* WEATHER + Partly cloudy to cloudy and mild thia afternoon, tonight and Wed nesday; becoming rathe# windy with scattered showers and thun derstorms Wednesday THE RECORD IS FIRST -l VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES SU7-S11I DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 79 TV STAB TO Miss Carolyn Am •Ur of JSWISS Thornton’s Country Style TV Shew, will be among the top-flight entertainers who will appear on the big hoar end s half show to be held here during Dunn’s Second Broadslab Drag Dance on Easter Monday night. The lovely little lady Is a WTVD M«t than » fcm Othrr papwiar entertainer* vW fet on the program, which Marta a* »:*§ p. m . wtth the gala holiday dance faBawing at 9 p. as. and continuing until midnight. (Daily Record Pho to by T. M. Stewart.) I jnSLbJl Mils JhinqA By HOOVE* ADAMS TV STARS, MODELS. SQUAB OLD FLAME, OTHER NOTES x Gordon Norris is the new owner of Dunn’s Tas tee-Freeze on the Dunn-Erwin highway . He’s the son of Mr and Mrs. W E. Norr:3, longtime residents of the town . Jim Thornton will bring his en tire group of TV stars to Dunn Monday night for the big Easter Monday Broadslab Drag in the Dunn Armory . It'll be their only appearance together this sea son anywhere except on the Sat urday night Country Style show . . Stewart-Everette Enterprises, which own the theatres in Dunn, Angler and Ullington. have an nounced plans for rebuilding the Drake Theatre in Wilson and The Morehead Theatre at Morehead City, both recently destroyed by fire . . The chain is also open ing new theatres on Bragg Boule vard at Fayetteville and at Jack sonville, N. C. If you're a gal with a pretty face and a shapely figure and interested in modeling irnntlmwS (Hi Face Tw*> Kefauver Position WASHINGTON OP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver has what the horse players call early foot. He came uo to the 1952 Dem ocratic National Convention with more delegate votes than the next candidate by a margin of nearly 70. He is headed toward this year’s convention at the same fast pace. The first four candidates finish ed the first roll call four years ago. like this: Kefauver. 34®; Adial «!. Steven son, 273: Sen. Richard B. Russell. Oa., 268: Averell Harrlman. N. f. 123*4. Necessary to nominate. 61S From *4 to 65 votes were cast for 11 others on that roll call. Kefauver improved his position but was losing ground to Steven 1 son, on the second call The four finished this way: Kefauver. 362*4; Stevenson, 324 H: Russell. 294; Harriman, 121. ■ NAMED ON THIRD CALL Stevenson was nominated by a margin of 114 votes on the third call His total was 617*4. The con vention made it then by acclama tion. The party leaders had not Club Leaders Plan For Next Quarter Leaders of the county home dem , orist.ration clube, meeting In quar terly session Monday afternoon at the county agriculture building au ditorium. took a forward glance and planned a variety of activities for the next three months. Mrs. J. C. Hardee, a member of the Turlington Club, who i» county president, presided. The meeting attracted 37 leaders from a dozen chibs. Harnett County has It dif ferent home demonstration dubs, with officers of each local club composing the influential county council. •Newto of the broader aspects of the work on State levels, was relay ed to Harnett leaders by Mrs. T. L. Cavineae of Chalybeate Springs, a member of the executive board of the' N. C. Federation of Home Dem. onstration Clubs. Mrs. Cavineas at tended the state board meeting in I Raleigh March 1-9. \ (Centtnaed Oa rags Twe) In Good Today wanted Kefauver and they had locked him. On the second roll call in which Kefauver reached his highest vote, bis support came from 36 states. Stevenson's came from 30, Rus - sell’s from 24 and Ham man’s from 14. Eighteen states gave Kefauver five or more votes. His position was strongest to California, Mary land, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wis consin. Those eight states gave Ke fauver 24S votes. Stevenson’s backlog was con posed of Connecticut. Illinois, In diana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The split in the Ohio delegation continued through the third ballot. But Pennyivama closed ranks on the third and cast all 70 votes for Stevenson. Some of the pressures operating four years ago against Kefauver': nomination are appearing again The leaders of the Farm er-Labor Democratic Party were against Ke fauver in Minnesota, for example. The senator heat them and Steven son in last week's primary. The party leaders oppose turn in Cali fornia where he meets Stevenson in a critical primary June 5. Continued ms rag* Six) Debbie Reynolds i Is Expecting HOLLYWOOD Oft - Actress Deb bie Reynolds, wife of singer Eddie Fisher, is expecting a child next November, her mother says. Mrs. Maxene Reynolds, the young film star’s mother, said yesterday her daughter conveyed the news to a telephone call from New York because of several inquiries about whether she might be expecting a child. Debbie went to New York to be with Fisher who is working there on television. The couple was married last Sept. 26 after a long engagement that attracted wide attention. J RETIRING WITH SPLENDID RECORD Bryan Wont Seek Court Post Again J. Shep Bryan, prominent Dunn attorney, has ended a number of careers in his ti#ie — only to start in new, and better, directions. ijui week he ended speculations about hia intentions m regard to the solicitorship of Dunn Record er's Court. He announced that he does not intend to run for a fourth term. His private practice requires ail his time, said Attorney Bryan, who nevertheless expresed regret that he cannot continue in the otnee which he has held for the past eigh tyears. Bryan is widely known and re spected throughout this area. He has held many responsible posi tions, and from 1B34 to 1941 serv ed simultaneously ”»s town attor ney and superintendent of schools — a combination which has not been duplicated by anyone oeiore or since. During World War U, ne was a special United States attorney for the governor. He became solic itor of Recorder's Court Just after the war. and was elected to two two-year terms and '.>r.e lour-year term. BOTH SONS LAWYERS Both of Bryan’s sons are prac ticing attorneys. Namesake J. Shep Bryan, Jr., is a corporation attor ney fOr the Wynn-Dude chain or supermarkets and lives in Jackson ville. Florida. His,son, Robert, recently became ft paftne ier with the elder Bryan. Speculation exists that the younger Bryan Robert, may Jftmae a eaa dierte for the pomfotT which , ms father is vacating. There is no con firmation of that at present how ever. Only ajpMd candidate, so far, is C OW,AJr., Dunn attorney who has-|ft«e|$ed here since 1»53 Those In Burlap To Be Well Dressed NEW YORK m — A New York fashion designer is fashioning an entire summer wardrobe made of burlap. "Potatoes have been dressed in their high fashtoa fabrics long enough," said Dan Barkin. “They have had their day. Now the city girl win have hers.” J. SHEP BRYAN Gas - Turbine Plymouth Begins Trip NEW YORK een 325.000 on acreage re serve payments and 31,300 on con . gervaUon reserve payments. • •*■’*** I fife. Allen X Blender «►«) conference committee chairmen, said the conference indicated they , will approve the billion dollar soil bank: But he said House conferees ■ indicated they would insist cm 0W1 Hank participation being voluntary instead of mandatory as provided in the Senate measure. 4-Way Romance, Four Suicides TOKYO (W — Two young couples committed suicide because thev could not untangle their four - cornered romance, it was disclosed today. Japanese newspapers said one of the two men switched his affections from his girl friend to the girl friend of the other man. The other man remained steadfast In his love, , but the girl fell in love with the first man. All four went to an ton at a re sort island and took poison. A maid found their bodies. SHE’S NO REPUBUCAN HOLLYWOOD — Gloria Holi day in her divorce testimony against Harold X Peary, the for mer “Great GBdenleeve" of ra dio: l “My husband waa a Republican I was a Democrat He tried to make a Republican eut of me." 50 HAMS FROM COLON'Al 1ockwsW-dUNN Journey End By TED CRA1L Record Staff Writer The man who called on A1 Wullenwaber in January, a year ago, was between 50 and 55 years old, wore clothes with1 elan, drove a new, handsome Chrysler Im perial and had a 17 or 18 year - old - girl in the car whom he described as “his daughter.” Wullenwaber. the general mana ger of three Colonial Froeen Food plants including the one In Dunn, was not surprised when the visitor turned eut to be O. B. Stuoky. vice president and purchasing agent of CY' a line of stores famous from JUdt tnond to Florida. He didn't particularly notice that Stuoky. on the two occasions he saw him, never oat down. The well dressed visitor said hed been driv ing so much he'd rather stand and stretch himself It was the FBI who later suggested that he didn’t sit down because the outline of a gun might have shown through hie clothes. ‘ BIO DEAL ARRANGED Actually. Stucky didn’t have a business card in W* wallet to dhow who he was. tout he said there was one in bis car and he was going to get it for A1 before he left. He never did. By the tins he ledt after that first visit, the two of thnn had a deal oooking that held good prospects for the Frozen Food* company whose hams are among the best known in the United States. Wullenwaber is a cle»--ewd man. but he was dealtt*"' •'•'t'l *i «”'•-'■th con artist who had talked a type* writer company out of a batch of typewriters, a bedspread company out of SO chenille bethpreads (he had them made up to his own or* der). and a doBmeker in Bkn City out of her don*. The Ctarystor line perlal had been bought with a bo gus check. The girl in the car had been talked into an Inter-state Jaunt with the story that she would be this big businessman* “a—b ler." the biff buataeanaan who called (Ceuttned On Page Twa) SPRING’S IN THE AIR-In the spring, a young man's .turns to thoughts of love, and chimpanzees—at least this are no different. "Tarzan,” left, got all slicked up at the I Mich., zoo to call on “Mary," who also seems stricken with fever. Tarzan, with a bouquet of gladioli behind his back, is shown bowing in a gentlemanly invitation to dance._ Alben Tells Party To Campaign Hard WASHINGTON (IP) — Sen. Alben W. Barkley said to day the Democrats should hang on to control of the-Sen ate next November but that no political party dares to take an election for granted. The Kentucky Democrat, ii par* ty patriarch and vheelhorse, has »*rwi at jb. ^71 t» head the IMS Democratic majority in the Senate. Because of the lineup of the Sen ate seats at state this year, the Democrats have been highly optt mis tic about their chances of re taining Senate control whatever the outcome of the presidential and House elections. « ' "We'll Win Senate "I never take any election for a certainity,” Barkley told a report er, “but In all probability I think we’ll win the Senate.” “The man who takes an election for granted is apt to slip up ” he said, "and that is true of a politi cal party, too.” While Barkley concerned him self with his party’s efforts to keep control of the Senate, there were these developments in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomi nation: Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey