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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
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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.
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Bette Davis Back
Out Os Retirement
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Jane And Husband
Have Parted Ways
MIAMI BEACH <IP) Separation added a new chapter
today to the storybook romance of singing star Jane
Froman.
She announced that she and the
airline pilot she married after he
saved her life in a Lisbon plane
crash have been separated for two
months. There are no immediate
plans for divorce.
A spokesman at the Miami Beach
hotel where Miss Froman talked
briefly with reporters said her
husband, John Curtis Bum, tele
phoned her Monday. He is in
Acapulco, Mexico, for a month’of
fishing and rest. She Is to leave
for York March 9, but
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PTA TO MEET—The Bfrwin PTA
will hiild its monthly meeting
tonight at 7:00. Mrs. Kincannon
will have charge of the program.
NEW OFFICE —Robert Wright,
Harnett County Wildlife Protec
tor, has a new office. Bis head
quarters are on the second floor of
the Lillington Town Hall. Already
an attractive map of North Caro
lina and colorful bird 'prints are
on the walla There also is a bulle
tin board posted, with new infor
mation about hunting and fishing
regulations. The new office toca
NEW PRESIDENT Pictured
here is Ralph Delano, new presi
dent of the Benson Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Delano, who is
publisher of The Benson Review,
took over the presidency at the
annual banquet on Friday nigiit.
He is prominent in the business
civic and religious affairs of the
town.
Harnett Officer
Is Seriously HI
Harnett Rural Policeman Leon
Smith of Duncan is in the Dunn
Hospital seriously ill. <
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6 o’clock last night shortly after
bringing in a prisoner.
He was reported to be resting
comfortably today at the hospital,
but still not out of danger.
Marilyn Monroe
Gets Vote In Japan
TOKYO (IP) Several Japanese
voters in Sunday’s national election
apparently wanted to throw curves
at the government.
They wrote in the name of Mari
lyn Monroe on ballots for the
House of Representatives.
VISIT HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Miller and
daughter, Bonnie, of Fayetteville,
spent Sunday in Dunn visiting Mrs.
Miller’s sister, Mrs. WiHiam New
some and family. «
will see each other when he re
! turns. She declined to say whether
■ there will be an attempt at recon
i ciliation.
“John and I have agreed to sep
: arate for the present, but I’m
afraid I can’t tell you why because
it’s pretty personal,’’ Miss Froman
smiling but nervous and pretty,
told newsmen here.
She said the two had agreed
about two months ago on “a trial
separation because of some per
sonal problems.'’
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tion is part of the juggling neces
sary in the county agriculture
building to find room for .more
county offices.
SPACE PROBLEMS —The efforts
of county commissioners to find
needed space resembles the old
game, “FTuit Basket
Tile transfer of the home agents
to the quarters formerly used by
the health department wUI permit
that space to go to the U. 8. Soil
Conservation Service. That- first
move of course hinges on the prog
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Couple Burn
To Death In *
Their Home ■'
LAKE CHARLES, La. (IP)
A crippled 847 Stratojet
bomber, on a radar-guided
emergency approach to its
fogged-in base, crashed and
exploded into five houses
and several trailer homes
late last night.
Five persons—the plane’s three
man crew and a young couple in
the one house which bulned—
perished in the fiery crash. A man
who was in a trailer which was
destroyed was badly burned.
The six-jet bomber, one engine
dead, struck power and communi
cations lines, cut a swath through
the tops of a pine forest crashed
to earth at the edge of a line of
trees and skidded about 60 yards
before expoding.
The enitial explosion and a series
of lesser blasts apparently from
its practice bomb load scattered
fiery wreckage over the residential
area. The scene was four and a
half miles northwest of the Lake
Charles base.
Had the pane crashed 500 yards
short, it would have plowed Into
a more densely populated residen
tial 'area, authorities said.
Officials of Lake Charles Air
Fore* Baa&.said the pilat appggred
ttrflW bomber
to avoid hitting the houses which'
were directly in Its path.
ATTEMPTED RESCUE
Albert Morgan, 24, and his wife,
20, were burned to death in their
home which was nearest the ex
ploding plane.
A neighbor, Cole Olen, dashed
across the street and kicked In the
front door to the Morgan home.
He said he went into the front
bedroom and did not find anyone
there. He tried to enter the second
bedroom but flames drove him
back. The 'bodies were found later
in the bathroom.
*The air base identfied the dead
crewmen as Capt. Clarence Wilson,
34, of California, Pa., pilot and
commander of the plane; Mark
Veck, 35, Downieville, Calif., co
pilot, and Capt. Elwyn Mcßee, 33,
Fort Forth, Tex., observer.
Lt. Robert Flesh man, assistant
public Information officer at the
base, said the plane hit In an open
area between a wooded area and
a residential area.
“From the position of the plane
and the approach to the air base,
it appears the pilot swerved the
plane to avoid the residential sec
tion,” he said. “It’s Just lucky the
plane didn’t hit in the center of
that section.”
“The pilot had radioed the air
base that one of his engines was
out,” a spokesman said. “Crash
crews were standing by at the base
when the crash occurred.”
BOUNCING TAXES
BOSTON, Mass. (IP) More than
3,000 bad checks were used by Mas
sachusetts taxpayers last year In
payment of their state taxes. Chief
Collector James W. Hennigan said
“some of them were for only 50
cents and still they bounced." 1
Mother, Children Accused
Os Murdering Her Husband
MARYVILLE, Tenr. Pi A 41 -year-old mother and hei
three children, aged 8 to 14, have been charged with first
degree murder in the fatal beating of their ex-cconvict
husband and father in the family car.
Mrs. Sam Davis Jr. told officer*
she and her 14-year-old daughter,
Shelby, beat Davis to death with
a monkey wrench while an 11-year
old daughter and an 8-year-old eon
held the drunken man across the
back of the seat with a belt.
The woman told Sheriff Ed
Guinn that Shelby grabbed the
wrench and began beating her fat
her when he threatened to drive
them over an embankment. Mrs.
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THOMAS HAUGHTON SANSOM
Sansom Services
To Be Wednesday
Thomas Haughton Sansom, 63, chairman of the board
of Johnson Cotton Company in Dunn and president of its
18 affiliated corporations in the two Carolinas, died at
8:10 o’clock Monday night in the Dunn Hospital. He was |
one of the best known cotton men in the South.
The prominent Dunn business,
civic and religious leader had been
In ill health since September and
critically ill for the past two weeks.
Mr. Sansom assisted Nathan M.
Johnson, Sr., in founding the huge
mercantile company in 1921 and
had served as one of its top officers
ever since. He was named chair
man of the board when the com
pany became a corporation in 1937
and had held that post since.
, In addition to serving as chair
' man of the board of the parent
corporation in Dunn and as presi
dent of its affiliated corporations,
Sansom also headed the cotton de
partment of the company and Its
far-flung operations.
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at the First Presbyterian Church
In Dunn. The Rev. Richard Rhea
Gammon, pastor, will officciate.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cem
etery.
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Davis then took the wrench, climb
ed over the body and out of the
car and began striking, him. ac
cording to Guinn. i
Mrs. Davis said she and her hus
band had argued as they drove
about 16 miles east of here areund
II pjn. Sunday. During the argu
ment, the woman said, DaVis slap
ped her and the 11-year-oid daugh
ter. then started driving recklessly.
He pulled to the roadside near
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La. Governor
Opposed To
The Radicals j
RICHMOND,* Va. (IP)—GoV. Rob
ert Kennon of Louisiana expressed
hope today that Northern and
Southern Democrats can agree
upon a 1956 presidential candidate
acceptable to “Jeffersonian” Dem
ocrats.
Kennon, here to visit Governor
Thomas B. Stanley, told newsmen
Woodrow Wilson made similar ,
comments at a time when the
Democratic Party was out of pow
er in 1904. ' •
When Wilson was president «f-»
Princeton, Kennon said, he de- ' v
clared that the Democratic Party -
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a steep embankment, Mrs. Davit
said, and wanted them to “Say ■
your prayers, we’re all go'mg t»
hell together. - r'M
The three children and Mfg, < 1
Davis stayed overnight at a nearby
' farmous and caught a bos' Ufttd
town Monday morning »to repotf?*
’ the slaying.
Mrs. Davis was Jailed without
[ bond and the children were te
. care of a neighbor pending a pre- 4
. liminary hearing tomorrow.
Davis and his wife-had been’di
vorced and only recently remar- '
■ rted. Gum. said.