Erwin Mills Announces Top Staff Changes | * WEATHER + Partly cloudy and warmer today. Tomorrow mostly fair and cooler. VOLUME 5 BOMBER SMASHES HOUSES; 5 KILLED IT’S EASIER THIS WAY—Mrs. James Tadlock of DUNN, Route 3 is shown here trying out the new drive-in mail box that has just been installed in front of the Dunn Post Office. It’s gadget so simple that it’s amazing somebody didn’t think TAX ON CHILDREN, WORKING PEOPLE Harnett Solon Will Oppose Special Tax On Soft Drinks Jh&M JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS ONE BULLET PUTS 10 HOLES IN A WOMAN Attorney L. L: Levinson of Ben son, who has become an authority on the subject of worrying, tells ' a story on one of his fellow citi zens to illustrate how most people Worry unnecessarily. One morning a few months ago', ‘ Levinson phoned a cleaning estab-; lishment in Benson and requested that his blue serge suit be sent home because he planned to wear it late that afternoon.' Miss Jerry Britt, an employee of the company' phoned back in a few minutes to tell him that he had no blue serge suit at the cleaners. , "Oh, yes, I do,” insisted Levin son. "I’m positive I have. Just keep looking for it and you’lf find # it. But be sure you have it here if by 4 o’clock. Miss Britt kept looking and Le rvinson kept waiting. &| Finally, he got disgusted, his | patience had worn thin, so he gave up and decided to wear another, suit instead. (Continued On Page Two) Bette Davis Back Out Os Retirement ~ > • if; HOLLYWOOD (IP) Bette Davis, jg’llteck from the wilds tof Maine for • tier first movie in three years, told | today, how a critical operation kept > her off the screen and nearly spel & -led curtains for one of filmdom’s pThe big-eyed Miss Davis, a little P eurvier Bbt still with her decisive f brought a little life back to Holly . wood when she swept into town to • star in “Sir Walter Raleigh" at flOth Century-For. HHbr three years she has been ,\; 4 ' TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 of it years age. Postmaster Ralph Wade said to day the drive-in mail bov is proving very popular— —particularly on rainy days. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) Harnett Representative Carson Gregory today brand ed the proposed special tax on soft drinks as “nothing but a tax on .children and the poor people” and predicted it would be soundly defeated during the present session of the legislature. Rep. Gregory, member of the Important House Appropriations Committee, said he would cast his vote against the soft drink tax and “will fight it as vigorously as I know how.” At the same time, the Harnett solon said he was equally opposed to the increased tax on tobacco and likewise predicted defeat for that proposal. “Nobody knows better than I do the need for additional revenue to operate opr State,” said Gregory, now serving his third term, “but I am not going to vote this extra tax on the children and working people of our State. We can get the need- somewhere else.” PRAISES BOTTLERS Rep. Gregory had high praise for the bottler* of jhe State, for their cooperation and spirit and said, “f am convinced the bottlers are bear ing their fair share of the tax load, maybe a little more than most other groups, and it would be gross ly unfair to add this special tax on soft drinks.” Harnett’s representative said he had made a thorough study of the effect such a soft drink tax had had in other states and declared: “I think the experience in 'the other states ought to serve as a lesson and warning to us.” ~ Gregory pointed out that only two states have a special high-rate soft drink tax. South Carolhia and (Continued On Pape Two) ' living in virtual retirement near . Portland, Me., with her husband, actor Gary Merrill. But it wasn't just the beauties of Maine that ' kept her from the film canieras, she said. STRANGE EXPERIENCE “l was operated cm two years ago for a bone tumor on my jaw,” she : explained as she rested in her : Hotel room after a day of wardrobe tests at the stadia ' ■ “Two years ago last month, and i I'm only now recovered I It was (Eh* Jlail % Jitmtfr Man Finally Buried After 38 Years MEMPHIS (II) The well-pre served body of El Cochran lay in its final resting place today after spending 38 years in an open cas ket at a Caruthersvllle, Mo., funer al home. Ezra Lee Cochran, 66, after three wars, finally got around to burying, his long-dead brother, a duty he said his wife, Beatrice, had “been after to tend to.” JUST PUT IT OFF Ezra Lee, a Negro, said be could not afford a funeral for Brother Ed when he died Sept. 13, 1917, and after that kept putting it off. The Rev. L. D. \ McGhee, who was bora two months after Brother Ed died, likened the dead man to a “modern-day” Joseph. He told of how the brothers of the Biblical Jbseph, after selling him into gav ery, later brought his body back for burial in his home land of Shechem. STANDING ROOM ONLY . There was standing room only in the small funeral home, packed with 160 persdns, when the Rev. (Continued on Pago Eight) a very strange experience. I haven’t been in pictures beeau3» I wasn’t allowed to work. I’ve been quite ill, but I’m much better now. My face will always be a little numb, I guess. “It took me so long 'to get bade to feeling good. After such an oper ation you have to rfebulld your en tire system.. Any doctor will tell you there’s no roughter operation." No scars are visible oh the fam ous Davis face, however. AS' she was being fitted earlier at the studio far 13 neck ruffs she’ll wear In the movie, she looked much the same as she did when she created the identical Queen Elizabeth role in 1939 for “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.” • v FAVORITE ROLE “This always has been one of said, ’They DUNN, N.C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1955 Cottingham Promoted T o Gen. Manager President William H. Ruf fin of Erwin Mills, Inc. to day announced several top level changes in the com pany’s executive personnel. E. W. Seigler, vice president in charge of manufacturing for the Abney Mills in Greenwood, S. C., will assume the position of vice president of Erwin Mills and in this capacity will relieve Carl R. Harris of his manufacturing du ties. Marchant C. Cottingham, who served in the headquarters office as executive assistant in the manu facturing department three years and for the past two years as assistant manager of the company’s plants at Erwin, has been named general manager of the Erwin Mills Co. In that position, he will be working with Mr. Seigler. Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham now reside in Dunn. DeVYVER RETIRING Mr. Harris will be given responsi lity as vice president for the com pany’s industrial relations and per sonnel activities, from which re sponsibility Dr. Frank T. DeVyver, as .previously announced, will re tirion June 1 and resumehis full Associated with Mr. Harris in the company’s industrial relations and personnel activities will be Chaun cey W. Lever and Sidney S. Marsh. The changes become effective immediately, Mr. Ruffin said. BRILLIANT CAREER Mr. Seigler began his carter in textiles at an_early age. He rose to the position of general overseer of weaving of the 96 Cotton Mill in 1929. Previously, he had worked In Grendel Mills Number 2 of Greenwood Mills. In 1937 he was. named assistant superintendent of weaving of the Springs Cotton Mills in Lancaster, S. C. He returned to Greenwood in 1938 as superintendent of Gren del and Tanola Mills. In 1941, he was named general superintendent of manufacturing of Grendel, Tan ola, Belton, Anderson and Courtney Mills. After Mr. Abney’s death in 1942, Mr. Seigler was elected general manager of all of .the Abney Mills (Continued On Page Two) Jane And Husband Have Parted Ways MIAMI BEACH