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* WEATHER + father windy thU afternoon. Fair and colder torUaht. Wednesday sunny and rather cold. Etu- LETTER-IV THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TFIFPIIONFS 3117 • 3118 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 5H SMOOTH FROM AN EXPERT - If Uteres uiytUni Tonga. -the adorable chimp," knows tot to deliver It's a kiss. Why? Because bite’s adorable, of conroe. ElgtK-year-otd Sylvia Bare foot, oh the receiving end of a smooch from Ton ga. agreed that the chimp is an expert. Larry Watkins, who inclined to keep his distance around the chimp — what fella wants ta get a Mm? *u aa thrilled as Bjrltrla In his own way. Tonga circus, playing here under Shrine sponsorship to day only. Shows are at 4 and t p. m. In the Dunn Armory. (Daily Record Photos by Ted CraiL) HODGES ASKS $19 MILLION FOR PRECAUTION Hurricane Funds Sought JhsAS mis JhinqA By ftOOVEB ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Mr*. Fred Byerly of Dunn, who teaches In Erwin. Is a busy lady these days . .She's president of the Harnett NCEA unit and is get ting ready for the annual banquet on Thursday night, March $ With Dr. B. O. Childs of Duke a« the speaker, it promises to be a delightful evening. .A big turn out of voters is expected at Lilling ton today to decide the water bond issue. Bob Bass says a pretty redhead started that riot at Day tona Beach Sunday . “Did you help her?” we asked "No com ment." smiled Bob, with a very knowing look on his handsome face . . Somebody phoned the office CsnliniMd no Pare Two' WASHINGTON ilPt — A re J quest for a 19-miUion-dollar federal program to minimize storm damage on North Car olina’s coast in future hur ricanes was presented to the state’s congressional delega tion today by Gov. Luther H. Hodges. Tied to the hurricane program was another request for 9 million to finish partially-completed navi gation and flood control project*. The hurricane program mainly concerns beach erosion which Hod ge* said is approaching "absolute disaster” from the battering of re peated tropical hurricanes. The governor said some 350 miles of beaches will be wiped away un less steps are taken, and "it wont be too long.” Hodges presented the program to the Tar Heel congressional delega tion at a lunch meeting In the nation's capital. He and other top state officials flew to Waahigton from Raleigh this morning. ASKS PARK HELP Earlier the Raleigh delegation called on National Parks Director Conrad L. Wirth requesting that the Park Service step In and help <'Continued On Page Four I DOESN'T FEAR RUSSIANS Twining Says U. S. Safe From Attack WAsiUAuivfl un — uen. nauian i wining, mr rorce chief of staff, told congressmen today that he considers the United States is “safe” from Russian attack. “With the stockpile of nuclear weapons we have today and our capability to deliver them,” Twin In* said, “we are safe from at tack." The only possibility of attack by Russia, he said, is that Russian strategists would make “a mis take of judgment” on America’s military and retaliatory strength. “No nation is going to attempt (Cointinned on Page Eight) Here's Chance To Buy Stock $10 A Share •fhe Dunn Jaycees are joining th North Carolina Jaycees in the sup port of Governor Hodges' 6mal Industries Development Flan. Th local Jaycees want to give the peo pie of our community the oppor tunity to invest in North Carolina' future. The North Carolina Industrie Development Corporation is en dorsed by Governor Luther Hodge and the North Carolina Junto Chamber of Commerce. Its pur pose is to make long-term flnanc ing available for industrial devel opment, both new Industries an the expansion of existing industries It also has the indorsement kwi support of every large banking or ganiaation in the state. Initial financing is being done b the sale of *1.000.000 00 in comsnoi stock, which will give the corpora tion an additional borrowing powe of nine million dollars at low in (Centinaed On Pare Eight) NO REDUCTION WASHINGTON Oh—The Hous Ways and Mean Committee vote today to postpone scheduled reduc tions In corporation income taxe and excise levies. The excise taxes to be continue at present rate* Include such con sumer Items as liquor, beer an cigarettes. Marilyn Is Still Seelcina Romance HOLLYWOOD — Actress Marily Monroe on men. love and mmrriagt “I haven't had much time ft dating and romance, hot I haven given up yet.” State's Political Pot Boiling; | Many Candidates RALEIGH (IP> — North Carolina’s political pot, heat ed by an eventful past week, was boiling briskly today. The highpoint to the exciting weed was the annual Democratic Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner here. The dinner netted $32,000 lor the party’s war chest. And as the Democrat big-wigs gathered, at least one big question was answer ed. State Democratic Party Chair man John Larkins from Trenton definitely removed himself a» a possible candidate for lieutenant governor. Larkins, special legislative assis tant to Gov. Luther H. Hodges dur ing the 1955 General Assembly, had made previous statements that he was “strongly urged" to run. But Larkins' withdrawal found the race for the Democratic nomination for the state's second highest office crowded enough. Five men are in the running. Alonzo Edwards, who announced his intentions late in 1955. was the first to announce and file. At the Jefferson-Jackson dinner, he ad mitted that the numerous candi dates might “spread the shot* ’ hut said "I’m most optimistic.” BEST SECRET The best kept political secret of i the sea-on was disclosed suddenly j last week when Gurney P. Hood. ' former state banking commissioner of Raleigh, filed unexpectedly and without previous announcement for lieutenant governor. Andiiner anuouwcwf candidate, but still unfiled, was Raleigh In surance man Kidd Brewer. State Senate President Luther Bernhardt of Concord, who has been acting as the state's No. 2 man since Luther H. Hodges became gover nor at the death of the late Gov. Willie tn B Umstead. and former It. Gov. Reginald Harris Roxfooro have al»o announced. In other races which come to a ! head Saturday, the Democrats ga- j thered 50-strong to hear Ben E.! Douglas announce for Democratic j nomination as 10th District con- i eressman Douglas, former director i of the State Conservation and De velopment Department, will oppose J incumbent Charles Raner Jonas, i the state's only Republican cons-! gresmen if he is nominated. ITOGE PAUL FILES , Judge Malcolm Paul of Wash ing [ ton filed Saturdav but without fan j fare. Paul is running for judge of , the second judicial district. . Dr. Henry Jordan, mentioned I . more than once as a possible ean s didate in the lieutenant governor’s race, dispelled all doubts Satur dav. He Irvotng to r>m for the 1 state Senate from Randolph Ooun • ty. t And earlier in the. week. Gov, r Hodees learned of the first an ■ nonnced otvyxHion to o*>oo«e him: ■ OIJa Rav Bovd, Pinetcwn pig ■ breeder whose career as a political 1 aspirant Includes two unsuccessful . campaigns es »over”or. a”d two as i senator In addition to a short-lived - attempt to gain .the state nomin tion for president, Boyd said he will t oppose the governor. JUNE ALLYSON m June Awarded Boscoe, Deb Gets Panning CAMBRIDGE, Mass. 0P» — The Harvard Lampoon picked Kirk Douglas as the worst actor and Debbie Reynolds as the worst ac tress in its annual jolting of Holly wood filmdom. Lemooon editors awarded their first "Boscoe” to June Alivson. cit ing “the advances recently made in the science of geriatrics.” The actress. Lampoon said, "with eter nally girlish hominess. an aura of fresh-baked deep dish apple pie like mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the on slvrvht of the-advancing years '* Douglas “won” his accolade for performances in “Ulysses” and "The Indian Fighter.” while Miss Reynolds was cited for her “work” in “Hit the Deck!” and “Susan Slrrrt Here. ’ The Magazine singled out “Not as a Stronger’ as perhaps the worst picture of 1955.” LOWER VOTING AGE MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. U P —■ Sen Estes Kefauver, winding up a four-dav campaign tour in his bid for votes in Minnesota’s March 20 presidential' primary, said to day it is time to lower the voting age to 18 “If only to keep the na tion on an even electoral keel.” + Record Roundup + SMASHr P—Almond H. Ivey. 17 was driving his- Dad's station wa j gon in the rain yesterday when il slddded on * straightaway, went o*l ' the road into a field and over turned. Highway Patrolman David Matthews estimated $400 damage t„ 1 the elder (A. H) Ivey's oar, said nc ' charges were preferred. Acctdero 1 occurred on the Long Branch roat a mile south of Dunn. BARBECUE DINNER — Ladift of the Bethesda Womens Mission ary Society of the Bethesda Frlendi Church on Dunn. RA 1 are spon soring a barbecue and chlckei stew dinner Friday, March 2 Plates will sell for $1 each. Servim wlU be from 11 to 1, and from 0 t» 8. SENIOR BARBECUE — The Senior Class of Angier High School is -sponsoring a Bar-B-Q Supper Friday. March 2. from 5:30 to 8:30 a. m. The suwoer sail toe heW in the school lunch and will be $1.00 per plate Included in the supper are Bar-B-Q. Slaw, Husbpuppies, Coffee, or Cold Drinks. There will be pie on sale for 10c per slice. NOT BACKING LAKE GREENSBORO l» — The gen eral counsel for Patriots of North 1 Carolina, Inc. today denied that the pro-segregation organisation 1 was considering Dr. Beverly X. lake as a candidate far governor “The Patriots as an organisation 1 have no Idea of endorsing anyone", C. L. Shu ping said. nane irasnes Take 15 Other Lives In U. S. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. IW — At least 16 persons were killed and more than 60 in jured today when one com muter train smashed into the rear of another in a driv ing snowstorm here. More than 1,000 persona were board the two Boston & Maine Railroad trains which collided out side the Swampscott junction sta tion. One of the cars was ripped in two like a pea pod. Three other cars were knocked off the tracks. Fire Chief Joseph E. Scanlon said 14 bodies were puiled from the wreckage and another body stil remained Inside one of the wrecked cars. The bodies were taken to the fire station for idenUficaUon. , One Train Stopped Both trains were Boston-bound. One train, composed of four stain less steel Budd cars, was en route from Salem, Mass. The other, a nine-car diesel, was from Ports mouth train was at a standstill when it was rammed in the rear by the Salem train. The first car of the Salem train virtually crawl ed over the iast car of the Ports mouth train. Passengers inside the trains scrambled to get out Some cried hysterically. Others were in shock ed calm. The accident occurred at 8:10 a. m. EST during a whirling snow storm that hit much of New Eng land. Vjgibiiity was poor. A passenger on the Portsmouth train, yho refused to disclose his nam*.' said all the passengers in his iar were tossed off their seats. “I looked out and there was ; half a Budd car alongside my I window,” he said. Patrolman Herbert Frazier was among the first persons at the scene. He said mast of the dead were in the first car of the Budd train that had rammed into the ; diesel. “This injured were screaming and the uninjured were climbing 'otit lM windows to get to safety,” Frazier said. “It was snowing hard. There was no fire. ‘The first Budd car was split right doom the middle. It was (Continued On Page Eight) Ike To Meet Press Wed; May Announce WASHINGTON (W — The White House announced today that Presi dent Eisenhower definitely will hold a news conference at 10:30 a. m. EST tomorrow. Press Secretary James C. Hager ty refused to say whether the Pres ident would take the occasion to | morrow to announce his second term intentions. Top Republicans expected the chief executive to make his an nouncement at the conference to morrow, but Hagerty did nothing to support their expectations. Thus far the White House has not requested radio or televirion time for an add:”'s to the public by the President, nor would Hager- ! ty say when such a request would | be made. Sen. Kiloore Dies At Age 63 WASHINGTON (th—Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, veteran New Deal Dem | ocrat from West Virginia, died of a i brain hemorrhage today at the Bethesda, Md., naval hospital. The 63-year-old senator had en tered the hospital Feb. 13 for treat ment of high blood pressure. He ; suffered a stroke last Saturday and w-as in a state of semi-coma from that time until his death at 2:23 a. m. Kilgore was chairman at the (Conttnaed On Page Pear) RENEE MARTZ —She Offers Saluation TEENAGE EVANGELIST CONTINUES CAMPAIGN Fifteen-year-old Renee Martz, member of Hollywood Presbyterian Church, Chicago bom evangelist, whose par ish extends from Hong Kong to Paris, France, told an audience here in Dunn, North Carolina last night where she is currently holding a week of specii»U«aij0MMR*terv ices in the courthouse that ‘I am more fearful of the in dolent and lazy Christian than I am of the Communist.’ Deplores Of Public Taking: her text from the Old Testament Amos 6:1 she cried “Wo-a to them that are at ease in Zion.;” She spoke of the names that be come natural barriers to our way of unnecessary prejudice, like Cat holic, depression, Jew, Negro amonj others. Then telling how the word Com munist entered the headlines In re cent years more noticeably than before, Renee told how that organi zation grew from 17 members to over 900 million in only 50 years. Quoting from the pages of na tional magazines she toM of the economic and religious conditions existing there. Gesturing with her hands to make the right emphasis the celebrated teenager said. "In Kiev, Kharkov and other Russian cities the absence of re vival fife in the churches is too noticeable to ignore it. While it’s true that some of the Cathedrals are filled it is also true that are om'y too few of them. There is no religious move particularly because they have been taught from the beginning of school days that God is non-existent." VATICAN REBUFFED HER Continuing her talk. Miss Marts said the Protestants were opposed to the Catholics, and vice versa. She mentioned how when she was (Continued On Fago Two* j Watch Those Power Lines, Kite Flyers March winds are beginning to blow and children are taking ad vantage of the gusty weather by getting out their kites. - Wfllie Biggs of Carolina Power and Light reminds parents and youngsters of the girl over at Fu quay who was electrocuted when her kite, flown from some metallic Christmas twine, nose-dived into a high-voltage wire. Such wires can not be insulated because of high static electricity. , Kite flying is fun. but sometime* tragedy can occur from this sport. Biggs suggests that youngsters keep their kites away from electric wires and television antennae. That they use dry cotton string and nev er use metal on their kites. “When you start to fly your kite,* he says, “pick a level spot away from power lines, television an tennae and without bif rocks or (Continued On Pag* Two) THE PERSPIRING REPORTER No Story—Plenty Of Facts, Figures Does everybody want to know the full, human story behind the latest Salvation Army report? If you don’t, twhy Molly Mayfield is on the editorial page, but as they used to say in Chinatown, “Having been on the bum once ourselves - - V„ f . Although Dunn’s post Is a small one. Its latest report Is as rife with drama as a leaky canteen In Death Valley. Typical entries: ml* pro vided for half a doaen needy babies; 20 transients given lodging tor the night; eight canful of stranded tourists and transient given gai and oil to help them an their way. “By golly.” we said to Salvadoe Army Chairman Howard U. Lee, trying to find a place for the tele phone rest where it didn't okoke off humaa stories behind that, at right. “Guess those tourists had their money stolen or were tossed up here by the hurricane, or some thing, huh?" ••Don’t ask me none of that,” Howard sputtered. “It’s all there on the paper. I'm Just tacts and figures, you know, tacts and fig ures, Don’t know the circumstances of any of it." (Osottaasd sa fkfg TweJ
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