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* WEATHER * Fair to partly cloudy and mild thla afternoon. Increasing cloud I - neaa and wanner tonight. Thurs day cloudy and somewhat cooler with occasional rain. . U , THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES S117-S118 DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 8, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 48 DUNN City Hall A FATEFTL HALF-HOIR — What could be a fateful half hour la the hbtory of Dunn occurred between 1#:M and It a. m. this morning an local spokesmen. headed by Mayor Ralph Hanna (extreme right) met with officials of the Atlantic Coast Line. Two of the three railroad men in this picture are rice presidents. L. S. Jeffords, center, with handkerchief in pocket, is vice president In charge of operations and on his right is J. M. Fields, vice president In charge of traffic. Next to f ields is Lee Williams, staff assist Wt to Champ Dark, president of the Coast Line. Local men besides Hanna were, (from left) Nathan Johnson, Sr.. Bob Hadley and Cart Mahone, Dunn's "Man of the Tear* who headed a special drfega Uon appointed by the Mayor to work np facto to present to the rail road. Not shown, but members of the Coast Line party, were J. R. McLendorn. assistant general freight agent, and J. U. Hooker, trainmaster of Richmond District Coast Line Would Bring Big Influx World Prayer Day Is Set For Friday NEW YORK Of — A Sioux Ind ian chiefs prayer will follow the son around the world when mil lions of Christians take part in World Day of Prayer on Friday, February 17. . The first service will be led by Queen Salote of the Tonga Islands near the -International Dateline in mid-Pacific. The last sarviee wt.l be held in a recentlv built church on St. Lawrence Island, midway In the Bering Sea between Alaska and the Siberia Coast. The day of prayer, soonsored by the United Church Women, a part of the National Council of Churcn ea, wlh be observed in 134 nations. In the United States. 20.000 towns will participate. National radio net works will carry special programs or urge their affiliated stations to end the broadcasting day with the special prayer. The service was prepared by American Indians from 1# tribes who are attending a training schoo* for Indian Christian leaden in Arizona. They choose a prayer re cited in early America by Chief Yellow Lark, a Sioux chief. IN HOSPITAL Friends of Mrs. Vesper McLaur in of Route 2. Dunn win be glad to know that her condition has im proved although she is confined in the'Dunn Hospital due to a fall at her home last week. If the Atlantic Coast Line decided to settle its gen eral offices in Dunn — and this is one of 40 towns being considered — it would mean an influx of 50000 people. L. R Jeffords. vice-president and general manager of the railroad, headed a delegation which stopped in Dunn this morning for a con ference with civic leaders headed by Mayor Ralph Hanna. Mayor Han$a reported that Jef fords said the puifwse of the whlrfwind tour these officials are making of towns which have in vited the railroad is to determine Which of the cites could best stand the strain of such an influx. "They want to see whether the town would bust aside at the sea ms,'’ the Mayor said. Que-tions about power facilities, schools and churches, water and sewer development, fire and police protection were thrown at local representatives by the Coast Line officers. Whether there is room for expan sion as faT as housing is concern ed, and what chances there are for getting semi-skilled workers for clerical job* and other types of work were among the matters dis cussed. All discussions took place in the (Continued Ob Page fjtevea) --- Record Roundup MARRIAGE LICENSE—A mar riage license was issued Feb. 8 from the office of the register of deeds in LUdngton to: Julian i Erast us Watkins, 25. Sanford and Elizabeth Juanita McLeod. 25. of Broadway Route One. PANCAKE SUPPER — The local P. T. A. Is sponsoring a Pancake supper which will be held Friday (Continued On Page Seven) RICH HEIR RULED INCOMPETENT AT DEATH Thorne's Fiancee To Get $350,000 CHICAGO (IP — A bitter 19 - month fight over the $2 million estate of Montgomery Ward Thome was settled today when a judge said the youth’s “great fears” invali dated the will in which Thome virtually cut off his moth er in favor of his sweetheart only 10 days before he mys teriously died. Judge Julius H. Miner approved the settlement granting the Mont gomery Ward heir's sweetheart, Maureen Ragen, and her mother <350,000. HU mother, Mrs. Marion Expectant Mother Given Ride, Robbed MIAMI «P> — An expectant mother told police today how a man slipped into the back seat of her car and forc ed her to drive around for a 20-minute “night-mare” be fore robbing her of $336 she had just withdrawn from a bank. Mrs. Albert Fraga. 31, had left the bank and began to drive away from a parking lot with her 2-year old daughter, Jan. She said that blocks, a voice from the rear seat after she had driven about 10 said "Don't turn your head. I've got a gun.” "I couldn’t see him in the rear i view mirror.” she sald."Ke was crouching on the floor In back." Mrs. Frags said at first she thought it might be a prank and turned around. She said the gun man grabbed her hair and started pmling it “He told me again if I turned around he’d take my baby away with him.” She said the man told her to tarn there or four times and then “told me to hand him my purse." “I threw it in the back seat.** she said. The man then told her to stop the oar. and he slipped eat (Ontinned On Page Four) Thorne, gets the rest. rout PLAT SUSPECTED Thorne’s body was found June 19, 1954, amid evidence of a sex and narcotics party. Both sides hinted he had met with foul play. Miner commented only that he “died under somewhat mysterious circumstance*.” Miner set aside Thome’s sec - ond and last will which gave his | mother and his aunt each one eighth of his estate. His sweet - heart was to have received half and her mother one fourth. Miner said Thome, 19. was le gally incompetent and that his will was not “a free and volun tary act." HAD BETTER LAWYER TNOLEWOOO, Calif. W — Two lawyers arrested simultaneously on identical speeding charges defend ed each other before municipal Judge Lester O. Luce. Attorney Daniel J. Bloomgarden was acquitted but attorney Dud ley Grav was found guilty and fin ed $10. Said Gray: “T can only conclude that my col league had a better lawyer." Freakish Fire In Car Burns Benson Minister » .^atverend ltoy Campbell bf Trinity Baptist Church near Benson is in Dunn Hospital as the result of a freakish fire in the interior of his car. Rural Policeman A. W. O'Quinn and B. E. Sturgill arrived at Reid (Contlnaed On Page Seven) SOLON REPLIES TO OPONENT Carlyle Seeks Fifth Term Congressman F. Ertel Car lyle of Lumberton has made it official that he’s a candi date for re-election to his fifth consecutive term. He paid his filing fee- yesterday, the same day that Former U. S. Senator Alton A. Lennon made It publicly known that he’s running against Carlyle. Both Canyle's filing and Len non's announcement were expected and came as no surprise to voters of the district. Congressman Cariyle, who through seniority of service has gained positions on the important Committee on Interstate and For eign Commerce, made no formal statement in filing, but took the opportunity to crack back at a charge leveled against him by Len non in letters sent out over the di strict. Lennon had Charged that Carlyle was negligent in failing to attend two Senate committee hearings held recently in Raleigh. REPLIES TO CHARGE “Those meetings," pointed out Carlyle when contacted in Wash ington, ‘‘were Senate meetings. I’m not in the Senate, of course. I at tend the meetings I think I should attend. "And I prefer,” he added, “to take my advice from someone who has been more successful." Mr. Canyle had spent the week end in the district to address a meeting and Chadboume an^ stop ped in Raleigh yesterday while enroute back to Washington to pay bis filing fee. Loot ago he had said, "My bat b m the mg. It has been tfcgre since r first announced. I have never taken It out” A hard fight is no novelty to the veteran colon. He has had tough scraps each election, but always won easily in the end. Before his election to Congress eight years ago, Mr. Canyle was solicitor of the Ninth District. THROAT SLASHED WITH BUTCHER KNIFE Nude Woman Found Slain By Maniac PHILADELPHIA (tP> — A neighbor found the slash ed body of a naked woman in a small West Philadelphia apartment last night. She apparently was the victim of a sex maniac. Homicide detectives said they be lieved the layer broke into the apartment because wood in the side doorway was splintered. The body was on a day bed. The woman’s throat had been slashed and a large kitchen knife was buried in her abdomen to the handle, the investigators reported. A pillow covered her face. Detectives said the woman, a blonde, apparently had been dead from three to five days. Letters in the three-room flat bore the name of Miss Date Camon. An identifica tion card found under the bed was made out to a Delma Cannon, age (Continued On Page Seven) Lucy Discloses She Got Warning Calls BIRMINGHAM, Ala. API — Autherine Lucy disclosed today that she received two warnings to get out of town or suffer the consequences following her expulsion as the first Negro student at the University of Alabama. The 26-year-old Negro's attorney. Arthur Shores, announced mean while that he is ready to go to court again after tomorrow If the university continues its refusal to re-admit the coed. Miss Lucy attended classes for three days at the Tuscaloosa cam pus on orders of the federal court but was expelled following riotous disorders. Shores said at a joint press con ference that he feels the Alabama trustees’ reliance on their police powers to keep her away "will not hold up in federal court.” He said the courts have always held that police powers “must give way to constitutional rights." | Mias Lucy said an anonymous caller reached her at a rural hide away to which she was spirited following her exit from Tuscaloosa | Monday. GET OCT OF TOWN "You had better get that Lucy out of there because we are coming to get her," she said the caller warned. She said the call was followed by another which repeated the warning but that no one ever, came to the house. Mias Lucy said she had no police protection at the place of hiding which was believed to have been a well-kept secret “I am assuming I will go back to the university tomorrow,” she said, but added that she would await action from the Alabama trustees before going back. The university authorities ap peared to be firm in their deter mination to refuse the re-admission at least for the present. I ERTCL CARLYIE Dtgd IN BED WiTH~~PRETTY WIDOW Sinful Priest May Be Denied Requiem j HERNANDO, Miss. <DP) — Roman Catholic officials de i bated today whether to permit requiem mass for a priest who died in bed with a pretty widow, both the victims of accidental asphyxiation. The bgdies of the Rev. Thomas J. Connolly, about 45, of Macon, 111., and Mrs. Edward Minor, about 40, of Springfield. HI., were found in a tourist court bedroom two days ago. Sheriff W. A. White *aid the couple had checked in as “the Connollys". He said they were killed by gas escaping from a heater which had gone out. In Springfield, Bishop William A. OConnor confirmed that Con nolly was pastor of St. Stanislaus Church In Macon and of a mission at Moweaqua. HI. Bishop O’Connor said high offi cers of the church were investi gating circumstances to determine whether to deny requiem mass to Sonnolly as a "known sinner.” He said the priest’s parishioners were "surprised and shocked" at the circumstances of the death. Dogs Created Big dogs, little dogs and in-be tween dogs are equal before the law, Dog Warden Earl Weds point ed out today. All have to be listed for taxes. Harnett dogs, were supposed to have been listed for taxes by Jan uary 31, but the time has been ex tended to February 15. The penalty for failure to list a dog, regardless of size, may be as high as $50 per dog. Warden Wells estimates there are (Continued On Page Seven) Equal - All Concedes Russia May Be Ahead With Missiles WASHINGTON Iff) — Pres ident Eisenhower told a news conference today he thinks he will be able to announce his decision on a second term by the %pd of this month. He was asked a series of ques tions about the possible avail ability of Chief Justice Earl War ren as a Republican presidential candidate. He said there were many ways Warren could be a candidate and the chief justice would en counter no opposition from the President. He said, however, that he did not think it would be appropriate for him. in case he decides not to run again, to ask any other Re publican to make the raoe. To do so, the President said, would imply that he could win the election for another man. Other news highlights of the meeting with reporters: 1. The recent riots involving a Negro student at the University Of Alabama are deplorable. 2. He conceded that Russia might be ahead of this country in aome aspects of the development of guided missiles, but he thought the United States is ahead in other areas. He said he thought this country’s guided missile program represents the best possible effort of American scientists. 3. He has not yet completed his reply to the latest letter from So viet Premier Nikoiai Bulganin. He wants to continue the exchange of correspondence on the theory that this country should never take the position of blocking any available avenue to peace, no matter how ttny. %. He hill do everything wtthitt h-s constitutional powers to pre teat an outbreak of hosttlitiles in Ut2 Middle East. 5. As far as he knows, his broth. —Dr-—Milton Eisenhower, presi dent or Pennsylvania State Uni versity, has no political ambitions. Shortly after the President walk ed into the news conference room where 238 reporters were waiting, he was asked flatly whether he would announce his re-election before March 1,., s TRUST OWN FEELINGS He said he had always avoided setting a fixed date, but that he thought by the end of February be would have enough information on which to base a decision. The President spoke slowly and with what appeared to be deep sin cerity as he said he thought ho would trust his own feelings men than a decision by his doctors. He will undergo an physical checkup Feb. 13-11 to de termine the extent of his recovery from the heart attack which he suffered Sept. 34. He was asked whether, In tim ing his announcement of his deci sion. he would take into consider ation the possible Impact on the stock market He replied first by saying he did not understand why the stock market dropped so abruptly when he suffered his coronary throm i Continued On Page Smew) DEALERS HOLD MEETING IN DUNN Electrical Appliance Sales Break All Records In Area Electrical appliance sales broke all previous records i in the Dunn trsd-' oeoo in I 1955. This record v"'" an-, nounced at the annual Elec trical Appliance Dealers meeting sponsored by Caro lina Power and Light Com pany here last night. The 100 appliance dealers who attended the meeting were told by H. O. 1*1 ey. Oeneral Sales Mana ger of Carolina Power St Light Co., that they practically doubled ; the sale* quotas set for the Dunn area last year. He continued by saying, "The | ! favorable factor* for the econo- ' mic growth appear# so deeply en trenched. that we prophesy unin terrupted prosperity throughout and h*r*nd 1956.” INTERESTED IN VALUE Mr. Isley warned the group that a nationwide trend indicate# that the home owners are becoming in terested in what the electrical ap pliances will do for their homes and not the actual selling price sf the equipment. “Any electrical dea ler who sells price alone, can ex pect a very rough time in 1956," he said. Howard Hicks. Residential Rural Sales Manager for CPAL. also addressed the group and told the dealers that in 19M thetpfo | lar volume is ejected to be $2, i 780.000. He said, "In every count in the Dunn trade area, the tread to all-electrical homes becomes a © re obvious each month. “Out of every 100 homes in Du>m there are 87 electric ranges, 94 electric water heaters. 21 ham* freezers and practically every h*» me has at least one or more «|eo trie refrigerator." After his address, Mr. Hicks gars ah of the dealers a copy of tie Carolina Power * light yearbook for electrical Dealers which covert sales quotas and the sales pro* grams for 19M. The general sale* theme to 18M Is “MV* BETTER-— EU5CTRICAMT."
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