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* WEATHER * Fair to partly cloudy, warm and humid today and Saturday. VOLUME S STEEL STRIKE ENDS IN AGREEMENT iti M 1 IH I uSmsmRiJK \ _ JIB - H a. W * ERWIN EXECUTIVES CONFER Marcbant C. Cottington, center, of Durham, general man ager of Erwin Mills, Inc., is shown here conferring at Erwin with Manager W. M. Miley, Jr, left, tad JJISL&S Mils JhJbtqA By HOOVER ADAMS THUS IM Will n TfITNOI luST A CONGLOMERATION City Judge Albert R. Wilson of Durham, a native of Dunn, and Mrs. Wilson, were visitors here yes terday . . . They stopped for lun cheon at Johnson’s Restaurant en route to the Methodist meeting at Fayetteville . . . The Dunn native is such a popular figure in Dur ham that he’s regarded as a per manent fixture on the bench— He has served for about a decade and can have the job just as long as he wants it . . . Prominent in civic affairs, he's a former district governor of Klwanis International . . , Judge and Mrs. Wilson did a wonderful thing a few months ago when they celebrated their wed ding anniversary—they invited a couple hundred of the older citi zens of Durham to be their guests at a party ... “I feel that old peo ple are sadly neglected,” said the Judge, "and we Just wanted to do something for them.” . , . The Daily Record carried a story about it when it happened and we were curious for more details ... He told us the touching story of one of his guests . . , She was an 86- year-old widow who still has a (Continued m Page Twe) '■wsttfsh ; jffe. inL ■l^KasK.’ WATERMELON CAPITOL OF EASTERN CAR OLINA Shown in this picturo are Just 1 few of the more then 1500 watermelons awaiting yen at Grafton Tart’s Open Air Market on the Dunn-Er win Highway. He’s really got ’ana any Mud and siae 7 on want, from the tiny Cuban melons to those Mg congoes weighting up to 40 and 50 pounds apiece . . . They’re deliciously red-ripe, sweat as TELEPHONES 3117 - 31 IS Assistant Manager J. K. Bruton, right. Appoint ment of Mr. Miley and Mr. Bruton, veteran Er- , • win officials, was announced earlier In the week. (Daily Record Photo.) SOLDIER GETS EXTRA 6 MONTHS Holdup Gun Theft Brings New Term Charles Johnson, 19-year-old Kansas City soldier who earlier this week was bound over to Harnett Superior Court under SI,OOO bond for attempted armed robbery, was given six months on the roads, in county court Thursday.jfor oi thrrttie tie used in the holchip.and for-4tee lar ceny of other goods. He was arrested on the outskirts of Fayetteville early Sunday morn ing after a chase that started on the outskirts of Dunn when he and a companion, Otis Mangu, also 19. of Marietta, Ga. attempted to hold up W. Hanna, operator of Ma’s Kitchen, a restaurant and motel. Hanna’s yells for help brought neighbors and they chased the two soldiers to the river bridge at Fay etteville, where Highway Patrol man Dan Bass stopped their car and took them into custody. Johnson was tried in the county court for larceny of the rifle, 27 packages of cigarettes and a piggy bank containing $5 which belonged to a little child from the home of his father-in-law, W. H . Non is of Erwin. - After learning of the armed rob bery and the fact that a rifle was used in it, Moore contacted Deputy Sheriff B. E. Sturgill and identi fied the rifle as his weapon. CONFESSED CRIME Sturgill took him to the county jail to see his son-in-law and Stur gill said Johnson confessed to them that he had stolen the rifle, ciga (Continued on Pag* Two) sugar, and the price is right, too, only 79 cents and 99 cento apiece. Crafon, in beard, is shown at left helping a customer pick out a choice mel on. Thare’s no doubt about it, when you ge eut to the Open Air Market, you’re right smack In the middle es Watermelon Heaven. (Daily Reoort Photo.) T„ <Shv Jiaiitt Jlutnrd Crash Kills 8 Pilots LISBON, Portugal OP) The Portuguese ai rforce announced to day that eight American-built Ffi4 Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force in two stacked waves crashed follow-the leader fashion into a fog shrouded mountain peak. All eight pilots were killed in the multiple crash which forced can cellation of the nation’s observance of Air Force Day. Earlier reports from the scene had said the eight planes collided together in air during maneuvers. Later repeals said the eight planes, which had been given Por tugal as U. S. aid to a member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization failed to clear a 3,000 -foot peak in the fog shrouded bar - valho Mountains. DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1, 1955 There's Still Time To Save | On Bargains I Bargain Days are stillßp ing on and there arejapr gains galore in every Dunn store. The gigantic city*ifijle sales event won’t end until Saturday night, write* l means you still have tpae to take advantage of §he sensational bargains b4pg offered. Bargain Days got off With a flpg here Thursday morning mu other large crowd of shoppers.JPere hi town today. There were ho disappointmSßU, either. They found the merchaallse Urey were locking. “Why,” declared a lady f&m Four Oaks, Route 2, *T saved pn ough money on this ’one tripftfor me and my whole family to lake a week’s vacation at the hMUK' I didn’t realize before,” slßrjitafcd, “that Dunn had wonderfte istlf'e*. I'm going to do the biggest part of my shopping in Dunn from now on.” , • K' Stories like that were heard all over town. Chairman Charlie Hildreth of the Retail Merchants Committee said today that indications point 'to the most successful summer tlute. Bargains went in the history of Che town. New bargains will be brought gtrfc and put on display Saturday ing (hid again at 1 pm. fiatm »/ afternoon for benefit of 'ywtfciifci Record To Print Issue On July 4 The Dally Record will publish an isdue on Monday, July 4. All departments win be open for business Just as usuaL Christmas is the only holiday observed by The Daily Record. + Record Roundup + MUSICAL VARITIES Mrs. Reta Whittenton announced the schedule for her “Musical Vari ties” Program for next week: Monday - Mrs. Whittenton will give an organ program; Tuesday - Aruthr Capps will be +he vocalist; Wednesday -, Sylvia Slaughter will render piao selec tions: Thursday - Musical reading Meeting Marilyn Brings Lady Woes SHEFFIELD, England (If) Dame Edith Sitwell, Brit ain’s top lady of letters, said today her life had been “ab solute hell”! since she met Marilyn Monroe last year in Hollywood. ! •‘lt I hear that young woman’s name again I shall shriek," she declared. Dame Edith took the occasion of receiving an honorary degree from Sheffield University to re veal a personal feud with the film actress but explained it is not Marilyn’s fault at all. She is tired, she said, of being asked why she is a friend of Miss Monroe. - She is not, she stated firmly, a friend" of the blonde ac tress. “Isa absolute hell," she added, which was a firm statement com ing from the best-known of Bri tain’s lady writers. Miss Sitwell 1s a poetess and a lecturer of considerable renown and as such travels considerably. That is what took her to Holly wood when she met Miss Monroe. “Some magazine photographers brought Miss Monroe to see me.” she explained. “I don’t know why. She seemed a nice, quite girl. “Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her —as I would te and other lady— (Cwtiwri On Pag* Faar) pBSr ' nSk ilakjarai Shßßq / -, -7 k \ EMSUm ’ I &Ajjj »3 • Jh| l| » k^r Ca V iKfAF jiwk gfe 4/ Vyy 7 fl . g * H MB Bh - • } B *® sa 'W % faJKg 58t B |^-in V iffi'ff^ Bl .., V]9 |H| . , - BUTtB • ' b v< -Jf - bHHHHIIHHBV'- ..i ■GETTING A PREVIEW LOOK Mrs. Hen rietta Barnes, left, is shown here giving Mrs. Louis C. Steplifens a preview look at all the gor geous gifts in Henrietta's Gift Shop. The new ftrm, located beside Johnson’s Restaurant, will 380 Deaths Expected W 4 4 * Ip By UNITED PRESS vj-he nation starts its three-day Foprth of July holiday today aob erfcjl by a warning that a record MB'persons may be killed on the Mtitavays before the long weekend' 'endsL .s** expected to clog the nation's roads between 6 p. m. today &ncl mid night Monday. The National Safety Council based its record estimate of traffic dead on the high turnout of cars. But it issued an additional plea that heavy tralfic doesn’t have to mean highway slaughter. The holiday found the nation's (Continued On Page Seven) by Mrs. Frank Core; Friday - Laure Canady of Four Oaks will be the vocalist. The program is heard each afternoon at 3 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH —Dr. Willard Hamrick of Religion Fac ulty of Wake Forest College will preach at the First Baptist Church. (Continued On Page Seven) 1 HL m a jgffidggE; - y » ‘ I * MARBLY^SoNROE hold its grand opening tolght. Mrs. Barnes was showing Mrs. Stephens a beautiful piece of blown glass when the Record photographer distracted them. (Daily Record Photo.) DIES PROTESTING INNOCENCE Man Is Executed POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah (IP) Protesting his innocence to the last, Don Jesse Neal was shot to death here today for the 1951 murder of a Salt Lake City police man. Dunn, Erwin Pastors Back The Rev. J. W. Lineberger, popu lar pastor of Dunn’s Divine Street Methodist Qhurch, has been return ed for another year. Assignment of ministers was an nounced last night at the confer ence in Fayetteville. The Rev. Mr. Lineberger has made an outstanding record here and is one of the most popular ministers ever to serve the local church. The Rev. E. C. Feltman was re turned to Erwin and the Rev. E. C Shoaf was returned to Lilling ton. . _ . Other assignments in this area included: Rev. E. E Henley. Jr., Rev. C. F. Hirsche. Benson; Rev. R. F. Munns, Coats; Rev. H. F.. Leatherman, Ebenezer; and Rev. W. C. Snow, Mainers. CREWCUTS TAKE LOGGER CHICAGO !IPI Chicago bArber shop owners are considering hiking the price of crew cuts to as much as $2.50. They ssyr it takes twice as long to,give a crew cut than to give an ordinary haircut. Haircuts cost $1 50 in Chicago HEAVY INDICTMENT CHICAGO IP The Cook County grand jury returned the longest and heaviest indictment in the county's history. The indictment had 451 pages and weighed 4 1-2 pounds Rodman Named Attorney General RALEIGH TP—Gov. Lather H. Hodges announced the appoint ment today of William B. Rod man, veteran legislator from Beaufort County, as attorney general. Rodman was sworn in Immediately as successor to the late Atty. Gen. Harry McMutlan, who died «ne week ago. The Record Is Firstly m CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING . COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY “I am innocent, ’’ the former housepainter told Sheriff Georgg Beckstead, who served c'as execu tioner. ( "But I have no malice toward anyone,” he added second before the four slugs from five 30-30 cali ber rifles ripped through the black shaped heart which served as a mark for the five marksmen hid den behind a canvas drop only 20 feet from where he was strapped to a wooden chair. (Continued On Page Seven) GLENN L. HOOPER. JR, Hooper And Dickey Head Local Lions Glenn L. Hooper, Jr., prominent young Dunn attor ney and civic leader, has taken over new duties as presi , c’cr.t of tlie Dunn Lions Club: He was installed as the new pres ident to succeed Frank Belote, who is retiring after a very successful term of office. Gene Smith, a for mer president of the chib, installed the new president. Other new officers of the club are: Robert W. tBob) Dickey, first vice president; James Yates, second vice president: Charles Whitten ton, third vice president; Dan Mat thews. secretary-treasurer: George Exum. assistant secretary-treasur er; Herman Lynch, Lion Tamer; Company Offer Is Accepted By The Union * PITTSBURGH <IP> The CIO United and U. S. Steel Corp,> rsac% ed a strike - ending agree ment. today on. fei averaging met©- than l!r cents an hour. The agraer ment came less than 12 hours after 600,000 USW members shut down the na tion’s steel mills. - The offer included an 'll t/2 cwatsan hour across the board in crease, plus hair-cent increase* on extra pay for 32 job classifications. The new wage scales ef fective as. of today. The increase boosted the average wage of steel workers * to more than $2.38 an hour. Other companies in the industry were virtually certain to write sim ilar agreements with the unkm, and the industry was sure to ammatcs price increases on its products in a few days. - U. S. Steel President Glifford Hood directed the mills of hJs com pany, the largest steel producer in the country, to begin prepara tions at once to get back into full produeUon. BOTH SIDES RETREAT Hood said both aides made con cessions to reach the agreement. Steelworkers across the nation closed down themselves last mid flight The less than haif-dup shut down cost the steel companies, USW President David J. McDon ald said he believed the agreement with U. 8. Steel "will provide a basis for concluding mutually satis factory agreements between the USW and the basic steel com panies.” The union planed negotiations June 7 with 96 basic and iron ore firms whose contract wage pro visions ran out at midnight last night. . The walkout idled 600,000 men, two-thirds of whom are employed by the six top producers having contracts with the USW. In addi tion to U. S. Steel they include Bethlehem, Republic, Jones and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The negotiations covered wage (Continued On Page Seven) % ; ■ i sfBBHBB ROBERT W. fBOB) DICKET 1 D K Stewart, Tail-Twieter; and | Paul Hester, Junius Morgan, Frank ) | Belote. Jack Jackson and Edward I Godwin, directors. Grover Henderson inducted the I vice presidents. President Hooper, who has been > active in the club for several years* has appointed the following com ! i mittees to serve during his term of office this year: THE COMMITTEE* Program committee: Locke ldteo, chairman; Herman Lynch, Wallas* (Continued on Page Two) j NO. 149
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