VLLET1NS
WASHINGTON HP — Sen. A. E. Mike Monroney (D
Ok’a) today urged Democrats to base their campaign a
gainst President Eisenhower on his administration’s rec
ord instead of playing on the health issue like a “stuck
whistle’ ^
SAN FRANCISCO iff; Television actor Ben Alexan
der, better known as “Frank Smith" of Dragnet, toda;
was named a defendant in a $250,000 damage Suit filer
by an elderly Berkeley, California, couple who claimer
they were defrauded in a motel deal.
WASHINGTON HP — The House paid tribute toda>
to Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) and Republican leadei
Joseph W. Martin Jr., (Mass) as they passed milestone?
in their long congressional careers. Rayburn, currently
in Texas at the bedside of an ailing sister, began his 44tf
year in the House yesterday Martin, who was present to
day, began his 32nd year in Congress.
PHILADELPHIA IIP — Two of four men indicted oi
murder charges in the robbery-slaying of a wealthy wid
ow will stand trial April 9, it was announced today.
CHICAGO HP — Edward Desecki. 18. admitted to Chi
cago police that he had stolen “more than 200" cars in
the last three years.
NEW ORLEANS HP — A group of southern official
will meet here April 13-14 to work on the serious prob
lem of forest fires, which cuts into Dixie’s economy b>
more than a quarter of a billion dollars a year.
DES MOINES, Iowa HP — The Iowa executive council
has decided that $19.50 is too much to pay for a desk pen
Set.
It ordered further checking after Agriculture Secre
tary Clyde Spry said, “I thought we cut out buying ex
pensive sets some time ago."
MADISON, Wis. (IP — Giant traffic lights — one foot
in diameter — have been put up on roads leading into this
city. The highway department explained that the over
size lights are an experiment.
TURIN, Italy (1P> — Two men tied for the top prize
in a recent football pool, each winning $20,000. One of the
winners said he bought his ticket at a tobacconist on Unit
ed States Avenue, and the other said he got his ticket at
a cigar store on Soviet Union Avenue.
BERLIN OP — East Germany’s fledgling air force will
receive 1,200 Soviet-made fighter aircraft by mid - 1957,
according to Western military intelligence sources.
LONDON (IP — Prime Minister Anthony Eden an
nounced today that Britain is withdrawing 15 British of
ficers from the Arab Legion to show Britain's '‘resentment
and regret” at Jordan’s recent conduct.
WASHINGTON OP — Franklin G. Floete, former as
sistant secretary of defense, was sworn in at the White
House as the new head of the General Services Adminis
tration. ? t; -
WASHINGTON (IP — Sen. Irving M. Ives (R-NY) in
troduced legislation today to give women equal pay for
equal work in jobs with firms in interstate commerce.
NEW YORK OP — The Mutual Broadcasting System
today offered the Democratic National Committee 20 min
utes of free network air time for a non-candidate spokes
man.
MANCHESTER, N. H. OP — Sen. Estes Kefanver said
today he would be “disappointed” if he received less than
half of this state’s delegates to the Democratic national
convention.
MURFREESBORO, Ark. IF — A 40 - year - old Texas
housewife picked up what looked like a piece of glass near
here yesterday — and it turned out to be a 13 31 carat di
amond worth an estimated $15,000. Mrs. Arthur Lee Par
ker of Dallas had paid $1.50 to hunt for stones in a three
aere tract near here called the Crater of Diamonds What
she found is the largest gem ever discovered on the North
American continent by an individual.
SARASOTA, Fla. (IF — Circus folks worked feverish
ly today to put the final touches on the “greatest show*
on earth,” which opens in New York's Madison Square
Garden April 4.
JERUSALEM (IF’ — Israel accused Egypt today of three
new acts of aggression and demanded an emergency meet
ing of the mixed armistice commission to discuss the char
ges. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman made the
charges as the heads of state of Egypt. Saudi Arabia and
Syria met in Cairo in a meeting that could determine the
future peace of the Middle East.
WASHINGTON (IF — The realized net income of farm
ers in 1955 dropped one billion dollars — or 9 per cent,
from 1954, the Agriculture Department reported today.
The sharp drop was due to lower average prices received
for farm products and a slight increase in farm expenses,
the department said.
KANSAS CITY’, Mo. IF — The National Collegiate Ath
letic Assn, membership voted overwhelmingly in favor ol
the television football plan recommended by the 1955 NC
AA TV committee. Executive Director Walter Byers an
nounced today.
LONDON <IF — Rebels within Prime Minister Anthony
Eden's own Conservative Party demanded today that he
stop “pussyfooting” and force a showdown now with the
Middle East Arabs
GENOA. Italy tIF — Archeologists said today they had
turned up enough evidence in an excavation at Sestri pon
ente to determine they had discovered a village some ‘1,000
years old.
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LONDON IF — A British member of Parliament char
ged Monday that Britain was employing “murderers” in
training German pilots here.
DOING TIIE ROCK-AND-ROLL WALTZ — Heres another
■erne from Dunn's big Broad slab dame held Friday night in the
armory. These three well-known Dunn couples were doing the
Rock-And-Roll Waits, or may'* it was the Broadslab Drug — or
something — when the picture was taken. Left to right are Mr. and
Mrs. Luby Warren. *' a Sam Dorman, Charles Core, Mrs \1 Haw
ley. and City C .mniSsioner Jesse H. lappa. The small I'ry were
not identities. They all hr.d a Broadsl ebbing (ood time — or some
thing! (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
VATICAN CITY IP — Pope Pius XII has received j
more than 14,000 telegrams and 27,000 letters congratu
lating him on his 80th birthday, according to the Vatican ^
press office.
PARIS OP- — Officials were looking for two English
! men today as suspects in the robbery of $175,000 worth of
gold from Geneva airport several weeks ago.
TOKYO IP — The Socialists. Japan's second largest
political party, asked the United States today to cancel
its spring and summer hydrogen weapons tests at Bikini.
COLUMBIA, S. C. UP — Gov. George Bell Timmerman
Jr. yesterday named Thomas A. Wofford to fill the re
maining term of Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond, who
is resigning to seek reelection. Thurmond recently an -
nounced his resignation effective April 4. In his, unpre
cedented write-in campaign which won him the seat, Thur
! mond had promised to resign before the next primary.
TOKYO UP — A U.S. Air Force medic and a Japanese
guide climbed 12,000-foot Mt. Fuji in 12-below-i*ro cold
today to arrange the rescue of two American fliers who
narrowly escaped death on the famed peak yesterday
AUGUSTA, Ga. IP — Police today held a bearded youth
from Michigan who confessed an attempt to replenish his
traveling funds at gunpoint at a bank in North Augusta,
S.C. While police spread a wide search for the lone bandit
whose holdup attempt was foUed by the screams of a wo
i man employe yesterday morning, the suspect, James Earl
Paulus, 21, was asleep in his car six blocks away, he told
authorities.
RICHMOND, Va. UP — Furman forward Darrell Floyd,
two-time national scoring champion, today was named
1 Southern Conference basketball player of the year for the
second time. .
SUMNER, Miss. UP — A white man charged w ith mur
| dering a “highly, respected“ Negro will be arraigned to
morrow in the courtroom in which the Emmett Till “Wolf
' whistle murder case” was tried. A Tallahatchie County
j Grand Jury yesterday indicted Elmer Kim bell. 30-year-old
cotton gin operator, for the murder of Clinton Melton last
1 Dec. 3, at nearby Glendora, Miss.
1, KARACHI, Pakistan tlK — Secretary of State John Fos
ter Duties said today the aim of the “Asiatic Pact” is t<4
preserve free Asia from the fate that has transformed all
or part of the 10 onee-independent states into “virtual co
lonies rated by international Communism.
PORTLAND. Mich. IK — A sign in front of a highway
restaurant near here reads: “Nobody likes a coward ..
try our hamburgers."
RALEIGH. N. C. M — The U.S Supreme Court’s ex- j
tension of segregation bans to tax-supported colleges block
ed a major attempt to reverse the earlier ruling outlawing
segregation in public schools, state officials said today.
North Carolina officials sajd the court, by refusing to hear
oral arguments in a collegiate integration case decided
Monthly, thwarted a planned attack on the historic deci
sion of May 17, 1954. _ 1
CHICAGO ‘IK — College officials from the South warn- J
ed northern educators Monday night to go slow with de- '
mands for ending racial segregation in the schools. . J
The dispute broke out at a spirited session of the 11th
national conference on higher education. I'
WASHINGTON IK> — Lawyers are the latest dupes’’ ]
of a major policy shift by the American Communist Par- ,
ty. Assistant Attorney General William F. Tompkins said i
today. The head of the Justice Department's Internal Se- s
curity Division said volunteer defense of Communist lead- 1
ers by local bar associations is helping the party in one 1
! of its “new look’ drives — the attempt to undermine the 1
I Smith Act
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WASHINGTON IK — Sen. Walter F. George said to- t
day that a $2,500 campaign contribution offered to Sen. i
Francis Case by an oil lobbyist seems to have involved no 1
"illegal act" but some ‘ manifestly improper" conduct.
WASHINGTON IK) — America’s military chiefs are J
working on new defense strategy in the seclusion of a com
fortable Puerto Rican air base, far from the din and eon- ,
! troversy of Washington.
Little Things
iContinued from Pare One)
nett , Everette and D. K. already
knew what the law was so, antici
pating some expert medical testi
mony, they spent days before the
trial studying a medical book on
the human brain—in fact, they
practically memorized it . They
sorrowed the book from Dr. Bill
Lilly. . So when Dr. Guy Odum,
tread of the neuro-surgery depart
ment at Duke Hospital toe* the
witness stand. Everette was just
aying for him—and he let him
lave it with both barrels . The
tiery Dunn lawyer bombarded the
tamed brain surgeons with ques
tions pertaining to the functions
>f the brain probably never pro
i unded by a layman in a court
room before, . And he ended ua
vith a verdict of *15.000. of which
he team of Doffermyre and Stew
irt no doubt kept, at least five
>rand And Everette and D. K.'s
:oraplaint in the lawsuit of Mrs.
LUlie Dupree of Dunn was sudi a
masterful job that Presiding Judge
Hamilton Hobgood requested a copy
>f it for his judicial files. * In the
romp.am?, the lawyers traced the
-cute of the two automobiles in
reived to the point of impact in
such a forceful manner that both,
3rivers were held liable , Another
rerdict of $12,000 and another four
srand for Doffermyre and Stewart
. . . (The estimate of fees, of
sourse; is our estimate. None of
this information Came from either
rf the two attorneys and they’ll be
surprised —and probably sore as a
cet hen—when they read this.). ,
Anyway, we d hate to have to pay
ncome tax on ail the money those
two mouthpieces coined during the
swo weeks of court . Dunn’s First
Presbyterian Church has a Coven
ant Sunday School Class and
Charlotte has a Covenant Presby
terian Church . .So the Presby
terians evidently believe in Ctoven
mts as well as predestination . .
Hie Chanotte church celebrated
ts fifth birthday Sunday .in
those short five years, it has ac
luired property worth two and a
aalf million smackers and an au
ii ton urn that seats 1.250 people
If Rev. Leslie Tucker keeps up
he fast pace he has started, the
oral church add probably pass it
n a few years. . On Sunday, the
hum church members held a con
rregational meeting and voted to
to ahead and raise funds for a new
suilding here.
BIRTHDAYS: None art listed on
iur calendar for today. Must be an
mlucky day for the stork.
THINOAMAJIGS Mr. and Mr*,
rommy Godwin have named their
landsome new son Timothy Locke
. .We like that name—It’s differ
nt . . Timothy made his debute
>n February 24th in Watts Hospital
. .All this time and Papa (Nu
iomftt Tommy hasn't been around
rith a cigar. , . Whatsamatter,
>al?. , . A baby with a high
ounding moniker like that deserves
o be announced with nothing less
han a 50-eent stogy. . One of
he prettiest new tunes of the year
s "Forever Darling," Isn’t it Dar
ing? . . . Dr. Randolph and Mar
aret Doffermyre had a wonderful
ime in Chicago . They ate fancy
ood at Don The Beachcombers
Lighbrow jernt, took in the Chicago
ersion of “Pajama Game,” and a
>t of the other bright, gay and
wank spots. . “We just didn't
tave long enough time there,”
ighed Margaret. . So they’re
fanning to go back this summer
. .In case you’re planning a trip
to New York. Benny Goodman and
his orchestra have been held oves*
at the Waldorf’s Empire Room
Stealing the show from Goodman
is a pretty gal who sings hymns
on Sunday In her church and rocks
and rods with the pops the rest of
the week, bringing home a lot cf
cabbage on pay day She's a
sensation and you’d be hearing
from her . . Can’t think of her
name right now . Ringling Bro
thers Circus will open in the big
city on April 4th, which means the
big show will be passing through
Dunn on the Coast Line about a
week before that date . Daily Re
cord wid be kept well Informed on
the Grace Kelly wedding . The
United Press Is sending a whole
raft of reporters and photograph
ers over there . We’ll also be co
vered by NEA’s big European staff
And Ira Eramerlek, who is
Earl Wilson’s boss at the Hall Syn
dicate. phoned us yesterday from
New York to say that our favorite
columnist has booked passage on the
same ship with Miss Kelly.. ,. He
will fly back to New York in time
for the publisher’s convention In
April and we’re due to eat a free
nlbal with him there then Am
erica’s most talked-about new co
mic strip will begin on the comic
page Monday- It’s something
i . ——
(Donna Kaye James
Celebrated
Birthday At Party
Donna Kaye James, daughter of
Dr r.au t: ' Gerald James of;
Dunn, celebrated her 9th birthday (
on Saturday afternoon with a par*,
ty given in her honor by her pa
rents.
When guests arrived, they were
served cake and soft drinks, and
later went to the movie. There they j
en.oyed popcorn and cold drinks
Favors of banks were given to
each gue-t.
Helping Donna Kaye celebrate
were Linda Gall James. Domini:
Hart afield. Barbara Twyford, Pam ;
Tripp. Jan Sorrell. Jean Cromartie.
Ella Neil Raynor, Judy Tart. Dick
ey Wade. Wanda Boyette, Sharon |
Tart. LuRae Draughon, and Nan
cy Snipes.
Christian Church
Circle Met j
At Willifords
Mrs Paul Barefoot and Mrs
John Riley presented an interest
ing program Monday afternoon
» ft Circle No. 2 of the Hood Me
u rial Christian Church met at the j
home of Mrs. W P Williford.
Spring flowers were attractively j
arranged throughout the home
Mrs Freeman Wood pre-ided ov
er the business session in the ab
sence of Mrs Hugh Williford, lead
er.
After the routine business ses-;
sion, the hostess served a del! clou -
sweet c.-V'cv' **> the following:
Mrs Pad Barefoot, Mrs George
Owens. Mrs. Lornian Dupree, Mrs.
R. F Jernigam Mrs Wbodrow Hill.
entirely new and different... Toe
hero is a handsome and romantic
young minister who Is assigned to
a small church in a small town
It's the first time a comic strip has
ever dealt with the ministry and
it reflects all the ups and downs ot
pasturing a small church . It’s
a sensation ail over the country ..
A total of 119 daily newspaper
most of them big papers, across
the nation are carrying it, which
set a new initial record. Both
Life and Time magazine are doiiv?
a feature on the strip Watch
for it. beginning next Monday in
this newspaper A pretty Dunn
bride, who has been married only a
short while, told us the other day
that during the few months she
has been in Dunn not a single man ,
has waited at her .,. "And I a'- j
ways got wolfed at everywhere else,''
she sighed Didn't know these
Dunn wolves ever passed up a trick
—- But then we wouldn't know ab
I out such things because we always
go straight home at night And
that’s where we're going right now. I
Mrs Freeman Wood, Mr* O. H
Pope. Mrs John Riley, Mis* Mary
Phillips, and Mrs. Williford, the
hostess.
Methodist Women
Met At Church
Monday Afternoon
The Soc iety of Christian Service
of the Divine Street Methodist
Church met at the church Monday
afternoon at 3 30.
The meeting was opened with a
hymn and followed by reading the
purpose of the society.
'Hie president asked member* to
rememoer the shutina and the be
reaved and it was announced that
the Youth counselors for European
Caravan would be April 14-13. It
was also announced that a work
shop would be April 20-21 for coun
selors of the summer session at
Louwburg.
After the business was taken care
of, the program was turned over to
Mrs Ben Hartsficld who used as
the theme of her program, “Ven
ture In Dls-fcpleshJp. ’ She was as
sisted by Mr- Sexton Lee and the
meeting waa closed with prayer by
Mrs Lineberger.
Approximately fifty member* at
tended the meeting.
TO ALABAMA
Mr. and Mrs J. D. Sweep spent
Friday night with Mr and Mrs. P
O. Altman. They were’ enroot* to
Craig Air Force in Alabama where
Mr Sweep will attend Air Force
Supervisor School for three week*.
CARD OF THANKS
. Mr P G Altman wishes to thane
his many friends for their nice
cards and flowers during his sick
ness.
WEEKEND GEESTS
Mr. and Mrs. H L Roebuck of
waiter, -or, Mrs W. F. Crawford
of • Everetts, and Mr. and Mrs. J. * .
L. Corcker and Lynn of Sumtem.
8 C. visited Mr, and Mrs. Raymond
Altman and Becky over the week
end.
GEESTS SUNDAY
Mr. and Mrs. A. W Dunbar and
family of Highpoint, Dr. and Mrs.
Charles Highsmtth of Troy and
Dr. George Higlssmitb and son
George of Thomasviile spent Sun
day with Mrs. Charles Highamith.
Sr. - ■
2 Receptions
'Continued fe>m tNise um)
her f u. o r ■ .. ;..n n, Mo.,
where a wedding reoeption waa
held on tae purported •‘honey
moon.' loiter, when they returned
here, another reception was held
for them by their friend* although
the, still were not married.
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