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+ WEATHER * Scattered shower* and wanner thla afternoon and in east portion early tonight, followed by clearing and colder late tonight. Thursday generally fair and moderately cold. THE RECORD IS FIRST VUIjIJME « TELEPHONES >117-1111 DUNN, N. C , THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. U T SHE WANTS THAT TRIP TO ECROPE — Ctar* Lee hu been a Checker at the Pigglv Wiggly store in Dunn for somethin* over half a year. When two other Checker* here, and hundreds across the nation, she has entered a contest intended to dra matise. for the public, the skill required in total ling up bill and tax on those long, long grocery IHU. First prise Is a trip to Europe. (Daily Record Photo.) JhaM Mila By ROOVIR ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE ANND THINGS Sexton Lee tipped u* off to the fact that Mrs. Jim Cromartie Is a second cousin of E. C. Daniel, Jr., the fiance of Mamret Truman . . Mrs. Cromartie prior to her ma ria** wa« OotuMin* Daniel .She recalls that she used to see E. C often at family reunions .Ana Sexton’s big brother, Howard M. served with Daniel on The Daily Tar Heel staff at UNC Tom Sawyer the adiite supremacy can* didate for governor, is a close fri end of Paul Hester of Dunn Sawyer, then a State Senator, spoke at a rally held in Dunn a few years ago in favor of a State bonus for veterans . The Suns Company's big anniversary sale got off to a whopping big start this morning . . Abe and Jimmy are really giving bargains They will give you a free refrigerator just for buving an electric range „ Many other su per-special deals. . There are just 14 more days until Easter but record shops here and in Raleigh long ago sold out of Guv Lombardo's recording of “Easter Parade." Nobodv but nobody can play it like Lombardo Records come and go, but they don't get any better than Nat King Cole's recording of ‘ Mona Lisa.” . . It's an all-time favorite, not just at Easter but 3R5 davs out of the year. . We weren’t able to attend the Rotary meeting Friday night and hear Lincoln Fa ulk. but everybody rays he made a wonderful speech . Have heard k>ts of good comments. He gave the Rotarlans some good ad vice-told them the necessity and importance of advertising .Hop" it sunk in. Link is an excellent (Continued on Page Five PIGGLY WIGGLY'S ANNIVERSARY Grocerydom Has Neat, New Symbol A Checker, in case you’re not familiar with super, market lingo, is the woman (or man) at the cash regia, ter who itemizes each purchase, computes the tax, glees you a bill and takes your money. no many yearn ago uie true symbol of 'American {g-ocerydom was the country storekeeper, pre siding at his pot-bellied store, flanked by a circle of checker play ers, cracker barrels, pickle* and big glass Jars full of candy. Today it is the Checker, working swiftly and almost soundlessly with most of her work being done by darting fingertip*. The best of these Checkers can run oft a twen ty-dollar list of groceries In no tkne at all, and since huge iceboxes, giant deep-free** and kitchens with a lot of storage space are now at a peak of public acceptance, such twenty-dollar lists are not unusual Continued «•» Page tttx) Woman Guilty Of Poisoning Six People I MONTGOMERY, Ala. V) — A 49-year-old waitress confessed last night she fed fatal doses of ant poison to three of her children, two husbands and mother to col lect their insurance. • Police said Mrs. Rhonda Belle (Continued On Page Pear) Court Takes Steps In Mutt Situation Willie Bates, a Negro who lives in Barbecue Town ship, is the first person to suffer arrest since Harnett: County determined to intensify its efforts to control the mutt situation. court Appearing in Harnett Recorder’s Court this morning, Bates informed the court that while he had owned five dogs he is now “out of the dog business.” Judge M. O. lee fined him with court cost* and cautioned him not to tangle with any of the dog or dinances in the future. A sentence of 10 days in jail was suspended on condition that he pay the oasts at Bate, was indicted by Dog War den Earl Wells and arrested by Rural Policeman B. F. Temple fol lowing complaints from neighbors. Wells investigated and Indicted Bates on tour counts Three of the five dogs owned were not Usted for Wells claimed. Although these dogs three-month old puppies, l Ova timed Ou Fags ■fat) Bates DANIEL SHOWED PA - IN - LAW TRUMAN AROUND OFFICE Margaret Truman's Fiancee Ran In Tap London Society NEW YORK (W — When newsmen at the New York Times saw the face of Harry Truman peering around cor ners in their office one day last January they took it in stride. Another V, I. P. being shown around the Times. The thing they didn’t know wms that their assist ant foreign news editor, Clifton Daniel, was letting his prospective father-in-law take a look at the place where he worked. Daniel Is a former Dunn, N. C. newsman. rruman ana nis wire Bess mat Daniel for the first time when they came to New York early this year for a Democratic fund-raising din ner. Their daughter Margaret in troduced her suave, prematurely - gay escort “CUff” and told them that finally she had found the right man. They had met laat November at dinner party with some mutual friends. The foreign correspondent. Just back from Moscow, and the former president's daughter on her own as Ml entertainer found they had a lot of WeifeMs in common. LEFT BMU TOWNS Music . . the ballet . . . the theater. Perhaps drawing them to* (tether too was the fact that both had left a small town behind for a life of cosmopolitan glamor and (QsMtaif SB Page Two) GOP Is Facing jits Best Outlook In Thirty Years WASHINGTON (IP) — II will be Eisenhower-and-Nix on again for the Republicans under the most favorable GOP presidential campaign conditions in nearly 30 years. The effort sparked by non-pro fessional politicians to bounce Vicl President Richard M Nixon fro a the 1956 ticket faded with New Hampshire preferential primar^ returns That balloting was not for a rice presidential choice at all. Thou ands of New Hampshire Republican voters, however, wrote in Nixon1* name as their favorite for veep. There are l3 preferential primaries still to come. Many of them are likely to follow New Hampshire's lead In a Nixon vote of confidence. President Eisenhower made It practically official at his news con ference Wednesday after New Hampshire gr turns were In. He said no one could drive a wedge between himself and his younger friend. The President said he would be happy to have him on the ticket again. "NO GREATER REWARD" Several hours later, Nixon said In a statement that "There could be JH»; greater reward for a man in pdblic life than to have the President speak of him so onsly as he has of my work on several occasions in the past three years.” “All I can say Is that I shall try to continue day by day ■ to Co the best Job I can in behalf of the Elsenhower administration.'* Within a span of two weeks the Republican ticket has shaped up frofn a baffling double question mark to a team which won easi'y in 1953. The race relations dispute cleaving the Democratic Party at tained in the same time a bitter new raising doubts that the party can avoid a substantial bolt In this presidential year. Mr. Eisenhower enters the pre convention primary period at a 'Owathmed m Pace Twl 1 B. SMITH Smith Keeps Up Sales Record Mr. A. B. Smith. Jr. of 913 Nort I Ellis Avenue. Dunn, has qualifte ' a* a member of the 1966 Tap Clui of the New York Life Insuranc Company, according to Mr. Era'll T. Ridgeway. Jr.,, general manage of the company’s Raleigh branch. Membership in the Tap Club i based on 1965 sales records and I composed of the most successful agents of New York Life whicJ has a field force of 5JSQ0 full-tim agents in 179 branch office throughout the United States, Can ada and Hawaii. Mr. Smith is wit) the Raleigh branch office. Mr. Ridgeway said that 1A Smith also has guslfW to aMf* an educational conference in P£lh ’Beach. Florida. March 13-16. ** John A. Park Dies At Age 70 RALEIGH. N. C. «*-John A Park, editor and publisher of thi Raleigh Times for 44 yean, dim early today in hts sleep at hii home here. He was TO yean old. Hark had been* In dedinini health for seven months prior u the sale of the Timed to the Newi and Observer Publishing Co. las June. Hie illness ftxfetd him to re tire from his long Journalism ca t ffen tinnsul Pam (twiuDneo mi rift Iwtl MUSICAL VARIETIES — Mr Beta Whitt enton announces III schedule for her "Musical Varie tlea“ radio program for next week Monday — Mrs. Coy Lucas wi! Play the piano; Tuesday — Joyc Godwin win sing; Wednesday—Th glee duib at Erwin, under the di rrctton at Mias Betty Nicholsoi will sing; Thursday — Jessie MU ler of FUL'em will render pian selections; Friday — A boy's ban L I 1 f S i. > 1 of Erwin, under the direction of BWy Whittenton. will play. Th< program is heard each aftemoor at 3 o’clock. “TEEN-TIME" — The junta class of Mingo Rich School wa present a revue called “Teen Time' on Friday night, March 15. It start* at 7:46 p. m. and athniasion la X and 40 cents. Included in the cast (Continued m hfi VHn 1. Probers Declare Reds Not Too Successful Here CHARLOTTE, N. C. OT — The general agreement to day In the wake of hearings by the House Un - American activities committee was that the Communist party had not been too successful in North Carolina. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa t chairman of the committee whicii concluded three days of hearing: yesterday, said the operation of the party in this state was typical oJ other areas. • “But the leadership here is noi as good as elsewhere due to tlw fact that the party has relied toe x much on alleged intellectuals in 1 stead of tough politicians.” he said > Rep. Edwin Willis (D-La.) salci • committee investigations in othei i areas had been more fruitful than r in North Carolina. "This is due. in part, to the faci » that Communists have made more > concerted efforts in other areas." 1 he said. i The third member of the con : gressional committee. Rep. Ber i nard Kearney (R-NY), said ‘'we’ve - gotten rid Of some of the rotter i eggs" in North Caroline. Walter said the hearings aV . served to alert the state as to the L scope rtf communist acUvlties anr i their methods of operation. "TO hi forewarned is to be fore armW," he said. The committee ended its hear ings on a dramatic note by pro claimed he served ss an FBI un dercover man for three years as s Communist. Odis Reavis, 31, of Winston ■ Salem, whs the only witness to tes . tify on the final day of the probe > and his role as a counterspy came i as a surprise. He bad been men i boned Monday by another FBI counterspy, Charles Childs of High > Paint, as a known Communist. > : Council Topics Set For Tonite •nie city council of Dunn will meet this weninp. City Manager A. B. Dade, Jr., will ask for per* mission to clear weedy and over* grown lots with city equipment, in cases where the owners don't. Coat will then be added to the owner’s tax MU. The sheet layout In the William S. Welkins portion of the Fleiah mann development, which is near West Mhrris Circle and Cole Street, win again come up for discussion A number of small difficulties have arisen over this layout, which first was presented to the council about three months ago. The public utilities committee of the oouncii is expected to give a report on ways of preventing the reoccurrence of loss of delinquent water bills. The council will also consider a request by the management of the new Porter's restaurant that a parking meter be removed. They Weren't Wed Then, But Will Be NEW YORK — Resolving some of the confusion over their status that arose last Aug. 27 when she took an overdose of sleeping pills, Melinda Markey, 22-year-old dau ghter of movie actress Joan Ben nett, obtained a marriaee license with TV act*-- *• -' - " at the Municipal Building yesterday. At the time of Melinda’s boot with the shut-eye pills, Hayden Identified himself to police as her husband and said they had a quar rel in their apartment at 320 K. 42nd St. Previously Hayden had been married to Carol Ann Beery, adopted daughter of the late Wal lace Beery; they were divorced in California Feb. IS of last year. Hayden had said he and Melinda were married in Mexico. They gave their addresses yester day aa 221 E. Mth St. No wedding date was announced. GOING HOME TO DIE-—Cancer-doomed Mrs. Antonia Manders, 27, of Sudbury, Ont., smiles as her 18-month-old son, William, and her husband, Corneles, 28, visit her in sick bay after she was brought aboard the liner SS Masdam at Hoboken, NJ. When doctors told her of multiple cancer growths, Mrs. Manders asked to go home to Uden, Holland, so she eould spend her remaining days on her native soil. Dunn Store Owner Opposing Barden RALEIGH lift — A New Bern jeweler entered the 3rd j District congressional race today to oppose Rep. Graham ***< A. Barden in a surprise fight that will give the state a 3 least five primary contests for Congress. lit *V uuiuiuair u «/MUICS u8' car Simpkins. 33, a state direct©: of the 0. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and New Bern's “Yount Man of the Tear” in 1955. WELL KNOWN HERE Mr. Simpkins is owner of Stan ley Jewelers in Dunn and a chain of other jewelry stores in Eastern Carolina. His parents, Mr. and Mrs J. O. Simpkins, Sr. reside in Dunn Jimmy is well known in Dunn and has many friends here. “I feel it m time for a younger man to represent the 3rd District," Simpkins Maid. ’I feel that if nom inated and elected X can render a real service. I am much interested in helping fanners get a fair price for their commodities—the farmer is the economic background of the 3rd District.” itep. unanes k. jonas uww;) ' filed as an official OOP candidate in the 10th District today. Jonas was elected in 1952 and re-elected In 1P£T Former Charlotte Mayor Fen E. Douglas has announced that he will seek the nomination as a Democratic candidate. It had been believed that former State Sen. James H. Poo Halley. of Raleish might file today as a | candidate to oppose Rep. Harold D. Cooley. But it was reported that Bailey had decided against the race. The filing deadline is tomor row. ; i A race for governor was guaran teed yesterday when Thomas B. » Sawyer of Charlotte, former state senator and a radio station execu tive, filed to oppose Gov, Luther H. Hodges on a pro-segregation platform. Thorough Officers Make Find At Wreck »»m ‘v* iMuu i ati mvu au cuij/bjf car, stalled on the railroad trades in front of the Four Oaks Negro Elementary School, it set oft an investigation which has put two Johnston County men in trouble. Highway Patrolman T. L. Bullard was the first officer to arrive on the scene. He found that the car .had run off the narrow drive over the tracks and stalled. He also found evidence <rf liquor in the car. Duiauu cautu m rewrui aiu Agent c. S. Coas. Together the officers salvaged 12 oM-fNrif gnOtHp || jars and a cardboard case, 'men, J Coats had a little message for Jul ius Primrose Byrd, Route 3, Ben son. and Earlen Ray Allen of Rotfte 3, Four Oaks. Allen allegedly was the driver of the car. | Coats saw that they were given a j preliminary hearing before IT. S. (Continued On Pago Biz) 22 - TEAK - OLD BRIDE OP NINE MONTHS Pretty Coed Raped, Then Burned Alive ALVA, Okla. (W — A preliminary autopsy report , showed today that an attractive 22-year-old coed was burned alive in her automobile, apparently after a sav age sex attack. Woods County Atty. H, D. Pott* said further chemical teste would be needed to confirm that the cre mated victim, Mia. Mildred Ann Reynold*, was raped. But surface appearances indicated she was. Mrs. Reynolds, married only nine months, was the wife of R. D Rey nolds. a high school batecethsW coach at nearby Avard, Okla. She was attending Northwestern State Tuesday when attacked Investigators said someone cro*J ed Mr*. Reynolds? automobile o f a country road and caused It *» smash Into a tree. Plaster easts were made of the second vehicle s tire tracks. ;i; . i/' Tall, dry gnus was amaehert flat near where her oar waa found. Indicating a fierce struggle took
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