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FARMERS UNION GROUP MEETS AT ER
WIN Representatives and agents of the Farm
ers Insurance Co. from the 23-county area which
comprises Zone Four held a district meeting Mon
day night at J. D. Norris’ Erwin Insurance Agency
in Erwin. General Agent Robert F. Caldwell had
high praise for the work done by the agents and
the progress they have made since the company
extended its operations into Eastern Carolina. Left
THE GREAT GABLE Fact and Fable
His Ears Take Lots Os Bending
(Tenth of a series of articles on h itherto undisclosed chapters in the life
story of the King of Hollywood. Copyright 1955 by The New York Daily News.)
By JESS STEARN
Like reigning royalty, King Gable's problem through the years has been
one of standing alone. greatest breadwinner finds f it virtually im
possible to get disinterested advice when he seeks it.
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By HOOVER ADAMS
LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Major Charlie McGugan of Dunn,
who just a month ago was trans
ferred all the way across the Unit
ed States, and all the way across
the Pacific to Honolulu, spent
Monday night, here with his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Mc-
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Temple Services
Will Be Saturday
John Walter Temple, Sr., 53, well-known Dunn
automobile dealer, died Thursday morning in the Dunn
Hospital. He became seriously ill about three weeks ago.
Funeral services will be held Sa
turday morning at 11 o’clock at
Hood Memorial Christian Church.
Dr. George Cuthrell, pastor ejneri
tus, and the Rev. J. W. Lineberg
er, pastor of the Divine Street Me
thodist Church, will officiate. Bur
ial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Members of the Dunn Masonic
Lodge will serve as honorary pall
bearers.
Active pallbearers will be J. T.
Mann, C. W. Bannerman, Wilson
Stanley, C. O. Warren, Herbert
Johnson and Wallace Dixon.
Mr. Temple was a native of John
ston County, son of the'late Erastus
and Nancy Stanley Temple. He had
resided in punn for the past 30
years and was one of the town's
most successful business men.
He owned and operated Temple
Motor Company, local Studebaker-
Packard dealership, and the Dunn
Auto Parts Company. He also had
other business interests here.
WAS CIVIC LEADER
Active in civic affairs, Mr. Tem
ple formerly was a member of the
Dunn Lions Club and was a for
mer president of the Dunn Clvltan
Club. He was a member of the
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
to right are, seated: Archie C. Parris, Princeton;
L. R. Norton, Maury; J. D. Norris of Coats, dis
trict supervisor; Mrs. W. B. Bass, Dunn; Miss Al
ma Blanchard, Fuquay; General Agent Caldwell;
and Eddie C. Jones of Edwin; standing, Louis Du
pree, Coats; G. S. Smith, Elizabethtown; M. L
Swinson, Mt. Olive; James N. Creech, SmithfMd;
Vic Reardon, Buie’s Creek; Eugene Hinson, Dunn
and Harold Hall, Benson. (Daily Record Photo.)
Not since the death before the
war of MGM's guiding genius, the
late Irving Thalberg, has Gable
had an adviser who oouid help
him fjgck a good picture.
“Clarks great trouble.” says a
friend, “is that old one of being
surrounded by sycophants who
knock themselves out agreeing
with him, not realizing that he is
actually turning to them for help.
Either that or they’re afraid to
stick their necks out.
“And it doesn’t do any good to
get brutally frank and say, “Gabi’e,
you’d stink in that.’ Gable is the
kind of guy, with a cool, togical
mind, who has to have a reason.
Show him a reason, as Thalberg
did with “Mutiny on the Bounty,"
and he’ll go along.”
Qabie acknowledges goodnat
uredly that two of his greatest
hits, “It Happened One Night,"
which got him an Oscar, and
“Munity,” were practically forced
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Christian Church, the Dunn Ma
sonic Lodge, the Wilmington Con
sistory of Scottish Rite Masons and
Sudan Temple of the Shrine. He
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JOHN WALTER TEMPLE, SB.
She jHailtj Jlmrrd
First 55
Pepper Is
Canned Here
First Harnett County grown
peppers of 1966 were canned yes
terday at the Cannon Processing
Plant in Dunn.
H P. Cannon of Bridgeville,
Delaware, owner of the big can
ning company, which he inherited
from his father, and other com
pany officials were in Dunn for
the opening day.
County Agent C. R. Ammons,
who helped promote growth of
peppers by county farmers on a
contract basis for canning, was
also present to see the first day’s
canning operations. Ammons said
he understood that peppers canned
in this county would be distributed
by Taylor and Sledd, Richmond
Va„ food broker.-.
Rose To Waive
Hearing In Dunn
Mike Rose, Jr., held in the
county jail without bond in the
near - fatal shooting of his In
laws, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hodges,
has decided to waive the formal
ity of a preliminary hearing, City
Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan said
today.
Defense Attorney James Spence
of Lillington advised Bryan that
Rose would waive the necessity
of being returned to the Dunn
court
Bryan said he could have him
returned to face trial for the
motor vehicle violations, but did
not think it advisable to take
him out of the county jail at
this time. He indicated be would
have him brought back for trial
on those charges later.
Rose was removed from_ the
Dunn jail on orders of Sheriff
Claude Moore after reports that
angry cltisens might attempt to
take him out of the local jail
and administer “justice” In their
DUNN, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1955
Ted Malone
Named To Board
Os Welfare
Ted Malone of Coats is the new
member of the county board of
welfare.
Malone, who is the visiting tea
cher for the county board of edu
cation and probation officer for
the Harnett County Juvenile Court,
succeeds Mrs. E. H. Bost of Erwin.
Mrs. Bost recently submitted her
resignation to the board.
First meeting of the new wel
fare board as now constituted was
held on Wednesday morning in
Lillington. Other members are Earl
Westbrook of Dunn, and J. Early
Womble of Lillington, who repre
sents the county board of commis
sioners. Womble is the chairman.
1 The new member was elected by
Westbrook and Womble. Only
Womble and Malone were present
for the meeting Tuesday since
Westbrook is in the hospital. Only
routine matters were disrn«gpd
Legion Drive
Is Underway
Membership. Chairman Kie Hud
son of the Dunn post of the Amer
ican legion has begun a drive to
enlist at least 239 veterans in the
Dunn post
This is the fourth year that Hud
son, a poet district vice comman
der, has served as membership
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Hurricane Connie
Gets Dangerous
SAN JUAN, P, R. (IB—Connie, a
fast-moving tropical storm, boil
ed through the Atlantic 1,060 miles
east of Puerto Rico today and the
weather bureau warned it probably
would reach hurrlcan force within
six to 12 hours.
All shipping over a wid# expanse
of ocean was warned that Connie,
third tropical storm this year, was
getting more dangerous.
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NEW LOOK Lillingtons V.
F. W. hut recently has received
many improvements. Officers of
the Ernest Simmons Post report
plans are underway to add another
roq(Bi to the building in the near
futkre. -This —will provide much
needed storage space. New fixtures
for the kitchen, now awaiting in
stallation, are a new gas range, a
new refrigerator, a double sink,
a hot water heater. And best of
all, all bills for the equipment
have been paid. Post officers said
organization of a Ladies’ Auxiliary
Barnes Is Named
Sales Supervisor
The tobacco market has been
taken out of the hands of the
Dunn Chamber of Commerce, Ed
Carroll announced today. He was
unofficially notified by L. H.
Barnes that in an econmy move
on the part of the board the job
has been given to Carl Barnes
Can’ Barnes is presently in
charge of marking tickets during
the auction and will now do both
that and the new sales supervisor
job. It is felt that the new job will
suffer throuqjjr Barnes being lim
ited by the responsibilities of his
oid job.
It is also expected that there
will be 2 slash In advertising of
the market as a second part of the
new economy, move.
Carroll awaits the official word
of the change from Buck Currin,
president of Dunn Tobacco
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here is the 1954 Chevrolet which was being driv
en by Mrs. Vergie Bryan when it collided with a
CAR 'HIT BY TRAIN TODAY
Dunn Woman Is Near Death
i Mrs. Vergie Bryan’s 1954 blue
Chevrolet was struck by a 45 mph
freight train at 11:46 today as It
crossed the Pope Street crossing
of the Atlantic Coast Line.
- Mrs. Bryan's car was hit in the
right rear and flipped by the train
into a ditch along side the tracks.
She was alone In the ear and’was
thrown clear. She was taken im
mediately to the Dunn Hospital
where she is under the care of
Dr. Clarence Corbett and Dr. John
W. Baluss.
Doctor Corbet reports that Mrs.
Bryan is critically hurt and has
been placed in an oxygen tent. He
describes her injuries as several
broken ribs, a broken shoulder
bone and possible internal injur
ies.
Mrs. Bryan is manager and own
er of Hodges Tourist Court on the
Fayetteville highway.
to the post is aifco under con
sideration.
SUPPER MEETING Members
of the Lillington V. F. W. group
are reminded that on Tuesday,
Aug. 16, the post will hold a sup
per meeting at the organization's
headquarters. The event is for
members only.
TO FAYETTEVILLE . Edward
Breeden, commander of the Lil
lington V. F. W. Post, and Sgt
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CARL BARNES
Coast Line freight train this morning. Mrs. Bryan
is in the Dunn Hospital critically injured. (Daily
Record Photo.)
Centennial Group
Holds Reception
Around 75 men and women from all parts of the
county attended the informal reception given last night
at Campbell College in honor of the members of the
Honorary Committee of the Harnett County Centennial.
The reception, held in the spa
cious lounge of the new girls dor
mitory, was a courtesy from the
Erwin Woman
1$ Fined 515 '
Mrs. Hilda Lucas Cooper of Er
win had charges of drunken driv
ing dropped against her today in
municipal court. On advice of her
counsel, by D. K. Stewart, she
pleaded guilty to careless and reck
less driving and was found guilty
Mrs. Cooper originally requested
trial by jury but changed her
mind. The prosecutor had an ap
parently clear case based on the
testimony of state patrolman Al
bert Adams and city policeman E.
C. Johnson and Neilly Pope.
Stewart brought Mrs. Jimmy Mes
ser to the stand as a witness in
the car with Mrs. Cooper at the
time the car struck the trailer -
truck Mrs. Messer had left the
scene of the accident by the time
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Foy A. Fairdoth
Dies At Age 65
Foy A. Faircloth, 65, died Wed
nesday afternoon after an extend
ed illness at the home of his son,
Carl A. Faircloth, who resides at
111 South Washington St. to Dunn.
He was a prominent farmer of
Sampson County and a member
of the Robert Grove - Baptist
Church. . ■ n
Funeral services will" be held
Friday at 4:00 from the Robert
Grove Baptist Church with the
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Rose Indicted In Shooting
City Solicitor J. Shepard
Bryan of Dunn today
brought formal charges a
gainst Mike Rose, Jr., 30-
year -old case operator as
doctors battled to save the
lives of the elderly parents
of his estranged wife.
Rose, who failed in his avowed
efforts to carry out a triple-as
sassination, is being held in the
gounty Jail without privilege of
pond for emptying a pistol into
the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
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social committee of the Buie’s
Creek area. Mrs. Eugene Lasater is
the Buie’s Creek area chairman on
the general Centennial
fjdrs. Jack Ragland is,, the locaj'
Buie’s Creek social chairman.
(j Presidents of all men’t %nd wo
rinen’t civic clubs throughout the
county, heads of fraternal groups
and youth serving organizations,
elective and appointive county of
ficials, mayors of towns, members
of the county board Os commis -
sioners, the county board of edu-
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BOARD REJECTS AIR-CONDITIONING
Courthouse Staff
To Keep Sweating
County commissioners this week agreed with every
body who works in the courthouse that it is hot enough
there for air conditioning, but unfortunately the old
building is not a fit subject for modern improvements.
The question of air conditioning
arose after County Auditor Herbert
Carson, Jr. and Veteran Service
Officer Lee Burt McLean, who ha
ve been assigned office quarters
in the Warwick Hotel building,
bought air conditioning units for
|their offices. The county paid for
Auditor Carson's McLean purchas
ed his own, but the County will re
imburse him.
Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews. the i
Clerk of Superior Court and Mrs.
Inez Harrington, register of deeds,
reminded commissioners that they
have many persons in their of
fices daily, and that both officies
'are stuffy and hot, that persons
' working in the vaults and others
Hodges.
Mr. and Mrs. Hedges, widely- 1
known residents of Duns, Route
3, are in the Dunn Hospital in a i
critical condition ’ and near death
as the; result of r lßases shooting;
spree, which took piace at 5 o’-;
clock Tuesday afternoon at their j
farm home on the outskirts of
Dunn.
After his capture by State
Patrolman W. O. Graijjr, Rose re
portedly boasted about~Tht shoot
ing, said he had ment to kill Mr.
and Mrs. Hodges and his estrang
ed wife, Mrs. Ha Hodges Rose,
To Exchange
Armed Secrets
MOSCOW (IP) Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin
today rejected President Ei
senhower’s proposal for an
exchange of military secrets
to prove mutual desire for
peace.
Bulganin told an extraordinary
session of the Supreme Soviet that
“I do not believe the proposal can
have any great, real significance."
President Eisenhower proposed
to Russia at the Big Four summit
conference in Geneva that the two
nations trade arms and military
blueprints and throw both coun- *••
tries open to unlimited aerial re
connaissance and photography to
prove their mutual desire for peace
The proposal was the sensation
of the summit conference and, un
til today, had n6t been answered
by Russia.
Bulganin’s rejection of the plan
was made during a one-hour and
35-minute report to an extraordi
nary sessions if the parliament cn
the results of the Geneva confer
ence.
NOT SATISFACTORY
He said that in private conver
sations with Western leaders at
Geneva, Russia had pointed out
that the terrain and topography of
the U. S. S. R. and U. S, “would
permit camouflage of anything de
sired.” Thus, he said aerial pho
tographs would not give satisfac
tory results.
The comment was greeted with
loud laughter.
Bulganin said “we believe that
our proposal of the 10th of May
is much more realistic.”
In that propasal Russia asked
for progressive disarmament in
two stages; reduction of armed
forces and a jstep-by-qtpp reduction
.of arms leading finally ‘to a com
plete ban on hydrogen and'atomic
weapons.
But Bulganin said the Geneva
conference with its accomplish
ments was a success and “marked
a ‘turning point in relations be
tween the Soviet Union and the
West,”
who must use them suffer from the
heat.
A check was made with a Lil
lington air-conditioning firm, but
when purchasing agent B. P. In
gram heard the price he shook his
head. Commissioners then ordered
a new fan for the clerk’s vault.
Fan Blade Stolen
The revolving window fan, stor
ed in an outhouse on the square,
has not been installed this season
Toeca use a blade was stolen from
the fan. The theft occurred with;n
a few feet of the county jail. Com
hiissioners ordered the Sheriff to
see that the fan was repaired.
Meantime, other mishaps over
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( employee of a Dunn garmet fact.
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SHOT AND RAN
He went up to their home,
found Mr.' and Mrs. Hodges sit
ting on the porch and emptied his
j revolver at them, then fled. A
I son, Robert, 26-year-old Campbell
student, ran out in time to see
what happened and fired twice at
Rose. One of the shot* hit him
to the hand.
Constable Lonnie Jackson of
Dunn, one of the first officers on
the scene, said Rose expressed re
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