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* WEATHER + Increasing cloudiness and not so warm today in west portion with a few scattered showers in west in the afternoon and over east por tion at night. Thursday clearing and cold. VOLUME 5 ADLAI ENTERS MINNESOTA PRIMARY * ' T ' '■>'■<*■ - * •*’- ~ > ts." "‘ *' • „ K ? N .7 F ® OM COA,f H Members of the ant, Raleigh; John -Buddy" Hill, Smithfleld: Wea . Campbell College squad who here take a tip from ver Wrenn, Rocky Mount; Wellford Price. Rocky Coach J. V Myers include team captain and No. Mount and Robert Rowe, Lexington. Not present 1 man William Corbett (standing, far right) who when picture was taken but on the team are Bill »?i u* ,e . . ,™ e four leaders in the championship Compton and Tommie Dorsey of Buie’s Creek, flight of the Chicora title tourney. Team mem- (Photo by Duane Amburn) bers are Larry Langdon, Fayettteville; Paul Bry- Coach Could "Get Took" By Golfer On His Team Jh&M JjjibtLq JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS FISH BAIT, YULE DOUGH; "LADY GODIVA", ETC. ETC Mutt Butt sells live bait to fish ermen, everything from worms to grasshoppers. Fishermen over the country spend millions of dollars annually for live bait and fancy artificial bait. But Mutt is the first to tell you that actually the kind of bait does rot moke too much difference. H« and Oeno Johnson one Os the b“St fishertnen p mond here were talk ire about it last night at Up- ChnrrVs. Truth of the matter is agreed M"H and Gere when the fish start, hitire they’ll hit at anything and it’s hard to keen them from it. Gene recalled that he once ran across a school of fish and. lack ing ha it. c”t- off a niece of his handkerchief and used that. He had wonderful luck. And Mutt recalled that once In Florida he snotted a bunch of tnroln in the water. He simolv cut off a piece of towel “and the fish ate it up.” He hooked some nice ones. BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth days today are j. Virgil Early, Jr., Owen H. WiUis, Sr.. Mrs. Joe C. Ruark, and Henry Trip. THTNO AMAJIGS: Benny Slaugh ter of Dunn and the Rev. Freder (Con tinned On Page Four) BLACK MARKET BABY PROBE CONTINUES Mother Interrupts Hearing MIAMI W Juvenile Judge Walter Beckham of Miami, who said this Gold Coast city is a haven for unwed mothers from other states, appealed to the Ke fauver committee today for federal adoption of children While Beckham, one of the most promlment Judges in his field in the nation was addressing the com mittee a black-haired plainly dress ed woman burst from the audience and shouted: "The man is lying." ♦They took my two children away from me then and the Catholic charities,” she cried. “He has no feeling at all I have than TELEPHONES Sll7 -1118 By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer Over sX Campbell College there’s at French and Span* ish teacher, not too long from Syracuse, N. Y., who became serious about his golf a few years ago. There is also a 19-year-old pre med student and ex-caddie, native of Dunn, who has a wide, bashful grin like the ones you see in the . insurance ads and a big aud beau tiful golf stroke like the ones you see in the newsreels. They are the coach and star, res ■ pectively, of the Campbell College » golf team. Fate is knocking pn their ' door this week. If both answer the > knock with a win in this week’s r matches, they will wind up fight ing it out for the championship of i Chicora Country Club. Young William Corbett, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Corbett of Dunn, was medafist this year in the qual ifying rounds that preceded the Chicora tourney. He has been medalist in another tournament, but. never has reached a finals ex cept in college play. Last year, when he tried the Chicora championships, it was the coach, John Myers, who put him ; OUt Whether Myers could beat him this year is a different question. The records show, Myers says, that Corbett has been playing two thirds of a stroke better than him seif. “I think he’s a little better play er than I am,” said Myers, "but he may tense up worse than I do.” In Corbett’s family. Mother golfs, Father golfs, brother dar ense goJfs but William golfs best of all. Father, to his son’s regret, was dumped by Earl Mahone last week in the second round of the (Continued On Page Four) trylne for months to get my babies. "Why can’t I have my children? I’m no drunk. . . . I’m no prosti tute." U. S. Deputy Marshal Jack Peeples grabbed her and tried to restrain her. Sen. Estes Kefauver fD-Tenn.)’ who was presiding over the hearings on child adoptions and Juvenile delinquency, prom ised he would listen to her story later if she would sit down. COURTS ACTS SLOWLY The woman went to the back of the federal court room where the hearing was being held and sat down quietly. 52hr Mail* Jil Drops Her ■ - .«. . , i -■ 1 ■ Cose Against Hayward HOLLYWOOD IP—Bionde actress Jil Jarmyn has withdrawn a re quest for a battery complaint against film star Susan Hayward which resulted from a brawl in the bedroom of actor Don Barry’s apartment. The you*g actress signed a state ment yesterday saying: ‘1 hereby withdraw my request for a com plaint ... at this time.” She said she cancelled her action because “I’ve 'been through a humiliating experience and I want to forget it!” The blonde had accused her red haired rival of hitting her with a hair brush, knocking her against a coffee table and threatening her with a lighted cigarette. (Miss Hayward had said the fight resulted because of things Miss Jarmys, who had been going with Barry, said to her. 11 Service Men Die On Maneuver CAMP PENDLETON. Calif. <m— Six Marines lost when two landtag craft overturned raised to 11 today the total of servicemen killed In rugged air, land and sea military maneuvers off the California coast. Two (Marines drowned and four were presumed drowned yesterday when the heavy wind-lashed surf near this (base upset the craft. It was the second ma lor tragedy and the third accident of the joint U. B. Canadian war maneuvers. “I would like to make a point clear in view of tfyis situation the Judge Beckham said. ’’’We are always very slow in tak ing children away from their pa rents. We never sign a final order until a natural mother is sure she doesn't want her child. We give her every chance for reconsideration. Perhaps we are overly tender In that respect” , Judge Beckham said Florida has a different problem thtan mjost ustates because of an us usually large volume of pregnant unwed girls who came here from other (Continued On Tag* Seven) DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1955 Ij Trial Os County Solicitor [ Slated To Open Tomorrow By LOIS BYRD .4‘ Record Staff Writer I Disposition of dr union driving cases in Harnett Recorder’s Court will be the chief target of legal attack when the trial of Solicitor Neill McKay Ross begins Thursday in Supe rior Court on charges of misconduct in public office. A study of the bill of particulars upon which the State will reply for pros ecu'ion of the well-knopn solicitor of the lower court sh«ys that Solicitor Jack Hooks will at tempt to prove that Ross flatly dis missed drunken driving cases aid accepted lesser pleas in serWfts highway and liquor law violation!; Ross faces four counts, one for attemp’ing to discharge the dutite of his office while under the influ ence of intoxicants, and three oth ers for failure to call cases, wlllfui dismissal without hearing stjpe witnesses and allegedly enteipg into secret agreements with varifOs defendants, agents and attorneymio terminate and nol pros cases. » BILL OF PARTICULARS I A dst of 54 cases with numbers, names of defendants and dates tried were handed Ross and his wt torneyy Monday by Solicitor Hooks when asked for specific charges. Originals of these <*serewdl Ire inrxjmaUm of reau '-of Investigation ifWch Itft oounded the records during the Sen’ember term of the grand Jury. However. Judge George Fountain who will preside at the Ross trial granted the defendant the right to refer to the cases In order to re fresh hls memory while in the pre sence of a SBI agent. Hooka in his bill listed only case number, names of defendant* and dates of the trial. However. Judg meut.s rendered in the cases are orbitc records in the office of the cleA of recorder’s court. i Here is what a study of the 55 cases showed: , * In the 54 court cases, the defend ants. the charges, the date*, and the dispositions are as follows: Lexie Matthews, possession of ; whiskey, nol pressed August 23. 1955: Arthur Ransom Beasley. 1 drunken driving, nol pressed July 21, 1955: John Thomas Dudley, drunken driving (second offense!, state accepts plea of guilty to care less and reckless driving, prayer for judgment continued on payment o' $25 and costs on August 23, 1955. Everett Preston Bethune, drunk en driving, and careless and reck less driving, nol prossed with leave on July 14, 1955: Otis Earl Step henson, drunken driving, nol pross ed July 7, 1955; James McLean pos session for sale nol prossed with leave August 8 1955. Everette C. Jones, drunken driv ing, nol prossed July 14, 1955: Ev erette C. Jones, drunken driving, (Coin tin ued on Page Eight) i Honor Role Os Donors United Fund, which gets a good part of its yearly quota from payroll deductions in the checks of employes of larger business firms, is off to a good start in that phase of collections in Dunn, Margaret Warren, executive secretary of the Fund; reported this morning that 13 ’ocal firms are already on the “Honor Roll’’ of businesses whose employes join the Fund 100 percent. “We haven’t really got started on this yet,” said Mrs. Warren, “so that’s pretty good.” Solicitation of business and factory employes is head ed by Raymond Cromartie and Gene Smith. All firms em ploying five or more will be asked to help the Fund through payroll deductions and many more names are expected to be added to the Honor Roll within the next few days. Those names appearing already are Machine and Welding Co., Rose’s Five and Ten Cent Store, Leder Bros., First Citizens Installment Loan Dept., Ro-Mar Mattress Co., Howard M. Lee Furniture Co., Mary Stewart School, Carolina Power and Light, Colonial Frozen Food Lockers, Inc., Godwin Building Supply Co., First Citizens Bank and Trust Co., Carolina Cleaners and Radio Station WC KB. HOUSEBREAKERS CONVICTED Dope Addict Gets Suspended Sentence Willard Matthews, about 50, of Dunn and Erwin, after pleading guilty to charges of possessing nar cotics, today was sentenced to serve two to three years in prison. Superior Court Judge George Fountain agreed to suspend the sentence on condition that Mat thews enter the U. 8. Narcotics Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky Bfor treatment and the condition that he not be Involved in the nar icotics traffic during the next three j years. HAD MORPHINE ! Matthews was arrested during j the summer by 381 agents who [found 25 half grain morphine tab lets in his possession. He was charg .ed with possession and concealing of narcotics, also with transport ing the morphine. Solicitor Jack Hooks nol-prossed the transporting charge. SBI Agent Robert Pope, chief witness for the State, testified that Matthews has been a dope addict for the past eight years and quot ed Matthews as saying he had been in seven different hospitals seeking a cure. ' He said Mfitflhew* had no repu taton for selling narcotics but had been known to exchange shots with other addicts. 49th Seal Sale Opens Tomorrow •pie Commercial Class of Erwin High School has been working hard addressing envelopes to practically every one in the county. y y This isn’t Just typing practice. MSaillng start* comorrow on the annual Christmas seal sale of the Harnett County Tubercular Asso ciation, now is its 49th year both nationally and locally. This year’s chairman is E. H. Bast, retired manager of Erwin Mills, who lives in Erwin. Money collected by the association from heir seals wiil be u*ed primarily o fight tuberculosis on a local basis. The organisation hopes this year to raise s4.soo—topping the ap proximately S4OOO raised last year. Eighty percent of the money col lected stays within the county The other 20 percent Is used for na tional research pro Jeers. Mrs. L. W. Griffin, executive secretary of the association, said SOURCE UNDISCLOSED Matthews declined to ted the court where he secured tire dope. SBI Agent Pope told the court he knew the source, tout preferred not to disclose it at this time. Meanwhile today, the grand Jury returned an indictment against B. Gilbert Porter, well-known Dunn restaurant operator, for possession of narcotics. Dunn police and SBI agents found a quantity of dope in Porter’s possession during a raid made on his home here early this fall. Trial of the Porter case has not been set. A Jury today convicted David Stephenson, 37-year-old former Dunn convict and Hubert Henry Glover, 42, also of Dunn, for break ing and entering Rodney Chestnut’s beer tavern in Dunn. Both defen dants ci’aimed they were innocent. Stephenson admitted on the wit ness stand that he has served a total of 15 years In prison on five different occasions. Judge Fountain delayed passing sentence until lab s' in/he week. A Jtar convicted Harold WfiHford, 19, of Dunn, on charges of having carnai knowledge of Donnie Jack son. a female. He was defended (Pen tinned On Page Six) yesterday that tuberculosis contin ues to be an important health problem. New cases of the disease have been discovered here during the year, she said. The last time Har nert County was visited .by the mobile x-ray unit which it shares with other counties, ten oases of tuberculosis were uncovered. The association uses the funds collected to work with the county health department on a cooperative basis, Mrs. Grtffin reported. It has, in the past, paid part of the salary of a county nurse and lent assist ance in many ways. She urges that people respond generously to this latest running of a campaign that has, over the yeans, saved literally hundreds of thousands of lives, and given hope to' millions who once would have been hopeless. * ' » Cold Wave Heads South By UNITED PRESS A cold wave whistled toward the South today as winter’s early storms turned on the nation's mid section with tornadoes in three states and heavy thunderstorms in the Ohio River valley. A long-delayed cold wave crack (Continued on Pare Two* mrn^wmmwM Atoigoin salt b o ptae» , »jMwSr» «n* *n o»»- <■ The Record Is First < W CIRCULATION .., NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY /■ {Two Top Aides' Appointed By Candidate CHICAGO <IP> Adlai Ste venson today announced h$ is starting his campaign for the presidency by entering the Minnesota presidential primary. Stevenson appointed two profes sional political figures to take charge of his effort to win (the ; Democratic nomination at the Chi cago convention next summer. ' At a news conference Stevenson said his decision, announced yes terday, to run again for president was made without any considera tion of the effect of President | Eisenhower s illness, r “It was largely made In the early part of this past summer as- I ter getting evidence erf interest in , my candidacy, and the decision was confirmed around Sept. 1 after conferring with my children,” Stev enson said ' , FINNEGAN TO MANAGE He said he did not make his , announcement earlier "mostiy for personal reasons.” However, he , added, he wanted to be quite sure of certain regions and certain indi-. viduals” before throwing hs lmt , into the ring. Appointed as pre-conventios cam paign manager, was James A Finnegan, secretary of state In Pennsvlvania. As exMntivA dire#?- x-riuiNyrvTiiii'a. Ah exerui-ive airec tor for Finnegan, Stevenson named Hyman' B. Raskin (A Chicago, a former member of the Democratic national committee and a law part ner of former National Democratic Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell. Stevenson also said that two leaders in hls 1952 campaign would be active this time. Tie named Wilson Wyatt of Louisville, Ry., who was hls personal manager in 1952 and Mltchefl. Stevenson said he is counting on Wyatt and Mitchell for “invaluable and Indispensable” advice and counsel acrata.. The decision to enter the Minne sota primary in March was made to meet the time requirements of Minnesota laws, Stevenson said. He disclosed that he had notified the Democratic Farmer-Labor Par ty bv letter that he is accepting its invitation to ester. ‘“The only firm decision I have made with respect to primaries is in Minnesota.” Stevenson sad. “The others we wID consider as we come to them.” College Group ~ To Hear Olive ” *Oh here’s to Wake Forest a glass of the finest Red ruddy Rhenish filled up to the brim * Plenty of Wake Forest alumri should be on hand to join in the singing of this tomorrow. Nov. 17, when they meet at Johnson's Restaurant. 8 p. m. Miss Alice Reavis is going to lead (Continued On Page Seven) Dunn-Erwin Schools Plan College Day The Dunn High School and Erwin High School will hold their annual “College Day” on Friday, November 18th in the Dunn High cafeteria. TMs special event is sponsored by the student councils of the two schools. Junions and seniors from the schools are to participate. Much planning has gone in "Col lege Day” and expectations are high for its success. Activities of the day wili begin at 1:15 and' last until 3:00. More than 30 different colleges will send representatives to encourage stu dents to attend college. A list of the colleges to be repre sented and their student host fol lows: ’ Atlantic Christian College —v -JiEr' '••■slay*. .< M T*| El •£s£ .pH ' t i ‘ Theatre Arte-Frledmaa Phot* Clinch: Shelley Winter* it in< *oWed,in high dreme with B*n &e uar* •SoJHn A Hetfuf of ftnin.” Nuns Story Rejected By London Jury LONDON (W A Jury has re jected charges by a Roman Cath olic nun that she had been assault ed and imprisoned falsely by her religious superiors. The case Involved Sister Pris cilla, 57, whose name before she entered the order of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth was Margaret McCann. She charged that eshe had been asaulted and imprisoned by the mother superior of her convent and later was imprisoned and assault ed at St. Joseph’s nursing home. She sued for damages. After the court, rejected her claims, Sister Priscilla said she would carry an appeal to the Pope. Anita Says Bosom Is Not Insured LONDON (W—Buxom actress An ita Elcberg arrived in London by air Tuesday and newsmen promptly asked her about reports she had insured her bosom with Lloyds of London. The Swedish actress told them it was the first she had heard about it. “I get asked very pecu liar questions,” she said. l Frances Carroll; CampTvell—Collegg i Marjorie Eanes; College—* Mack Dawson; Davk^an—Ed Raf Cadweli; Duke University—JimmJl * Thompson; East Carolina Oollegt —Kenneth West'; Eton—Bill CraV> tree; Greensbc,ro College—6ylvt* Lucas; Gui’hird College—Hubert Warren; H 9 Wilbarger’s Businem College—®*, Merger; High Poin*>— Meredith HighsmltK Hospital< iJxniise Cummings; Kingß Bushier* CoUege-Ghelby Weeks? Loui^'^jy—Glerrwood Tew; Mart Hfiini Carolyn Gardner, Mnvdldl • l Contln Md m hp MU NO. 241
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