Newspapers / The Daily Record (Dunn, … / Sept. 23, 1955, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Daily Record (Dunn, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
+ WFATHER * Occasional light rain or ihowers sear coast and in north portions. Otherwise partly cloudy this after noon and tonight. VOLUME ft RUSSIA CALLS END TO COLD WAR g||r,« a : /. ?vv;> W 1 • J| w J ; «JJj i!L OR *» , IN , TOWN — l4 *■** in Dnnn ’ streamlined bat still had its own highly Individ bine and beautiful, today. The new Ford, whose uaUsed styling. It is on display at Ante lales and l Jr** P ° W ! r Thund " bird en *l»e »« drawing Service in Dunn. That’s a companion modeL the bUyer * ,r ° m off “** Ford * ution wagon. (Daily Record Photo by Ted streets for their first look, appeared slick and Crail.) J JhsM Jjttk JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS SYLVIA, HENRY, PINKY, THE PROBE AND GRANNY Harnett County’s Centennial Ce lebration ironically, is attracting a lot more attention and Interest outside the county than among the county’s citizenry.... As yet local people don’t seem to realize just how big the celebration is going to be—Dr. Leslie Campbell and his committees are doing an outrend ing job and the program of ev ents is nothing short of terrific We’ve just looked over a copy of the dally events and were amazed —ls there’s any truth in that old superstition about catching the bridal blouquet Sylvia Slaughter may be altar-bound.... She caught Bobbie Jean Whitten ton’s bouquet Sunday night , Bobble as expect •ed was a. beautiful bride .. A lot of local people are planning to at tend the Carolina-Oklahoma game Saturday . Judge H. Paul Strick land is an alumnus of both Duke and Carolina, so he has to stay neutral at the Duke-Carolina games—Former County Attorney Henry C. Strickland who suffered a severe heart attack tlwo weeks ago is reported improved at Rex Hospital in Raleigh Television fans are still laughing over the un fortunate but still funny collapse of Pinky Lee the other day It was the timing that brought the giggles... Pinky was in the midst of telling the children how Toots'e Rolls give him so much pep and vigor and energy when he keeled 0ver...." .• -- BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth days Wednesday were: Postmaster Ralph Wade, Assistant Postmaster Tommy Jackson, Former Assistant (Continued On Page Tw») SHE HAS THE ANSWER TO YOUR HEART PROBLEMS Molly Coming Monday And now it can be told . . . Monday will be M-Day - - - Molly Mayfled Day. The mystery lady about whom we’ve been teasing you will garrlve in town Monday to take her place as author of a great new column in The Daily Record --the first of which you’ll And Monday on The Record’s editorial feature W And what a column I Ah - - you’ll say it your self -- what a column 1 TELEPHONES 8117 - 8118 Punn Negro Taken In 7953 Slaying Zebedee James, 27-year old Dunn Negro sought since September 5, 1953 for the slaying of his wife, has been captured by the FBI in Co lumbus, Ohio, it was disclos ed today by Harnett Sherifs Claude R. Moore. (Rural Policeman B. E. Sturgill of Dunn left this morning for Co lumbia to return James to Harnett to stand trial for first degree mur der. He is also wanted for shooting his brother-in-law, Frank Btocks, who intervened’and tried to keep him from killing his wife. The shooting took place at the home of his mother-in-aw, Mattie Stocks, on Dunn. Route b, where his wife, Gladys, 23, was staying. The couple had been having do mestic troubles and she had left him. He went to the house and shot her in the back with a 25 cal ibre pistol as 'she tried to run out (Continued On Page Six) Knife - Assailant Gets 18 Months Harnett Cbunty Vice Recorder L. M. Chaffin sentenced Allen Blue, whom he had convicted of a knife assault on Richard Fowler, to i 8 months on the roads at Tuesday’s session of recorder’s court Other cases disposed of Tuesday were: Ben George Harrngton, manu facturing liquor, six months or SSO and costs and violate no law for two years; Fred Samuel McLean, driving drunk, six months or SIOO Molly doesn’t do strictly “lovelorn” stuff. Columns like that are outmoded. She advises the so-called lovelorn . . . sure . . . but aha also will find answers to a staggering variety of other problems and perform scores of serv ices for her readers. Just for example: SHE HAS THE ANSWERB She’ll tell people how they can explore their fkmlly trees,, become fashion models, get a job (Can H—d m Rage Two) (She Jlailij Jlcturd | "Holiday Ahoy To Open Here • _ Monday Nite The director has laryngitis, and Oerald Frix,' who will play “Dave Garroway, Master of Ceremonies,” didn’t start learning his part until last night. ODltherwise, the Woodman-of the-World production, “Holiday Ahoy,” is in fine fettle, and a large group of junior-sized ticket sellers were all over town this week to make sure that everyone gets a chanc to see it. Lee Poltvan of Kansas City, di recting the play, apparently has been plugging the show too hard. After speaking to local groups to stimulate interest and rehearsing each evening, she came down with (Continued On Pag* Six) and costs and loss of driver’s li cense for one year (appealed; SBOO bond*. • v:. Ed Mayfield, speeding 72 mph, driving after expiration of license, nol pressed with leave; Julius Wil liam Bailey, speeding 70, nol press ed with leave;,Bill Hall, public drunkenness and disordery con duct, 30 days or $lO and costs; John Erwin Price, speeding over 55, drunken driving, six months (Continued Ob Page Four) DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 Union Service I Will Welcome j New Minister Rev. Leslie C. Tucker will be busy getting acquainted with Dunn ministers and members of their church* congregations Sunday eve ning at the union service welcoming him as the new Presbyterian minister. The service will be held at the Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p.rn. The Rev. J. W. Lineberger, presi dent of the Dunn Ministerial As-' so elation will preside. The pngam is sponored by the Dunn Minister ial Association, and all the Dunn qhurches are expected to partici pate in the union service. Rev. Tucker, who preached here last Sunday for his first time. Will be the speaker for the service. A large crowd is expected to attend the union service welcoming Rev. Tucker to the town of Dunn. Swedes Not Too Sexy ; Just Frank \ STOCKHOLM, Sweden (W Ar oused Swedes today defended their sex Brf and morals, which were critidzejL in a British surrey. wJ Oaf Mticial-argued that the only difference between morals in Swe den and morals elsewhere “is that we dare talk openly about sexual matters.” The Daily Sketch, a London newspaper, said today that Sweden is without morals. “Adultery is al most respectable," it said. Early Instruction The story by "Dr. Jon Collen” a pen name for a British psychol ogist and marriage counselor, quoted C. W. Herlitz, head of the as saying Swedish instructors teach their students sex at an early age. “Before lbtag I want to introduce lessons in the techniques of love making far older children,” Collen quoted Herlitz as saying. Herlitz denied making the statement Collen said he had been told by Continued on Pago Six) * Record Roundup + MUSICAL VARIETIES Mis. Reta Whittenton announces the schedule for her “Musical Varie ties" radio program; Tuesday - Belle Bostic of Benson will sing; Wednesday - Mrs. Garris Yarborough of Benson will sing; Thursday - A vocal duet, featuring Janet Rose Warren and Betty Sue Dawson, accompanied by Olive Grey Herring; Friday - Mrs. Cohen Tart will be the vocalist. The pro gram is heard each afternoon at 3:00 p. m. Gardners jAwordferf Trophy 2nd Year For the second consecutive year, Gardner's Dairy Products, Inc. of Dunn has won the Safety Award presented by the North Carolina Dairy Products Association for Its outstanding accident-free record. James Buries, fanager of the Dunn plant, was notified of the high honor today by J. Uoyd Lang don of Raleigh, executive vice pres ident of the Dairy association. TO BE GIVEN MONDAY The safety award will be form ally presented to Mr. Buries in ceremonies to be held Monday at the Gaston Hotel in New Bern at a luncheon meeting of accountants and plant superintendents of the Eastern Carolina Oroup. H. 8. Baucom, safety director of the N. C. Industrial Commission, will make the presentation to Mr. (Omttmsd m Page Twa) W Aw/r IVP^Ih, ¥m& W ft *•* ' ' ; m-'W BL. 18, ; . Man Slain Gang Style In New York NEW YORK (If) A juvenile delinquent of the 1920’s was shot dead about 3 am. today as he sat in a sheet in the case of a Turkish bath. Three men who had entered be (Continued On Pago Six) B. St P WOMEN’S CLUB The Business and Professional Women's Club will meet Tuesday evening at 7:00 in the General Lee Room at Johnson's Restaurant. All mem bers are urged to attend. HOMECOMING A Homecom ing program is planned for Pleas ant Plains Methodist Church on Sunajiy, September 25. The morn ing worship service will be conduct ed bf the Reverend R. F. MUnns, t Continued On Pag* Six) JAMES STOLEB DEATH SEAT AND VICTIM Shown here U the automobile in which Mack Elwood Rasa, 18, of Dunn, Route 2, was him last night In a wreck three miles south or Coats. Bass, the driver, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rob Bass and k brother of Bob well-known Dunn business man. Funeral rites for Baas, shown be low. will be held Saturday. (Daily Record Photo by George Perry Lee.) One Killed , 2 Hurt In Highway Wreck Harnett Coroner Grover C. Henderson of Dunn today planned an inquest into the death of Mack Elwood Badk 18, well-known young resident of Dunn, Route 2 who was a^. 1 " £dly InJUM Bass, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rob Bass, died a few minutes after en tering the Dunn Hospital. Two companions, Charles Farm er, 16, of Erwin, his nephew, and Raymond Messer, 16, also of Erwin, are still in the hospital serious*;/ injured. Fanner receved severe head injuries, and Messer’s arm and leg were broken and he also receiv ed head lacerations. Both his fract ures were compound. Fred Smith, of Varina, Negro driver of the truck involved in the crash, was held by Highway Pat rolman Paul Albergine, investiga ting officer, pending the inquest at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Albergine said Smith had stopped the heavily-loaded truck in the middle of the highway when Baas came along and crashed into the rear of it. He said Bass, driving a 1954 Chev rolet, was going at a very high rate of speed, possibly 80 miles an hour or more. The impact of the blow was such that when a wrecker at tempted to pull the two vehicles apart a section of the car stuck beneath the tractor-trailer. FUNERAL SATURDAY Funeral services for Mr. Bass will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Spring Branch Bap tist Church. Elder Lester Lee and the Rev. Leslie Tucker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dunn, will gfficiate. Burial will be Dunn GOC To Be Honored; Cretini New Commander General Edward Griffin, state director of Civil Defense, and oth er high - ranking officers will be in Dunn Thursday, September 29, for a public meeting and award ceremony of the local Ground Ob servers Corps. In calling this meeting. Super visor Ed Carroll whose plans to leave, Dunn were announced ear lier when he stated that he was retiring from his post as manager of the Chamber of Coinmerce told members he will be leaving in a month. The new commander, he wrote, will be Corky Cretlni, and he urg ed that Cretlni be given full sup port. "We now have one of the top operations in the stats,” Carroll wrote. He suggested each member bring ■fr The Record Is First * IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY in Greenwood Cemetery in Dunn. The body will lie in state at the church for one hour prior to the services. Mr. Bass attended Plain View High School in Sampson County and was engaged in farming. He Continued ea Page Six) Till Murder Case In Hands Os Jury SUMNER, Miss. (IP) The defense rested today as the murder case against twa white half brothers, accused of killing a Chicago boy for whistling at one of their neared a decision by a jury of ten farmers, a laborer and an insurance salesman. - ; The defense for J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant closed out its case in a packed second floor courtroom without allowing the Jury to hear any testimony about the so-called “wolf whistle” that led to the pistol slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year old Chicago Negro who was visiting his tenant farmer uncle. After final arguments, the case was expected to reach the white Jury by mid-afiternoon. Conviction on the murder charges without rec ommendation of mercy would make a recruit to the September 29 OTHERS COMING Besides General Griffin, the Ground Observers Corps will hear from Colonel John Gresch, G. O. C. coordinator for North Carolina; Major Vance R. Corbin, command er of the Durham Air Defense Fil ter Center ;and Lt. Robert C. Car lin, mobile training division. The chief purpose of the meet ing is to make awards tnd present wings and certificates to observ evrs, but there will also be a show ing of a new Air Force film, “Men ace from the East” All those new on ground tbserv er rosters who have not received their wings are to receive. September 29, said Carroll Friends and family will be welcome. NO. 209 Surrender Os All Foreign Bases Asked UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (IP) Russia called today for all powers to give up foreign bases and demanded agree ment on reduction of anned forces without waiting for a disarmament treaty. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyache slav M. MolotoV told the United Nations General Asaggibly the Kremlin is “engaged in studying* President Eisenhower’s arms in spection plan. But he gave no hint as to whether the Russians would accept it. He made no reference to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin’s letters to the Big Three heads of state, which presumably concern dis armament. Boasts of Deeds’ Molotov went down the line for support of the overall disarma ment proposals presented by Mos cow last May 10 and rejected by the West because they lack ade quate provisions for inspection and control. He boasted the Soviet Union had abandoned its bases at Port Arthur in China, and at Porkkala, in Fin land. “The Soviet government,” he said, “bias proceeded from words to deeds. This gives us reason to call upon the governments of other powers, and particularly of those which maintain numerous bases oh foreign territories, to give up their pay. oust" meet tne neea xo exu off the armaments race, build up confidence among nations and end the cold mar.” Earlier in his speech, Molotqv referred to Moscow’s announced reduction of its armed forces" by 640,000 men. “The Soviet delegation,” he said, “expresses the hope that the other (Continued on Pag* Two) execution in the state’s gas cham ber mandatory. WITNESS ON STAND The prosecution, which prepared its case in less than three weeks after Till’s body was fished out of the Tallahatchie River', put a wit ness on the stand yesterday who testified he saw a, Negro resemb ling Till being taken to a bam hi a neighboring county. The witness said he heard yells coming from the barn and saw one of the defendants on trial—(Milan— (Continued On Page Pear) JPa ■^“counr
The Daily Record (Dunn, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 23, 1955, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75