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* WEATHER + Mostip fair and cool today; high st temperatures in the low 60s in the mountains and between 66 and 73 elsewhere. Friday fair and mild. VOLUME 5 HEARING ON GAS PETITION UNDERWAY TAYLOR WINS AWARD Fred T. Taylor Norman G. Shaw of Spring Lake. Route 1; Major of Spring Lake, Route 1, a civilian employee at General Paul D. Adams, commanding general at Fort Bragg .has won an award at Bragg for an Fort Bragg, and Mr. Taylor. Mr. Shaw also re employee suggestion which resulted In greater es- celved a cash reward for his suggestion. (V. S. ficiency and savings to the government. He is Army Photo.) shown here receiving his award. Left to right are Martin, Lewis Give Away $75,000 In 35 Minutes Rise in Paper Cost May Doom Some WASHINGTON Os) A con gressional group, fearing soqn* U. S. newspaper may be forced cut of business by an increase hi! Can adian newsprint prices, Jiqjfr’nafled a meeting to find out wiiat can be done about it. The meeting of the nine - man House commerce subcommittee will be held in New York on Nov. 1. Concern about the newsprint elsewhere. In Canada Quebec re— mier Maurice DuplessLs warned his country’s newsprint producers that they were not the sole owners of Canadian forests and should “play fair” with other partners, “the newspapers and the con sumer.” Continued on Page Five wfiot Peter Edso» re ports i* on exclusive article today. It follows bis talks with I top members of the RcpoMt can Party in Washington. T» V*P abreast of the signifi cant .moves and changes in «hc nation's political seppa, i read Peter Edsoatlaily tor an ! accurate, informative and w» ! thoritative report on the up i coming election .which shapes l«p as one of the groattot j II presidential contests eve*. j SEE EDITORIAL PAGE New Committees Picked By Farmers New community committeemen to administer the fed eral Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program in Harnett County were elected on Tuesday in a county wide election in which 716 farmers out of around 4,000 eligible voters went to the polls. Each community committee con- at 9 a. m. will meet la LUllngtoc aists of a chairman, a vice-chair- at the county agriculture build man, a regular member, and a first ing to elect fay secret ballot i and a second alternate. The chair- county committee. The same five man from each community com- positions found in each local com mittee will, In turn, compose a munity will be repeated on tht body of delegates which on Oct. $7 (Continued On Page Viva) TELEPHONES 8117 - 8118 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (IP) Jerry Lewis and Dean Mar tin, clowns on and off the screen, took over a blackjack • card table in a swank hotel here and “gave away” almost \f75,000 during a 35 - minute period, the hotel said today. The njoney, said a spokesman i for the Stands Hotel, came from the coffers of the resort's casino.! Martin and Lewis did not use their own cash on the give-away spree. “That $75,000 is nothing com pared to the 2 million dollars in good will the boys just made for the Sands with the public," said Jack Entratter, one of the hotel's owners. The team recently patched up a feud. They came here Sunday night for a brief vacation. While waiting yesterday for a car to take them to the airport. Martin and Lewis sat at an unoccupied black jack table. “At first they were just playfully dealing cards to kill time,’’ said Entratter. CROWD SPOTTED THEM Hotel visitors spotted them and started crowding aroung the table. Some joined in the game. Lewis, rubber-faced clown of the act, set himself up as dealer. Martin took over the money tray which con tained silver dollars and $25 and Continued on Page Five Neighbors Gets $6,000 Verdict The Harnett County Superior Court jury today held that Jesse Cleon Neighbors, Dunn truck dri ver, was entitled to recover six thousand dollars from Johnson Motor Lines, Inc., of Charlotte, in compensation for personal injuries received In a collision between two tractor-trailer vans. The accident out of which the suit arose occurred Nov. 3, 1954, eight miles south of Fredericks burg, Va. It was around 4 a. m. on (Continued on Pag* Five) Jlailu, 'kXnmrd | ■ -f' Crail Pays Court Costs Ted Crail, news editor of the Daily Record, paid court costs in Dunn city court this morning af ter pleading guilty in an unusual case involving charges of disorder ly conduct. (Ceflll—ed On Page Eight) The walk, a blend of side sway and forward move ment which possesses the rhythm of a metronome on a slow beat, is the same old walk. The platinum of the hair is still a shock to the eye. The talk, a misty, mur muring thing which hints of dear distractions and double beds, sounds just the same. Familiar is the face, and . so is the figure. All these things the ’ walk, the shock of hair, the [ talk, the face and the fig ! ure still identify the phe i nomenon called Marilyn > Monroe. > But New York is currently being , re-educated to the fact that al though -:he trademarks have not l been altered, there has been a change in the merchandise. Marilyn America’* mid century Sax Symbol, j* waging a private rebellion. She is fighting to break out of the prison of Stereotyped Sex, where .she had been confined by * Hollywood publicists working in ' league with an overly generous Mo her Nature. She U rebelling - against Biology, bearing forward j the banner of Intellect. u And New York is her fbattle n ground. ® Lore Affair With New York For nine months, the love gd- D dess of the movies has conducted 1. a revolutionary iove affair with a New York City and-—platonloally « to be cure—with its groundings, i- Marilyn Monroe, unnoticed, has le creased the Brooklyn Bridge on (OonttMMd On Page Eight) DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1955 Gen. MacArfßiir Replies To Defense Depf. NEW YORK (W 4- Gen. Douglas MacArthurfCreplied today to Defense Jpepart ment documents purporting to show his strongaiupport for Russian entry*ito the Pacific fighting m World War 11. The text of MacAjflw's state- The report of the fSjpulment of Defense fully eonfirtjpfiihat I was never consulted cotohming the Yalta conference, tbit I exercised no influence whatsoever thereon *nfl knew nothing about its secret agreements until after they had been consummated and communi cated to me. The report furthermore clearly demonstrates that the basis of such agreements lay in decisions taken by the State Department on politi cal policy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military policy long before Yalta. Os these I was not informed. Howevfer, once such decisions had been taken and communicated to me- following Yalta, they became ! (Continued on Page five) Pprter Is Fined In ifawdy Mouse Case Robert Porter, 31, of South Erwin entered a guilty plea on Tuesday in Harnett Recorder’s Court to the charge of operating a bawdy house. 4th® Recorder L. M. Chaffin handed Porter 12 months on the roads, suspended two years, on condition he pay a S2OO fine and costs, and permit his premises to be searched by officers at any time. No search warrant will be necessary. hurilifn VftonJWß Stoty ’ .v illiffilßilMi wr if nr 7 «BTr j jap§ * DANCES CHEEK-TOCHEEK, STRETCHES Soldiers Confess Robbing And Beating Erwin Man Two Fort Bragg soldiers are being held in the Dunn jail without privilege of bond after confessing highway robbery and brutal assault on an Erwin resident Sat urday night. The defendants are Pfc. Joseph Abell, 17, and Pfc. Robert E. Rich ardson. 22 both paratroopers sta tioned at Fort Bragg. , They were taken into custody „ after an outstanding piece of po ; lice sleuthing done by Harnett Ru • ral Policemen Clarence (Moore and I B. E. Sturgill. i Their victim, Bill Bolton. 40, well-known Erwin ,resident, is in ! the Dunn Hospital In a serious condition, recuperating from a se vere beating which required more ' than 30 stitches to close the t wounds in his head, i OCCURRED SATURDAY NIGHT The robbery-(beating took place ' Saturday night in East Erwin be ( tween Shug's Restaurant and Clarence Horrell’s case. Bolton told officers he was walking up the 1 road when he saw’ the two soldiers > standing by the highway trying to t hitch-hike a ride. I (Continued on Face Five) Porter’s house in South Erwin was raided last July 12 by Sheriff C. R. Moore and rural police. One nude woman was arrested at the time and charged with immoral conduct. Porter appeared in court volun tarily today and entered the guilty plea. lir Igi PRINCESS IMARGARET - A radiant Filin Margaret, kfk and tor rutin, Princess Alexandra, drive off to a ear after toe? arrived in London by train from Scotland. Princes* Meg's arrival autocides with the to and tod aadpß Princess Meg May Still Be Undecided LONDON (IP) Belief grew in Britain today that the of ficial silence on the romance between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend boiled The Record Is Firs* < IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY ,down tq,thfe simple fact ihat the princess had not yet de cided between love and duty. The blue-eyed princess is deeply religious and fully aware of her obligations as a member of the royal family. She would weigh deeply her decision in the matter which apparently has split the crown, church and country. Margaret dined Wednesday night with the heads of the Church of England, none of whom could con done her marriage to the 4i-year old divorced group captain. The dinner at Lambert Palace marked the first meeting between Mar (Continued on Page Five Traffic Cases Top Harnett's Docket Cases arising chiefly out of vio -1 tion of (traffic laws of many kinds occupied most of the atten tion of Harnett Recorder's Court on Tuesday. „ Acting Recorder L. M. Chaffin was on the bench and acting so licitor J. T. Lamm prosccued the docket. i Dewitt Baker, 26 year old man of Jonesboro Heights. Route 8, ten LARGEST LIQUOR FINE IN HARNETT HISTORY Jackson Is Fined SI,OOO For Whiskey R. B. (Huckleberry) Jackson confessed himself me!* ing under the blow today after Judge L. M. Chaffin Harnett Recorder’s Court ordered him to pay SIOOO fin© and court costs for a fistful of violations. ’4B Dodge has been confiscated. These included an hour, running a stop sign, fail ure to stop at the sound of a siren (Huckleberry led rural police quite a chase through the Dunn-Erwin countryside* and possession and transporting of whiskey, j Os the latter, 42 gallons. Among other woes, Huckleberry** NO. 228 Several Towns In Area Would Be Affected RALEIGH <lfl The brick and tile industry of Lee and Chatham Counties became a center of controversy today between two natural gas firms locked in a franchise fight before the State Util ities Commission. Dunn, Benson and Lillington are among the towns to be served. Public Service Corp. of North Carolina told the commission that it stands to lose SSOO a day start ing Nov. 1 unless it is granted authority to serve Lee and Chat ham. , Public Service argued that it is “at the end of a tow unless we get some relief from this commission." It said Lee and Chatham counties are “its rightful territory.” Another company, the new North Carolina Natural Oas Coup has applied for authority to serve mo6t of tiie eastern hail of the state, including Lee and Chatham with natural gas. Unless Lee and Chatham coun ties are included in the territory It is to serve. Natural Gas said, it’s broad plan” for the entire eastern half of the state will toe ‘‘Jeopar dized.” It also said that unless it is al iased to serve the “substanial” bnck and tile industry of the two f (JDonttnoto m Fag* Hr*) 1956 Ponfiac On Display “Die m£p 1916 Ponfiac models which go bn. display at Strickland Motqr Co/ in. Qunn Friday intro duce a General- Motors “first", a completely new Hydra-Matic trans mission. Called Strato-Fllght Hy dra-Matic by Pontiac engineer*, the new transmission is designed to provide smoother, quieter shift ing of gears. The Pontiac St ra to-Streak V-3 engine, introduced last year, is larg er in 1956 with horsepower upped to 227 in the Star Chief and 206 in the 870 and 860 series. Fifteen new body styles, longer by 2.4 in ches, include six “hardtop" Cata linas, three of them four-door and three two-door. “Hardtop” model** Continued on Page 3, Sec. Seetto dered a guilty plea to driving with out an operator’s license and while under the influence of intoxicants. He drew six months on the roads, suspended 12 months on condition he pay $125 fine and costs, and not drive until he obtains hir license. Robert Branton, 26 year old Ne gro .soldier of Ft. Bragg, submitted to charge of having an improper (Continued On Page Seven) Attorney D. K. Stewart, appear* Ing on the well-known Dunn man'! behalf, made a plea which caused Judge L. M. Chaffin to reduce the original fine levied. It was fox 91,* 500 and court costs. A sentence of If month*, su spended conditionally on payment ICnHwil on fhge Five)
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