5 New Firms To Open In Shopping Center
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Mostly sunny, partly cloudy and
a little warmer today. Fair and
( rather cold tonight with scattered
frost in interior; Wedsesday most
ly sunny and warmer.
VOLUME 5
IKE DOUBTS WAR THREAT IS REAL
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EVANGEUST AND PASTOR—Horace Easen,
left, prominent Baptist layman who is conducting
revival services this week at the First Baptist
0 Church in Dunn, is shpwn here chatting with the
Rev. Ernest P. Russell, pastor of the church, fol
lowing last night’s services. The revival will
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By HOOVER ADAMS
l THOSE EASTERN STAR
GALS DO IT IP* RIGHT.
If J. Vernon (Crow) Bass de
cides to run against Mayor Ralph
E. Hanna, it certainly won’t be
Ralph’s fault. No, indeed.
The two popular officials were
discussing the forthcoming city
primary at a bull session following
a meeting of the council one night
recently.
Somebody asked Crow if he
planned to run for reelectlon to
the board again.
♦ “No,” replied Crowe, adding
' good-naturedly, “but I may run
against Ralph for mayor.’’
Ralph, who was all ears by that
time, perked up, smiled at his good
friend and replied:
“Well, there’s one thing about it,
Crow,” said the mayor. “I’m cer
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FIRST IN THE RACE
! Godwin Announces
f For Dunns Board
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. Derwood Godwin, prominent young Dunn realtor,
today announced his candidacy -for City Commissioner
in Ward IV and said he would file for the office when the
books open Friday morning.
Godwin, one of the city’s most |
progressive young business men,
was the first to throw his hat into
>hs political ring in Dunn's cur
rent municipal primary.
He is seeking the council seat
now held by Commissioner B. A.
Bracey, who announced yesterday
that be definitely would not seek
re-election.
In announcing, Mr. Godwin did
janot give any lenthy platform or
(’'program, but merely said, “I stand
for honesty and efficiency in gov
_ eminent.’’
He said a large number of pteo
|Fple in every walk of life had urged
him to raftjr? the race.
Mr Godwin indicated that he
• he would make ad all-out aggrea-
L aive race for the office.
OTHER POTENTIALS r
Although he fe^the^ first an
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continue through Sunday, with service each eve
ning at 7:30. Eason, former associate of the late
beloved Dr. George Truett, is an outstanding pulpit
speaker and his sermons are proving very pop
ular. (Dally Record Photo.)
Hollywood Ready
For Oscar Night
HOLLYWOOD UP)—Oscar night in Hollywood has
become a disciplined TV show, unlike the old days when
the more informal event was colorfully sprinkled with
bloopers. ***••» *
Tomorrow four fexcited stars will
collect top film acting honors at
an Academy Award presentation
that has been “dry-runned” into
perfection.
Because of the demands of tele
vision, the players aren’t allowed trj
make thank-you speeches or long
winded Introductions. In the ’3os
an ’4os such speeches livened up
the affair.
One year the late Will Rogers
was announcing the best director
award. He talked on and on about
"my good friend, Frank.” Director
Frank Capra was halfway to »the
stage when Rogers suddenly boom
ed, “The winner is Cooper.”
Capra slunk back to his seat.
• In those days the awards werq
handed out at a banquet. By the
time the guests partook of dinner
and juice of the grape, the speeches
got longer and the reporters
sleepier. '
One year producer L B. Mayer
put his arm around winning pro
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DEKWOOD GOOWUt
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Coroner, Aide
Will Receive
Raise In Pay
. Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen
derson add Assistant Coroner J.
Edgar Black, Jr., will soon get a
well-deserved raise in pay for their
services to the county.
■ Senator Robert B. Morgan an
nounced today that he will intro
duce a bill later this week to bring
the fees for this important office
up to a level with other counties of
the Stat^.
At present, thenoroner and his
assistant are paid only $5 per case,
even if investigation of the case
requires days of work, hundreds of
miles of traveling and a lengthy
inquest.
Senator Morgan’s bill would pro
vide $lO for a call In-which no in
quest is necessary; S3O for each in
quest, and 10 cents per mile for
automobile expenses., v
Even witn this raise the two of
ficials will receive less remunera
tion that that paid coroners in
other counties of the State.
The'raise was not requested by
the two popular officials but by
Other officers and citisens familiar
with the amount of work which
they do and the amount of time
they have been spending in service
of their county without pay.
VIENNESE CONVENIENCE
VIENNA, Austria (o)—This coun.
try’s first motel will open in EVas
tans next month with the slogan
“From your car directly isto your
bedroom,’’ H was announced today.
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DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1955
Quinn Shopping
Center Showing
Rapid Growth
Plans for the opening in
the near future of five new
business establishments in
the new Quinn Shopping
Center on West Cumberland
Street were disclosed here
today.
Two business concerns, the big
new A & P Super Market and
Tart’s Modern Barber Shop, have
already opened in the rapidly-grow-f
ing new shopping center.
Construction is underway on
three new buildings and all of the
retail store spaces except one have
already been rented.
Arvel Tart erected the modern
istic building to be occupied on one
side by his barber shop and on the
other side by Vogue Cleaners, to be
opened this week end by Joe Wil
son, a former Dtfhn resident whe,
has come back to town to open the
most modem type of cleaning plant.
SHELL GREETS BUILDINGS
Henry Shell, prominent Dunn
business man and realtor, is now
nearing completion of another
1 modernistic structure which will
house h drug sundry shop, a beauty
parlor, a launderette and one other
bugiAMSk -Yteei fourth apace in the
building has not yet been leased,
Mr. Shell said today.
David Wilson, well-known Dunn
merchant, will establish a drug
sundry shop in one section of the
new building. Mrs. Rachel Gregory
is opening a beauty parlor and J
U. Britt is opening a launderette
in the other two. business spaces.
Mr. Shell, who owns a large
amount of business and res
idential property fcere, said he was
negotiating with (sgVbrkl concerns
for rental of tjhs rother business
space in bis net* structure.
NEW GOOpYEAR FIRM
A large, two-story building to
house theihew Twin-City Goodyear
Tire Company is being erected close
by Derwood Godwin, another prom
inent Dunn realtor.
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+ Record Roundup +
MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage
licenses wer issued from the of
fice of the county register of deeds
to the following couples: on March
25, to Henry Peter Voznlck, 35, of
Sweet Hill, Va., and Bethlehem, Pa.
and Jean W. Howard, 23, of Jones
boro Heights and Allentown, Pa.;
on March 26, to James Andrew De
war, 20, of Fuquay Springs, Route
1, and Carolyn M. Wills, 20, of Fu
quay Springs, Route 2; on March
28, to Harshel Vaiden Hawley, 23,
of Lillington, Route 3, and Betty
Jeanne Campbell, 26, of Ports
Blackman Is New
Mayor Os Benson
C. M. Blackman, prominent merchant and insurance
agent, is the new Mayor of Benson.
The filing deadline for candidates
closed at noon today with Black
man unopposed forth town’s top
office. '
Mayor J. Roacoe Barefoot, who is
now completing a third term, did
toot file tor re-election, Mayor
Barefoot, who has enjoyed a very
successful term of office, said he
felt he had held the office long
enough.
Two other Benson officials,
Judge J f Ed Johnson and Town
Constable W. J. Wood, are alto
without opposition.
The city primary will be held at
Benson on neat Tuesday, April 5.\
PARMER, BOSTIC RETIRING
Benson is aasored of at least two
new faces in the city council. Two
comwiiaatohets. Bin Fanner and O.
N. Bostic, did not me for M-efco
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BEAUTY CONTESTANTS—Pictured here are
three more entries in the “Miss Dunn” beauty
pageant. At the left is Miss Mildred Lee Clayton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Clayton of LU
iington. In the center is Miss Frances Johnson,
NEW CLERK AND COURT LIBRARIES
Bill Creates New Office
Os County Court Clerk
State Senator Robert 'P. Morgan of Lillington has in
trpduced a bill to establish a new pffiqe of Clerk of Har
nett Recorder’s Court and another' bill adding $1 to the
fees in all civil and criminal cases in Harnett to provide
court libraries and better courtroom facilities for the
county’s three courts.
The first bill provides that the
office of Recorder’s Court Clerk
be separated from the office of Su
perior Court Clerk at Lillington and
that a clerk be -appointed by the
county board not iater than July 1.
After the first -term, the office
would become elective.
A salary of not less than $3,000
nor more than $4,600 is provided
for the new clerk.
Senator Morgan said this bill was
endorsed unanimously by members
of the Harnett County Bar and by
County Judge M. O. Lee.
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mouth, Ohio.
ENTERS (CONTEST—HeIe Page,
4-H CClub member from Boone
Trail School, is in Raleigh today
to compete in a state-wide Farm
ers Co-operative Exchange essay
contest. Miss Page was accompa
nied to the Raleigh Woman’s Club
by Miss Margaret Ray, county
girls 4-H leader. The Harnett
County girl gave her essay on Mon
day afternoon to the meeting of the
Mamers Home Demonstration Club.
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Heber Johnson of
Benson, Rt. 2, and on the right is Miss Marilyn
Gale Yarley, daughter of Mrs. D. H. Yarley of
Coats. The pageant, sponsored by the Dunn Jay
cees, will be held here April 7 and 8.
Asks Divorce
IT Times In
Only 5 Years
MEMPHIS apt—Mrs. Garnett Lee
Pearson filed suit for divorce here
—the 11th time in less than five
years of marriage.
Mrs. Pearson divorced Marvin
Lee Pearson in 1952 after two years
of marriage but remarried him the
same day.
She filed her 11th divorce suit
here All the others, ex
cept for the one actual divorce,
have been withdrawn.
Man Pays
Income Tax
8 1-2 Million
WASHINGTON (TO—At least 171
Americans were millionaires or
better in 1651. Five had incomes
exceeding 5 million dollars and
one paid 8 1-2 million in income
taxes aone.
But 55- million other Americans
were in the rum-millionaire cate
gory, the Internal Revenue Service
reported.
The tip taxpayer—the one who
shelled out 8 1-2 million—was an
unidentified New Yorker. After the
government .had taken its bite, he
had ony 4 1-2 million left for him
self.
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SUPERIOR COURT ROUNDUP
26 Cases Are Disposed Os
Superior Court machinery in
Harnett County last week moved
at a rapid pace with a total of 86
cases, including two murder trials,
heard in a five day period. Jury
verdicts were rendered in five case*
and Jurors wre aeleetd in almost
aa many more trials, only to have
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tad stutod or after part of it had
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The Record Is First
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COMICS AND FEATURES
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County Sofims
Rap Ad Tax
Harnett Representative
Carson Gregory said today,
that he will vote against a
bill to levy a three per cent
tax on newspaper, radio
television advertising in the
State and Senator Robert
Morgan said he is “also in
clined to be against it.”
They made their statements
after receiving protests from the
Dunn Retail Merchants Association
and from merchants all over the
county and in various other sec
tions of the State.
Charles Hildreth, chairman of
the Dunn Retail Merchants Com
mittee, yesterday sent telegrams to
Gregory and Morgan pointing out
that such a bill would be harmful
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Testimony Ended
In Trial Os Jelke
NEW YORK (IP)—Defense attorneys for Minot Mickey
Jelke suddenly rested their case today after presenting
eight witnesses in an effort to disprove charges of com
pulsory prostitution against the former playboy.
The defense rested in the 14th
day of the trial on a note of bitter
argument between defense attor
ney George W. Here and Asst.
Dist. Atty. Anthony J. Lieb'er. The
dispute was over admission in evi
dence of a bank statement on an
account which Jelke had at the
First National Bank of Lake For
est, 111.
The sudden end of the defense
case came as a surprise. Here had
indicated he might have additional
witnesses, and during a recess he
of breaking and entering charges
and cleared Elwood Oates, a Dunn
N«*ro of robbery of money from
Layton Norris, a white man. They
alto said not guilty to George T.
Leach, a Dunn Negro accused of
cutting Isaac Mcßeithen, another
Ne *CONVICTIONB
son of areon. finding he burned
NO. 81
Says He Does
Not Think Red
China Is Ready
WASHINGTON (IP)—Presi
dent Eisenhower does not
believe that Red China is
prepared to attack Quemoy
and Matsu Islands in the
near future.
He disagrees emphatically with
those military and naval leaders
who have recently been saying that
war may begin in the Formosa
Strait by mid-April.
Os the basis of all the military
and political inleligence reports
avaiable to the White House, he
feels that Red China does not yet
have enough airfields along the
coast to undertake a full-scale at
tack soon.
The President does not discount
the danger of war in the Formosa
Strait at some later date, when
Red China has massed more
strength, particularly air power.
His objection is to recent news
stories reporting that some of his
top military advisers regard the
conflict as imminent
NO REBUKE SEEN
tale White House believes that Ik
knows who inspired these reports,
bot the President does not plan,
at present, to administer any di
rect personal rebuke to the sour
ces.
He feels that public knowledge
of his displeasure at the war-scare
talk should be a sufficient warning
the officials concerned.
The published reports that
aroused his ire said some key ad
visers were urging I him to make
a definite declaration that the
United States would right to pro
tect Quemoy and Matsu from seiz
ure.
So far, the United States has
carefully avoided any flat commit
ment to defend the Nationalist
held islands which are directly off
the shore of Red China. It has
said American forces would fight
if necessary to defend Formosa
and the Pescadores. But adminis
tration sources have said that
President Eisenhower himself
would decide, when and if events
also to resist an attack on Quemoy
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had brought into the courthouse
a wire recording machine and
speaker attachment.
The final defense witness was
Charles F. Salkeld, an official of
the Banker’s Trust Co. He spent
the eatiie morning under cross
examination by Liebler as to
amounts deposited and withdrawn
by Jelke in checking accounts.
LOANB AND GIFTS
Salkeld testified under direct ex
amination yesterday that the form-
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Found Julia Williams, Dunn, guilty m
of the murder of her young lover,
Raymond McNeill. James Leslie
was found guilty of driving dnatt. 1
Five divorce suite also were heard
But despite the gap this left in