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+ WEATHER + Considerable cloudiness, mild and becoming rather windy today. Thursday Clearing and cooler, pre ceded by showers near the coast. VOLUME 5 OFFICERS TESTIFY AGAINST ROSS Bl jgm Elk. % ' tyj&'MjJ&K ''>4 ■’ ,)*,,. ft’’ s '"'l 1,. w t.. .•.lvJmSw! I .;■ "• * : i .4«r'ff ’*."• *3 '. * ■'. ’" ~, •-i • WM i• *« »■>.* : - _ j B ■4£m H Y*J l”j Jhl B ff" 1 1 J*» B Bfl B w jM b ■ - . **WBMBHBBB JH^^HH^B; nKB J HH^HBRIIBsfi9R&K -wmmmHMam B - 3 Mr ’ IBM ® : _^ r / • MfIBHHRP' , jor "SANTA STEVE" WITH $62,927 FOR CHRIST MAS CLUB MEMBERS The Commercial Bank of Dunn has no Santa Baby, bast Ift has a five wire cashier named J. N. Stephenson and Steve is shown here loaded down with checks for mem hen of the bank’s Christmas Savings dab mem bers. He was on his way to the bank to malt the checks when this picture was'made. The bank’s club has grown from a modest beginning tot its Benson Asks Public Aid CLEVELAND, Ohio (IP Secretary of Agriculture Ez ra T. Benson today appealed to “everyone” for help in sol ving the nation’s farm prob lems. Benson made his broad appeal In a speech prepared for the 89th annual convention of the National Orange. *‘l ask everyone of you both here at this National Orange meet ing and home by your radios to send me your ideas about solutions to the problems we face,” Benson said. “Every suggestion will be considered and every letter will re ceive a personal answer. “We will listen to any sugges tions from any source except the suggestion that would turn back to the programs that helped create our present difficult prob lems." (Conttnaed On Page Six) What Price Dames? Asks This Prince PARIS The six concubines of Prince Alexandre Douala Manga Bell were allowed by a French court today to keep $8,'500 worth of shorts and summer dresses. But the prince’s bank accounts and his |6OO-a-month salary as re presentative of the French Camer ons in .the National Assembly were Impounded by a French Judge, who ruled it was about time the prince paid his bills. The 86-year-old prince has a “habit of not paying attention to TELEPHONES Sll7 • Silt present sise of aboaft 9H members. This year's to tal of *62,927 is an increase of *12,900 over last year. The dab continues to grow each year in members, dollars and popularity. The Commer cial Bank, founded in 1919, operates the club with out profit as a community sendee. Steve adds a word of advice to members: "Do your Christmas shopping in your hometown stores." (Daily Rec ord Photo.) County Educo Club Meets At Angier Harnett County school masters heard a program on Monday night at the Angier school cafeteria on the high school vocational education program. Majority of the county's men teachers attended the monthly meeting of the Bduco Club which had a dinner session at 6:30 p. m. preceding the program. C. H. Hood of Lillington, new president, presi ded, and Coyte Lanier of Buie’s Creek served as secretary. Roger Johnson, principal of the Lillington School, speaking from a outlined the importance of voca tional education. He stressed the need of increasing and expanding vocational services. Johnson cited the value of commercial depart ments to students and the commun ity employers alike. Johnson was followed on the panel discussion by Jeff Denny, Dunn vocational agriculture teacher Continued on Page Btx> blls," the court was told by lawyers for a famous French tailor. Douala runs up blls at the Na tional Assembly's bar, for instance, and the French government has to pay them—and reimburses itself by selling a few acres of the prince's land in the Cameroon* the lawyers said. i The French tailor whose patrons > include the Duke of Windsor, said the $6,500 bill was run up over the ■ past two years by the prince, who »l (Pi nils hi I Ob tags AID (Eke Jt&ilu IXttaviX Record Roundup UNION SERVICE Following a custom of long standing among Lillington churches a union TTanfcsgiving servjce will be held tonight (Wednesday! at 7:30 p. pa. at the Methodist Church. The host pastor, the Rev. E. C. Shoes will preside and the Thanksgiving ser mon will be preached by Dr. David A. HuMlnes, J*., Presbyterian min ister. The music will be the respon sibility of the Baptist Church Choir under the direction of Mrs. L. C. Pinnix. Offering taken will go to the orphanages of the three denominations represented. CORN SHUCK FlßE—Lillington firemen answered a call around 11:30 a. m. Tuesday at the Lilling ton Roller Mills where flames de stroyed the small 15 by 20 foot shuck house at the rear of the big flour and feed mills. The house, made of metai, burned but the hay baler which was In action baling ■hucks, was pulled to safety. Nor were adjoining big mills Injured. Owners Nelli and Leon Kelly aaJ4 that sparks from the exhaust on the gasoline engine of the baler ignited loose shucks, setting fire to the house and destroying several (P—frail Ob Page Btx) DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23, 1955 Coats Resident | Misses Curve, 1 Killed In Wrecks Five hundred yards from w home, Joseph Tart missed a cuffi and went headon into a tree and was killed, his neck broken g&s his body pinned in the wreckauS The 37 - year -old white manJpif resident of Coats, Route J, wre«#v ed on the road between Coats and Bailey Crossroads at 4:30 a. m. this morning. , ‘J** Wedged deeply in the. almost completely demolished remains Os his 1952 Pontiac, Tart’s body had to be removed with th eaid of a wrecker. Highway Patrolman Paul Alter* glne investigated. Coroner Orover Henderson said there would be no' need for an inquest. This brings to 23 the number of fatal accidents in Harnett County this year. Tart is survived by a wife and two children. (Cotntißiied on Page Eight) Record Will Publish On Thanksgiving nwW- rboord mu. ."TW-Daily Record wIH publish on Thursday as usual and Crafton Tart’s Open Air Market will con tinue seling food around the clock because it never closes. JBut for practically all ether bus iness firms and o'fires m Dunn and throughout Harnett. Thanks giving wi 1 be a holiday. All city, county and ether gov ernmental offices will b? closed. There is a pow»l:t*v however that Superior Court will continue in session wib the trial of County Solicitor Neili Ros«. A union service of three local churches. Methodist, Christian and Baptist, will be held tontght at 7:30 o’clock at Hood Memorial Chris tian Church in Dunn. Other chur ches have announced separate ser vices. Cleo Stops Show At Guys & Dolls HOLLYWOOD (TO Working as a United Press pho tographer last night’s star-studded premier of “Guys and Dolls,” glamour girl Cleo Moore stopped the show cold. Celebrities stepped aside while the working press took pic tures of Cleo. The blonde screen siren appeared for her assignment wearing a strapless gold lame gown with a plunging neckline the most glam orous photographer In United Press history. She docked off 24 pictures of Movletown's guys and dolls pa rading into the Parmount Theater. Each time a star-laden limousine pulled to the curb, policemen clear ed the crowd away fqr Cleo to take her pictures. No fotog ever had it' so good. “I got all the pictures I wanted,” Cleo said triumphantly. “There must have been three dozen other photographers there, but the stars didn't hesitate when they asked them to stand still for a shot. “When I asked they stared in a kind of disbelief-like shock. While they gaped, I snapped their pic tures.” Stars on Cleo’s click list were John Wayne, Stewart Oranger, Jeanne Crain, Bill Holden, Lana Turner and Lex Barker, Deborah Kerr, and the picture’s stars, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine. Cleo was backed up by United Press photographer Carlos Schie beck who said She needed very little advice. “I was using a Rolliflex with flash equipment,** Cleo explained professionally She gained her ex- CeattaMf ea Page Ms) HE . 1 SWEDE AND LOVELY- Actress Anita Ekberg poses ? provocatively for photographers ’ after arriving in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the first visit home since 1981 for the Swed , ish beauty who made good in Hollywood. Anita came to the U.S. after winning the title o£ $ “Miss Sweden.” _ Collections Rise For United Fund Around s22,ODD—almost SO per cent of a near-$35,000 quota—has ■pa reached in United Fund cot jjimn, Executive Secretary Mar* garet Warren reported this morn? ing. More names are being added to the honor roll of businesses whose employes are contributing, 100 per cent strong, to the combined cam paign. N , Four United Fund workers— Paul Walker, Raymond Cromortle, Fined Byerly, and Wayne Jurtesen—. are .delivering talks oo the need for United Fund solicitation. Currently on the honor roll are the Machine and Welding Co.. Car olina Cleaners, Howard M. Lee Furniture, First Citizens Bank and Trust .and the Installment Loan Depri of that bank, WCKB, Ro- Mar Miattress Co., Carolina Power and Light, Colonial Frozen Food (Continued on Page Eight) V ’; 1 I ■ I I CLEO HOOKE Say Solicitor Was Drunk; Dropped Case Two highway patrolmen and a rural policeman swore positively in Harnett Supe rior Court today that Coun ty Solicitor Neili McK. Ross had been intoxicated on .sev eral occasions while trying to conduct court affairs. Other witnesses swore that a case of drunken driving was nol prossed by Ross without giving witnesses a chance to be heard. District Solicitor Jack Hooks be gan his parade of nearly 40 wit nesses against the prominent Har nett political leader and former State Representative this morning after Ernest Moore of Bast Erwin wa* seated as the 13th and alter nate julor. The State is attemp-ing to prove that Solicitor Ross is guilty of four court of misconduct in office al leged against him a bill of indict ment returned against him by the grand Jury after months of inves tigation. - The bill of particulars charges Ross with numerous instances <rf public drunkenness and with more than 50 instances of dropping court cases without reason and with making deals with defendant or their agents. State Highway Patrofcnen Paid. tfnA Paul Albelgine aw| Rural Policeman Walker 'O'Qointf were the officers who swore to Ross’ alleged intoxication in court. O’Quinn, declaring that he had known Ross for 25 years, swore that he was under’ the influence of whiskey on June 7 and June 23 and August 30 of this year. Solicitor Hooks asked O’Quinn to tell the court on what grounds he based his opinion that Ross was drunk. O’Quinn replied: “The odor of alcohol on his breath, his face was flushed and his speech was slug gish.” On cross-examination by Chief Defense Counsel James R. Nance, however, the officer admitted that Ross was not staggering drunk and said his face normally tended to be red. Patrolman Lucas said Ross was intoxicated “three or four months ago,’ but said he couldn’t remem (Cm tinned Ob Page Btx) Rites Set For Edgerton Baby Charles Roger Edgerton, age 3 weeks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hendon Edgerton of Buie’s Creek, died Tuesday in Duke Hospital. Oraveside services will be held at 10:00 a. m. Thursday In the Buies Creek cemetery. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Wel don Johnson, pastol of the Fir*: Baiptlst Church In Buie's Creek. The child is survived by his pa rents, Herdon and Kathryn Sexton Edgerton: one brother, Hendrick Edgerton, of the home: paternal grandmother, Mrs. L. E. Shenauit, of Buie’s Creek; maternal grand parents, Mr. and Ml*. Roger Sex ton of Lillington. SIDELIGHTS AT THE ROSS TRIAL Trial And Personalities By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer A small trial "tonality, a big trial reveals it. In most city courts, and often in Superior Court, case after case is pushed so hurriedly through the mills of jus tice that no-one, yeast of all the spectators, can be quite sure of what has happened. The Ross trial, which started In Lillington yesterday, and the case of Judge Lee, which may be tried at another time, are not sliding by in such peremptory fashion. As the trial began, it was apparent that every word of every person the least answer of a prospective juror was to be weighed and re welghed by defense, state, and spec tators. ■j- The Record Is Firs* i IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY IMBHK * ■ |§F MBBrSfi m\ w|HH| . ; Wdr ~ mBShBEBB.I M, 1 ■' %" P "Hts ;£?' * SOLICITOR NEILL ROSS —Leaving court yesterday Owner Thought Dog HadSwallowedßone Another mad dog was discovered in Harnett County this morning. His owner, Elbert F. Thornton of Erwin, brought him to the pet hospital in Dunn thinking he had a bone in his throat. Dr. Belmont Kittrell, veterinar ian, took one look at the four month-oid black and tan beagle hound and diagnosed rabies. The Thornton's pet will probably die by tomorrow. Thornton told Dr. Kittrell's as sistant, Lois Jordan, that yester day the dog had approached him as though it needed help. It had not tried to bite him, and didn’t today. Tortured by the disease within, the young beagle twisted, yowled and snapped as it was transferred from the hospital to a small boxed cage and taken by Earl Wells, county dog warden, to the pound, where it will' die. Just yesterday another pet was brought in which Dr. Kittrell be lieved to have rabies. It has already died and the head is being taken to Raleigh for examination in the state diagnostic office. E. W. Williams, who lives on Er win Road, is the owner of the dog which died. It was a stray befriend ed by his family two years ago. The dog’s lower jaw dropped on Mon day, and Williams, too, thought there was “a bone in its throat.” Neither dog had bit anyone, but both had apparently been bitten (Continued On Page Eight) “GET ’EM OUT" As the state finished its first round of challenges and seated twelve jurors, a spectator tapped a reporter on the shoulder and said, “Ross better get some of those fel lows (the Jurors! out of there They won’t be no aid to him”. The defense put some of them out Hardly a Juror could be found NO. 252 White Man Guilty Os Raping Negro CROWLEY, La. IIP) An all white male jury convicted a young white father of three children of attempted rape of a Negro wom an, reportedly the first case of its kind in Louisiana history. Sterling Trahan, a local rice mill supervisor, will be sentenced later this week by Judge Smith Hoff pauir. The jury’s verdict wal "guilty of attempted simple rape," for which the maximum penalty is 10 years. The alleged attempt took place August 14. Opening in district court yester day morning, the trial continued throughout the day and late into the night. The jury returned it* verdict about 2 a. m. today. Except for the two policemen who had taken the defendant in charge in August, all witnesses for the prosecution were Negroes. De fense witnesses were the accused and his young wife. who had not heard the ease dis cussed or taken part in a discuss ion. One of them said that at hi* service station. We’ve already triH| the case, had it sentenc# passed ” Later excused, this juror) must have caused Ross to wonder, as he passed a few feet from lum, what the sentence was. | REMARKABLY AT BASK \ The accused solicitor, more famfc* liar te the prosecution of a rust than In its defense, seemed remark ably at ease as the long job of Jury—choosing went on. He leaned back In his chair; behind counsel, frowned and smiled and talked M (Ceattnaed Oa Page Eight)
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