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VOLUME 5
BENSON WARNS AGAINST AG TRENDS
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NEW PATROLMEN Corporal Rommie Wil
liamson of the State Highway Patrol, right, is
pictured here with three new patrolmen assigned
to his staff In Harnett. Left to right are: Robert
Beck of Red Springs, assigned to Lillington; Stew
art Moore of Goldsboro, assigned to Angler; Ralph
C. Cook, Jr. of Durham, assigned to Dunn, and
Harnett Adds Patrolmen
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A LIFETIME OF FREE PUBLIC SERVICE
Hoover Never Took Pay
NEW YORK OP) Former
President Herbert Hoover
has never accepted one cent
from the federal government
for his own use not even
the $75,000-a-year salary to
which he was entitled as
President.
Hoover said that during part of
his 40-year government career he
took no pay at all. On occasions
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
Corporal Williamson. The new patrolmen have
just completed a three-months patrol school at
Chapel Hill after taking on-the-job training in
the county. Corporal Williamson said he was de
lighted with his new officers. (Daily Record
Photo.)
Three new State highway
patrolman have been assign
eeh*4<y- permanent ’•'daty-" ttr
Harnett, bringing the coun
ty’s force up to a total of
10 men.
Corporal Rommie Williamson of
ptrna, head of the Harnett high
way patrol force, today announc
ed the following assignments:
Patrolman Ralph C. Cook, Jr. of
Durham to Dunn; Patrolman Rob
ert Beck of Red Springs to Lil
lington; and Patrolman Stewart
Moore of Goldsboro to Angier.
All three of the new patrolmen
have Just completed a three
months patrol school at Chapel
Hill, where they were taught the
new methods of enforcing the
State’s motor vehicle laws. They
were also acquainted with new
traffic laws adopted by the last
legislature.'Prior to that they took
on-the-job training in Harnett.
All three of the new patrolmen
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Ike Plans Remarks
On His Departure
DENVER (IP) President Eisenhower plans to make
brief public statements when he leaves Denver Friday
morning and when he arrives in Washington that after
noon, it was learned today. T __
The temporary White House had
no official' comment. But barfing
unforeseen circumstances, the
President is expected to speak
briefly to newsmen at Lowry Air
Force Base when he boards his
plane for the return flight east
after a seven-week recuperation
from his heart attack.
He is planning another, similar
1 when he did go on the payroll, he
1 said, the money he received was
; given away.' ,
The 81-year-old statesman dis
■ cussed his life snd career and hl%
i love for fishing in sn informal,
l hour-land filmed and recorded in
terview carried by the National
Broadcasting Company’s television
’ network.
i His comments covered his aotiv
> ltles ss relief administrator in two
Wxt TXtmvik
Presbyterian
Minister
Installed
Mississippi-born Rev. Leslie C.
Tucker was formally installed as
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Dunn Sunday night by
some veteran North Carolinians.
Installation sermon, “What Are
You Living For?”, was. delivered by
the Rev. Robert F. Sloop, D. D„ of
Lumberton. Charge to the new
pastor was given by Rev. Leighton
B. McKeithan, Jr., of the Sherwood
and Big Rockfish Presbyterian
Churches of the Fayetteville Pres
bytery
Rev. McKeithan and Rev. Tucker
attended Union Theological Semin
ary at Richmond at the same time.
A charge to the congregation was
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statement when the lands at Wash
ington to spend the weekend in
the Whi'e House, before going to
his farm near Gettysburg, Pa., for
further recuperation.
These would be his first public
statements since the President
addressed the American Bar Asso
ciation at Philadelphia on Aug. 24.
Just one month before his heart
(Continned On Pare Six)
world wars, as secretary at com
merce, as president, and more re
cently. as head of the government
commission on reorganization.
t The program was filmed last
summer in Hoover’s office in the
Hoover library on war, revolution
and peace at iLeland Stanford Uni
versity, Palo Alto, Calif.
In answer to a question by Ray
Henle, an NBC commentator and
(Continued on Page Two)
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8, 1955
Varied items
Discussed By
Harnett Board
County commissioners yes
terday vetoed thfc suggestion
made by Sheriff Claude
Moore that the courthouse
janitor also serve as a dep
uty sheriff.
Several days ago Herman CX
Whittenton, chief maintenance
man for the courthouse, had taken
an oath as deputy, but when his
bond was submitted to the com
missioners for approval, a spirited
discussion followed.
“I never heard of the janitor
being a deputy” commented Com
missioner Robert Pate of Q-win ”
It seems to me, if he did ms job
as janitor, there would not be any
left for other duties.”
Sheriff Moore, called by the com
mls isoners, explained that Whitten
ton "certainly did not want the Job,
will not get any fees or serve any
papers.” “My idea,” added the sher
iff. “was that in cleaning the cells
the janitor frequently is called on
to make a transfer of prisoners. I
just thought it might be a handy
thing if he were ever called on to
defend himself, to be a deputy with
authority.”
The sheriff said Whittenton went
with rural police on one raid on a
liquor still, and had accompanied
the welfare superintendent to Ra
leigh to commit a ward to a State
institution. However the Sheriff de
nied that Whittenton Aftd been
missipg any length of time from'
his jriiitorial duties. ’
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"Then,” the Sheriff added,” now
that Recorder's court will be held
in the Town Hall, there is the ques
tion of transfer of prisoners from
the Jail, almost a block away.”
“I thought it was the duty of the
jailer to keep the jail clean” com
mented one commissioner.
In the discussion. County Attor
ney W. A. Johnson advised the sher
iff that in case of any emergency
the sheriff has authority to depu- \
tize k the janitor or any passer-by I
if help is needed in law enforce -
ment.
"I will be happy to recall the
bond” said the Sheriff. “I certainly
would not want the county to get
(Continued on Page Two)
Harnett County Has
37 Now At State
RAUSIGiH Among the 4310
students enrolled at North Caro
lina State College this semester
are 37 from Harnett County.
Figures on the county enrollment
were released today by Kenneth D.
Raab, director of admissions and
registration, who said North Caro
linians make up 82 per cent of the
student body.
The Tar Heel students represent
ing all of the State’s 190 counties
total 3,95.. In addition, there are
699 students from 43 other states
and the District of Columbia, 153
from 39 foreigs countries, and five
from United' States possessions.
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* Record Roundup +
ASKS ANNULMENT Hilda
Matthews Smith, 16. through her
father David Baxter Matthews, fi
led a suit on November 7 in Harnett
Superior Court asking annulment
of her purported marriage to
Johnny B. Smith on March 14, 1954
in Dillon. S. C. The plaintiff al
leges that she was under age et
the time the license was secured.
The defendant, now in the Army, Is
serving oevrseas. ,
COUNTY HOSPITAL Harnett
County employees will get a long
week end off, beginning, Frtday,
Nov. 11, which is Armistice Day
The eleventh is a legal holiday, and
on suggestion of Mrs. Inez Harring
ton, clerk to the board, the com
missioners also granted the request
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DONATES $1,500,000 TO COLLEGE-While Mrs. Thomas
looks on, her husband. Harold O. Thomas, makes a gift of $1,500,-
000 in stocks and bonds to Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio,
through its president, Dr. Clarence C. Stoughton, right. The
portrait above is that of Dr. Ezra Keller, who received S4OO a year
as Wittenberg’s first president in 1845 and died of overwork at 36.
The gift by Thomas, a 55-year-old retired manufacturer of Canton,
Ohio, is the largest received by the college in its 111-year history.
Two Are Held For
Angier Mans Death
Frank Elliott testified at the (Inquest in the murder
of, an Angier Negro, Willie Stokes,(yesterday that at four
oiSoek Vhat afternoon he had seen Hubert Coefield with
a blackjack.
As he came off the stand, pest
the chairs in the Payton Funeral
Home where Coefield was sitting,
the short accused man, his eyes
fiery, grabbed his arm.
“What did you tell that about
the blackjack for?” Coefield said.
“You know I didn’t have no black
)jack, man.”
Elliott shook his head, wagging
the straggly whiskers below his
mouth. “Yes you did,’ he said.
When the jury came in, after
hearing ELiott, Coefield and Ro
ena James the woman in whose
yard the body was found they
The list of students from Har
nett County follows;
Gene Brooks Avery, Erwin; Lar
ry Everett Barnes, Route 2, An
gler; Thomas Jefferson Barnes, Jr.,
Route 2. Angier; William Rufus
Barnes, Route 2. Angier; Weldon
Ray Bass, Route 4, Dunn; Donald
Raeford Blalock, Route 2. Angier;
Joseph Thomas Bordeaux, Lilling
ton; Willie Lester Brannan, Dunn;
James Owed Carr, Dunn; James
Charles Carroll. Dpnn; Frank
Jackson Cole, Asheboro; Carsie K.
Denning.; Route 1 Coats; Jterry
Cransel Dorman, Rout£ 6, Raleigh;
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for Saturday morning off also to
enable employees to have a long
weekend. Thursday J November 24,
which is Thanksgiving Day, also
will find the courthouse closed.
CHURCH BARBECUE Thurs
day. they're serving barbecue and
chicken stew supper at Dunn Ar
mory, 11 a.m. to 8 pun. Sponsors:
Grove Presbyterian Church. Plates
will be $1 for adults, 50 cents for
children.
MATH CONFERENCE Mrs.
Mary D. Pridgen, Dunn High fa
culty member, and Mrs. Louisa
Williams Hicks from Erwin were
among the mathematis teachers
attending a conference at the Uni
(Continued On Page Six)
gave it as their verdict that death
occurred from a blunt instrument
in the hands of persons unknown.
But they ordered that Coefield
and Roena James be held on sus
picion of murder. They *are he}s
under SIOOO bond, awaiting action’
by the grand jury, which will con
vene on Nov. 13. ,
Under Coroner Grover Hender
son's questioning, Coefield explain
ed his movements on Sunday ev
ening when the murder occurred.
He parried suggestions that his tes
timony about times conflicted with
earlier statements by the remark
that he could not remember all
tfie times exactly.
Coefield .«eemed assured and un
frightened until he left the
when testimony from Roena James
and Ellitt occasionally elicited
muttered comment. ,
He responded to Coroner Hen
derson’s probing about fight,
“Weren’t no trouble between me
and Willie. I plowed up his ’taters
for him and lent him my mules.”
KNEW OF NO TROUBLE
Roena James said she knew of
no trouble between the men. The
murdered man was drinking that
evening, she said, but in accept
able condition whe nhe left her
home. "Willie was drinking enough
to stagger,' she said, *lbut I would
n't say that he was drunk.”
Around midnight, some hours as-
Contlnued on Page Six)
Princess Meg Had Planned
To Elope With Townsend
NEW YORK The New York Daily News, in an ex
clusive story from London today, disclosed that Princess
Margaret had planned to elope with Group Captain Peter
Townsend on the weekend before she renounced him and
had no intention of returning tc London.
She even had most of her clothes and other personal
possessions packed into 16 trunks and delivered secretly to
her there, in case a wedding meant eloping from Eng
land.
Facts just uncovered show that Captain Townsend
was the noble one in the broken romance. He presuaded
the woman he loves and who loves hime to renounce
him rather than forsake her royal position.
The Daily News story continued:
What changed her mind. The
word from her sister. the Queen,
New# was Informed today, was
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Says Problem
Distribution,
Not Production
ROME (IP) U. S. Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson warned today that
the protective umbrelU
thrown over the world’s
farmers by the American
price suppiort program may
be withdrawn.
The statement was made before
the biennial meeting of the United
Nations Food and Agricultural Or
ganization. Benson was unable to
attend and his statement was read
by Earl L. Butz, assistant secre
tary of agriculture.
“In some nations today,” Ben
son said, “many of us fear that
present trends are leading toward
‘quick return’ attitudes, toward
single-crop rather than balanced
agricultural economies.
“We see new agricultural pro
duction springing up in some coun
tries, not because it is economi
cally Justified, but only because it
can creep under the umbrella-like
protection of the United States
price support program.
‘ Gentlemen, I must assure you
that any production based on such
hope of short-term benefits may
sooner or later finds its protecting
umbrella withdrawn.”
Benson made these other points
American surpluses are “like
money in the bank.” The problem
is not their existence but how ta
distribute them.
2. One aim of the flexible price
support system is to make import
controls “less and leas necessary’
so the United States can be gen
uinely competitive in world mar
kets. i,
time is- ripe for all na
tions to join in lowering trade bar
riers.
4. The challenge in agriculture
today is not greater production but
distribution.
Daifats, s t ILdwyers
Hear Dr. Bryson
Harnett Counity doctors and law
yers last night heard an address
by Dr. T. R. Bryson of Durham,
attorney for Duke University and
a professor in the Duke School of
Law.
The occasion was a Joint meet
ing of the Harnett Countty Medical
Society and the Harnett County
Bar Association, with the doctors I
host to the lawyers.
The chicken supper was held at
Johnson’s Restaurant in Dunn.
STANFIELD PRESIDES
Dr. W. W. Stanfield of Dunn,
president of the medical group,
presided over the meeting and
welcomed the visiting attorneys.
Dr. Bruce Blackmon of Buie’s
Creek, secretary of the medical
group, pointed out that the pur
pose. pf the meeting was for doctors
to become acquainted with lawyers
of the county. It is part of the med
(Continued Ob Pag* Six)
the arrival late last Sunday as
that a church wedding within the
British Commonwealth was im-
NO. 241
Babs Hutton
Marries 6th
Hubby Today
VERSAILLES, France W Wool
worth heiress Barbara Hutton mar
ried German tennis star Baron
Gottfried Von Cramm here today.
The wedding ceremony took place
in secrecy at the town hall outside
the famed Versailles chateau. The
ceremony was performed by Andre
Mignot, Versailles mayor and na
tional assembly deputy, at 11:30
a. m.
It was the sixth wedding for the
dune store heiresq and the second
for Von Cramm, who served a
period in Jail in 1938 on a moral*
charge.
Miss Hutton divorced her fifrh
husband, Dominican playboy Por
firio Rubirosa, only last July. She
later went to Tangier with Von
Cramm for two months in her
Arabians Nights palace there.
Barbara’s other ex-husbands are
movie star Cary Grant, Count
Haugwitz Von Reventlow by whom
she had a son, Lance; the late
Prince Alexis Mdivanl, and Prince
Igor Troubetzkoy.
Von Cramm’s first marriage end
ed in 1937 with a blighted honey
moon. A German court said then
the bride was unfaithful and ran
about with a French sportsman
Divorce soon followed.
Adams Appeals
Death Sentence
RAUEXGiH <V) The death sen
tence of a Johnston County man
convicted of murder was appealed
yi the Staite Supreme Onurt today.
jy.jpe* Adams of BeotonvUle town
near SaUthflald mas found
guilty of the murder of Raymond
Hayes, a&o of Bentonvflle, July 1.
He was sentenced to be executed
Sept. 29,
Virgin Births
Are Possible,
But Still Rare
LONDON The British medi
cal Journal Lancet reported Sun
day there are “sound reaeons” tor
biologists to believe that virgin
births are possible among human
beings. It said they are extremely
rare if they do exist.,
“Possibly some of the unmarried
mothers whose obstinacy is con
demned in old books on forensic
medicine, or cited as a curiooity
toy their contemporaries, may have
been telling the truth,” Lancet
said.
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possible.
He Brought the New*
The distressing news was con
tained in a message brought to
Uckfield shortly before midnight
by Capt Oliver Dawnay, the
Queen Mother’s private secretary.
It said the Queen, .who was in
Scotland, had learned that them
was no chance of getting tha
Church of Scotland to marry
Margaret and Townsend, 41«*
year-old divorced father of twa
sons. It added that a churckl
wedding elsewhere in tha Com*
m on wealth was also out.
At this point. It was teamed.
Margaret to renounce him rathe*
than forsake her royal position
r and further distress herself bg
i not having a church wedding.
(Owlhwif m hn Tws) ;