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* WEATHER * Sunny and a little wanner Thursday. Friday increasing cloud ine .ss and slightly wanner wi h a chance so occasional light rain. VOLUME 5 SANTA STARS IN DUMN PARADE FRIDAY "*'£** ' v < -M vki ? % - 9 S-; 9 ,Mnsf § SBBR. ” 9 Jhi, 1 4.-;/, v - '*-’*> H 1 a 9 "?Mk; 9' Jh , EL Tr%Rfi-ni in >• s * M v-t^|_, MR. AND MRS. JAMES A. POOLE Plenty Os Reasons For Those Proud Smiles AFTER YEARS AS FEDERAL TAX AGENT James A . Poole Retiring With Government's Praise Jh&M JjJtiLq JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS THE FBI TELEPHONES; BUT IT WAS GOOD NEWS Yesterday afternoon about four o’clock, our telephone rang and the switchboard operator at the other end of the line asked our identity and then instructed. “Hold on, please, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Charlotte Is call ing YOU.” At first, we figured It was some friend playing a joke on us. We are blessed (or plagued) by a oouple of friends who are always calling us from far-off places just for the fun of it. They’ve got plenty of money and are just as likely to call from London as from Califor nia. Once she phoned from Bang kok, Thailand. (Continued On Page Two) HhLo Supermarket Plans Big Opening Lillington’s newest grocery store has the catchy name of Hi-Lo Supermarket. • This four letter word ptands for high quality and low price reports owner-manager David O. Mar in, who is inviting the public to come and see that bis store has the right name. Grand opening of the grocery will be held Friday and Saturday at the new store which already is open for business on Lining ton’s Main Street, opposite the Town ' Hall and adjoining the Islington Furniture Company. The building is one which formerly housed the Firestone store and is the property «f Mia #, T. Northern, TELEPHONES 8117 • 8118 James A. (Jim) Poole of Dunn, the State’s oldest fed eral income tax officer in years of service and head of the Dunn and Fayetteville U. S. tax offices, retired from his official duties yesterday after 37 years of continuous serv ice. High officials of the U. S. Inter nal Revenue Service from various sections of the State made a special trip to Dunn to honor the veteran revenue avert and left with him several hlghlv-prived momentos ond testimonials of his lone and faithful service to his government. Amo"® them are: The XT R Treasures coveted Al bert Gallatin Award for outstand ing and meritorious service, person al siened bv Secretary of the Treasurv George Humohrev. A letter of commendation and nrnise from E. C. Palmer of At lanta Oa. regional Commissioner of Revenue In charge of the South ern States and the Republican of Panama. Another letter of commendation for his services from P. K. Sanders of Greensboro District Director for North Carolina and a close person al friend of Mr. Poole. PRESENTED GOLD WATCH Also a handsome gold Hamilton watch and a gold chain of 37 links (one for each year of service) pre sented to Mr. PoCle by Weldon (Continued On Page Two) GIFTS AND PRIZES ! Ad day Friday and Saturday there will be free gifts for the kid dies. Other visitors are Invited to register the some two days for an array of attractive prises. Every person who goes into the new store Friday and Saturday also may reg ister for the grand prize which wili be drawn Saturday at 8 p. m. Lillington’s first supermarket represents a new business, but gro cery business is not new to Martin who has had seven years exper ience in food selling, with two years at special training In meat (Conttaned on Page Two) 3to Jtaftr; Mtmtd- Youths Ignore S-D Day, Race To Death DARLINGTON, S. C. <W Three and a half hours before national Safe Driving Day began at mid night, two carloads of thrill-seek ing teenagers pried bars from a barricade on famed Darlington In ternational Raceway and began racing around the track. They didn’t know track officials had dug a 24 - foot wide ditch, 15 feet deep, across the track for in stallation of a tunnel. One of the racers was killed and four were injured when the cars roared into the hazard. State Highway Patrol Cpl. C. H. Butler Jr. said one automobile (Continued on Page Five) ! I 1 ■ a-- w ;r - 9R|t| Bj|& JH - ; <1,,, IBHIBiP ft -im jMI H i i '■ ’'M§' JH MOTHER GOOSE PAGEANTRY Ten strik- Above is the Humpty Dnmpty float with Jack lng floats, built around Mother Goose themes, will and Jill on wall at rear which was seen in M part of Dunn’s Christmas parade tomorrow. Durham’s Santa Claus parade. DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON; DEC EMBER 1. 1955 Gov. Hodges Makes Report To The People RALEIGH, N. C, OP! Gov. Luther H. Hodges promised last night that a special ses sion of the Legislature will be called to deal with school segregation problem if his present program “should re sult in conditions not accept able to the state.’’ For the present, Hodges said he and legislative leaders have agreed that “no additional legislation is needed.” He said he remains con vinced that his “voluntary segre gation” plan, proposed in a speech Aug. 8. “is the best approach to the problem.'’ Hodges =aid there have be.p “loud protestations” from the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People and “un favorable reactions” from certain Negro groups, but he said “as time passes” Negroes will' realize “that their real friends are the white people of North Carolina, including the governor.” In a televised-broadcast state wide “renort to the people” Hodges listed the school segre"ation issue among a number of “difficult prob lems” faced during his first year as chief His proposal that “in Ute interest of keeping our public schools, the different races of their own free choice; attend their own schools, has been endorsed by “prominent colored leaders.” These leaders, he said, have had to remain anonymous “because thev do not wish to be made thq, objects of pressure from the pro fessional agitators.” He said the Negroes "are work ing for the program and I believe their number will grow.” He said the .segregation oroblem is “re ceiving constant attention, and we are cosvinced that wisdom dictates it be heart with a step at a time as conditions develop.” The governor remained that if a special session is called “before any basic change could be made in our school system, a state consti* (Continued on Page Five) Record Roundup PLAYS TO BE PRESENTED— The Linden school teachers will present two one-act plays in the Linden School auditorium, Friday evening, December 2, at 7:30 o’clock. The plays are: “Just What They Wanted"—a Christmas com edy and "A Sign Unto You." The patrons and public are in vited. The ticke’s are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. (Continued On Page Four) M NORTH POLE Hi Kid^ is almost here and we’re busy as bees up here mjMng toys and getting ready to go to see you on ChristnSe Eve'. It’swlso time for you to write to me and tell me just what y® want. I’ve got loads and loads of toys and oth er thin®, but you have to write and let me know what you want. Just write to me like this; SANTA CLAUS Care Os THE DAILY RECORD DUNN, N. C. Last year, hundreds of you wrote to rue in care of The Dailv Record and I tried to fill!,your orders as best I be late. Wrfte today and The Daily Rec ord will publish your letters'for yUtl. SANTA CLAUS P. S. I’m going to be in Dunn for the Christmas parade Friday afternoon at six o’clock. See you then. DUNN POLICE AID FBI IN FEDERAL CASE Negro Says Parolee Kidnapped Him Twenty-five-yearl-old John Joseph Mitchell, who has already been up for robbery, has passed through the hands of several police departments including Dunn’s since night before last and is now in custody of the FBI. Mitcheil is charged with kidnap ping Alvertus Lowery of Washing ton. D C., a 45-year-old negro who works in the Pentagon by day and is a saxaphone player in a night club at night.,, Rav Abbaticchio, chief of the FBI for North and South Carolina, reported that a complaint was filed at 4 p. m. Wednesday before U. S. Commissioner T. L. Hon at Fay ! etteville. Mitchell was bound over ito the March term of Federal Court under SIO,OOO bond. BROKE FEDERAL LAW It was charged that he did “un i lawfully and willfully seize, abduct. ! kidnap and carry away by threat jof a firearm, to-wit a pis 01, the j person of Alvertus Lowery. 44. at i (Continued on Page Two) Woman Wont Convict Him, Hangs Jury Defense lawyers are commonly of the opinion that a woman will con vict a man a lot quicker than men will but it didn’t work out that way in court here yesterday Solicitor J Shep Bryan reports that five minutes after the jury re tired on the case of L H Tew, charged with driving under the in fluence of intoxicatng beverages, the count was five to six for con viction. It never, changed. Members of the hung jury were J. R. Smith, J. A. Green. Milford F Gainey, J. Edgar Black, Jr., A. N. Hudson and Mrs. Myrtle T. Lee Mrs. Lee, a resident of Dunn, Rt. 2, was reported bv the five male members as the onlv one who "re fused to have anything to do with the guilty verdict.” The jury stayed out an hour and a half before Judge H. Paul Strick land declared a mistrial. Tew will be tried again. CAUDLF »»w*TEP ST. LOUIS (W—Two former of ficials of the Truman adminis tration and an attorney were name dtoday in a 24-count in dictment charging conspiracy bribery and perjury- Named as defendants were Mat they J. Connelly, former White House appointment secretary; T. Lamar Caudle, head of the Jus tice Department’s tax division until he was fired by President Truman in 1951, and Harry L Schwimmer, a Kansas City attor ney The Record Is Firs* * IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Beautiful Floats, Other Attractions At Holiday Opening Youngsters are vibrating like so many tenor saxo phones as the time draws near for Dunn’s big Christmas parade, marking the formal opening of the holiday festiv ities. Zero hour is 6 p. m. tomorrow night. That’s when Santa comes. By all reports, San/.a has been ignoring the campaign against fat ness, and will' appear In Dunn with all his fabled rotundity, his great beard, ahd his enormously con vivial spirits still intact. Santa will ride an enormous float and give out candy to boys and girls who come to see him. Sharing the spo. light in the pa rade will be a group of Mother Goose floats and Dunn's own “Miss Merry Christmas,” Meredith Cro , martie. Charles Hildreth, chairman of the parade which is sponsored by the Retail Merchants Association, has asked that all parade partici pants be art. the Armory by 5:30 at the very latest. This definitely includes young sters who plan to ride their deco rarted bicycles and compete for prizes. EVERYBODY’LL BE THERE The whole town is expected to adjourn to Broad Street fort .'the parade. Expecting, this „ rush,\ Hil dreth has requested that pafwrt* take a back seat to their children and not push into the front lines where they will block the view of youngsters who will have enough to do seeing around each other. Besides the Mother Goose floats and Santa Claus, many local floats will be in the parade. The Harnett High band will play. The parade will be one off the longest planned, best organized, greatest in length and greatest in sheer thrill ever to appear in the Christmas season. THIRD QUAD DIES ALMA, Ga. (IP) The third mem ber of quadruplets born to a ten ant farm wife here Tuesday died early today and concern was ex pressed for the remaining baby, a girl. Edmonds Is New Ford Sales Manager Harry Edmonds, new sales manager for Auto Sales and Service, hasn’t moved himself and family in from Fayetteville yet but that will come just as soon as he finds a house here. . At least one member of the family he moves here will be as fresh as the Fords and Mercuries which Auto Sales sells. Tiny Beverly is only two months old. Edmonds and his wife Ix>is have two older children Harry. Jr„ (the Third) and Deborah. Harry is five and Deborah two. Appointment of Mr. Edmonds to the post was announced today by President Henry H. Sandlin. An auto salesman for twelve all told, Edmonds said he ■ I fTJJjL irMflr — * XHa- ISW ■ rB HARRY EDMONDS Ford, Mercury His Line HARVEST SIGHT —Wearing a “gown” of lettuce leaves, 1955’s “Lettuce Queen of Phoenix, Ariz., and the Valley of the Sun” helps during har vest of the vegetable in Phoenix. She’s Betty Berkenstein, 23. School Board Delays Meeting The county board off education, which usually meets on the first Monday, has delayed its meeting until Dec. 16 when bids will be opened on three new school plants. These projects, which will be the first to be financed by the two million dollar bond money voted Continued on Page Five started in Williamston in 1939. Drafted into the Army, he switched into the Air Force and became an instructor in map reading. He was a master sergeant, served overseas in ’43, ’44, ’49 and ’SO. De spite service experiences, he con siders auto selling an exciting game, works at it from eight in the morn ing until nine at night, seven days a week. “I think Dunn is a great place," he said. He has been at the new Job for three weeks. NO. 258
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