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BULLETINS
DENVER (IP/ America’s two top defense officials
flew today to Denver to bring President Eisenhower up to
date on defense developments since he was hospitalized |
by a heart attack. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wil- i
son and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, were scheduled to arrive this afternoon.
WASHINGTON OP) The national income jumped to
a record annual rate of 321 - billion dollars during April,
May and June, the Commerce Department reports. This
was well above the previous high of $303,600,000,000 set in
1953 and was up nine-billion dollars from the first three
jmonths of the department said.
NEW YORK (IP - Boston - bound passengers who
boarded a New Haven Railroad sleeper early Sunday in
Grand Central Station and went directly to bed were a
bit startled when they awoke later in the morning. They
found they were not in Boston as they had expected but
still in the station. Flood conditions prevented the train
from ever leaving.
NEW YORK (IP) Bill Stern, the dean of active net
work sportscasters, ruefully predicted today that “TV
would never develop any of the great sports announcers
like the ones turned out by radio.” Stern, who has just
launched his 21st season as a network blow-by-blow spiel
er, pointed out that television has forced announcers to
take a backseat to the picture.
CERES, Italy (IP- Nero, a tiny dachshund with the
heart of a lion, was the idol of this village of 1,650 per
sons today, a hero that had come back from the dead.
The fiery dachshund got stuck in a 30-foot-hole eight days
ago while hunting a fox. For six days and nights villagers
dug in relays to try to rescue him.
WASHINGTON OP* Maj. Sam Woodfill, the hero a
n ' : in o t forgot, will be reburied in Arlington Ceme
v with (i.“ full military honors due him. Woodfill, call
< ,ue greatest- -hero of World War 1, died four years ago.
ii.i funeral in Madison, Indiana, went almost unnoticed
by the world.
WASHINGTON (IP. The Census Bureau poured mil
lions of facts and figures into two mechanical brains to
day to get a high speed idea of what business looked like
in 1954. The census is in five major parts. It covers the
number of businesses, types, number of employes, organ
ization, payroll and sales of all businesses in the United
States.
RABAT, Morocco (IP) France installs today a four-;
man throne council to start Morocco on the road to home
rule but the move pleased neither the nationalists nor i
the die - hard French settlers and there were warnings of
violence to come. 4 j
MIAMI (IP) Hurricane Katie hurled winds of 115
miles per hour upon the Dominican Republic with only
a few hours Warning today, threatening southern coast
lowlanders with flooding rains and dangerous tides.
MIAMI BEACH (IP) State legislators from all over
the nation met today to discuss the problems and aims
of legislatures at the Bth annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Legislative Service Agencies.
Nfew tbltK (IP) Michigan, Oklahoma and Mary
land led a group of 53 perfect-record college football teams
today, surviving a weekend of upsets which saw such
tearii!s as Notre Dame, Texas Christian and Georgia Tech
ousted fi-orti the unbeaten ranks. Maryland heads a group
ing of 15 teams with five victories, while iMchigan and
Oklahoma are the major college leaders in the four-vic
tory class. Other major colleges with perfect records are
West Virginia, Duke, Yale, Holy Cross, Navy and Colorado.
RALEIGH (IP) At least 19 pesons met violent death
in North Carolina during the weekend.
, CtAtftON, Tenn. OP. Henry Bray, 54, of Corbin,
Kentucky, has been charged with manslaughter, hit and
ruh driving and leaving the scene of an accident in con
nection with the death of a \Vinston-Salem, N. C., man,
Harold Hagan, near here last Wednesday.
PAkIS (IP) Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay warned
the election-conscious National Assembly today that down
fall of the government of Premier Edgar Faure would
have drastic international and internal consequences.
WASHINGTON (IP> A forerunner of jet airliners that
will be in commercial service in 1958 zoomed across the
country yesterday in three hours and 58 minutes to sefc
an unofficial record for transport planes. The four-engine
Boeing jet 707 transport flew 2,340 miles from Seattle,
Washington, to Andrews Air Force Base at an average
speed of 592 miles an hour.
NEW 7 YORK (IP) New Y’ork’s chief medical examiner
yesterday termed “suicidal” the mysterious gunshot
death of a clerk in the Soviet delegation to the United
Nations. Police said Anexeir Minaev, 42. died at 4 p. m.
Saturday of a bullet fired into the mouth. The death was
not reported to police by delegation officials, however, un
til 9:45 p. m.
WASHINGTON (IP. A new series of seven - cent
Woodrow WWilson stamps will be placed on sale at Staun-
W oodrow Wilson stamps will be placed on sale at Staun-
The Post Office said the picture of the former Presi
dent v its reproduced from a drawing by F. Graham Cootes.
The color of the stamp will be announced later.
HIGIH ANP, Ind. (IP) Protestant groups were ready
to go to court today with demands that a 20-foot crucifix
be tctUoved frrim a public park. The cross was dedicated
yexteirdfty At a cerethonv attended by 4,500 persons of all
iaiths at* Wicker Park dVspite Protestant protests that “it
is a Syihbdl at the Rohian Catholic church.”
GREENSBORO itPr— North Carolina today mourned
the death of one of her most outstanding journalists, As
sociate Editor William Tannahill Polk of The Greensboro
Daily News. 1
Stabs Father,
Leaves With
Stepmother
RENO Nev. IP A 27-year-old
ex-ccnvict who stabbed his father
crit'-illy and disappeared with hi; :
young and attractive stepmother
was arrested here today.
Ralph Reno refused to talk about
the whereabouts of his stepmother,
Mrs. Stella Reno. 37.
He was captured without incident
by five police officers in three
patrol cars who boxed him in near
the center of downtown Reno. He
was booked on charges of attempt
ed murder.
Reno's lather. Andrew Reno. 57,
who urged police to “shoot him
down like a dog.” was in critical
condition from stab wounds in a
Los Angeles hosoital.
x All Reno would say, when asked
about his stepmother, according t>
Acting Patrol Lt. Raymond G.
Cavallo, is that he "doesn’t know
where she is.”
Police said they found stains on
the floor of the trunk of a 1955
model auto Reno was driving
“which resembled blood stains."
“We’re convinced he killed his
stepmother,” said Detective Lt
C. C. Forbes in Los Angeles.
No motive was given for the
brutal attack o the elder Reno.
The so nprobably “Just went be
serk," Forbes said.
The attractive Mrs. Reno dis
appeared shortly before the stab-1
bing Wednesday night. She has not'
been seen since.
When the son attacked his father
with a butcher knife, he told him:
“I love you, dad, but I've got to
kill you. I’ve dohe something terri
ble. She has no clothes on. I’ll get
the gas chamber anyway.”
“My son had death in his eyes,”
the father said. “If you find him,
shoot him down like a dog. Hi’s
been in trouble all his life. I’ve
been supporting him all his life.
He’s a bum.”
Wagner Named
Legion Chief
MIAMI HP J. Addington Wag
ner. an attorney of Battle Creek,
Michigan, and Purple Heart win
ner in World War 11. was elected
! national commander of the (Amer
; lean Legion today. ‘
Wagner, who has traveled an
estimated 86,000 miles in the last
two years in behalf of the Legion
and his candidacy, was named
with only 35 opposing votes.
Jacob Kessler of Worcester, Mas
saachusetts. nominated Dwight S.
McCarty of Fitchburg, Massachu
setts. and then refused to withdraw
his name when present National
Commander Seaborn P. Collins ask
ed him to make it unanimous for
Wagner.
The Massachusetts delegation was
poled on the nomination of McCar
ty. Sixty of the delegation sup
ported Wagner but 35 stuck by
their fellow Legionnaire.
“I hear that some candidate has
spent up to SIOO,OOO to be elected
national commander.” Kessler told
the convention. “I wonder if that’s
what the Legion stands for.”
Suspects May
Be Released
Eight persons have been quest
ioned In the death-by-bumihg of
a crippled woman and a potato
cropper at a house outside Benson.
Sheriff Barney A. Henry of
Johnston County said today that
five have been released and tile
“nothing braks.”
Both the coroner and sheriff
suspect foul play in the case, but
grilling of others who had some
connection with the house where
burning took place has produced
little.
A woman and ttvo men are still
held, without charge, charges Will
be preferred tonight, said the she
riff, or thy will be released.
Suspects were grilled through
out yesterday but without result.
One of the suspicious circumstances
was finding In the two bodies In a
first-floor room, where they should
have been able to get out easily
when the burning started.
Money belonging to the crippled
woman was suggested as a passible
motive in the case.
Euny Writers
Win In Schools
Miss Bessie Massengill, chair
man of school activities for the
Harnett County Centennial, today
announced winners in the hlSdorl
cal essay contest open to ail high
school students.
Winning students Will appear on
Saturday night October 15. at the
final performance of “The High
land Call ” at Campbell College to
receive the awards. The three top I
winners in the county-wide essay
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. OL
Erwin Social Happenings
Inglis Fletcher
Honored At
Dinner
A three course turkey dinner was j
given In the Erwin School Cafeteri.: j
Tuesday evening honoring the in- ,
ternationally known author Ingiis,
Fletcher.
The tables were decorated with
lovely arrangements of Chrysan
themums, and attractive place I
cards.
Rev. Forest Maxwell gave the in- j
vocation. Mr. W. H. Miley welcome:! j
and introduced the special guest
Mrs. Fletcher made a most inter- i
esting talk on "Our Elizabethan
Heritage”. Mr. E. H. Bast closed j
with a short talk.
A three course turkey dinner was'
served by Mrs. B A. Bracey, as
sisting her were three Erwin Home )
Economics girls in colonial cost
umes.
The dinner was in charge of Mrs. |
W. P. Holt, Sr., Mrs. E. H. Bos;, j
Mrs. K. W Balletine and Mrs.
Harvey Ferris.
Special guest for the Occasion [
were Mr and Mrs. Fletcher, Dr
and Mrs. Leslie Campbell, Mr. Mal
colm Fowler. Mrs. Nathan Johnson,
Mr. William Fields, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Yarbourgh, other guest
Mr and Mrs. E. H. Bost. Mr. W. II
Miley, Mrs. W. P. Holt, Sr., Miss I
Louise Fitzgerald. Mr. and M:s.
Harvey Ferris, Mr. and Mrs. Tye
Thomas, Rev, and Mrs. Purest
Maxwell, Mrs. K. W Ballentfne,
Mrs D. T. Stutts and Mrs. Fred
Byerly.
CIRCLE II
Members of Circle No. 2 met
Tuesday evening with Mrs. Alton
McDonald.
Lovely arrangements of Chrysan
themums decorated the living room
of the McDonald home.
Mrs. Clarence Julian presided.
Mrs. Evelyn McLean gave the de
votional. Mrs. E. H. Lassitor led
in prayer. The program followed
by the devotion was taken from the
"Survey Magazine” and was given
by Mrs. Futin Godwin.
A routine business session fol
lowed, and the meeting was closed
with a prayer.
The hegtess served refreshment
‘consisting of cake, Jello, salted
nuts and coffee to the following
Evelyn McLean, Mrs.. Hay
wood Lucas. Mrs. E. H. Lassitor,
Mrs. E. M. Stamper, Mrs. Fulton
McDonald and Mrs. Clarence Jul
ian.
contest will be announced at that
time and awards presented.
Wihners in each of the following
high scbdols were as follows: Lll
lington, Nancy Lee Womble; An
gler, Mabel Broadwell; Benhaven
Riagnhlde McDonald; Boone Trail,
Betty Ann Patterson, Buie's Creek,
Webster Turlington: Coats, Jimmy
Honeycutt; Dunn. Wesley Ryals;
Erwin, Margie Eanes; and LaFay
ette. Ruth Anne Arnold.
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< IRCLE 111
Members of Circle No. 3 met
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs Dick Bower.
Mrs T J. Harper p esided Mrs.
George Stevens had the bible study
! which was from the Book of Ro
| mans. The topic was-on "Reform
, anon in The Church". The ern
! pha.bs was on "Church Extension”,
i Mrs. Stacy Whittington was In
' charge of the program. She gave
an article on ■■Reformation". Mrs.
(Harper opmed the meeting with
I prayer and bible reading on "Day
i To Day Devotion." Mrs. J. M. Mor
i gan made a short talk on all the
j things that was done during the
I year.
Those present were Mrs. Stacy
Whittington, Mrs. J. M. Morgan,
j Mrs A M. Woodruff. Mrs. Ruth
! Hall. Mrs. Dick Bower. Mrs. B. H
I Hall. Mrs. Tony Harper and Mrs.
) George Stevens.
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Following is a list of patients
i that has been admitted to the
j Good Hope Hospital in Erwin re
j cently: Mrs. Martha McCoy. Mrs.
; Vira Byrd. Mrs. Kathleen Holt,
Mr. Flicyd Collier, Mrs. Gladys
Coats, Mr. Nassie Dorman, Mr. Ar
nold Hudson. Mr. Elmo Godwin.
Mrs. Audrey Ennis, Mrs. Bradene
Vale, Mrs. Alvis Denning, Mrs. Alice
I Tyndall, Mrs. Shirley G-ntry. Mrs.
Alice Barefoot, Al’ten McDougaid.
METHODIST CHOIR
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brock, Mr.
and Mrs. W H. Warren and Mr,
and Mrs. Marvin West feted the
Erwin Methodist Choir Wednesday
evening at 6:30 to a delicious chick
en ainner in the recreation depart
ment of the church.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Sher
ill Stancil, Miss Betty Wren Stan
| cil, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Warren,
Miss Lib Jones, Miss Mickey Craw
ford. Miss Rebecca Fowler, Miss
Pearl Surles, Mr. Mike Crawford.
Mr. Clyde Crawford, Mr. Junior
Butler, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Purcell,
Mr. Alfred Giles, Mr. James Odom.
Mrs. Albert Oldham Jr. Rev. and
Mrs. W C. Feltman, Mr. Charles
Williams and Miss Blanche Bruton.
Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Whittington
and family attended the Annual
Home Coming of the Flat Branch
; Presbyterian Church near inline
ton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.lA, J.
. Taylor, Mr. M. C. Robinson and Mr.
i and Mrs. Chester Martin of ■ here
also attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ralph ani
children visited their daughter
- Diane in Durham this past Sunday
who is in Nurses training at Watts
> Hospital.
WOMAN’S SOCIETY
i Members of the Woman's Mis
, sionary Society of the Erwin Bap
. tist Church met Tuesday evening
’ at the Church for their regular
monthly meeting.
Mrs. Gilbert Woodworth Jr. pre
sided. Mrs. Woodworth gave a
hort talk on the history of the
hymn of the year which was
“ Jesus Is Coming”. Then they sang
the hymn and had the Watchword.
Mrs. Hartwell Byrd gave the devo
tional Mrs Woodworth then asked
the members to dedicate themselves
anew to their church work this
year. Good reports from all the
circle leaders and Young Peoples
Counselors were g ven. Plans were
made for the Little R.ver Associa
tion that will meet with the church
cn October, 26th. Everyone was
asked to pack a picnic basket. It
was also announced that the Er
win Church would meet with the
Bunnlevel Church for Mission
Study October, 24th. The ones who
could attend were asked to meet
at the church at 6:30
Mrs. Hartwell Byrd had charge
of the program in which she made
a most interesting talk on "Conte
Women Wide Proclaim" She closed
the meeting then with a prayer.
Abcut thirty three members at
tended.
Members of Circle No. 1 of the
Erwin Presbyterian Church met
Monday evening at 7:30 at the
home of Mrs. S. M. McKoy.
Mrs. K. W. Ballentine presided
over the meeting Mrs. S. J. Clark
gave the Bible study. The subject
of the bible was ‘‘Salvation For
All Peoples taken from the tenth
chapter of Roman, verses l-17th.
Mrs. Effie Jeffries was in charge
of the program, followed by a
routine business discussion. The
meeting was then closed by the
Mizpah.
The hostess then served chocolate
cake and coffee to the following
gusts, Mrs. S. J. Clark, Mrs. Carl
Matthew's, Mrs Pearl McDonald,
Mrs, Louise Graham, Mrs. R. S.
Kelly, Mrs. S. M. McKoy and Mr;.
K. W Ballentine.
Third Grade
Presented Program
Friday, October 14th, Mrs. Ruth
McNeill's third grade from the
Dunn Grammar school presented
a 15 - minute radio broadcast from
WCKB in Dunn.
The topic of the broadcast was
Harnett County's Centennial. The
boys and girls sang “United We
Stand,” a song which they com
posed, and four other old favor
ite songs of 100 years ago. Some
of them discussed and compared
Harnett County 100 years ago with
today. A poem which the boys and
girls wrote concluded the program.
Miss Jean Gale, public school mu
sic teacher, accompanied the music.
Those participating were
Johnson, Lucy Welborn, Joe Dun
bar, Barbara White, David Snipes,
Judy Herring, Dickey Dockery, Jan
et Sessoms. Jonathan Hill. Patricia
Pope. Charles Hardy, Nancy War
ren, Vicki Wade. Johnny Hyatt,
Sue Jernigan, Albert Turner, Phyl
lis Pope, Sherrill Carr, Linda
Green, Linda Powers, and Mona
Lafontaine. Those helping to sing
MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1955
'BECKY HILL
Becky Hill Chosen
For State Finals
Pretty lib.le Miss Becky Hill. 7,
ha< been chosen to be in the Ail-
State Talent Variety Program to
be held in High Point November 18
and 13.
The daughter of Mrs. Edward
Bo! on of Buie’s Creek. Becky is
the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Thornton of Dunn.
The talented little girl was en
tered by '.he music department of
the Woman's Club, headed by Mrs.
Reta Whittenton. She was audi
tioned in High Point Saturday,
SEVERAL TALENTS
Becky was the only contestant
entering the contest from the state
who exhibited more than one tal
ent. She participated as a popular
vocalist, dancer, and pantonxinist,
but won with her vocal selections.
"Johnny's Got A Sweetheart,” and
'.Too Young To Tango.”
Contestants were judged by pro
were Diana Hooten, Dwight Coo
per, Judy Faircloth, A1 Norris Reta
Tyndall, Alice Wimberly, Charles
West, Jimmy Johnson, Alfred, Fann,
Larry Roberts, and Tommy God
win.
fersionah, and Becky proved to 1
ore of the most popular cont>
tants.
Becky takes dancing les.-c
from Mrs. Glqnn Buckcannon a
vccal lessons from Mrs. Pres’
Stephenson
Cash prizes and a TV cort
will be won in the All State C
test.
Plumer Barden
Is Promoted
Blutner M. Barden. Jr., 24, who.
parents live on Route 3. Lillingtc
recently was promotel to sergrn
first class while serving with t
25th Infantry Division in Hawa:
The “Tropic Lightning' cLvisu
is continuing its past-truce train, r
program using valuable experien
gained in Korea. ,
Sergeant Barden, a member (
Company M of the 27th Regimen
entered the Army in January 19;
and was last sta ioned at Fo
Hood, Texas.