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Connie is dying out; Diane is on
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VOLUME 5
CONNIE SUBSIDING; DIANE GROWING
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K T,,E '' WERE READY A number of Dunn others did an outstanding job in preparing for the
business firms yesterday boarded up their plate hurricane that didn’t hit. Assistant Farm Agent
glass windows as an added precaution in the T. D. O’Quinn said today that corn and cotton in
eirent Connie should strike in Dunn. At the left the area suffered practically no damage and esti
ls Cad Upchurch’s Sundries and at the right is mated that damage to tobacco was from one to
The Suggs Company on West Broad Street. Dunn fire per cent. (Daily Record Photo.)
police, the Ked Cross, ham radio operators and
Dunn, Harnett
Happy Connie
There wqp quiet relief in
the ’agetfcies throughout the
areal that prepared for dis
aster last night, a thankful
ness that they had no story
to tell.
As everyone else the Dunn Police
Department spent an anxious, but
uneventful night. Chief A. A. Cobb
reported that the only accident he
had heard of was a street light
that fell near the REA on East
Broad Street.
Chief Cobb had his entire force
well organized and ready for round
-the-clock duty.
City Manager A. B. Uzzle re
ported that the only fallen trees
the city had to clear were at Mc-
Kay Avenue and Edgerton Street
and near the Coca Cola Plant.
The Fire Department even found
it unnecessary to dispress the
trucks as expected. Chief Hanna
said that after hearing the 10:00
p.m. reports that “Connie” would
hit Wilmington by 4:00, they re
mained at the station on standby
alert, rather than ready.
The Carolina Power and Light
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Local Police
Probe Shootina
Dunn police today were investi
gating the mysterious shooting of
two Fort Bragg soldiers.
The two Negro soldiers were
sprayed by a buckshot blast from
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Erwin Union Asks
10- Cents Increase
Erwin Local No. 250 of the Textile Workers Union of
America, CIO, announced today that it plans to reopen
negotiations for a 10 cents an hour wage increase for all
employees of Erwin Mills, Inc.
The announcement came from
Lacy R. Dawkins, business manager
of the union, who said the com
pany was being formally notified of
the request.
Under terms of the company’s
contract with the union, which was
approved earlier this year, the com
pany or the union can reopen the
question of wages at any time.
The amount of wages paid was
not an isue when the new contract
was approved. i #1
Erwin Mills’ minimum wage is
now $1.03 1-2 cents an hour.
The request from Local 250 is
part of a South-wide union move
ment for a 10-cent increase, being
made at all unionized textile mills.
Decision to request the inquest
was made last weekend at a meet
ing of union leaders in Atlanta.
MEETINGS SLATED
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Isotopes Used tn
Fight On Cancer
GENEVA (IP) Scientists at Oak Ridge have so per
fected the art of turning waste products into radioactive
isotopes for the treatment of cancer that operations are
nearing the big business stage, an American scientist said
today.
A F. Rupp, superintendent of
the operations division of the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, told
the Atoms For Peace conference
today that production of the iso
topes for use in research centers
and hospitals has been an active
atoms for peace program since
1946.
By the end of 1954, he said, the
Oak Ridge scientists had sent out
more than 64,000 shipments of iso
topes equal in radiation effect to
50,000 grams of almost priceless
radium.
“The techniques of manufactur
ing, handling, packaging and ship
ping large amounts of highly-puri
fied radio-isotopes have been de
veloped to the point where most
of the operations are now routine
and similar to those in regular in
dustry,” Rupp said.
Production of the radioactive iso
topes not only benefits medical re
search which can’t get enough of
the cancer-killing substance but is
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Dawkins said today that workers
will be given full details of the new
wage increase demand at meetings
to be held Tuesday. There will be
a meeting Tuesday at 1 p. m. for
employees of the second shift; and
a meeting at 7:30 Tuesday night for
employees of the first shift. Mem
bers of the first shift can attend
either, Dawkins said.
Members of the union bargain
ing committee are Joseph L. Smith,
Oscar Temple, Locke Barbour and
Frankie Martin.
W. H. Miley, Jr„ head of the
company’s operations at Erwin, had
no comment on the request today.
Manager Miley explained that
all contract negotiations are hand
. led at the Durham office and are
■ not in his jurisdiction.
The Erwin Mills, along with prac
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A F Private
Claims Six
Million Estate
CHICAGO (W A young Air
Force private said today he is the
son of millionaire James Stanley
Joyce and demanded all of the
late lumber tycoon’s 6-miilion-dol
lar estate.
Cleaver Arnold Joyoe, 21. filed
a suit saying yesterday Joyce mar
ried his mother in 1933 at Jeffer
sonville, Ind.
Joyce left his mother after three
weeks and the son was born in
1934. the suit said.
It charged that Mrs. Joyoe was
informed later that her husband
was already married, but Jthat she
didn’t know of his fortune until
his death.
Joyce died in 1944, He had been
married to actress Peggy Hopkins
Joyce, and, after a divorce, mar
ried Nelle Vail in 1926. The couple
separated in 1929, but were never
divorced.
The young airman’s suit said hie
mother never tried to claim any
of Joyce's fortune because of
shame over the marriage. The
mother, Mrs Ann Brannon Joyce,
is now executive director of the
American Children’s Home at
Miami.
Her son, who is stationed at
Orlando, Fla., said in his suit
that his rights as an heir were not
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DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12. 1955
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Clement Raps
Dems Who Would
Bolt Stevenson
(See page two for Shivers state
ment on Stevenson.)
Frank C. Clement of Tennes
see said today anyone who
tacked faith in Democratic
Party leadership should quit
the party, and that Adlai E.
Stevenson w®jld have his
support for the presidency
in 1956.
He predicted the “entire South ’
would go for Stevenson in 1966.
Clement, who has been regarded
as a possible 1956 Democratic vice
presidential candidate, held a news
conference at the National Gover
nors’ Conference. Although he de
clined to say his remarks about
party loyalty were aimed at any
one, it was obvious they were di
rected at Texas Gov. Allan Shivers.
Shivers yesterday said he would
support “practically any” Demo
crat or Republican over Stevenson,
and Clement today, said "if a man
does not have enough faith in his
party to believe his party would
act in good faith and select an
honorable and acceptable nominee,
then the time has arrivtl to join,
a party in which he can place his
faith.”
PRAISES ADLAI
Cle\«m said he regarded Stev
enson aifeTh| most courageous and
,able candidate who ever had beer*
’‘•temporarily denied" the' Whit?
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Special Court
Term Ordered
District Solicitor Jack Hooks an
nounced today that a special one
week term of Harnett Superior
Court will be held beginning Sept
ember 5 for the purpose of clearing
Harnett's crowded criminal court
docket.
The term was ordered today by
Chief Justice M. V. Barnhill of
the State Supreme Court on req
uest of Solicitor Hooks.
This special week of court fol
lows the regular August term, thus
giving Harnett two weeks of crim
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LIFE-SAVING COURSES Red
Cross Life Saving courses are be- ’
ing held Wednesday mornings at
8:00 in the Tyler Park Pool. The
courses are being conducted by
Mrs. Bill Armstrong and anyone
interested is invited to attend.
ACCEPTING BIDS Bids for
Chiropractors Ready
For Dunn Meeting
Chiropractic physicians from counties throughout the
Southwestern District of the North Carolina Chiroprac
tors Association will gather in Dunn Sunday afternoon
for their annual meeting.
Dr. Gerald James of Dunn, pres
ident of the Eastern district, will
be host to the visiting chiroprac
tors. Dr. James said this morning
that aft arrangements have been
completed and a big attendance is
expected.
The meeting will be held at
t Johnsons Restaurast, beginning at
2 p. m. and continuing throughout
the afternoon and evening
An outstanding program has
been arranged and a number of
prominent authorities in the chiro
practic field will appear on the
program.
Dr. Earle Downing of Fayette
ville, one of the leading chiroprac
tors in the State, is president of
the district and will preside over
the sessions.
The principal speaker will be Dr.
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DRAMA IN THE MAKING The Paul Green amphitheatre at
Campbell College now Is a busy place as new proscenium walls rise
and other changes are made in the outdoor theatre in preparation
for staging “The Highland Call.” Paul Green’s symphonic drama
will be given nightly October 10-15 as the feature attraction of the
Harnett’s County Centennial celebration. Here, Director Charles
BUUogs, left, wafers with Ur. L H. Campbell, Centennial chair
nuaTdhd CWles r Horton. *«%y engag£ musical director for the
show. Billings now is employing professional actors for key ertßS” *
and Harnett Comity residents will audition September 15 for sup
porting parts. The outdooor theatre in Buie's Creek seats 1,200.
Peurifoy And Son
Killed In Crash
BANGKOK, Thailand (IP) U. S. Ambassador John
E. Peurifoy, one of the State Department’s top cold war
troubleshooters, was killed today with his youngest son,
Daniel Byrd Peurifoy, when their fast sports car crashed
into a truck.
A second son, John Clinton Pe
urifoy. 14, was critically Injured
when the ambassador’s Ford Thun
derbird hit the truck near a narrow
the paving of Highway 421 from
Dunn to the county line are nog
being acepted by the State High
way and Public Works Commission.
The 2.62 mile stretch from Dunn
to about 0.3 miles east of the Har
nett County line will be graded
and paved. The bids will be opened
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bridge outside the famous seaside
resort of Huahin, 125 miles south
of Bangkok.
The flamboyant ambassador who
liked sports shirts more than black
homburgs, was visiting Huahin
with his two sons and his wife, the
former Betty Jane Cox. an ex
school' teachfcr from Oklahoma;,
who stood by him in his battles
against Communism in Greece,
Guatemala and Southeast Asia.
Peurifoy and Daniel were killed
instantly.
Clinton was flown to Bangkok in
a seaplane. He was suffering from
two broken legs, a badly bruised
right arm and a severe cut on
the head. Mrs. Peurifoy flew here
with her son and the bodies of her
husband and her youngest boy.
TOP DIPLOMAT
Peurifoy was 48 on Aug. 9. He
was a graduate of the Military
Academy at West Point and enter
ed the State Dpartment in 1938
as a $2.000-a-year apprentice eco
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Youngsville
Bank Robbed
youngsville, n. c. w—two
bandits, working in heavy rain and
blustery winds of hurricane Con
nie, held up the local branch of the
Durham Bank and Trust Co. here
today and escaped with an esti
mated $3,083
mated $3,083. Durham Bank and
Trust Co. recently acquired the
Bank of Harnett at Erwin. The
heme office in Durham.
Striking when highway patrolmen
In this area were pulled out for
emergency duty in the coastal hur
ricane, one of the two bandits held
a small caliber pistol on bank em
ployees. He was described as six
feet tall weighing about 200 pounds
and wearing dark glasses and a
dark felt hat.
Each finger of his left hand was
bandaged separately, apparently
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New Hurricane Has
Hit Full Strength;
Continues To Grow
CAPE HATTERAS, N. C. (IP) Hurricane Connie sub
sided into rain-drenched gales today after flooding large
areas of the North Carolina coast and smashing two ships
together off Norfolk, Virginia.
First damage estimates came from New Bern, N. C.
about SIOO,OOO.
As Connie’s power decreased, her
baby sister. Diane, grew up to full
hurricane force of possibly 90 mhes
an hour far out in the Atlantic.
1,100 miles east of Miami.
The Washington Weather Bureau
said Connie was centered at 1:56
p m. EST 20 miles north of More
head City. N. C, which took the
full impact of the storm when it
drove inland on a northerly course
aimed for the populous Eastern
Seabord.
Winds at that hour were “close
to hurricane force” and the weath
er bureau said Connie’s strength
probably would decrease further 1
during the overland hop.
The storm pushed tidewater far
inland, however, and streams flood
ed their homes at scores of points.
Thousands of persons had left their
homes before, but many were eva
cuated as she storm struck. i
HEADS FOR VIRGINIA
An 11 a. m. advisory said Con- 1
nie was “again showing signs of
erratic movement' and had taken,
a more northerly course operfand. I
The Miami weather' bureau gave l
Tfie’TfPwf tracking Connie to l
Washisgton weathermen but picked
right up on Diane.
An advisory said Diane had |
reached full hurrican force with
winds up to 90 miles an hour. It
was headed northwest or north
northwest at about 11 miles an
hour on almost yrecisely the path
followed earlier by Connie. Gales *
whipped outward 200 miles to the
northeast and 100 miles to the j
southwest.
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Bomb Is Planted
In Roxy Theatre
NEW YORK (IP! Police experts hoped their disman
tling of a powerful home-made bomb today will yield a
clue to the identity of the maniac who has planted 23
explosives in crowded places in the past 15 years.
The latest bomb manufactured
by the mysterious would-be killer
was found Thursday night in the
slashed cushion of a seat in the
huge Roxy Theater where more
than 2,000 persons were watching
a movie. Also found in the cushion
was a bone-handled knife used to
make the slash, another trademark
of the madman.
Police said a preliminary inspec
tion of the bomb showed it to be
made by the same man who has
planted 22 other crude devices in
downtown theaters, railroad sta
tions and the public library.
Heavy Rains Kill
Four In New York
NEW YORK (IP) A massive storm front preceding
hurricane Connie poured the heaviest rains of the yeat
on thickly populated metropolitan New York today. It
flooded homes and highways, washed out railroad tracks
and caused at least four deaths.
The weather bureau said in an
11:30 a.m. EST advisory that gale-|
force winds up to 50 miles an hour
would hit Long Island tonight. It
warned residents of exposed shore
points to take all possible precau- I
tions.
Northeast storm warnings were
flying as far north as Province
town, Mass., in anticipation of the
hurricane, which the weather bu
reau said was moving north toward
Washington, D. C., at about 12
miles an hour.
The torrential rains, had spilled .
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Morehead
Damage
Widespread
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
(IP) Widespread but most
ly minor damage was
wrought to this port city '
and neighboring Beaufort by
the brunt of hurricane Con*
nie today.
No injuries were reported from
the storm anywhere in the area
at noon.
U. P. correspondent Norwood <■
Young reported half a dozen cot
tages near the Atlantic Beach
fishing pier suffered extensive
; water damage to theli tranks hot
sttt were ~~ 2**
f rbmig said part of the Atlantia-
Beach pier was lost, but about 900
feet of the 1,000 foot pier was in
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DEATHS END HEART MIXUP
TOKYO (IP) Factory worker
Sadao Sato and his bride o f
three days threw themselves to
their death from a moving train
southwest of Tokyo Thursday
night.
Police said they found a note
in Sato’s pocket which said he
loved his wife’s sister.
Several bombs have been found
in recent months and police, com
pletely baffled by the man’s meth
od of operation, are conducting a
frantic investigation with the hope
of finding the maniac before one of
his bomb kills someone.
Had the bomb found in the Roxy
gone off it could have killed a
number of people, police said. An
expert said several bombs left by
the madman could have killed any
one within ten feet of it and in
jured anyone within about 30 feet
of it.
more than four inches of water
over a wide area. They were e*4
i pteted to continue “without letup* V
until the storm had passed, protw K\
ably sometime late tomorrow er ’
Sunday.
j A 28-year-old housemaid drowned
or was electrocuted in a flooded
basement. Three persons died on
wet highways.
Police reported 90 per cent of
the homes in one section of tho
borough of Queens were flooded.
A veteran police sergeant described
conditions there as “the worst I’ve
seen"