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*£*• " Mostly cloudy and a tittle warmer this afternoon and tonighU with occaatonal light rain. Saturday warmer WBfcviridHy scattered show* er* v; y-. jA'i : ■ V '■ , ;' ' g | -j w&g otK* *§ THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME • TELEPHONES 3117-SI 18 DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. *7 T 1 1 — --------■ — ——— .— ..i ... . .... ...:..... 1 " .. .— * .” ——■ t SVANGfUSTIC MTY ARRIVING TQOAY « ^«|liiii*»w». ■■A* »iy -* i> ■imih 11*1.1* »*<i . .*■■■>! y . To Open City-Wide gn Here On Sunday CANDIDATES. RENEE. ABE. SCENES, BRUCE A A DOLL Harnett Representative Canon Qregory to a »ure candidate tor a fourth term in the legislature He hasn’t announced yet hut re minds friends. "I haven't quit run ning since the tint day I announ ced" . No opposition is expected. , There's a boom underway to per suade Jos Currin of Angler to run for county commissioner in his di strict and he’s expected to do so Mr. Currin, a brother of Buck end Hank Currin of Dunn, is a veteran in the service of Reynolds Tobacco Company ■ . He’s chairman of the mmflis I en rase Twa> I By LEE CRA1L Renee Marttz, 15-year-old evangelist, “The Preacher With The Be-Bop 8tyle" will return today from an engagement in Augusta, Georgia, where she was re ported to have packed them in. She will begin a week of services Sunday afternoon at 3 P. M at the Dunn City Hall. Renee, a beauty at fifteen, has already been all over the world preaching the gospel. She has vi sited 3*1 countries and can ring gospel songs in 13 tongues with a •‘definite be-bop lilt" At age six. she asked ner father (who wa* then the only preacher in the family) if she could give the sermon that night. He said rite could and she did. Now Daddy is (he song leader. Renee enjoys her work. Though she has had to leave many friends behind, she figures she make* more than anyone els* and that evens up the score. She wa* ordained right here In Dunn and that ia why rite te ao anxious to speak here again. Harnett Wife Is Divorced For Adultery Eugene E. Sloan of Western Har nett was granted a divorce from Stella Sloan in Harnett Superior Court on grounds of adultery. Jurors found after brief deliber ation that adultery had been pro ven in the case. The divorce action was brought by attorneys for Sloan, who is in military service overseas. Sloan alleged in the complaint his wife committed adultery on the 15th of May. 1M4 with a man nam ed Lacy Sloan “and with various other persons whose names are un known." Mrs. Sloan, an attractive young woman, filed an answer in which she denied that »he was guilty of sexual misconduct. Before the case reached trial, however, she with (Continued on Page Five) WATH BOND ISSUE TO BE DECIDED Lillington Votes Tuesday , By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer The special election Lil lington citizens will hold next Tuesday, February 28 on whether or not they will issue $145,000 in bonds to finance a new city water sys tem, linking the county seat with the Cape Fear River, last night had assumed the appearance of a hot munic ipal election. LUUngton Is now served by fin deep wellsy An engineering Ann of Moore. Oardner end Associates of Asbeboro. in s report Hied In December with the Town Council termed the well# as entirely 'in adequate for fire protection or si an attraction to new industry " ' One of the five veils popularlj celled “Old Rusty** end admitted^ the town’s most prolific has ob jectionable iron deposits which fel almost entirely to the lot of resi dents of the Saetom half of thi town. Muddy, rusty water, detrl mental to clothes and plumbing fixtures, but safe to drink, has pro vided the campaign slogan. "Dawn with Old Rusty." Advocates of the bond issue are headed by Mayor Henry Hamilton and the town council, and support ed by the majority of residents of the Eastern half of town who have argued long and loud that it Is not fair for the town to exist "half muddy and half clear,” that the muddy water user pays the game las and the mm water rata (CiaMssil aa Page ftm) I Ike Expected To Announce On Wednesday WASHINGTON OP> — Presi dent Eisenhower’s announce ment of his political future is expected to be made at the White House, perhaps at his next news conference on Wednesday, February 29. But. Mr. Elsenhower has said he would make the announcement as dramatic as possible, which has suggested to some persons that he will appear personally before the voter-, on television. He will return frow his Oeorgia vacation day after tomorrow Mr. Elsenhower told associates here jefore emplaning for Oeorgia last seek that he wanted a second arm. He also wanted to test his jbysical well-being during a week >1 10 days of comparatively vtg irous activity before making any Inal decision or announcement of its political intentions. That is the way It lay when the resident departed. Feb. 15 for he Thoma-ville plantation of Preasury Secretary Oeorge M. iumphrev. If Mr. Eisenhower has. further id vised Washington associates of Us intentions, the United Press is jot aware of it. The Republican eaderahip, however, has followed •losely the reports from Thomas - fill*, especially of Mr Eisenhow er* sradity expanding ^physical MIMS« on Page Bw Rev. Tom Foley Fo Speak Here The Reverend Tom Foley, miss unary to Brasil, now on funough in this counfry, will be the guest: preacher at the First Presbyterian Church on Sunday night, February 16. The Young People and Pioneers i jf the church win have Mr. Foley j is their guest at a 6 o'clock meet ing. The congregation will enjoy a), fellowship supper following this meeting at 6:45 p. m. Mr. Foley wl>l ipeak in the sanctuary at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Foley Is the son of the Rev erend and Mrs. W. L. Foley of San ford. is father was farmer peg tor >f the LiUlngton Presbyterian Church. Mr. Foley is married and las two sons. He is particularly talented in music and has been classified as a musical missionary. I rhe public is cordially invited to] year him Sunday evening. * Record Roundup + Eiunsnn o i Art lutminu — Dunn Chapter 60, Order of East - ern Star, will honor all past ma trons and past patrons Monday eve ning at 8:00 in the Masonic Tem ple. There will also be an initia tion. All members are most cor dially invited to attend. 1 Aiwr, MILL 1XJUK — un vueo day, February 28, 40 clerical and other office employes of Carolina Power and Light in Raleigh will tour the mill plants at Erwin. W. IH. Miley, Jr., manager, will per sonally direct their tour. (Continued on Page Fire) Proffit Seeking Directors Post H * r n e t t’s Superintendent of Schools Glenn T. Promt will com pete with a classroom teacher. Miss Heien Wilkins of Henderson, for the post of director In the state education association. The election —with all teacher-members voting —ts this Wednesday. Promt is sponsored by the Har nett units of the North Carolin* Education Association, of Class room Teachers and of the Educo Club as director in the North Cen tral District of the North Carolina Education Association. His career Includes five years as a classroom teacher. 14 as a prin cipal. 11 as superintendent. He wss appointed acting superinten dent In Harnett In 1944 and ex cept for four years. 1947-61 when he served as superintendent In Orange County, he “has been the (<MknMi on Page Five OLENN FHOPTTT LUCKY FFA PRESIDENT — Future farm ers ran crow almost anything, but you went find many girls like these among the tall com. With FFA’er Bobby Johnson, president of the ehtb at Dunn High School, are Sue Bailey, left, Mary Gafl Tart, center, and June Register, all nominees for FM Sweetheart. Jane won. A fourth nominee, Linda Altman, was now present for the picture. BROADSLABBERS, OTHER RURAL FRIENDS TO BE HONORED Country Style Day Mar. 2 Everybody better get out their best dancing shoes be cause Jim Thornton and his whole gang of TV entertain ers will descend on Dunn March 2 for “Country Style Day.” The bis benefit for the March of Dimes grew out of that wrangie Jim ha dwith the folks in Benson. Dunn's downright tolerant attitude, in accepting the Capital of the Broedslab tag which Benson re lected. impressed Big Jim so much He said he'd bring his show in here 'or free. Mayor Ralph Hanna announced this morning that Thornton has finally found a ho*e in his busy schedule and will be here a week from today to pay in the Dunn ternary. Originally, it was panned to call (Continued on Page Five) SIX FROM HARNETT TO ATTEND $50 DINNER \ Politics Is Getting \Warmer In State . RALEIGH (IPi — Democratic Party leaders of North Carolina gathered today on the eve of the annual fund raising Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner and the hot topic, was the suddenly booming race for lieutenant governor. Guardsmen To Appear On TV Show National Guardsmen from Dunn, who have been getting a Superior rating since 1950. will have a part in a haif-hour special TV broad cast from Raleigh on Channel 28 at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Sgt. Eugene Huggins said today that a final conference by battery officers and key non-coms will be held tonight at the Dunn Armory to complete pians for Dunn’s part of the program. The TV show cele brates National Guard Muster Day. Ouardsmen from here who will be on the program are in the gun section, and they will be taken to Raieigh by the motor pool. Also on deck for a visual presentation of their activities will be National Guard helicopters from the Ral eigh-Durham airport Sgt. Huggins said that there will (Continued on Pare Two) state’s 100 oounties, virtually all thigh elected officials and most candidates in the May 26 primary, announced and unannounced,, will attend the 150-dollar affair tomor row night. Sen. Stuart Symington. <D-Mo.) will be the principal speak (Can tinned ao H|t Five) • Bargain Days Hit Finale On Saturday Bargain Day sales have rolled right along since the opening yesterday morning. With those attracted by Bar gain Days in addition to the thousands who regularly pour in on Saturdays, Dunn storekeepers expect to be frazzled — if happy — by tomorrow night. new owner Paul Perry announced that through Bargain Days be Is giving away absolutely tree one Goodyear tire with the purchase of any three other tinea Pour for the price of three, it seemed cer tain that the bargain would go over. Ed Black, Jr., chairman of the Retail Merchants Association which gained the cooperation Jf practical ly all Dunn's active ousineees for the three-day sales campaign, de clared that everything went fine yesterday. Like last year’s chairman ChAiU* j les Hildreth, Black believes the' Bargain Days sales bring in people who don’t normally come to Du!\n, couii be a factor in securing their year—around patronage. Though (Continned On Page Three) , - Never Should' That Tractor Just before Christmas. Bobbie Godwin, described by officers ad approximately 39 years old, wft* P -’t under a suspended sentence far manufacturing whiskey. Yesterday he was ack in jail, facing a fresh charge of ‘‘having a still for the pu-.oose of the manufacture of .t whisky.” Godwin was arrested after a running chase by rural police officers. ' Six of the rural policemen spent two or three hours in the bushes near a still in Avcradboro town ship off Highway 40. waiting to see .< if Godwin would come near. It was alleged that be operated a tractor for awhile, finally got off the tractor, leaving the motor run ning. and came down to the still and stirred some beer. When of HUBERT PEAY APPOINTED CHAIRMAN Jaycees Seeking New "Miss" Dunn The search is beginning for a Harnett County girl who can knock the Judges in the “Miss North Carolina" contest for a loop. Hubert Peay, who learned today that he is to be general chairman of the annual Mias Dunn Pageant sponsored by the Jaycees. said ap plications can be filed starting next week. Primarily a beauty contest, the pageant nevertheless will prob ibly be won by a girl who can prove she has all-around abilities. | Last year’s winter, Peggy Ruth Barfield, besides looking pretty, did a reading which was considered a . factor in her winning. Each entry has to display some talent. Though anyone is free to enter (anyone female, that is, and bet (Continued on Page Plus I fVlUSHT fAIVlILT UKAMA IN tUUKIKUUW Pinto Beans On Saturday Nite by i r.u tiiAib Most families have their arguments in private, or in that sort of semi-private where only the neighbors next door and across the street can hear. Yet a certain num ber of family quarrels boil over into police court and be come, in a sense, public business. In the Dunn Recorder's Court yesterday morning, a slight, curly haired young man named Charles Hair, only a couple of yean out of high school, pled guilty to run ning into a stop sign and was fined $35 and oasts. Practically all Hair did in the ease was to announce himself guilty, and he did that as quietly as possible. Those who came after him were hwt nearly as quiet nor did they i feel as guilty. The offending driver U usually, by the time he ranches < court, a penitent, bat the suivivor < it tt surprising mat tney do sur. rive— is apt to be a wildest H“ narrows his eyes and waits for a chance at seif-defense. yesterday Judge H. Paul Shriek land had a number of family quar rels to settle. Ah' but the first U - polved negroes. Some. If not all of these cases were the type where jartidpant* had grabbed whatever was bandy, and since ice picks MMB to bo wmr bandy In a certain lumber of twees, it is easy to w* lerstand why the police ere oeoss Btt
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