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THE RECORD
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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.)
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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|$ed here since 1»53
Those In Burlap
To Be Well Dressed
NEW YORK m — A New York
fashion designer is fashioning an
entire summer wardrobe made of
burlap.
"Potatoes have been dressed in
their high fashtoa fabrics long
enough," said Dan Barkin. “They
have had their day. Now the city
girl win have hers.”
J. SHEP BRYAN
Gas - Turbine
Plymouth
Begins Trip
NEW YORK <lfl — A sleek, 195<
Plymouth powered by a “cycloru
to a box’ crawled through peatn
mr* York traffic today on th'
start of ii h&$or#*8lakltlg 3^0
mile jaunt across the country.
The car, powered by a revolu
tionary gas turbine engine, had U
buck rush-hour traffic as it pullet
away from the Chrysler Buildtof
in mid-town New York and head'-*
for New Jersey.
Chrysler engineers said the pur
pose of the coast-to-coast trip was
to get information about the tui
bine and to see how it would read
to varying road conditions.
GOING TO LOS ANGELES
The low whine of the piston-lesi
engine will be heard in a doper
states before the car arrives i’
Los Angeles about Friday.
Because of the chance of break
‘ down and time out for adjustment
(Continued On Page Two)
+ Record Roundup +
SCHOOL HOLIDAY — Harnett
County public schools will have a
spring holiday from the end of the
school day, Thursday, March 39 un
til Tuesday. April 3. The county
education office staff also will have
the Good Friday and Easter Mon
day, holiday. However, the county
courthouse will be closed only on
Easter Monday, April 3. AH offices
in the courthouse will be open for
the usual half day on Saturday.
March 31, which Is the final da 3
of the month.
BOARD MEETING — Count]
Commissioners will ignore the Bias
ter Monday holiday and convert
next Monday, April 2 at 8:30 a. m
However, the county board of educ
at ion will not meet until Tuesday
April 3. when county offices am
schools re-open.
(Can tinned On Page Two)
Still Facing
Approval Of
The Congress
WASHINGTON (W —
House-Senate conferees on
the new farm t?ill today ap
proved 90 per cent of parity
price supports on basic farm
crops for this year.
i The conference also voted to re
tain in the bill a provision to re
quire the Department of Agricul
ture to use the highest parity cal
culation passible under the po
called dual parity formula,
t If the bill becomes tear, the fol
lowing price supports would be ef
fective for this year1* crops:
Cotton, 30.4 cents a pound;
Com, 31.64 a bushel;
Peanuts, 123 cents a pound:
Rice, $4.88 a hundredweight;
Wheat 3235 a bushel.
These support prices compared
with the administration’s plans
under the present law to provide
props of 31-40 a bushel for com.
about 30 cent* a pound for cotton,
3131 a bushel for wheat. The sup
port price for peanuts had not been
announced by the administration.
VETO PREDICTED
Republican congressional leaders
had predicted that President Ei
senhower would veto the farm bill
if either 90 per cent price supports
or dual-parity were provided for.
The conferees also agreed to
eliminate provisions of the Senate
bill calling for limitations of 3100.
000 on individual price support
loans and limits on soil bank, pay
ments. The soil bank limits would
bate ~4>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 <D
Mlnn.) said in Loa Angeles that un
less Adlai E. Stevenson wins the
California primary June 5, his
chances of winning the presiden
tial nomination will become re
mote. Humphrey, a 8tevenson sup
porter, said he was sticking by
Stevenson despite his loss in the
Minnesota primary.
ESTES KEFAUVER
Sen. Estes Kefauver carried his
hand-shaking campaign to the Loa
Angeles area yesterday and was
on the go' from dawn until late at
night.
Youngsters
UtocH Show
April 30
A Fat Stock Show which will give
TTA and Four H youngsters a
chance to show how they spend the’r
time away from school is scheduled
for April 30-May 1, in Dunn.
Cliff Ammons, county farm agent,
announced plans for the show this
week. He said it will be not only for
the boys and girls, but for adults
as well.
Ammons expects the Chamber of
Commerce to Join with the exten
sion department as usual in sponsor
ing the stock show, although formal
action as not yet been taken. The
show is April 30, the sale May 1.
Lila Leeds Fined
For Prostitution
CHICAGO tut — Former
starlet Lila Leeds was fined 910 to
day cm a charge of soliciting for
prostitution.
Leeds, whose film
was cut short by drug addiction, told
Judge Oeorge B. Weiss in Women's
Court that she was arrested after
an "innocent conversation” with
a man on a street corner.
She said she is regularly em
ployed as a singer at a night
where her husband works.
High Court Agrees
T oStudyScalesCase
WASHINGTON <W — The Supreme Court has agreed
H review the “membership provision” of the anti-subver
sive Smith Act.
The court announced its decision
to review the constitutionality of
the provision in agreeing to re
view the conviction of communist
leaders Junius Irving Scales and
Claude N. Lightfoot.
One provision of the Smith Act,
under which top officials of the
Communist Forty were Jofled In
1S51, makes K a dime to teach
or advocate the violent overthrew
of the government The court al
ready has upheld the validity of
this provision.
Bat Scales and Ughtfoot
convicted under the ‘‘memberafcijV’
provision that makes it unlawful to
be a meihber of an organixaU. i
dedicated to the violent overthn v
of the government if the member
la aware of this aim.
Bealee. 85, is a grand-nephew of
A. M. Scale*, governor of North
Carolina from IMS to 188*. He has
bean a well-known Communist lead
er In the Carolina# and Tumeowe.
He drew a afar year sentence.