* WEATHER +
Generally fair anl somewhat
■warmer today, tonight and Thurs
day. High today 64 to 70. Scattered
frost tonight. Low 30s in moun
tains, 38-48 elsewhere.
VOLUME 8
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By HOOVER ADAMS
LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
A beautiful npw $475,000 Presby
terian Church tin Raleigh is being
named hfilner Presbyterian Church
in tribute to the late Henry H.
Milner, owner of Eastern Caro
lina’s Piggly Wiggly stores It
couldn’t be named for a grander
fellow He was a man who thou
ght a lot of the Town of Durtn,
too, and he had many, many fri-,
ends here Dr. Gerald James? 1 )#
in Wilson today presiding over a?
rrieetlng of the Eastern Carolina
Chiropractors Association Mrs.
James went with him Doc is a
wheel in the State organization .
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PfP’i'HOAVR: Celebrating birth
days te<* <tv are Mrs p O. A’tman.
Effie Smith and Charles A. Roach.
THTNGAMAJTGS: Ed Black and
Bruce Bvrd of Star Fnmltmfe Com
pany attended the fall furniture
show at High Point westerdav and
(Continned On Page Seven)
Big Air Event Here Sunday
Local folks whose closest
acquaintance with an air
show is the ferris wheel at
a carnival can expect a real
thrill this Sunday afternoon
when special air contests will
be held at the Dunn - Erwin
airport.
Among the
which will be artlclpated in by one
hundred to one hundred and fifty
pilots from all over North Caro
lina will be a peculiar and exciting
exhibition known as "ribbon-cut
ting.”
The "ribobn” is a roll of toilet
paper, tossed out at two thousand
feet. Pilots will turn, spin and roll
into this ribbon as It descends
and before it reaches the thousand
TELEPHONES 3117-3118
Lynch Manufactures
Cheap Harvester
By TED CRAIL
Record Staff Writer
Pat Lynch, who wears a baseball cap and looks some
thing like a good-natured umpire, has invented a tobacco
harvester for the small farmer which he expects to sell
as fast as World Series tickets.
“''Two weeks from now now—or in * —— —■——
a month, at the latest, says Pat—
pis Lynch Manufacturing Co. will
build the har
vester sets at the rate of one an
hour.
Lynch, who didn’t really finish
his engineering studies at North
Carolina State (they shipped him
out in his sophomore year for “haz
ing” a junior who. he says, hazed
4im> has invented all the other
equipment he manufactures but
this harvester, he believes, is his
most important achievement.
The frame-work will retail for
SSOO to S6OO locallv. It is used with
a one-row tractor—which most
fanners own already. Nine people
are required to operate the setup,
a driver four croppers and four
loopers.
“My rig will get out as manv
sticks as a big harvester,” said
Lynch. “They should buy one of
those big things to use just six or
eight weeks a year? Mine, you can
make a swing out of for your kids
when you aren’t harvesting.”
He was in a cheerful mood to
dav as he reviewed some of the
orders alreadv on hand for the
harvester and recounted the re
tention his equinment received at
th° state fair in Raleigh.
“Fifty thousand people sat down
on it at the fir. They paid more
attention to It than to a two-head
ed cow.”
Lvnch started his manufacturing
company about six years ago in
1949, leaving John A. McKay Co.,
where he held a one-fifth interest.
He has made monev with his new
Diant but the firm has been show
ing losses the past two years.
HE’S GOT ’EM
“Well come out of the holes on
this.”, he said. “The big fishes have
been eating the little fishes, you
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foot mark -- trying to cut It as
many times as possible.
With a good man at the stick,
the plane may cut the ribbon as
many times as possible.
The air show Sunday is being
planned by local members of the
North Carolina Aero Club. Bob
Bass, who expects to fly in It him
self., was at the meeting with other
North Carolina flyers last Sunday
at Salsbury and he said the re
sponse to the proposed air show
among flyers was Very great.
“There were ISO of them there *
said Bass, “and they all said they’d
be here.”
GOERCH TOASTMASTER”
Barring bad weather, the Air
Contest will play from 1 to 4 p. m.
on Sunday. Carl Ooerch, Raleigh
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London Times
No Friend To
Those In Love
LONDON (UP)—The Times of
London said today Princess Mar
garet would be “irrevocably dis
qualified” from carrying wit her
roj-ai duties is she married di
vorced Peter Townsend.
The influential newspaper ended
Its long editorial silence with stern
comment on Margaret’s romance
with the handsome Royal Air Force
group captain.
Tis Margaret and Townsend de
cided on marriage, it said, “The
Princess will be entering into a
union which vast number? of her
sister’s people, all sincerelv anx
ious for her lifelong hapminess, can
not in ali conscience regard as a
marriage ”
Onoosi’ion of the Church of
England to remarriage of divorced
persons, even innocent parties to
divone, was reaffirmed bv Dr.
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of
Canterbury, who pointed out that
“a reasonable church does not
change its teaching- every few
minutes.’
The government of Prime Min
ister Anthonv Eden drew fire from
the Dailv Mirror. Britain’s largest
circulation newspaper, for failure
to tell Parliament Tuesday If there
is to be a marriage.
Eden ignored a written question
concerning Margaret’s marriage
plans submitted in the House of
(Contlnaed On Page Three)
editor and radio commentator well
known as an amateur flying en
thusiast, will announce the vari
events such as a spot landing con
test.
This will be the first air show
of its kind for the Dunn-Erwin vi
cinity according to Bob Bass.
About 15 or 20 local pilots will par
ticipate with state flyers zooming
in to swell the lists. Bass said a’l
types of privately-owned aircraft
will be represented In the show.
Final details were settled at a
meeting last night of the Harnett
flying club at which Keith Finch,
acting head, presided The club
plans to use the proceeds to pro
mote flying in this vicinity and
condition the airfield.
(CeattaMd «n Page Two)
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1955
! Ike Predicts
Success At
| Geneva Meet
! DENVER (IP) President
Eisenhower predicted hope
i fully from his sic kbed to
day that the Russians in
the Big Four foreign min
isters meeting which opens
at Geneva Thursday would
supply evidence of "a “gen
uine spirit” for peace.
In a public statement, he com
mended to the Soviets the Western
three-power plan for European's?-’
curity which Secretary of Stale
John Foster Dulles will present to
the Big Four.
The so-called package plan de
signed to lead to German re-unlfi
cation was approved by the Presi
dent in a hospital bedside confer
ence with Dulles last week, be
fore the secretary left for Europe
The President, in his public sta
tement from Fitzsimmons Army
Hospital where he is recovering
from a Sept. 24 heart attack, said
the Western proposals “will be de
signed to promote a peace of jus
tice, with increased security and
well-being for all.”
“They will reflect.” he said, “a
genuine spirit of conciliation and
accommodation. If the Soviet Un
ion responds in a similar spirit,
much progress can be made. That
is my personal hope, as I am con
fident it is the hope of the Amer-,
lean people.”
Endorsed by Big Three
The security plan endorse*:, byi
the President was approved over
the past weekend in Paris by Dul
les. British Foreign Secretary Har
old MacMillan and French Foreign
Minister Antoine Pinay.
“We shall all of us follow with
eagerness the developments at
Geneva,”-the President said today
“for; they will go far to demon
strate whether the “spirit of Gen
eva’ marks a genuine change and
will actually be productive of the
peaceful progress for which the
whole world longs.”
The “spirit of Geneva” to which
the President referred was the
generally easier attitude of the So
viets toward the West following
(Continued On Page Seven)
Top Secret'
Exams Given
Four of Dunn High's top stud
ents took a top-secret exam this
morning that could lead to their
being awarded S4OOO scholarships,
good at any college and for any
course of study.
Mrs. Ophelia Matthews, hlgn
school principal, said those select
ed from here to compete in the
National Merit Scholarhsip pro
gram were Virginia Turlington,
president of the student council,
Donald Gardner, president of the
senior class, Mary Allred, editor
of the annual, and Bobby John
(Continued on Page Two)
UNITED FUND DRIVE
$5,000 Reported
The first five thousand dollars for the United Fund
—about one-seventh of the town quota had been
tabulated by this morning from collections yesterday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Marjorie Warren, executive secretary of the Fund,
stated that this represented only a percentage of collec
tions. The $5,106 so far tabulated was in pledges from
business houses.
The house-to-house residential canvas does not start
until Thursday.
“We feel that for the percentage reporting, our fig
ures so far look very good,” said Mrs. Warren. “We are
confident that our goal will be reached.”
This year’s quota of $34,460 —a thousand more than
last year will go to benefit ten agencies:
Boy Scouts, Red Cross, Florence Crittendon Home,
Girl Scouts, Dunn Recreation, Falcon Orphanage, Free
Will Orphanage, Carolina’s United and N. C. Society Chil
dren’s Home, Medical Research, and Salvation Army.
OPERATING LAMP Ed Boyette, com
mander of the local American Legion post, and
two other members made a visit to Dunn Hos
pital yesterday go look at the lamp which their
organisation bought for the hospiUL .Showing
them through surgery and explaining arrange
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Two Taken, At Liquor Stills
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Unm&tt ruro 1 nnliqpman Aonfur. - __ 1
Harnett rural policemen captur
ed two men and destroyed three
whiskey stills in two raids early
Tuesday morning a? they contin
ued war on bootleggers in the
county.
L. B. Coats, 64, of Dunn, Route
4, and Johnnie McLean, 29-year
old Negro, also of Dunn, Route 4,
were arrested while operating two
300-gallon whiskey stills in Duke
Township. ,
WATCHED THEM AT WORK
Rural' policemen Clarence Moore,
B. E. Sturgill, Walker O'Quinn,
Stanley Byrd and Bernice Temple
hid in the wooded area about 7 a.
m„ watched the two men arrive
and fire up the still. They let them
run the distillery for about an
hour before closing in on than.
Both operators tried to run but
were quickly taken into custody.
The officers found another whis
key still just outside Dunn on the
(Continned On Page Six)
Death Ends
Her Terror
LOS ANGELES «P* Mrs. Mil
dred Hunt, 35, lived in terror since
she left her husband, Floyd. 45, a
month ago.
She changed addresses four times
and asked police at UCLA where
(Continned On Page Six)
meats was Dr. A. L. Cornwell (left) administra
tive officer of the hospital L. R. Norris, adju
tant, and Lewis Gavin (far right), finance offi
cer, were present on the tour. The 400-watt op
erating lamp cost the Legion $895, has been in
use for a month or more. (Daily Record Photo.)
Educators Speak At
Harnett High Meet
Students from colored schools in Harnett and adjoin
ing counties put on a series of playlets on economic themes
duriny a three-hour conference yesterday at Harnett High
School.
Santa To Ride
In Dunns Yule
Parade Again
There’s going to be a Santa
Claus in the Dunn Christmas par
ade. The parade tentatively sched
uled at a meeting last night for
December 2.
Charlie Hildreth, chairman of
the Retail Merchants Association
which will sponsor the parade,
said details for the big event-' have
not been worked out yet but that
he will announce names of the
committee members shortly.
The date for the parade was set
last night at the special meeting
of the merchants which convened
at City Hall.
Hildreth said another topic at
the meeting was the possbiility of
buying street decorations and sav
ing rental fees on such equipment.
“We hope with the cooperation
of merchants and workers, the big
gest and best parade of our history
can be produced this year,” Hild
reth said.
Wed Fish-Eating
Man If You
Want Daughters
TOKYO HP! Marry a fish
eating man, a Jaoanes°
told women who want daughters
instead of sons.
“The more virile and younger
the husband,” says Prof. Hajime
Uda of Meiji University, “t h e
greater the chances for birth of a
female,”
He adds that a survey he took
in 10 towns and villages in the
fishing villages, where men are
well nourished from protein con
tained in fish, shows the birth
tendency is for girls.
“A tired-out, perennially under
nourished husband,” says the pro
fessor, “tends to beget male heirs
much more frequently.”
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The conference—on resource-use
education—was attended by Dr.
T. R. Speigner and Dr. Rose But
ler Brown from North Carolina
College, and teachers of Chatham,
Lee, Moore and Harnett Counties.
Dr. Brown, Chairman of the De
partment of Education at North
Carolina College at Durham,
pointed out to the large gathering
that “improvement of economic
status is a matter of many things
besides money.”
“A person,” she said, “who be
lieves himself to be an important
and valued member of his family
and school group wifi be more
likely to strive to live up to what
is expected of him.”
■Dr. Speigner, director of resource
use education for the state, stated
that in the past six years, remark
able progress has been made local
ly in drawing on the resources of
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Cromartie Named
33rd Degree Mason
Raymond L. Cromartie, Jr., prom
inent Dunn business, civic and re
ligious leader, has foeen elevated to
the rank of 33rd Degree Ma-on.
He is the third Mason in Harnett
County to attain this high honor.
Others are Hugh W. Prince of
Dunn and J. F. Lynch of Erwin.
Ir is the highest rank obtainable
in Masonry.
The degree was conferred on Mr.
Cromartie in impressive ceremonies
conducted in the temple at Wash
ington, D. C.
VETERAN IN, LODGE
Mr. Cromartie has been a mem
ber of the Dunn Masonic Lodge I
sisee 1926, served as master of the I
lodge in 1933 and was secretary I
from 1926 to 1930. He has rendered I
valuable service to the lodge I
throughout the yean. J
It was in recognition of this aer
(CenttnveA Os Page Six)
Reward Money
Os $30,000
Is Offered
! CHICAGO (IP) Thou
sands of school children,
utility workers and county
employes today joined the
hunt for the sadistic killers
of three young boys.
Police enlisted the aid otf rank
and file Chicagoans with an ad
mission the killers’ trail has grown
cold and they are starting their
investigation over again, practical -
ly from scratch.
$30,000 REWARD MONEY
Reward money of more than -30-
000 awaits whoever can put his
finger on the slayers of three
“wonderful" boys. Robert Peterson,
13, John Schuessler, 13. and his
11-year-old brother, Anton.
A task force of officers was as
signed to interview about 25,000
high school students in the North
west side area where the boys
were killed on the night od Oct. 16.
The youngsters were asked to
tell police of any sex deviates they
may have encountered within re
cent months.
Meanwhile, 10,000 telephone com
pany installers and linemen and
other utility employes were in
structed to look for the boys’
clothing, which was stripped from
their bodies after their murder and
hgs not been found 1 .
The utility and telephone em
r,oyes, whose . work takes them
fafio private* homes, were asked to
search in basements and subter
ranean passageways.
In another development, police
announced a Chicagoan picked up
In Hastings. Minn., will be ques
tioned aboift the triple slaying.
Th'fe man’ who was picked up in
connection with a burglary, rates
as a* “logical suspect”’ in the Chi
cago' manhunt because he dis
continued On Page Seven)
Record
Roundup
BASKETBALL CLINIC A
basketball clinic will be held at
the Lillington school gymnasium
Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30 p.
m.
There have been radical changes
in girls basketbal rules for the com
ing year. Therefore in order to ac
quaint principals, coaches, players
and officials of the changes, Mr.
Baker, of Fort Bragg, will be la
the Lillington gymnasium on No‘-
vember 2nd. A girls team will be
dressed so that the changes can
be demonstrated.
All high school principals, coach
es, players and officials in this
area are invited to attend.
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