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Partly cloudy, quite warm and
humid weather through Saturday
with widely scattered afternoon
and evening thundershowers occur
ring mostly east portion.
VOLUME 5
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MISS CAROLINA COTTON VIBITS DUNN
AND ERWIN Pretty Miss Bet Taylor, “Miss
Carolina Cotton of 1955” spent several hours in
Dunn and Erwin She came to invite
citizens of the two towns to the Clayton Cotton
Festival on September 24. The lovely little lady
completely captivated citizens during her stay
here. Mayor Ralph E. Hanna of Dunn is Shown
Dunn Erwin Teams
Play Saturday
At Erwin Park
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Bill Harrington today announced
a list of the players for the Erwin
Lions Club in the big doublehead
er scheduled for Saturday night at
7:30 in the Erwin ball park.
Those on Manager Bill Moore’s
team are:
Graham Stewart, Billy Turnage,
G. W. Fowler, John Pecora, Carl
Lucas, Merle Parker, Clifton Roy
als, Glendell Stevenson, Gus Par
ker, Tye Stewart, Larry Carpenter.
Bob Kelly, Bob Raeford. K. G.
Home, Larry Smith.
Those on Manager Glen Lock
amy’s team are: Tommy Davis,
Red Lambert, Bobby Godwin, Earl
Bass, Bob Lassiter, Bill Seawell,
Jr., Carlton Moore, Ted Gray, Ed
Brandon, Arthur Seabolt, Goober
Whitman, Leon Wade, Jack Craw
ford, Glen Wade and Lee Ray
Ennis.
—A beautiful Zenith television set
and 35 other valuable prizes, in
cluding such items at a steam iron,
hams, Dos hats and 10 silver dol
lars will e given away during the
drawing.
MRS. ATLEE HAS STROKE
GREAT MISSENDEN, England
(W The wife Labor Party leader
and former Prime Minister Cle
ment Attlee confirmed today that
Attlee suffered “a light stroke ’
last week. She said the 72-year-old
Attlee was stricken with a mild
cerebral thrombosis —a bloodclot
on the brain.
Damage To Crops
Nos Half Million
Harnett Farm' Agent Cliff Ammons today estimated
Harnett’s total crop damage from both Hurricane Connie
and Diane at approximately $419,000.
After completing his survey, the
veteran farm official said at 1 P.M.
this afternoon he saw no possibility
that the damage would run over a
half million and said he thought
the $419,000 figure liberal.
He estimated damage to the
county’s 20,000 acres of tobacco
and 20,000 acres of cotton at rough
ly 5 per cent, and said the big corn
crop of 44,000 acres was damaged
possibly as much as 7 per cent.
Based on current market prices,
this would figure $184,800 loss on
com; $150,000 loss on tobacco and
$75000 loss on cotton.
REPORTS EXAGGERATION
He said total loss on all other
crops would not be over SIO,OOO
combined.
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at left pinning a corsage on Bet and she’s shown
at right chatting with W. H. Mfley, Jr., manager
of Erwin Mills, Inc. Miss Taylor was honored at
a luncheon at Johnson's Restaurant attended by
representatives of the city, chamber of commerce
and local civic groups. Hoover Adams was host
at the luncheon. (Daily Record Photo.)
Opening Os Market
Set For Thursday \
RALEIGH AH A buyer shortage has forced a two
day postponement for the start of tobacco auctions on
the huge eastern flue-cured belt.
Sales on Eastern Belt markets
had been scheduled to start Aug.
23, but the sales committee of the
Bright Belt Warehouse Assn, voted
unanimously yesterday to delay
the opening until Thursday, Aug.
25.
The action was recommended by
the Eastern North Carolina Ware
house Association after a poll of
major buying companies to deter
mine whether full sets of buyers
would be available Aug. 23.
J. C. Eagles Jr. of Wilson, sales
committee representative of the
Eastern Belt explained farmers
with tobacco ready to sell ware
faced with a choice of waiting or
trying to sell on markets with
inadequate buyer representation.
Eagles and FTed S. Royster pres
ident of the Bright Belt group,
said the major companies had gi
ven assurance there will be adequ
ate buyers on the Eastern markets
Aug. 25.
Some buying firms urged a delay
until Aug. 29 in order to let them
clean up a far heavier-than-ex
pected crop on the Georgia-Florida
Belt.
Royster said through last night
the Georgia-Florida Belt will have
sold 200 million gross pounds. Pro
ducer sales in the belt had been
estimated at only 164 million
pounds.
Mr. Ammons said the damage
done to crops while somewhat se
vere had been grossly exaggerated.
Farmers of Harnett are still ex
pected to have a banner year.
Ammons said most damage done
to tobacco was from moisture in
pack barns and not in the fields.
Bees And Trees
KENT. O. (IP) Bees, not
fire-flies, are the insects most
often suspected of arboreal arson.
Davey tree experts report that
bees frequently are carriers of fire
blight $ disease which blackens tree
twigs and leaves as if they were
scorched by flames.
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Area Girls
Take Vows
As Sisters
Two well-known young girls from
this section took the vows of a
Nun Tuesday in ceremonies held
at Belmont Abbey.
Taking the vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience as Sisters
of Mercy were Sister Mary Vir.
ginia (Miss Virginia Susan Wil
liams of Dunnl and Sister Mary
Julia (Miss Julia Godwin of Ben
son.)
Sister Mary Virginia is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Williams of Dunn.
Sister Mary Julia is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch God
win of Benson, Route 2. Mr. God
win is general manager of the
Dunn Produce Auction Market
They took the sacred vows after
completing six years of study and
preparation.
Sister Julia has been assigned
to duty at the Cathode Orphan
age at Nazareth. Sister Mary Vir
ginia has been assigned to teach
at ODonoghue Grammar School in
Charlotte.
Both of the new Sisters are vis
iting their families before going
to their new assignments.
Lana Turner Has
Brain Concussion
HOLLYWOOD (04 Film star
Lana Turner suffering a brain
concussion that resulted from a
fall in a bathtub, today faced at
least two weeks of convalescence
in bed.
Her physician, Dr. Cameron B.
Hall, confined her to bed Thurs
day after an examination revealed
the eoncusslon. The actress who
who injured carder this week in
Acapulco, Mex., previously thought
she had only injured her back.
Miss Turner and her husband,
actor Lex Barker, have a home in
the Mexican resort community.
DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 19, 1955
Impudent Man
Jailed After
Accident Here
A 19-year-old Marine who
was described by Dunn po
lice as “the most impudent
fellow we’ve ever seen” was
being held in the Dunn jail
today as the result of a
highway accident in which
he caused two other vehicles
to pile up.
The prisoner was listed as Ray
mond A. Keach, of Camp Lejeune.
On the accident report which
Keach signed, he scrawled the
words, "I don’t care” and went
back to his jail cell and stretched
out.
Policeman Paul Stogsdill said
Keach drove his 1942 Cadillac from
W. Harnett Street into the busy
Highway 301 traffic on North Ehis
Avenue. .
FAILED TO STOP
The officer said he failed to stop
at a stop sign and ran smack into
a 1955 Ford driven by Paul Win
fred Haskins, 27, of Rocky Mount.
Reach’s Cadillac struck the Ford
with such violent force that it
knocked it into a 1954 Chevrolet
pickup truck being driven by Mrs.
W. G. (Dixon, 55, of Benson. ,
Haskins suffered a back injury
and possibly internal wounds, ex
tent of which have not been de
termined.
The (Cadillac was a complete
loss: the Ford was damaged to the
extent of about S7OO and damage to
the other vehicle was about SIOO.
Policeman * Stogsdill said Keach
had no liability insurance and on
ly two dollars in his pocket.
Policeman Stogsdill said the
Marine showed absolutely no con
cern over the injured man or the
damage he caused.
COLLECTORS FIRED
RALEIGH W) Sixty-three city
garbage collectors were fired today
when they refused to work and de
manded $lO a weeq pay increases.
They nog get s4l.
MAIN STREET FLOOD
LOUISBURG <W Floodwaters
of the Tar River swept across
South Main Street in this city to
day but the Tar was expected to
crest by noon and begin receding.
CALLED JOKE
LONDON (TO The British War
Office announced today that the
“Irish Republican Army raid” on
a British army camp in Wales
Monday was a “practical joke”
staged by four junior army officers.
Assault And Liquor
Cases Heard Here
Josephine McNeill of Dunn was
charged with assaulting Pearl Blue
with a knife, cursing and using
profane language and engaging In
disorderly conduct.
Judge H. Paul Strickland found
her guilty of engaging in an affray
and gave her 30 days on the roads,
suspended for 12 months on pay
ment of costs and the condition
that she not molest or assault
Pearl Blue during the year.
In a counter-warrant, Josephkie
+ Record Roundup +
MUSICAL VARITIES Mrs.
Reta Whittenton announces the
schedule for her “Musical Varities"
radio program for next week:
Monday - Mary Lou Frink will be
the vocalist, accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. B. L. Frink; Tuesday
- Lib Lewis will sing; Wednesday -
Mrs. Mayo Smith will be the voca
list; Thursday - Patricia Johnson
will render piano selections; Fri
day - George Earnshaw, HI of
Erwin will sing, accompanied by
Gerry Matthews, also of Erwin
The program is heard each after
noon at 3 p. m.
A.'
i IT’S A ROAD, NOT A LAKE This picture
St the Spring Branch Road, a short distance from
Mingo bridge, was made this morning shortly be
fore noon. High waters covered a large area in
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Captured Gunman Admits
Killing Cop, Wounding One
CHICAGO (IP) Captured
gunman Richard Carpenter,
outwitted by the desperate
father of a family Jie h&d
hostage for 24 hours, today
confessed killing one police
man and wounding another
in one of Chicago’s greatest
one-man crime waves.
Carpenter, a bilrly 26-year-old
broke down a few hours after a
police barrage of machine gun bul
lets and tear gas flushed him from
a bullet-riddled West Side apart
ment.
He had been tricked by Leonard
Powell, whose home he had turned
into a hideout to escape a city
wide manhunt. Powell slipped out
of his apartment on a pretext and
rushed to a telephone to alert po
lice that the killer was holding
him hotage with his wife and two
children.
CARPENTER BREAKS DOWN
Carpenter fell on his knees “and
begged like a baby not to be shot”
when he was captured. At first he
denied the shooting, but broke
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McNeill indicted Pearl Blue for
assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill, a knife, drink bot
tle and shotgun. She also charged
that Pearl Blue struck her on the
head with the drink bottle, causing
bodily harm, and fired the shotgun
at her and threatened to kill her.
Judge Strickland also found her
guilty of engaging in an affray
and gave her 30 days, suspended
sos a year on payment of costs and
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BELL REUNION The annual
reunion of the late Oscar and Jane
Bell will be held at the Halls school
lunch room on the Clinton and
Newton Grove road, Sunday, Au
gust 21, beginning at 11 a. m.
TRAINEE Willie F. Stevens
of Burgaw, is spending eight weeks
in Harnett County in an on-the
job training at the Farmers Home
Administration office. Mr. Stevens
who arrived August 15, will study
for this period of time under How
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that section of Sampson County. Jernigan's Pond
was also flooded and running over. (Daily Record
Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Poster Leads To
Reunion With Wife
SAN FRANCISCO (IP) William J. Rainer, 48, glanc
ed idly up at the face of a pretty girl decorating an ad
vertising card on a Municipal Railway bus.
The ad suggested that any girl
Just like this one could get and
hold a fine secretarial Job by learn
ing the sponsor’s shorthand me
thod.
Rainer was startled. The girl
looked familiar like the wife
from whom he separated in 1929
The more he thought about It. the
more the resemblance grew.
Standing up. Rainer peered close
ly at the card. Underneath was a
familiar name Del Rainer. When
he and his wife separated,' Mrs.
Rainer took their 20-month-old
daughter. Delores, with her.
Rainer ripped the ad from the
wall of the bus and went to the
secretarial school. There they di
rected him to a downtown office
where Miss Rainer works.
The finding of his daughter end
ed a search that began two years
ago when Rainer who had become
an odd-jobs man around Denver,
received a letter from his daughter
Miss Rainer had traced her fa
ther through relatives.
Rainer came to San Francisco
about a month ago to look for his
daughter. She had moved from the
Telegraph Hill address she had
given, and no one there had ever
heard of her. She was not listed
in the telephone book.
He stayed around town, hoping
to find her and it was by a stroke
of luck that he saw her picture
on the bus. She had moved to
Sausalito across the bay, where
father and daughter had a reunion.
Rainer’s ex-wife was in show
business and constantly on the
move Del was boarded out with
relatives. Finally, her mother mar
ried again and the family settled
here, where Del grew up.
Dunn's Council
To Meet Tonight
Dunn’s efty council discussed a
number of matters last night but
tabled most items of business un
til tonight when a special session
will be held.
The board voted to employ an
out-of-town engineer to survey
both the Latimer and Wei lons pro
perty developments before taking
further action on either.
City Manager A. B. Uzzle was
requested to write the - aounty
board a letter urging the Immed
iate appointment of a county dog
warden.
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In Touch With
Royal Family
LONDON (IP Group Capt.
Peter Towsend and the British
royal family were reported today
to be burning up the telephone
wires between Brussels and Bal
moral Castle in Scotland.
Townsend is in Brussels current
ly on leave from his position there
as British air attache. Princess
Margaret is at Balmoral for her
25th birthday celebration Sunday
when she becomes free to many
without the consent of her sister,
the Queen.
London’s tabloid Daily Sketch, in
a dispatch from Brussels, said
‘‘crucial messages have passed
during the last 48 hours between
41-year-old Group Captain Peter
Towsend and the royal family. The
messages have been concerned with
the decision Princess Margaret is
expected to make shortly about her
marriage to him. 4
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Gallagher Guilty ;
Faces Life Term
NEW YORK (IP) Sgt. James C.
found guilty by a court-martial today of charges that he
killed three fellow American prisoners of war in Korea
in 1951, informed on other prisoners and collaborated
with his Red captors.
* The 23-year-old Brooklyn soldier
faces a maximum sentence of life
imprisonment but he would be
eligible to apply for parole after
serving 10 years.
The verdict was returned after
toe court had weighed for four
hours and 44 minutes the evidence
presented against the strawberry
blond sergeant during the 15 days
of his trial here at Ft. Jay on
Governors Island.
NO. 184
Score Os Lives
Lost; Damage
Many Millions
By UNITED PRESS
A dying hurricane poured
flood waters across the
northeastern United States
today, inundating hundreds
of communities, taking al
most a score of lives and
causing damage estimated
in the hundreds of millions.
Western Connecticut and Massa
chusetts were declared official dis
aster areas. Sections of Pennsyl
vania, New York, New Jersey,
Rhode Inland, Virginia, Maryland,
and the District of Columbia were
awash with the waters from spill
ing rivers and bursting dams.
Ten thousand blasting caps,
capable of blowing up any bridge
they touch, were washed into Pen
nsylvania's Schuylkill River from a
flooded powder plant and coursed
down the swollen stream toward
Philadelphia.
Rail service was suspended on
mainlines throughout New England
and in other affected states.
Roads into affected areas were
washed out, blocked by landslides
or buckling bridges.
Army, Coast Guard and National
Guard forces using boats, amphibi
ous vehicles and helicopters, res
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Wreck Victim
Operated On
Mrs. Lillie H. Allen, mother of
Mrs. W. H. Slocumb of Dunn, un
derwent surgery in the Dunn Hos
f#al, Thursday as the Result of
to an ac
cident last week.
The accident occurred about two
and a half miles from Benson on
the Benson-Garner highway last
Friday when Mrs. Slocumb was
making a return trip home with
her mother from Duke Hospital
in Durham. Another car was in
volved in the accident, however
details were not available here to
day.
Mrs. Slocumb and John Allen,
an occupant of the car of Mrs.
Slocumb, received minor injuries
and were shaken up some, but are
reportedly recovered from the ac
cident. Mrs. Allen was the only one
admitted to the hospital.
Six Are Killed
In Train Wreck
MARKED TREE, Ark. <tf!
The Kansas City-Florida Special
was wrecked (here early today and
the Frisco Railroad operations
department reported six persons
killed.
The Frisco identified one of
the dead as William Richards, a
chef.
The fourth car from the rear
of the train was derailed and
leaning at a 45-degree angle and
three others were derailed but
upright, the railroad said.
MRS. BLACK BETTER
The condition of Mrs. J. E.
Black, Sr„ prominent Dunn resi
dent who has been critically 111 for
the past two weeks, today was re
ported to be improving. She is at
her home on West Cumberland
Street.
At the court reconvened Gal
lagher, flanked by his defense
counsel, walked to the semi-clme
desk where members of the eourt
were seated and saluted the oourt
president, Col. Herman B. Broyles.
The colonel returned his salute and
in a clear voice said;
“Sgt. Gallagher, it is my duty
as president of this oourt to tell
you that the court in closed session,
and by secret written ballot, wiUs
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