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Centrally fair today preceded by
scattered thundershowers in the
south central area early today.
VOLUME 4
CLARK SAYS END RED RELATIONS
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i PRACTICE DRIVING Morphy Upchurch,
■North Carolina’s champion driver and a native of
.Dunn, is pictured at the wheel yesterday as ht
. practiced for the national finals in Washington
tkis .week. Conferring with him on the practice
JhsiM
By ROOFER AD AMI
STAG BALLENTINE WAS
A SODA-JERKER HERE
JAgeak a chain letter, but the newest
flTe IS taking things just a little
JE.O far.
“ It merely asks that you bundle
up your wife and send her to the
man whose name is at the top of
the list.
I Following Is the text of this new
fangled chain letter, sent to us by
a friend in Fayetteville:
“Dear Sir:
v "This chain letter was started
by a man like myself, in_ tht hope
that it might bring relief and hap
piness to tired business men.
. “Unlike most chain letters, this
; does not cost anything. Simply
| send a copy of this letter to five
i■ of your businessmen friends who
Me equally tired. Then bundle up
*yf)ur wife and send her to the man
whose name is at the top of the
lilt, and add your name to the
. ,i*When your name comes to the
Ehe list, you will receive
>men—and some of them
iandies.
faith—do not break the
>ne man broke the chain
bis old lady back.
“Sincerely yours,
’A Tired Business Man
During the past week a
mine received 183 women.
Tied him yesterday, and
said he had a smile on
-the first in years.”
sill they think of next?
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Dunn Police Beat Up Negro;
30 Stitches To Close Wound
P A Dunn Negro, identified as Winnie Maloy, Jr., to
day charged two local Negro police with beating him up
Sunday night while attempting to arrest him tor public
■pnkenness.
pwwever, Chief of Police Alton
K .Obbb stated this morning that
Arrest was “no.different” from
Spy other arrest except the man
Bre a shirt off Policeman John
■ockington and kicked Raymond
HpM* while they were attempt*
K to put him in a ear.
MB was released from jail
■May morning under bond after
■I charged with drunkenness
pd resisting arrest. Later he went
■ypr. Bill Lilly's office where ha
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is Derweod Godwin who has sored as one of his
coaches. Upchurch flew from the Raleigh-Durham
airport today to attend the flush in Washington
this week. He placed first in the State with 675
points out of a possible 725. (Dally Record Photo)
Sin City Witness
Attempts Suicide
PHENIX CITY, AIR. OB A woman who testified in
a case of alleged arson and attempted murder before a
blue ribbon grand jury tried, to commit suicide in jail last
night, authorities reported.
Mrs. Nona Faye Calhoun, 41, who
had fainted twice during her testi
mony about a former sweetheart’s
alleged attempt to burn her alive,
told jailer Tom Jarrell she took
15 sleeping pills to “kill herself.”
She was rushed to a hospital here.
In Protective Custody
Authorities said Mrs. Calhoun, a
divorcee, had been placed in pro
tective custody after testifying
against Frank Allred. 50, a former
sweetheart.
The officials asked that Allred be
indicted for second-degree arson
and assault with intent to murder.
She accused him of knocking her
unconscious, pouring flammable in
secticide over her clothing and
setting her afire at his filling sta
tion last May 26. cauttng serious,
lasting injuries.
Investigators said she Was re
cued by*a.witness. The fire partly
detroyed the filling station.
Mrs. Calhoun said she had re
frained from filing a complaint
until the special Russell County
grand jury was formed from a
purged venir list in a sweeping
drive against lawlessness in this
gambling resort city.
The grand Jury WAS empaneled
on orders of Gov. Gordon Persons
who declared martial rule and
forced an almost complete over -
haul of the local government.
WASHINGTON (tTP) The
Senate handed its farm bloc an
other defeat today when It reject
ed, 54 to 33, an attempt to impose
mandatory price supports on feed
grains.
was treated for wounds which he
charged the two Negro police With
Inflicting.
Dr. Lilly stated today that the
man canto to hi* office amfnd 6:30
|y long
was aionnd two. inches tong, the
Doctor estimated. Both lteetwttons
f wen to the bone, ito ■toted.
> “X could not tea jUTtUr eld
jHaUij ftacord
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10, 1954
Mickey Jelke
Reportedly
Weds Model
NEW YORK OP) Minot
F. Mickey Jelke, 24, whose
trial on charges of pander
ing case society call girls
was ruled too sordid for the
public to hear, was reported
today to have married the
pretty blonde model who
was arrested with him in
August 1952.
Jelke and Sylvia Eder, 25. who
police said they found in Jelke’s
bed at the time of his arrest, was
said to have married six weeks ago
in Georgia.
BULLETIN
The marriage of Jelke and Mha
Eder was confirmed this after
noon.
Inherits 5 Million
Jelke, who inherits 5 million dol
lars oleo fortune on his 25th birth
day, was convicted in Feb. 1853 on
two counts of pandering. Subse
quently, the appellate division re
versed the playboy’s compulsory
prostitution conviction.
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the lacerations were,” Dr. Lilly
said today, ‘but they were not
fresh.”
WOUNDS INFECTED
Approximately 30 stitches were
taken to close the wounds, the doc
tor reported. By the time the de
fendant went to the office, in
fection had begun. Dr. Lilly said.
Chief Cobb said he was not on
•duty, but that he was told by Cpl.
Aaron Johnson, who was on the
night desk, thst the man did not
ask for medical attention.
They (police) looked at the man's
i and didn't a»<nk he needed
a doctor," Chief Cobb stated.
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Flexible Farm
Supports Get
Senate Approval
By UNITED PRESS
The Senate was expected
to complete action on the
farm bill today following a
major administration victo
ry on the controversial leg
islation.
Administration forces beat down
the Senate farm bloc in two key
tests Monday night to win flexible
price supports on basic crops and
keep dairy price supports at their
present level.
With the major issues disposed
of, the Senate planned to act on
other provisions of the House
passed legislation and pass the
overall measure before it quits to
day.
Sen. Milton R. Young R-ND
charged that the administration’s
legislative sweep on agriculture law
will result in a Republican defeat
in the November elections. But
Chairman George D. Aiken, R-Vt
of the Senate Agriculture Commi
ttee countered that “not one” con
gressional seat will turn on the
farm issue.
In succession Monday the Sen
ate:
1. Adopted by a 49 to 44 vote
flexible price supports of 82*4 to
90 per cent of parity next year for
five basic crops, cotton, wheat, com,
rice and peanuts. Administration
opponents sought to retain the
present law which gives the basic
crops rigid support at 90 per cent
of parity.
2. Refused by a 49 to 43 vote to
raise price supports on butter and
other daily products, now 75 per
cent df parity. The House voted
to raids dairy supports to 80 per
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
ATOMIC: Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Tex
warned Republicans that the Sen
ate should not take quick action on
the compromise atomic energy bill
passed by the House Monday.
POSTAL: Chairman Frank Carl
son R-Kans. of the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Committee
predicted the Senate will act on a
pay raise for federal employes at
the present session.
Navy May Name
Ship Kitty Hawk
WASHINGTON OPI Navy Sec
retary Charles S. Thomas said to
day the Navy will give ‘serious
consideration" to naming its next
super aircraft carrier the “USS
Kitty Hawk.”
A spokesman said that Thomas
gave that assurance to North Caro
lina Governor William B. Umstead
who headed a delegation which
urged the secretary today to name
the ship in honor of the site of the
Wright Brothers’ first flight on
Dec. 17, 1903.
Open Air Market
To Open In Dunn
Polio Victims
Return Home
Dr. W. B. Hunter, Harnett Coun
ty Health Officer, said today that
both Harnett County children af
flicted with polio about two weeks
ago have been returned home.
The children were identified as:
Laura Ann Turlington, 8-year-old
daughter of Mr. end Mrs. H. A.
Turlington of Route three, Dunn;
and Rebecca Honeycut, 11-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Honeycut, also of Route three,
Dunn.
Both cases were very mild, the
Doctor stated, and no serious re
sults have been noted. The two
children were treated at Rex
Hospital, in Raleigh.
General Vogel
Gets Approval
WASBfftnON OT The Sen
ate Public Works Committee, tor 4
vote at U to 1, today approved
the nomination of Brig- Gen. Her
bert D. Vogel to be,« director of
the Ttamamee Valley AuStottf
Sea. Wayne Morse (Ind-Ori) east
the only dlsawßtng vote.
STOP FOR A COKE Leaders of the cotton
ginners school held here yesterday are pictured
above as they stopped for a coke. Pictured (1. to
r.) are: Vernon W. Hill, of the North Carolina De
partment of Agriculture, the market division, Ra
leigh; Myres Tilghman, host and president of the
Former Harnett
Woman Drowned
Mrs. Betsy Stephenson Rogers,
25. of Mount Airy, formerly of Rt.
1, Lillington, was accidentally
drowned while in swimming at
Holden’s Beach Monday morning.
A native of Harnett County, afie
was the daughter of Mrs. Laura
Matthews Stephenson and the late
Erastus J. Stephenson. She was ed
ucated in the Lillington schools
and Campbell College and gradu
ated from the Appalachian Teach
ers Cbliege at Boone Trail in 1952.
She was a member of the First
Baptist Church in Mount Airy.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 from
the NeiU’s Creek Baptist Chinch
near Lillington with the Rev. G.
Scott Turner, the Rev. Charles B.
Howard of Buie's Creek and the
Rey. R. Carrington Paulett of
Mbunt Airy conducting the rites.
The body will be at the home of
her mother on Route 1, Lillington
until Wednesday when it will be
taken to the church and will lie
in state for one hour prior to ser
vices.
Surviving are her husband, Ru
dolph O. Rogers of Mount Airy;
one son. Stephen Jerome Rogers of
the home; her mother, Mrs. Laura
M> Stephenson of Route 1: Lil
lington; two brothers, Weymond
Stephenson and Neil Stephenson,
both of Route 1, Lillington; one
sister, Mrs. Faye Ragland of Route
1, Lillington.
Dunn will soon get Its first open
air market, a modern food con
cern that will serve the public
seven days a week from 5 a. m. to
midnight.
The Open Air Market will be lo
cated in a building now being
completed on the Dunn - Erwin
highway, Just beyond Quinn’s of
Dunn, In a convenient location.
Operating the market Will be C.
S. Tart, well-known Dunn man
who for the past seven years has
served as manager of Colonial
Store at Smithfield, and J. E. Jor
dan of Smithfield. who now op
erates an open air market there.
Mr. Jordan will eontinue to op
erate the Smithfield market and
Mr. Tart will manage Dunn's mar
ket.
Both are well known In the re
tail food business.
TO CABHT BIG STOCK
The new Open Air Mkrket will
be 80 x 70 feet in ste, equipped
with the most modem fixtures, and
a complete stock of groceries, pro
duce fruits, canned and packaged
meats.
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MmSks
tor «uch a marte&in the Dunn
ana and said there to much de
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N. C. Ginners Association; C. C. Miller, also of the
N. C. Department of Agriculture; and J. C. Fer
guson, an agriculture engineer at State College.
Approximately 60 persons attended the meeting.
A barbecue dinner was served to those attending
by Host Tilghman. (Daily Record Photo)
Upchurch Leaves
For Big Road-E-0
North Carolina’s champion driver, Murphy Upchurch,
19-year-old Dunn youth, left the Raleigh-Durham airport
today to fly to Washington, D. C., where he will partici
pate in the national driving road-e-o representing thi*
State*
Unchurch took first place in a
State road-e-o held a few weeks
ago in Charlotte. This was the
second year he had participated
in the driving skills contest. Last
year he placed first in a Dunn
contest sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, and took
third place in the State.
Contestants entered the State
contest this year from most of
the Jaycee clubs of N. C. Captur
ing the State title, Upchurch made
675 points out of a possible 725.
In the Dunn road-e-o, he took
960 points out of a possible 1,000.
Entered in the national contest
will be a winner from each of the
48 states, Hawaii, and Canada. Last
year a contestant from Hawaii
took the nation contest.
RUNS THROUGH SATURDAY
Upchurch will arrive In Wash
ington today and remain there un
til Saturday.
The well-known Dunn youth is a
graduate of Dunn High School in
the class of 1953. While in school
in Dunn he was an active mem
ber of the Hi “Y,” and the Allied
Youth. He is the son of Mrs. E.
D. Upchurch, now living in Dur
ham. During the summer Murphy
has been employed on a farm near
Dunn.
For the last few weeks, Up
church has been busy practicing
the various driving skills which he
will be required to exhibit In
Washington. Jaycees assisting him
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Herbert Hoover Honored
At Birthplace In lowa
WEST BRANCH, lowa (W Herbert Hoover, the vil
lage blacksmith’s son who became President of the United
States, returned today to a giant 80th birthday party in
the tiny town where he was bom.
An estimated 50,000 lowans
crowded this village of 719 to wel
come the nation's 31st chief execu
tive.
Hoover, his face tanned ■»-< —a
dy under a thatch of fray h*.r. wao
to arrive by motorcade from Cedar
Rapids, lowa.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
flew from Washington to represent
President Eisenhower at the day
long affair. In addition 80 prom
inent friends from all over the na
tion joined Mr. Hoover in the mo
torcade and oelebratfon.
morning's events included
dedication fit a Herbert Hoover
elementary school, the 31st to the
Hatton, and a visit to the two-room
cottage where the future President
and millionaire was bant.
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COMICS AND FEATURES
Actress Says
Mom, Lover ,
Slugged Her
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP) Mima
Liles Howell, newly-wed movie
starlet, has charged her mother
and a rejected suitor with slugging
her and they claim that she bit
them.
The dark - haired, buxom Mrs.,
Howell, 16, filed charges of assault
and battery and disorderly conduct
yesterday against her mother, Mrs.
Ruth Liles, and the former suitor,
Larry Latta, 24, of New York.
She said they ganged up on her
and “almost ripped my clothes off”
at her apartment last Friday after
she won a court fight to return to
her bridegroom, Jackie Howell, 19,
after a runaway marriage and a
court-enforced separation.
The bride had been a ward of
the juvenile court of Los Angeles
but California authorities said they
had no further interest in the case
after a court here ruled the three
week marriage valid.
Howell, meantime, was free un
der bond of a perjury charge filed
by Mrs. Liles, who claimed Howell
falsely gave his age as 22 to obtain
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At noon church women prepared
for 200 ipvlted guests. The menu
an “old fashioned lowa dinner”
included fried chicken, com on the
cob, tomatoes, apple sauce, a heap
”• relish plate and cake and ice
cream.
Topping the afternoon ceremon
ies were addresses by Mr. Hoover,
Nixon, Gov. William S. Beardsley
and President Virgil M. Hancher
of the University of lows. Hancher
came to present Mr. Hoover with
an honorary doctor of laws degree
—one of more then 80 the former
Prettdtot has reeftved.
to carry Mr. j
NO. 178
Favors Ridding
United Nations
Os Commies
WASHINGTON (IP) Gen.
Mark W. Clark, former Unit
ed Nations commander in
Korea, said today he favors
severing diplomatic rela
tions with Russia and reor
ganizing the United Nations
to get rid of C o m m u n i s t
members.
The retired four-star general,
now president of The Citadel, a
military college in Charleston, S. C.,
testified before the Senate Internal
Security subcommittee.
“I have not had much respect
for the U.N.,” said the tall, sharp
featured officer who once com
manded the only United Nations
army ever put into the field.
He said the U.N. “should )e re
organized as a United Nations a
gainst the Soviet Union.”
Red-Blooded Diplomats
In advocating an end to U.S. dip
lomatic relations with Russia,
Clark said it is “a valuable asset’’
to the Kremlin ‘to have their spies
and saboteurs spawning around over
here.” • "
Clark also said his experience
with the State Department’ For
eign Service in many parts of the
world convinced him that “we have
not been too strongly represented
by real, red-blooded, honest-to-God
Americans is all our posts.’
He said American diplomats of
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Farm Students
Going To Meet
Lillington vocational agriculture
students who are members of the
Future Farmers of America are
looking forward with interest to
the State wide convention of the
FFA to open on Wednesday, Au
gust 18 at Raleigh. Some 1,200 boy*
from all parts of the state will
meet for general sessions at the
Memorial Auditorium and will be
quartered at the State College
dormitories.
Delegates from Lillington who
expect to attend include G. B,
Spence of Lillington. Route 3, in
:oming president of the Lillington
chapter, Hugh Jernigan of Lilling
ton. Route 2 and Angus Strickland
of Bunnlevel.
Strickland, who is past president
of the Lillington FFA chapter, will
receive the Carolina Fanner De
gree, highest state honor that can
come to a student in the FFA
ranks. Strickland has completed
three years of FFA work, has
saved SSOO in cash, completed three
years study of vocational agricul
ture, and has had three supervised
farm projects in both crops and
livestocks.
John H. Blackmon, Lillington
vocational agriculture teacher, who
is Strickland’s teacher and the FFA
chapter sponsor will be unable to
attend as he will be serving as a
staff member of a Reserve Officers
Training Course at Ft. Jackson,
S. C.
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