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* WEATHER * Or*-rally fair In East. Consid erable cloudiness tonight and Wed nesday. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME < TELEPHONES SI 17 - 3118 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1958 -- --,r-■ .. — FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 49 ----- ..mm—.. innuTinum.w .. THROBBING TIME 18 HERE AGAIN — Val entine's Day flattered la today aad all over the county hearts were presumably bounding madly at sweet Terse* ll'a counting my calories hon est and true, and find I'm deficient In Vitamin l"). At Mary Stewart School, where Larry Smith JhjiM Jitth JhinqA By loom ADAMS . FASTER, AX, A SALK. A CHttCH, GLEASON STOUT The new Porter’s Restaurant, to be iocated across the street from its present location to the Hotel Cotton Dale, win be one of the moat lavish and most beautiful in the State when it's completed . . Arthur Pope, owner of the Cotton Dale. Is sparing no expense. . . - When the architect was drawing up the plans. Pope to.d him. “I want it Just as nice as any restaurant in the State. I want the very best." . . .He’s a man with enough money to talk like that and mean it, too . . “He's buying equipment and putting in modem innovations I've always dreamed about but never hoped to have," declared Gilbert Porter, who Is leasing the building from him . . Porter is pleased as punch, too . . The disc Jockeys are already playing "Easter Parade." . . In case you hadn’t already thought about it, there are only 46 mere days until Easter, which falls on April 1 this year. . . Former V. 8. Senator Alton Lennon was back In Dunn # yesterday to begin a round of campaigning for the seat now held by Congressman F. Ertel Cariyle. , . He looks just as hsndsome and distinguished as ever. We spotted the Senator t in a serious huddle with Fred By* erly, local Insurance and finance man . He and Fred are old fri ends, were classmates at Wake Forest . Mr. Lennon still has to (ONSthned ea Page Two) COUPLE CAUGHT CAVORTING IN THE NUDE Love-For-Hire Ring Smashed By Police NEW YORK (W — Pqlice today held a platinum blonde and a brunette ex - show girl, picked up In two raids that broke up a $100-a-date call girl operation. The 21-year-old blonde, who Identified herself m Jane Stacey ot Buffalo, was arrested yesterday as she and a male “date" cavorted in the nude in an expensive hotef suite. The girl told reporters she was a Vaasar student taking a holiday in New York. Vassar de nied aha was registered there. The brunette, Jane Ox*. ». was charged with running the love for money ring. She was arrested in a police raid on her fancy apart ment which featured a plush, custom-made bar. Police said they learned of a telephone call' in which Mrs. Cook told the man she had a "nice one far you this time.” Mrs. Cook ar ranged for the “date” and Mist Stacey to meet at the Cook ap*rt (Centtaaad Ob Pace Bight) OLDEST RESTAURANT GETS BIGGER QUARTERS Porters Moving Into Cotton Dale Twenty-one years in the restaurant business in Dunn, B. Gilbert Porter today announced plans to move across the street from his present location. AB ptWBTJUJ U*VC Wire BMC of Hotel Cotton Dale is already under serious major alteration' as workmen prepare a place for the new version of "Porter's Restaur ant.'* Porter expects to have the doors open on a restaurant which will seat 96 by April 1. The architect employed by Montgomery Greene of Raleigh has drawn up the plans. There will be a private dining room for 40. Porter said he wlb now cater for parties, banquets and club meetings. The restaurant wlfl be owned by operated by Porter, his wife Lucille, and Mrs. Lucille Falrcloth. Ah' new equipment will be installed. It will be neatly and colorfully decorated. By moving ri#ht across the street, the restaurant does not yield the choice location it has enjoyed all these years — with the two main highways, SOI and 421, going right by. MODERNISTIC THROUGH OUT The new restaurant will be one of the very latest, modernistic de sign and no expense Is being spared to provide the best equipment avail able. Arthur F. Pope is owner of the hotel building. Pope and Mixon, local building supply concern, is handling the remodeling project. Willard Mixon Is supervising the construction work. Parking space will' be provided (Caattnaad Oa Page Eight) This Transfer Student Is All Right J(un«s Albert Lewis, a top bas ketball player since his transfer . from Westbrook High School, has I been selected as Dunn High's “Stu dent of the Month.'' While at Westbrook he was presi dent of the Sophomore class, presi dent of the Beta Chib, appeared in the junior play — and of course played basketball and baseball In the 11th grade there, he won a special award for his athletic performance*. At Dunn, he is a member of the Beta Club, Teen-Age and Hi-Y gitbups. takes an in-and-out ol class interest in chemistry. Eng lish, he declares, is his hardest sub ject. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A Lewis, Sr. of Route 5, Dunn, hi attends Oak Grove Church and Hood Memorial Christian Church. He lives with his unde, W. P Williford, at 506 8. Magnolia Ave. Record Roundup TO MEET WEDNESDAY—-Th< United Daughters of the confed eracy will meet with Mr- Ouy Har dee at the home of her mother Mrs. J. W. Purdie on West Divln* Street Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 Mrs. William Newsome, president announces that the District Direc tor, Mrs. Mildred McKay of San ford will be guest of the chib. Shi will be Introduced by Mrs. Nathar Johnson. NO LET UP—The LUUngtar O round Observation Corps went or duty on an “around-the-clock'' ba sis, starting February 1st. Since that time, R. N. Sessoms, chief ob server, said yesterday that then has not been an hour that the post has not been staffed by volunteer civilian defense workers The poet (OssHmmI Ob Page Tww) Finer Carolina Organizing This Evening Thirty or forty local leaders ar* expected to be at the Finer Carol ina meeting tonight at Johnson's Restaurant. They will be guests of Carolina Power and Light. R. N. Hadley, manager of the Dunn branch of the power com-1 pany, said today that Finer Caro- j ilna will again sponsor community programs in 1996. Cash prises are to be awarded the towns which, in the opinion of the Judges, do the most out standing Job of overall community development. Towns are Judged in | competition with others in the same i population group (1-1000, 1000 3000, 3000-up i. The cash award amounts to $1000. $350 of which goes to the group, club, organization or agency which. sponsored the outstanding project for the community. 1995 winners are to be announ ced later this week. Hadley said today that the power company has sponsored Finer Car olina because of a desire to he Id j directly the area served. “Improving the economy of a community and j developing community pride is not ] a Job for any individual.” an offi cial company statement states, “but I it via be up to you to see that the i chance’ for a year of progressing your community fc pot last.” j Ttia( Finer Carolfha dinner anC ’discussion program begins at 7:30 p. m tonight at Johnson’s. WHITE VEH FILES RALEIGH W—Basil L. Whltener of Gastonia filed today as a candi date in the May 26 Democratic pri mary for Congress in the nth Dis trict. Ralph W. Gardner of Shelby became the first of three announc ed candidates to pay a $229 filing fee for the race to succeed Rep. Woodrow W. Jones who will not seek re-election. LOVERS ACCUSE EACH OTHER Husband Is Slain In Love Triangle DETROIT M—An Iraqi immi grant and her lover admitted plot ting the stabbing death of her husband today, but each accused the other ol wielding the knife. Maurice Hamilton. 20-year-old Scotch-Iraql immigrant, told police Mrs. Victoria Haisha. 23, killed her husband. Aziz Haisha. 38, after their plot to hire a killer fell through ‘ when bandits stole the 42.000 death money. Earlier he had been accused by Mrs. Halsha of wielding the knife. MADE LOVE IMMEDIATELY Both told police of making love immediately after the statthng. (Continued On Pare Six) mm ^ HARP SOLOIST TO APPEAR — Mildred Dilllng, inter nation ally famous harpist will appear In D. Rich Memorial Auditorium, 8 p. m. Thursday, aa a feature of the Campbell College Community Concert Association series. LENNOX CAMPAIGNS IN HARNETT — For mer If. S. Senator Alton Lennon of Wilmington, seeking the seat now held by Congressman F. Er tel Carlyle, arrived in Dunn yesterday to spend a full week of campaigning in Harnett. He's shown here at noon today haring lunch with Henry A. Turlington. left, and W. A. (Bill) Taylor, right. two prominent Harnett Democratic leaders. Mr. Lennon says he has been highly gratified and en couraged over the enthusiastic response given his announcement. "If elected," he said. “I ll work hard and will try to make the district a good Congressman." (Daily Record Photo.) STICKING WITH HARRIMAN DeSapio Dares AdlaiTo Enter June 5 th Primary In New York Democratic National Committee- j man Carmine DeSap.o, active mas- ; tcnafbd of Gov. Henman’s “inac tive" candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination, yesterday challenged the New York support ers of Adlai Stevenson to enter this state’s June 5 Presidential primary election. This was DeSapio’3 'eply to the clam of the Stevenson forces that private polls show Stevenson 4 to 1 over Harriman among Democrats (Continued On Page Eight) ASKING TRUSTEES FOR ADVICE ON ACCUSED RED Campbell Didn't Know Myers Past The president of Campbell College, Dr. Leslie C. Camp bell, said today he had prepared a statement concerning faculty member John Myers who has indicated he will be an uncooperative witness before the House Un - American Activities Committee. /•AnnlAtAfl m imtof .'on President Campbell said his state ment wtil be mailed as a letter to members ol the Baptist College’s 24-man board of directors includ ing Chairman W. Carroll Bryan of Jacksonville, North Oarolina. "It (the statement) is as object ive as I can make it," Dr. Camp bell stated. He said he was not advising the board on what action should be taken about Myers sta tus <m the faculty. “I am asking them for advice.” Myers’ name was cataoulted into the news last week when he gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Reoord and announced . his op position to any move the House committee may make in probing What he considers “personal politi cal beliefs." Myers said he beliwved the com mittee subpoenaed him because he had been connected with the Com munist party by two government witnesses. One of them, Ralph Long was a student in a class taught by Myers when he was teaching and studying In graduate school at the University of North Carolina from 1946 to 1949. The other witness, Ralph Clontz of Charlotte, suggest ed there was an association be tween Myers and Junius Scales,, Dr. Campbell has been repartee as saying that he did not knov Myers had failed to sign a ques tionnaire circulated among the (ac uity at the University of Nortl Carolina which asked about Com (Colnttnued on Page Eight) Lillington Entering Finer Carolina Race * y Nothing can be finer than that Lillington should en ter the “Finer Carolina” contest for 1956. That was the concensus of i small group of community lewd ers who met with R. N. Hadley area manager of the Carolina Po wer and Light Company, on Fri day night at the Lillington Com m unity Center. But exact details of the project needed and the formation of i permanent steering committee wil be drawn on Wednesday. Feb. 1! at 8 p. m. in the Lillington Schoo Library. Roger Joluiso ft, principal of th Riviera Hit By Blizzard; Areas isolated LONDON (IP) — A relent less cold wave today main tained its grip on Europe where nearly 450 persons have died in an unprecedent ed two - week siege of snow and ice. Conditions in Scandinavia ap proached the chaotic winter of 1658 when King Karl Gustav X of Sweden inarched his army across the frozen sea to conquer Denmark. The belts of water separating hundreds of Danish islands neared a total freeze during the night and Denmark's “bear fleet” of ice breakers worked to free hundreds | of trapped ships befoe supplies ! run out. A country by country count of I the dead since the first Siberian i bom coldwave moved down over ' Europe Feb. 1 showed: France 134, ' Italy 93. Yugoslavia 58, West Ger . many 46, Britain, 30, Denmark 25v Portugal 18, Greece 17, Switzerland | 12, Sweden 12 and Austria 10. Nine I ty-three persons were missing in avalanches in Yugoslavia. France expected more snow and I eleet today. The Riviera was hit j by a blizzard and some 300 auto j mobiles were trapped in snowdrifts ! aiong the coast. t FOOD BY HELICOPTER Scores of little villages in south and central France are soiated by By snowdrifts but helicopter* went 1 making regular food drops. American and Italian air force planes also were dropping relief (Continued On Page Six) Last Minute News Shorts MOSCOW — Khrushchev any* ! U. S. nearing end of its economic j rope. WASHINGTON — Federal grand J jury opens inquiry to determine if Case donation violated federal laws. ST. ATTL, Minn. — Benson ac cuses Democrats of sabotaging GOP farm program. < Continued On Page Six) ; i s a < 7 i • a x i >1 U A » l i' J 51 i Lillington School, was elected tem ■ porary chairman of the 1956 Finer , Carolina Contest Committee. Ho ie was instructed to invite one at more representatives from every — civic club in the town to meet with him on Wednesday night to effect i a permanent steering committee. Organizations to be represented i at the Wednesday night conference i will include Rotary Ciub, Junior l Chamber of Commerce, The Chari* ber of Commerce, the Parent-Tea $ (Continued On Page Two) PRETTY DIVORCEE SAYS OF LOVER SHE KILLED She Killed Him, He Had It Cominq — But She Loved Him ST. LOUIS, Mo. (IP) — A sultry young divorcee, charg ed with the first degree murder of her politically promi nent lover, reacted today with both grief and defiance. Mrs. June Joy Milton, a 26-year old brunette beauty, confessed shooting Walter A. Slebert, 58, In the back Sunday during a bedroom argument at his swank suburban home. “I’m not sorry.” the twice-wed Mrs. Milton said, “he had it com ing." But later she told a JaQ matron she should have taken her own life, also, “bwause J loved him so much.” After the murder, she confessed she set fire to the bed In which her nude lover was lying in hopes of destroying the evidence. CHARGED WITH MURDER The divorcee, a svelte five-foot three. was arrested early Monday and was charged with first degree murder and arson Monday night. Siibert, a widower, was a promi nent county Republican leader at .1 chief supervisor for the St. Lo s County Highway Department Mr. Milton said she met him thro years ago at a New Year's Era party and became his mlstresa.
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