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Mother Os Dr. Samuel Sheppard Commits Suicide * WEATHER * f) ’.a a'.a \ The Record Is First Coraiderable. cloudlnw, today. LFLI I I, if. AD ■B. 11l STILI * 1 ll IN CIRCULATION... NSWS Somewhat cooler. Scattered light j %W 11 |fc J&W JBk' PHOTOS. . ADVERTISING rain Thursday. » W ' - COMICS AND FEATURES VOLUME 5 HODGES TAX PLAN IS OPPOSED £,. : I t 1m fe 1 DUNN BASS MEETS TENNESSEE BASS—Miss 'Georgia Bass of Dunn, attractive new member of the office staff of Congressman F. Ertel Carlyle in Washington, is shown here as Mr. .Carlyle, right, introduces her to Congressman Boss Bass, left, Jhsis Juitlc » Jhimf& By HOOVER ADAMS MRS. GODWIN, SHIRLEY COL. RAFF, OTHER NOTES Mrs. R. L. Godwin had a good idea for getting rid of Christmas trees . . . She suggested that the town hold a big city-wide bonfire on New Year’s Eve with community singing, etc. . . . Mrs. Godwin has been living in Dunn a long time and is well versed on the history of the town . . . Mrs. Mach Hodges 0 says her church circle nearly al ways has a good attendance . . Jack Rollins has joined the ranks of the well-dressed men who wear charcoal grey suits and pink shirts . . “but it took a lot of nerve," said Jack . . . The newest mambo craze ic “Mambo Marilyn Monroe” . . . We knew it had to come sooner or later . . . Two Dunn youths, Paul White, Jr., and Pat Walker, will appear on a new television panel show, “The Younger Set,” Monday afternoon at 5:30 over the new Chapel Hill station ... At least two new business firms will open in Dunn within the next 90 days . . . Shirley Hinson says she doesn’t gossip and refuses to. listen to peo ple who do . . . Now there’s a girl among girls for you! . . . Lincoln ♦ (Continued On Pacu Two) Famous Airborne Hero Will Address Dunn Lions Club Colonel Edson D. Raff, famed airborne hero of World War 11, and one of the nation’s pioneer paratroopers, will address the Dunn Lions Club Thursday night. . plans for the meeting, to be held *at 7 o’clock in the General Lee boom at Johnson’s Restaurant, were announced today by President Bekrte. ijßf Colonel Raff, one of the Army’s I ’’"'most colorful figures, noted combat | veteran and author, is now corny 000 manding officer of the Psychologi ■P cal Warfare Center at Fort Bragg. Rv He was secured as speaker for M the program by Mrs. William C. [ Lee of Dunn, widow of the late General Bill Lee, with whom Colo -1 nel Raff served in organising Am y erica’s first airborne army- H&pv \ f TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 new Democratic Congressman from Tennessee. The two were not able to establish definite kin ship. however. Miss Bass is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bass of Dunn, Route 5. (Daily Record Photo by Seth Muse.) Committee Picked On Committees Officers and directors of the Dunn Chamber of Com merce, at a.meeting here last night, began working on plans for the new year’s activities and a committee was named to revise the list of standing committees and to name members of each. Retiring President Grover C. Henderson opened the meeting, held at Johnson’s Restaurant, in troduced the new memibers of the board and then turned the meeting over to the new president, Emmett C. Aldredge. President Aldredge named Frank Belote as chairman of the commit tee on committees and this group will meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock to revise the list and to name the new committee members. Other members of the commit tee are: Guyton Smith, John Snipes, Mrs. Beulah Heflin and Johnnie Purdie. Manager Ed Carroll has preposed that a Program of Work Committee be named to plan certain specific projects for the year instead of having too many projects. “I have noticed,” said Carroll, “that when a chamber or any other organization tries to do too many things sometimes none of them are done well. I think it would be best for us to set up a specific program of action and then accomplish it.’’ The committee on committees will have the power to eliminate or add whatever committees it sees fit. The finance, audit and budget (Continued on page six) Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Raff Will be special guests of the club for this meeting. LED FIRST ASSAULT Colonel Raff first attained fame in World War n when he com manded the first American para troopers ever used in cozpbat. He led the parachute lnvaaioh on the Germans at Sicily. This was the firs|t time American soldiers launched an offensive in World War n. At that time. Colonel Raff, a West Point graduate, was the youngest man in the history of the American Negro Singer Hits Peak At Met Tonight NEW YORK (IPl—Singer Marian Anderson reaches “the high point” of her 29-year career tonight when she becomes the first Negro to sing a leading role with the Metropoli tah Opera Company. - The famous contralto will appear as the old fortune teller in Verdi’s “Masked Ball.” “This is something * I'Ve had in mind for a long time,” Miss Ander son said. “It’s a tremendously won derful thing for me. This is the high point of my career.” Miss Anderson feels her opera’ debut will mean much to other Negro artists. “With opera, regardless of race, no one wants to aspire to the Met unless he or she is very serious about it. But the wonderful thing is to know that it was there for you to attain, were worthy of it.” Army to attain the rank of full Colonel as a ground officer. Colonel Raff went on to com mand troops in the invasion of Nor mandy on D-Day, and be later commanded the famed 507th Para chutp Infantry Regiment in the bitter Battle of the Bulge and in the historic jump across the Rhine. In addition to the honors and decorations bestowed upon him by the American government. Colonel Raff three times was decorated by the French government. He was twice presented the French Croix de Guerre by the French and latef was awarded the coveted French Legion of Honor. AUTHOR OF BOOK (ConttnoA On Page Twa) DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1955 I Benson Favors Naming Board On Security WASHINGTON (IP) Se cretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has proposed in “high places” that a presi dential board be named to review the Eisenhower ad ministration’s federal em - ploye security system, pre sently under bruising Demo cratic attack. Benson has been badly mauled in the dispute involving Wolf Lade jinsky, a long-time government agriculture expert who was dis charged on security grounds when his office was transferred from the State to the Agriculture Depart ment. He had been secure enough for State Secretary John Foster Dulles. Senate Democrats seized on this • conflict in judgment by the two departments and promised a con gressional investigation of the Ladejinsky case as part of an over all inquiry into the administra tion’s security risk firings what the Democrats derisively refer to as the “numbers game.” Sen. l A. S. Mike Monroney (D.- Qkla.) of the Senate Civil Service Committee, said the ladejinsky case 'proves there is “something wrong” with the administration’s security program. Both he and Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-SC), new chairman of the committee, said the case emphasizes the necessity of establishing uniform standards (Continued On Page Six) Cotton Maid Makes Visit To New York NEW YORK (IP)—De Lois Faulk ner, the new' Maid of Cotton, stood wistfully beside the ice skating rink in Central Park on her first morn ing here and said, “Oh, how I wish I could ice skate.” The 20-year-old beauty from Sal lisaw, Okla., who was chosen 1955 Maid of Cotton in Memphis three days ago, can look down on the skating rink from her 15th floor (Continued on page six) Bogart , Rogers Get Roles In Shooting NEWPORT, Calif. OP)—Film tough i Guy Humphrey Bogart and movie J cowboy 'Roy Rogers played minor i roles in a real-life shooting at this : plush beach resort in which a mys- . terious rifleman wounded two per- . sons. Rogers reportedly with within . about 50 yards of the gunfire yes- , terday when the gunman, believed i by police to be either a maniac or . narcotics addict, sprayed the har bor front with bullets from a 22 caliber rifle. Bogart and Rogers were at the home of Roger Cunningham, owner + Record Roundup OPEN HOUSE The Advent i Church sh Erwin Is having an Open i House Saturday afternoon from 4 < until 6 o’clock at toe parsonage. This will honor toe Rev. and (Mrs. I. Clyde Sheppard, who ore moving to Jacksonville to make their heme. - The public is invited. i i NEW DEPUTY—DanieI B. Griffis t of Bunnlevei took his oath Janu- 1 ary 4 as deputy sheriff on a fee 1 basis. Griffis is a television repair i serviceman' employed in Lillington. i Other new deputies recently added i to the sheriff’s department are < Lemuel C. Gregory, Jr., of Angler F»~ •' ■■■■ . ~ Jr jrs flr j|L 1- i || * l|l ART WORKSHOP—Some of these clever pa pier mache’ figures of people and animals, shown above in unfinished stage, already are in use in county schools to illustrate stories in English lit erature, projects in science or social studies. Fifty teachers from all parts of tfge county recently studied finger painting, crayon” afld Wkter color, clay modeling and papier mache’ sculpture at the 15 hours workshop in the Lillington library. Their instructor was Miss Lilian Nunn, representative Sheppard Attorneys CLEVELAND, O. (IP) At torneys for convicted wife killer Dr. Samuel H. Shep pard today withdrew their claim that “newly-discover ed evidence” entitled the 31- year-old osteopath to a new trial. The action cancelled a hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning before Common Pleas Judge Ed ward Blythin, and paved the way for Dr. Sheppard to be sent to (Cohtinned On Fage Two) of the Club Casa Del Mar of Santa Monica, when the shooting occur red and they joined .police in a manhunt along the waterfront. ■ Ernest Cantu, 27, was shot in the right knee and right awn as he stood on the beach of Bay Island, and Philip Kilmer, 19, was wound ed In the left hip. Both were re ported in good condition at a hos pital. Neither could give a reason for the shooting. Police said Cantu was working on Bogart's yacht when he was hit while Kilmer was shot as he was rowing a boat to Rogers’ yacht. who was sworn In on December 14, and H. L. Ennis who took his oath on Dec. 22. REGISTER OF DEEDS REPORT —Mrs. Inez Harrington, county register of deeds, in her monthly report made this week to the coun ty commissioners said receipts for December totaled $996.85. These fees were collected for the record ing of various kinds of legal docu ments. No charges were made for registration of eight discharges for service men. (Continaed Ol Page Twa) of an art supply company. Classes were held for three nights. Busy at this table were Mrs. Joe P. Smith An derson Creek: Misses Alice McKenzie and Char lotte Taylor, Lillington; Miss Nunn, the teaeher; Norwood E. Jones, principal, Boone Trail; and Mrs. C. E. Raiford Erwin. That long legged camel, right, and other figures later received a coat of paint. (Photo by T. M. Stewart) Drops His Motion; Will Appeal Case Bitter Political Wrangling Begins WASHINGTON (IP) Bitter political partisanship is beginning to crackle like storm lightning around the Capi tol dome, and this harmony session of the new 84th Con gress is not yet a week old. It has been limited, so far, mostly to angry protests by Speak er Sam Rayburn (Tex) and other Democrats against recent Repub lican campaign tactics. They spe cifically complain of Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon and of President Eisenhower’s endorse ment of Nixon’s campaign efforts But there is more to come. Some of it will be within the Republican party, too, because Mr. Eisenhower took the ball around the left end of the Republican line when he ad dressed the joint session of Con gress Thursday. Half a dozen Dem ocrats remarked on that, although it is not their intention to permit a Republican President to get much if any credit for policies (Continued On Page Two) President Os A&P Company Sees Good Year For Business The year 1955 should be a good food year for the nation's co.' u.n ers, with supplies plentiful, prices steady, and continued improvement in quality and service, Ralph W. Burger, president-of A 8c P Food Stores, said today. ‘TDuring 1954,” Mr. Burger said, “toe food industry achieved sub stantial improvement in its pro ducts and services and at toe same time toe cost of food to consumers came x down. Although it is difficult to anticipate what will happen to food supplies and .juices in advance of any growing season, toe outlook is far another good year in 1955.” Among important changes which FIVE CENTS PER COPY Mother Os Sheppard Ends Life CLEVELAND, O. (IP)—Mrs. Rich ard A. Sheppard, Sr., the mo ther of convicted wife-slayer Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard now in jail for the July 4 murder of his wife, was found dead today in the home of another of her sons. Police said she committed sui-, (Continaed on Page Two) t ] made for generally lower consumer . errfi in 1954, toe A 8s P president * noted, were the facts that coffee i prices dropped below $1 per pound . during the fall and that meat I prices continued to decline for the third straight year. In addition, , prices for butter and eggs were . down substantially from toe pre ■ ceding year. “If we are to continue the pro i gress of toe past year, however, we : must make real efforts to narrow i the spread between farm and retail : prices. Today, with many of the : food industry’s fixed expenses still on toe rise, we must keek money i saving efficiencies along the farm- NO. 24 Defeaf Is Seen On Plan To Add Tax On Tobacco RALEIGH (IP) Opposi tion to Gov. Luther H. Hod ges’ recommendatiohs for a tax on tobacco, North Caro lina’s leading agricultural crop and principal industry, organized swiftly today in the ranks of the General Assembly. Other points in Hodges’ outline for heavy new levies to bring in $52,063,004 in the next two years and the governor’s endorsement of Ipublic school segregation action seemed to have won early approval that was nearly unanimous among the lawmakers. Most significant of the Hodges endorsed recommendations with re gard to the segregation problem was a plan to give city and county school boards final authority in en rolling and assigning pupils to pub lic schools. This plan, embodied in a bill that hit the Senate hopper less than ah hour after Hodges’ address, would, in effect, give North Carolina time to effect gradual integration. Some legislative sources, predict ing, final approval of the idea, said its purpose would be to give the state as much time as necessary —. or at least maintain segregation as long as the Supreme Court will allow. The most immediate concern of the lawmakers was that posed by Hodges’ call for new taxes to fin ance a record state spending bill of $637,075,544 in the next bien nium. The proposed tobacco taxes, in cluding a two-cent per pack tax on cigarettes, a one-cent tax on cigars and a 10 per cent tax on smbking tobacco- brought protests. North Carolina is one of the seven states w hich does not tax tobacco. House members began immed iately a meeting as committee of the whole, unusual for opening week, and concentrated on a bud get review in a manner that sug gested no possible alternative to higher taxes would be overlooked. OPPOSITION EXPRESSED Many senators, meanwhile, ex pressed opposition to a tobacco tax. Sen. Arthur W. Williamson of Col umbus County said “since half of North Carolina’s income is from tobacco, it would set a bad pre cedent to tax tobacco products.” Sen. Adam J. Whitley Jr. of Johnston County said “I think it will meet with a lot of opposition to attempt to tax a commodity which is the greatest source of in come the farmer has.” Sen. Calvin Graves of Forsyth County said “it is my hope and belief that a more appropriate source of new revenue can and will be found so that it will not be nec essary for the greatest tobacco state in the union to place a tax on tobacco.” Other comments: Rep. William B. Rodman of > Washington, N. C„ called the gov ernor’s message “as courageous an approach to the problems as could be presented.” DEFENDS PROPOSAL A member of the budget draft- \ (Continued on Page Two) to-market route if we are to - achieve better income for produc ' ers and lower prices for consum l ers.” “This is especially true in the ! case of food surpluses which must , be moved into consumption at a price that will insure an adequate return to the producer as well as attractive prices to consumers.” Mr. Burger said that the food in dustry itself had a good year in 1954, with sales exceeding even the Sgs banner year of 1953. "We must remember, however, that sales gains are only desirable, 1 * he cautioned, “whea thay at* the J? (Continued On Pace Mx)
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