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«■ WEATHER + Widely scattered showers and warmer today and tonight. VOLUME 5 IKE DECLARES ECONOMY IS SOUND ' ' " • * ** ■ ' •.* ? : .. lka- f ■ 'Li v 10& B 1 Bfc—ttaae ■: IJI JT v |‘ mm DUNN’S NEW A & *P SUPER MARKET $125,C00 MODEL STORE # New A & P Ready For Gala Opening . Jh&M Jjtfle JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS A group of Dunn citizens has an appointment with Senator Robert V Morgan and Representative Canon to discuss a change ia W vpunn's municipal election law . . . P*-“”rhey will ask the solons to intro t duce a bill to abolish Dunn’s ward system so that the four members L<- of the board can be elected at large | from any section of the town . . . , Ida Cunningham says she is trying to talk Bill into going on a diet ... Johnnie Wilboume, owner of 1 Wilbourne Furniture Comuany at Lillington, has'leased the old A & P building in Dunn to open a Gen eral Electric Appliance store , . . Johnnie has made a big success in the county seat . . . They’re mak -3 ing a movie of Jack Lalt’s best * # seller “New York Confidential” . , , l Frances Stewart reminds us that it was Donna Atwood—not Donna i Reed—of Ice Cacades fame, on Ed Sullivan’s show Sunday night . . . Pardon the mistake . . . Oma Jones, ' head of the advertising make-up department and one of The Daily Record’s original employees, is in | the Veterans Hospital at Fayette- 1 | v file with spinal meningitis ~_ i > His condition is serious . . . Dewey Whittentdn says he knows four people who took in the Mardis I Gras celebration at New Orleans i 1 - and remained cold sober—he and IL Mrs. Whittenton and Mr. and Mrs. ■ R. R. Raynor .. . They don't drink ■. (Continued on page six) Two Murder Cases, Variety Os Others Slated Next Week Seventy-four cases, including two charging murder * and eight , manslaughter cases, are scheduled for trial at ■! a one-week criminal session of Harnett Superior Court which will convene Monday *moming in Lillington. < Judge Grover A. Martin of amdthfield has been assigned to fireside over the' term and Solicitor . Jack Hooks of Kenly will prosecute ' lira. Elisabeth Matthews, clerk of court, said today that every ef fort was made to put the calehdar . long standing cases and not to list * any case for any reason trial ap * 'neared ctoubtfuL “We are seeking to have a truly ' working calendar,” said the. clerk. ' In addition to the criminal oases, one divorce suit is set for trial. Ojce Register Lucas is seeking a divorce from Willie Harrell Lucas. ; ,<xhia ratr it set for Monday. • ■H&is y'H:. .itulifc iiv#..'* : TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 A pace-setter in the grocery retailing business of Amer ica completed plans today for a spectucular opening of a $125,000.00 “model store” in West Cumberland Avenue, it was announced today by P. M. Bealer, Jr., Vice-President in charge of A & P’s Operations in the Carolihas. The ultra-modern 100 percent self-service supermarket will be opened on Thursday ' morning at 8:30. Wednesday afternoon from 5 to 8 p. m. »pen house will be held, Awing iha fcubtto an opportunity to get a preview of the last word lp modern supermarkets. "The model store will offer one of the most modern supermarket innovations in the state,” said Mr. Bealer As one enters the store, the eye is quick to catch the beauty of the surroundings. On the right band side are approximately 44 feet of produce and frozen food cases, with a beautiful blue wall above the at tractive produce arrangement. All fresh fruits and vegetables, except such staples as oranges, onions and potatoes, will be kept under con stant temperature In this open face, self-service department. “Our system keeps fruits and vegetables at the peak of their freshness,” Mr. Bealer explained, “and the produce* department will also include a dried fruit section and a pre-pack section, featuring such packaged products ad pota toes, onions and oranges." SELF-SERVICE FEATURES The store manager pointed out at the rear of the store Is a 100- percent self-service meat depart ment containing approximately 32 feet of open-style refrigerated cas es, with the walls painted an at tractive cameo rose. This meat de partment, including back room coolers, cutting room and pre packaged room, contain the best equipment available for the new ' type supermarket. “It also has the benefit of experience* and “know how” that A&P has gained through its pioneer work in the food merchandising business,” the A&P Vice-f*resident said. ‘One of the many advantages of I this new type meat department It | that it makes the housewife’s ahop (Continued On rage Four) There is no likelihood that more * than a small traction of the long • list Os cases can he disposed of during the week. Same of the trial* will involve lengthy testimony. In one of the murder oases, Julia Williams. 66-year-old Dunn Negro i woman, is charged with killing her i youpg lover, 30-year-old Raymond McNeill. She shot him to death at i the bouse they were occupying in 1 Dunn on the night of February 26. The woman claims the gun went off accidentally. In the other murder case, George Baldwin is charged with the murddr MonoteerMigro.^^ > ' , Vj*. • ? .f \ Site JBaiit; Open House TodayAf ’ 5 O’clock City and chamber of commerce official, high officials of the A & P Tea Company and other civic leaders and dignitaries will take part In formal exercises marking the opening of Dunn’s new $126,000 super market in the new Quinn Shopping Center this afternoon at 5 o’clock. Locke Muse, manager of the store and a veteran of 24 years experience with the nation’s larg est food retailer, said this morning that everything is In readiness for the gala event The Rev. Richard Rhea Gam mon, pastor of the First Presby terian Church, Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, President Emmett C. Ald redge of the Chamber of Com merce and other local civic leaders will take part la the rites. A * P OPFICIALB HERE Among company officials who will participate are: R. C. Hughes of Raleigh, A Sc P superintendent for Eastern Carolina and J. L. Creed of Fayetteville, district sup ervisor. Pete M. Bealer of Charlotte, head of the company’s extensive operations in the two Carollnas, Is also expected to attend and take part In the event. »- The huge new food center, locat ed behind Quinn’s at the forks of Cumberland and Broad, today was a beehive of activity as last-minute 1 arrangements for the opening were made. (Continued On Pag* Four) take up most of the calendar. There are 20 cases of driving drunk set for trial. Also scheduled for trial are two cases of burglary, fix cases of breaking and entering, fire for gery caes, nine cases of liquor law violation, and seven cases of as auit with a deadly weapon. GRAND JURY CASKS Fifteen cases will go before the grand Jury the opening day. They are: -r.~ Julia Williams, murder; Mitchell Monroe and Walter Tucker, man slaughter; George Baldwin, mur der; Archie Holliday and Linso ;s&pi«g t ,a ; ,3as and larceny from a Dunn Jewelry (Cintinni* On Page Mr) • v-V', DUNN, N C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 16, 1955 Mother Bailey IsDead At9o : Mrs. Kittle Blevins Bailey, 90, of Dunntand Cochran, Ga., died sud denly; Wednesday morning at 7 n’Ctocti at the. Dunn Iftspital. She JttlWftd a heart attack and died about two hours later. The • body will be returned to Cochran Thursday and funeral ser vices will be held 'Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Trinity Episco pal Church. Burial will be in the Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Bailey was a native of Ala bama, daughter of the late Dr. John ,F. Rlevins and Melanie Ohaudron Blevins. She moved to Cochran in 1892. She was a char ter member of the Trinity Episco pal Church and was active in church affairs. She was a member of the Eastern Star and was first president of the Woman’s- Chib of Cochran. Ga., was active in the -United Daughters of the Confed eracy. She was a volunteer work er for the Red Cross during both World Wars. Mrs. Bailey was known in Cochran as “Mother Bailey.” Mrs. Bailey had made her home in Dunn with Mrs. Kenneth F. Howard, her daughter, for about a year. Her husbapd, Thomas Lee Bailey, died in 1949. Surviving are one son, T. L. Bai (Continued On Pago Four) Vaccine Endorsed By County Doctors At o meeting of the Harnett County Medical Society on Mon day, March IS, the doctors of Har nett County went on record unan imously to advise all parents of first and second grade pupils to take, advantage of the Dee polio vaccine,being offered in the near future. The vaccine win be fur nished by the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis and wUI be administered under the supervision of the doctors of the Harnett County Medical Bociety Dee of charge. + Record Roundup + NEW DISTRICT—Under legis lation just passed by the General Assembly, Harnett, Lee and John ston County win farm the new Eleventh Judical District. Former ly, these three counties, along with Wayne and Chatham, made up the Fourth District. The number of districts in the State was increased and new Judges and solicitors will be added. ; r ' ' „ V vifc MINISTERS GETS POST-The Rev. O. fit McNeil, Jr., son of the Rev. and Mrs. Ous D. McNeil, Sr. of Duna and grandson of Jobe MoNed of Sampson, has been named principal of the R. O. Law CALL GIRL TELLS OF SELLING HER FAVORS Pat Names More Society Playboys As Her Clients By JACK WOLISTON ? NEW YORK —(IP)— Pat 'Ward, calm and confident;, 'returned to the witness stand today and named more of the case society playboys to whom she sold her favors for money, al legedly at the behest of oleo heir Minot Mickey Jelke. Three of the names she mentioned were “Harry Odzer,” “Red Major” and “Joe Gomez.” She identified the last as a South Ameri can millionaire. She testified she had relations with the three men and that her intimacies with Major and Gomez took place in the East Side apart ment which she shared with Jelke. The names also included a “Mr. Auerbach,” ‘.Jack Friedman,’’ and “Bill Harrison.’’ She testified that she had intimate relations with all three men and that they paid her money. JUROR REPLACED The first hour of this morning’s session was taken up while attor neys for both sides discussed with the judge the report of juror Max Cohen that he was approached last night by a newspaper reported who questioned him about a Manhattan property he owns. As a resist, Cohen was dismissed and replaced by Ernest G. Wheeler, one of the two alternates. She said she met Friedman on two dates at the Savoy Plaza Hotel, had sexual relations with him and was paid “over SIOO on the second date.” The slim brupette with the wind blown bob broke down in tears late yesterday and forced Judge Francis L. Valente to adjourn Jelke’s re - trial on compulsory prostitution charges until this morning. Miss Ward, the state’s star wit ness, as she was at Jelke’s first trial two years ago, had just testi fied to an affair with a man in a Savoy-Plaza Hotel suite here when the tears began to roll. After a five-minute recess, she regained her oomposure somewhat. But when Asst. Dist. Anthony J. Liebler abruptly asked the ex tent of her intimate relations with a William Cahn, her body again shook with sobs. ACTORS DENT IT Altogether, she was on .the stand |CmUi>w* On P*n ’’-on It is important for parents to know that vaccine can be obtained only for those children of the first and second grades whose parents sign a request for the vaccine be fore March 25. .There will be no Dee vaccine available for those who do not re quest it before March 25. The doctors advise all parents to sign request* at once and call at tention to the fact that when this vaccine becomes available at doc tor’s offices It will be quite expen sive. son Institute at Southern pines. He is the first member of the fam ily and first Sampson native to receive this honor. BUSS WESTBROOK HONORED —Miss Mary Lou Westbrook, daughter of Mrs. Norva Westbrook of Dunn, a student at Woman’s College In Greensboro, has been elected to membership in the Dolphin and Seal. Club at the Woman’s College in Greensboro, where she is a student Mias West brook is making a splendid re cord at the ooUege. (C—thieed Oh Page Mx) j| m " JRk. AW JB Hpv- jL j Bf iJQsHHIP m I■ I I PAT WARD —They Tremble As She Talks II More Drivers Following is another list of resi dents of this area who have lost their driver’s license during the period February 12 through Feb ruary 19 th: Lawrence Avery Beasley of Ben son, convicted at Smithfield for driving drunk and reckless driving. John Curtis Burke of Benson, convicted there for driving drunk. Roy Johnson of Autryvilie, con victed second time for driving Suggs Company To Hold Its Grand Opening On Fri., Sat. The Suggs Company, Dunn’s newest furniture and appliance store, will hold its grand opening here Friday and Saturday with a big sales event, free gifts and free prizes. Plans for the opening were an nounced today by Jimmy Suggs, popular Dunn youth a*>~ -i to his hometown tc go into business for himself. The Suggs Company is located at 110 West Broad Street, across from the'Post Office, in a build ing which has been completely remodeled and renovated for the opening. N FEATURING HOTPOINT ' ' Featuring the big complete new line of Hotpoint appliances, The Suggs - Company also offers a big selection of furniture in every price, style, fashion and class range In many different nation ally-advertised lines. The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION...WfW* PHOTOS. . .ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY drunk at Fayetteville. Robert Roland McLamb of Dunn, convicted at Benson for driving drunk and without operators’ li cense. Howard Allen Spence of Benson, convicted at Fayetteville for driv ing drunk. Ernest Wayne Duncan of Dunn, convicted at Rowland for reckless driving and speeding over 55 miles lContinued on Page Tl In announcing plans for the op ening today, Mr. Suggs said: “In opening this store, I am fulfilling a long ambition of min* to have a furniture store in my home town. “We have spared no effort or ex pense,” he said, “in assembling the very finest selection of every type furniture possible and we {dan to continuously add to our stock from time to time.” MT. Suggs said be was especi.- J ally pleased to have been selected] as a dealer for the famous Hot point line, which includes appUan- ■£££*; and a complete line of small Ota- j ' NO. 1Z Sees No Reason Why Weapons 1 Can't Be Used WASHINGTON OP)—Pres ident Eisenhower told his news conference today that stock market conditions on the whole seem to be very' satisfactory. He counseled great caution in undertak ing any step which might damage public confidence in the economy. The chief executive said that as far as he knows, nothing in the current Senate investigation of the stock market boom has done any thing to undermine confidence. He added, however, that as general proposition in the promo tion of an expanding great care should be taken to avoid doing anything that' would under* mine public confidence. He said spiritedly that naturally he is concerned about any drop in the stock market, but he *JJB‘ equally concerned about any fikft in agricultural prices or deteriora tion in any segment of the ecofK omy. Other eionomii this weekly meeting with repOßbj ers: He said he has no fears of *** automation would do to the eoo nomic life of America. He believes strongly that as work is done with fewer man-hours , man develops other needs and thus creates a nferket for more work. 'He declined to give his attitude ■toward the proposed guaranteed annual wages in the automobile industry. WOULD USE WEAPONS President Eisenhower said he no reason „why tactical atomic weapons shoufld not be used against strictly military targets should this country become involved again In any major fighting. The President generally echoed the prediction, by Secretory of State John Foster Dulles yester day that small tactical atomic weapons would be used .by this country if the United States be came involved in a major military action. The President added under news conference questioning that It would be foolish to ignore the fact that the dangers of war great er than they were some years ago. The President said he believes the Republicans could win In 1966 with any presidential candidate worthy of the position provinen the GOP puts across a program that will benefit all Americans. He declined to discuss his own indispensability or lade of It He simply told his news conference that the strength of the GOP in the next election will Ue primarily In the Republican program for the country. He was asked whether he agreed with Vice President Richard M. Nixon that the GOP cannot win in 1956 without the Eisenhower name on the ballot. He smiled and said he thought the one year moratorium on ques- , tions on his political plans, which (Continaed n Page 7) JIMMY SUGGS
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