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* Leather* Occasional rain and rather cold Friday with freeing rain anitAJbei likely In the we»t and north, Sat urday partly dowdy and cofc. VOLUME 5 BIG CROWD HEBE OR PARADE r | . ———————f»- ■ Tj * , s - 4T i v1 H'i ■ I* • jtt -4X |w;\ * || ||m Hp H£ GOODWILL AMBASSADOR - Jack Finch (wea here) who is riding herd on the reindeer which will be e«te of the features of today's Christ mas parade has been in the float and decorating business since the aye of I*. He's now M. Jack' himself dedg ned the Mother Goose Floats such Haiiett Sales 2 9 Million ■■■■■■■ ■' ■ ■ iiOkst— trntmm in n i i. nmmmmmrnm JtrinqA ' By HOOVES ADAMS "> • > LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS E. H. Bost of Erwin, retired man ager of Erwin Mill, will miss the company’s 25-Yenr-Club banquet this year for the first time sincp it was formed. The pomilar of ficial is a Datient in nuke Hospital a<t Durham and Is facng a lon* period of hospitalization Jean Dickev is wearing a nrettv diamond on her business finger and making plans for a trip down the aisle to 6ay “I do" next spring. . . The Broadway stage hit. ‘‘Bom Yester day.” made stage history when its heroine, Billie Dawn, turned to .the leading man and asked, an invit ing voice that left no doubt about what she meant, “Are you one of these talkers or would you be in terested in a little action?”. . . . What a story, what a play, what a gal! Dunn’s Little Theatre Players are looking for the girl that can DELIVER that line convincingly Coffee-klatchlng with Ted and Lee Crall last night, the question came up again: Who will be Billie Dawn n the Dunn play? .Mrs. Crall, director of the group who is also doing the casting, says a number of local glamour gals are being con (Continued On Page Two) Cases Disposed Os in County Court A long docket of oases was tried on ThuiMlay in Harnett Recorder’s Court where Judge M. O. Lee and Solicitor Nelli Ross were back on their Jobs following acquittal of the solicitor in superior court Monday of charges of misconduct in public office. Disposition of ten cases heard Thursday were as follows: Billy Baker, Holly Springs, guilty of driving drunk, fine of SIOO and costs: A. B. Taylor, 30, Negro of Lil dngton, Route 3, charged with as TELEPHONES 3117 - Slit *■* Three Little Pigs and The Cow Jumped Cher the Moon which will be an important fea ture of today’s parade. A native of Fort Lauder dale, Florida, Finch says he is known there as the “Goodwill Ambassador.” All the floats are made to his own factory. Retail sales in 1864 of 378 stores • in Harnett County totaled $39,867,- .000 aodojfing to preliminary 1854 Census of Business figure an- TS4B* hr IT stores of $20,816,000. Stores with payroll in 1954 number 233, had 1369 paid employees in November 1954, reported payroll of $2,777,000, and accounted for sales of $26,905,- 000. Proprietors of unincorporated bosinesses number 362. The number of stores and their 1964 sales, grouped by major kinds of busi ness, were: Pood .«tores: v 499, $5,131,000. Eating, drinking places: 26, $807,000. General merchandise group: 41, $3,474,000. Continued on Page Flea Board Lifts Lot Prices I At Cemetery The city council acted on a sug gestion of Dunn’s City Council last night and boosted the price of lots ; In Memorial Cemetery. ! Oly out -of - dty buyers are af fected. Formerly Greenwood Cem , etery 8 - grave lots were priced at , S3OO for 20 -by- 20 feet. The same size lot in Memorial Cemetery was , only S4OO to those from out Os i Dunn. Uzzle suggested the disparity was not logical, and suggested that the (Continued on Page Fire) sault on Mattie Ruth MteMillan, had his case nol pressed. The case of George Harold Wat son, Sanford, charged with viola tion of the prohibition iaw by the ' operation of a vat etili was nol 1 pressed with leave. Rural Police man Waiker O'Quinn signed the I warrant against Watson on infor mation and beief. Henry F. McKetthan, Linden, 1 Route 1, paid costs for public drunkenness. Mackey Gregory, Jr.. 31, Ft (OsattaoMi «a Pag* Twe) <gh# fatt Minister Says Physical Is Not Evil LONDON <OT—A prominent cler gyman today denounced the “wor ship of virginity” is Britain’s de base on pre-marital sffltual behav or. The Rev. Canon L. John Colitis of St. Paulis Cathedral deplored that “much of what we call Chris tian morality isn’t Christian at all.” He made the statement in an in terview with The London Daily Mirror. "Many centuries ago.” he said, “tKfhruly ChrifC-Mm ideas got mix ed up with—and were spoiled by —an unnatural theory that all phvsWi things are evil. “Thus there has been the wrong worship of virginity and the ob session that the physical expression of. love is immoral,” the church leader said. *, ’However, he argued against the “new morality” which some Bri tish newspaper claim is spread ing from Sweden to Britain and America. ' , ; “Th*t:a sex on a free-for-all basis,” he said. “And sex on such a., basis milst lead to a general weakening of the social structure.” Further controversy was raised by the statement of novelist Mar gharita Laskie that premarital sex ual relations are- all right If the couple plans to marry. FOURTH QUAD DIES ALMA, Ga. P The fourth Nelson quadruplet died early to day. The entire staff at Bacon County Hospital had fought since the multiple births Tuesday to keep alive the babies of a tenant farm couple Mr. and Mrs. E. VV. Nelson. Another woy to stop being such • big tool Js to go en e doL DUNN, N. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. jDECEMBER >. 1055 Others fined ih Dunn Court Ninety-day sentence., suspended on payment of SIBB has been levied on Moody T/Strlfci#-, land, Rt. 3. Durin. on a charge of drunk driving. Strickland was represented m Dunn Recorder's Court y&tercav, hr Attorney Duncan C. Wlsyn, who waived his cliert"e appearance in' court. Judge H. Paul Strickland, presiding, further recommended that Strickland’s license be revoked for 12 months. Found not guilty of possession was Tessie Shirley Smith of Rt ,4. Fayetteville. Tesai*"' was appealed Nov. 26, and charged with Miss ion of nob-tax whiskey sriGyKcfr.e •taxpaid on which the seat tufla been broken. t’ T Others who appeared otHbounUji of possession were Lacey Lucas, fined $25 and oosts with 60-day sentence suspended; and' Ollie Thomas Farrell $25 and costs, 60 days suspended. D. S. Leo Keeton, charged with ; possession, was found not guilty of possession, guilty of drunkenness, and fined $5 and costs for the latter with 30 days on the roads Upend ed. Delbert Maynard. Dunn, Rt. 4; pled not guilty to a charge of as sault with a deadly weapon. He war, convicted and ordered confined to jail for 90 days, sentenced suspend ed on payment of S2O fine arid costs and on condition that he pay $7 50 for "use and benefit” of Louis Baer for damage to his house. Allegedly Maynard struck Annd ora Whtehead abou t the face an dr] bgkjLStfh his hand and pointed aj Jtfie at fier. The judge ordered thajj fe*Jeeveiivnndora albr£. x, actkfvlft me case’ Aid ridge Parrish, accused of abandoning his wife and twe minor children without providing adequate support. A year’s sentence on the reads was suspended on (Continued On Page Two) Roundup CAKE SALE: There will be a cake sale Saturday morning at Thomas Walgreen Drug Store here. The cake sale is sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of Lee’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church. MUSICAL VARIETIES Mrs. Reta Whittenton announces the schedule for her “Musical Varie ties” radio program for next week: Monday Mrs. Whittenton will give an organ program: Tuesday— Roger Stanley will be the vocalist; (Continued on Page Five) I t L > sßKf j m c / m ft l| I / hSsNpil M 3 if I _ ®KTTNGUIBHED NAVY OFFHikiB^HfeRR ton to take over his neu iluties. Bryan served nn i*r« '' C * r ”| i r ** R. N. Snoot, assistant chief of Na- tier him in 1919-50. Admiral Snoot has a dis vai Operationse for Personnel and one of the top tingtuxhed service record, commanded a sqnad admlnistrative officers of the Navy, was in Dunn ron of destrovers during the war, and is regarded today visiting Robert C. Bryan. Dunn attorney as one of the up-and-coming Naval officers. Left and Annapolis graduate. Admiral Soot has Just to right are: Mr. Bryan, Mrs. Snoot, Mrs. Brvan i completed a tour of duty as Chief of the Mine ana the Admiral. (Daily Record Photo.) Forces in the Pacific and is enroute to Washing- ■ ‘■C: A .. jfWT y ~ r ~~ r ' — r '"~~ y- r ■ - - M 4- : 0 JPPt l ftf- j fig FREEDOM IOK RlTA—Croon- j jscr Dick Haymes has cleared the 4aF Sway for divorce action agansf I lun.by beautfut red-headed Rita ?H|kaywortli, shown here He will Mot contest the divorce charge extreme mental cruelty _ 1 tour! Shifts v ; Sack, Forth » Tlie Harnett Recorder's Court was . Jkhifthig between the Town Hall; ftnd the courthouse auditorium this! (yeek with much climbing of stars! Lby officials, witnesses and specta- 1 3 tors. j Tuesday mominsr Judge If. o. ■ Lee and Solicitor Neill Ross were I back on their jobs following Ross' ILacqOittal in superior-' court of) WpMhres gs misponiuot* in nubß? 1 office. Cour) 6pen°d gudf-" • torium in the Town Hall where county commissioners recently add ed new furniture and new ga heaters, but one of the latter wa not working properlv. so the couri recessed court officials said to the better heated courthouse Clerk Kvle Harrington and his assistant Mrs. Pearl W. Stone carted over ccurt records from their new office ; in the t'wn hall to the courthouse 1 and back. Came Thursday and court began in the courthouse because “more room was needed”, was the explan ation offered reporters. Some com ment was heard that the Town Hall auditorium would be used only when there was a conflict, with the superior court. The new site wa set up with this difficulty in mir.d. When the Recorder's Court, was set up as a separate court the lav; requires it to meet twice weekly. Anyway, the clerk of reeorder's court office is remaning in the Town Hall and whatever records move over to the courthouse must be moved back to the office. iu-ith Ready r a ■ i y r p ,«4 rrgif &v- i #-a!l3 i* di if * ? k § 0 dock At six p.m. tonight, Dunn streets will be lined with chil dren, out to see Santa on one ! oi liis visits from the North Pole. In the event of a hard, driving rain today, the parade will be held Saturday morning at 10:33 instead An a!Tay of Mother Goose floatv ‘her floats from Dunn and else- . | where, a setting far Meredith Cro , n nrib who is ''Miss Merry Christ ! mas.” and other striking parade I items are planned. j Some children, riding bikes in the b'ke-decoration contest, will probably be too busy to see Santa C irine the parade. But they can see him as the Tine conv»nes. S to be in the : i -ade sh <mtti be at tJi'B Armory by ; 5:30 p, m.Tit the latest. The parade ; will start promptly at six. HARNETT niGn B AND Charles Hildreth, chairman of I the parade for the retail merchants ; association which is sponsoring it., ; said the Harnett High band will ! play and there will be Christmas | music from a public address. i “ifie Dunn band would | ha*” been in the parade, too.” said i Hildreth, “but when we changed the hour to si*- we interfered with ether they have.” ■ m children can look forw h% mie*hing pretty fabulous tOF HAf) r will be some what da'.,fe- in<^v gets un \*m?**, JHIW t!"lfLsa artfully de signed with a never-land logic of their own, more magical than ever Hildreth warned again that this magic is primarily for the kds, and that parents should take a back seat and stay out of the front lines, so small heads on short legs can see what’s going on. Grand Champ Sfeer Brings sls A Pound CHICAGO IP—Julius. grand champion s eer of the 1955 Inter national Livestock Exposition, sold today for sls a pound. At Julius’ unofficial weight of 980 pounds, the sale would have brought his 16-year-old owner, Nancy Turner of Champaign, 111., about $14,700. i-The Record Is Firs* 4 IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS ... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY v f^^raTOcHSTOMliia DANCING SPUDS — Odd-shaped potatoes seem to dance, to the amazement of Antone M. Almeida, who grew them at Fairhaven, Mass. The spuds look a little like pudgy pigs, ducks, sea lions and what have you. XT 11 GM Chief Denies Unfair Practices WASHINGTON <tP) Harlow H. Curtice denied today that General Motors Corporation has resorted to unfair or questionable business practices to become the world’s largest Industrial * . - u iThe president of GM toldJßtoale than 'the gTant auto firm’s success is due largely to superior management making the most of the nation’s tremendous economic growth in the past 35 years. “I know of no management or ganization that has a higher stan dard of business ethics, a greater sense of public responsibility or a more genuine regard for the equi ties of the various groups with which he have contact custom- I ers, employes, suppliers, dealers [ and shareholders,” Curtice said in | a 97-page statement prepared for presentation to the Senate mono ! poi'v subcommittee. For the past four wrecks, the sub committee has been making a I “case studv” of General Motors to , I determine its effect on the nation's j economy. Most of the previous testimony •! has been unfavorable to GM. Wit -11 nesses have charged the giant con j cem used unfair or questionable practices to dominate allied fields, as well' a» the auto Industry. A parade of disfranchised deal ers charged that General Motors had tossed them aside because they didn’t sell enough cars to sa tisfy Curtice and other tap GM of ficials. One dealer, Lee C. Anderson of Lake Orion. Mich., testified that Curtice called him “a Red” be cause of his vigorous orprsitlon to a GM policy of selling autos at cost price to foremen and some (Continued on Page Two) Safe-Driving Day Proves Not So Safe By UNITED PRESS Safety experts expressed keen disappointment today because the nation apparently failed to heed the Safe Driving Day campaign. A United Pre;s count listed 68 persons killed in traffic during the 24-haur period which ended at mid night last night. Two weeks ago, when a sample count was taken on an ordinary Thursday, 69 persons were killed. On S-D Day last year, 51 died. I Adm H. B. Miller, director of j the President’s committee for traf * sic safety termed the results "dis - L ■ -- Julie Harris Cut In Act ; Show Goes On NEW YORK Actress Julie Harris, who plays Joan of Arc in “The Lark,” finished out her per formance at the Longacre Theatre last night with blood trickling down her chin from a deep cut on her lip. She won a roaring ovation from the audience. Julie had struck her lip on a stool during a regular fall she takes in the second act. The curtain was lowered for 10 minutes while a doctor tried to stem the flow’ of blood. Nurse Aided In Prison Escape KINGSPORT, Term. (IP)— A 45- year-old practical nurse today fac es criminal court trial after admit ting a handsome Alabama fugitive charged her into providing hack saws used in a mass jailbreak. Mrs. Eugenia Dykes, mother of three children, pleaded' guilty to a charge of assisting husky Ralph Cozziilnb and seven other prisoners escape Oct. 20 from the Sullivan Coun-y jail at nearby Blountville. A ninth man was recaptured im mediately by officers. appointing." He said In a prepared ! statement: “Disappointing as the S-D Day toll was, we must not lose sight of the fact that 10 days still remain of the 21-day period that consti tutes the S-D Day campaign. --- “It is our hope that th- impact of S-D Day on the public will be reflected in the 21-day toll when the three-week period ends Dec. 11. (Continued on Page five) NO. 259
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