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* W FATHER * Fair to partly cloudy and warm today; high temperatures 87 to 93. Wednesday partly cloudy and hot, except scattered afternoon thund ershowers. VOLUME 5 SOLDIERS SENTENCED IN HOLD-UP ?V* AT ;• >’ '' ' '.^l PRETTY i. TOO Norwood Chestnut! was learning all about Dunn and his new position with the First Citi zens Bank and Trust Company this week, fie was also dlnenvering that the bank has attractive clerks. Mrs. Joan Strickland of 400 South Uth Street fining r»— Tf w<w* to the installment loan division which he now heads. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail.) HEADS FIRST CITIZENS' INSTALLMENT LOAN DEPT. Chestnutt Begins Bank Duties Here Norwood B. Chestnutt, 27, who went into hanking as a career only three years ago, came to Dunn this week where he will be the new manager of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company’s installment loan division. Trouble Piles Up Fast For Lady Poe Trouble do seem to compound it self at least for Lady Mae Pope. Seems like she just got out of the state prison in Raleigh, where she served a term for shoplifting in Smithfield and now there may be the same thing all over again. That stay in state prison may have made her a little rusty be cause when she was in Leder Brothers on Saturday someone al legedly saw her putting a pair of shoes under her dress. Knowing that this was not where shoes went, the observer let out a yell and Lady Mae, with great dis (Continued On Page Eight) Dozen Convicted In Liquor Cases Twelve defendants were convict ed in cases involving liquor by Judge Ed Johnson in Benson Re corder's Court on Monday. Warren G. Tart of Route 2, Ben son, judged guilty of public drunk, enness and resisting arrest, was •entenced to 60 days on the roads. Fernle Denning McLamb of Ra leigh, found guilty of drunken driving, Was handed a 60-day sen tence. suspended upon payment of a SIOO fine and court costs and condition the defendant not drive for 12 months. Those taxed with court costs for public drunkenness and their ad dresses are as follows: Fetton TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 The installment loan division is In separate quarters from other bank departments. Mr. Chestnutt could be found there yesterday, at 116 N. Wilson Ave., learning de tails from his predecessor George Exum who goes to Smithfleld to take over the installment lean di vision there. ’ i I Chesnutt served as an adjuster for two years at New Bern and was at Clinton for bne year also as an adjuster immediately before com ing here. DUKE GRADUATE He took h1 s bachelor’s degree from Duke University in 1948, and from 1948-50 was employed by the Imperial Tobacco Co. in White vllle. The next two years he spent mostly at Fori Bliss, Texas, as an enlisted man in the Army. ENJOYS HEAVY VOLUME A golfer In his spare-time (he shoots in the Eighties), Mr. Ches nutt believes the new Job is a real opportunity and is glad to be In Dunn. He says the installment loan divison here maintains a "heavy traffic” in automobile and household financing. Allen MoLamb, Benson; John Lew is, Negro, Route 1, Benson; Tal ton Blackman, Route 2, Four Oaks; L. C. McCuller, Negro, Route 2, Benson; h. J. Fairly. Negro, Laur. inburg; and Edward McLean, Ne gro, Route 2, Angier. Aaron Parker of Four Oaks and Earien Allen of Route 3, Four Oaks, paid court costs for posses sion of illegal liquor and public drunkenness. Donnie Edward Carroll of Dunn was fined $lO and ordered to pay court costs for public drunkenness and possession. Hettie McCuUer, Negro, of Route (Coattued Ou Page Eight) <Ehe JHaihj yXemrd Sect. Benson Is Man With Serious Mission WASHINGTON (IPI Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a man with a mission: “The establish ment of a prosperous, ex panding, and free agricul ture.” Success of that mission, he said, will come “slowly.” Benson discussed his mission in an interview with the United Press just before leavng on a trip to Europe. He answered a series of written questions and later expand ed on them as he sat at his wide, orderly desk in the Department of Agriculture. In addition to being a member of the cabinet, Season is high in the hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The only interest he has in the hurly-burly of political Washing ton, he said, "is the future of Amer ican agriculture and the welfare of this nation.” Concerned About Declines “If it were not for that,” he said, his right hand raised, ‘‘l would not be here 24 hours. I have no political ambitions. “I expect to do everything pos sible to promote programs that are economically socially, and spirit ually sound both in and out of agriculture.” The top farmer of tha United States is concerned about the de cline of farm prices and farm in by the huge surplus at food, feed, and fiber crops. THIS SURPLUS HAS PILED UP IN GOVERN MENT INVENTORIES UNDER A SYSTEM OF HIGH, RIGID PRICE SUPPORTS. “Farm prices and farm income are lower than I would like to see them,” Benson said. “They are too low, relatively. I want them streng thened. ‘Yet I believe it should be point ed out that total (farm incyme of of itself is not the best measure of farm prosperity. It is per capita not income that counts—how much the individual fanner is able to keep for himself after he markets his crops and pays his production expenses and other fixed costs. By this measure of per capita not In come farmers have been Improv ing their economic position steadily and almost without interrupt >n through the years.” The ills of agriculture, he said, cannot be cured overnight. “In agriculture, we are dealing with a dynamic industry,” he said “We can’t write legislation and say, ‘this is it.’ The agricultural Industry changes all the time. We’ve got to keep farm labor fluid so that it can move in and out in a supply and demand situation. We must keep people free to make (Continued On Page Eight) Congressman Sees His Bride Killed WILLISTON, N. C. (ffl Rep. Usher Burdick (R-ND) watched as his bride of one month was killed In a fall from* a horse yesterday. Mrs. Burdick, a novice rider, was thrown from a horse on the Bur dick ranch near here when the animal made a sharp turn. She suffered a broken neck, a «kull fracture, and brain hemorrhage. The 76-year-old congressman was following in a car and witnessed the accident. Mrs. Burdick, the former Edna B. Sierson of Bradford, Mass., was a Washington secretary when she met her future husband. They were married July 81 and planned to take a European honeymoon after a brief stay at the ranch. The best some pewits con 4s 1s hold themselves up to the If chMilien os 0 sneiifl pad wot mi 29* DUNN N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1955 IBHIIHH 1 k i Ipr' ' ' ' ’’?; : . IfyC m wf*m W / mt ** * 1 /m. I /mm I /•• ; I^mbVl . ''l*. "r*M : #>JI ■rS * • if --W ", • , - -m, JiH SkFJS; * JjpV mmj. - f w n J RITA HAYWORTH "I CAN7 GO ON/'. SOBS DICK Haymes Is Tearful Over Ritas Exit By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (IP) Dick Haymes, crying unashamed ly, insisted today he still doesn’t know why Rita Hayworth left home but “if she doesn’t come back I can’t go on.” The much-troufoled singer has survived battles with the immigra tion service, income tax depart ment, creditors, three ex-wives and alimony courts. But today he sat alone and forlorn in the couple’s Malibu Beach home and indicated Costuming Pageant Proves A Big Job Plans for the production of Paul Green’s symphonic drama, “The Highland Call,” are increasing in tempo as less than six weeks remain before the show opens as the feature attraction of the Harnett County Centennial. In order to provide the approxi mately 200 costumes for the 60 or 70 people in the cast, the Centen nial committee has engaged the services of Miss Suzanne Kramer of Hickory who began work Mon day in Buie’s Creek. Miss Kramer has had experi ence in the fieid of theatrical costuming at “Unto These Hills" at Cherokee and .assistant to the costumer with The Carolina Play makers, the. University of North Carolina. She now Is buying ma. + Record Roundup + HANNA’S POND Recreational Director, Gene Driver, announced today that this week was the last: week that Hannah Pond would be! open. 1 i this latest blow has done him in. "A man is only in love once,” ■ Haymes said. “I’m 37. I've been l in love with this giri for 18 years. 1 You can’t expect that to cool off i very fast. 1 (Continued On Page Seven) terials and has been busy this summer drafting the many origin al designs for the show. Work on the costumes will begin immediate ly and will continue daily until the producton of “The Highland Call” each night during the week of October *lO-15. The costume shop will be located at the Home Economics House on the Campbell College campus. Letters have been sent by the Centennial Committee to all Har (Continued on rage Two) (POOL TO CLOSE—Gene Driver, city recreation manager, announc ed today that the Dunn swimming pool will close Wednesday, August (Continued On Page Eight) Others Given Prison Terms This Morning Two Fort Bragg soldiers, the oldest only 20 years old, started sentences today one on the roads, the other in the state prison at Ra leigh —for an attempted robbery at a Dunn motor court on June 26. Twenty-year-old Charles John son of Wichita Falls. Kansas, was given a three-to-five-year term in the state prison while his compan ion, Ottis Maness. 19, of Atlanta, drew' 18 months on the roads. Maness's parents and wife were in the counroom as sentence was delivered by Judge Malcolmn B. Seawell in the August term of Har nett Superior Court. This was one of the first impor tant cases in a docket that is filled with every conceivable violation from infractions of the prohibition law to murder. Both young men had entered pleas of nolo conten dere. DENY ROBBERY INTENT On the stand, they maintained that W. Hanna, operator of Ma’s Kitchen, the motor court where the robbery was supposedly attempted, was mistaken in thinking they meant to rob him. The rifle which had been found ’X»n them by Dunn police after they were ichased and finally stopped at the (Jape Fear bridge ip Fayette ville was rar rabbltthg hunting they said. There was testimony at the trial that the boys took flight after a fist fight between them and Hanna roused neigh|>ors. According to Hanna, they had announced clear ly, “This is a holdup.” TRUE BILLS , True bills returned so far haye included James and Ethel Lee Gil liam, accused of killing James Murchison, who bled to death on June 18. A true bill was also re turned against Margie McNeill, ac cused of the murder of Andrew McNeill. These cases will be tried Continued on Page Six) Monday's Leaf Averages High Final figures on the tobacco sale yesterday, first good day of the season in Dunn, show that almost $214,000 worth of tobacco moved off the floors. At the Big Four warehouse prices on one hundred pounds averaged $52.88. A total of 212,182 pounds was sold for $112,205.20 The Planters Warehouse sold 194,080 ponuds for $101,670.30. Fig ures on today’s sales were not avail- ‘ able at the Record went to press. B, ' A. •Jj P* J K JBh, R v , f ******* —wnmsxaiSKL i ■ rliKriTi ilm ~ vk. ■ A J'a *vL ’ inTRBp t * , Y-7 "MISS DUNN” LEAVES FOR APPLE FESTI VAL Miss Peggy Ruth Barfield, “Miss Dunn” of 1955, is shown here with her mother, Mrs. Bill Barfield left, and Mrs. Bob Leak right, as they prepared to leave at 4 o’clock this morning for the Apple Festival at Hendersonville. The Dunn beau The Record Is Firs* * IN CIRCULATION . . . NEWS PHOTOS ... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY I v y-,», NOW SEE-HEAR! —It's here! The television-telephone is dem onstrated for the first time as Eugenia French talks to— and watches—Field Engineer Tom French. The device, which could make telephone answering an embarrassing experience, gives both caller and receiver a 10-inch screen view of the person on the other end of the line. The TV camera is in the upper left hand corner of the unit, which was shown at a western electronics show 7 and convention in San Francisco by Bell Telephone and Kay Laboratories of San Kay officials predict the video phone will be used first in industry, then in homes. Ike Is Ignoring Trumans Blasts DENVER (IP) President Eisenhower appeared more concerned over United Nations disarmament talks in New York today than “give-em-hell” attacks on his person by former President Truman. The President kept in close con tact with the U. N. subcommittee in New York. Jle. voiced., Jiopes Monday that the ]jig power (disarmament talks pould produce practical results toward “an eas ing of tensions and the heavy bur dens of armament.” “I sincereiy trust that the sub committee meeting will be marked by the same spirit of frankness and cooperation which typified the meeting at Geneva,” Mr. Eisen hower said. SURE OF PRACTICAL RESULTS If so, tlie Chief Executive said, “I am sure that the disarmament subcommittee work in the end can produce practical results that should lead to an easing of ten sions and the heavy burden of ar mament that the world is presently carrying." Mr. Eisenhower, mixing rest and golf with business on his Colorado vacation, was reported to be hop ing for signs that the Soviet Union (Continued On Page Eight) ty is among a bevy of beauties entered tn the con test for queen of the festival. Her trip to Hender sonville is being financed by Leder Brothers De partment Store of Dunn and local Jaycees. (Daily Record Photo.) NO. 191 Snake-Handlei ■ : v. Dies From Posion Venom SAVANNAH. Term. itPi—A woman who received a suspended jail sentence just two weeks ago for participating in snake-handling religious rites, died today from a rattler’s venom. Mrs. Alma Marie Covington Yost 41, who was bitten during reiigiagf services last night, was the 15th member of the strange snake-hand ling sect to die for her beliefs since 1940. Deputy Sheriff F. M. Hinton said Mrs. Yost was bitten during ser vices at Stagg Lane, about four miles from here. She died at her (Continued On Page Six)
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