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today in upper 70s in mountains
and 76 to 82 elsewhere.
VOLUME 5
SABOTAGE CLAIMED IN PHONE STRIKE
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|N A STATE OF SUSPENSE -Box-office booming Grace Kelly
is off MGM’s payroll—and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is on the spot.
Winsome Grace, who knows her own mind, refused to work in
“Jeremy Rodock” in which she was. to costar with Spencer Tracy.
So MGM suspended her, which means she’s not only off their
payroll, but she can’t work for any other company. MGM’s
doubly on the spot because (1) Grace is a likely Oscar winner
when the awards are made March 30. If she cops it she won’t
be any easier to cope with and (2) MGM can’t wield the eco
■ nomic whip because her father is a multimillionaire.
Sen. Morgan Ready
To Offer Igx Bill
RALEIGH—(IP)—Another bill increasing state income
taxes may land in the State Senate tonight.
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By HOOVES ADAMS
LETTUCE AND CELERY;
PASSION IN A TRIAL
At the Joint meeting of Dunn's
book clubs Saturday afternoon,
Mrs. Charles Hlghsmith, Sr. told
; the interesting story of how Dunn’s
oldest book cluo got its name....
Back in those days (1910) when the
club was formed, it seems, the
hostesses always went in for real
elaborate refreshments—Appar
ently, lettuce and celery were re
garded as absolutely essential for
the preparation of these refresh
ments.,..H. O. Mattox was the
leading grocery back then and he
received lettuce and celery by
train only mice a week—on Thurs
days.... Since that was the day
ICttuce and celery was available,
the members decided to meet on
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% Hanna Is Named
Shrine Ambassador
Sudan Temple Potentate J. Le-
Roy Allen today announced the
appointment of Mayor Ralph E.
Hanna of Dunn as one of 21 Am
bassadors, his personal represen
tatives, to further the aims and
activities of Shrlnedom In Eastern
Carolina.
Mayor Hanna is president of the
Dunn Shrine Club, is a member of
4 the Oriental Band and has been
“ active in the organisation for.
years.
Aims and activities of Amboasa
& dors are to see that everything
pi possible is done for the Shrine’s
W Crippled Children’s Hospital* and
X the annual Orphanage Bowl Phot
ball - Game’ for the Oxfortf and
Methodist Orphanages as well as
promote the -gvowt)! of Shrine]
Clubs and Sudan Temple.
If' Last yew. Mayor Hanna headed)
the drive far crippled children
here. , 1
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TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett
County plans to introduce a mea
sure to increase both corporate
and personal income taxes to pro
duce an estimated! 15 1-2 million
dollars in additional’ annual reve
nue. Morgan said the Increase
would make it unnecessary to place
taxes on tobacco or food.
Under the bill, personal taxes
would be hiked one per cent for
those earning more Qian. *3,000 an
nually and taxes for corporations
earning more than $25,000 would
be increased by slightly more than
one per cent.
The proposal is another in a
series of tax bills Introduced by
opponents of the tobacco tax rec
ommended by Governor Luther H.
Hodges and the Advisory Budget
Commission.
HEARINGS SCHEDULED
The Joint Finance Committee
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Legislature On
Television Tonight
RALEIGH (Ql—Television view
ers will get a look-in on the North
Carolina Legislature in action to
night and tomorrow.
WUNC-TV, the educational tele
vision station of the University of
North Carolina, will televise ses
sions of the House of Representa
tives tonight and Tuesday.
AMBASSADOR HANNA
Wxt Jlailtj JWurd
Revision Os
Federal Loan
Units Urged
WASHINGTON (IP) The
Hoover Commission recom
mended today that many of
the government’s 104 lend
ing and insuring agencies be
abolished or forced to sup
port themselves under the
free enterprise system.
These and other proposed ac
tions, the commission said, would
result eventually in return to the
Treasury of capital funds totaling
$6,217,943,000. And, it added, they
would forestall possible future
Treasury investments totaling sl,-
114,000,000.
In addtion to such “reductions
in the national debt,” its overall
recommendations ultimately, the
commission said, would mean an
annual saving of some 200 million
dollars.
The 12-man commission, headed
by former President Herbert Hoo
ver, made its recommendation in
another of a series of reports to
Congress on government reorgan
ization. This one covered all feder
al agencies making or guarantee
ing loans.
CONTROVERSY SURE
It said lending. or guaranteeing
loans “is a function which the gov
ernment should undertake only
when private enterprise cannot or
will not perform the function and
then only in furtherance of a jus
tifiable governmental purpose. 1 ;
Hve members af.tiie commissioa
dissented from certain parts of the
report, which appeared certain to
stir up much controversy. Many of
the majority's recommendations
would affect directly government
programs involving housing, farm
ers, veterans, and small business.
The report said the number of
government lending, insuring, and
guaranteeing agencies had grown,
in 42 years from none to 104.
Thomas Drives
'55 Chevrolet
To Win Race
FAYETTEVILLE ffl Herb
Thomas of OHvte, N. C., swept
the lead at the 123rd Up and
wen the 159-Up late model stock
car race herb yesterday two Ups
ahead of Bob Wetborn of Sum
mersfleld, N. C.
The race oves the short, bank
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Mrs. Jasper Surles
Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Smithy Jane Surles, 75, of
Dunn, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Leslie, Worley on
Princeton, Route 1, early Monday
morning while on a visit there.
Funeral services will be held at
the Second Baptist Church in
Dunn at an hour to be announced
later. The Rev. E. C. Keller, pastor,
and the Rev. Ernest P. Russell,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
will officiate. Burial will be in
Greenwood Cemetery here. The
body will lie in state at the church
for one hour prior to the services.
Mrs. Surles was a native of
Wayne County, daughter of tire
late Richard S. and Sarah Sutton
Best. She moved to Dunn in 1944.
She was a member of the Second
Baptist Church and was active In
other affairs.
Surviving are her husband, Jas
per Surles of Dunn; three sons,
Charlie W. Surles and Leslie Surles
both of Dunn and Gurnev Hood
of Burgew; tvfro daughters. Mrs. K.
M. Fail of Dunn and Mrs. Leslie
Worley of Princeton, Route 1; also
13 grandchildren and one , great
grandchild.
saSSSSS
DUNN, N.C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 14, 1955
PIONEER VETERINARIAN DIES
Darden Services
Set For Tuesday
Dr. Thomas E. Darden of Dunn, one of the oldest and
best known veterinarians in this section of the State, died
suddenly at his home here late Sunday afternoon. He suf
fered a heart attack and died almost instantly."
Funeral Mass will be held Tues
day morning at 10 o’clock at the
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in
Dunn. Father Vincent Stokes will
officiate. Burial will be in Green
wood' Cemetery here.
A recitation of the Rosary will
be held Monday night at 8 o’clock
at the home on North Wilson Ave
nue.
Dr. Darden, who had served for
many years as Harnett County’c
rabies inspector, was a native of
Sampson County, son of the late
Thomas and Esther Godwin Dar
den. He was educated in the pub
lic schools of Sampson and attend
ed college in Washington, D. C.
PRACTICED HERE 40 YEARS
.He came to Dunn in 1914 and
had been practicing veterinary
medicine here since that time. He
was one of the pioneers in the
veterinary field in Eastern Caro
lina.
Dr. Darden was a member of the
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/ty organ Considers
Districting Bill X
State Senator Robert B. Morgan of Harnett County
said today that he has no intention of'introducing a bill
to abolish the system of electing county commissioners in
Harnett County by districts.
He also said he would like to
hear an expression from more citi
ens before offering a bill which
would require election of district
commissioners by a vote of the
entire county instead of by a vote
of the various districts.
At present, the county is divided
into five districts and one com
missioner is elected from each di
strict. Only the citizens of the dis
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TRIED IN JOHNSTON Two
residents of this section were tried
and convicted at the last session
of Johnston County Recorder’s
Court in Smithfleld. Lloyd Busbee
Pope, m, 17, of Dunn, was fined
$lO and costs for speeding, and
Hubert Bell, Negro, of Benson,
Route 1, was taxed with costs for
driving without an operator’s li
cense.
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR Pres
ident Hubert Peay of the Dunn
Jaycees reported today that Miss
Baldwin To Head
Dunn Rotary Club
Lawrence G. (Lonnie) Baldwin, well-known Dunn
business man has been elected president of the Dunn
Rotary Club for the coming year.
He was elected at the annual or
ganizational meeting of the dub
and succeeds Retiring President
Herman Green. Under rules of the
automatically becomes a member
of the board of directors and vice
president.
The dub also reelected two di
rectors and elected four new di
rectors.
NEW DIRECTORS
Reeledted to the board were:
Baldwin and James Snipes. Sleet
ed as new directors were George
Franklin Blalock, Rommto Willi
amson, and Dennis Strickland.
President Baldwin said today
that he had reappointed Pan)
Walker to serve another tens as
secretary-treasurer a t 'the' dub.
The new president, who win taka
office tat July, Is a native at Petera
burg who has maided in Duma far
the past 11 years. Heaths jm es
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DR. T. E. DARDEN
trict vote on the candidates in the
primary.
However, the eutua county votes
on all five commissioners in the
general election.
At their last meeting, members
of the county board indicated they
would be in favor of having com
missioners elected on a county
wide basic instead of by the di
stricts concerned.
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Clyde Bryan of Benson, Route 2
was the first contributor to the
Jaycees’ cemetery paving project.
Miss Bryan read that the Jaycees
plan to pave all the driveways in
Greenwood Cemetery and volun
tarily sent in a donation of $lO.
Jaycees will meet tonight at 7:30
at Westbrook Chevrolet Co.
SECOND DEGREE WORK—Dunn
Masons will meet Tuesday night
at 7:30 o’clock for work in the
second degree. Secretary Curtis B.
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Big Cable Cut;
Company Posts
m Reward
ATLANTA —(IP)— A nine-
I state strike of union tele
-1 hone workers started today
■ and the main Birmingham
to New Orleans cable was
severed in what a Southern
j Bell spokesman said was
“deliberate sabotage.”
The strike, scheduled to begin at
6 a.m. in the Southern Bell terri
tory, put approximately 50,000
union telephone workers off the
job. Picket lines were set up at
many points two hours ahead of
expiration of the old contract-last
midnight. Contract negotiations
have not broken off, however.
A Southern Bell spokesman said
at Birmingham the company was
offering a $5,000 reward ‘for per
sons responsible” for the cable cut.
| Alabama State Manager W. A.
Thompson said:
‘We have no way of knowing
how it was cut and we don’t know
I who cut it. It was in connection
with and following the strike. It
was no accident as far as we ran
determine. It was deliberate sabo
-1 tage.”
Southern Bell said the cable was
cut near Birmingham at 3:45 am.
CST, severing all but one toll cir
cuit. By 9:30 a.m. service had not
been restored although the Bir
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Area Phones
Nos Affected
There will be no delays in the
completion of long distance tele
phone calls within the operating
territory of Carolina Telephone
arid Telegraph Company, although
work stoppages in the nine-state
area of Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company may
cause slight delays on calls to and
beyond that company’s territory.
J. F. Havens, Vice President of
the local Company, disclosed today
that since the majority of long dis
tance calls originating in the Car
lina Company’s territory are han
dled all the way to their destina
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William J. Allen
Dies In Hospital
i William Jefferson Allen, 49, of
Dunn, Route 2, died Saturday
night in McCain Hospital at Mc-
Cain.
1 Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, pending the ar
rival of a son, Bruce Allen, who is
stationed with the Army 'in Ger
many.
Mr. Allen is the son of Mrs.
Amelia Jane Allen and the late R.
G. Allen of Dunn.
Surviving are his mother; his
wife, Mrs. Bessie Hodges Allen of
Dunn; one son, Bruce, in Ger
many; two daughters, Mrs. Eliza
beth Barefoot of Duim, Route 2,
and Miss Jean Allen of Dunn,
Route 2; one brother. Garland
Allen of Dunn, Route 2; two sis
ters, Mrs. Russell Hodges of Dunn,
Route 5 and Mrs. S. Y. Weaver of
Florida; also one grandchild.
JELKE'S LAWYERS CLAIM
Decent Young Girls Cant Be,
Sweet-Talked To Become Pros
NEW YORK—Mickey Jelke’s lawyers are going to rely
heavily on the argument that “no decent woman can be
sweet-talked into prostitution” in their efforts to. acquit
tile young oleo heir of compulsory prostitution charges,
they said yesterday.
Jelkta second trial, temporarily
stymied for lack of iurors, resumes
in General Sessions today, when
150 more blue ribbon veniremen
will go to the Criminal Courts
Building for questioning.
“The evidence adduced at the
last trial proved no claim that
‘compulsion’ was used to make Pat
Ward become a prostitute,” George
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costume, the official guardian of the garters, of the Friends of.;
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Townsend Says Meg
Has Not JDecided
BRUSSELS, Belgium— OP) —Group Capt. Peter Town
send said today he has no reason to believe that Princess
Margaret has decided to marry him
He held before him as he talked
with reporters a dispatch in a
London paper saying he was will
ing to accept exile with a certain
lady if the situation should de
mand it.
; “This statement fTi&plies (fegt
(Princess Margaret has decided to
imarry me,” he said, pointing to
the dispatch.
I “The Princess has made no such
decision known to me nor have I
Presbyterians Set
Revival Meetings
Five Presbyterian Churches in Harnett County are
ajnong the 250 churches in the Synod of North Carolina
holding simultaneous evangelistic services which begin
next Sunday, March 20, and continue through Friday of
next week.
This is a part of an Assembly
wide evangelistic .effort being con
ducted in the sixteen Synods of the
Presbyterian Church, U. S. (South
ern).
Presbyterian Churches in Har
nett County participating in the
evangelistic campaign are: Dunn,
Erwin, Lillington, Olivia and Mt.
Pisgah.
. VISITING MINISTERS
Visiting ministers from the Synod
of Virginia will preach in the Har
nett County Churches. The Rev.
David H. Burr, pastor of the First
Washington Herz, Jelke’s chief
counsel, said yesterday. Pat testi
fied two years ago. that Mickey
persuaded her to became a high
priced call girt because he needed
money- She said she was living
with Mickey, and was in love with
him. . ,-: y - •
■n* BA to telytog on the fact
ttat Jelke allegedly Induced her
Hr sweet talking," .Herts contin-
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any reason to believe she has made
such a decision.”
Townsend, wearing riding breech
es, met reporters in front of his
apartment. He said he would not
answer questions but that he had
a statement to make,' ’ j
“You all know I described this
alleged statement Saturday as pure
invention and said it should be
completely disregarded,” he said.
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Presbyterian Church of Charlottes*
ville, Virginia, will .preach in the
Dunn Church. The Rev. G. A.
Williams, of Ararat, Virginia, will
preach in the Erwin Church.
Preaching in Lillington will be the
Rev. Frank L. Goodman, of Lock
Willow, Virginia, at Olivia wiH be
the Rev. P. Carey Adams, of Rom
ney, W. Va., and at Mt. Pisgah-the
Rev. G. O. Yount, of Petersburg,
Virginia.
The officers and members of
these Presbyterian Churches ex
tend a cordial welcome to anyone
who wishes to attend these preach
ing services.
ued. ‘No decent woman, whose %
testimony can be believed in court,
can be sweet-talked into
tion, and I'm sure that other 'Bre
men know that.”
‘A decent girl isn’t taHud mto
becoming a prostitute. By ’‘AMHg
I mean to the extent where -ftor ,
sworn testimony can be reliadSp
on,” Herz continued. T
had more women on the juri.l
was most unhappy when th9skfe», '
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