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NEW TAX COLLECTOR TAKES OATH J.
•E. (Fats) Williams, Dunn's new city tax collector,
U shown here taking the oath of office from Mag
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MICJtF.Y AND DOT ROUSE
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS
Forty yean ago come this Oct
ober Dr. George Cuthrell of Dunn
took Ms young bride down to Rome,
Georgia and became pastor of the
-big First.. in that
On September 1, Dr. Cuthrell will
return to that pulpit to serve as
Interim pastor while the church
is finding a new pastor.
Dr. Cuthrell is retiring here and
has agreed to serve his old chinch
long enough for It to find a new
pastor. Incidentally, the Georgia
church made Its greatest progress
under Dr. Cuthrell’s leadership.
LITTLE NOTES: Attorney Glenn
Hooper, Jr. of Dunn made a quick
business trip to New York last week.
....While there, he saw the prize
winning Broadway play, "The Caine
Mutiny” and saye it's even better
than its reviews. ...Every seat was
filled and all the standing space the
law would allow was taken.. .Glenn
says Ainsley Pryor, formerly of the
Raleigh Little Theatre, has the
fourth leading part and does an
excellent Job Sam Lockhart,
general manager of Westbrook
Chevrolet Co., has been in the auto
mobile business for 17 years, but
-lays He.never dreamed he’d get Into
Ml' at» all He's a mechanical
B but a dose friend talked
> going Into the automobile
at Chapel Hill Sam
(rates large farming Inter-
Herman Godwin, Jr. told
iptarians Friday night that
it Elsenhower is still a man
gat warm personality and
«• good'sense of humor... Said
*e quipped to the young president
Boy*' Natipn: “Are you sure
jjpu know What you’re getting your
self into?” The feet wasn’t car
ded by the wire associations, but
Ijse Dunn youth was elected secret
ary ot the Boys’ Nation Senate.
Mrs. Mickey (Dot
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plan Fined s2ooFor
p 8 Gallons Os Rum
wFaul (Pete) Lae, Jr., Benson,
llhute two, drew a sentence of six
Months In Jail, suspended for fire
pear* on payment of S2OO and court
bpet In Dunn Recorders Court to
ny for posesßlon of Illegal liquer.
Mid possession for sale.
fifesa had bean charged by the
fund police of the county with
paving in his ppaaesalon 78 and .a
naif gallons of liquor. The big
M : '«u taken after the officers
Bnowered three submarine stills
PapWrjNfc of Lee’s home,
k W Benson youths were tried In
Recorders Court last week for pos
the apparatus tor manu
facturing. and tat possession of
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istrate George F. Owen, right, as Mayor Ralph
E. Hanna, left, looks on. (Daily Record Photo.)
Another Jernigan
Suit Is Settled
Another of more than a dozen lawsuits brought by
Mrs. Alberta Jernigan of Dunn against several insurance
companies to collect insurance totaling $280,000 on the
life of her husband has been “satisfactorily settled,” it
was disclosed here today by Attorney Duncan C. Wilson.
i He revealed that the Durham
I Life Insurance Company has paid
I off in a satisfactory settlement
policies totaling $8,948.
| It was a year ago this week—
August W, that Haywood .Houston
Jernigan, prominent Dunn mer
'chant, was/reported to luvo. been
mrtnlsDody
has never been found and insur
ance companies, claiming he is
still alive, refused to pay off the
claims.
Nearly a dozen suits were filed
by Mrs. Jernigan last December
against various companies.
The Durham Life is the second
company to affect a compromise
settlement. Four cases against
the State Capitol Life Insurance
Company involving a total of $38,-
000 insurance were settled a few
months ago.
OTHERS BTILL PENDNG
Suits are still pending against
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, the Life Insurance Com
pany of Virginia, the Protective
Life Insurance Company, out-of
state firms, and the Occidental,
Pilot, Life, Home Security and
Jefferson Standard companies in
this State.
Two other companies, the Wood
men of the World and New Eng
land Mutual, paid off small claims
soon after Jernigan’s reported
drowning without a contest.
Julius C. Smith of Gastonia and
John Allen McLeod of Dunn,
chief counsel for Jefferson Stan
dard Life Insurance Co., told the
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Vito Marcantonio
Drops Dead At 51
NEW, YORK (UP) Fanner
Congressman Vito Marcantonio, a
stormy left-wing politician from
a "melting pot" Manhattan di
strict, feff dead an the street near
City Hall today on his Way to his
downtown law office. He wan 5L
.-An ambulance physician said
Mbrcantonio’s death, on a rain
swept street, apparently Was
caused by a heart attack.
Officers stated today that
was not at home when Hie liquor
was discovered. However, he wits
later arrested and charged with
possession and potoession for sale
because the large amount of liquor
was found on his property.
OTHER CASES
Others tried today In a light Bo
ston of court were:
George Der Wood Hall, £*b*dn,
public drunk, so day* in Jail, so»-
pended on payment «t *» sod Court
cost. ’■ ■
Noble Blue* Dunn, Route tegfr
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Pastor Won't
Make Speech
To Nudists
ROSELAWN, Ind. (UP) Dr.
Bax ton Sawyer, a minister who’s
already had trouble with nudists
because he wouldn’t shed his cloth
es, passed up an invitation to ad
dress an unclad audience.
He said no one would promise
him "I wouldn’t have to take my
clothes off.”
The Baptist evangelist from Fort
Smith, Ark., had been invited to
speak yesterday at a nudist colony
here.
The Invitation was extended by
Alois Knapp, Chicago, president of
the National Nudist Council after
Sawyer was thrown out of a sun
worshippers convention near Bat
tlecreek, Mich.
The portly evangelist was evicted
when he refused to undress. In
stead he roamed around taking
movies and snapshots for his crus
ade against, nudity.
Still nursing bruises, Sawyer said
here he was “jumped” by about
a dozen men when he took movies
of the American Sunbathing Assn's
National convention at Sunshine
Gardens. Members threatened to
smash his camera, he said.
He said he was told he could go
if he would turn over his exposed
film. He agreed, but fooled them
by giving them a new roll Instead.
Wellons Group
Back From Meet
Four officials of Wellons Candy
Company were back In Dunn to
day after having attended the Nat
ional Confectionary Wholesale As
sociation convention In New York
City.
Represents ting the company at
the meetings were, John H. Wel
lons, president of the company;
C. G. Wellons. general manager;
M. T. Maxwell, sales manager; and
John Parham, plant superintendent.
Sessions of the convention were
held at the Hotel Commodore In
I New York. The convention opened
Sunday, August 1, and ended Thurs
day August 5. Sales Manager Max
well said today that around 3,000
persons were registered for the con
vention.
Following the confectionary meet
ings! Maxwell stopped In Nevferk
where he was guest apeiker at a
district meeting of Tom’s Toasted
Psahht nffuu.u Attending the
meeting were salesmen, district
and arse representatives.
Maxwell returned to Dunn yes
terday and assumed his duties at
the large Dunn plant this morning.
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1954
1 Killed In Harnett Crash;
Four Others Killed In Lee
Eastern Belt
lo Open On
August 16th
RALEIGH (IP) Earlier
opening dates were fixed
Saturday for sales on three
major flue -cu re d tobacco
belts but restrictions were
imposed to allow earlier
opening belts to clean up
sales.
Dates set by the board of gover
nors of the Bright Belt Warehouse
Association are:
Eastern North Carolina Belt;
Monday, Aug. 16. Sales are to be
on a 60 per cent basis for four and
possibly five days to assure the
Georgia-Florida belt sufficient buy
ers to satisfactorily clean up the
late Georgia crop.
Middle Belt: Tuesday, Aug. 24.
Sales to be on a 50 per cent basis
until Sept. 8.
Old Belt: Sept. 2. Sales to be on
a 50 per cent basis until Sept. 21.
Under the Restrictions agreed upon
by an industry advisory committee.
Eastern Belt sales will be limited
to 1,320 piles per day per set of
buyers through Aug. 19. The sales
committee of the Bright Belt asso
ciation may decide to allow full
sales of 2200 piles per day per set
of buyers on Aug. 20 If Georgia-
Floridd sales are satisfactorily
clean# op M- that, time, if not,
fun idles will begin on the Eastern
belt on Aug. 23.
TTie maximum set of buyers at
any market Is five. Some markets
have several sets.
The Industry advisory committee
made up of growers, warehousemen
and buyers met In closed session for
three hours following a 30-minute
puhlic hearing conducted by the
board of governors.
The earlier opening dates, urged
by representatives of both the
Eastern and Old belts, were adopt
ed Immediately after the board
heard the advisory committee’s rec
ommendations Saturday afternoon.
The board’s vote was unanimous.
The Eastern Belt opening had
been set tentatively for Aug. 17 at
a meeting of the board here July 2.
Marshall, making's plea for ear
lier opening on the Old Belt, said
that because of advanced methods
including Irrigation and fertilizer,
better curing and transportation the
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Ballentine Slated
To Open Dunn Mart
L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine of Ra
leigh, State Commissioner of Agri
culture and potential candidate for
governor, will speak at ceremonies
opening the Dunn Tobacco Market
Monday morning at 8:45 o’clock
at the Planters Warehouse.
Plans for the opening were an
nounced today by Sales Supervi
sor Ed Carroll, who Is also mana
ger of the Dunn Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr. Ballentine, who has render
ed valuable service to the Dunn to
bacco market and to the town and
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COUSINS TO BINO Min Pat
sy Temple, soprano, and Miss Judy
Wood, contralto, two Dunn cou
sins, will sing a duet Tuesday after
noon at * o’clock on Mrs. Rota
Whlttenton’s “Musical Varieties"
over WCKB. Both are popular and
talented young artists. Wednesdays
program will feature Gerry Mat
thews of Erwin at tbs piano, and
Annette Barefoot win be the fea
tured vocalist Thursday. On fll
- little Olnny Aycock will ft
the featured vocalist.
FEWER CUSTOMERS But.
near was off at the Bans* jgfr.
ttam tm wo*. Police Chief J*n
ny Medlln reported only eight or
Good Neighbors
MIRIAM STEVENSON, “Miss Uni
verse" hugs the second place run
ner-up, Maria Hacker Rocha
(right), “Miss Brazil,'' after pre
seating her with one of the two
automobiles she won in the Long
Beach, CaliL, beauty contest One
of the judges Indicated the South
American contestant might have
won If her hip* had measured
•lightly loss. (International)
Female Cons f
Caught Here
Two young Negro women were
taken off a bus here last night and
placed In jail after it was learned
that they had escaped from Wo
man’s Prison in Raleigh. Prison
officials returned them to the work
house this morning.
The women were Identified as
Corine Williams, 20, of Baltimore,
Md., and Mable Wright, 19, of Nor
folk, Va. They were sentenced to
six months in the Raleigh prison
for vagrancy in Fayetteville.
Officials said today that the two
women escaped from the prison a
week ago after having served only
one week of the six-month sent
ence.
“How did you. manage to get out
of jail?" one or the women was
asked. * ' nil
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county cm other agricultural pro
jects, Is expected to discuss the
agricultural butlook for the year.
DIGNITARIES TO ATTEND
Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, Chair
man Lofton A. Tart <X the county
board of commissioners, President
Grover C. Henderson of the Cham
ber of Commerce, County Agent
C. R. Ammons and other city and
county bhrineas. civic and farm
leaden will be on hand for the
ceremony.
Mr. Careen said apt J music Is
also being arranged for opening of
the mark*
pesto in seven days.
REVIVALS OPENS A two
• weeks revival meeting opened Bun
- day n]§& at the Lee’s Chapel Ad
, rent Christian Church. Conducting
’ the revival to the Rev. Homer D
1 Baxter of CfehdMen. W. Va. The
i Rev. 3. W. Smith Is pastor of the
ehnreh.
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FIVE CENTS PER COPT
Several Hurt
In Accident
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Near Lillington
Edward Cole, 24-year-old
Negro of Olivia was killed
and several other persons
riding in the same car with
him were seriously injured
in a wreck around 12:30 to
day 12 miles West of Lil
lington on the McDougald
Road.
The fatality marks the county’s
12 highway death this year.
Patrolman Herman Ward stated
that Cole was killed Instantly of
what appeared to be head and in
ternal injuries. Names and the con
dition of others in the car was not
immediately known.
BLACK INVESTIGATING
where Patrolman Ward wereg g g
Investigation was continuing this
afternoon at Lee County Hospital
where Assistant Coroner Ed Black
of Dunn and Patrolman Ward were
attempting to secure information
as to the cause of the accident.
Only one car, a 1950 Chrysler, was
involved. The car was traveling
west when the accident occurred.
All occupants of the car, with
the exception of Cole, were taken
to Lee County by ambulance.
SANFORD, N. C. (If) Four per
sons were killed today in a high
Weed head-on collision ot two cars
atop a hill on a highway two miles
north of here.
Killed were two Fort Bragg sol
diers and two women en route
home to Illinois after a vacation
at North Carolina beaches.
One occupants of each car, rid
ing in the back seat, escaped death.
They were the only survivors.
THE DEAD
Killed were Miss Ruth Barrett,
18, and Mrs. Bertha Vaughn, about
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Police Report
Arrest Os 19
Nineteen persons were listed mi
the Dunn Police Department's
Record of arrest for the weekend
according to City Manager A. B.
Uzzle.
Listed were:
Willie James Wright, N. King
Avenue, assault with a deadly wea- <
pon; Dan H. Johnson, Ft. Bragg,
no license; Jerry Clegg, Dunn,
route two, drunk; George Derwood
Hall, Benson, public drunkenness;
Marvin Lee Norris, Erwin, drunk.
Noble Blue, Dunn, Route four,
®top sign violation; Arvle Pudget,
Oxford New York, N. Y., public
drunkenness; Jessie J .Stewart,
Dunn, route two, stop sign viola
tion; William Jones, Ft. Bragg,
carrying a concealed weapon; Cold
on Lee Whitehead, Godwin, route
one, drunk;
Hertry Roberson, Dunn, route
one, drunk; Jessie James Griffin,
303 E. Johnson, Dunn, public drunk
enness; Ernest J. Monds. Burke
Street, assault; Winnie Maley, Jr.,
N. Wilson, public drunk and re
sisting arrest; Issac Unwood Pea
cock, Newton Grove, Route one,
public drunk; Percy James Signal,
411 E. Vance Street, assault with
Intent to kill; and David Byrd,
Dunn, route five, drunk.
Touhy Ordered
Freed By Judge
CHICAGO (Isl Roger (The
Terrible) Tohy, Prohibition era
gangster, today was ordered re
leased from pri«~n h- « '
judge who said he believed Tohy
was wrongfully convicted of kid
naping Jake (The Barber) Factor
In 1982.
Judge John P. Barnes not only
vacated Tolly’s arigfeal sentence
of 99 years for kidnaping, but also
a 199-ymr sentence the notorious
gangster drew in 1994 after he and
six henchmen staged a spectacular
escape from the nttools state pri
sm.
Government attorneys said they
would appeal Barms’ decision in
aa attempt to keep Tohy in prism
for life.
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GROVER HENDERSON PAUL DREW
Henderson-Drew
Form Partnership
Grover C. Henderson, owner of Quinn Funeral Hnroe
in Dunn, announced today that he has formed a partner
ship with Paul Drew and that the funeral home will now
be operated as the Drew-Henderson Funeral Home.
The funeral home, one of the
finest in this area, was established
here by Mr. Henderson in 1931.
It is located at 211 West Harnett
Street.
Mr. Henderson is also the owner
of Quinn’s of Dunn, Inc., local
furniture store, and is president of
the Dunn Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Drew until recently was as
sociated with CromarUe Funeral
Home and Is also well known here.
DREW CAME HERE IN ’46
Drew, a native of Georgia, came
to North Carolina in 1946 when he
began work at the University of
North Carolina. Prior to college
days, he attended Stedman High
School in Georgia where he was
graduated in 1938.
After his work at the University
of North Carolina, Drew attended
the Gupton Jones Embalming
School in Nashville, Tenn., and be
came registered and licensed em
balmer In 1943.
Before coming here. Drew was
associated with Johnson Funeral
Home of Rocky Mount from 1943
until 1947. He Joined Cromartie
Funeral Home when he came to
Dunn.
CIVIC LEADER
Drew is active in local civic and
church affairs. He is a member
of the local Lions Club, a member
of the masons, a past Patron of
the Eastern Star, and is a member
of the First Baptist Church.
He is married to the former Miss
Don Ella Starling, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Starling of Godwin,
Route one. They have one daugh
ter, Paulette, eight years old.
Drew-Henderson Funeral Home
opened today with Drew serving as
embalmer and funeral director.
IN WILMINGTOIN
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wade, Jr.
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Rupert Bryan in Wilmington for a
few days (
Final Rites Held
For Emilie Dionne
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CORBEIL, Ont. (If) Emilie Dionne, one of the quin
truplets whose fame brought fortune and aminess, was
burled today in a simple ceremony attended by less than
300 persons. Several hundred tourists watched from a dis
tance.
Only the four other members of
the famous five whose birth stirred
the world 20 years ego, the griev
ing parents, other members of the
Immediate family and perhaps 200
villagers took part In the ceremony
A solemn requiem high mass
was sung by the Rev. W. H. La-
Frenoe, Cornell's parish priest, at
one ot three altars used in the fun- :
«rel rites. Bmilie died from epil
eptic aetourea In Bt. Agathe, Aue.,
FbuICTS OuWfeV® oHiVC MM MATCQI
Belanger both of Ottawa, abated
at alters on either side of the main 1
NO. 177
30 Killed
j In Plane
Explosion
ANGRA Do Heroismo, The Azor
es (UP) A Columbian airliner,
fog over the Azores, crashed into
. climbing on take-off through thick
a mountain today and exploded,
killing all thirty persons aboard.
The plane’s engineer and possibly
two passengers were Americana.
Col. h. L. Smith, commander of
the Lagens American Portuguese
: air base said:
“The 30 aboard all died instantly
The plane was a tangle of junk."
Lever Accepts
Post With Mills
GREENWOOD, S. C. ■ (U)
Chauncey W. Lover today resigned
as general manager of the Green
wood Chamber of Commerce to ac
cept an industrial relations po
sition with the Erwin Mills effec
tive Sept. 15.
Lever and his family will more
to Durham, N. C., where the gen
eral office of the mills are located.
Lover, Who has been general
manager of the Chamber here for
the past 4 1-2 years, came here from .
Jesup, Ga., where he was general
manager of the Jesup and Wayne
County Chamber of Commerce for
two years.
one where the girl's coffin stood.
The other quints sat In two’s be
hind “Pope” Oliva Dianne and his
weeping wife whose surprise de
livery of Are babies put this put
of Canada on world maps as -a
tourist CUhfe eC * d “‘
crowd* lined the narrow, winding
road to the soon after trie
gray dawn broke over its red bride
of Cornell which it Serves. An sstl
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