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+ WEATHER + Considerable cloudiness with slow ly rising temperatures this after noon, tonight and Friday. Some scattered light rain or drizzle to night and Friday. VOLUME 6 EXPERTS MAKE PREDICTIONS FOR 1956 mK' THEY PROMISE 1956 WILL BE LOVELY Whether yon pick the sweet dream at left or the queen of sophistication at right, 1956 i» going le be lorely to watch on calendars, that is. They're Jh&M Jjjttfo JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS SUSA'S) Pht Owdm of Raleigh Is Che haw Maid of Cotton and we're just as happy about it m she is. It’s wonderful. Her selection brings honor and glory to her hometown, to the Clayton Cotton Festival, and to North Carolina. Wfien we were selected as one of the three Judges to pick North Carolina’s Maid of Cotton at the Clayton festival last summer we had no Idea that we’d be niekirw the next MaM of Cotton although we were hooehd and had complete confidence in Pat. As a matter of fact, rtf xml'll pardon us for doing a little hra*r trinyl we cast the deckling vote sor 1 put’when the other two Judges hung vn. 'The other Judges were pave Arnold. the current Mis* North Carolina, and Susan Throw bridge Partington of the John Roberts Powers model agency in New York. We were first attracted to the pret.tr maiden when «he was a con testant in the artes North Carolina Pageant at Wilmington a month earlier. We became ever more sold on her at. Clavton. pat has that certain something which few other girls have. We can’t de*erfbe It but we know when we see It In a girl. She has TT! Less than ten minute* after her selection a* Maid of Cotton was announced last night at Memphis our nhone rang. “Old bov von did It, mtt did It." said the voice at the other end off the line." •Did whatt" we asked, not rec ognising the voice at first and thinking It wa* just somebody (Oonthraed m Paco Bawl COMPIAINTS BRING ACTION Night Mail Service Resumed For Dunn When late-night postal service in Dunn was abridged so that mail reaching the post office was too late to go out the same evening, the Post Office Department Imme diately ran into opposition. Postmaster Ralph Wade announc ed today that an Investigation of complaints from Congressman P. Ertel Carlyle and the local post-of fice resulted in restoration of the old service. The matter was called to the attention of Congressman Cartyie by The Daily Record. Orders to return to the system of dropping off a packet of late* mail for Train 78 to pick up on It* mar-midnight run came into Dm post-office here from J. P. Rocke chertie, the Posteffloe Department's district transportation manager TELEPHONES 3119- Silt typical beauties of Shaw - Barton, Ohio calendar manufacturers, who are responsible for a great •hare of the I*s million calendars distributed by businessmen throughout the nation this year. RALEIGH Oißt WINS TITLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA Pat Cowden Picked As Maid Os Cotton MEMPHIS, Tenn. fIP) Patricia (Pat) Ann Cowden, a green - eyed brunette who serves as a private secretary to a Raleigh, North Carolina bank executive, was crown <fd last ifght as the 1956 Maid of Cotton. The 31-year-old beauty could | could “squeal" and say. ‘Tea thrill ’ ed to death:' when the Judges an -1 nounced she had beaten out 23 other contestants from 13 cotton [ growing states for the title which i she “always wanted." \ i Pat, who stands five feist, seven and a half inches weighs 126 ■ pounds, also will realise another lonv dream—to travel; in Europe. ; TFT AS GIRLS RCNNERS-CF/ Revls Jordan df Lubbock. Texas ' was named first’ alternate and •Minta Curtis, of Mission. 1 Texas, was picked second alternate bv the Juders. who baaed their selections on “beautv. personality, training , and background” which Involves ' coming from a cotton famttv. Pat said he- first thoughts after ' winning the title was to “call nrn -1 ther and daddy." Mr and Mrs. M. J. Cowden, who couldn’t attend the 1 contest. She planned today to call her boss. E. B. Dickson, an assistant 1 vice-president of the Security Na tions! Bank In Raleigh. Pat will* have to ask for a leave [ of absence from her secretarial du ties to serve as a goodwill ambas , sador for the cotton Industry du i ring the coming year, i Two of the five finalists, Frances Habig of Jackson, Miss, and Patri cia Stehr of Dahas, Texas, were as • happy about not winning as Fat was about winning. One of the first questions the , fudge asked was about the contest ant's marital plans and both of . them are engaged. I NO MAIN WAV t But when the fudges asked Fat about’her boy friends, Die said whose offices are in Richmond, Virginia. Postmaster Wade said they went back on the old schedule shortly before Christmas, and that he now believes posted service here can be kept reasonably efficient. Congressman Cartyie Went on the offensive severed weeks ago when he heard about the way a postal order bad affected Dunn. IBs com plaint received prompt akUmtUm from Anristnit postmaster General N. R Abrams who directed M Ate i lanta, Georgia, headquarter, to ma ■ ke an immediate investigation. Mhe & ailij %\ecard 1 she has “no definite one.” The new Maid, who was crown ; ed by outgoing Maid Delois Faulk ner of Salflsaw, Oklahoma, will [ head for New York before the weekend to be fitted for an all cotton wardrobe and to study mo deling. • Soon she will begin a six-months Irip that will take her all over the United States, Europe, Canada and , South America. r f*®!- who has won several previ ous beauty titles, been a fraternity i queen and a queen of the N. C.. i State Swim-Meet, said her hobbies • are singing and swimming. NO CHEESE CAKE But she won’t be seen much in bathing suits. The National Cotton Council, which sponsors the Maid, , advised her to steer dear of “leg art" and “cheesecake ” ' ■ P»t win make her official ap : pearances in street clothes and ev ening dresses, an made of cotton. In Raleigh, Mrs. Cowden said, ! “I never did allow myself to get (Onttawi On rage Four) Erwin Woman Seeks DSHD Miss Ellen Benson of Erwin, who Fas Injured In an automobile ac cident on July 30 at the intersec tion of highways 217 and 421 In the Erwin has filed suit to recover $35,000 in Harnett Superior Court against Angus Benson and his nephew, Garland H. Godwin, as compensation for her injuries. Miss Benson was a passenger In a 1860 Plymouth driven by God win, which allegedly crashed into the left rear of a car driven by John Mack Wood, Jr. and then cut brtq the path of another auto mobile driven by Thomas Dewey West • CLAIMS HIGH SPEED The complaint filed this week by Miss Henson alleges that Godwin drove the car at a high rate of speed, without a due lookout, to the left of the center line, too dose to the Wood ear. and that the car had insufficient brakes. the accident the pllintif? l>«*e her left leg below the knee »nd was severely bruised. She claims that she will be totally disabled as ■ of «*»*<*«! teg and un to .eonitlnue her work at Er win Mills where die formerly was ■nplcyed at around *SO a week. Ml« Benson contends that An »us Bfcnsofi loaned the car to his 2£‘Lf£STV u !' *•*“ * . Defective. She is mp>wf«nted DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29. 1955 1 ■ —■ Fund Shortage Causes Slowup In City Recreation Program The Midget basketball pro gram came to a standstill over the holidays for lack of anyone to lead it. Recreation Board Chairman Wayne Jus tesen said today he didn’t know whether there would be a leader for it this Sat urday or not. Shortage of money has prevented the board from proceeding to appoint a new full-time director of city rec reation since the resignation of Gene Driver a few weeks ago, Justesen said. “We will keep the midget pro gram going, but so far I haven’t found anyone to direot it on Sat urdays.” the board chairman said. A meeting of the full board will be held the first week in January to decide whether a rull-time direc tor can be put on before next summer. "Vei-v definitely we need one.” said Justesen. “but we don’t know whether we can afford one.” The biggest single chunk of sup port for the citv recreation pro gram, which had around *12,000 to work with in its first year, comes from the United Fund campaign. This year the United Fund in tended to turn over *6.000. but Jus tesen said he did not know how the Fund’s failure, at ttys date, to reach Its ouota of *34.000 -plus would affect the recreation monies. “We’ve made ©ro're**.” Justesen said, where’s a bath-house at the two!, which we put up through the Jsvfels, and he Stove other accom plishments. I don’t know anything into which a*citv can out its mon i ev and realize as well from it. "You can sav there’6 a slow-uo 1 right now. ’the board has three or four applications for the position ' of director, but whether we can afford someone—that's something i the board W’ill have to discus? at ( its meeting.” I • —— Irene Dunn Hurt In Holiday Fall i HOLLYWOOD Movie actress Irene Dunne fell In her home Fri day and had to eat her Christmas dinner from a wheel chair. She 1 said at first she feared she had 1 seriously injured her hip. but X ■ ravs disclosed no broken bones. + Record Roundup + CHURCH OFFICERS The original president of the Women of the Riverside Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Perry Godwin, has been re elected to that post. Installation services were last Sunday, Rev. Frank Davison, pastor, presiding. Other officers installed: Vice-presi dent, Mr*. Floyd Godwin; Secret ary, Mrs. John Ennis; Historian. > Mrs. John Melcher; and circle lead • er, Mrs. Charles Tew. Dunn Firm Wins Air Base Contract Putting up a hangdr for helicopters isn’t enough for Chicora Construction Company, now they’ve landed a contract running to more than a quarter of a million dollars for fixing up a chapel and theater at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The Dunn-based construction company will have close to a mil lion dollars worth of work in pro gress when it on the air bas* Job ten days from now. And it’s still in its first year of operation Congress has already voted the money for renovations at the Air Base. The $280,000 let to Chicora Construction is only a drop In the overall Job which brings work to many North Carolina firms. But it’s a bog drop for Chicora and matches another big contract won previously. Tommy Oodwin. reporting the •ward of contracts yesterday, said the company is now about f<fcr months along on the helicopter hanger for an airfield at Fort Bragg. It will take a year’s work to QUINT ESTRANGEMENT REPORTED-OUva Dionne, father of ttie Callander, Ont., quintuplets, says that the four surviving quints have broken away from their family. He blamed the alleged separation on what he called “intruders," but refused to name the alleged disruptive influences. Yvonne, student nurse at a Montreal hospital, is said to have told a reporter, “don’t believe it, it’s not true.” The four surviving quints are shown, above, at time of the funeral for their sister, Emilie, in August of 1954. From left: Marie (behind her Annette), Yvonne and Cecil*. ( - THE GIRLS THROW A BIG PARTY Dionne Quints Plan To "Live It Up" MONTREAL (IP) The surviving Dionne quintuplet® served notice today they plan to “live it up’’ in their new ly found independence and won’t even go home for New Year’s. The change in the “quints” for mer sheltered way of life became apparent early today when Yvonne, Cecile, Annette and Marie cleared up a pile of empty soft drink bot tles and cigarpt stubs in their lux ury apartment. FOURTH FIRE Since Christ mas the fire department has had four calls. The most recent one was to the farm of Mrs. G. A. Altman on Route 3, Dunn, off the old Fair grounds road, where a tenant hous; caught fire from an overheated stove The Fire Department’s Se cretary-Treasurer Howard M. Lee reported small damage to the bouse, which is occupied by a colored (Continued On Page Two) fulfill this contract. The Seymour Johnson contract also means a year’s work for Chi cora. Superintending It will be Jack Brocher who came to work for Chicora after handling many jobs of magnitude in South Carolina. William Corbin, president of Chi cora Construction, is personally in charge of the Fort Bragg work Godwin, who is secretary-treas urer of the firm, said today that the chapel and theater which his company is to renovate at Sey mour Johnson field were used in World War n but must be altered to serve now that the Defense De partment has decided to reactivate the base. He said that forces are expected to move into the base about June > of 1966. The mess was left over from an almost unprecedented party they threw Wednesday night for their boy friends. The party made it clear they in tend to live their own lives and, unless something unforeseen hap pens. are not going to bow to the dictates of Papa Oliva Dionne at their home in Callender, Ont. G. Harold Edwards, a trust com pany official who has handled the girls’ million - dollar investments since they became 21 this year, dropped in on the party but not as a chaperon. Father Complains Os Solit Edwards called to be filled in on what the girls want to say about their split with their father, who i complained bitterlv earlier this week that they were leaving file family fold and treating their brothers and sisters with “con tempt.” Gav music blared from a radio at the oartv. The living-room rug was rolled back as the girls. Whose ouinturSet sister Emflle died last year, danced with their French sneaking boyfriends whom Edwards described as “all nice, decent fel lows.” It was a far cry from life at the 18-room mansion that was built, with part of a fortune that came from endorsements and other com mercial payoffs '"’t-mring the girls’ birth. Back at Callor' , “r. the auints almost never talked or "’"ved wjth bovs and the few thev Hid see usually walked sedately Into the living room and sat ouietlv while someone sang or plaved the piano Wednesday night’s party was strictlv Informal. One of the bovs, who answered «-'> «*- 1 wards’ nre-arrang"-’ —*ls J ’ k ■ was garbed in a flashily checkered sports shirt and slacks. The auints were reported to have kicked off their shoes to make It easier to jitterbug. Hotel Offers Holiday While the girls had themselves a time—and indicated thev planned a lot more of the same—the nnbll- Mtv-wiee operator of a Miami Beach hotel waited hopefully for 1 them and their parents to accept his invitation to patch up their family troubles during an expense paid holiday in Florida. It was ex* (Oenttmed aa Page VHro) THE RECORD IS FIRST FIVE CENTS PER COPY What's Ahead / For You In Coming Year? | NEW ..YORK (IP) What j does 1956 hold in store for Americans? The United Press asked leaders in a number of fields to try to look into the future and forecast the outstanding developments ahead in the --coming year. Here are the predictions: Medicine: Dr. Elmer Hess, pres ident of the American Medical Assn. Next year may see some very significant progress in the develop ment of a preventive for the com mon cold. A national survey oh mental health will help break bot tlenecks in the treatment of 10 million Americans suffering from mental and emotional disturbances. Research projects will result in ad dtional gain? in the fight against cancer. Business: Eddie Riekenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines. One of the most dynamic development' in the economy is the move of the airlines Into the jet see. Air trans portation is only beginning to find its nroper niche in the commerce of the country and the world. Bv 1960. the airlines will be carving 75 million passengers—more than the railroads and inter-city buses combined. WILL WIN OLYMPICS Snorts: Kenneth L. Wilson, pres ident of the U. S. Olympic Com mittee. The United States wfll have the strongest team in history at the K)»- Olvw»pto games to Aus tralia and the Americans should come out on top. iciest eroeftg ffr that It will be nip and tuck with the Russians. Fashions: Charles James, one of the country’s top designers. The new look of 1966 will look well onlv on women who have not lost their figures. It requires a long torso I and a hkrh bustline, a flat ribcage, hlos carried forward and chin uo. Older women have this look onlv when lving down. It is the look of a voung girl standing erect against, a high wind. Television: Rqjbert Samofff. new ’ president of NBC. The outstanding development for television for 1956 probably will be the snowballing of ■ color TV as a community as well , as a national service. This growth . of rotor broadcasting, T believe, , (Continued On Page Two) Suit Charges Will Obtained By Fraud An Erwin woman is asking the Superior Court to ses aside a deed made by her late father to her aunt on grounds it was obtained by “fraud and deception.” Mrs. Ruby Tyndall Williford, in a civil suit filed this week with the Clerk of the Hamett Superior Court, is reguesting that the deed made by her father, the late Aulie Tyndail to Mrs. Annie Mae Grant ham Hairr be declared void. In support of the request Mrs. Williford, who now is a resident of Sampson County and only child of the late Aulie Tyndall, points out that in 1951 her father bought a 76 by 133 feet lot and house in Erwin to provide his aged parents, Together , Heflins Starting Business In some ways, ex-Army Sarge Jack Heflin and his wife, Mrs. Beulah Heflin, manager of the Sears office here until last week, have been going in opposite directions even though Jack finally left Fort Bragg in March after 12 years in the service. A few months ago, for instance, Mrs. Heflin won an expenses-paid trip to Chicago as one of 11 na tional winners In a Sears sales con test among its mail-order branches. She went, and had a great time, and not so tong afterwards Jack also won expenses to Chicago—te a national insurance sales conven tion. They thought it was too bad their trips couldn’t fall together. e* fT'-Y ’ • - jfU ■fat. HWwNmB ' A f ‘ f SHB, | ‘ ‘a* 3k ■! ».'j. 4 PRESIDENT—The Rev. T. Lester .Marsh, shown here, pastor of the large Antioch Baptist Church at Mamers, has been elected president of the Little River Baptist Associa tion Ministers’ Conference. The Rev. Mr. Marsh is one of the best known Baptist ministers in this section of the State. (Dallp Record Photo) Therlo Caught At Whiskey Still Today Therlo Barefoot, about 45, of Benson, Route 2 was arrested early Thursday morning at the site of a 200-gallon whiskey distillery, located about 150 yards from his home. ATU Agent C. a Coats, who led the raid, said of Dews surrounded toe distillery, which-w«* going at ■ Mil blast, and took Barefoot into custody as hfc started to leave the site with some empty sugar bags in his hands. ONE ESCAPES Another man at the still man aged to escape, but was recognized and the Federal officer indicated he would be picked up later. Coats said Barefoot had already run off about 500 gallons of mash It was a complete and modem out fit, the officer said, fired by a new gas burner. The still and equipment were destroyed and the mash was dump ed out. DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS THERE Barefoot steadfastly denied any connection with the still, said he (Continued On Page Four) Mr. and Mrs. Silas Tyndall, with a home. CARED FOR FATHER His mother died in May, 1963, and the eider Mr. Tyndall was left alone. On request of her brother, it Is alleged, Mrs. Hairr agreed to care for the father, but in order to make the sacrifices necessary to do this, the sister asked for and received a deed to the property. But Mrs. Williford contends in the complaint that once in possee (Continued On Page Four) This week Jack announced that his wife and he have found away that both can be together. What’s more, he said, both believe in what they’re going to do to the tips of their busy toes. Together they will act as distil* butors for the Kirby Home Sanita tion System, a Good Housekeeping approved product that puts house holders within range of a complete dean-up for home, eer and aag —V NO. 16
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