Considerable cloudiness through
rrldejr. A little colder east of
mountains tonight end Friday.
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THE RECORD
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VOLUME «
TELEPHONES 3117-3118
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1956
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Hubert Peay (left) mad fellow clerk* Mr*. Hank
Currte and Mr*. Edwin Stewart adaaH that mbs
•f their customer* are touch!**, th»urh. Maid Mra
C'urrln: 'Sometime*, we really hare to pick at >«*.”
And looking op alertly, she said. What da you
want to Us* besides your head’"
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a OCT WHO KNOWS MOVIE
DOLLS, ETC. ETC.
Every time • rridftv. the OKK
rolls around. » lot of funny, weird
and unusual thins* and coincidences
occur . But about the beat story
we’ve heard lately was told last
week by JE B. Johnson in the Dunn
Rotary Club bulletin, of which he
is the editor On a Friday. the
13th a few years ago, me Dunn
school principal went to a local
grocery store' and with no calcula
tion* intentionally what-so-ever, the
cash register called for $13.13 pay
ment for the groceriw. He
drove his wife home id a car that
bore City license tax No. 13. .
They drove out to the Rotary Club,
which was having Ladies’ Night,
and won the prise for being the
13th couple to enter . . Miss Wil
ma Williams, ousted as Harnett’s
welfare superintendent, has em
ployed Dr. L Beverlv Lake of Ral
eigh. former assistant attorney
general and possible gubernatorial
candidate, to appeal her firing to
the State board . "She had bet
ter be saving her money.*’ com
mented a member of the welfare
board ’. But Miss Williams has
plenty at money to spare on a high
priced “mouthpiece" . 8he’s a
big property owner, lust likes her'
Job- as head of the welfare depart
ment in fact, she’s probabhlv
one of the wealthiest gals in the
entire county. (She isn’t married,
either fellows) . . Members erf
the welfare board say they aren’t
lust sure when they’ll' get around
to filling the vxaoancy. . . The Job
‘ pay* 3380 a month. . Of this,
the county pays <S per cent, and
the State and Federal government
thei other S3 pgr cent The su
perintendent also gets $33 a month
fcr|ear depredation and seven cents
a mile travel expenses. Approxi
mately MOO ooo of Barnett County’s
total budget at about one million
doilan gees to support the welfare
department . ’ The thing that
worries us is this: If it takes *800.
000 a year to care for welfare cases
(Osa Hawed mm Fag* Twi
Two Sent To Roads
By Benson Judge
Two defendants were ordered w>
serve term* on the roads by Judge
Ed Johnson In Benson Recorder's
Court Monday when M cases were
tried.
Harvey Johnson. Benson Negro,
was handed a 13-month road term
after he was found guilty of lar
ceny of a hog>He gave notice of
and posted a *500 bond
William Charles Tart of Route 3.
appeal to Johnston Superior Court
Berwon, drew a 30-day road sen
tence for driving after Us license
had been revoked.
S
Murray d. wuunjsri
was judged guilty In four separate
cases, but gave notice of appeal to
Johnson Superior Court and posted
bends totaling $2,100
In a public drunkenness ease.
Bailinger was handed a M-day road
term. Judged guilty of driving af
ter his license had been revoked,
he drew a four-month road sen
tence. suspended on payment of
a $200 fine and costa Re was found
rullty at failing to stop at
sign and < driving aftar^lU^
US
Million Asked For
Wilmington Harbor
WASHINGTON <W — President Eisenhower asked Con
gress today for increased funds to build mote flood control
projects, provide better storm warnings and give more
help to victims of floods and hurricanes., ,#•
It's requests include *U30,000 lor
the Wilmington, N. C. Harbor.
The President, in his budget mes
sage. specifically asked for money
to: •
1. Start construction on IS new
local flood protection projects, 16
new flood control reservoirs and
two new beach erosion projects.
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a. Provide the weather bureau
with more at the latest storm de
tection radar and equipment for
hurricane and tornado studies.
3. Start a new 3-bilUan-dotlar
federal-state hood Indemnity pro
gram.
The requests stemmed from last
year's hurricane-spawned floods In
the Northeast, devastating floods
In the Far West and tornado de
struction elsewhere. *
FIVE NEW RESERVOIRS
He asked for an extra *34,600,000
Immediately in the current fiscal
year for the Army Engineers as
the result of the floods in the
Northeast. This Included *1.100.000
to start construction on five new
fiood control reservoirs.
Lipstick On Hubby;
She Wins Divorce
CHTCAOO — Salesman Roy
MacArthur was called on the car
pet by hit wife when he came home
with a red smudge on his shirt.
The salesman tried to talk him
self out of the trying Situation by
asking his wife to hsfve a labora
tory test made ot the smudge to
tee if her charge that it waa lip
stick was true.
It was. She waa granted a di
vorce and $100 monthly support.
GM Plans
$1 Billion
Outlay In '5 6
NEY YORK W — Harlow H. Cur
tice, president of General Motors
Corporation, said today the world’s
blggeet business will back its con
fidence in national prosperity with
an ail - time record outlay of one
billion dollars in IMS.
Curtice predicted prosperity will
continue throughout 1966 and an
other record year for 0. 3 business
with full employment.
He told indusurai and financial
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Breaks Into Home
To Win Her Love
BRIDOH’ORT, Conn.—A frus
trated admirer of Miss Vermont of
1956 who said he broke into her
home to win her love was senten
ced today for burglary.
Superior Court Judge Frank Co
vello ordered William ORhea, 21,
to serve an indeterminate term at
the Cheshire State Reformatory
for molesting Phyllis Reich, 18. last
Nov. 20.
Record
Roundup
COUNCIL BANQUET — Plans
have been completed for the annual
recognition banquet of the Occon
eechee Council, Boy Scouts at Am
erica, E. N. Brower, Council Presi
dent. announced today. The ban
quet is slated for 7:00 p. m. Thurs
day, January 19th at Lenoir Hall
UNO campus in Chapel Hill.
Scouters and their wives and
friends will gather frotf the twelve
counties of the Ocoaneechee Coun
cil area for this annual program
of fellowship which include* Har
nett. Mr. Brower, president, will
serve as master of ceremonies.
GIRL SCOUT BANQUET—The
Central Carolina Girl Scout Coun
cil will hold Ks annual meeting
January 30th at 7:00 p. m. In the
basement of the First Baptist
Church In Sanford. All registered
adults. Senior Scouts and several
special guests win be present for
the dinner meeting.
Special feature at Bile yearn
(Osatfwaed Oa Page Tw»)
Young Corporal
Cleared By Jury
In Auto Death
Corporal Albert Favre of Tort
Bragg ha* bee ncleared of a man
slaughter charge arising from the
death of his friend, Corporal John
P. Jenkins.
When the jury came back with a
verdict for acquittal. Superior Oourt
Judge W. H. S. Burgwynn gave
them a long look and turned to the
defendant.
"Young man. you can’t go.” he
said. I think I'd better hotd you."
Then and there he issued a bench
warrant against Corporal Favre
for driving drunk. He said he did so
because at least three witnesses of
fered evidence during the man
slaughter trial" that Favre had been
drinking.
Jenkins was fatally Injured when
a car Favre was driving hit a tele
phone pole and went Into a ditch.
State witnesses included Arthur
Reece of Olivia who had pulied
the ’61 OMsmoboUe out of mud.
where It got stuck, before it went
on to the more serious incident.
Record said Favre and Jenkins both
appeared to have been drinking.
A Superior Court jury acquitted
the young Fort Bragg soldier after
receiving the oase for a verdict on
Friday.
Two Wacs were present in the
car at the time of the accident.
One felt ill and was stretched out
In the back seat. The other, amelia
Smithy said she was "ifscking'*
with Jenkins at -the time of the
wreck! She identified
the driver of the ca*.
But be Is not out of the deep
water yet
Defense Attorneys Archie Taylor
and Robert Morgan were receiving
Dulles Backed By
Nixon And Stassen
WASHINGTON (W — Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles today gained the support of Vice President Richard
M. Nixon and Presidential Aide Harold E. Stassen for his
statement that the United States faced situations that
WUJIU liUTC iCU IV W(U .
He did not name them, but Dul
les, in a Life magazine article, said
they occurred during crises over
the orean armistice. Indochina and
Formosa.
Democrats, led by Democratic
presidential candidate Adlai E.
Stevenson and Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey D-Minn. denounced the
statements Life attributed to Dul
les. Dulles later confirmed the sub
stance of the article.
Stevenson accused Dulles of
playing “Russian roulette with the
life or our nation.” He said "the
art of diplomacy, especially in the
atomic age. must lead to peace,
not war or the brink of war.”
Sta&sen, President Eisenhower’s
aide on disarmament, said the Ei
senhower - Dulles foreign policy
is not accurately reflected In the
article or in statements made by
Stevenson.
He said the administration policy
has "involved strength and rest
raint, firmness and conciliation,
moral values and careful consider
ations, unavoidable risks faced and
other risks avoided.”
Nixon told the United Press on
his return from Springfield, HI.,
Sunday that in each of the three
dangerous instances he remembers
"the Elsenhower - Dulles foreign
policy followed the middle ground
between war and surrender, which
rm sure is the course the Ameri
can people want to toJaw.” ?
J. HUBERT BUTT
J. Hubert Butt
Dies At Age 45
J. Hubert <Muttt Butt. 45, well
known t>unn man. died Monday
morning at 9 o'clock in the Dunn
Hospital.
Mr. Butt became suddenly ill
Sunday morning soon alter he and
his two sons returned home from
Sunday School and his oondition
grew gradually worse.
An autopsy was being conducted
this afternoon to determine the
oau*e of his death.
He was one of Dunn's most popu
lar residents and was widely known
throughout the area. At the time
of his death he was associated wEh
Erwin Gordon in the operation «f
"Mfcf'Ht-Orffl Hrtnt Mr. Oocdan
were preparing to form a partner
ship. Prior to that he was asso
ciated with his stepfather. George
Upchurch. In the operation of Up
church's.
Bigger Spending
To Total Over
$65 Billions
WASHINGTON ;W — Pre
sident Eisenhower proudly
presented to Congress today
a balanced black-ink budget
calling for $65,900,000,000 of
federal spending.
For the first time since 1961,
Treasury deficits were turned Into
small projected surpluses. Despite
this, the administration held out
more firmly than ever against tax
cuts In the foreseeable future.
The President said bigger spend
ing in fiscal 1967—up 91d00.000,000
—Is necessary to protect uncertain
world peace with "the greatest
miltary power in our peacetime
hbkory" and to promote wider
sharing of “our unprecedented
prosperity" at home.
MOST FOR MILITARY
Items of major interest: 35 1-2
billion for the military; 3 1-3 bil
lion for farm relief; 4 1-2 billion
for foreign aid; 9 billion for vet
erans; and lesser amounts to start
near programs of federal air for
school construction and to help de
pressed areas of the county.
Fiscal 1967 is the government's
bookkeeping year which begins this
July. The proposed spending com
pares with *64300.000.000 this year.
Mast of the increase was ear
marked for the titnaci weapons of
tomorrow — supersonic aircraft,
new atomic weapons, guided mis
Taxes on boom-time profits and
wages were estimated to rise even
more than spending—from 64 1-2
billion this year by 800 million.
4M MILLION SURPLUS
That meant an indicated budget
surplus—excels of receipts over
spending—of 400 million for 1967.
And the President said revised
figures show there will be a sur
plus of 200 million when fiscal 1.96
ends this June 30.
The President in a 40,000-word
budget message to Congress said
these indicated surpluses were too
“slim" to permit tax relief. He
said they should be used to reduce
the debt.
Secretary of Treasury George
M. Humphrey, the administration’s
' top man on tax matters, made this
more emphatic. He told newsmen
there should be a surplus of 2 1-2
billion before tax relief will be In
order. He tried hard to deftote a
belief cherished by many that the
surplus will grow mightily by late
soring and permit a tax cut alter
ell in this election year. The secre
tary denied the revenue figures
had been under-estimated so a
bigger figure could be unveiled
later. No additional surplus is
"buried in this budget," he said.
CONGRE8S HAS LAST SAT
The budget represented the ad
ministration'* desires. Congress
still has a lot of sa yabout It. How
ever, there Is general agreement
In Congress on the need for con
tinued heavy spending for defense
veterans, farm relief and other big
items. So material change in the
spending budget is not likely.
On the basts of the figures, how
ever , relatively small change* could
affect the surplus. The President
counted on a 350-million dollar
costal rate increase. Congress is not
Hkelv to pass it Failure to do go
mated surplus, unl"-« some corres
ponding cut were made H proposed
mending or revenues exceeded es
timates.
Humphrey was firm In declaring
“there is no room for a tax cut
in these figures.”
And Now Godfrey
Rw Audience
NEW YORK W — And now
Arthur Godfrey has fired his swn
stndls aadtence. ‘1
There was ns studio audience
for Godfre**h regular Wednesday
nleM tohwfcdwi dhow “Arthur
Godfrey and nts Friends."
Studio officials had no com
ment hut a mokesman for the TV
star said Godfrey -tost decided ts
HER ACE IS SHOWING-The age of Mrs. Bridget Butler or
Milwaukee, Wis., is no secret. She's 100, as her fancy birthday g
cake reveals. She recently celebrated the centennial of her birth
l with friends and relatives in her apartment.
"DON'T CALL US BROADSLAB"
Benson Is Miffed
By Native Son
Ingratitude more sharp than serpents’ stings is tear
ing at the flesh of Jim Thornton, whose “Country Style"
TV show on WTVD has by far ttfe biggest listening audien
ce of any program in the two Carolines. - »
be wrote a son* about it, has an
nounced itself as sick, sick, sick of
being constantly identified with
the "Broadslab” by Thornton, who
is a native son.
Chamber of Commerce directors
shared their wrath on this at a
meeting last week. They decided to
send a letter to WTVD to see if
Thornton could not be strangled a
little. But the singer doesn't stran
gle very good.
Somebody suggested to Jim that
actually he was giving Benson
"millions of dollars" worth of free
advertising. Said Thornton, drag
ging out a copy of "The Broadslab
Drag” in which he calls Benson
capital of the Broadslab: “BIL
LIONS of dollars worth.”
The Benson Review, which au
gustiy referred to the cbuntry
style singer and do - it - all man as
“JAMES Thornton”—an elabor
ation which he doesn’t necessarily
answer to—put the thing this way:
“As used on television and radios
shows, Broadslab or lower Johnston
County is pictured as the home of
bootleggers, wild drivers and shift
less farmers. .
CONTROVERSIAL MATTER
“The exact location of the origin
al Broadslab has been a subject for
humorous controversy for some
time. Generally described as south
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Hoover Says
Presidents
Need Relief
WASHINGTON m — Former
President Herbert Hoover made it
plain today that he thinks the great
burdens of the presidency helped
bring on President KtemlMwer’s
heart attack.
He urged that “huge unneces
sary burdens" be lifted from the
presidency.
‘ We’re going to have to relieve
these presidents some if we’re go
ing to keep them aUve." he said.
The former chief executive made
the appeal in urging that Congress
create a new office of "adminis
trative vice president."
"The nation’s experience with
the seven post recent presidents”
he said, "should constitute a caU
to action. Four of them have beegt
incapacitated P critical periods.
"Such a calamity would not like
ly have happened to any of these
men in private life."
Roses Manager
Highly Experienced
John Moss has served in a round half - dozen towns
in North and South Carolina since he joined Rose’s five
and-ten organization. Now he has come to Dunn.
a snore, gooa-ioocng man, 49
years old. Moss succeeds Paul Wal
ker who has moved on to Hender
son. N. c„ the company headquar
ters, to assume one of tre most im
portant Jobs in Rose s administra
tive setup.
The new manager comes from
the branch in Columbia, 8. Caro
lina. Previously, he had managed
branches in N. WilkeSboro, Dar
lington, Mt. Olive and Windsor. He
was originally trained in Thomaa
vlUe, Oa.
Except for four yean with the
Coast Guard, from 1M3 to ’4*.
Mos« has been witti Rose's contin
uously for 15 yearn. A radar man
in the Coast Guard, be said he wil
glad to get back to managing a
five-and-ien.
The Columbia branch ha Just Mt
la a self-service operation. Though
Mom believes the Mg chafes <tt
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