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VOL, XCVIII--No. 108 Man Killed In Maxioil Battle PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY TO FRIDAY IN NOBCSON COUNTY LUMBERTON, MONDAY, JULY 17, 19G7 ESTABLISHED 1870 COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH TWELVE PAGES--Price 10 Cents MAXTON A Sunday gun battle at a roadhbuse about five, miles north of 'here resulted in. the death of one a and wounds to others. Killed was Locklear, 25, of route 1, Maxton, was struck in the right chest and later died in Scotland Memorial hospital, Laurinburg.

Cragg 13, of route 2, Maxton, underwent surgery and is a patient in the hospital. Lockleai 's brother, Lester Lock- fear, 19, of route 1, ton treated for a wound of the: hand and released. i i occurred at Modies' place, owned by Modies McGirt and operated by Wes Jones, according to Deputy Sheriff Willis Walters. Deputy Walters said investigation is continuing and that no arrests have yet been made. He is being assisted in the case by Deputies J.

A. Thompson and Elmore Stanton. Rail Strike Hits SCL Facilities By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Picket lines were set up Sunday night around terminals in three North Carolina-and South Carolina cities as a railroad strike got under way along the eastern seaboard. Pickets appeared at the Seaboard Coast Line depot and diessl shop at Florence, a division headquarters for the line. Men carrying placards also set up picket lines at Seaboard Coast Line depots and operations facilities at Hamlet and Rocky Mount, in North Carolina.

They represented the Ma-' chinest There were; no early reports of A Seaboard Coast Line official said the strike would shut off all passenge.r service when trains in operation reached their destinations Sunday night and Monday morning. The SCL it would continue to move freight with supervisory personnel as long as WASHINGTON (AP)-Senate and House conferees gave up -efforts today to get quick action on legislation to halt the nationwide rail strike and tosse'd the problsm back to both houses. Members still hope to approve a bill by nightfall. possible but on a limited basis. He said i passenger trains to Atlanta and Washington would be cancelled during Sunday night.

SCL President W. Thomas Rice said in Jacksonville, "With our country at war in Vietnam we are facing a great calamity. The nation's economy will soon be affected seriously, even to the extent. of food shortages a matter of 'days." He. urged Congress to take prompt action and to "support the bill recommended by our president to get the railroads back into operation." StrikeSlows U.S.

Mails Due to the the acceptance pf second; third and class mail; including the second parcel post (150 miles) is suspended immediately until further notice. This does not apply to SAM mail, a special service for overseas service men. Local notice of the suspension comes from Howard Beasley, superintendent of mails in Postoffice. POLICE DOGS are used as officers tried to clear the entrance to the Newport News; Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. 'Ship workers were picketing the company during the strike that ended Sunday night an vote of the union membership.

(AP Wirephot'o). Sur veyor On Moon; Fails PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -Plains called for America's Surveyor 4 spacecraft to land on the moon-which it did. But scientists questioned today whether it landed gently, as planned, or went down with a crash. The odds, they said, favor the crash.

Surveyor 4 wasn't talking. "Everything was i as planned. It just didn't go on long enough," scientist Howard Haglund said Sunday night after contact with the craft was lost. Attempts to contact Surveyor 4 were halted at 1:10 a. today to be started again at 5:30 mi at which time the craft 1-52's Drop A Million Poiinds Of Bombs On Five Commie Bases SAIGON (AP) Giant American B52 Stratoforts unloaded close to a million pounds of bombs on five major Commu- concentration areas in South Vietnam Sunday night and today.

The heavy raids were scatr tered from the Mekong Delta to the northern provinces just below the demilitarized zone. They included a strike at the infiltration route used by Red troops entering the central highlands, wftsre a Communist offensive is threatened. The air war over North and Vietnam cost two. more American planes, but both pilots wsre U.S. commanders said.

A Navy Skyhawk jet was downed by ground fire somewhere between the Hanoi area and Thanh Hoa. It was the 610th U.S. combat plane annouroed lost over the North. The pilot remained hidden overnight and was lifted out by a helicopter this morning, a spokesman said. The second loss was an Air Force F100 jet downed Saturday by ground fire, from a Communist stronghold in South Vietnam's War Zone near the Cambodian border.

It was the 194th U.S. combat plane reported lost to enemy fire in South Vietnam. Only light and scattered ground fighting was reported. Operation Hickory II, a three- day U.S. and South Vietnamese sweep to clear out North Vietnamese (roops southwest of the much-battered Marine post at Con Thien, ended with less than 100 enemy reported killed.

One North Vietnamese regiment of about 2,500 men was reported south of Con Thien, 1 but after three days of combing the area, U.S. Marines announced they had killed 57 Communists and captured 19 weapons while the South Vietnamese said they 'Mini-Mine 9 Florida Beaches FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) Secrecy surrounding a new "mini-mine" being developed by the military went up in little puffs of smoke Sunday. Thousands of Uie tiny explosive devices drifted onto a public beach in North Florida. Several hundred servicemen were ordered into the area to gather up the bomblets along some 120 miles of beach.

A cannister loaded with the brownish disks was reportedly dropped accidentally into Chocktawatchee Bay along the Florida Panhandle. The disks are tte size of a quarter with protruding from each side. When squeezed or stepped on they explode with the force of a large firecracker. The secret device, being de- veloped for use in Vietnam as alarms against sneak attacks, became unsecret when Donald Spinelli cf Fort Walton Beach found one; Spinelli, 24, was treated for eye and hand injuries after he tried to pull one apart with his fingers and it exploded. A military spokesman said security en the devices had been "sensitive." In an official release the Air Force said the objecl.s had been dropped under "emergency conditions," but would not elaborate.

However, a civilian official in the area said the accident was causec) by "a pilot taking off in the wrong plane." Many of an estimated 10,000 Sunday bathers were asked to leave the beaches. killed 35. Marine losses were 4 do boats Sunday along the coast The near Thanh Hoa. The Skyhawk their pilots reported damaging at least two of the rarely sighted North Vietnamese naval craft. killed South and 99 wounded.

Vietnamese said casualties were light. Sixty miles southwest of Con- Thien, the Marines ended Operation Crockett, a two-month drive in the Khe Sanh area close to the Laotian border. The Marines reported killing 206 enemy troops against 52 Leathernecks killed and 255 wounded in the operation, launched May 13. In the raids on North Vietnam, Navy pilots from the carrier Oriskany spotted a nest of camouflaged Communist torpe- Headquarters said heavy weather over North Vietnam limited Sunday's 100 missions to strikes in the panhandle extending south from Hanoi to the 17th Parallel. Carrier jets took tine upper half and Air Force pilots from Thailand raked the southern supply network, including the Mu Gia pass which funnels supplies to the Ho Chi Minh trail and thence to South Vietnam.

will be over the Goldstone tracking station, 40 miles northwest of Barstow, Calif. All we know is that Surveyor 4 is on the moon," Haglund, the project manager, added. "We don't know its The 2,290 pound craft was heading for what looked like a perfect textbook landing, offi-. cials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said. Then, when it was 'about seven miles above the moon, all contact was lost.

Controllers went through the normal landing routine, shutting off equipment, trying to test components; but they got no response. in Greensboro Rally 'Catfish' Cast In Clink; V. SOOKlansmen Burn Cross GREENSBORO AP) Four Ku Klux Klansmen, including the former imperial kludd of the United Klans of America, have been charged with burning a cross near a Negro minister's home in a white section. The four were charged under a new set of laws passed' by the recent General Assembly. -The new statutes make cross burning a felony.

Those arrested were James (Catfish) Cole, George Dorsett, Franklin Meade and Clyde A. Webster. They were taken into custody Saturday night in front of the home of the Rev. Frank Williams, a longtime Negro leader. About 300 Klansmen had gathered in front of Williams, home Cole, police said, spoke from the back of a truck, from which a dummy of a negro was hanging.

A cross was burned near the Williams home. Police charged the four specifically with "placing an exhibit with the intention of intimidating the Rev. Frank Williams." They were released Sunday morning under $300 bond for a hearing in city court on July 31. Rev. Mr.

Williams has said he has been harassed almost nightly since moving into the white neighborhood several weeks ago. He told reporters he had posted guarda with shotguns I in the house after shots were I fired in his neighborhood. Three houses near the minister's home were posted with "for sale" signs- Sunday. David S. Coltrane, an aide to Gov Dan Moore and executive director of the state's Good Neighbor Council, said he was pleased at the arrests.

"It is hoped that this will be Hitch In Cease-Fire But Suez Quiet Again By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fire. Soriie last-minute hitch delayed observation of the Suez Canal cease-fire line today jut the Egyptian and Israeli guns along the waterway were silent'for the second day. Small teams of foreign military men were on both sides of the canal, making preparations to observe the operation of the new ceas-a-fire that halted the air and artillery battles Saturday. But the Israeli government saidsthe. United Nations had formed it' ceasefire, observerscouldnot: start' functioning 5until regarding the Egyptian stand" were cleared up.

The semiofficial Cairo news 1 paper AI Ahram said the start of the U.N. patrols was delayed by continuation of talks in Cairo and Tel Aviv by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, head of the U.N. Palestine truce organization.

AP correspondent Dennis eeld reported from the Israeli headquarters at El Qantara, on canal, that Egypt had refused to allow direct communication between U.N. observers on opposite sides of the oanal. The Egyptian government announced it has informed Bull any Israeli attempt to move boats on the Suez Canal would be considered a violation of the cease-fire and Egyptian forces Banker Pou: Price Support Necessary For 'Weed' Sales GREENVILLE, N. pf tobacco marketing quotas and price supports in North Carolina 'would' create financial chaos," says Greenville Banker J. W.

Pou. Pou, vice president of Wachovia Bank and Trust said in a statement Sunday the immediate effects of elimination of Newark After Replay Of Watts Riot NEWARK, N.J. A New Jerky's largest city had its first night of relative quiet in five days Sunday, but gunfire and firebombs mushroomed in small, nearby Plainfield, where National Guardsmen were called in after a white policeman was shot and beaten to death as Negro gangs rampaged. Trouble also echoed in Jersey City, where a group of teen-ag- ers? was scattered after smashing several windows with rocks and firebombs, and in adjacent East Orange, where police arrested three white men for fir- inp from a car at a Negro boy. Guardsmen stationed on every corner along Newark's ravaged Springfield Avenue reported scattered but considerably subdued fniper fire after dark, and no more of the looting and firebombing that left the Negro shopning area a mass of broken boards and glass.

Three more riot deaths Sunday brought the Newark total to 24. A woman was shot before dawn, a youlli died'from gunfire while looting a store, and a 12- year-old boy. was shot after dark. Gov. Richard J.

Hughea said some bodies probably still lie undetected on roofs or inside buildings. More than 1,100 persons have been hurf in the nation's worst racial riot since Watts in 1965. Property damage sored past $5 million. Hughes said the 11 p.m. curfew throughout the city might be lifted Monday, iand that collection might begin on the piles of garbage starting to rot in the cordoned-off Negro area that covers almost half this city of 400.000.

Three persons were killed Thursday, 11 Friday and 7 Saturday. Only two were white, a detective and a fire captain. The 5,000 guardsmen who searched cars and suspicious persons in the riot area Sunday would stay, Hughes said, until the isolated and order is restored. lie made no reply to a demand from leaders of three civil rights organizations for the withdrawal of all armed forces as the necessary first step toward law and irdcr. A pullback, said the leaders of the Congress of Racial Equality, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and United Commu- i nssot nity Corp.

at a news Ballot would give leaders a chance to' reason with Negro militants. the price support system "would be nothing short of disaster" for eastern North Carolina's-economy. The issue will be submitted to a farmers' referendum Tuesday. Pou pointed out the financial commitments of many farmers are geared to market values under the existing price support system. "A sudden elimination of these values," he added, create financial chaos for many farmers' and the people with whom they do business." Continuation of the cotton growers association program, Tobacco Associates and the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association also will be on the The moved into the canal area after the third suc- cebive weekend of fighting fol- the June Arab-Israeli war and a new cease-fire worked out Saturday night at U.N.

headquarters in New York. -The Israeli newspaper Haar- etz linked the fighting to Israel's demand for use of the Suez Canal, from, which Egypt has barred Israeli ships and cargo bound for Israer-sincG. the Jewish estate was lounded 1948. JsraelLDefense MfnisterJMostoe Dayan by i he last of these incidents and hat Mr. Williams and his fam- ly will be permitted to Uivelin jeace.

"We are pleased that the-per- ons who instigated the demon, stration were added. The state's new 'anti-croSa turning law provides a irison sentence and a fine, Cole is a former grand.dragon the North Carolina vas in charge of a Klan rally hat was broken up by Lumbea ndians near Maxton in 1958. was convicted of iot and served 18 months In rison. He moved to Greensboro arlier this year. Dorsett and Webster, head of he Greensboro KLan vere dropped from the Klan wo months ago at the order of Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa, and J.

Robert Jones, North arolina grand dragon, The djs- ute reportedly was'over Jongs' eadership of the Klan in thjs tate, and the fact that Dorsett and' Webster admitted Cole to membership again without Hie approval of Jones. Both Dorset. nd Webster insist they are still members of the KLan and say hey are organizing a new unit within the KKK's state charter. Dr. George Simpkins pres- dent of the Greensboro chapter the National Association for he Advancement of Colored eople, called for legal action prevent further Klan rallies near Williams' home.

raisecTlne TifireaF'oi an Egypt does not lift -its He" said 'Israel will permit Egyptian boats to use. the canal if Egypt does not interfere with Israeli use. At the moment the canal is blocked by several ships sunk in it the war. Egypt says it will do nothing about removing until Israeli troops give up the territory theyi.sejzed' five-nation "Arab -summit. conference in Jjairo issued communique 'saying they had agreed' to take "effective measures to erase the consequences of arid called for unified Arab stand.

IMPROVED Condition of Mrs. Courtney Bharpe-Ward who has been ill the past week in the hospi- here is reported as improved today. 3 CI's Killed In Korean ScuUr 'Korea "disclaimed "any" part in the killing Sunday of three American, soldiers south of the armistice line and refused to join the U.N. Command in an investigation of the attack. Two more Communist raids on South Korean positions on central front were reported, Sunday night, and at least one of the raiders was reported tilled.

National police also re- )orted killing three suspected! "Vorth Korean agents 130 miles south of Seoul. -The hit-and-run attack on the American post was the fourth major border clash in the 18- mile-long American sector of he border, since last November. Twelve American soldiers have been killed. North Korea charged that U.S. troops tried.to nvade North Korea Sunday several times but said Communist repelled them.

included immediate creation of A general manager of the cotton growers associ- i Sunday urged farmers to support all issues on the ballot OUIJMI'I ctu ioau3 vjii me- uauui predicted the cotton crop view charges of police brutality, immediate payment of welfare checks and delivery of food, suspended when the area was sealed off. James Hooper, chairman of the Newark.ORE chapter, said poor housing, overcrowded schools on split sessions and discrimination in the city administration employment policy were rome of the reasons for longstanding resentment in the Negro community. "We pleaded with the mayor to do something about these things for years," said Hooper. "But all he'd say was, 'If you don't like what I'm doing, then vote me out if you Slightly more than half of Newark's population is Negro. Police have arrested more than 1,300, including many juve- will recover from three discouraging years.

"I firmly believe that cotton is at the threshhold of a.great new era in this state," Arndt said. nilea. Hundreds remain in custody because of failure to raise bonds ranging from $500 to $10,000, Weather Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with a chance of scattered showers along the coast Tuesday. Mild most sections tonight. Lows tonight 64 to 72.

A little warmer Tuesday. Low here last night was 60 degrees, Wgh yesterday was 83, and noon reading was 82. THURGOOD MARSHALL leaves the hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Commmittee Friday after testifying on his qualifications to be a member of the Supreme Court. There was a protest against his confirmation after Marshall declined to say what he thinks the Constitution's 5th Amendment Marshall, now Solicitor General, was nominated for the seat vacated by Justice Thomas Clark by Pres- ident Johnson. (AP Wirephoto).