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ORIENTAL BEAUTY LIKES IT HERE
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Japanese War Brwle Has fld v
Trouble Getting Adjusted
New Skirts
Allow For
Figure Faults
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
UP 3taff .Correspondent
NEW YORK (If) Two brothers
made a serious study of snug skirts
and decided somebody should de
sign skirts that allowed for certain
. . . ah . . . figure faults common
in women.
The place the skirts didn’t fit,
the brothers concluded, was in the
back, just below the waistband. A
Httle further investigation and they
settled on the reason.
Swan Backed Women
“Eighty per cent of the Ameri
can women are sway backed," Matt
Baker announced triumphantly.
Baker was in the gridle business
before he got interested in skirts,
so he had a good foundation for
snug skirt designing.
Baker and his brother, Jack, de
veloped their special skirt shape
four years ago. They bought dress
forms designed “by Charles James
a high fashion designer who long
has contended that women aren’t
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Home-Breaker Very
Blunt About It
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CHICAGO (IP) A self - styled “home breaker” wrote
Ellis L. McCollum “I am in love with your wife and I think
she is in love with me.” >'
t The Jetter, boastfully signed
“Home Breaker,” was mailed from
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Since that is where McCollum’s
wife Doris, 21, and his 2-year-old
daughter are staying, McCollum
thought It sufficient ground, for
court action.
Circuit Judge Thomas E. Kluc
zynski agreed yesterday that the
letter was something to get mad
about. Portions of it read:
"She didn’t want to hurt you.
Sooner a guy is hurt, the sooner
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
By HOOVER ADAMS
A pretty 23-year-old Japanese war bride isn’t finding
it difficult at all to adjust herself to the ways of the South
and already in just a few short months she has be
come a confirmed Rebel. *
Mrs. Calvin Bass of Dunn, Route
5. said in her sweetest Oriental-
English manner that she’d like
very much to have her familny and
friends in the United States with
her but she has no desire to return
to Japan.
She arrived at her new home a
few miles from Dunn in Sampson
County a few months ago and
now she’s just as Southern as
combread and field peas.
“This,” she smiled real pretty,
“is my home. I love it here. I
love America and I love the peo
ple. You have all, I mean every
body here, .has been so wonder
ful to me.”
There was no mistaking the
sincerity In her voice. She said it
almost impasslonately, very slowly
and deliberately.
And those who have met Sumiko
Oikawa Bass love her. too.
SHE’E A HONEY
She's a honey of a gal, just as
pretty as iv picture. She’s so sweet
and small and cuddly-looking that
that she reminds you of a doll.
You immediately want to hug
her!
She’s just under five feet, wears
a size seven dress and a size four
shoe, she has a perfect figure.
Warrant Officer and Mrs. Bass
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he gets over it.
“We’re living in a time now
where homes are broken up and
nothing is thought of it so why
don’t you wise up to the facts of
life.
“You have been around long
enough to know what is going on
so why be stupid and try to hold
her? She is mailing this letter for
me to show you we meant it. You
don’t know me, Joker, but Iknow
Kluczynskl promptly granted Mc
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Suzan Buried
Today In
Wedding Gown
HOLLYWOOD (IP—Suzan Ball,
the darkly beautiful young actress
who died of cancer Friday, was
buried here today In the wedding
town the aisle on an artificial ieg
months ago when she walked
down the aisle os an artificial /eg
to marry actor Richard Long.
Suzan’s funeral services, too, re
minded her friends of happier
days. Lewis Evans, the pastor who
performel her wedding ceremony,
conducted services In the Church
of the Recessional at Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
Music was provided by Bert Bar
ton, the organist who played the
wedding march for Suzan In a
Santa Barbara church in April,
1954.
More than 3.000 friends and ad
mirers were expected to file past
her casket this morning when Miss
Bali lay in state. Funeral services
were scheduled to take place at,
5 p. m. EDT.
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Five Leaf
Barns Burn
Five tobacco barns were burned
in the vicinity of Lillington during
the past week ena.
John Aaron Senter tost one barn
Saturday by fire. Others reporting
losses were Bryant Gilchrist, Lil
lington, Route 1 and J. M. Bryant,
Linden, Route I.
Early Sunday morning Daniel
James Mason, who lives on the
Layton Estate farm near Lillington,
lost a barn. The victim of a fire
early Monday morning was Joe
Collins of LHlington, Route 3, whose
barn was destroyed by fire.
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1955
NAACPSays
Hodges Plan
Unacceptable
RALEIGH, N. C. (IP) Gov.
Luther H. Hodges has called
for a voluntary system of ra
cial segregation as a means
of saving the public school
system.
In a statewide radio and tele
vision address last night, Hodges
warned that unless such a volun
tary system can be established the
ultimate result will be the break
down of the state’s public school
system.
He said the Supreme Court’s seg
regation decision “indirectly in
forms us” that “separate but equal
educational opportunities. . are
to undone” unless the separate
schools can be continued “volun
tarily.”
“It Is my sincere and abiding
hope that we can do this,” Hodges
said.
He urged leaders of both races
to join in an active campaign an
the local level to encourage “volun
tary choice of separate schools.”
The speech was Hodges’ first
suggestion of a specific policy for
meeting the school segregation
problem. Earlier, he had endorsed
recommendations that local school
units maintain segregated schools
during the coming year and set up
committees to study the situation.
He confessed last night that “I
am greatly concerned for the fu
ture of our public school system
and far the welfare and happiness
of adbroximately a million school
childjeh ”
*” e are no j“ a |jj e to guc .
ceed in a program of voluntary
separate school attendance, the
state within the next year or so
will be face to face with deciding
the issue of whether It shall have
some form of integrated schools or
shall abandon its public schools,”
he said.
“UNACCEPTABLE”
CHARLOTTE (W A plan for
voluntary public school segregation
advanced last night by Gov. Lu
ther H. Hodges is “unacceptable”
to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Record
Roundup
TEACHERS MET The North
Carolina Vocational Teachers held
their annual conference In Greens
boro the week of August Ist. The
teachers of Lee and Harnett County
organized Jointly a county group
unit with Miss Martha McLeod,
Benhaven, chairman. Other offi
cers were, Secretary, Mrs. Helen
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Earle Wade Going
On Tour Os Europe
Earle J. Wade, son of Mrs. Jesper L. Wade and the
late Mr. Wade of Route 1, Dunn, will leave Washington,
D. C. on Monday, August 22nd, for Europe and North Af
rica.
Mr. Wade will visit Eng/and,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
and North Africa before returning
to Washington around September
25th. While in Europe he expects
to spend one week-end In Switzer
land.
Mr. Wade is with the Committee
on Government Operations of th;.-
House of Representatives in Wash
ington, having gone with the Com
mittee the first part of this year.
Prior to his Capitol Hill experience,
he was employed by the Federal
Reserve Board in Washington
serving as Administrative aide to
Governor M. S. Szymczak, a mem
ber of the Board of Governors.
This will be his first trip to Eu
rope and he is looking forward to
it with much enthusiasm and in
terest. During Worll War IT he
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. . . Pictured at last night’s gala reopening
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Peerless Is Remodeled
The Peerless Theatre at
Erwin reopened last night
after being completely re
modeled, redecorated and
modernized and is now one
of the finest theatres in this
entire area.
A large crowd was on hand for
the event and Fletcher Jernigan
and Bob Kelly .owners of the pop
ular movie house, were kept busy
receiving congratulations.
The new Peerless has been com
pletely air-conditioned throughout,
has new and more comfortable
seats, a beautifully-redecorated in
terior and exterior.
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EARLE WADE
Bryan Rites Held
Here This Morning
Head Bumps
Led Baruch
To Career
NEW YORK OP) The bumps
on Bernard Baruch’s head led him
to his career as elder statesman
and businessman, the “friend of
presidents” said yesterday.
Baruch, interviewed over the
National Broadcasting Co. “Monit
or" radio program, said his mother
took him to a phrenologist when
he was “12 or 14.” The phrenol
ogist "looked me all over and fe.t
my bump and asked my mother
what she was go'ng to do with
me and she said a doctor,” Baruch
said.
The phrenologist told Baruch’s
mother the boy would “make a
great doctor, but he will be a
better lawyer” and recommended
“why don’t you put this man in a
big business or political life.”
Baruch said he had n:v-r r.r;
for public office because ,“I never
wanted an office, appointive or
otherwise, that anybody else want
ed.”
H said the phrase, “elder states
man,” was first pinned on him by
a professor of economics at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Baruch, who will be 85 Aug. 19,
said the gree test figure he has
met during his nWhy years of pub
lic life has been his father, a Soutn
Carolina doctor. He said his father
was the most human, understand
ing person he has known.
Os the presidents he has advised,
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Mrs. Virgie Taylor Bryan, 67-
year-old Dunn tourist court oper
ator, died in the Dunn Hospital
Monday afternoon at 2:20 o'clojk
as the result of injuries recived
THursday morning when her auto
mobile was struck by a 45-mile-an
hour freight train at the Pope
Street crossing of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad here.
Mrs. Bryan's 1954 Chevrolet was
hit in the right rear and flipped
by the train into a ditch along
side the tracks. She had been in
a critical condition since. Harnett
coroner, Grover C. Henderson of
Dunn is investigating.
Brief funeral rites were held
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock at
the Cromatie Funeral Home m
Dunn. The Rev. John W Line
berger, pastor of the Divine Street
Methodist Church, officiated. The
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Prato May Try For
$64,000P0t Tonite
NEW YORK (IP) Bronx cobbler Gino Prato will de
cide tonight whether to keep $32,000 he has won on a tele
vision show or attempt to double it in his final appearance
before the cameras.
The temptation to try for the
biggest jackpot in radio-television
| history was great because the
| opera-loving little shoemaker no
j longer was under pressure.
Win or lose he no longer has to
worry about his financiaZ future
1 and a visit to his aged father in
! Italy already has been assured,
j Those were the two big factors
which might have persualed 56-
NO. 17(1
High Tides
Pound Shores
At Atlantic
WILMINGTON, N. C. (IP)
The first high tides and
pounding surf kicked up by
a giant hurricane 500 miles
off the Florida coast slapped
against the Atlantic Sea
board today.
Hurricane Connie, a roaring fury
of 135-mile-an-hour winds, was lo
cated about 450 miles each of Jack
sonville. Fla., by an H a. m. EST
advisory issued by the. Miami wea
ther bureau. It was headed north
northwest on a course that parall-'
eied Florida-Georgia coastline.
Red and black hurricane flags
were Grdered hoisted all along tha
North Carolina and Virginia coasts.
The weather bureau warned that
winds would reach hurricane force
of at least 75 miles an hour on the
Carolina and Virginia coasts by
tonight or Wednesday morning.
Mindful of the killing impact of
last year’s hurricanes that ravaged
the Atlantic coastline, residents al
ready beginning to take Connie
seriously although she was at least
a day away, even before the offi
cial hurricane alert was ordered.
High tides pounded the shores
around popular Atlantic Beach, N.
C., near Wilmington. At lonely
Cape Hatteras to the north ocean
tides covered the road to nearby
Buxton.
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Dunn Firm Gets
Large Conlracf
Chicora Construction Company
of Dunn has been awarded a $289.-
000 contract for construction of a
new airplane hanger and pumping
station at Pope Field aj Fort Bragg.
Construction pf the' big project
is already underway and will re
quire approximately a year for
completion.
Bill Corbin, local engineer, is
supervising the project.
Chicora Construction Company
was formed here recently by Tom
my Godwin, Dewey Godwin and
Mr. Corbin.
Man Wins Suit
Without
GoingToCourt
Joe Satterfieid, 903 E. Pope St.,
won a suit today from a life in
surance company, without even
going to court.
The suit was a Palm Beach tro
pical worsted and the insurance
company was the one Satterfield
works for.
The Life Insurance Company of
Georgia awarded Satterfield the
suit for top sales in the Fayette
ville area for the last period of
five weeks.
Now. haif way through a second
five week period, Satterfield is
again in the lead, for the area, to
ward winning his second suit —out
of court.
year-old Prato to think about keep
ing the money.
But Prato announced Monday
that his now-famous appearances
on television’s biggest giveaway
program, "The $64,000 Question ,**
have won his a big-paying Job and
the promise of two free round-trip
tickets to Italy.
As an added bonus, the Metrc
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