Tuesday Proclaimed B-J Day In Dunn
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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
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- , 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 -
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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
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, 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
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(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<?r improper passing as the
result of an automobile accident
Saturday night that completely
destroyed two automobiles.
One of the cars landed down a
steep embankment and the other
crashed into a telephone pole.
State Highway Patrolman David
Matthews, who Investigated, said
Edward Marvin Stewart, 16, of
Dunn, Route 3 was operating a
1946 Chevrolet in ErWln, two
blocks south of the stop light He
was in the line of traffic coming
toward Dunn. ,
Hamilton was passing the line of
traffic and just as he got beside
Stewart’s automobile, Stewart
mdde a left turn. One car rolled
down an embankment and the
other car crashed into a telephone
pole.
Patrolman Matthews said he had
indicted Hamilton for improper
passing. ,
Chevrolet Back
In Leadership
DETROIT (IP) Chevrolet, the
traditional No. 1 seller among Am
erican automobiles since 1935, has
edged back ahead of Ford in their
close battle for 1954 sales with only
a few figures still to be counted,
Automotive News reported' today.
The trade newspaper said with
registration of new ears for only
15 states for December still to be
reported, Chevrolet has edged 1,116
ahead of Ford, which has been
leading for the past three or four
months. The .count showed Chevro
let ahead 1.&8.107 to 1,316,991.
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an airliner carrying 16 persons
crashed into a mountain > 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. /■
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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
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, 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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 "
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■ 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-
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. 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
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