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VOLUME 5
BOAT WITH 25 REPORTED SINKING
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NEW POLICEMAN SWORN IN—Mayor Ralph
E. Hanna of Dunn is shown here administering
the oath of office to James Truman Southerland,'
a new member of the police force, as Police Chief
Alton Cobb, right, looks on. The 22-year-old pe-
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By HOOVER ADAMS
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Lovely Miss Peggy Barfield, who
will represent Dunn In the Miss
North Carolina Beauty Pageant at
Wrighteville Beach, made her de
but on television Tuesday night
over WNAO in Raleigh . . . She
was interviewed bV Mike Silvers,
who Is conducting a series of pro
grams on the contestants . . . An.
oesrirwr wl*h Miss, Barfield was
black-beaded Cn-kv Cretin!, who
ferifpsoritod the Jtwcees ... Both
n«it. in henlthv nhi<ra for Harnett’s
Pentenrlol Celebration . . . Pew
p»l*b me do fl very fine imioreeeinn
on «vie television audience—Cork”
left the impress'on that he needs
p ehpy» . . . Other Javcees who
y>ont ninny to five them more SUn
nosl hut rot, anneprtrKr on the
were President Boh
pnd Tompr ptnne . . , Corky wes
nicked hec«n«e he hod the prettiest
CM heard . . . Hubert couldn’t
stood his heard any lonver . . . H®
Who eked It off ... A STOUT! Os
Jtimn Pny Pcmits are «♦ Cemn Du
rant this week . . . Cl tv Commis
sioner Phi Bryan savs Dunn’s
bnohkeenlna system 1« SO Olltmod
«m that officials really don’t know
what the financial status of the
town ty on a dav.to-dav basis . . .
Bill who started taking a corres
nondence rfjnurse In ancountln? af
ter h® was elected to the board, has
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Large Dunn Group
To Attend Meet
Fifteen delegates from the Dunn
congregation of Jehovah’s Witnes
ses will attend an assembly at the
Yankee Stadium In New York City.,
July 20 - Aug. i.
Samuel Salter presiding minister
here who will head the delegation,
announced today that a total of
50,000 is expected to attend from
various states. Samuel Salter de
scribed this assembly as one of a
world sweeping series of eleven
Christian Conventions.
"In 1953," Mr. Salter pointed out,
“We had one international gather
ing of ministers, at Yankee Stadi
um that drew a peak attendance of
165,829 from 97 lands. Tins year we
hope our combined attendance will
double that.”
The titles in the United States
and Canada named as convention
sites are Chicago, Vancouver, B. C,
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
liceman is a native of Wilmington, attended Ed
wards Military Institute and served’ for a year
and a half ms a military policeman in the Army
ot Baltimore. He married the former Miss Peggy
Partin of Dunn. (Daily Record Photo.)
Harnett Valuation
Up Million And Half
Beginning of the new fiscal year found the nation’s
business whirling at a dizzy rate of prosperity and Har
nett County was right in step, judging from the increase
in tax valuations.
Series Johnson, county tax su
pervisor, ’reported yesterday that
' ter “TtfSwrtf
County increased ‘one and a half
million dollars during the past
year. This brings the total tax.
able property to $53,138,964.00.
Johnson valued personal and
real property In the county at
$50,579,000. Not all corporate ex •
cess properties, that Is outside
firms doing business In Harnett,
have been estimated. But last year
this source of revenue was valued
at $2 569.964.06.
Tn 1954-56 real and personal pro
nerty valuations stood at $48,840-
•55. and in that year suffered a
h|o fogs due to a sharp drop In
the used car market. However.
Johnson was aulck to note that
this vear the county economy al
ready has recovered from that loss
«uA detveclotions suffered from
Hurricane Hard to establish the
npw sains noted.
The tax supervisor credited the
inrryft.cp of more than one and a
half million dollars of taxable
nmnorfy to general business nro-a
neritv. good crop* and improve
ments made bv countv huslness
men.
TOWNSHIP VALUATIONS
A study of the valuation on a
township basis showed that Aver
asboro with $14.R99.365.00 valua
tion is in toD place among the
townships Duke, with property
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Los Angeles, Dallas and New York
Those in Europe are London, Paris,
Rome, Nuremberg, Stockholm and
The Hague.
Arrangements are already under
way to send over 4,500 delegates
from the United States and Can
ada to the European Assemblies.
Delegates from Latin America,
Africa, Australia and the Far East
will also attend in Europe.
Attending from Dunn are Joseph
Dew and family, Mack Tucker and
family, and Samuel Salter and fam
ily.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (W The
will of the late Sllliman Evans
directed that his son. Stillman
Evans. Jr., be elected to succeed
him as publisher of the Nashville
Tennessean.
She flails Braird
To Be Hanged
For Murder
DUBBSELDORF, German (IP)—A
British court-martial today sen
tenced Sgt. Frederick Emmet -
Dunne to be hanged for the judo
murder o fa fellow soldier, whose
wife he coveted.
Emmet-Dunne was convicted of
killing Sgt. Reginald Watters and
then stringing up his body in a
barracks to make the murder ap.
pear to be a suicide.
His plot nearly succeeded. A cor
oner returned a verdict of suicide
and Emmet-Dunne married Wat
ter’a pretty brunette widow seven
months later.
The tongues of gossips in the
army community in which the
Emmet-Dunnes lived aroused the
suspicions of Scotland Yard and
Watters’ body was exhumed.
It was discovered the nthat he
died, not from hanging, but from
a powerful judo blow which crush
ed his larynx.
Emmet-Dunne then confessed the
slaying, but claimed he acted in
self defense. He said he married
Watters’ attractive German widow
out of pity rather than love.
Sheriff Arrests
His Son On
Rape Charge
ORANGEBURG, S. C. IW The
son of Orangeburg County Sheriff
George L. Reed has been freed
under $1,500 bond after he was dis
missed as a deputy sheriff and ar
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1955
Adlai Attacks
Ike On Failure
To Aid Schools
CHICAGO OP) Adlai E|
Stevenson attacked the EH
senhower administration
a new front on Wednesday
night, charging that it had,
done “absolutely nothing”
to solve the nation’s ptOM
lie school problem.
Stevenson the Democrats’ 1932
presidential candidate, urged a
“elastic” billion - dollar
assistance program to meet “fmmk
tor ’s No. 1 domestic need—schoM*
and teachers.” \
Stevenson has not yet said»wh*s|l
he- he intends to make a secoiw
bid for tttte presidency next yearJ
he has directed severe criticism &tj
various phases of the Eisenhower'
program in recent speeches.
Wednesday night’s address tab-J
fore the 93rd annual meting of tile.
National Education Association w*s|
billed as his last major speech be-1
fore next fall. ;
The former Illinois governor!
firing from a bad summer cold!
accused President Eisenhower of
dodging an earlier promise to give
“prompt, effective help” to the na
tion’s schools.
Instead, Stevenson charged, Mr:
Eisenhower has asked Congress to
pass “not a law but a miracle.” :
The President told Congress only
last February that the nation needs.
7 billion dollars worth of ne w
schools. Stevenson said, but the ad-’
ministration program calls for’
grants of only 66 milion dollars a ;
year for three years.
“This is 33 cents a year to meet!
everW $35 of admitted present.
ures of economist Beardsley Rum!
that the government should spend
700 million dollars next year and
posibly as much as $3,500,000,000
a year by 1965 to “salvage" the
nation’s school system.
Clerk's Receipts
Increase SI,OOO
Receipts of various kinds, hand
led during the month of June, by
the Clerk of Superior Court total
ed $4,816.98 Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Matthews, the clerk, informed the
commissioners this week.
This was almost a one thousand
dollar increase over the sum taken
in by the same office in the same
month a year ago. At that time,
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SHE SPURNED HIS LOVE,
Confessed Slayer
Will Be Arraigned
LOS ANGELES (IPI Dist. Atty. S. Ernest Roll said a
formal murder complaint would be issued today against
law student John R. Crooker Jr., 34, confessed murderer
of Mrs. Norma T. McCauley, 33-year-old socialite divorcee.
Roll said the nearby Santa Mon
ica district attorney’s office would
issue the complaint and that the
confessed slayer would be arraign
ed la West Los Angeles Municipal
Court.
Crooker, after 14 hours of intense
questionii)g by relays of detectives,
broke down Wednesday and con
+ Record Roundup +
MINOR WRECK There was
no highway mishap over the fourth
of July weekend in the Western
half of the county which invol
ved personal injury, the highway
patrol proudly report*. But a col
lision between a car and truck
occurred last Friday afternoon
July Ist on highway 15-A, almost
a mile North of Lilllngton. High,
way Patrolman Kerman Ward said
a 1963 two door Ford, driven by
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ATTEND CAMP DURANT Pictured above
are several members of Troop 766 and their Scout
master, Les Jones before they left for Camp Du
rant last Sunday. The boys will return Saturday
from the camp. Pictured, kneeling, left to right.
City Council Meets Tonite
Will Adopt New Budget
5,. Duftn’s city council tonight will
take up the new budget, fix the tax
2at* for the year and dispose of a
eadety of other matte-s
, flfty Tax Collector J. E. Williams
MCommenri to the board that:
penalty per nuVith
paid by August 1.
Tlie board is expected to take
action on paving petitions on S.
Washington Ave., Canary St. and
Godwin Street.
City Manager A. B. Uzzle said
the board will discuss a revolving
fund for paving and curb and gut
ter. A fund of $13,500 is set up in
the budget for this.
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Killjoys Don't
like 'Em Short
JACKSON, Miss. W) Central
High School drum majorettes last
year designed costumes with very
brief skirts. This year critics de
manded knee length skirts.
Principal Charles Holladay 'ap
pointed a special committee to
work out a compromise. The new
skirts will be midway between
knee and thigh.
fessed he killed the society matron
in a fit of rage because she spurn
ed his Jove.
The law student, a former house
boy at Mrs. McCauley's home, said
he became infuriated early Tues
day when the attractive woman
fell asleep while he pleaded with
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Malcolm Leon Messer. 47, of Is
lington. Route 2 was hit by a
1953 International Truck. The
driver of the car was attempting
to make a left turn on to a dirt
road near the airport when the car
was struck from the raar by the
truck. Both vehicles were travel
ing South. The truck driver. Ray
mond Stone, of 507 Hines St„
High Point was charged with fol-
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are: Bill Blackley, Jimmy Surles, Tommy Jones
and Stuart Simons. Standing are Jimmy Mat
tox. Les Jones, Scoutmaster: Jimmy Williams. Jim
my Jordon, Tilghman Johnson, Tommy Carroll
and Tony Simons.
DEBAUCHED YOUNG GIRLS
Millionaire Held
inSex^mrrjrgy
MINEOLA, N. Y. <U9 A multi-millionaire inventor
and camera manufacturer was held in SIOO,OOO bail for
his own protection today after pleading innocent to 60-
morals charges arising from his filmed sex orgies with
teen-aged girls.
Pretty Jap
Girl Tells Os
Love Affair
FUKUOKA. Japan HP) A pret
ty 18-year.old Japanese gir! tear
fully protested today that pledges
of love by an airman accused in
Texas of a triple murder, ‘ make
trouble with my new G1 ooy
friend.” .
Taiko Suzuki said today she
lived with Eilis E. Lauhon, 26, for
10 months when the airman was
in Tokyo but “we no marry, we
no love.”
Lauhon, of Altus, Ark., was be
beig held in Galveston, Tex., on
charges of murdering a woman,
her 65-year-old mother, and 12
year-old son.
Lauhon told police in Texas he
“just went to pieces’’ after he left
Taiko. He said that ah Air Force
officer had stopped him from
marrying the girl in a Christian
ceremony although he went
through the Shinto rites.
“I meet him when T work bar.”
Taiko said today. “We live same
house 10 months, he never talk
marry me. Me same. No want him
husband.
“Him not so smart in head ”
she chirped, “but good speak Japa
nese."
“He lie all time and no give
money.” she compiainM. ‘T ' hav»
no love for him. If - c ’ore me
why him not leave me alone.”
-I forget hint and find new boy
friend. Now he make trouble with
my new GI bdy friend.”
FAITH SHAKEN
CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis., (IP*
Chippewa County Sheriff Clifford
Dorr said today he is beginning to
lose his faith in human nature.
Warren Westlund, 34, who had
been given special privileges by the
sheriff while serving a term for
car theft, stole Dorr’s car Tues
day and hasn’t been seen since.
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Ivan Jerome, 62, a Russian by
birth, was arraigned on a 60-count
indictment returned yesterday by
a Nassau County grand jury. He
had been in jail in $50,000 bail
since his arrest June 28.
Jerome’s attorney asked reduc
tion of bail to $25,000 today. But
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Harnett Officers
War On Bootleggers
Sheriff Claude R. Moore and county rural police waged
war effectively during June on bootleggers.
The sheriff’s monthly report
made this week to county com
missioners showed that in the past
month nine bootleggers have been
arrested and charged with illegal
Dr. Moss Begins
Erwin Practice
Dr. Paul Moss, a* native of Le
noir, has arrived in Erwin to begin
the general practice of medicine
and has established offices in the
Posts Office Building.
Tne young physician eahie to
Erwin after completing his intern,
ship at the Georgia Baptist Hos
pl 1 in Atlanta. Georgia.
Erwin has been short a physician
since Dr. H. B. Mabe was called to
active service with the Marine
Corps last year.
Dr. Moss is coming to Harnett
with an outstanding background
and the highest of recommenda
tions. He will be welcomed at a
meeting of the Harnett County
Medical Society on Monday night.
SON OF MINISTER
The new physician is the son of
the Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Moss of
Caldweil County. His father Is a
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NO. 1
Foreign Sub
Is Reported !
Seen In Area
NEW YORK <tP) A com
mercial tug picked up a dis
tress message . today saying
a fishing vessel was afire
and sinking with 21 aboard.
Some 10 hours later the
Coast Guard cutter Gen
tian reported finding »-an
oil slick and a single life
preserver in the area.
Prior to the discovery evidence
had strongly indicated that the
distress message was a fanastastte
hoax. The find did not eliminate
this possibility, the Coast Guardi
said, but the search by air and
sea continued in increased inten.
sity. V
The Coast Guard has not bedh
able to identify the vessel, which
gave its name as Blue Star.
< The tale of terror at sea was
related in a strange radiophone
conversation with the tug over
more than an hour. It ended with
a report that a foreign submarine
had surfaced beside the foundering
boat.
The Blue Star had reported
earlier that 18 persons were over
board, clinging to wreckage tb
keep afloat because all the boat'll
life perservers had been destroyed
by fire.
NO BURN MARKS
The Gentian radioed that the
orange kapok life preserver it had
found showed “no burn marks.” *
The preserver was found about
50 1 miles east of Beach Haven, N.
J m t lie sguthwegi. gectqr of tfee
of the radiophone report.
Earlier a Navy spokesman had
flatly called the whole business a
“hoax.” The Coast Guard more
! cautiously said Jdi’ sifis indicated
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Hubby Likes Ship
Better Than Wife
LOS ANGELES (IP) Mrs. Mar
garet Jean Donald, 32, received a
divorce on the ground she was
playing second fiddle to the fleet.
She said her sailor husband,
Robert Donald Jr., told her he’d
“rather stay aboard ship with his
shipmates than be with me ”
whiskey manufacturing, 16 stills
captured, 14 condensers seized, 45
gallons of whiskey and 5,025 gal
lons of beer destroyed. In addi
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DR. PAUL MOSS