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+ WEATHER* Considerable cloudiness and Uttle change In temperature tonight with occasional rain east portion. Fri day partly cloudy and warmer. gpOLUMK 4 CAPTAIN KILLS 3 I INTRODUCING THE NEWEST JET-POWERED AIRLINER i. v JUmB§SmmggBsSKmBmMmg&KM&MMHKB^ " .&* - -jmMgrn jJMpKPWfP^^wHHHr T H fo?. Blrr OF the newest Jet-powered transport-tanker takes place at Renton, Wash. The "707” Jet liner f is 128 feet long and has a wingspread of 130 feet. It will carry 80 to 150 passengers, depending on load and range, at a cruising speed ot 550 mile* per hour at 30,000 to 40,000 feet The “707" was designed so that g . it may be easily converted for military use if necessary. (International Soundphoto) W : JM&s Main J4%4 By HOCVKS SOIW TWO KATHERINES TAKE HONORS AT DtJNN HIGH . . LITTLE NOTES: The Big-4 Res | tauraat has some red-hot specials t on today, Saturday and Sunday .. Tou can have your choice of chi jcken, jumbo shrimp, lobster tail, GftyUf’s liver, scallops, cutlets, broil* WB ham steak, crab, T-bone steak and a one-pound club steak for only $1.25.. Imagine, a full - pound steak for a buck and a quar ter ... The restaurant should be a busy place . .John Weddle was here last weekend .. His family will move to Durham soon as school is out Prince's Department Store will, soon have a bargain basement, the only one In town Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Ciccone are getting ready for their annual vacation to Rochester, New York .. Robert Morgan was in town this afternoon ' campaigning for State Senate .. He was all dressed up We ask ed Robert if he plans to get mar l ried after the campaign . ‘Tm '"afraid I’ll be too broke to do any ■ thin?.” he laughed Campaigning i is expensive.. The Ford-Mercury News plans to publish a picture of Father McCarthy and his new Mer cury, which means more publicity for Dunn J. D. Barnes dropped by to tell Os that there’ll be anoth er outstanding "Talent Time” pro "eram Sunday at Johnson’s Katherine White is Dunn High School’s Valedictorian this year i Kathryn Butt is the Salutatortan fc The Katherines must be smart ! girls Mrs. Mattie Washburn vi- j J (Continnnd On Pace Two) I Ennis Says City's System Is Outmoded ■;•. Thurman Knnis, local certified ■ public accountant, called on Dunn’s I City Council last night to do some | thing about the town’s outmoded ■ ‘“The present system reminds me ■ of a house built mitt, ago with ■ rooms added on owKßbng period ■^ - I system of bookkeeping makes ae ■ countlng fees much higher, and ■ pnpkmgs the time necessary for TELEPHONES 3U7 - 3118 Harnett Democrats Given Party Posts Archie Taylor and Mrs. Billy Byrd, both of Lillington, were elected yesterday as Harnett County’s members of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Their election took place at the Seventh District meeting held In Raleigh Just prior to the State con vention. Harnett was well represented at both the district meeting and the State convention. Mr. Taylor was renamed, but Mrs. E. H. Lasater of Erwin, Route 1 was not renamed. Failure of the group to reelect Mrs. Lasater, long prominent in the party, came as a surprise. County Chairman W. A. (Bill) Johnson of Lillington said, how ever, the meeting was' very har monious. OTHERS HONORED Harnett Democrats were named to other positions during the meetings. Former State Senator L. M. Chaf fin of Lillington .served oft the re solutions and platform committee. Hermgn S. Holloway of Kipling and Mrs. W. E. Nichols of Coats were ‘‘nagied to the Congressional District Executive Committee: Hen ry C. Strickland of Ahgier and Neill McK. Salmon of Lillington were named to the Judicial District Ex ecutive Committee. Roger Mann and Judge M. O. Lee, both of Lillington, landed : poits on the Sojicitorlal District Executive Committee; and James Spence, also of Lillington, was e- Iscted to the State Senatorial Dis trict Executive Committee. ' A large group of Dunn Demo :arts were also at the convention. WASHINGTON Iff) The Sen. ate Banking Commit te voted today to leberaHae mortgage terms on individual houses. . Following discussion of the pro - poaai. Council voted to make a trip to Ratagn next Tuesday to see a bookkeeping machine in o peration. Ennis explained that the Board would be accepting no obli gations by going to see the machine. In preparation for this year’s audit, Ennis asked the Town Board to allow him to- use all available city help. He agreed to audit the books on the per hour basis, with the assistance of city employees. Cost of the audit was set at five dollars per hour for a senior ac countant, and four dollars and a max . 'year* it had been Impossible to do j ®»4O a% %mad Lt. Shoulders Gets 2 Years For Perjury KANSAS CITY, Mo. Iff) For mer 8L Louis poHoe Lt. Louis Shoulders was sentenced to three yean and suspended patrolman Elmer Dolan to two yean today for perjury in connection with the Bobby Greenlease kidnap ransom money. Judge Albert A. Ridge sen tenced the two. He said he made the distinction in sentences be cause Bhoulden “appeared to be the dominant one, being a lieu tenant." Judge Ridge ordered the pair committed to federal prison Im mediately but told them they could appeal. J Dolan and Shoulden were tried | separately on perjury charges (rearing ont of their testimony before a federal grand Jury on the handling of the ransom money they took from Cart Aus tin Hall, kldnap-mnrderer of the son of Kansas City millionaire Robert C. Greenlease. Rises Planned For J. T. Moody It was announced this morning by Father Francis A. McCarthy, pastor of the Bacred Heart Cath olic Church that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered for the happy repose of the soul of John T. Moody, Jr., formerly of Dunn, who died on Thursday morning in a Corpus Christ! hospital as a re sult of injuries received In an air crash in Texas on Saturday. May 15. Lieutenant Moody, a member of the United States Air Force was : attached to a Helicopter section of the Air Forces. ( The funeral Mam will be offer- : ed tomorrow morning at Sacred 1 Heart Church at S o’clock with 1 Father McCarthy as celebrant 1 Members of the town of Dunn are < Invited to attend the funeral ser- « vleea. The body of the deceased < wm be taken to Indiana where he < will be buried. < Lieutenant Moody is lUUlffd by his wife and two children; hie mo- ‘ Mm.' Charles Moore™* sLter^oi' 1 her injured ton. - , -'■< - * .'l - V v .-u . DUNN, N, C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 21, 1954 Reds Reported Building Subs At Rapid Rate WASHINGTON (IP) The ' Navy said today Russia now has more than 400 subma rines at least 50 more than was estimated a week ago. Rear Adm. W, G. Schindler, as sistant chief of naval operations, pave the new figure at an Armed F"-t«s Chemical Assn, symposium which also heard: 1. An Army statement that auto matic alarm systems to warn of the presence of deadly nerve gas can he produced “when and if re quired” but at large expense. 2. Army word that a realitively cheap mask has been developed for “primary protection” against CBR chemical-biological - radiological attacks and that 8.000 have been ordered for the Civil Defense Ad ministration. 3. An Air Force statement that atomic power plants, now in the research stage, will revolutionize air war and air transport to a far greater degree than the jet engine. Schinder verified the open se cret that guided missies launchable from U. S. Navy submarines “may contain atomic warheads.” Erwin's Finals Begin Tonight Seniors of Erwin High School will begin thi«’ closing ceremonies tonight with the class night exer ■rtmm The program will toe held in the High School Auditorium at S o’clock. Valedictorian of the class this year is Patricia Warren, and Ra chel Byrd has been named salu tatorian. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached Sunday evening at 8 o’- clock with the Rev. Maurice Kidder of Chapel Hill as guest speaker. Dr. Edmund Franklin Perry, as sistant professor of religion at Duke University, will deliver the com mencement address Thursday ev ening, May 27 at 8 o’clock. Dr. Perry Is a native of Georgia, but is well known in all the States. He is a popular speaker and was a guest In Erwin this year at the celebration of the annual dinner of the 25 Year Club of Erwin Mills. Most recently. Dr. Perry was guest speaker at the North Carolina Press Association meeting during Its annual awards dinner "at Duke University. Donald Gomedella is president of the senior class. News Shorts WASHINGTON iff) Federal “sale* tax” reductions dropped the coot of living enough last month to dip a penny off a nickel an hoar pay hike due more Gun a million workers on June J, WASHINGTON Iff) Charles E. Sorenson, noted auto production expert, must pay 8384,481.78 in back income taxes for the years 1848-49, the V. S. Tax Court ruled this week. Sorensen was the Ford Mo tor Co.’s executive rice president and retired In 1944 and went to WiUys- Overland Motors, Inc., where he served as president for two years and where he is still employed. fCo nil need on pan two) - - " - " L _ b/ + Record Roundap + ELECTION MACHINERY READY —Mrs. James Morgan, secretary to the county board of election*, said yesterday everything is In readi ness for the May 29 primaries. Bal lots, that is 30,850 tor county race* including Democrats and Republi-' can tickets are on hand. There are also 20,000 ballots tor the State contests. All of these list Demo cratic candidates since there is no contest among State Republicans These ballots will go out to the 21 different Harnett County precincts three days in advance of the elec tion and win be kept under lock 1 *nd key by t^ regirtreraMmin whanal? will te"opwad CHILDREN. SELF jjjjj ;j RHB 1K&,,, ijj / HAIL BIG AS MARBLES The Rev. W. W. Thomas, pastor of th£ Falcon Pentecoetal Church, is shown here with ItsU which he scooped bp af ter the bis storm yesterday afternoon at Newton Nine Nations Begin Work On Cease-Fire "Agreement GENEVA (IP) The nine nation Indochina peace con ference—including the Com munist bloc—today approv ed a big power agreement to start drafting the actual terms of a ceasefire for In dochina’s war-tom state of Viet Nam. The agreement to work on spec ific terms was reached in today’s fourth secret session of delegation chiefs. Britain had indicated, before the session began that refusal of the Red delegates to get down to busi ness after a month of- fruitless ar gument might be taken as the sig nal that settlement vlfas impossible at Geneva. \ That, In turn, would have influ enced Britain to join the United States and France in plans for a Southeast Asian defense pact. Authorative sources, emerging from the secret conference, said the delegates agreed tp get down to cases in their attempt to end the war in Indochina/by trying to comprise the rival wench and Communist Vietminh plans for a cease-fire In Viet NbW. The Western powers. In a pre - conference session, agreed to pre sent the Communist.bloc with new compromise proposal* on both Indo-' china and Korea. MOTORCADE CDMING A Lennoa-For-Sehator motor cade from Wilmington, compris ed of Senator Alton Lennon’s hometown supporters, will make three appearances In Harnett Saturday. It will aft-tve in Lil lington at 12:45, in Riwin at I:2* and in Dunn at It4* o’clock. layed to their respective home pre cincts. In this primary only ser-, viliam may cast an w,]. lot. In the Fan it will * dWerent, Any cltisen of voting age missing from the county may cast an ate aentee vote. DRIVE APPROVED 4- City Coun cil told Mrs, Charter Htohsmith ,** m 55r£o mar drive way ii she TNhls to have H poured at her espfiiise. . iiiL- FIVE CENTS PER COPY Grovg. The haU was as big as marbles or bigger but had partly melted by the time he reached Dunn. The storm did considerable damage (Pallv Record Photo.) ; Dunn Board Delays f Buying New Meters Dunn’s City Council did an about-face last digit on * a previous decision to purchase Duncan Parking Meters for the town. The Board voted to delay action until June 3 when prices of other meters will be considered. Woman Fined In Liquor Case Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan picked iup a bottie pf liquor presented as ; evidence in Dunn Recorders Court | yesterday afternoon, poured a small 1 glass full, then turned to former Superior Court Judge Howard God win who presided in the absence of Judge H. Paul Strickland, and explained, “I just wanted to check the illegal contents of the legal bottie.’’ , On trial for possession of illegal • liquor, bottled in a bonded bottle, was Julia Blue, 45 year old Dunn Negro woman. Raymond Thomas, Dunn Police man, brought out the illegal li quor, and Officer John Brockton explained the search and seizure of the bottle. Brockton told the court that Julia has a bad repu tation fbr entertaining both white and Negro men at her home Judge Godwin gave Julia six months in J*H, suspended for two years on payment of $25 and court cost. OTHER CASE.’ Other sentences handed down by presiding Judge Godwin inclua ed: v „• • James Edward Cagle, disorderly j conduct, 60 days in jail, suspended for two years on payment of sls , and cost. ! Johnnie Jcr»c arunk, !) ’a>< in jail, suspended on payment of S2O and court oost. Ames has Jwt recently returned from a road sen tence for public drunkenness. Po liceman ’ Thomas made the arrest In the case. Bobby Fran Min Smitig, drunk. 30 fry* in Jail, suspended for 12 months on payment of sl9 sad court ookt. **J?*»n M«a. drunk, so tote In JsU. suspended for U month* on payment of $5 snd court «■*.» \ ■- f; j,. m frnntfbwod fr» rm , j TjS n rwrf* wt) li*•• ii The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES Before approving the minutes of the May 6 meeting, Councilmen amended a motion by B. A. Bracey to read “consider favorably” in stead of “accept the proposal” of parking meter salesman L. E. Tompkins of Chicago. At the May 6 meeting, Tomp kins had offered to sell meters to Dunn -lor $47.50 and take up the old meters now in use here.- Cur rently used meters were made Il legal by recent decision of the N. C. Supreme Court, Council was seeking .to obtain meters which would agree with the court deci sion when the vote was taken. The May 6 motion was passed with all councilmen- approving with the exception of J. Leon Bass. PRICE 18 FACTOR Salesman Tompkins told the - Board that the meters would cost $65 delivered and installed, but ! that he would sen them for $47.50 : fContinues On rags tHI f' Doctor Indicted In Benson Assault Dr. J. Dan Royster, younfc phy j sician of Benson, was Indicted last night by Officer Dona Lee of the Benson PoHoe Department for al ’“•tedly assaulting Evitte Barefoot, , D; Route three, late yesterday afternoon. I Trial has been set for Monday j •in Benson Recorders Court. Judge Ed Johnson is schedul**! tn Kmp » u> oLucuuivu w near U» case. ] I peatedhr answered “no comment” f • R~otd reporter. NO. 121 Marine Wounds Wife When She Finds Bodies JACKSONVILLE, N. C. (IP) i —Marine Capt. Michael Phillip Carroll, veteran of 15 years with the Leather necks, hacked his three small children to death with a hatchet, critically wound ed his wife when she appai" ently discovered the deed | and then killed himself, po | lice reported today. i Onslow County Coroner Talbert I Jones said a note in the handwriting :of the Camp Lejune officer was ! found, and that it said “Crazy mad I and living a lie.” That was the only clue to the tragedy thus far. Carroll, who was transferred to Lejeune from Camp Pendleton at Oceanside, Calif., last November, apparently had lived a quiet domes tic life until he went on the hat chet rampage at their home in a new housing development. Fred Hutcherson, a neighbor, said he ran into the Carroll house and saw the captain holding the knife in his hands. When he asked Carroll, “What’s the matter?” he said Carroll plunged the knife into his own throat. HAD WILD LOOK Hutcherson said he tried to dis arm Carroll, but that the captain fought with a “wild staring lode tn his eyes.” Mrs. 'Carroll returned to her house followed by another neigh bor. George Holloman, who re strained her from entering ttw children’s room when they heard Hutcherson shout a warning. Hutcherson was atop Carroll on the floor when police arrived. CHILDREN ASLEEP The children apparently Were as leep in their beds when they were hacked. None appeared to have awakened, officers said. , The appearance vs the house sug gested that the couple had been sitting and talking in the living room. There were freshly - made cupcakes cm a kitchen table. White graduation gowns appar ently made for the little girls by their mother were hanging on the outside doorknob of a closet at the entrance. Caps for the gowns were on top of a television set. Officers found a letter written by Mrs. Carroll to her family, but de clined to disclose its contents. Man Slays Wife, Daughters, Self RADFORD, Va. (W A 32-year old railway layirer, despondent about losing his Job. shot his wife and two young daughters to death and then took his own life, author ities reported today. State trooper Robert Bt. Clair Identified the dead as Joe D. How ell, his 28-year-old wife, daughters' Dottie Jo, 6, and Judy Alice, 16 months. The coroner said a suicide note A a check for $125. to pay off a note x signed by Howell’s father-in-law. were found in the bedroom. The note said, “sorry but It la best this way." At the bottom of the note Howell had scrawled In big ! letters, “I was no ■ Veterans Hospital following a lung operation. Barefoot is now employ- J ed at the Blue Top Service Station near Benson. ! After treating thTmteL foot | Dr. Royster is alle&d to have Wt-
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