Tuesday Proclaimed B-J Day In Dunn + WEATHER + Scattered showers and mild to day except turning colder in west. Showers tonight; partly cloudy and colder Tuesday. VOLUME 5 16 DIE IN WEEKEND VICTORIOUS CAMPBELL TEAM Presenting the 1955 North Carolina Junior College basket ball champions who won nineteen straight gam es in conference play including their three vic tories in the tourney at Buies Creek last week. It was the second straight title for the Camels in North Carolina in two years and ended the most successful basketball season in the history of the school. Left to right are, front row, Harold fr Killed, 6 Others Hurl Jh&M Jjittb JhincfA - , By HOOVER ADAMS LIB GETS MIXED UP; MRS. MCLAMB IS 90 We’ve Just been invited to take another man’s wife out for an evening. The invitation came from a ve ry highly-respected organization too one that ordinarily wouldn’t be expected to 'approve of such a thing. But that’s what it says, in black and white, in a letter from the Bertson Chamber of Commerce asking us to attend its annual banquet Friday night. “We would like very much,” says the letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Fer guson executive secretary, “for you and Mrs. Thomas to be our guests.” Lib didn’t mean it, of course. . What happened was that in dic tating letters to u$ and to John G. Thomas, editor of The Dunn Dispatch, she got mixed up. Our wife thought it was funny and got a big laugh out of the error but we’re quite sure that Mrs. Thorpas, who is a very fine lady and a leader in the First Bap tist Church here, wouldn’t approve l at all. We told Lib she owes Mrs. Tho mas an apology for such a brazen suggestion. BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth - • Continued On Page 42 Killed In Blizzard \ By UNITED PRESS The nation’s wont blizzard in six years roared Into Canada today, leaving mountainous drifts and at least 42 persons dead behind it, The savage storm took a freak cut northward Sunday night after lasing parts of Nebraska, the Da- M kotas and Minnesota. Heavily populated areas to the l east were spared from the wintry Masts, but snow.driven by howling ! winds blanketed most of southern f Manitoba and northwestern £>n- Bitter winter weather meanwhile Kit --s/ v TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 Ellen, Angler; Fred Kelly, High Point; Julian Ad ams, Raleigh; Danny Roberts, Siler City; Bob Vernon, Riverside, N. J.; A1 Daughtry, Miami, Fla.; Billy Bullard, MGR., Garland; Second row: Cedric Ingram, Goldsboro; Phillip Raiford, Erwin; Marion Hargrove, Snow Camp; Travis Ross, Buies Creek; Billy Kittreli, Oxford; Harold “Bozo” Younts, Thomasville; Fred McCall, Coach. A jury impaneled by Har nett Coroner Grover C. Hen derson ordered Monroe Mit chell, 28-year-old Spring La- Ice Negro, held for the grand jury under $2,000 bond in ;he highway death, of Eliza aeth James, 34-year-old Fu juay Springs Negro woman. Four other persons were injured in the two-car collision that occur red Saturday night about 10:30 o’clock, two miles south of Lilling ton Highway 210. The woman was pronounced dead on arrival at the Dunn Hospital. It was Harnett County’s third highway fatality in four days and the fifth this year. Coroner Henderson conducted the inquest Sunday, afternoon at the sheriff’s office in Lillington. Only witnesses heard were Cor poral Rommie Williamson and Highway Patrolman Paul Lucas, who told of their findings at the scene and of their investigation. The officers said the accident oc curred when the 1950 Hudson Jet owned, and operated by Mitchell allegedly entered Highway 210 at a high rate of speed after failing to stop at a stop sign and collided with a 1951 Ford sedan traveling north toward Lillington. Ernest James,' 43, husband of the dead woman, was driving the Ford, which was knocked all the way across the highway by the impact of Mitchell’s car. Both ve.- hicles were almost completely de molished. The James woman was riding on the right front seat of her. hus band's Ford at the point of im pact. Dr. C. B. Codrington, who pronounced her dead at the Dunn Hospital, said her neck apparently was broken in the crash. DRIVER ALSO HURT ' James, driver of the car, is in the Dunn Hospital with severe in ternal injuries but is expected to f Continued on pate five! , smoke-haze turned the sky green : over Britain. In the China Sea, a , violent storm which killed three persons and Bank or crippled 38 vessels began to weaken. : Hus hatlon’s blizzard was the r worst since 1949, when a vast - “Operation Snowbound" was laun ched to rescue stranded ranchers, ; farmers and livestock, r It packed highways deep with t snow and deaths caused by traffic - posure claimed a rising toll of s NEW MEXICO TRAGEDY ! The greatest weather caused » tragedy was in New Mexico, where \ . , ;Vtv.\ ff l ;v V 'v* (Elw Balltt, Jteurd Injured Driver Facing Charges J. W, Hamilton, 20, of Angler, Route 2, was recovering from head injuries today and facing trial in court f peak during a snow storm. A 15-man rescue .party .reached the still-smoking wreckage Sun day. All 19 persons were dead. / In Nebraska, which felt the bllz? sard’s full fury for three snow bound days, four rescue workers were still wfiiwiipg today. \ >, Snow plows had broken through wind-whipped drifts to rescue scores of marooned motorists to ’ day. But many other travellers were still stranded In small towns where they had taken refuge during the 1 storm. /■ (Continued On Page Five) DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1955 Big Industrial Drive Slated For Completion George Was hington’s birthday will have a double meaning for the citizens of Dunn. Mayor Ralph E. Han la has officially declared Tuesday as “B-J Day” in , Dunn. Between 8 a.m. Tuesday morning and 8 p. m. Tuesday night, 100 leading business and professional men of Dunn will conduct an in tensive block-by-block campaign to raise $150,000 for construction of a new building here to house the en larged plant of Benjamin and Johnes, Inc. , Plans for the all-out campaign were announced today by Emmett Aldredge,' president of Dunn In vestors, Inc., a non-profit corpor ation chartered by a group of Dunh business men and women for • the purpose ,of erecting this one building. Approximately $50,000 worth of stock has already been subscribed and the group is determined to raise the rest of the $150,000 before the clock strikes 8 p. m. V«ith a “how or never, do-or-die” spirit, the 100 citizens, divided into them on the plan, which guaran tees a sure return of four and a half per cent interest on the in vestment. The group of 100 will meet at Johnson’s Restaurant for break fast and to receive a final briefing before starting out on the cam , paign. 1 When the new building is com- L pleted, Benjamin and Johnes will (Continued On Page Five; , Back To God I Campaign j Aided By Ike WASHINGTON (U>) President Eisenhower said last night that ! recognition of God “is the first and : the most basic expression of Amer ; lcanlsm.” He appeared on a filmed tele ! vision program sponsored by the : American Legion, which is con ducting a “Back to God” cam -' paign aimed at encouraging ' regular public worship, daily fami ly prayer, and religious education of youth. \ “Each day we must ask that (Continued On Page Five) Woman Is Shot Man Being Held f■‘ ■ . Josephine JMcliean, 50-year-old ! Negro woman, is in the Dunn Hos- I pital in a critical condition as the i result of shotgdn wounds received 1 in the stomach early Monday ■ morning. Harnett Sheriff Claude R. Moore said Van McLean, also about 50, was beipg held in jail without privilege of bond pending the out come of the woman’s condition. + Record Roundup + ROU*E FOUR MAN WOUNDED Stanley Clark, 30-year-old resi dent of Dunn, Route 4. is in the Dunn Hospital with a shotgun wound in his leg. said he was shot accidentally. His condition is reported as satisfactory. BHRINKRB TO IfEET The Dunn Shrine Club will meet Mon day night at T:3O o'clock at John son’s Restaurant for mi important business session, Secretary Ben CHAIRMAN—Bob Price, shown here, manager of Leder Brothers Department Store in Dunn, has been elected temporary chairman of a local group which is organiz ing an Optimist Club for Dunn. Mr. Price has been active in the Optimist Club for years and was a member of clubs at Jackson ville and Concord before coming to Dunn. A final organizational meeting will be held Tuesday night at 7 o’clock at Johnson’s Restaurant and all men interest ed in becoming members are in vited to attend. Sampson Farm Meetings Sef “Make Sampson Stronger” in the general theme of a series of farm er meetings to be held in the schools of Sampson County during the coming weeks, according to an announcement made today by Oliver O. Manning of Dunn, agri cultural instructor at Mingo School. Others participating are M. J. Herring, J. A. Watson, Marion Butler, Clyde Weathers, agricul ture teachers, and Miss Audry Beaman, assistant home demon stration agent lor Sampson. The first of these meetings will be held in the Mingo school audi torium Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock and the various agricultur al workers will be introduced by Mr. Manning. Those on the program will in clude: M. J. Herrings, C. M: But ler, J. A. Watson and Miss Bate man, with each person explaining one phase of the Sampson chal lege program. FILM TO BE SHOWN The program will include a showing of colored film slides of various Sampson farms with an explanation toy the different agri cultural workers present. The theme “Make Sampson Stronger” is used as the .title of a special printed booklet which will be distributed free to all fam (Continued On Page Five) The sheriff said he understood the two lived together but were not married. Hip shooting occurred about 12:30 Monday morning. The woman told officers McLean shot her in tentionally. McLean claimed they were scuffling over the gun. Sheriff Moore said he learned the row started when she accused Mc (Continued On Pan five) Hartsfleld announced this morn ing. It will be a turkey dinner. DUNN MAN ARRESTED Char lie Sileort, .54, of Dunn, was listed among 25 persons arrested in a raid on an alleged gambling house four miles south of Cary in Wake County Friday night It was a big same and approximately $6.000 was found on those arrested at the place. Officers reported Sttcott had (Continued an Page memo CRIME WAVE Hass Murders, Gun Baffle, Are Reported By UNITED PRESS Mass murderers, a spec tacular police gun battle, a sex fiend, and suicides have claimed 16 lives in a nation wide rash of bloody violence. The biggest gun battle in the history of New York City ended when a desperate gangster was killed, his chest ripped open by a hand grenade and police bullets, Sunday. Two hundred policemen had laid siege to pint-sized Augusto Robles’ last hideout for 90 minutes. Thou sands of New Yorkers watched the gun battle and some cheered the desperado. At Atlanta, Ga., Alton Nix Tred away, apparently crazed with Jeal ousy, broke into a home where a drinking and dancing party was in full swing He killed the women he had been dating, who was clad only in a slip, and two men. Then he took his own life NUDE BODY FOUND An even more grisly mass mur lfr was uncovered at Hoover, Pa, when police broke into a mining towii house to find the bodies of Robert L. Miller, his wife, hj* -daughter, and twri riled •' ~ In other crimes and suicides across the nation Sunday. The nude body of Mrs. Karil Rogers Graham, 39, was found in her blood-spattered Los Angeles apartment, tyfrs: Graham, an art school executive, had been raped and beaten to death following a midnighrswimming party. Police searched for a one-time boy friend, identified as a former’mental pa tient. , In the “Atomic City” of Los Ala mos, N: M., a prominent pedia trician, Dr Malcolm M: Cook, 48, apparently shot himself to death after he was indicted on charges of transporting two little girls across state lines in his private airplane for immoral purposes HUSBANDS KILL WIVES » Two husbands shot and killed their wives and then committed suicide within a few hours in Ohio. At Pueblo, Colo., ex-convict John Kruta, 25, was accused of kidnap ing Mrs. Dorothy Beauford, 21, raping her, stabbing her eight times, and then abandoning her on a lonely road in the teeth of a wild snowstorm A 32-year old divorcee, Mrs. Hel en Williams, crashed her car through a guard rail and sent it tumbling 84 feet down a slope at San Francisco’s scenic Twin Peaks. Police said Mrs. Williams’ suicide which was witnessed by hundreds, stemmed from a thwarted rom ance.- , In Atlanta, meanwhile, police said the motive for Tredaway’s murder spree was “jealousy— period.” The bodies of Mrs. Ella Warren, a 39-year-old widow, and of John Birlyn Booth, 49, and Ira D. Lane, 49, were scattered through Mm. Warren’s five room house. Another woman, Mrs. Anna Padgett Cons, 45, was in serious condition with a bullet in her abdomen. RESENTED OTHER MEN (Continued on Two) Jealous Lover Kills His Fiancee And Two Others j ATLANTA (TO A jealous lover crashed a drinking par- j ty at the home of his fiancee last night, and shot to death his prospective bride, two men, and badly wounded an- | other woman, before committing suicide. One of the victtns was John Verlyn Booth. 4S, widely known businessman, lawyer and former state legislator from Barrow Ooun* ty. He was a former son-in-law of Wiley L. Moore, Atlanta financier. Police said Alton Nix Treada way. 46. an Atlanta oonatenutHm man, hrof out a glass panel in the front door, turned the latch and The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS.. ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY « - mi "BEST IN SHOW” —Champion Kippax Fearnought, owned by Dr. J. A. Saylor of Long Beach, Calif., was declared “best in show” at the 69th annual Westminster Kennel Club’s all-breed dog show in New York. Tfie bulldog is shown above with one of his trophies, which rests on top of the first-place ribbon. Benson Wife-Slayer Given 18-25 Years Sexton Blackman, 55-year-old fanner of near Benson, must serve 18 to 25 years in prigop for the slaying of his estranged wife. Judge J. Frank Hiiskins of Raleigh sen tenced him in Johnston Superior- f^jiurt. He had been indicted for first degree murder, but Defense Attor ney L. L. Levinson pleaded him guilty to second degree murder and District Solicitor W. Jack Hocks accepted the plea. Mrs. Lula Pearl McLamb Black man, 36, was killed instantly on Friday afternoon, October 8 when shot in the face with a .12 gauge shotgun in the living room of their home. Blackman surrendered to of ficers two days later, claiming he had killed his wife accidentally. The defendant, father of eight children ranging in age from six to 22 years old—two of them in the armed forces—did not take the witness stand in his own behalf. Deputies Hugh Lamm and Wood row Massengill described the scene of the crime. They told the court that Blackman had no criminal record previously, but had a re putation for drinking. Mrs. Lula McLamb, mother of the slain woman, testifed that a few days before the shooting Black (Coutinued on Page Two) Many Lose License The Highway Safety Division an nounced today that the following persons in this section have lost their driving license after convic tion of offenses in court: Willie Blackmon, Dunn, driving drunk; Felix McArthur, Dunn, dri ving drunk; John Worth McQueen, entered the house of Mrs. Ella Warren, 39, an attractive widow far whom he recently purchased an engagement ring. Treadaway found the two women Pistol first as a ctab, then started firing away. The bodies were scattered ■T-isfcv;' V- CV~ -i L 'j. NO. 55 Allen Is Facing Federal Court Marvin Isham Allen, 25, of Four Oaks, Route 3, is facing trial at the April term of U. S. District Court on charges of violating the federal liquor laws. Allen was bound over for trial at a preliminary hearing held in Dunn before Mrs. Mallie Jaclf son, local United States Commis sioner. Commissioner Jackson found probable cause and set bond for Allen at S3OO. Federal ATU Agent C. S. Coats * arrested Allen in a raid conducted- ■ near Allen’s Crossroads.' -' DUNN RELEASED Frady Dunn, 42, of Four Oaks, Route 2 was arrested with AUeo> but Commissioner Jackson flWgd " (Continued On Page Tm| ■ Jr., Dunn; driving drunk; Albert : Graham Overholtzer, Dann, driv . ing drunk; Bob . Eligha Snead, - Dunn, driving drunk; Charles Ed ward Holland of Keniy, convicted ; in Dunn for spewing over 70,8 A - by Jemlgan of Dunn, oecmJ con- I Con tinned on Pag* Eight) . through the two bedrooms of • one-story brick bungalow, located. ,in ah upper-middle class secUon «f;5 i Atlanta. - The fourth person killed identified as Ira D. I-on-, gKS Chattanooga. Tenn., manager at » Lexington. Term., shoe store and an employe of Pickett’s mmmji apparel shop in Cbattaaocß*. *aj (Coattmi mi TBjtt Tmmy