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THE BOSS HELPS OUT lt takes a lot of
work and preparation to get ready for a cooking
school. Mary Scott, famed home economist who
was here today to conduct a Philco cooking show
and kitchen charm school at Star Furniture Com
pany recruited J. Edgar Black, Jr., .owner oft the
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By HOOVER ADAMS
A MESS OF LITTLE NOTES
FROM HISTORY TO HOGS
Ironically enough there doesn t
appear to be in existance a picture
of Cornelius Harnett, the man for
whom the County of Harnett was
named.. After exausting every
other source imaginable, we wrote
the State Hall of History in Raleigh
for a picture of him The director
wrote back that he’s been trying
for years to locate one himself but
has been unsuccessful There mav
be a picture or two in somebodv's
attic.. If you’re lucky enough to
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Warren Will Speak
On Sunday Night
- Dr. Casper C. Wdrrefi
of Charlotte, president of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion and former Harnett County resident, will make the
feature address at the county-wide religious service Sun
day, October 9 at 8 p-. m. at the Campbell College amphi
theatre at Buie’s Creek marking the opening of the Har
nett County Centennial.
Dr. Warren who now is pastor
of Charlotte’s First Bapttst Church,
spent his boyhood days in Dunn
and was graduated in 1914 from
Dunn High School. Following his
graduation from Wake Forest Col
lege and service as a first lieuten
ant in World War I, he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in
1924. For two years before enter
ing the ministry he practiced law
in Harnett with the then well
known law firm of the late J. C.
Clifford and K A Townsend.
Dr. David A. Huffines, Jr., pas
tor of the Lillington Presbyterian
Church and religious activities
chairman for the Centennial com
mittee, will preside at the service.
The Rev. J. W, Lineberger, pastor
of the Divine Street Methodist
Church. Dunn, will lead the prayer
and the scripture will be read by
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company, to help her prepare the bread for the
dressing. Both Miss Scott and Mr. Black seem to
be enjoying their tasks. A large crowd attended
the event this afternoon. (Daily Record Photo by
T. M. Stewart)
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Ten Girls Trying
For Queen Title
Ten pretty, talented “princesses” of Harnett County
are more nervous than usual today. They are awaiting
tonight’s finals in the Centennial Queen contest.
The beauty-and-talent pageant is
to take place in Lillington tonight
at the high school, 8 p. m. Finals
in the beard contest, which has
given many local men an excuse
not to shave for several weeks, will
also be run off tonight.
Judges will rate the girls on their
looks, bearing and charm. They will
also score them for talent. Each of
the contestants will sing, play, give
a dramatic reading or exhibit some
other unusual ability. (See Editor
ial Page for a view on this).
SCHOOL NOMINEES
The girls are the nominees of
ten Harnett County schools. Judg
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DR. CASPER WARREN
l Aly And Rita
Won't Kiss
And Make Up
PARIS OP) Prince Aly Khan,
looking as if he meant it, today
tossed cold water on all the specu
lation that he and Rita Hayworth
will kiss and make up.
“We are good friends.” he said
“That’s all."
Rita smiled coyly the other day
when asked about a renewed ro
mance. But Aly appeared dead
serious as he spoke to newsmen in
the garden of his town house.
Asked pointblank whether he in
tended to remarry Rita, Aly replied
without hesitation:
"We are good friends. She is
bringing my beloved daughter over
and that’s all there is to say about
It.”
Their daughter Yasmin, 5, played
in the garden with a toy and a
small dog, ignoring the horde of
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Record
Roundup
Plan for Youth Rally The
Dunn Christian Youth Council
will meet Sunday afternoon at 2:03
in the Methodist Church where
plans will be made for the Youth
Rally, which will be held at the
Presbyterian Church the follow
ing Sunday, October 16. All new
representatives should attend as
this Is a very Important meeting.
MARRIAOE PERMITS ln
September the number of marriage
licenses issued by the courthouse
at Lillington more than doubled
that of previous months.
The quarterly report on license 1
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DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1955
Varied Evinfs
Slated All
During Wfk
More than one distin
guished figure will join in
the commemoration of Har
nett County’s hundred years
of progress, but many eyes
are bound to turn in this
coming week on world - fam
ed Paul of
“Abraham’s Children,” and
winner of the Pulitzer prize.
Paul Green has haver forgotten
that his roo;s are in Harnett
County and he will ge here to neip
celebate the Monday
morning he is to De piet by a mo
torcycle essort and taken to the
reviewing stand in iillington just
before the parade bigins.
By Monday, the Centennial win
be m full gear, but the ‘informal
opening” is tonight when a queen
will be chosen at Lillington High
School 8 p. m. csee Queen story,
front page). ,
Here are some of the highlights
planned for the first two days of
the Centennial (Sunday and Mon
day) as listed in the official pro
gram:
SUNDAY dinner % out-of
town*|»dges Copanuaggr Center.
Lliington Junior Women's Cub.
WARREN TO SPEAK
County-wide religious services, 8
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TOM HOOD HURT
Thomas R. Hood, former Dunn
resident, is in a critical condition
in Tampa, Fla. as the result of a
brain concussion suffered yester
day in a fall. Mr. Hood reportedly
fell from a ladder in his drug store
at Dunedin and suffered a fractur
ed skull. His sister-in-law, Mrs.
Jessie Davis of Dunn, left by plane
last night for Tampa. At last re
port. M. Hood was still unconscous.
Coed To Try For
SIOO,OOO Tonight
HOLLYWOOD (IP) A shy college freshman will be
offered SIOO,OOO on TV’s biggest giveaway show tonight
T but psychiatrists, her hypnotist and friends agreed
she’ll turn it down.
Pretty tt-roar-old Pat Morris. University of Southern CmHfornU
co-ed, looks at table from which she yrillbe invited to take |1M,900
In large hills Friday night October 7,. on Old Gold’s “Truth or Con
ssmiejtcee" television f*ow over NBC. All shi has to do to take
toteyiakm’s greatest give-sway prise money Is to pick it np. Hitch
Is that on Gist Friday's show Hypo iMat Arthur Ellen (left) put
■PoU, ***• poetdtypnetie-suggestion that she
wIU NOT be able to perform tho feat. Pat has Mad the intervening
week in which to “brainwash” herself of Mr. men’s hypnotie spelL
Jo* Bailey, show's emcee, explains to Pat details of fMMM
Consequence. ’ . * -
All 19-year-old Pat Morris has to pajace menu,
do is pick up the money from a But experts , say she "doesn’t
tabie on the Truth or Conse- have a.chapqe” because hypnotist
quences” show. She won’t have to Arthur EJlep .will ted her to ignore
answer any difficult questions the greenbacks,
about baseball or the Buckingham (Continued on Page Two)
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CAR IN WHICH TWO DIED Pictured here
is the wreckage of a 1953 Oldsmobile in which <two
Fort Bragg soldiers were killed early thfs morn
ing near Spout Springs. Patrolman Paul Lucas is
Erwin Mills To Be Featured
On Nation-Wide TV Program
INWfWr Unit will be fee
featured subject of a tele
vision program inaugurat
ing the National Association
of Manufacturers’ Peabody,
Award - winning weekly TV
film series, “Industry on Pa
rade” over WTVD, Durham,
Channel 11, on this Sunday
afternoon, October 9, at 1:45
p. m.
Chauncey W. Lever, director of
public and industrial relations for
Erwin Mills, who made the an
nouncement of the television se
ries, said today the President Wil
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shown surveying the wreckage. A third occupant
of the car was seriously injured. After skidding
for a total of 475 feet, the car overturned five
limes. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Harnett Men Held
In Woman s Degth
, SANFORD (IP) Ralph Thomas, 23y Brpadway,
Route 1 was held without bond on a murder charge to
day pending an investigation into the death of a woman
found dying of a fractured skull on a Sanford street. .
Carroll Funeral
Set For Sunday
Mrs. Merttie Bagley Carroll, age
45. wife of L. H. Carroll of God
win. died at 6:45 a. f. Friday
morning in Highsmith’s Hospital in
Fayetteville following a long ill
ness.
Funerai services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p. m. at
Mingo Baptist Church. The Rev.
Earl Davis Farthing, assisted by
Rev. E. C. Kelier, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the church
cemetery. The body will lie in state
at the church one hour prior to
the services. ,
A native of Sampson County,
Mrs. Carroll was the daughter of
the late Thomas M. and Em a God
win Bagley. She was a member of
the Mingo Chlirch.
She is survived by her husband.
Louis H. Carroll; four sons, Henry,
Fulton Carroll of Clinton. Eibert
N. Carroll of Fayetteville, Thomas
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ANOTHER SEX TRANSFORMATION
Once A Man , She
Curves Like M.
NEW YORK <IF rs 'v!Dtte McLeod could compete
favorably today with Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell in
a sweater girl contest.
This was considered rather unu
sual because only a year ago Char
lotte was Charles McLeod, a for
mer soldier from Dyersburg, Tenn.
But Charles wanted to become a
woman and following the course set
by Christine Jorgensen underwent
a “sex-change” operation in Co
penhagen, Denmark in 1944.
Charlotte was not completely sat
isfied with the metamorphosis,
however, and underwent further
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Mrs. Eunice McGee o f Colon
died shortly after she was found
by police early Wednesday and
Thomas, who admitted having been
with the woman, was arrested
yesterday.
Police also held two other com
panions of the woman, H. E. Buch
anan, 31, of Broadway, Route 1
mers, as accessories after the fact.
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Willie Mae Used
Iron, Gets 6 Months
Wllie Mae Cook, who took a piece
of iron to James Riley McLean,
pled not guilty In Recorder’s Court
yesterday morning, but she was con
victed and sentenced to six months.
Judge H. Paul Strickland ruled
her guilty on a charge of assault
with a deadiy weapon. He gave het
half a year in the county jail. Wil
lie Mae lives on East Edgerton
St. in Dunn.
surgery two months ago at the
hands of a woman plastic surgeon
in New York, Dr. Elsie Laßoe.
Using a technique to replant
natural tissue, a method develop
ed during World War II for treat
ment of wounded soldiers. Dr. La-
Roe made a breast implant of pol
yester on, a plastic.
BODY TO MATCH MIND
Dr. Laßoe’s husband said Char
, lotte underwent breast surgery be
• cause “she was trying to find her-
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Officer Blames
Double Tragedy
On High Speed
Two Port Bragg soldiers
were killed and a third was
badly injured early Friday
morning in Western Harnett
when the car in which they
were riding went out of corf
trol, skidded 475 feet aim
turned over five times.
State Highway Patrolman Paul
Lucas, who investigated, identified
the dead as: Pvt. Curtis Goodman,
18. of Clinton Route 3' and Pvt v
Lubie Thornton, 23 of Haw River,
Route 1* both members of the 61st
Chemical Company at Bragg.
Their deaths brought Harnett
County’s total highway fatalities
for the year up to 16.
•LOW FLYING”
Lucas said Goodman was driving
the 1953 four-door Oidsmobile. He
estimated the car was going “in
excess of 80 miles an hour” when
it topped the crest of a hill on N.
C. Highway No. 87 2 of a mile
soutli of Spout Bprings.
The accident occurred at 1:45 a.
m.
All three passengers were thrown
oistof the vehicle,
Xhe third man, Pvt Stone;
Gjrjtaes, - also with the «l*i, was
Badfy injured and was taken to
Lee County Hospital at Hanford.
He will be removed to the Army
hospital at Bragg.
Goodman and Thornton were
pronounced dead on arrival at the
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Miss McGugan
Given Office
Petitions were brought in short
ly before the City Council meeting
last nght, making the annexation
of the remainder of the Fleishman
lands official.
At its meeting in the city hall
last evening, the council appointed
Miss Louise McGugan, assistant
cierk of recorder’s court. Miss Dor
othy Walton was named to
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High Point resident Doppie Mc-
Coy Tyndall, picked up Ton Aug.
29 for drunk driving, possession of
whiskey, ad driving whiie license
was revoked was jolted by Judge
Strickland with a four-month term
on the roads.
The court recommended that his
license “be revked premanently.”
A young looking husband was
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Now Has
Monroe
self, to get a body to match he*
mind and feelings."
from all appearance, Dr. I*«
Roe’s husband said, the operation
was successful. Charlotte’s bust
now measures 38 inches, her waist
25 and her hips 37. She is Six feet
tall in high heels.
Charlotte said she never had an f
intention of following Christine
Jorgensen’s night club trail but
may change her mind. She said
she had been fired from two Jobe
because everyone stared at her and
employers obviously considered her
a disturbing factor.