* WEATHER + Partly cloudy this afternoon, to night and Thursday. Cloud again tonight but slightly warmer today and Thursday. Highest 38-45; low tonight in 20s. VOLUME e CONTRACTS LET AT 3 SCHOOLS I _ | ! JOHNSON COTTON COMPANY HOLDS CHRISTMAS EVENT Employee* of Johnson Cotton Company held a gala Christmas party last night at Johnson's Restaurant In Dunn. Pictured left to right are: Nathan M. Johnson, Sr., ex ecu STOCK TO GO ON SALE FOR FIRST TIME Ford's Finances Revealed Today JhsM JjJtib JkinqA By HOOVES ADAMS MINK, SIOO BILLS, POP AND STAG NIGHT GALS 3 WeVe keen saying all along that fcou, cane byy lust »boUt anything ’you Want, both legal and Illegal. In the Town of Dunn One local storo. Pope’s Deoartment Store, now has real mink for sale . . Third has a beautiful selection of iriliN «enrfs . 1 Just the thing the little ladv would love. The aveeaee nersou would be sur prised to know the large number of women who own mink coats In this little town. And it might also surnris* vou to know that per cent of the neople. not only her** hut everywhere, can’t tell the difference between real mink and dved muskrat when thev see It . Even those who own the genuine . . . The First Citizens Bank has susf gotten in a whopnlng hi® ship ment of criso new *IOO bills for those who wish to give monev for Christmas. . . The hank will ever, give vou a nretty Christmas gif* envelooe for the monev and at no ebarve. . We ran into Alfred (Pon) Blalock in the First Citi zens vesterdav mernine and he wis* taking out enough of those *IOO bills to choke Ringling Brother:’ biggest elephant He must have had at least *lO 000 worth And he stuck ’em In. his pocket, as eye' lessly as we would pocket a #o ifkMittnued on P*re T**l 'that BRA CONTEST MONEY DOESN'T COME, SO He's Dreaming Os A Cheap Christmas By TED CRAM. for sheer conniving overstatement, I don’t suppose anything would beat the entry my wife and I work ed out for the SIO,OOO Maiden Form bra contest I was kind of expect ing the ten grand to come rolling in soon enough to apply on our Christmas shopping. It would almost cover it. Mothlng has happened. Other our entry got lost in the mall, or a spy has told the Maiden Form people that while we were deep in the creation of tributes to their TELEPHONES 31p7-311*8 tive vice president and founder of the company; Mrs. Johnson; President Nathan M. Johnson, Jr.,' who served as master of ceremonies, and Attorney Everette L Doffermyre. Approximately 158 were present. (Daily Record Photo.) WASHINGTON OP) The Ford Motor Company an nounced today it plans to offer 10,2p0,000 shares of its cpmmon stock for public sale the first such pub lic offering in its 5R - year history. Tills would be the largest cor porate offering in hissary. Ae regis tration statement filed (with the Securities and Exchange Commis sion indicated that the common stock wili toe offered to he public at about *75 a share. The actual price will he an nounced before the securities are put on sale next month. The registration statement re vealed puhliclv for the first time in the firm’s hiriotv the Ford fin ancial status. It shewed that from 1946 through Beot. 30. 1955. Ford s net profits totaled *1.536.800.000. For ; the nifte veer* 1946 'hroueh 1954 j Ford’s net earnings were *ls24'fiOO 000. This comm res with *4 776.000 000 by Its chief rival. General Motors, and *688.000.000 by Cb-vsier during the same period. The oommnv reported its total assets at *2.483.010.560 FINANCIAL DETAILS A 38-page prospectus also re vealed: 1. Rales during the first nine months erf this year totaled *4,- 047 600 000. 2. Consolidated net income for the first nine months of this year was *312500.000. 3. Total capital and earnings re tained in the business as of !a«t 4. The company plans to intro duce a new line of passenger cars. 5 The cmrvonuv hßd* factory sales , of 1.99*. 000 rwesenger cars and trucks during 1964. This repre sented 302 per cent of the indus try's total safes. 6. Factory sales of nassenser cars and trucks for the first, nine months this vear totaled 1901.000 or 27.5 per cent of the industry’s total factory safes: i (Continued <*■ fw Tw»> i . . t-. t bra. bee looked up arid said, "All it is is a nasty old slhjg.” We face Christmas, like every body else, in a state of near finan cial collapse. England has been in the same condition for years, but she has Churchill to sustain her. whereas we aren’t even friendly with a banker. It occurred to me that other people might be Interested in my advice on what yttu do about Christ mas when fflu ean*t Afford to do anything except, maybe, pretend (Osutinaed * Page Two) Hhe $ ailtt %emrd Nativity Tableau On Baptist Lawn Live sheep, a cow and a horse will have parts, along with 26 mem bers of the congregation, in the First Baptist Church’s presentation of an outdoor tableau called the “Living Nativity " The tableau, with three complete ‘ scenes based on the New Testa ment, will be presented twice night ly, starting tomorrow and continu ing through Christmas Eve. Alice Reavis, educational direct or of the church who has been in charge of plans for the ’’Living Nativity.” said that 13 members of the church appear in the tableau, and must stand still in the night air for 45 minutes. After three-quarters ol an hour, the second shift l3 other Bap tists take their places. The scenes remain the same the Birth of Christ, the Announcement to the Shepherds by the Angels, and the Appearance of the Wise Men Be fore Herod. It will be nippy, said Miss Rea vis, but, ‘‘Costumes are large en ough so everyone can wear plenty of clothing underneath to keep warm.” The “Living Nativity" scenes will start at 7:30 p. m. Behind-the-scenes work has been done on the tableau by Ralph Max well, George Britton. A. J. West brook. Eugene Hodges. Miss Mary Lee Frink. Tommy Godwin, and Miss Grace Dare Maxwell. Rev. E. B. Russell and Mrs. W. L. Brannon have acted In an advisory capacity. Godwin Grocer Chorqed With Striking Wife Cumberland County oolic*» have arrested Cleo Moore for allegedly assaulting his wife and threaten ing her with a shotgun. The 38 - year -old grocery store operator of Route 1, Godwin, has been released under S3OO for ap pearance December 27 in county recorder's court. A warrant charg ed him with dragging his wife. Elene Moore, out of bed. striking her with a belt and his fits and kicking her, then pointing a shot gun at her. MR. THOMAS DIED Arthur Clarence Thomas. 87. died suddenly of a heart attack Monday night at his home on Sanford. Rt. 7. Mr. Thomas waa barn In Harnett County, eon of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas. DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1955 GIRL-MEET-BOY RIOT Six Dolls Takes 2Q HOUSTON, Tex. OP) —JK girls met some 200 boyS jin the Rice Institute canuws last night and it took 2sJg|p licemen who got the of it to separate th4m. The occasion was the annual girl-meet-boy riot, touched off fills year by a screaming bunch of Milby High School girl* ‘driving across the Rice campus yelling, ‘‘Gig ’em. Aggies!" They meant Texas A & M. That was all the Rice boya need ed. Somebody sent in a riot call to police at 10 p. m. and police, remembering last year and the year before, took off in 11 patrol cars, complete with teas-gas guns. When officers arrived, the stu dents had turned the girls' cars over on their sides, with the girls locked in them, and were letting the air out of the tires. Police weren’t able to dismount from the patrol cars before the mob of youths surrounded them, shaking and lifting them up and deflating the tires. Tire* on three cars were slashed with knives. Some of the youths were explod ing firecrackers and one, Patrol man R. H. Watson set off a tear gas grenade to extricate himself. Police finally rescued the six girls and s*jnt them home while Deanjof Students Guy T MCBride qutetra the TMijgrtnt youths. .Am* (UUS wwnWU* arid ho arrest? were made but Police Lt. Weldon Waycott said it was a "serious situation". “Luckily, none of us lost our Ibeads.” Vjaycott said. “But we were not going to let them hurt us. It could have been bad.” Tew Tried Again; Charged With Driving Drunk It was once more unta the breach today for Leals Herman Tew, who again goes before a Jury to try and jget a verdict on the charge against him at drunk driving. In late November, Tews case ended In a mistrial when the short Jury of five men and a woman couldn't agree. Hie men were all for conviction and the woman, Mrs. Myrtle T. Lee, was for acquittal. The new trial was still in progress in mid-aftemoop. Dunn Far Short On United Fund Headquarters for United Fund campaigns in the Car olinas has sent through their final report for 1955, and it shows that Dunn definitely stacks up against other communities who have sponsored the combined campaign as a lagger. Dunn whs repeated by headquarters as only 70 per cent complete on its campaign goal of $34,402. The total raised at the time tabula tion was made was $24,123. Alongside some other communities that looked pretty sorry. There was Granite Falls, 21 per cent above its quota. Os course its goal was only SISOO, and a collection of $1833 made it look in the percentage col umn. But Gastonia, with three times the quota set for Dunn, was well over the top. It tried for $04,024, succeeded in raising $103,426. Rock. Hill did even better than that. The goal of $90,979 was exceeded by 19 per cent for a total collection of $108,463. Canton. Chapel Hill, Elkin, Henderson, Laurinburg, Leaksville, Le noir. North Wilkes boro and Waynesville all had quotas set for them within a few thousand of the quota set for Dunn. Without exception, they did better than this city. Canton had 94 per cent of its quota, Chapel Hill 96. Elkin 110, Hen derson 83, Laurinburg 107, Leaksville 104. Lenoir 100, North Wilksboro 105, Waynesville 106. Although United Fund workers have thoroughly canvassed both res idential and business districts for donors, they have not been able to put Dunn's response up with the leaders. One of those who have been active in the campaign here remark ed, “It isn’t a failure to reach our quota that bothers us. Our purpose is running the campaign is not simply to make a showing against oth er towns, or to have something to brag about. •The unfortunate thing in our not making the goal is that the money we hoped to raise is money badly needed. The reason we to feed really embarrassed is because for every dime or dollar we are short, somebody or something is going to suffer. "Moat people have been willing to contribute to the campaign, and do their share. But nuwt people isn't enough. What we needed and what we still need is the ardent and practical support, right through the pocketbook, of everyone in this community. "After all the Fund will benefit everyone, so why shouldn't all con tribute?" Meet 200 Guys ; Cops To Part Em Ki J W i * THAT'S WHAT MISTLETOES FQR lirry Weaver, 13- duck ed and -weaved only attgbtly at a Christmas Party last night of The Sub-debs, was caught wader the mistletoe by pretty Jean Johnson, 12. It was a re verse-date affair with, the girls inviting the boys to escort them. Larry is the sen of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver, 210 South Magnolia. Jean’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Johnson, Ml West Broad Street. PARTY Girls Wouldn't Let Boys Watch TV The Sub-Deb Club, which was just formed a few weeks ago and usually has more serious matters at hand, last night opened presents, danced, and played games at the home of Renthia Tart, club president. It was the first dress-up party for the club, and one of the first in their young lives. All the Sub- Debs are seventh and eighth grade girls. Most of the girls brought dates to the party. A minor hitch arose when some of the boys loped off to a neigh boring home to watch television, but the girls soon corraled them again and settled down to a game of imitations. The players scorned imitations of movie stars like James Cagney and Marion Brando, and instead did imi.ations of each -other. "Linda .Strickland getting ready to recite one of her own poems—,’’ and, Judy Stewart about to sing"—were among the impromptu performan ces. Later there was dancing includ (Continned on Page Two) MEXICAN 808 AND HIS THINSLAB BOYS Jim Thornton and his Broadslab Country Style TV boys can move on now for the hotted thing on the hillbilly circuit Is Bob Baas sad his Thin slab boys of Johnson Cotton Company. They're shown here last night providing entertainment for the company's Christmas party. They gave forth with such favorites as “Mexican Joe." "You ) • i Stores Open Until 9 P. M. ; FIVE CENTS PER COPY Attorneys Agree i On Price; Lots ! For Buildings Contracts to erect three new school buildings to serve the county’s Negro students were let late yesterday by the County Board of Educa tion. They were let with the express stipulation that preliminary work would be finished within two hun dred and seventy days or nine months and that all work be fin ished in ten months. Totai' cost of .he three buildings will he finished in ten months. Totai cost of the three buildings will be $700,712, to be financed out of the tiwc million doiiar school bond issue approved by county voters last May. This Is he first money spent from the sale of the first one mil lion dollars in (bonds late last month. Two new elementary schools will be built north and south of Lilling ton. and classroom additions will be erected at Shawtown High School, into which he two elemen tary schools will feed high school age pupils Official names have yet to be given the two elementary schools now called ‘North Haraet” and “South Harnett” for drawing board purposes. O. W. Godwin of Dunn wa = the low bidder on general con tracting for bo h schools. He bid on “North Harnett" *170.835> and on “South Harnett.” $172,663, A Sanford contractor. L. P l Cox, was awarded the general' coontract for work at Shawtown at a otal of -206,408 The electrical work will be per formed at ali' three projects by a Coats firm, Electric Sales and Ser vice. The bids were as follows: on "North Harnett,’ $14,000; on ‘Sou'h Harnettsl3,39o; on Shawtown SISOOO Clyde IT. Whitley received the contract to install plumbing In the north and south Harnett schools. His bid on the first was $11,678. and on the second, *11,678, McLamb Plumbing Co. of Dunn was the low dS six months on the ground of ‘ex treme mental cruelty.’ Nathan Cohn, attorney for the 31- year-old burlesque entertainer, said yesterday he mailed the divorce pa pers to Sacramento County. Tamara and James E. Courtland HI, former Hollywood makeup man, •were married in July by a Nevada clergyman. Tamara recently indicated that her husband was “extremely jeal ous” and “resented deeply the leering looks" of patrons at the burlesque houses where she per formed. He is a member of a Charlotte, N. C. family. outlets were accounted for in ttye figures from 1948. In 1954,. the number of store* with payroll was 233, they had 1,369 paid employes in November, 1954 and reported a total payroll of $2,777,000. The stores with payroll! (Continued On Page Two)