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BEFRIENDED BY DUNN BUSINESS MAN
''Ex-Con, Hardened Criminal"
Robbery Expert Gets Chance
Thanks to the mercy and kind-heartedness of Superior Court Judge George
Fountain and the help of a friend, a Dunn man who has already spent 15 of the
87 years of his life in prison and who long ago was given up as a hopeless, harden
ed criminal today had a chance to make good.
He has a lot to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day.
David Stephenson, who very
frankly told the court that he is
an expert at breaking and. enter
ing and robbery and admitted that
he has already served five different
terms in prison, was convicted by
a jury on a new charge of break
ing and entering last week in Har
nett Superior Court.
A friend, Harold Willford, 19,
also of Dunn was caught with Step
hensoh at the scene of the crime
and was convicted with him. They
Holiday Deaths At 25
By UNITED PRESS
Million* of Americans abandon
ed their workaday cares Thursday
and' gathered close to home and
family to celebrate a peaceful
Thanksgiving.
The traditional Thanksgiving
feast, of turkey and all the trlm
miny» lured Americans from ad
’* walks of life toward home, spur
ring holiday travel to expect rec
ord. highs.
To many, the reasons for Thanks
TELEPHONES 1117. Illi
were charged with breaking and
attempting to enter Rodney Chest
nutt’s beer parlor on SoSuth RaJ
road Avenue.
ARRESTED AT SCENE
When police arrived, they found
Stephens on and Williford at the
back door, the glass of which had
already been knocked out.
But Stephenson took the witness
stand and insisted he was Innocent
of the crime.
*1 know how to break into a
giving were individual, personal
joys. But President Eisenhower set
the overall' tone by calling on *ll
Americans to give prayerful thanks
‘•for the abundance of our endow
ments.”
Crisp, clear weather covered
most of the nation, with tempera
tures dipping below aero ip same
sections. i
Cold air pushed eastward across
the Midwest and Ohio Valley and
plunged southward into the Ou St
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place and I’ve broken into a lot
of them" the ex-oonvidt freely
told the jurors. “And I have never
denied a crime when I was guilty.
I always pleaded gulty before and
took my medicine. This time I’m
innocent. I didn’t do it."
RECORD AGAINST HIM
But Stephenson’* record was
against him. He had been convict
ed on numerous counts of ordinary
theft petty larceny and grand l*r
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states from Texas to Alabama.
Temperatures dived below zero in
Minnesota and North Dakota, While
meet of the Midwest reported read
ings In the 20‘s and 30 s.
Travelers jammed rail, airline
and bus facilities and crowded the
highway* with the usual holiday
rudh. ■ _ -
, At least 26 persons had been
killed in traffic accidents since the
holiday got underway at 6 p. m.
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERWON, NOVEMBER 24 ? 1955
Russia Seeks
Pledge On '
Atom Weapons
| UNITED NATIONS, N. X
(IP) Russia, which recently
i staged its biggest hydrogen
bomb explosion, called upon
the Big Four powers today
to pledge “not to be the first
to use atomic or thermonu
clear weapons against any ,
country.”
Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobo
lex made the proposal to an extra
ordinari,- Thanksgiving Day session
of the United Nations Disarma
ment Commission. f-
Rejecttng Western disarmament
plans and accusing the United
States of “sidestepping" the jpoto
lem of arms reduction. Sobolev re
peated the views put forward at
Geneva Earlier this month by So
viet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav
“SIDESTEPS THE QUESTION"
Russia, Sobolev said, is ready to
consider President Eisechower’s
“open skies" inspection proposal
“favorably” if it is incorporated as
a basic part of an overall disarma
ment program.
But, he added, “We note that the
proposal of President Eisenhower
sidesteps the question of the re
duction of arms and the prohibi-
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Rita And Aly
Want Divorce
Recognized
PARIS, (IP) Rita Hayworth and
Prince Aly Khan petitioned a
French court today to J recognize
Rita’s Nevada divorce from him.
In so doing, they revealed Aly is
paying $6,000 a year for the sup
port of thetir daughter Yasmin. In
return he gets custody of the 5-
year-old Yasmin for at least six
weeks a year.
The court will make its ruling
Dec. 14. It was expected to ap
prove the request
A Real Tightwad
LONDON OP) Tax officials thought they had 50-
year-old Bill Hughes dead to rights. But the self-confess
ed tightwad showed them his patched underdrawers and
listed 13 ways of saving money and they began reconsid
ering his case today.
Hughes, a shipyard worker, appeared in Bankruptcy
Court on charges of bookmaking and failing to pay tax
on the proceeds. He admitted saving up $16,800 on his
$56 a week salary but said he did it this way:
1. Never ate candy, even when he was young.
2. Never smoked.
3. Never drank.
4. Never went out with women.
5. Shaved with his brother’s razorblades.
6. Charged his grandmother 12 per cent interest on
money she borrowed.
7. Worked a night shift and borrowed his father’s
shoes while he slept to save shoe leather.
8. Went 13 years without buying a new suit.
9. Never bought a single flower.
10. Limited his lifelong movie going to one “Road To
Morocco.”
11. Ate everything on the table even if he didn’t want
it. <,
12. Patched everything including his underwear
13. Never took a holiday trip that cost more than 56
cents.
He helped prove his point by displaying his under
wear. The original fabric had disappeared there were
patches on faded patches.
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FOUR LEAP TO SAFETY BEFORE TRAIN HIT Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Hedrick McHargue and two children leaped to safety
last night about 40 o’clock Just before an Atlantic Coast i-W train
completely demolished their 1955 Pontiac at the Cumberland Street
crossing in Dunn. McHargue, a military policeman from Fort Mon
roe, Virginia, got caught In the safety gates and headed northward
down the track and attempted to cut across in front of Pope Print
ing Company. Policemen K. M. Fail said his two rear wheels caught
on the track when the front end dropped and this demolition Job
resulted. He could easily have skirted around or even through the
wooden gates, but said he thought they were the steel type gates
that completely crossed the tracks. (Dally Record Photo by Jake
Bennett.) '
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Ike Romps With
His Grandchildren
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (IP) President Eisenhower had
a special reason for being thankful today as he celebrated
Thanksgiving with his family at the Gettysburg farm.
So did the nation.
Today marked the passing of the
second month since his Sept. 24
heart attack with Mr. Eisenhower
well on the road to recovery. No
complications had developed.
Within tne past week, he re
sumed full personal command of
the govemmest, presiding again at
cabinet and National Security
Council meetings and working at
a temporary office in the Gettys
burg Post Office Building.
TO RESUME COMMAND
And next week he will resume
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Stage Is Set
For Biggest
Give - Away *
NEW YORK (W— A seed sales
man, a girl psychologist and a coal
miner tapped the till for $56,000 on
’The $64000 Question” Tuesday
nigght to set the stage for what
*oould be the biggest giveaway
night in TV history.
The trio will lie given ♦ho (•’’-tr 0
next Tuesday of doubling their
winnings or bowling out. Their po
tential total earnings could reach
$112,000, by far the largest sum
ever offered on a single program.
The anchor man last night was
Steven Frohlich, a seed salesman
from Princeton, N. J., who ran his
stake to $32,000 in the category of
American history. FTohlch, a na
tursized Czech, answered a seven
part poser dealing with constitu
tional amendments
The second biggest winner, Joyce
Brothers of New York, ran her
string to $16,000 by answering *
boxing quary. ————
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Harrington Says
He Never Saw
Ross Intoxicated
District Solicitor Jack Hooks sent another parade of
witnesses across the stand this Thanksgiving Day in an
effort to prove that County Solicitor Neill McK. Ross
wrongfully threw cases out of court without reason and
unlawfully entered into deals with defendants’ attorneys
or agents.
There was also testimony that
Ross had allowed a man indicted
on a second drunken driving offense
to plead guilty to charges of care
less and reckless driving without
consulting investigating officers
and that the driver got off with a
$25 fine.
The 47-year-old former State
Representative and veteran county
official —, lather of four children
—is on trial in Harnett Superior
Court on charges of gross miscon
duct in office, including noting
grounds and several instances of
attempting to conduct court while
lntoxloated.
NOT DRUNK, SATS CLERK
Solicitor Hooks sustained a set
back on the drunkenness charges
this morning when Recorder’s
Courtr Clerk Kyle Harrington swore
that “I have never seen him Ross)
in court when I thought re was
under the influence.”
* CONTRADICTS OFFICERS
Two highway patrolman and a
Million In School
Bonds Are Sold
.Harnett School Superintendent
Gienn Proffit announced today
that the county had sold $1,000,000
of a $2,000,000 school bond issue at
an interest rate of 2.639 per cent.
The bonds were sold by bond
attorneys in New York on Monday
of this week.
Supt. Proffit said today that he
BAPTIST WOMEN PLAN OBSERVANCE
WMU President
To Speak In Dunn
Mrs. C. Gordon Maddrey of Ahoskie, president of the
Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina and one of
the State’s best-known Baptist women, will be the guest
speaker at the First Baptist Church here Sunday morn
ing at 11 o’clock. $
Plans for her appearance here
were announced today by Mrs. H.
Paul Strickland, president of the
WMU of the local church.
Mrs. Strickland pointed out that
Mrs. Maddrey is appearing here
in connection with the church’s
observance of a Week of Prayer
for foreign missions, the week of
Nov. 28 through Dec. 2.
Mrs. Maddrey is an outstanding
speaker and her address Sunday
morning is being keenly anticipat
ed.
An alumna of MeredMh College,
Mrs. Maddrey is known by South
ern Baptists and especially by
North Carolina Baptists for her
untiring efforts and deep oooso
creatian to missions around the
world.
‘‘She Is one who Inspires her as
sociates; her messages challenge all
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rural policeman who said he had
known Ross for 25 years awore em
phatically on Wenesday that they
had seen Ross intoxicated on sev
esal occasions whiie trying to con
duct court affairs. OOne of these oc
casions was on August 30th of this
j’ear.
Harrington took office as clerk
of sourt on July 1 of this year
after serving for many years aa
county ASC chairman. Called to
the # stand by Solicitor Hooks to
handwriting on warrants
by Chief Defense Counsel James
Nance of Fayettevlde that he hmi
been present with Ross at every
session of court since July 1.
NEVER SMELLED IT ON HUM
Harrington swore that he had
never caught the smell of whiskey
on Ross is the courtroom at any
time.
Citizens took advantage of the
holiday to attend the widely-pub
licized trial and a large crowd was
on hand for rthe proceedings today.
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was highly pleased that the bonds
sold for such a low interest rate
and pointed out that it reflects the
sound financial’ condition of the
county.
He noted that bonds sold by
some other counties in the State
durisg recent months had sold at
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