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GOVERNOR HODGES WITH LOCAL CITIZENS Governor
Luther H. Hodges spent yesterday afternoon in Dunn visiting with
old friends and other citizens. He’s shown here with a group of
them at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mack M. Jernigan on West Cum
berland Street. Left to right are: William S. Wellons, Paul Hester.
RECORD BREAKS RECORD
Centennial Issue
Will Make History
Your copy of Friday’s issue of The Daily Record
may be a little late - - but you can blame it on history.
For this historical edition commemorating the
100th anniversary of Harnett County will be making
history within itself. ,
It will be the largest edition of any newspaper
ever published in Harnftt Cotmty. It will be even big
ger than the 64-page edition published by The Daily
Record in 1952.
So The Record will again be breaking its own
records. No other Harnett newspaper has ever come
near this size.
QUITE A LOAD
Each copy of the Centennial Edition will weigh
over a pound, so you can understand why your copy
may be a little late.
It’ll be quite a load for each of our carrier boys,
each of whom will have to make several trips to com
plete his route. It will also be quite a heavy load for
rural mail carriers throughout the area and beyond.
The edition is being published in sections, so
that also means a lot of inserting for each carrier boy
before he can start out on his route.
Ton after ton of newsprint has gone into the
publication of this giant-size edition of The Record
which, incidentally, is being published without any
outside editorial or mechanical assistance. The en
tire job is being done in The Record’s own plant.
Actually, we had planned only about 40 pages,
but there was an unprecedented amount of interest
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District VFW Meet
Slated For Sunday
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MBS. DOVIE PENNEY
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
Plans for a joint meeting of
Eighth District Veterans of Foreign
Wars and Ladies' Auxiliary to be
held Sunday, October 16th in Lil
lington were announced today by
D. M. Derrick, district command
er and Mrs. Margaret McArthur,
district president.
The eighth district includes or
ganizations in Robeson, Cumber
land and Harnett counties.
Mrs. C. B. (Dovie) Penney of
Wallace, Past Department Presi
dent, Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans
of Foreign Wars will be the featur
ed speaker for the ladies meeting.
She is a charter member of the
Auxiliary to Oeorge Loris Dover
Post 4066 in Shelby. North Carolina.
Mrs. Penney was president of the
Shelby American Legion Auxiliary
for two years has served times as
president of the Spanish American
War Auxiliary of Shelby, and was
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Carl Fitchett, Sr., Governor Hodges, Mack M. Jernigan, Woodrow
Price of the Raleigh News and Observer, who accompanied the Gov
ernor to Dunn; Former Superior Court Judge Howard G. Godwin,
and City Judge H. Paul Strickland. (Daily Record Photo.)
Hodges And Ervin
Support Stevenson
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Adlai Stevenson today had theifirm backing of North
Carolina’s Governor and'Sfenior United States Senator far
the Democratic presidential nomination and both of them
expressed the belief Stevenson is in the lead at this time.
Governor Luther H. Hodges
hailed the former Illinois gover
nor as much the stronger candi
date" and U. S. Senator Sam
Ervin said he felt it would be to
the best interests of the South tor
Stevenson to be the next Presi
dent i
He described Stevenson as more
con.«evative than either Governor
Averill Harriman of New York or
Senator Estes Kefauver of Tenne
ssee and added, “Mr. Stevenson
has at least shown a desire to get
along with the South and to un
derstand our problems.”
Senator Ervin said his personal
choice would have been Senator
Dick Russell of Georgia, but point
ed out that he has already elimi
nated himself from the running.,
PREDICTS SCRAP
While endorsing Stevenson
wholeheartedly,, Senator Erwin ex
pressed the belief that if Steven
son wants the nomination he'd
better not play coy or wait- for a
draft movement to develop He
predicted there would be a hard
fight for the nomination.
“Fortunately,'’ pointed out Sena
tor Ervin, 'the Democratic Party
has many good men of presiden
tial timber and either of them
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Legion Kills
Pension Move
MIAMI (W A Chicago dele
gate threw the American Legion
convention into a shouting uproar
today in a determined bid to get
the 3 million-member Legion be
hind a move for SIOO a month pen
sions for veterans 60 years old and
older.
Charles J. Falkenburg charged
rehabilitation committee members
who killed all pension bills earlier
this weeek were “doing eevrything
they can to cut our throats.”
The blistering sidelight came on
the convention’s final day.
After an hour-long fight, the de
legates killed the pension move,
2,100 to 808.
Bill McKinley of Jersey City,
N. J„ said. “I warn you if you pass
this pension resolution you are go
ing to accomplish for the social
stlc minded people In Washington
Just what they have been trying
to do since 1933.”
He said Congress might throw out
all special veterans benefits and in
clude such services in the social
security program.
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1955
Doctor Says
Marry Young
For Children
WASHINGTON (W Marry
young and start having children
right away. That’s a Harvard sur
geon's advice for couples who do
not want to miss their chance for
parenthood.
Dr. Fred A. Simmons, a specialist
In gynecology, said basic physical
defects are not always to blame
when a man and a woman fail to
realize their dream for a family.
Many infertility problems he
said stem from late marriages and
the use of contraceptives until it
is too late for conception. He re
commended the twenties as the best
time to begin a family.
Simmons discussed the problem
of infertility in an address before
the closing session of the District
of Columbia Medical Society.
He said the advantages of get
ting an early start on a family
were clearly illustrated in a re
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Six-Year-Old Boy
Starves To Death
,NEW ORLEANS (IP) A 6-year-old boy died of starva
tion today in this city famous for its fine foods. His last
words were a pitiful plea for a sandwich.
Police said an older brother is in critical condition
from malnutrition.
William Baughman, 29-year-old unemployed long
shoreman, and his 38-year-old wife, parents of seven chil r
dren, were arrested on charges of criminal neglect.
Juvenile officers said the two boys apparently had
“lived hungry” for weeks, foraging through the carnival
city’s garbage cans for what scraps they could salvage.
Mrs. Baughman said her husband has been ill for a
month with a nervous disorder and she has fed the fam
ily on $7 a week provided by her church.
Doctors said Lawrence Baughman, 6,* died before
dawn today after complaining of hunger. The other boy
was identified as William Jr., 7.
“Is there anything we can do for you, son?” one doc
tor asked Lawrence.
“Yes sir,” the boy said. “Get me a ham sandwich.”
A short time later he was dead.
Mrs. Baughman said she had waited for weeks for
her husband to be admitted to a veterans hospital.
“I thought I’d done as well each week with the $7 food
money as a woman could,” she said.
As Speakers
On Program
Scott Ervin
Coats had its Fiddlers’
Convention today and it
also played host to United
States Senators W. Kerr
Scott and Sam J. Ervin.
yNo telling who won the fiddling
contest, though. It was still going
strong at 4 p. m. and expected
|to last un.il 5 p. m. as top fid
dlers from throughout the area
. The Centennial celebration in
‘Coats began bright and early this
, morning with music on main
street. Mayor Gene Stewart gave
an address of welcome at 9:20
this morning to those who had
come to help the town produce
its tribute to Hamet:'s 100th an
niversary.
From 9:30 to 10:30 there was a
stock show of fat beef cattle.
Simltaneously, a series of athletic
events were held at the school
grounds. These - - designed to give
children something special for the
Centennial - - lasted until 11 a. m.
PAGEANT GIVEN
First-playing of an historical
pageant, History of Education In
Harnett County,” was presented at
Coats High School. The hour-long
pageant, performed from 11:30 to
12:30 p. m. by Coats school chil
dren, was written and directed, by
Mrs. Mattie Highflll, a teacher.
. Th* taro North Carolina Sec
tors - - Scott and Ervin - - spow
at the school house at one. Ervin
was in Dunn last evening and spoke
for the Men of the Church in the
Presbyterian Church.
At two p. m. Coats 'began its
parade - - the fourth in the Coun
ty during this Centennial week.
Part of the crowd drifted over,,
after the parade, to a home pro
ducts display by home demonstra
tion clubs at Stephens Hardware
Co.
Then the Fiddlers’ started. At
the school house, where the con
vention was to be held, there was
also to be a beard contest.
A five p. m. barbecue, open to
the public, was planned for the
schoolgrounds. Price $1.25 a plate.
Again, Centennial observations
will wind up tonight with a pre
sentation of “The High Call." Paul
Green’s play, at the Paul Green
amphitheatre, Buie’s Creek.
TO ATTEND PLAT
Tonight, Senators Scott and Er
vin will appear at the amphi
theatre. Coats Day wa6 held as
the Centennial swung Into its final
phase. Torrtorrow is Western Har
nett’s turn to shine and on Sat
urday the city of Dunn will put
a cap on observations with a cele
bration designed to make this the
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SENATOR ERVIN ADDRESSES CHURCH
MEN Men of the First Presbyterian Church of
Dunn last night heard an address by United States
Senator Sam Ervin. Pictured here, left to right,
Faure In Urgent Appeal
PARIS (IP) Premier Ed
gar Faure appealed person
ally to the French National
Assembly tonight to keep
him fln office by approving
his Algerian policy.
But even as Faure fought to win
his second vote at confidence on
North Africa in a week, his recep
tios in Parliament did not give
him much visible reason tor op
timism. He got only scattered ap
plause.
The 62 7-seat chamber was two
thirds full, an unusually large at
tendance and an indication of how
much importance is placed on the
question of Algeria’s future.
In his- appeal, Faure asked the
members of the National Assembly
to give their toest” to blood-soaked
Algeria.
Faure decided to take a personal
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are, seated: Dr. Glenn L. Hooper, Senator Ervin,
and Attorney L R. Williams; standing: Rev. Les
lie Tucker, pastor; Locke Muse, and Dr. Jack Jor
dan, Jr. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Man Raleigh Gids
Held In Immorality
MIAMI BEACH (IP) A graying hotel man and two
teen-aged sisters visiting as non-paying guests from Ra
leigh, N. C., were under bonds today because detectives
decided the arrangement was too cozy.
Ike To Share
Birthday Cake
With 2,128
DENVER (IP Bakers at Fitz
simons Army Hospital started mix
ing ingredients today to make a
birthday cake for President Eisen
hower and 2.128 Fitzslmons pat
ients and staff members.
The President will be 65 tomor
row. Every patient and staff mem
ber in the hospital will get a slice
of the white cake and probably
more than the President. He is on
a 1,600-calorie diet and the size of
his slice has already been fixed
at an ounce and a half.
There will be 25 cakes. A round
cake of two tiers, one 16 inches in
diameter and the other 12 inches
In diameter will be sent up to the
President’s suite. It will be decor
ated with crossed American flags
and have “Happy Birthday Ike” in
scribed on the top in i*ing.
Then there will be 24 separate
one-layer cakes 36 inches by 18
inches for the rest of the hospital
staff and patients. The cakes wi’l
all be made of the same ingredi
ents and iced with the same icing.
Maj. Helena Quinn of Aurora,
Colo., director of food services at
Fitzsimons, said Secret Service
agents who are “very fussy about
what goes into the President’s
diet," are carefully checking the
ingredients.
Truman Raps Legion
On Political Issue
NEW YORK (IP) Former President Truman said to*
day the American Legion should have stayed out of poU-'
tics and “doesn’t know what its talking about** fct con*
demning UNESCO. - /
“Im the only ex-preaident who
is a Legionnaire, you know, atod
I’m sorry to see the get
themselves into politics, as they
have no business doing,’’ he told
reporters. \
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Detective Sgts. Jerry Kedrierski
and Jack R Ferrell said they
found 63-year-old Willis Howard
Grippen and his shapely young
guests occupying the same quar
ters in the Grippen Hotel.
Grippen was freed under bonds
totaling $2,400 on various charges
and the girls, described as being a
‘saucy 15-year-old gum-chewing
red head’’ and a shapely 14-year
old sisters were held under SIOO
bonds as material witness. Their
names were withheld because of
their age.
The detectives said Grippen wore
a bathrobe, but the 15-year-old girt
was lying on his bed in the nude
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Arthur
Hammerstein,
Producer, Dies
PALM BEACH, Fla. OP) Arthur
Hammerstein, who produced the
broadway musicals “Rose Marie’’
and “naughty marietta” of more
than three decades ago, died last
night. He was 82 years old.
Hammerstein died in a hospital
here of coronary trouble after be
coming ill three days ago at his
lavish home at Hypoluxo, an ex
clusive development near here.
Funeral arrangements have not
been announced.
The retired producer and compo
ser was the uncle of Oscar Ham
merstein II who collaborated with
Richard Rodgers in such famous
musicals as “South Pacific” and
“Oklahoma!”
He 'made the comment* os he
strolled around New York on hi*
customary early morning walk.
yn» comments were directed at
action token by the American Le
gia not its convention pneterdey la
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