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* WEATHER + Partly cloudy and unseasonably - wann and becoming windy Wed nesday with scattered showers. Thursday, clearing and ooVder. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES S117-S118 \ DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. «* JUST A COUPLE OF MAYORS - Mayor Ralph E. Hanna of Dunn, loft, is shown here congratulate Ing Mayor Janes (Rif Jin> Thornton of the new Broadalab section at Dunn after the hillbilly king was formally inducted into office here Friday night at the Broadalab dance. I'm gonna make you a good ‘un, too." promised Mayor Thornton, who advocates more country style music, more dancing, more fan and happier living for all Broad ulabbcr*. "And we’re all (nod Broadslabbers.” re minded Mayor Hanna. "Dang tootin’,'* replied May or Thornton, “Dunn'* the capitol of Broadslab now.” Another big Broad*lab Drag dance ha* been tentatively «et for Friday night, March Mth in the Dunn Armory and there'll he another be fore then If it ran be arranged.' So get ready, Broadalabberm. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) Tornado Kills 1, Hurts 33 T JhinqA Bf WOOVFH ADAMS 8l'SAN, JIMMY. INEZ. FANNIE SEE. ETC. ETC. Harnett School Superintendent Gienn Proffi* reports that the ed ucation meeting in Atlantic City was all-work and no (day but that he enjoved it . The popular offi cial rubbed elbows with the great educators of the nation Uncle George Upchurch loves Eskimo Pies . ."And when I start eating them," he confessed last night, “I don't quit until I eat four.". . . Says he gets a yen for them spas modically . The new issue of ■squire features Marilyn Monroe . . Several full pages in color . . . .But wave seen much better picture* of the sex queen . Those Irish Linen dresses advertise by Beik’s in yesterday afternoon's Record are terrific . .When we saw them we figured they would seU for at least $16 50. but the price is only $8-65 : .Girts always look so’ neat and clean in linen— it give* them that wholesome. all-American, just-scrubbed look. BIRTHDAYS: Celebrating birth days today are Billy Brewer, Mrs. Utllsn Parker Batten, Orbs A. (Continued On Fare Twa) By UNITED PRESS A Uvree-state tornado {WWt VrtlKt omp**a»«ad ta—Tid » last night and the weather bureau warned of possible twisters today in six more states. Tornado warnings were posted for parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana The Chicago weather bureau lifted earlier warning for areas in Illinois and Indiana, scene of last night’s worst twisters. Warn* Inga for Ohio and western Pennsyl vania a iso were letted. Severe thunderstorms were also expected to lash the region in the wake of twisters which started In Missouri, touched down at Buck* ley. 111., and then raced with full fury into Indiana. At Marion. Ind., a twister rlpoed a mile-long path of destruction through the heart of the residen tial district, killing a young wo man and injuring 25 persons. Other tornadoes smashed the snail In diana towns of Dunning ton and Galveston. VICIOUS WEATHER Although the tornado barrage slackened today, vicious weather ranged far across both Ihe East and the West. Wrecking winds lashed Southern California, hitting 90 ( mile - per hour gusts, and 50 miles par hour winds fanned a forest fire raging ever 1.300 acres of New Mexico timber land. The Miami weather bureau or dered small craft warn bigs hoist ed from Savannah. Gsl, on the j Atlantic to Brownsvllie, Texas, on [ the Gulf of Mexico. The warnings Included the coastlines of Georgia, Florida, Aiabama, Mississippi, Lou isiana and Texas. (Continued On Page Poor) ' $5000-58000 DAMAGES AT ERWIN MILLS Grass Fire Crawls Under Metal Barn Since selling the firms it owned about five years ago Erwin Mills has kept some odds and ends of farm equip ment in a big metal barn which is only partially framed up with wood. Yesterday, around two. the Sr srin «re department wm called to Xtght a grass fire around this barn. The fight seemed to go well. In a short time the grass was out. Nobody bad looked In the build - lng because tt was locked. There was jusi one imn*. in laci, told firemen something was wrong Assistant fire chief James Glove recounts, "We didn’t find out th fire had crawled under the ban until we saw the metal changing color. One spot started was turn (Centtaaed ea Page Twe) Girls Try To Top Cruelty Of Teen Hoods NEW YORK to — Police round ed up six members el a teenage Negro gang today and charged them with the wanton stabbing ol a 17-year-old white youth "lor no reason at all." * Two female members of the gang also were arrested for the simul taneous and apparently unprovok ed beating of two 14-year-old girls who were returning home from a church. | The stabbing victim, wno was -n ! "very critical "condition with four stab wounds in the stomach, was identified as Joseph Connelly. Police said the youth and the two I girls were the victims of a mob of about 20 teenagers, all Negroes, "for ■ no reason at all." They said the actual stabbing was done by a 14 year-old boy who used a knife with |a four-Inch blade to inflict foul I wounds on Connelly, puncturing his liver and lungs. The female members of the gane apparently tried to match the bru tality of their boy triends, poller | said. They assaulted the girls when j they caught the two returning home from an evening church ser iCutlaaid an Paee T*s) Marine Group Ordered To Join Fleet WASHINGTON OH — The De fense Department announced toda; 1 that a battalion of Marines ha been ordered to the Mediterranean They will salt* from the Unita States in about a week and Job the O. S. Sixth Fleet The move came amid specula tion that the fleet possibly mlgh .be deployed In a show of strengtl to deter any warlike moves between i Israel and the Arab states. A Marine battalion, with sup r porting units, normally number • 1 JK>0 men. i The Pentagon said the outfl [ which was not designated, will r« . place a similar unit withdrawn lai summer. Benson Favors Bipartisan Farm Support WASHINGTON (IB — Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today called for bipartisain efforts to solve the farm ptoblem lest Amer ican agriculture “be sacri ficed on the altar of parti san politics.’’ He said the administration h* based its nine - point soil ban! recommendations “o ntbe basis « what is good ford the fanner ami the nation - not on the polities applause meter.** In a speech prepared for de livery to the closing formal seeaioc of the Republican Women’s Ha Ulnai Conference, Benaon said at tempts may be made during th< agriculture on the political auction campaign months ahead “to plac* Wock." But he said it i* “not foi sale to bTeeponaiWe bidders ’* Cbmmerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told the OOP women th< administration recced of accom plishments is so good that “uelthei campaign nta ejection year calamity — bowling can drive it from the public mind All the Democrats have ta offer he said, “is to cry havoc — t< twist history — to misrepreseni facts — to smear the reputation of honorable men.” * Will Continue Wage fa!ks Says Dawkins Erwin Mills and members of the Textile Workers union, both firow the plants at Erwin and at Neuse won’t meet again to discuss the latest wage demands until Marct 21. The second of tiro meetings thb week was at Durham yesterday af ternoon. Lacy Dawkins, manage) that he didn’t want to make i of the local at Erwin, said todaj statement as to progress at th opening negotiations. Productive workers at Erwin an seeking a “substantial raise,” Daw kins said. It is not known whethei he has presented more definite terms to the company or not. The March 21 date was the firs1 which both company and unica could agree on, said Dawkins, fa the next meeting. TASTY — Rep. WlUiiun H. Ajrfcm (R-Ohlo) Bteratly words In Washington, D. C, as he makes “the most woi r»e erer eaten.” Ayer* had predicted tat a Lincoln Day President Eisenhower wonld not ‘ ' “ ination in *56. BOONE TRAIL TEACHER SPEAKS HC School Board Given English Report By LOIS BYRD Record Stall Writer Thomas McCall, member of the Boone Trail School faculty, gave the county board of education a first hand report Monday on the teaching of English in the Harnett schools as the board met ipa monthly session in the educa tion building in Lffiingtari. , tn [Seek Talent For Show At Clayton '! nils Is the second year of the ‘TSastern North Carolina Search ’ for Talent," a contest sponsored by the Lions Ofub and merchants of Clayton, but open over a wide 1 area. Five outstanding radio disc Jock 1 eys will be the Judges according to > Jim McMiUen, formerly of DU»n. who is arranging the contest. Con* ■ testants will appear April #, t i p. m., in the Clayton Auditorium. The competition will be aimed. lOMttaued sa Pane Two) Her Grace Says Hell Be The Boss HOLLYWOOD (W — Grace Kelly admitted today there will be only one boss in the royal family of Monaco — Prince Rainier III. The blonde movie queen already is leaving decisions to her finance, conforming to the tractable way of most European wives. Curled up on a couch in her studio dressing room, the future, princes of Monaco said she hoped 1 after she married. “Plans are pretty well settled for me to make “Designing Wo man' here sometime before the year is out,” she explained. “But I don't know just when.” (Contbmed an Page Twel + Record Roundup + TRIP FOR DEAN — Dean A. R. r Burkot of Campbell College left i last night by train for New York. - He is the Baptist School’s rrprs I seniative to the annual meeting of i the American Association of Jun ior Colleges. The three-day affair. • which will feature important com t meat on the y. S. educational i scene, starts ’Riursday. Dean Bur t kot is expected back Sunday. - , NOW PHARMACIST — The i North Carolina Board of Pharma cy has announced that Vance Gra ; ham McOugan, son of Mr. and Mrs. • C. T. McOugan of Dunn, was among t those recently completed examin ations and were licensed. Vance’s sister. Louise, assistant cleric of court In Dunn, recently announc ed that she is resigning, effective the middle of this month, and go ing to Washington, D. C., where she will be a civil service employe of the Navy. POSTMA8TERS BANQUET — Sampson postmasters will be among the hundred in Greensboro on Sat urday for a meeting and banquet. It’s the third annual banquet for postmasters of the third congres sional district. Other counties rep resented will be Waynt, Duplin. Pender. Jones, Onslow. PampUco, Carteret and Craven (CODtnMMfl wm riff nevani the Barnett County month invites a teacher of field of study; or the board rw they Last magth county ^ spoke on their duties. Earlier, first trade teachers of the county hat sent a representative to deeenbi the first steps of teaching a -child In April, special teachers via be the guest i McCall, who has taught for tlx past two yean aft Boone Trail, hat been asked to speak 15 minutes but interested questions from tin board kept him busy with answer for 45 minutes. MeOsU <H*jflayw English text books, suppVmentan readers and samples of Ehg&d composition by his students. Hi explained the special teats vHt content interest keyed to JOpioi or senior level, but wKh sknpb wording of Fifth aad Sixth grades Such readers, he been found to be of in improving rending skids. The of the methods he interest in his such as recordings of 1 or plays. He said he and Us ents sometimes study A *. pearean play in advance of a sche duled TV showing and on th night of the performance meet fo a TV party. Students are eneeor aged to listen to radio pregam which tie-in with the study o English literature. Cbunty Supeirttendent (Men Pofftt gave a detailed report © the new Negro high achool at John sonville, now occupied, but await lng final inspection and approve He said that construction work i North and South Harnett School is progressing rapidly. Wans ai rising at one plant, and at th other foundations are poured. Wei have been drilled at both sites, t 1 South Harnett, v’t feet - r t North Harnett. 960 feet. Suttictei water was found at both well but the best is located at the echo South of UUington, where wati ftous at 96 gallons a minute.' Bulk ing progress also was reported goc at Shawtown, where additiens ai to be erected to the present plan Report of cannery manage showed that • the three canntri were self a«*ptottdg. TMs am mer only UlUngtOn and will have canneries la Angrily Rejects Suggestion He May Be Dumped WASHINGTON OP) _ Pres ident Eisenhower nude it clear today that Vice Pres ident Richard M, Nixon can have the Republican vice presidential nomination a gain if he wants. The President angrily rejected any suggestion that he dump Nix on as his running mate. He emphasized, however, that he has not presumed to tell Nixon what he should do; that Nixon must chart his own political fu ture. ' Xt The President told his news con ference that he has no criticism of Nixon a« a man, an associate or a running mate on the Repub lican ticket. But he said he has not presumed to tell Nixon what he should do about the campaign this year. The President also said that if his general physical fitness to con duct the burdens of hard work in the presidency showed signs of dsf. inite deterioration, he would then step aside and put the matter be fore the American people. He »aid he was not speaking of a brief illness such as a one week attack of influenza, but basic in ability to perform hie Job as he it* NUCLEAR REACTION Other highlights of the news con ference: L He regarded as favorable the immediate (reaction qf Soviet Prem ier Nikolai Bulganin to his March LS5£ »—»■»»»»" production oi nucwar weapon®, «e said this country, in its relation* with Russia, should be alert to follow up any opening that looks like it might lead to lessening of international tensions. 2. He said he believes the Uni ted Nations should take urgent and early action on the tense sit uation in' the Middle East, with fariet and the Arab world agree - Ou Paga Eight) AZALEA QUEEN - I Alma Eleanor Eastland, di ter of Mississippi’s Sen. Jo! Eastland (D), has befcn n Queen. Shell reign over lea Week Festivities af No Va., April 9-15. Harnett County tobacco growers and members of the Fiue-cumt Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation will hear a firs* haul report of the corporation’s oper ations at a meeting to be held,On Monday, March 12 a* %9 a. m. in the county courthouse in lining county to be present to hear Bond's talk. Delegates to the annual stock holders meeting to be held in Ra leigh on June 29 will be selected. Members of the Stablitetton’s ad visory committee from each flue cured county will be elected at that time. Angler Baptists i Building Church , The Angler Baptist congregation t will have a new church to meet [ in a tittle over 300 days from now. • It wUl be U-shaped, modem and > high-windowed with a front almost entirely of glass. . Tint part of the construction Is , to be completed, at a cost at $170, 000, 333 days from the date Con , tractor J. M Thompson of Raleigh was given the go-ahead, about a month Rev. 1 CANDIDATE FOR STATE LEGISLATURE ► I Carson Gregory To ;Run For 4th Term t i i Carson Gregory, Harnett’s hard-to-defeat representa tive to the state legislature, announced today he is filing for a fourth term. No opposition has appeared as yet Orrgory’s position as a farm | leader, his personal popularity and the many committee assignments he holds ms a result of Ids several terms all are expected to win him votes. Since Alonso Edwards, chairman of the legislature’s committee on agriculture, is vacating to run for lieutenant governor, Gregory, the present vice-chairman, might move up to that post. Gregory said today that he deep ly appreciated the confidence which voters have drown In him In prior years, and that If re-elected he will continue to support progress in an matters affecting the Hvea of Us *1 am anxious to see and talk With everyone who hat views shout our , CARSON GREGORY f:,
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