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VOLUME 6
, DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY IS, 1956
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Last-Minute
News Shorts
WASHINGTON — Pwienllc
aaya he to hepefnl
by the endl of wet
LONDON — rotate
shirts &,___
he to mteM to rep*r to chargee
of inning hto feet la office.
NEW YORK — Trended bidding
csrrtoe tort stork to SIRS*, ctrtng
early btrdh Stt million prof't.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jackson
orohohly win test-fire
•Unties m tootle before
year's end.
LAKE CHARLES. Us. — Bern
tar hoik of esntoelow-rent tanker
risk*: two known dead, as many
as 25 believed
WASHINGTON — Sen. Seating
ten or cnees Dalles and Wilson of
confusing nation with conflicting
“brink of war" statements.
RERUN — East German Reds
formally approve new “national
WASHINGTON — Cabinet sur
prises President with Grandma
Moors painting of Gettysburg
farm.
Burned To Death
Lighting Her Pipe
STOCKHOLM. Sweden, HI —
Mrs. Margarets Sundstroem. 75.
died of bums yesterday. Police salJ
she set her nightcap on fire while
trying to light her pipe with a
candie while in bed. _
CAUGHT WITH NEGRO "LOVER"
Girl Begins Prison
Term For Adultry
MORGANTON, N. C. (OT — A 20 - year - old white girl
was taken to women’s prison at Raleigh today to begin
an lft-months sentence for adultry and fomification with
a Negro sawmill employe.
The Negro. Louie Carson. 40. of
Harmony. »»J sentenced to rix
months on the road last Tuesday
to Burke Superior Court, but judg
ment was postponed on the girl
who claimed she was 17-years old
and had never been to troub-'e.
Judge T. Karl Franklin post
poned sentencing the girl, Mary
Higgins of Ennice. pending an In
vestigation by probatirnary oft*
cers. The investigation showed that
the girl was SO- years old and had
been to Jail twice before.
Police testified they found the
girl and Canon in a double bed
in a sawmill shack near here and
both were in a '‘general stats of
undress.”
However, both the blonde and
Canon denied they had intercourse,
although the girl said she "was
drinking and don't know what was
happening."
She said she went to the shack
with a white employe of the saw
. mill and Carson sad a Negro girl
I were there.
Ford Stoi
Demand i
NEW YORK <tP> — The pr
stock today soared past the $
over-the-counter trading.
This was a big premium over teh
tciginal offering price of $64.30 a
share for fhe 10,200,000 shares of
Ford common stock.
Brokers report demand is "“i1 tri
ply terrific." They quoted the stock
at 170 and $71 asked—what they
are willing to buy and sell it at.
The stock officially went on sale
this morning through a giant syndi
cate of 733 investment banking
firms. The group is committal to
sell the stock at $64 50 to those
lucky investors who have been al
located shares.
But thousands of persons who
were left out in the cold when the
stock was originally allotted are
offering Ford’s new stockholders a
Mg profit if they’ll sell
Broken said people who never
Boone Trail
FHA Has Moot
The Boone Trail Chapter of the
F. H. A. met January «th at 3:30
o'clock. The meeting was called to
order bv the President. Bertha Lois
Ray. For the devotional. Clots
Stewart read the Bible Norma Ste
wart read a poem. "Character is
up to You”, and Bertha Lola Ray
led in prayer.
Janet Harrington conducted an
"I’ve Got A Secret”, program. She
had ss panel members: Mrs. Hales.
Janet McCormick. Maine Norton,
and Helen Page. The contestants
were Elizabeth Nordon. Lois Ray.
and Lorraine Brown.
The Sophomore girls gave two
selections In song, "It’s Almost To
morrow” and "He."
The banquet is planned for Feb
ruary.
:k Soars;
}s Terrific
ice of Ford Motor Company
70-a-share mark In frenzied
owned stock before are competing
rush to buy a chunk of the rootoi
TWUA Plans
Drive For
Wage Boost
ATLANTA <01 — The Unite*
Textile Workers of America an
nounced today it will begin a wag'
Increase drive in North Carotin,
and Virginia at a session in Dan
ville, Va , Feb. 19.
Joseph Jacobs. Southern direc
tor of the union, said there ha/
been a “lag between wage mov?
meats in the textile industry a
compared with other basic Indus
trie*” following the increase in th
national minimum wage scale t
II00 an hour.
"Conditions are favorable for i
wage increase because of improve
■ales, higher earnings and profit/
increased productivity and contin
ued good outlook for the textii
industry in 1964," Jacobs said.
He said a number of contract
in the North Carolina-Virginia are
already have been opened for th
wage increase demands.
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AUTO IN WHICH GODWIN WAS INJURED
— Pictured here is the 19S5 Pontiac in which Lcw
ts Godwin, prominent Dunn business man. was bad
ly injured yesterday Just before noon at the cor
ner of Jshween and Layton. The aonideol aomwad
between the ear driven by Godwin and an ante
driven by Bod Norris collided. Notice the
pole cot down by the import. Godwin was u»r,”rn
out of the vehicle. Condition of Mr. Godwin today
wu reported u satisfactory at Dm* “••P"*'
He is n prodint contractor here. (Belly Record.
Photo)
Defense Chief
Doubts U. S.
Was Near War
By DONALD J. GONZALES
United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON <IP> — Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles, and Defense Secre
tary Charles E. Wilson dis
agreed today on how close
the United States came to
war during the' first three
years of the Eisenhower ad
ministration.
The disagreement between the
two cabinet officer* developed in
the face of incr.-assd Democratic
criticism of Dulles tor ilia contro
versial -brink - of - war” statement.
The statement prompted a demand
Tuesday night from Adlai E. Ste
venson. candidate far the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, that
President Eisenhower either repu
diate Dulles’ assertion of fire him
Mr. Eisenhower will have an op
portunity to give his views at a
news conference Thursday.
Three War Crises
Duties’ controversial statement \
was that this country avoided war
three times with Communist China
only by -walking to the brink” j
of conflict — during crises over the J
Korean armistice. Indochina and!
Formosa.
Wilson told a news conference'
•Tuesday he “never thought wa
: j were that close’’ to war in those
' areas, jput he conceded, ‘ there are
all ktads of brinks.”
" Dufies defended himself vigorous
ly Tuesday against charges that
he had gambled dangerously with
the nation's peace on the three oc
casions. He declared that the na
tion had not moved of its own ac
cord but was “brought” to the
brink of war by Red threats re
lating to Korea, Indochina and For
mosa.
Calculated Risks Necessary
1 In a nutshell, Dulles said his
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» NEW ACTIVITY BUS - The
• Lllling ton school has a newly ac
* quired school activity bus, which
» Is a renovated school bus. Erwin
Also has a new activity bus, and
i Dunn has added a second to the
l one it already possessed. Other
, school activity buses are owned by
. Buie's Creek. Anderson Creek.
3 Shawtown, Harnett High School,
and Coats. These buses make It
s possible to transport students to
» attend various school events out
e side of their community, but not
1 (Ceattnaed On Page 81*)
Strickland Heads
Dunn Shriners
Paul L. Strickland, Jr., waa In
stalled as president of the Dunn
Shriners Monday evening.
Others who have taken office tor
the owning year include Howard
Coattnae* on race Six)
—
THE EAST SELL — The -hard *0“ method
of salesmanship, involving a long harangue by a*
ulcer - threatened salesman, apparently isn’t nec
essary at Sherrill Johnson's. He sheers hie machto
leaf Meeting
Is Scheduled
A meeting of Harnett County
Tobacco grower* will be held
to the LilUngton High Bchoool
Auditorium on Friday. January
20 at 7:0 p. m., stated C. R. Am
mons here today.
practices in tobacco production
will be discussed by Mr. Hawks
and Mr. Todd. This meeting is be
ing planned in cooperation with
j. H Blackmon, teacher of agri
culture in the LiUington High
School.
All tobacco growers throughout
the county are cordially Invited to
attend and participate to this to
bacco discussion. May 1 suggest
that you invite your neighbor to
attend this meeting with you.
UNUSUAL NEW TRACTOR
—- ■
Low-Profile MH 50
Shown Locally
J. Sherrill Johnson, local Massey-Harris dealer whose
shop is a mile and a half from Dunn on the Benson High
way, had his first look at the company’s 1956 line of trac
tors during presentation ceremonies at Atlanta, Georgia,
on December 12.
Legion Post
Will Discuss
New Home
The American Legion past is
split several ways on what to «k
with their present meeting-place
Tomorrow night they will meet al
their hut on West Broad Sheet
and try to thrash out what they'n
going to do.
Keith Finch, past commandei
and presently a member of the
board of trustees of the Dunn poet
lists the possibilities this way;
The Legion could continue in it*
present home, maybe give it *
face-lifting, make some mlnoi
changes.
It could scrap the hut, tear it al
down, and put up a modern build'
ing in its place. V ;
Instead of building at the pro
sent site on West Broad, the post
could sell that property—whicl
should bring a pretty good price
and build on 30 acres they ow
on Jonesboro Road, a mile out t
town.
Finch said there are advocate
of each of these steps within th
post.
The Legion's current commandei
Ed Boyette, said. “I think we ea
swing whatever We - decide to w
What I want is to have a lot «
members come out tomorrow nigh
and ah of them take part in decid
ing this.”
Finch said the main quarrel o
members with the Legion’s pres-ni
(Continued ea Pag* Two)
Star of the
is said to Introduce a revolutionary
new concept of power application
in modem farm tractors. It is now
on dkpiay at Johnson’s tractor
company.
This principle, termed Hydramic
Power, coordinates mechanical and
hydraulic functions into a single
power force with a wider range of
Along with the MH 50, Massey
Harris officials presented three big
equipment tractors to the regional
dealer organization. These models
—the 333,444 and 555 — follow con
ventional tractor design.
But Johnson says they include
improvements and design changes
fOonttnoed Oa Pag* Tw»)
Harnett Scouters
Have Big Plans
i r At Erwin last night, scout leaders from
Harnett joined in what their chairman, H. H.
of Lillington, finally termed “the best district
in the history of scouting in this area.
cutive who rad worked as a full
time “pro" at scouting for eeveral
years, teamed this morning, "No
mcMre of tticse one-man committees
Witt time we have operating com
mittees with the emphasis on op
eratin'."
Besides installing officers last
night, the group discussed asd
made plans for a year full of ac
tion and advancement. They al*o
f
t
ready produced
developments.
A brand new scout
ported to be Just
go In Dunn.
ty dozcatcher, H acting
master and Otarf* Pen
his assistant. It meets at
Prebyterian Churls
that Angler, also, Is right an 1
IT'S LAW IN LONDON - BUT MOUSE FRIGHTENED HER
Nude Sinqer Moves, Gets Fired
LONDON (IP) — Actresses can appear on the stage
nude in Britain if they don’t move. If they move they
are breaking the law and are liable to get fired.
Nineteen-year old Peacnes rag<
billed as "the delicious <4ngin*
tetde,’ broke the tew Tuesday
night. Her grand immobility dls
•owed In a buret of speed and sh<
Peaches appeared at the Cam
berwell Palace In shoes, a bracele
and a white mutt. And as ah
moved her Ups (legal) a reocn
player In the background gaw
forth with "I've Got My Love T
Keep Me Waitn."
Her apkmfc waa shaken *♦»
a little grey mouse wafted on li
me iiuaaie oi ner son*. *»«■««
speed and zipped across her feet.
Peaches and the mouse fled in
different directions.
Show manager 8yd Elgar said
the authorities would get after him
if they found out Peaches was
; flouncing shout in public without
i her clothes. * _ _
l NO CLOTHES OK—MOVING NOT
( “By moving, you have broken
► your contract," be told Beeches
“You’re sacked.'*
i But Peaches' show stopper dMtet
i stop Hie *cw. The reeoed knpt
grinding out, Tre Got My lore
To Keep Me Win*."
Then
Qscroft
Peaches could appear la the MK
ond show — her last. Men wee#
posted in the wtnga to wat«b fa#
mice.
"Miss Page wifi not he appear*
ter. “a^Is utter contract to re
main rfUl while posing. If the au
thorities tear of tide I could too#
•An# girt
DI0W5 up A!
Dock; Loss
2 Millions
LAKE CHARLES, La. <W
— The burning hulk of a
130,000-barrel tanker, which
blew up at a refinery’s load
ing docks last night, sank
hissing to the bottom of
Lake Charles today.
It took with It to the muddy
bottom the bodies of perhaps 2i
men. Two men were known deed,
but they were dockhanda. standing
on the quay when an earth-shak
ing explosion rent the B8 Salem
Maritime.
Officials thought a total of 29
men were missing, in addition to
the two known dead and eight in
hospitals, but they could not be
sure. The ship fcft New Tort with
41 men aboard.
After the Salem Maritime went
down in 35 feet of water to the
bottom of the Calcasiev River
which connects Lake Ctoarlw with
the Oulf of Mexico and serve* at
its harbor, the superstructure and
oil on the water still horned.
Docks Destroyed
A Cities Service Oil Corp. offi
cial said it will be “several days”
flea kuwtM rant art/? fhP
nrn
hunt
down
Trial
youth
staying
today i
th* trii
January
Althnui
could
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