+ WEATHER +
Fair and cojd Wednesday, high
temperatures 36 to 45. Thursday
mostly fair, a little warmer in the
afternoon.
VOLUME 5
COLD WAVE GRIPS NATION; 39 DEAD
HOLIDAY HOUSE At the home of Mrs. <
Guyton Smith (standing) and in many homes a- i
round Dunn this week, members of the Woman’s i
Club were as busy as fifty beavers building a i
dam. Their activity is all directed toward "Holi-
Carlyle Asks Post Office
To Restore Dunn Service
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By HOOVER ADAMS
J. -
ROBERTS UNDERWOOD,
POMPEY LOVE SCENES
Two Dunn service men. Captain
Rody Williams, Jr. of Dunn and
Corporal Cyrus Stewart of Lilllng
ton, recently arrived in Alaska for
duty Mrs. Williams, the former
Florence Tyler, is staying in Rich
mond, in between visits her* with
his family Wille Warren says the
new 1956 Studebaker is winning
wide acclaim here— The session of
Harnett Simerior Court Sunday
was unusual... Former Senator
L. M. Chaffin, who’s tViore or less
an authority on the history of
Countv governmental affairs, re
calls that the last time a Sunday
MBjiion of court was held in Har
neS took place about 15 or 18 year?
agdk Oral Roberts, the famous
he<Smg evangelist who is now en
rorite to Australia for a campaign. l
will return to Fayetteville for a |
big Eastern. Carolina evangelistic
crusade next April A Dunn pas
tor. the Rev. Bane T. Underwood
of the' Gospel Tabernacle, who .hap
, pens to be,a close pecsonal friend
of the new world-famed minister,
met with some of Roberts’ aides
in Fayetteville week before last to
arrange for the" 3 meeting —Hun
dreds ,of thousands of people heard
:he Rev. Mr. Robert? when he held
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Little Theatre Plays Picked
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Avoid the Last Minute
Hush—Be Sure Your
Christinas Cards and
Gifts Arrive on Time.
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day House,” the annual fund-raising bazaar spon
sored by this group which starts Friday. Making
ornaments for the trtee which will be one of many
decorations at the Woman’s Chib are (left) Mrs.
R. $. Cresswell and Airs. J. A. Baker.
Congressman F. Ertel
Carlyle today called on the
Post Office Department In
Washington to restore “im
mediately and without fur
.then 4e4|*y” service whicjjj
vfes dSconiitmefr' aly «fche
Dunn Post Office the first
of this month.
The Seventh District solon said
he was “both shocked and amazed”
when informed that under the new
"economy move" it is now impos
sible to mail a letter at the Dunn
Post Office after 8 p. m. at night.
Until the first of this month,
mail was dispatched one hour lat
er, until 9 p m.
ADDITIONAL REQUEST
Congressman Carlyle, a former
member of the Post Office Com
mittee, also requested the Post Of
fice Department to restore mail
pick-up and delivery to the Town
of Dunn via Train No. 375. ■which
was discontinued about a year ago.
Southbound mail which former
ly was dropped off at Dunn on
Train 375 at 5:57 each afternoon
now Is not received in Duns until
the following morning.
Until the first of this month,
northbound Train No. 78 dropped
off and picked up mail from the
Dunn Post Office at 11:15 each
night. Now, the train neither leaves
nor takes mail frm Dunn.
PASS BY POST OFFICE
Both of these ’rains pass through
Dunn regularly, less than a block
frm the Dunn office. Railroad
tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line
adjoin the Post Office property.
"ECONOMY MOVE”
In another Republican economy
move, the Post Office Department
this month discontinued the aer
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-Bom Yesterday** and “Detective
Story.’’ in that order were selected
last night as the first two plays
tx> be local production by The
Players, the little theater group
starting here.
The group will move swiftly a
head through tryouts and into a
rehearsal period on “Born Yester
day.” The play has over ten im
portant parts and these will be cast
at a meeting next Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. Susan Black on West
Cumberland Street
TALENTED WANTED
Mrs. Lee Crail, director • manager
of the group, said persons wanting
too tryout for the play, or to help
in other production capacities.
She Bailn Jlrrnrd
Carolina Coach
Is Facing Ouster
lotte Observer said today that
George Barelaj< would serve as
head coach of the University of
North Carolina for the “last time”
Saturday in the Tar (Heels’ tradi
tional battle with Duke.
paper said, Barclay is “the
victim of the pressure of big
time football because he is the
coach.”
The story said the name most
mentioned as a successor to Bar
clay was UNC alumnus Jim Ta
tum, coach of the Maryland Ter
rapins.
Drunk Driving
Charae On Tew
Jury trial of Lewis Herman Tew
on a drunk driving charge was be
ing held today in Dunn Recorder’s
Court with Judge H. Paul Strick
land presiding.
Police records show that Tew
was arrested and charged by Offi
cers K. M. Fait and R. H. Alphin
on the night of Oct. 23.
Chief Alton Cobb stated that
Tew had been convicted for drunk
driving in 1947 and at that time
drew a six months suspended sen
tence. plus *IOO fine and court
costs, and had hi* llcens revoked
for one year.
Harnett Sheriff Claude R.
Moore today arrested Rowena
Jones, a Negro woman, for the
second time in the slaving of
Willie Stokes, an Asgier Negro.
i should call her at 3386 Interested
. persons who have not yet joined
i the group are welcome to the try
outs.
1 Among those who attended last
night’s meeting were Anna Merle
Daniels, Howard M. (Buster) Lee,
■ Exum Kirby, Laura Belle Carr.
Alice Reavis, Susan Black, Louis
, Jeffreys, Martha Page, Mrs. A. B.
. Johnson, Charles Williams, Edwin
s Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Willie C.
Brannan and Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Crail.
Prospects for financing the pro
ductions were also discussed, but no
r final action was taken. "We believe
l the plays can be mostly self-aup
> parting through ticket sales" said
, Mrs. Crail.
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1955
Reuther Hails
Merger Os Two
Largest Unions
NEW YORK (IP) Presi
dent Walter Reuther today
foresaw in the forthcoming
merger of his organization
and the AFL “great new op
portunities” for labor to ex
press itself effectively in al
most every facet of Ameri -
can life.
In his annual report to the 17th
CIO convention, which opens here
tomorrow, the CIO chieftain paint
ed a rosy future for the new
"American Federation of Labor
and Congress of Industrial Organ
izations.” The merger is scheduled
to be approved Monday when the
new AFL-CIO begins its inaugural
convention.
Reuther's report took occasion to
lambast the Republican admisis
tration and the 84th Congress,
which, he said, “to date has not
yet measured up to the mandate
of the 1954 elections." Bu: he added
:hat the Congress "was handicap
ped by the absence of real leader
ship from the White House and by
actual obstacles created by admin
istration forces.”
Reuther warned, how’ever, that
the steps taken toward merging
16,100.000 union members into one
organization “do not provide in
themselves guarantees of future
success.”
“If yep make of unity only the
convenience and comfort of the
Stato* /jtraf. to
’fflMMMhe awuse of labor and to
build a better America for our
people." Reuther said “But if we
meet the challenges, if our new
organize'ion is based on the dy
namics of growth, we wifi be able
to make real and tangible prog
ress.”
GREAT CAMPAIGN AHEAD
He said the merged organizations
would “set the stage” for a great
organizing campaign and would be
“more effective” in Congress and
state legislatures.
“As citizens, we will be better
able to elect the be*: possible can
didates for public office." Reuther
said. “We will be devoted and ef
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Record
Roundup
HOLIDAY HOUSE AND BA
ZARR—Just a reminder, ladies.
The Woman's Club’s Holiday House
and Bazaar will be held this week
end beginning Friday morning at
10:00 a. m. and continuing through
Sunday. Assorted articles for
Christmas gifts will be on sale, and
as an added attraction there will
also be a snack bar.
BARBECUE SALE Barbecue
platae will be on sale at the Latter
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THE *56 QUESTION—Leonard Hall, GOP chairman, meets with
Mr. Eisenhower at Gettysburg, Pa., to give the President a run
down on politics.” After the conference, Hall said he felt “very
much encouraged” about prospects the Chief Executive will run
re-election.
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COLD WEATHER QUEEN Meredith Cro
martie is showing real strength of character in
this picture. To satisfy phtographers, she posed
on her porch in yesterday’s icy weather for the
kind of bare shoulder picture that should only be
THE BIG PARADE IS FRIDAY AT 6
Santa Has Rival-Pretty Girl
By TED CRAIL
Record Staff Writer
Santa Claus will have to
watch himself if he wants
to remain the center of at
tention in Friday’s big
Christmas parade in Dunn.
To lead the parade, the retail
merchants’ association has appoint
ed a slender and sparkling Dunn
High School junior and dubbed her
j “Miss Merrjt Christmas.”
She will reign through the hoi'-
1 day season.
i The selection is ’Meredith Crom
j artie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Cromartie of 404 North
Orange Street in Dunn. Somewhat
■overwhelmed by being chosen —and
by the thirty or forty flashbulbs
i which were poped around her yes
terday»-Meredith said throatily, "I
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made in summer. Meredith had reason to be co
operative, though. She has been named “Miss
Merry Christmas,” to reign over the Christmas
parade, and that, as she says, has numbed her
■to any of the usual pains like chilly weather.
Abortions Made
Legal In Russia
MOSCOW (IP) Russia legalized abortions in state
medical institutions today in an apparent attempt to
make planned parenthood more desirable.
The decision reversed long-stand
ing Soviet policy on the subject.
\ Abortion was legalized in a de
cree by the Supreme Soviet repeal
ing the anti-abortion iaw of 1936.
It was the latest in a series of
measures enacted since the death
of Josef Stalin reversing earlier
policies and liberalizing the Soviet
penai code.
Russia gave two reasons for
making abortions in state medical
institutions legal.
One reason, it said, is that either
married or unmarried women are
entitled to planned parenthood
Bir h control has always been le
gal.
Secondly, and most important,
was the realistic consideration that
the widespread illegal abortions
which have been performed since
1936 have seriouslv rnnnv
women’s health ar.d caused i; an:
deaths. ,
Today's action in effect restored
the principle of “voluntary mother
hood" which was enunciated in the
eariy years after the revolution
and rejected in 1936.
The ban on abortions was one
of a number of measures adopted
which were designed to strengthen
the family and increase the birth
rate. Free and easy divorces were
later made impossible, common
law marriages were abolished and
liberal’ bonuses were offered to
prolific mothers.
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After the war, in spite of severe
housing shortages and difficult
economic conditions, large families
were still’ encouraged and the
government subsidized unwed mo
thers.
IKE FEELING GOOD
GETTYSBURG W President
Eiseshower, feeling “very well in
deed," inspected a new gift tractor
today and said: “I think I’ll ask
my doctor how soon I can get on
that thing.”
CONGRESSMAN CARLYLE TO ATTEND
Doctors To Fete
Solons, Officials
Congressman F. ErteJ Carlyle of Lumberton, Hath
nett’s representative in the State legislature, member*
of the county board of commissioners and various othetf
county officials will be special guests of the Harnett
County Medical Society at a supper meeting Monday
night. ]
i PART OF PROGRAM
Plans for the meeting, to be held
at 6:30 o’clock at the Parker Cabin
on Little River, four miles south
of Erwin, were announced here to
day by Dr. W. W. Stanfield of
Dunn, president of the association.
NO. 257
Six Feet Os
Snow Falls
In Some Areas
By UNITED PRESS
Heavy snows joined forces
today with the worst cold
wave of the season.
Northern Michigan and western
New York state were covered by
up to six feet of snow, sufo-tfreezing
temperatures drove as far south as
Florida, and vicious weather was
blamed for at deast 39 deaths
across the nation.
Heart attacks or ’raffle accidents
caused toy the wintry blasts ac
counted for 14 deaths. And 19 per
sons died in fires, most of them
caused by overheated stoves. In
addition, six junior college students
were killed when their car smash
ed into the side of a speeding train
in a dense fog near Hanford,
Calif.
There were at feast five dead at
Buffalo, N. Y„ where the biggest
one-day November snowstorm in
the cityb history brought the com
murtity’s life practically to a halt
yesterday.
SUBURBS GET FOUR FEET
School's wpre closed and practi
cally all factories had to shut
down. The snow was officiary
measured at 19.9 inches, but same
suburbs reported four feet and
hundreds of motorists wire ma
rooned in drift-stalled cars.
Drifts six feet deep were report
ed in Michigan’s upper peninsula
and the City of Kalamazoo was
*3Mhr£d under a 14-inch snowfall.
The storm gave 75.000 school chil
dren to southwest. Michigan a va
*Hnibn and was blamed YtS/ at least
trree deaths.
In such mintry cities as Inter
national Fails, Minn., and Iron
wood. Mich., meanwhile, the snow
had long ceased to be a novelty
International Fails has had snow
fails for 32 straight days, while
there were 66 inches of snow on
the ground at Ironwood.
Radioactive snow, believed con
taminated by a recent Russian
hydrogen bomb explosion, fell on
Ottaw’a, Canada, and up to one
inch of new snow was reported as
far south as Flat Top in southern
West Virginia.
The immense Arctic air mass
was centered over the Dakotas and
Nebraska, driving the temperature
to 17 below zero at Bismarck, N.
D.. and stretching from the Rock
ies *o the Atlantic Seaboard and
the Gulf Coast.
The crisp weather brought frost
to Florida citrus crops and chased
bathers from Miami beaches.
At New York, where a seasonal
low of 16.8 degrees was recorded;
about 1.200 persons called the city
health department with complaints
their landlords were too stingy
with the heat. More than 600 rook
ie policemen also had complaint*.
They haven’t been issued overcoat*
yet and so they had to be tempor
arily assigned to patrol car duty.
UP TO SEVEN CENTS
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (TP)-—The
Johnstown Tribune Democrat
is raising the price of its news
papers to seven cents a copy ef
fective Dec. 1.
Publisher Walter W. Krebs said
the two-cent increase is due to
"higher costs.”
I Invitation of the lawmaker* aryj
i other officials is to keeping with
i the society’s public relations pro*
gram Inaugurated several months
' ago. Last month, the doctors had
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