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* WEATHER It’s snowing and sleeting out side. Much colder tonight. VOLUME 5 STATE IS BLANKETED BY SNOW TODAY inWf HAPPY-It was a happy time today as children dren in her yard-and she was enjoying the snowballing as much as scrl ~n Mr r TTT on( ‘. of ‘ he ™ re Mr snows which fall in this they were. In the group are: Mrs. Johnson. Gale, Martha, Nathan, s. (I.on. Mrs. Gale Johnson is shown here with a group of happy chil- Moriah and Airy Johnson, and Donna Gammon. (Daily Record Photo Jh&M £Ms * JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS SURPRISE WEDDING SURPRISED COUPLE Pennsylvania’s new Democratic Governor George Michael Leader has a good friend in Dunn. Turk Lewis, well-known local res ident, served with Governor Leader aboard the Aircraft Carrier Ran dolph CBIS in the Pacific during World War 11. As a matter of fact, they served the same office aboard the big ■■carrier and became close friends. Br-I know George just about as W well as I know my own brother," ' declared Turk yesterday. But the two had lost track of each other until Turk read in The Record that Leader had been in Record that Leader had been in stalled as governor. He’s the third Pennsylvania since the Civil War. Turk wanted to make sure that it was his old friend he was read ing about so he came by The Re cord office and asked to see a pic ture of him. “That’s George all right,” said Turk, “and it’s a good picture of A him, too." Leader looks just a little * like Phil Silvers, the actor, and also wears those big horn rimmed glasses. Turk had a picture made aboard the aircraft carrier showing him and Leader together. The Dunn man was mighty hap py about the success of his old Navy buddy and he left The Re cord and headed straight for the Western Union office to send him a telegram of congratulations. He’s also planning to visit the Governor in the near future. BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth days today are: Marvin L. Herman, Lillie Hodges, Lawrence Parrish, and W. H. Twyford, Sr. THING AM A JIGS: Joseph O’Dell Jackson and Thelma Grace Ivey of (Cnntlnned On Pare Two) Vew Hearing Date s Set In Slaying new date Monday, January 31 has been set for xtradition hearing set for a 23-year-old wife and her , charge with the murder of her husband in Harnett December 14. Detroit police authorities and the i Governor’s office in Lansing advised Harnett Sheriff Claude R. Moore today that the hearing has been reset for the 31st. It was originally set for Jan. 10 but a mix-up forced postponement. The woman, Dorothy Long and her boy friend, Edsel Heslip, 30, TELEPHONES 3117-3118 ACTIVITIES CURTAILED Season s First Heavy Snow Covers County Harnett County today was blanketed by its first big snow of the year and many activities were curtailed by the wintry blast. The rain and sleet started last night and when citizens awoke this morning they found the ground covered. Harriett Superintendent Glenn Proffit ordered schools closed for the day because of dangerous roads. He said this afternoon the schools definitely ; \vould be closed also on Thursday and possibly Friday. A decision on Friday will not be made until later. MOTORISTS WARNED Corporal Rommie Williamson of the State Highway Patrol. Sheriff Claude Moore and Police Chief Al ton Cobb today joined in urging citizens to keep off the highways except for absolutely essential tra vel. They said no serious accidents have been reported, although a number of minor accidents were recorded. Roger Sexton of Lillington, high way maintenace chief for Harnett, reported at noon today that all main highways of the county—lsA, 210, 421, 301 and 40—are open for travel. He got crews out of bed at 2 o’clock this morning to start work on clearing. Rural roads will (Continued On Page Two) Phones His Lawyer Then Kills Himself SMITHFIELD, N. ti. (IP)—a weal thy lumberman, apparently des pondent because of ill health, shot himself to death early today after asking his attorney to listen to the death blasts over the telephone. [ Attorney C. G. Grady of Four Oaks told police he received a call from Brodie Smith, 47, of Smith field about 1 a. m.. He said Smith both of Detroit, are being held in jail and fighting extradition back to North Carolina and Harnett, where they will be put on trial for their lives in the brutal slaying of Pfc. Samuel Long, 21-year-old sold ier who was stationed at. Fort Bragg. They are fighting extradition de (Contlnued on Page Two) The Daily Record Men Getting Father And Gals Slimmer AMES, lowa (IP) American men are getting fatter and the ladies are getting slimmer, an ex pert on obesity said. Perhaps that’s because the na tion’s males don’t have to cram themselves into Dior creations or tight-fitting skirts, Dr. James M. Hundsley said Tuesday. Hundsley, who is chief bioche mist of the Public Health Service at Bethesda, Md., spoke before the first conference on weight control ever held in the United States. About 200 experts on over-eating and obesity are gathered here for a three-day conference at lowa State College. FIVE POUNDS EACH Hundley told the experts that “Men now are about five pounds (Continuet, On Page Two) told him he intended to kill himself and fired two shots, asking Grady if he heard them. Smith was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Adams of Dunn. He had visited in Dunn often and was well known here. He was widely known among lumbermen of the State. Grady said Smith then fired two more shots. Smith’s end of the line became quiet. Grady drove here and notified police who found Smith sprawled in his office. He died in a hospital. Coroner V. J. Underwood said Smith pressed two pistols to his temples and pulled the triggers of each simultaneously. Grady said he pleaded with Smith but to no avail. Smith’s father, the late plob Smith, committed suicide about 20 years ago.'He was a brother of Mrs. A. B. Adams of Dunn. WASHINGTON (IP) The Unit ed States today barred Russians from photographing nr U. S. military ins.— ~ sea ports, power plants, and other strategic facilities. DUNN, N. C.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19. 1955 Church Merger Is Defeated RICHMOND, Va. (IP)—Southern Presbyterians have blocked a third attempt since 1917 to merge the three branches of the church. Leaders of the Presbyterian Church of the United States Sou thern.in which the defeating votes were cast yesterday said they had expected the outcome. The present attempt was begun in 1937. The vote by 34 of the denomina tion’s 85 presbyteries stood at 10 for the merger and 24 against—two more than the number needed to kill the proposal. The denomination has 750,000 members. The Presbyterian Church in the United States oi America Northern with 2,500,000 members, and the United Presbyterian Church of North America Midwest and Penn sylvania with 250,000 members, both had approved the merger. TOO LIBERAL FOR SOUTH But the Southerners, whose church split from the Northern branch in 1861 at the start of the Civil War, traditionally consider the Northern church too liberal in theology and social outlook. Dr. James Ross McCain, president (Contiuued On Page Two) Col. Brown To Head New AF Squadron Lieutenant Colonel Jack O. Brown of Dunn has been named commander of the 4021 Air Base Squadron at Abilene Air Force Base at Abilene, Texas, it was announc ed today by the Army. The young hero of World War 11, veteran of overseas service in botn the European and Pacific theatres of operations, has been serving as Eighth Air Force liaison officer at Carswell Air Base in Fort Worth, Texas. This new unit to be headed by the Dunn officer will be the first squadron for the Abilene Air Force Base, a new installation. Orders for the organization calls for 20 officers, 181 airmen and 48 civilians. Colonel Brown is already in Abilene working on the organiza- + Record Roundup + GOOD CROWDS The revival now in progress at the Glad Tidings Church in Dunn is drawing good crowds, Rev. Robert E. Palmer, pas tor, said today. Evangelist Tom Snipes is conducting the revival. Services will be held each night this week and next, except on Sat urdays, at 7:30 o’clock. Prayer ser vices are held at 7 nightly. BAND CLINIC A band clinic for high school band musicians in the Dunn area will be held at Dunn High School on Friday and Satur day, January 28 and 29, it was an nounced today by Harold Grant, Secrecy Again Upheld By State Solons RALEIGH (IP) The Hou se of Representatives voted after a brief and heated de bate today to adopt rules including a provision that would let every Committee hold secret deliberating ses sions on any bill before it. House members voted 74 to 21 to adopt the 1953 rules as amended by addition of the secrecy provi sion and minor changes. The vote came after Reps. John Umstead of Orange County and Roger Kiser of Scotland fought in vain to postpone action until to morrow . Kiser also attempted to get ayes and noes recorded on the vote but Rep. George Uzzel, who wat presiding, ruled that he made his call on the wrong motion. Rep. Brantley Womble of Wake County, chairman of the Rules Committee, submitted the report recommending the rules. The con tested amendment would give the chairman of any committee power to eject, on standing vote of the majority of members, any non member of the committee from a deliberating session. Umstead moved that action be postponed until tomorrow. “There are certain things every member should know,” he argued. “I don’t think any of us is in a position to vote on this today.” Rep. William B. Rodman of Beaufort suggested that the read ing clerk could re-read the pro posed amendments and urged that the House go ahead and adopt them. UMSTEAD ARGUES Umstead countered, “The com mittees haven’t been appointed and a situation couldn’t possibly arise” before tomorrow in which the rules would be needed. Rep. B. I. Satterfield of Person County, author of a bill introduced on the first day to repeal the 1953 Secrecy Act, said, “The whole constitutional right of democracy is involved here . . . the right of the people to know what transpires in committees.” Kiser asked for a recorded roll call vote without avail, but Um stead won a standing vote. He was rapped to order as he seethed "I want the people in favor of secre cy to stand up . . .” The standing vote put the blank et secrecy option into effect for all House committees. Colonel Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brown, prominent Dunn residents. His father is East ern Carolina sales manager for The Mebane Company, manufacturer of the Kingsdown line of mattresses. Although still young, Colonel Brown is a veteran in service witn the Air Force and entered about the beginning of World War 11. He rose rapidffy through the ranks and has won scores of decor ations and citations for his out standing service. local band director. Herbert L. Carter of the East Carolina De partment of Music will direct the band clinic here. TO INCORPORATE Dunn Legionnaires will nleet Thursday night at 7 o’clock at the Legion building on West Broad Street to discuss plans for the 1955 Legion Fair and to discuss incorporation of the fair. Legionnaire Hubert Garland said today. Mr. Garland said it will be an important business session and that every member of •the post should be present. (Continued on Page Eight) jf TOk ■jppf r " ill jw. W A /UIH LEAVING FOR ITALY—Mrs. James L. Lee of Dun'n, Route 2. is shown here saying goodbye to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Janies Lee before leaving on the train for New York, where she’ll take a boat to join her husband. Sergeant Lee, in t'dine, Italy. Going with her are her two sons, James Robert and Glenn Phillip Lee, also shown in the pieture. They’ll be gone for three years. (Daily Record Photo.) MORE GRIEF FOR DR SAM Dr. Sheppard's Father Is Dead CLEVELAND, Ohio (IP) Dr. Richard A. Sheppard, 65, died heartbroken and tired of living Tuesday night with in a month of the murder conviction of his youngest son and the suicide of his wife. The head of the Sheppard family died in Bay View Hospital which he founded after World War II for the medical practice of his three osteopath sons and himself. His death followed an attack of j pleurisy which sent him to bed on • Dec. 20 the day before his son, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, was con victed of second degree murder for the slaying of his wife. Dr. Sam received the news of his father’s death at his cell in Cuyahoga County jail. “He was very upset.” Jailer Mike Ucello said. “He cried and was very shaken by it.” Dr. Sam was transferred tm - mediately to a special observation cell as a precaution against a pos sible attempt at suicide. Jailers said it was a routine procedure, that Sheppard never had shown any indication he might try to take his own life. (Continued on Page Two) NO WINDBAGS, NOTHING BORING That Chamber Banquet Will Start On Time , End On Time Manager Ed Carroll of the Dunn Chamber of Com merce has come up with a new and unique plan that may revolutionize ban: :"' ms of the future and will surely delight liie hv.ui-s of aii who attend these func tions. The chamber official made it plain today very plain and crystal clear. Dunn’s annual Chamber of Com merce banquet on Friday night is going to start on time, will be in teresting and entertaining, and it’s also going to end on time. There’ll be no toastmaster, he emphasized, there’s no place on the program for windbags, need less words or glory-seeking show offs. The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION. . .NEWS PHOTOS ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIYE CENTS PER COPY Baby-Selling Ring Being Rounded Up MIAMI BEACH IIP) Police to day held a 35-vear old Miami Beach woman wanted for questioning in Brooklyn. N. Y., by a grand jury probing an alleged seven-state baby-selling ring with headquarters in New York. Officers said Miriam Michaelson. arrested on a technical charge of disorderly conduct, may be the Florida “finger’' for the ring. She was held pending arrival of a New York policewoman who will return her to Brooklyn. Policeman Jerry Kedrierski, who (Continued On Page Four) “One of the big troubles in gett ing people to attend these ban - quets,” explained the popular chamber manager today, “is that they have a reputation for never ending on time and the people get bored." “But brother.” he said, “this one is going to be different and I’m not just spoofing.” “After all,” he added, “this pro gram is not for the chamber offi cials. not for a few, but is for the information and entertainment of NO. 32 Many Highways Blocked, Many Schools Close RALEIGH 'IP' A winter storm swirled across North Carolina early today dump ing six to 10 inches of snow .over the state, blocking j highways and forcing scho ols to close. "It’s as . close, as we ever get to i ,i blizzard." weather forecaster Bill | Chappell said. Shortly before noorr snow was • jiWji9tr.it in. thick blasts over this I area in such density that nearby j office buildings were invisible. Forecasters predicted an additional | two inches and the weather station ;at nearby Neuse, N. C, had eight inches or. the around by 7:30 a. m. In just four hours six inches ac cumulated here, at Asheville and Hickory. Greensboro and Charlotte had four inches and Winston-Sal em five by.7:30 a. m. Heavy snow totaling eight to 10 inches blanketed most parts of the state but amounts were lighter in the coastal areas. Roads were im passable in the Raleigh-Durham, j Greensboro and Asheville areas. I Between Raleigh and Durham a j dozen large trailer-trucks were (Continued on Page Two) Dorothy McGuire, Hubby Make Up j NEW YORK 4Pl—Dorothy Mc i Guire. singer on the Arthur God | frey television shows, announced today that she had been reconciled with her war hero husband. For the moment, at least, this left crooner Julius Laßosa oift in the cold. Lalfosa. who paid court to the 26-year old Miss McGuire, was fired by Godfrey more than a year ago because he “lacked hum ility." Miss McGuire, at the end of her program this morning, was met by a battery of reporters. She was ready with a prepared statement, j a smile, and no other comment. The i statement said: ■ I have been reconciled with my husband John Henry Brown. I am i anxious for us to resume our nor j mal lives without all this publicity. We are entitled to our happiness and our privacy. I do want to say that this is my own decision and that both John and I are very happy.” j Cooke Reported As Weaker Today j DURHAM, N. C. (W Duke Uni versity Hospital officials today con sidered another appeal for volun teer donors for blood needed in the fight to keep hemophilia patient Willie Cooke. 31. alive. Cooke already has received a total of 257 pints of blood and plasma, 123 pints of whole blood and 134 pints of plasma. The hos pital blood bank reported last night that it had enough volunteers to supply Cooke's needs until this morning but that more might be needed after that. A hospital spokesman said | Cooke’s condition was unchanged | and that he was still “very weak” ' and r n the critical list. the membership.” HENDERSON HAPPY Chamber President Grover C. Henderson is delighted. He’s a man of few words (he also doesn’t care for too many words from other folks i and he loves one-minute speeches. As far as Carroll and Henderson are concerned the audience will have a perfect right to stand up and boo anybody on the program who exceeds his time limit by so much as half a second. • BRING YOUR EGGS Theye’re polite, polished gentle men and they didn’t say so, but indicated that it’s even all right with them if the folks bring alone (Continued on Pago Two)
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