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+ WBATHBR + OocMioiwl rain and cool this after anon, tonight and Wednesday. Highest today 40a in north to around 60 In southeast portion, tonight 37*44. r"» - THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 8 TELEPHONES 3117 - SI 18 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 68 . ; mss , BIG DAT FOB SCOUTS AND BROWNIES — ANec Bolt, *, a brownie scout and daughter of Mr. aad Nn Doug Butt of West Pope Street, Dudh. yoetsrday put a snail donation in the -In i' Uet Iww Wldtd Friendship Fund to commemorate "SHAKING HANDS NO WAY TO GET ENGAGED" Margaret Waited Long Time For Just The Right Fella Good Nature Of Bartender Proves Costly KTW YORK fW — A 60-y«ir old liquor store clerk decided to “tTeet people good” Thursday and it coat hie 'bom an estimated $1,000. The clerk, John Cloehesey, said he “got a message from God to treat people good" and decided on the wag to distribute goodness when the first customer arrived, after he opened the store. He toM the customer “to pay what he wants or pay nothing. That waa how I treated people good.** It wasn't very long before the ward got around ami the store was crowded with volunteer recipients of Ckshesey’s good. By the time police noticed the crowd and in vestigated. the shelves were all hut stripped of about $1,000 worth of whiskey. (Coin tinned on Page Eight) FINER CAROLINA PROGRAM INTENSIFIES Five Good Projects On 1956 Hope List Despite a latle start, the Finer Carolina committee was ready this week to direct a crash program for the improvement of Dunn. Five important projects, headed by a memorial to General William C. Lee, are on the com mittee’s hope list. - Mr* h. C. Turlington, who, with Earl We*tfcrook, is general chair man at the Finer Carolina pro gram tor Dunn, gave an official an. nounoement of the goal* yesterday. Besides the Oeheral Lee memor ' lal, projects planned or underway include a hospital auxtliary corpe, a general cleanup of the town in the ftth birthday of irtrt Moating. Money went down the chimney. It woo a big day for girt scoots and brownies as they met in the basement of the First Baptist Church for a special program. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail.) By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK UP — Margaret Truman waited a long time for the right man to come along. When he came he was a gray* haired foreign correspondent mo e than 10 years her senior.' and as handsome and polished a gentle man as a girl could want. There were those who were wor ried aboout Margaret. She had stayed single a long time, to the point in most families where the aunts and uncles wouid be shad ing their heads and wondering. But for the Trumans It wasn’t at all unusual. Harr}- Truman, patient and per sistent. courted Bess Wallace through his high school days and well into manhood before he got her to the altar of the Trinity Episcopal Church at Independence. Missouri, in 1918. They were borh 35. HELPED AND HINDERED By then they must have known what they wanted, and there is reason to believe that Margaret, their only child, born in 1924, has known all along what she wanted and has been out to get it. (Continued On Pago Eight' which all residents will be asked to join. Improvements to Dunn schools, and planned industrial ex pansion. ' The hospital auxiliary corps is already an accomplished fact. Since the first of this month, active members of the new organisation have been aiding the regular staff (Continued On rage Six) I Record Roundup RITCHIE COMING — R. M Ritchie, Jr., housing and engineer ing specialist of the N. C. Exten sion Seprtee. will apeak to the monthly Harnett County Ag Work ers Council on Wednesday, March 14. at 3:30 p. m. at the county agri culture building. That night at 7:30 p. m. at the Lfllington School auditorium. Ritchie will discuss building and remodeling farm resi dences. letters urging ail farm men and women to attend have been sent by the county home agents. DISTRICT MEETING J- Home Demonstration Club members in Harnett have been notified that the date of the annual meeting of clubs in the 10th District has been fixed for Tuesday. April 3 at the Pinehurst Community Church to Pinehurst. Registration will begin at 9:30 a. m. and the program will get underway at 10 a. m. General A. V. Arnold of Southern Pines will talk on Civil Defense. TO PINEHURST — Mr. and Mrs. Bab Baggett. State Senator Robert Morgan and County Superintendent Q. T. Proffit attended a meeting ol District Eight of the State School Board Association in Pine hurst on Friday night. Baggett, member of the county board of ed ucation. is district chairman, and Proffit is secretary. Senator Mor gan is attorney for the Harnett j County Board of Education. School [ board members from irarnett. Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond and Scot land Counties attended as well as officials from seven city systems in the district. “How to Get, and Keep Good Teachers* was the topic of (Cantimed On raga Twe) Duke U.'s Band Coining To Dum On Concert Tour % •: Duke University’s 70-piece con cert band, directed by Dr. Paul R. Bryan, will perform here on March 24 under the auspices of the Dunn Rotary Club. The concert band is making its second Carolina concert tour this month. Tickets are currently avail able at Baldwin and Mattox and Snipes Insurance Agency for the performance in Dunn. It will start at S p. m. in the Dunn High audi torium. Programs for the tour will be drawn from the works of classical and modern composers Including Mendelssohn. Mozart. Wagner. Per cy Grainger,. Prokoficff and John Philip Sousa. Dr. Bryan, conductor of the Duke concert and marching bands, is well-known in North Carolina mu- j sic circles. He Joined the Duke fa culty five years ago. Currently Eastern Division chair man for the state solo and ensem ble instrumental contest held each year on the Duke campus, he has been president of the North Caro lina Bandmasters Association and j a faculty member at Transylvania Musis Camp, Brevard. This year he win conduct band clinics in several North Carolina. QUADS DOING VI CELT RICHMOND. Va. W — Two-day old girl quadruplets were “doing very nicely” today with the benefit of "high powered” incubators and a crew of doctors and nurses at a hospital here. Blood donors aiso were standing by in vent the new new arrivals need complete transfu- . sions because of their incompatible j blood condition, but thus far this prospect remained uncertain. 1 Baby Is Savagely Chewed By Rats DETROIT (IP) — The father of a 5-monthH)ld boy who was savagely chewed by rats today vowed to bum his slum home if the child dies. Empress Connors, an unemploy ed furnace man, uttered the threat through tears alter his son, Na thaniel, was bitten more than 30 times on the face and arm. The thumb and little finger of one hand virtually were chewed Coy Lucas Enters Commissioner Race Coy Lucas will run again for the office of county com missioner from District 2 in Harnett County — a section comprised of Duke and Grove townships. Lucas, one of the top taxpayers in Harnett, has farflung business interests, ranging from real estate and fanning to a ball bond busi ness. Twice before he has narrowly missed election to the board of commissioners. Four years ago he lost by a margin of only 2* rotes to Dick Lassiter. He didn't lose by eery many tn the election two yean ago. either, though Bob Fate took the seat he was seeking. Lucas said today that he merely warded to announce his candidacy so friends and voters would know hi<. hat l, in the ring. He Is cur rently making plans fat a com plete program which he will put before the -county during the cam paign. The bustneas-Jwlse Lucas is a na tive of Harnett and has Heed bars almost throughout his life. During TOTABLE TUB - You cm bow take your bathtub with you—U you have a new light weight tube like the one Cyn thia Cooper is holding. Made of a new plastic substance, the lour-loot tub weighs only nine pounds. It was shown recently at the second annual Caravan CODVCOtklO £j| Brighton, England. 7or Heel Held In Gruesome SlayingOfGirl STUTTGART, Germany <W — A North Carotins soldier will lace murder charges for the gruesome auto-Jack slaying of a German prostitute, the U. 6. Army said to day. Specialist 3-C James X. Bryant (Osnttmad On Baps Eight > away. The infant's face was raw from bites on hi* tongue, nose, chine and cheek by the rodents which invaded hlg. crib. Doctors said Nathaniel’s condi tion was "serious" and it would be some time before they leaned | (Oswthn.i ow rm ■») World War I, he was a seaman to the XJ. B. Navy and had a distin guished service record. He makes hi* home on Dunn. Route 3, with ,his wife, the former Iva Johnson. She is a minister's daughter—her father, the Rev. C. S. Johnson, being the pastor at Benson's Baptist Church. Lucas is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. His daughter. Mrs. Joyce Adcock, lives in Raleigh. Lucas's parents were the late Mr. and Mrs W. H. Lucas TWO KILLED SAVANNAH. Ga. W — First Lt. Wallace Michael Roy, 28, of Fort Bragg. N. C., and a woman compan ion were killed m a plunge from an overpays. Roy's companion wag id entified as Mra Margaret Woods Rehn, 27. of FauJkvilie, Ga. 1 Rep* Walters Challenge Not Accepted CHARLOTTE — fhree more witnesses accused of Communist activity stared their accusers in the eye here today and refused to answer questions qn the ba sis of the 1st, 5th, 10th and 14th Amendments to the U. 8. Constitution. Among those branded as Com munists by government witnessed was John G Myers, until last week a language prolessor and golf in structor at Campbell College. The high spots of the House Un American Activities Committees first two days of hearings here were three dramatic ann»-length confrontation scenes staged between former Comm unists-ff or-the-FBl and men they said were their for mer Comrades. Ralph Ckrntz, fleshy, fast-talking Charlotte lawyer who joined the Communist Party as a special un dercover FBI agent, walked over to where Myers was sitting, pointed his finger at the long, lanky pro fessor and branded him as a Com munist. CHALLENGED BY CHAIRMAN In another drama tie episode Congressman Frauds Walter of Pennsylvania. fh>n*fw4 Myvra to Myers, asked later what He would have done, mid: “I would ero« that bridge when I come to It.” The ex-Campbell professor was represented by Attorney James D. Oilhlaad of Warrenton. Oilliland said be catne to represent Myers, a friend of 90 years standing, be cause Myers said he could find no other lawyer Who would take the case Myers refused to answer ques tions concerning his political asso ciations on grounds of the 1st Amendment (freedom of speech), 5th Amendment (rights against self-incrimination and 10th Amend ment gives states all rights now granted to the federal government and that the federal government had no right to ask him about his political party. Rep. Bernard Kearney (R-NY) commented later that K was the first time' in his experience that anyone ever claimed the 10th Amendment, Myers read his objections to questions out of a small book, a schoolboy's copy of the V. 8. Con stitution. This was not the first time that Myers was wndsr fire for refusing to discuss his belief*. He was drop ped from the faculty of tJNC in IMS, he said, for refusing to HD oat an application form which asked about organisations in which he was a member. And Campbell College fired him last week for refusing to (Continued on Mp Bight) Three Hundred Venereal Cases Venereal disease afflicted 318 persona In Harnett County during 1056. the county health officer. Dr. W. B. Hunter, '■snort** ♦*>“ *»•>♦- ] Board of Health. Only 39 of these cases were diag nosed as syphilis, the more serious at the venereal Infections; the re mainder were put down as gonor rhea; The health report showed that 133 field visits wsaw made to con tacts and suspects during the year while four field visits were made to lapsed patients. Dr Hunter’s report indicated that there were 3 primary and secondary cases at ayphilha. 13 "early latent" eases; 7 late latent and late eases. 3 congenital cases. >u- . ■ "issiSMi ' .■*.«.•* * ■ i «• ' " *$&»!&■ u . -,* MISS DOROTHY BUELL Hostess On Mortorail Former Dunn Girl Takes Unique Post 'n. ■ ' . |E Dorothy Buell — a native of Dunn — is one of two women chosen to be hostess on the first suspended Mon orail system in the Western Hemisphere. t Bora of an old North Carolina tobacco-raising family—she lends a ' Quality of Southern charm and hospitality to her duties. The suspended monorail line known officially as Skyway—was opened as a 970-foot long pilot test line at Arrowhead Part; In Houston, Texas, and has attracted nation wide interest and thousands of rid ers in its first few days of public demonstration. Miss Buell and Kay Bright, of Seattle. Washington, the other hos tes«, see to the comfort of passen gers on the 970-foot line as the silvery coach rides along the steel rail from its ground-level loading platform to a height of 18 feet above street level—and then back again. Even before she took the hostess assignment, Dorothy—with her green eyes, brown hair, and 110 pounds—was long skilled In dealing with the public—charmingly and graciously. She was born near Dunn, N. C., where her father, J. C. Brown, Jr. owns a tobacco (Plantation. WAS SAK’S MODEL After graduating from Linden School, Dorothv attended the tTni versitv of North Carolina—and combined her studies with modeling fashion design. (Cantinned On Page Three Three Arrested In Liquor Money Theft i PINEHURST, N. C. H — Police arrested a young Fort Bragg soldier today and said he admitted being the difv j er of a getaway car for two other soldiers who robbed an ! ABC store clerk of $4,447.90 on the street here. g| Authorities at Ft. Bragg picked up the other two men and they were held at the poet stockade. Sheriff C. 3. McDonald of Moore County identified the soldier ar rested by civil authorities as Theo dore Wusche, 90. of Beaumont. Tex. McDonald said he was arrest ed at West Bad. N. C., near here, and that 9440 waa recovered. The two arrested at Ft. Brags . % $300-Plus Fine Socked . On Driver Adlee Gainey was convicted in Dunn Recorder’s Court Monday morning on a charge of driving drunk. Since his license had al ready been revoked for a prior of-. fense, it went especially hard with Gainey. Judge H. Paul Strickland sent enced him to six months cm the roads, suspended on payment o< *300 fine and costs. And he stated that Gainey’s driver’s* license should be revoked for the further period required by law. Gainey, who lives on Route 4, Dunn, gave notice of appeal, and his appeal bond was set at $300. Other cases: Clarence Louiek. trespassing and public drunkenness, found guilty of trespassing (he pled not guilty), 30 days suspended on payment of *5 fine and coats. James H. Young, private first class, psychological warfare center, (Continued On Page Eight) were Identified by Bragg authaf tjves as Michael O. Yasso, 20, a. I Anthony Leli, 30, both of Brooklj . All three were attached to Servi e Co. 325 of the 82nd Airborne Divi sion. McDonald said Plnehunrt resi dents told him that Wuecbe bad been seen loitering in the vicinity of the liquor store here frequently in the past several days. ' '■ sk^JV*** 3*.' -
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