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* WEATHER + Wednesday, partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Thursday, clearing and colder. The J Hinz Kett-W . THE RECORD IS FIRST FOLTTME • TELEPHONES 1117-Sill DUNN, N C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 81 —— 5 MISSING, 50 HURT M MELODY MASTERS ON BROADSLAB PRO GRAM MONDAY NIGHT — WUm Creech and Melody Master*, pope Ur radio and TV artiste, be among the parade of stars to appear Mon nifht at Dunn’s second Mr BroadsUb Drar the Dunn Armory. The Mr sheer begins at 7:3# and the dance begins at * o'clock, festering Janes Thornton and bis entire troupe of Country Style TV entertainers Clyde Moody, faaaed Grand Ole Opry star, was added to the program today as a special gaest. It'll be the biggest program of Its hind ever staged bore. By BOOm ADAM* A LOT OF NOTHING TO FILL BP SPACE Former V. 8. Senator Alton A Lennon of Wilmington rolled back into Dunn yesterday afternoon am) today waa continuing his very ef fective person - to - person camp aigning fw the sent now held tt Washington by dmg^essman iF Ertel Carlyte. «. The handsome fellow, who’s staying at Hugh Willie Tart's tourist court, reports th?l he is well pleased so far with hie campaign. .He campaigns from 5:30 a. m, until after midnight and still says "There just aren’t enough hours in the day. I wish I could talk with every single voter in the district” . . There's a fairiy good possibility that Sharon Kay Ritchie the current Mias America, may at tend Dunn’s Beauty Pageant or April 20th . . The lovely Nebras ka beauty will be In North Caro lina at that time and Chairmar Hubert Peay is trying to arrange for her to attend Dunn's beaut; spectacular. . . She gets a fee o! •ISO a day, plus expenses, bu Hubert figures she would more than draw enough extra people te the local pageant to offset tha cost . . Miss America, excep' in rare instances, appears only s' events sponsored by Jaycees ane the Philco Corporation, her com' merciai sponsor. . Billy Godwin head of the multi-mUlion-doila corporation. Godwin Building Sup ply Co., has been a busy fellos this week. He helped Derwood op?! (Continued On Pngn Eight) THE CHALLENGER COMES OUT SLUGGING Adiai Raps Estes To Enliven Race WASHINGTON <IP —• Adiai E. Stevenson, bent chi a comeback after his Minnesota defeat, displayed himself before California voters today as a candidate now ready for toe-totoe slugging with Sen. Estes Kefauver. I But while the -‘new" Stevenson ' vu showing a willingness to ctab Kefauver, he was also professing to lie “lust plain mad” about aur gtctiorva that he apend more time shaking hands and leea discussing I iaauea. I I Stevenson returned to California Wednesday for a two-day cam paign tour in the state where he faces Kefauver in their biggest pri mary tent June 5. And In a Los Angeles television address Wednes day night he showed none of his previous reluctance to engage in a personality clash with Kefauver. CITES “POLITICAL BOSSES” Stevenson accused Kefauver of trying to “injure me ” He said Kefauver did this by labeling party leaders backing Stevenson an -sin ister political bosses." But Kefauver would not reply to Stevenson’s charge. He said that he did not “intend to say anything disparasnig about Mr Stevenson” and had "asked my supporters not to Join in any criticism of him.” GOING TO FLORIDA Kefauver. who has Just finished a week's tour of California cam paigned in Arizona Wednesday. He scheduled stops today at Albuquer que and Santa Fe, N. M, enrout# back to Washington. His headquarters announced that he will leave Sunday night for four ' days of campaigning In Florida, i where he is matched againrt Ste < Continued On Fags Seven) j CRIMINALLY ASSAULTED, STABBED Mother, 78 Found Raped And Slain COSTA MESA, Calif. (W — The body of an attractive 18 - year - old mother was found by her husband early to day, stabbed and apparently raped on a bed in her trailer park home here. Police sold auburn-haired Oiita Johnson, mother of a two-month old baby, apparently was slain aft er ahe was criminally attacked She bad been stabbed between the tarwata and nearly completely dis robed. police said. Pvt. Harold Johnson. 19, of the Santa Ana air baae. said he found the body on the blood-spattered bed when he returned from duty. Mrs. Johnson, who came here from Houston. Teat., two weeks ago, eras driven home by Pet. Hen (CanttBaed On Page Eight) Bridal Shower Is Given For Grace Kelly NSW YORK iff) — Members of 3 race Kelly’s wedding party gave mt a typical small • town bridal shower last night in the apartment >t one of her farmer roommates. Only IS persons were present. Among them were Orace's mother, Hrs. John B, Kelly of Philadelphia, ind four bridesmaids. The party was held in the one bedroom apartment of Mrs. Sally Richardson in New York's Upper Bast Side. Most of the guests gave Grace (CenUnaed Oa Page Sight) Record Roundup MUSICAL VAFUJCTTB6 — Mrs. Reta Whittenton announces the schedule for her “Musical Varie ties’’ radio program for next week: Monday — Mary Lou Frink will be the vocalist; Tuesday — Mrs. Whit tenton will present an organ pro gram; Wednesday — Mrs. Jack Danlell will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Woodrow Hilt; Thursday — David Pinnix will render piano se lections. Friday — The Dunn high school glee club will sing, under the direction of Miss Jean Gayle. The program is heard each after noon at 3 p. m. SWINE EXPERT — Jack Kelly, head of the animal husbandry at N. C. State College, was in Harnett County Thursday to visit various twins producers. He was accom panied by County Agent C. R. Am mons. Another specialist from the State Extension service, H. K. Scott, entomologist, visited the county on Tuesday to check tobacco plant beda for possible plant dlsaaass. (CiaWasI On Fags HgM) Clyde Moody | Will Appear ! Here Monday i Clyde Moody, famed hillbilly star of the Grand Ole Opry. today was added to the parade of musical stars who will appear in Dunn Mon* day night at the town’s second Broadsiab Drag dance in the Dunn Armory. Moody, who* erecording of "Sh*n- | andoah Valley" sold over a million j ' records, is appearing as a special ] guest of James Thornton, popular director of "Country Style TV ". Thornton is bringing all the stars of his Saturday night TV show to Dunn for the event. Among them will be Mozelle, “Darling of the Hillbillies." Carolyn Ann Thomas. Becky Hill, Barbara Ann Cotton, Sonny Coley, Melody Masters, Dixie Ramblers, the Melody MUsters. Sandhill Playboys and others. The show will begin at 7:30 •’dock and the dance will begin at 9 <f ■ clock. 5 Children \ fit'**, | ' Left Alone Die In Blaze CASSSSMAS, Ont. W—ntf chil dren i ranging in age from two months to 5 years were tilled Wednesday night when fire razed their farm home in this edmntel tjr & miles southeast at Ottawa. A sixth child and the mother were in a nearby barn when the (ire broke out and were unhurt. The victims were the children of MT. and Mrs. Alcide Quesnel. They were Helen. 5, Jean-Ouy, 4 Claude. 2, and 2-months old twins Francois and FTancoise Quesnel. 24. works In a general •tore at St. Isidore. The house was gutted and the children were dead when he arrived home Ontario provincial police said they did not know how the fire sftarted. Trio Suspected Of Shoplifting Undergo Hearing A trio of negro ladies who were arrested by Dunn police when the car they were driving turned out to be a veritable department store, with everything from Men's shorts to perfume, underwent a hearing tor shoplifting this afternoon. Margie Burton, 28. Mary Ada Pat terson and Ester Ortiz, who gave their address to police as Fayette ville, are suspected by Chief Alton Cobb of having a connection with a shoplifting ring supposedly work ing In this section of the state. Outcome of the hearing was not decided as the Record went to press. _ LARRY THORNTON, JR., 8, AT EASTER EGG HUNT ” Some of the boy* threw dirt. DUNN CHURCHES PLAN FOR EASTER Pocketknife Rescue, Cow Named Peggy Point To Good Easter By TED CRA1L Record Staff Writer Nobody would have sus pected it a year ago, but it looks now as though Easter, 1958, will be commemorated at a time when peace - talk rather than war-talk has become the order of the day. During the past few days I*ve watched for sign" that the angels are casting on us, and last night I heard something that indicates ti>ey are. Larry Weaver, a junior high student, was one of the hundreds of howling youngsters who attend ed a midnight monster show at (Continued on Page Five Harnett's Oldest Pharmacist Dies Edward Ragland Thomas, TO, Harnett County’s oldest druggist, died Wednesday afternoon »t Oood Hope Hospital In Erwin Funeral services will be Friday at 3 JIB p. m. from Erwin M thodist Church conducted bv the Re*- V C. Feitman, assisted by the Rev. Eld ridge Taylor and the H v For est Maxwell. Burial will b? m Mont lawn Memorial Park. Raleigh. * Born In Chatham County, son of the late John Lewis and Emily Rag land Thomas, he was educated at CaldweU Institute and Trinity Park In Durham. He completed his work In pharmacy at Simpson's School of Pharmacy and was licensed In 1003. After a short time In Dur ham. he moved to Erwin in 190B and opened the B. R. Thomas Drug Co.. Which he operated until his death He was marrjed to the former Op (Oanttnaed mi Page Five % E. R THOMAS, SR. "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" STARS GUARDED Staff Of TV Show Receives Threats HOLLYWOOD (IP) — The FBI and police today inves tigated telephoned threats made in connection with a “This is Your Life” television show about a woman who posed as a Communist for the FBI. TV master of ceremonies Ralph f Edwards said his office received 10 threatening telephone calls yes ter day before the show went on. The life depicted last night was that of Mrs. Marlon Miller, 35, ex FBI undercover agent. The show originated from her West Los Angeles home. ‘•We will' be waiting for you at her home when you go there and well get you.” one caller threat ened, according to a spokesman for Edwards. FBI agents and policemen guard ed the Miller home during the how. Mrs. MUler had been taken >y her husband, Paul, to a beach esort while the cameras were set p in the home. Miller said he and his wife did Mart Is Hold For Attack On Girl, 16 GASTONIA IW—Robert Rimmer, 23. was free under 1600 bond today on charges he attacked a 16-year ild school girl. Police said Rimmer was charged . with assault in a complaint signed Iky the girl’s father. not peraon»Uy receive any threat ening calls. The callers to the Ed wards office were both men anc women, a spokesman said. Some of Mrs. Miller’s neighbor; knew about the program before it was telecast because they ^er« asked to appear, the spokesmar said. Miller said he had no idea whc might have made the calls. Blast Shakes Two-Mile Area Of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA <W — Res cue workers searched today for the bodies of five men be lieved buried under tons of rubble in an explosion which rocked two square miles of west Philadelphia Wednes day night. Fifty other per sons were injured in the blast. f. ' - Many of the Injured said they barely escaped flying concrete and stone blasted from a grain eleva tor and four silos which were flat tened by the btast. Anthony Kamell. manager of a restaurant In the block next to the' explosion, said glass and rubble showered over the 30 patrons In his restaurant when the explosion occurred. "It looked like all hell was break ing loose, and I holiered to every body to get out in a hurry," he said. Mrs. Margaret Connell, 40, said she was knocked down four times by shock wav es. “The fourth time I couldn't get up I just lay there stunned,” she said. -Then a policeman mu. bend ing over, helping me up. I had no idea where he came from. I don’t remember being brought to the A, P. Tallent, 33, a thf Pennsylvania saw flames shoot from the elevator. “It started to mushroom atomic bomb,” he said. For a few minutes he thought the explosion was an i ic blast of fire would engulf The five men missing in the plosion were identified as Johnson, 26, Philadelphia: Weldon and Arthur Harrell, truck drivers employed by the John Regi nak Trucking Co. of Millville, N. J.„ sr.d Frank Morgan and Dominic Ma.achi, employes of the Railway Express agency next door to the grain elevator. Trash Fire Not Serious At Porters The guardian angel of the ntern Porter’s Restaurant, which hold* Open House tomorrow at its grand opening, went to sleep yesterday long enough to let a trash tire get started. But the restaurant la. so close to the fire station (it’s located in the Cottondale Hotei building! that a fireman stepped over and pot the fire out before the truck could leave the station. Fire Department Secretary-Treas urer Howard M. Lee explained that the fire could have been very ser ious because it threatened the hotel’s gas tanks. Twenty-two men ans wered the fins alarm, but didn’t have to attend the fire. "THEY'LL COME FORTH QUACKING" County Candidates So Far Too Bashful Does Harnett have a real shortage of candidates for -'•''inty office or are those who eventually will run in the l May 26 primary just too bashful to declare themselves at I this eailv hour? The Harnett County News com ments that the scarcity should end around April 1 when Chairman Dougald McRae opens the Cfcunty Board of Elections office, and that is probably right Candidates for county commis sioner have popped up only in the second district, where J. M. Pleas ants and Ooy Lucas have declared I themselves. I In the race tor County Judge — land it seems likely that it will bo a race — the only avowed candi date, James Spence, has taken hinr aelf up and out by accepting > position with the Fayetteville to ” Arm of Nance. Barrington and Col ■ Her, AH offices in the count, with th> exception of clerk of Superior Cow: and sheriff, are to be filed In thi primary. Sooner or later, like duefcs las using from the swamp, the real candidate# can be egpected to sees* forth quacking.
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