farm to raise supplies for the Confed erate Army and looked after the soldiers' 'r "wivs. Widows and or phans. In the year 1865, soon after the close of the war Jie shipped two carloads of watermelons of his "Ivey" variety to Macon, Georgia. Mr. Ivey's father, James, who was then a lad of 17 years, went along with the melons and sold them tC a capatin in tne iNorinern Army who in turn shipped the melons tc Ohio. Those melons were the first watermelons shipped in car lots from Georgia to the Northern Markets. Mrs. A. K. Holmes, LaGrange, Route 3, has the William Hessell Ivey reunion letter. It should prove of value and interest to members of the Ivey Family in matters of family research. R. E. Walla Named Area Chairman R. E. Wall of Warsaw Motor Co. in Warsaw has been appointed Area Chairman for Duplin County by the North Carolina Automobile Deal ers Association, according to an an nouncement by Association Presi dent Wilson F. Yarborough of Fay etteville. As Area Chairman, .Yarborough stated, Mr. Wall will serve as lai son between dealers in his county and the State and National dealers associations. Mr. Wall will also di rect the associations' fall member ship campaigns in his area and par ticipate in Area Chairmen Day to be held in Raleigh in October. Requests School In Schools and county immediately after pub lication. North Carolina Congress of Par ents and Teachers headquarters has mailed this month, copies of the handbook, with a cover letter from the organization's CD com mittee chairman, to all local PTA presidents. The letter urged that the instructions be turned over to school principals and used to the fullest advantage. "The cooperative efforts of the department of . Public Instruction and State PTA with North Carolina Civil Defense, In publishing and' distributing this , vital infprmaton to school authorties, represents the limit of our present authority," the state, director said, "Public opinion Will have -to do the rest,;..:, ,.; ; , ; "If and when the general public wakes up -to- tha fact that wa must prepare for ant eventuality during this uneasy period of International tension . '. .then every- youngster will receive the protective training which he is entitled if he is gong to surwe in the atomic age , .'. Let's hope it won't be too lata." He concluded. ' ' ' ' , A '"'c ' . . ,t ' i PRICE TEN CENTS I County officers. State Patrolmen and the S. B. I. are still on the alert for some trace of the Rose Hill Bank robber who was foiled at an attempt to rob the bank there last Saturday. Highway Patrolmen said they felt the job may have been done by a local person. One suspect, LeRoy Lanier, Rose Hill white man who is in jail on another charge, proved sufficient alibis to clear him of suspicion, it was said. , An account of the robbery, as written by Rose Allegata of the Wilmington Star News is as follows: A hooded ai med bandit tried to -rob the Rose Hill bank today, then fled empty-handed in a stolen pick Up truck for a wild 26-mile chase and brief gun battle to a deeply wooded area near Waycross, whte police are still searching for him'l tonight. Almost 60 law enforcement offi cers were called into the manhunt which started when the unidenti fied bandit abandoned his stolen get-away truck after leading three. Hose Hill residents over tangled " country roads in a chase, that hit-" 100-miles per hour at times. 'The bandit, described as 5 feet 8, 160 pounds, with dark curley hair, broke into the Rose Hill branch of the Waccarnaw Bank and T.-s, -it Com panythrough a Iron, .inn-, m some time before dawn t-ay .,nd was there when Joe Scott, 19, bank tel ler, entered for work at 8:28 a. m. The man did not speak during the attempted hold-up but gave Scott notes .printed in red pencil, which, it is believed, were written while the bandit waited inside the bank. In one note, the bandit wrote: "Tell the FBI the 6th is the lucky one." (This is the state's sixth bank robbery. . Wearing a "dingy white" hood or pillow case on his heed, the man sprang up from behind the bank counter when Scott entered, forced him at gun-point to tie m? another bank employee. Miss EUze orth Merrltt, who came about five minutes, later, and then waited for K. S. Troy, head cashier. The bandit made Sco.t pretend to work at his adding machine and -vouched behind the counter while ,ie waited for Troy. The girl was jound in the back room of the bank. The cashier and his wife came ninutes later and while Troy was e-locking the door, his wife walk ed toward the rear office. The bandit jumped up, pointing the gun at Troy. The cashier said he pivot ed around, slipping out the door which was still slightly open, and went for help. In the meantime, Mrs. Troy ap proached the bandit, thinking the man was playing a joke, and said. "What in the world do you think you're doing?" The man fled. Witnesses say he looked ardund when he sped out of the bank, as though searching for another per son. By the text of the notes it is believed the man had an accom plice. The hooded bandit, who wore gloves, a white long sleeve shirt, and brown trousers, cased three cars, even trying to start one, be fore he found the green pick-up truck, witnesses said. Apparently he was searching for a vehicle with ignition keys. Three men, I. J. Johnson, E. L. Lanier, and E. S. Thomas, all busi nessmen chased the fleeing bandit. Johnson and Lanier, who had grab bed his shotgun from his stored were in one car and Thomas in another. The robber led the men over 26.65 .nnes beginning with Route 117 go ing to the loop road at Lake Tut. Negro resort, where he was almost apprehended, then into a network: of dirt and paved country roads in to Sampson County. He hit Route 421 at Delway, turned back east to Rose Hill, and finally abandoned, the truck on a road shoulder about a half mile from Waycross. The Rose Hill men were never more than a 100 yards behind the flee ing bandit, who ran through a cot ton patch into the woods. It wast only then that he was seen without his hood. The man had a .32 or .38 pistol which he pointed at a barber, Mel vin Boilings, whose shop is across. from the bank, and clicked it twice but the gun did not fire. Lanier shot at the bandit once during' that chase and the robber shot at hiam pursuers twice when he jumped-- from the truck to run into the-- woods. ' . , , . , ,. ... T -V' ,Law officers, Including Stater Highway Patrolmen, State Bureau: of Investigation , agents,;' FederaE Bureau of Investigation agents, d'ep , uties from sheriffs offices In Tend- r, Sampson and DupUn counties," ana state rotestry. servtce-men ' combed . the area beginning at a. m. and were sUU searching 'to- night A cub plane from Cllntaa ? and 'two helicopters from Cherry " Point are being used In the maaf hunt. While the search continues. (CeaMsmeg Om Back) ' ' Ik . 1 1 t jr