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Fair to partly cloudy and cooler
today. Fair wit* freeze or scattered
frost tonnight. torn 25-30 moun
tain*. 28-3C elsewhere. Tuesday fair
and warmer.
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DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1956
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LUCKY GIRL—President Eisenhower looks through his desk drawer for souvenirs for four-year
old Clara Jo Proudfoot, National Easter Seal Child, after purchasing from her the first sheet of
Easter Seals to help crippled children. The President also gave Clara Jo, of Miami, Fla, a $5 bilL
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PARSONS, JAYNE. RITA.
LEX, DOLLS AND ORCHIDS
Attorney Glenn L. Hooper, Jr.
oT Dunn. asHflm district attorney,
win no Aou»think, twi<* before
Rt itHl— »aother church func
tion away from hit own first Pres
byterian Church here. He probably
WHO also take the ttooe and trouble
to find out in advance whether or
not hit own pastor will be there.
The popular young attorney was
one Of several special guests in
vited J>y Rommie Williamson to
attend' the first meeting of the
Men's Club out at the Grove Pres
byterian Church.
After the dinner meeting war
over, Glenn bumped Into the Rev.
*Leahe Tucker, pastor of bis own
church, who was also a special
guest.
“Well. Glenn,'' admonished Par
son Tucker good-naturedly, "now
that you've found out what a Men’s
Church dub meeting Is like per
haps we can persuade you to at
tend the one at your own church "
For opce, the mouthpiece was
speechless. He just gulped a cou
ple of times and grinned, with a real
guilty look on his face.
BIRTHDAYS: Today is the birth
day of Wayland Jones, Mrs. John
L. Sorrell and Mrs. J. W. White
head.
LITTLE NOTES: Rody Williams
was asking Tommy Harrall of Co
lonial Lockers Saturday about the
price of bams Said he has to
buy three of them for Easter . .
If he buys Colonial Hams, he'll have
ham fit for a feast The Rev.
and Mrs. J. W. Lineherger of Di
vine Street Methodist Church ’ars
getting ready to spend most of
the summer in Europe .‘‘All our
friends who have been over,” aaid
Mr. Lineberger the other day as
Arvel Tart was trimming his hair,
“are telling us places to see. You
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NEARLY 100 PEOPLE DEAD IN STORMS
New York" Almost
Paralyzed By Snow
NEW YORK (ffl — New York City and its three-state
metropolitan area was almost paralyzed today by a pair
of violent storms that blanketed the city with more than
Hearty WO person* were dead at
a netult (4 the two etoe—■ ■gWy
three persons died in the first bios
which hit Friday with naar-Mis
sard force acres the mid-Atlanti<
and Hew England states. Ten non
were reported dead in the second
stage of winter’s dying ooe-twc
punch.
Tens of thousands of abandoned
autos were stalled on city street!
and along the nearby highway!
and parkways in New Jersey. Con
necticut and New York.
In New York City alone police
said 10,000 autos were abandoned
and some 3,000 persons spent all oj
part of . the nisht in stranded cars
Subway service collapsed to many
outlying sections of the city. Two
New Jersey commuter train line*
stopped Tunning other train* were
delayed from a few minutes op to
WOIff SWCt tMT
The snow which began lazily
about church time yesterday mora
ine had piled 13 inches in the city
by 8:30 a. m. today It added to a
4.8 inch fall which stalled traffic
on Friday.
It was the heaviest fall since
the Christmas weekend “bis snow*’
at 1947 A record 25 8 inches fen
in 34 bourn then.
Spring is only two days off, bat
ft seemed to be coming in on snow
There was no prediction of
temperature*
The jnow traveled up from the
mountains of North Carolina and
across Virginia and Pennsylvania."
DESPONDENT OVER HEALTH
Route One Farmer
Takes Own Life
Matthew Strickland, 51 - year - old fanner of Dunn,
Route 1, shot himself to death Monday morning about
10:45 o’clock at his home on the outskirts of Dunn.
Mr*. Strickland told authorities
that her husband came into the
kitchen where she was preparing
lunch and told her that he had a
•ore throat and was going to rest
for a while in their bedroom and
asked that he not be disturbed.
HEARD NOISE
A few minutes later, she said, she
heard a muffle sound and went to
investigate. She found her husband
lying dead on the floor, with a 30
gauge shotgun at his side
He had fired one shot into his
right temple Death was instant.
Coroner Orover C, Henderson said
Mrs. Strickland to id him her hus
band had been despondent since
given a physical examination for
an insurance policy, when he learn,
ed that he had high blood pres
sure and heart trodbte.
The coroner ruled that an in
quest was not necessary.
I - The body was brought to Hatch -
I er-Skinner Fun real Home in Dunn.
HASN'T BEEN INDICTED FOR CONTEMPT
Myers Will Seek Job In N. C
John Myers, the Camp
bell College language pro
fessor who was firea from
his job for his attitude to
ward Congressional inquir
ies, -said yesterday that he
may vacation in New York
for a week but then he will
returri to North' Carolina and
try to get a job here.
Summing up hi* attitude toward
the House Un-American Activities
Committee, wto questioned Myera
ed os Communism in a nearing at
Charlotte, Myers said. “They came
down here to investigate Commun
ism. and their Ides of Communism
U anything left of slavery."
Xt was his original opinion, he
said, that the committee scheduled
the Charlotte hearing in order to
discredit the N. A. A. C. P.„ but
he did not find much evidence of
that at the hearings. Committee
members attack, he said, seemed
to be “random.”
WILL VISIT PARENTS
(Myers was discharged tram bis
poslUpns as language professor and
goo coaen at tne napust junior
College in Buie's Creek sifter hie
publicly announced decision to be
an “uncooperative witness" at the
hearings. His present plana are ’ to
join his parents—bis father is a
Baptist preacher—at their home
near Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Committee members. Myers claim,
ed. handed out contradictory state
ments as to whether he and other
unfriendly witnesses at the Char
lotte heaxlnps would be issued con
tempt citation. No citation baa
turned up yet, he said.
Ervin Favors
Voluntary
Segregation
NEW YORK (IPt — Sen.
Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North
Carolina called today for “a
system of voluntary school
segregation” as “the only
way” of solving the segrega
tion issue.
The North Carolina Democrat
that such a system is sanc
tioned toy the unanimous Supreme
Court decision in 1954 which for
bids the states to segregate white
and Negro children in public
schools solely on the basis of
color.
Voluntary school segregation, Er
vin said, would afford moderate
Southerners of both races an op
portunity to solve the South’s racial
problem “in an atmosphere of
good will, patience and tolerance.”
He said thoughtful Southerners
fear “that the* harmonious race
relations now existing in the .South
maybe destroyed by the intemper
ate demands of those who seek
immediate mixing of races in pub
lic schools.
'Fortunately, those making these
demands put an erroneous
struction on the decision of May 17,
1964. this decision does not require
bnmortlsfe integration of the pub
lic schools of the South. It does not
even require integration,** the sen
ator wrote In an article in the
current Look msgaxine.
**1 believe in racial segre
m It' exists in the South today,
1
“The reasons for my belief
social segregation baaed on
are staple. They do not rest on
any theory of racial superiority or
racial inferiority.
NOT PKJUDICE
“Racial segregation la not the
offspring of racial bigotry or racial
prejudice. It results from the exer
cise of a fundamental American
freedom—the freedom to select
one’s associates. Whenever Ameri
cans are at liberty to choose their
own associates, they virtually al
ways select within their own race,’*
Ervin said.
The senator said that Southern
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EARNS FREE TRIP — It haa
Jut been announced by W. E. Sim.
M of State Capital Life Inst
ance Company that Roland Adeox,
Superintendent of the Dunn branch
haa fully qualified for the company*!
19SC Preaident's Club Convention.
Although there sUU remaina four
montha qualifying time, Mr. Adeox
haa through hie outstanding prod
uction of ordinary Ihsarsm i al
ready achieved thia honor which
entitles he and hk family to an all
expense paid trip to Atlantic City
from August M to September 3rd,
1956.
S/on WHborn
To Head
Chamber
Won Wilbom, LiUington hard
ware merchant, is the new presi
dent of the LiUington Chamber of
Commerce. ^ '
will sueoeed Caaey s Fowler, own
er of a farm implement company.
Other new officers are M P.
Crew, Jr . vice-president; and Sel
wyn O’Quinn, secretary- treasurer,
who was re-elected. All officers will
serve fdr one year.
Wilbom, who has been In busi
ness in LiUington for thirty years,
is a fading Methodist layman and
active in various civic affairs. Hi
served as an officer of the LiUing
ton Development Corporation which
«os successful two years ago la
building a new $135,000 industrial
building and attracting the LiUing
ton Garment Company, a new shirt
manufacturing firm, to LiUington.
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3HRTNER8 TO MZ2E7F — The
Dunn Shrine Club will hold Us reg
ular monthly meeting tonight at
7:30 at Johnson's Restaurant for
a very Important business meeting.
A too. Dr Balus will apeak on the
Cripple Children's Hospital in
Greenville. South Carolina.
TO JOSET WEDNESDAY — The
WMS of the First Baptist Church
will meet Wednesday evening at
7:30 in the Ladies Parlor of the
Church. The program topic “Make
Me A Channel of Blessings- will be
presented by the Ruth Gardner
Circle of which Mrs. J. T. Mann is
leader and Mrs. Allen Lee is pro
gram chairman.
Contlnaed oa Page Ms)
Sergeant Wood
Buried Sunday
Sergeant Callbie F. Wood, Sr., 55, of the Dunn Po
lice Department, died early Saturday morning at his home
at 318 East Cumberland Street. He apparently suffered a
heart attack and died in his sleep.
Funeral service* were held Sun
day afternooon at 4 o’clock at
Hood'Memorial Christian Church.
The Rev. Jack M. Daniel, pastor,
officiated. Burial was in Green
wood Cemetery. The body lay in
state at the church for (me hour
prior to the services.
The body remained at the home
at his brother. Freeman Wood, at
300 S. Magnolia Avenue until taken
to the church.
Members of the Dunn police
force nerved as paUbearers.
VETERAN OFFICER
Sergeant Wood was a native and
lifelong resident of Dunn, son ot
the late Prank and Lizzie Monds
Wood. He had served on the Dunn
police force for 25 yean and has
held the rank of sergeant for sev
eral years.
He was a member of Hood Me
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In Peace Quest
President Says
WASHINGTON — Pres
ident Eisenhower submitted
to Congress today a $4,859,
795,000 foreign aid program
tailored to meet Russia’s
“new departures in foreign
policy.” It included author
ity for long - term U. S. aid
commitments to underdevel
oped countries.
He warned in a 3.500-word spe
cial message to the House and Sen
ate that “we cannot now falter
In our quest for peace."
Although the Communists seem
to have “put aside, at least tem
porarily" the strategy of “aggres
sion through force,” he said, there
is no reason to believe they have
abandoned their “sinister objec
tives" of world domination.
He said the United States murt
continue military aid to free na
tions because the huge and still
growing Soviet armed forces “still
cast an ominous shadow over the
World.'’ And it must have a “flex
ible” economic aid program to
counter the Soviet Union's new
program of “ceaseless probing for
opi-trtunities to exploit political
and economic weaknesses.”
MOSTLY ASMS AID
The President asked a total aid
appropriation of $4,*50,975,000 fir
the 1957 fiscal year starting July 1.
He said part of this would cover
prognapos authorized but not fully
financed In previous years. He
asked XJongress to authorise actual
wr $4.672.475.000 in fUci
The largest share of this - $2,925.
000,000—was earmarked for mili
tary aid. Other major items in
cluded $1,130,700,000 for “defense
supporting" economic aid to mili
tary allies; $170, 000, 000 for Middle
Bast, Africa and Latin America;
$175,500,000 for technical Point Four
aid; $100,000,000 for a special fund
for economic development in Asia;
and $100,000,000 for a fund to meet
emergency or special situations any
where in the world.
The military aid program In
cluded $1,640,000,000 for Asia and
the Middle East where, the Presi
dent said, “serious risk of aggres
sion still exists.”
He asked Congress lor authority
to make commitments up to ten
years in length for assistance to
underdeveloped counties in long
tern non-military projects, with a
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NAVY GETS PODRES
NEW YORK W — Johnny Pod
res, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ World
Series pitching hero, reported ear
ly today for his draft induction
physical examination and learned
promptly that be had been allo
cated to the Navy instead of the
Army
Nanette And Sid
Couldn't Agree
NEW YORK W — Comedienne
Nanette Fahray says she and Sid
Caea&r parted company because
they couldn’t agree on time, mon
ey and other provisions of a new
contract.
Miss Fahray said she had no
definite plans for next season.
Boy, 8, Hangs
Self At Play
mrsBURaH. pa. an —* An
eight-year-old boy, who often
played at hanging his pet panda
doll, hanged himself accidentally
Sunday while at play in his home.
The boy, Barry Enge, waa strap j
led with a bathrobe cord. The coro
ner’s office said he apparently tied
and looped the free end loosely
one end of the cord to a bannister
around his neck. He then stood on
a chair and either fedd or jumped
off.
The boy’s body was discovered by
his father about an hour later
Barry was an only child.
(NEA Telephoto)
NEW INCIDENTS IN OLD FEUD
Community Baptists
Anxious* for Status ^
Hot lava bubbles are still hitting the surface from
the heat - generating feud between Dunn’s Second Bap
tist Church and that part of its membership which broke
off to form a new Baptist congregation.
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xesteraay. judge n. r-uui oiricu
land, moderator of the Little River
Baptist Association, answered ques
tions from members of the new
church, who have been troubled by
various statements about the legal
ity of their group. ‘The Community
Baptist Church.” *
‘‘We found out that we're Baptists
officially,” claimed Joe Earnhardt,
chairman of the board of the dea
cons of the new church. He added
that Moderator Strickland had told
the group they could not be form
ally admitted until this fall to the
Little River Association.
TWO BELIEVERS ENOUGH
"The first question I asked him,”
said Earnhardt, “was weren’t we
Baptists — and if we weren’t, we’d
like to understand why we weren’t.
He gave me the answer that any
two baptized believers could organ
ize a Baptist Church.”
Seventeen Baptists who for
merly belonged to the Second Bap
tist congergation are “pretty wed
stirred up and hurt” said Earnhardt
because of the manner in which
the Second Baptists received their
request for letters to the other con
gregation.
The Second Baptists, he said,
have reAised to recognize the new
church, and therefore “erased froth
the rolls” the 17 members request
ing the letters. Those erased con
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Final Requiem
For Fred Allen
NEW YORK TO — A requiem
mass for comedian Fred Allen. 61,
will be celebrated tomorrow at St.
Mafachy’s Roman Catholic Church.
- The baggy-eyed humorist suc
cumbed to a heart attack on a
New Tori* City street Saturday
night only hours after a doctor
had given him a clean bill of
health, his family said.
Allen, who would have been 6J
in May. was stricken while on hla
(Continned « race Teel
MAY ACCEPT WOMEN
ATLANTA TO — A special So
uthern Presbyterian study oom
mittee will recommend to the
church that women ho accepted as
ruling elders and deacono in the
future.
The committee, composed of
four men and one woman, decided
to make the recommendation,
which will go to the » Preahy
teries for approval if appeased
by the General Amenably, be
cause of “a new understanding of
the place in women in the
church.
Cox Will Address
Dunn Jaycees T onite
1 Bob Cox of Chapel Hill, candidate
far President of the North Carolina
Junior Chamber of Commerce, will
apeak before the Dunn Jaycees at
their meeting tonight (Monday.
March 1S».
A National Director of the state
wide young men’s civic group. Mr.
Cox is a Chapel Hill men’s cloth
ing store owner and Past Presi
dent of the Jaycees there. The 28
year-old Carolina alumnus was a
team-mate of Charlie Justice on
the Tar Heels’ football squad of the
late '40's.
He It seeking tbs presidency of
the group which Includes nearly
6,000 young men In 108 local dobs.
Headquarters for the state organiz
ation is In High Point and the tor -
rent president is Edgar Qurgatnu
of Williams ton. Elections will it *
held at the annual convention *. i
Charlotte on May 12.
THREE YEARS SERVICE
Mr. Oox has been active in stn a
Jaycee activities for the past three
years, having previously served ns
State Vice-President for the F1|t:t
District and as State Sporto Ohati
man. He has attended all state Jay
cee meetings during this period and