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+ WEATHER * O^asional rain. Mattered thunder* storms and mild this afternoon. Scattered showers and fhtihder - stonna. windy and mild tonieht and Saturday. THE RECORD IS FIRST i i j VOLUME • TELEPHONES *117-111* DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 8$ _ .——■ i ABE BLANCHARD MTRES T1LGHMAX Presbyterians Plan Building Dunn Church Opens Drive For Funds Members of the First Presbyterian Church of Dunn this week launched the biggest fund-raising program ever undertaken by a church in the history of a town for. a building project that will be equally as big. JkBAS JiHte JhingA Rr Boom ADAMS ESTON. A TARD MAN; E C, GRATITUDE, OTHER NOTES Construction will underway here Monday morning on the new building which Graver Henderson 1* erecting for the new Sherwin Williams Paint store The mo dernistic structure will be located beside Quinn's in the new shoboing center — Manager Lawrenc* MarsHhum savs It will be on* of the finest paint stores In the area and win be Dunn's only exclusive paint store- Eston Bette has been named as MsrShburn's assis tant .. Rural Policeman Clarence Moore *ot some information on a moonshine operation the other night “straight from the hone's mouth "- A well-known Harnett bootlegger, a lolly. good-natured fellow, walked up to Moore st the dance here Monday night, patted the ponuiar officer on the back and said: "Clarence. I run off 18 barrels of the best stuff anybody ever tasted last night and this morning. But It won't do you a bit of good to look for It." he grinned, "because you can't find It.” .—Now that fellow was really inviting trouble -Policeman Moore Is a persistent officer and he’ll no doubt work around the clock to find that 18 barrels .. Rory Matthews, who savs he hasn’t missed attend ing Sunday School at the local Presbyterian Church, in 36 conse cutive years. Is the yard man far Ruby Tart, queen of the local bar maids, and Rory does a good Job. too — Keeps Ruby’s lawn and shrubbery In tip-top shape .. “Miss (OwiHssil mm Page Tael They're raising money ror a new educational' building and fellowshio hall which actually will be the beginning of an entirely new church plant to be located in a different aite from the present structure, erected in 1010 on West Cumber land Street. When completed, this first Ip a series of building projects fei th? ippg - ral»ge church construction program Is expected to cost sr estimated *100.000 - *115,089, and will be one of the most beautlfu’ and most modern in this sectior of the State. The Rev. Leslie Tucker, pastor o' the church, pointed out today tha the congregation of the ctrarev several weeks ago gave the trustees building committee and Long Rang* Planning Commission authority U raise the necessary funds for com uletlon of the ambitioos church project. Dunn's fastest-growing church, the First Presbyterian now has a mem bership of nearly 500 and tor many years the present church buDdln* facilities has been inadequate. Lead ers of the church have felt th need for more rooms to cany es their religious educational services and an expanded program for the youth of the church. Present educational facilities have been crowded for yean and at the present time two Sunday School classes are having to meet in the church manse nextdoor, one class convenes in the pastor’s study and another class meets in the manse garage which has been converted into a Sunday School class. The Rev. Mr. Tucker said today that the proposed educational building and fellowship hail actu ally will form the nucleus for a complete new church plant to be completed In future years — as ra pidly as possible. LOOKING AHEAD It will be designed In such s wsy to allow for the construction at tha new sanctuary and to provide tor almost unlimited future growth and additions. The minister emphasised that at present, however, the various com Adlai Claims Kefauverls Neglecting Job JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (W— Adlai Stevenson said today his Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, has neglected his Senate duties to campaign for the presidency and add ed that “there may be such a thing as wanting to be Pres ident too badly.” Stevenson came here after a three-day rest on a Kingsland. Ga. plantation for a luncheon speech and day of barnstorming for Flor ida's U convention votes in the May 2# presidential primary. Ke fauver wound up a three-day Flor ida campaign tour 6n Wednesday. In hi* hutch addres* to ft fcroup of lawyers. the 1*62 Democratic presidential candidate and former Illinois governor said Kefauver, who has beaten him soundly in two recent primaries, "shares Re publican enthusiasm for my politi cal extinction.” He ticked oft the occasions when, he said. Kefauver has been absent from the Senate during passage of important bills in the post eight yeara. It was the strongest personal attack thus far in the campaign for Stevenson, who agreed with his backers that he should "get tough” after Kefauver defeated him in the MBnneaota primary. ' / BOSS CHARGE UNFAIR Stevenson" Ate reiterated Ris aharge that Kefauver unfairly ac cused him of the ring party bosses foed Rifes On Saturday Mrs. Hula weeks Hewn. 83 off Tuxm died at her home on S. Wil son Are. early Friday morning. «d»e was a daughter off the late *amee Henry and Bla Lota King Weeks. An early resident off Dorm, Mrs. ■tael! moved here in 1900. soon •ffter her marriage. She and her husband. J. D. BtaeJ! taught In the Dunn schools. Her hudband. vho died in 1918. was the first superintendent of the county ebook. Funeral service* will be held 8a turday morning at 11 o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. U Cromartie Jr. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. The Rear. J. W. Linetoer ger wQl officiate She is survived by two sons. Prentiss M. Smell off Oxford and Paul H. Smell off Tenack. New Jer sey: by three daughters. Mrs. W. McK Pearsall Sr. and Mrs. R. L. Cromartie Jr., both off Dunn, and Miss Lillian Israeli of the home; by ( half-brothers. Afcert Weeks, of Raleigh Jimmy Melvin. Martin Luther, Clifford Earl, and Arthur Weeks, all off Goldsboro: by four half-sisters, Mrs. Tfan Sutton of Faison. Mrs. J. A. Sinclair of Clinton. MTs. Bruce McArthur of Kington, and Mm. Steve King of Seven Springs; by 8 grandchildren and 4 treat grandchildren. London Sweater King Writee The Record He Likes Marilyn And Diana Norman Peal, famed London merchant, operates a smart exclusive shop for the international swank set in the stylish and ritzy Burlington Arcade, just off Picadilly, the traditional center of London’s luxury shopping area. Purveyor at sweaters to the in ternational sweeter girl set (gala like Marilyn Monroe. Sophie Lor en, Diana Dors. Jane Russell, Brig itte Bardot, etc.) N. Peaj' is recog nised as Britain's “Cashmere Queen." Back In February, he waa inter viewed by the United Proa* con cerning his views of the bosom queens and the sweaters they wear. To this little newspaper, nearly 4,000 miles away, it waa Just an other bright little human-interest story end we published It, Just as thousands of other newspaper* throughout the world did. umrat arrives m « hours On Tuesday of this week. N. Peal sat down in the plush office of his plush salon and dictated to one of his secretaries, a sweater girl no doubt, a fetter to The Rgfly Record. The postmark shows K wga mailed April S at l:« P. M late yesterday afternoon — just « bow* later — M. Peal's letter was In the office of The Daily Record. (Which indicat es that guy does all right with the Post Office Department as well as the sweater gals.)_ N. Peal's Jetter contradicts the United Press story. Just why he selected The Daily Record to air his views Instead of sending them to fee main office of the United Press in Mew York or to one of its thousands of other newspaper clients we do not know. Neither do w* know how he happened to get bold of a copy of this newspaper. Anyway, following is the complete text of his letter: “I KNOW YOU ARE COMING SO .. ."-In Monaco, pastry chef Victor Mullot displays a sweet masterpiece that took 200, l hours to make and hake. The huge cake, a gift for Prince Rainier, Ill’s wedding, is made of chocolate, almonds, nougatine and lots land lots of sugar. It represents the prince’s private 100, with I eight candy cages for wild sugar beasts and a tree for monkeys. Just Stay Out of The Way Graces Dad Gives Advice To Papas ABOARD THE S. S. CONSTITUTION AT SEA (TO— John B. Kelly, the father of The Bride, doubts whether many other men will find themselves in a spot like his but, U INcy do, he has a word of advce: i. “Stay out of the way and do exactly as you’re tokl." Millionaire Kelly, a handsome, gregarious man with a keen sense of humor, is practicing what he preaches aboard this liner carry ing his daughter and the wedding party to Monte Carlo. He spend* much of his time off in a comer playing- gin rummy with three other overshadowed men. The 66-year-old former Olympic rowing champ detached himdetf for a few minutes to give some com ments about the uproar over the i Continued On Page Twel Parents, Children Gear For Next Fall Next week will be an eventful one for youngsters scheduled to enter the first grade this coming Fall. At Dunn grammar school and the Mary Stewart school, pre school conferences for children and parents have been scheduled. Mrs. shep Bryan, principal at the Grammar School in Dunn, an nounced that the pre-schooi con ference hours will be 9:30 to 11 a m. through the first four days of {next week. Parents may appear j with their children at any time during those hours. At Mary Stewart school, Mn. Elisabeth Burns, a first grade tea cher, said the pre-school program will be from • to 11:30 a. m. on Tuesday, April 10. Parents are asked to be there with their child at 9, as a full program is scheduled. Vaccinations will not be given on the spot this year as they have been at some former times. Many parents will carry immunization certificates —from the health center or their family physician — to the confer ence. Those who do not will be gi ven information about health re quirements. Before a child may oe admitted to the first grade, be must be vac cinated for smadpox, typhoid and diptheria. The health center in Dunn stands ready to give these shots free to chU^xyn taken there. At Mary Stewart school and the Dr. Doffermyre Will Head Alumni Or. Randolph Doffermyre or Dunn waa elected president of the Bowman Gray Medical School Alumni Association at the annual meeting of the association held Wednesday at Winston-Salem. Attending the meeting were ap proximately 390 graduates of the school. Widely known throughout North Carolina, Dr. Doffermyre is also president of the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners, the group that passes on all new doc tors. He is a former president of the Fifth District Medical Society. This week Dr. Doffermyre left for Washington, D. C.. and is not expected beck at his office until next Thuraday. + Record Roundup + WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET —, The Dunn Women's Ciub will meet Tuesday, April 10 at 4 p. m. In the clubhouse. Miss Edith Horton's sixth grade of Dunn High School will present the program on Will iamsburg. Vs. They will show pic tures and give dances. CENSUS WORKERS MEET TO • NIGHT — There will Jse a forty five minute meeting in the Base ment of the Baptist Church tonight at 7:00 to prepare workers who wlli help with the Religious Census which will be taken Sunday. Ike's Group Reports On School Needs WASHINGTON (W—A pres idential committee said to day that if Amercans want decent schools for their chil dren they must be prepared to double their present spending on education. The recommendation that total V. 8. school spending be boosted to 30 billion dollars a year "within the next decade” waa the high - light at a 50,000-word report sub mitted to President Eisenhower at a White House ceremony. The re port was prepared by the 34-mem ber committee for the White House Conference on Education, last year to organize "the most thorough study" ever made of the nation's school system. The committee also mended: recoin •TOtnergency” federal aid to states to build about 200,000 new classrooms as speedily as possl - ble. “Substantial Increases’’ In teach ers’ salaries, with a view toward eventually doubling present pay scales. Providing “basic health and satfety services” to students in pa rochial and other private schools “at public expense." Calling a white House cooler, enoe on higher education to study the problems of colleges and uni Worn out. ovkhcrowbed * “«r committee failed for “» new look at the entire question of hoar much money this society should spend on education.” "Jh the richest nation In all his tory, there is no valid reason for the grimy, dilapidated and oven crowded school buildings which too many children now occupy,” it said. "Most Americans would not permit their children to live (Oeattnaed On Page Two) Friction From Crash Starts Fire Hitting a bridge support at Hol land’s Lake on the way to Fayette ville, a tractor and semi-trailer wltn saddle tanks filled with gasoline burst into flame Thursday morning 5 25 a m. The Dunn fire department was on the scene almost four hours, event ually, the rig was towed into Lee'S Truck Terminal, where it now sits. Owner and driver of the outfit was W. H. Conroad of Fort Myers, Florida. Although the two fire trucks and 25 firemen who rushed to the scene were not able to prevent con siderable damage, Conrod said there was insurance to cover the destruction wrought by the fire. Fire department secretary -treas urer Howard M. Lee said friction sparks caused when the tractor - trailer hit the bridge support ap parently caused the gasoline to take fire. The bridge at Holland's Lake is concrete and did not catch fire. —Cargo carried by Conrod: empty orange crates. GEORGE BLALOCK ~y.f :’*V BILLY GODWIN Blalock To Head Dunn Legion Post George Franklin Blalock, who was commander of the American Legion post “about ten years ago" and has done an outstandng job for the club during the past year, last light again ascended to the position of commander. Blalock '>'<»< chosen bv other leg ionnaires to succeed the Mite's f commander, Ed Boyette. A reaJ estate man and farmer, Blalock served as first vice - commander of the Legion last year and was chairman of the Legion - sponsored fair which thousands of Harnett folk attended this summer. Filling the vacated spot of vice - commander is Hughie Bass. Bass's old place, second vice - commander, *ba new member of the hoard oi will be filled by Robert Smith, trustees, elected last night, is Billy Godwin, who starts this year on a five - Fear term. He Joins Joe B. Warren, who has four yean of his tern remaining, Beverly Strickland, who has three, Keith Finch, two and West, one. „• Executive committee members oboeen were Earl Jones, -Kie Hud son and Raiph Wade. L: R. Norris was re-elected ad jutant. Other officers who will serve the Legion in the coining year are L. A. Gavin, finance officer, Carl Fitchett, Jr., chaplain. Mack Dor man, sergeantat-arms, Roy Brown, historian, Paul White, service of ficer and Joe B. Warren, athletic officer. »' •(*; George A. Lee Is Fined $750 A grueling' court session that lasted until 430 pm yesterday eras most grueling, perhaps, tor Oeorge Arthur Lee at E. Harnett Street , in .Dunn who heard the court pto noanee one of the largest fines w 'PT'iettled here on a Sid driver. A whopping total of 1750 must be paid by Lee who was convicted for the third time for eSrivtng while under the influence of alcohoL Lee, who was arrested on March 18 during the period his hoense was revoked for a prior offense, heard Judge H. Paul Strickland, presiding in Dunn Recorders Court i reccioaaend that his license be pick I ed up permanently. The Dunn man gave notice of appeal, and appeal bond was set at $890. Judge Strickland mr»* ed an 18 month jail sentence on condition that Lee pay the fine and court costs. f Continued On Pigs ftw) Younger Bryan Not After Court Job Speculation that Dunn Attorney Robert C. Bryan would run for the office of solicitor in the city recorders court when he announced that he does not have any in tention of entering the primaries. During the past several months, almost since he .started the prac tice at law here, the younger Bry an has proved an effective prose cutor acting as solicitor In place of his father and partner, J. Shep Bryan. Today’s announcement makes him the second Bryan to take him self out at the ranks of the unde clared. His father stated a week ago that he would devote himself to private practice. One. reason for not runnir^ for the office of solicitor, the younger Bryan asserted, was that It auto matically would exclude him from handling criminal defense in the local court. A graduate of the University 4pe North Carolina law school, Bryan was sworn into the tar by his Ba ther in special ceremonies at Har nett Superior Court this summer. Earlier, he attended Annapolis, graduating in 1MT, and served in the Navy until the Spring of 1833. giving up this naval career to stu dy law. This la his formal announcemaod of the decision not to run: "I would like to take the cppqr<i tunity through the medium of tM* On Morals Charges Teacher Gets Road Term I A stout denial by the younK teacher and testimony on his behalf by more than 15 de fense witnesses did not save Clifford Z. Adams, 29-year old math and history teach er at Coats High School, from conviction on a morals charge. Taeterday afternoon, Dunn At torney Duncan WUoon battled vftfe Jflac JoMVi noted artwdnsl law yer from Kinston, and Moored a verdict of guilty and six month on the roads from Vtee-reoorder L. ¥ Chaffin, who tried the case. Chief witnesses who testified for the state. (Wilson anted as private prosecutor) were Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert E. £<ee. They operate the drive* in betjreen Dunn and Enrin where Adame supposedly committed an act. of indecent exposure and at* mutt. A#TEAL An appeal was promptly fflsd ap etaat the verdict and hand was set at $800. Attorneys Jones and Wil son both mads dr—11a pleas at I the conclusion of testimony, the mrentty convincing Vice* Chaffin with the argu* i a stem sentence was <k> the stand m his own f&.t he Coats teacher deni 1 Mdbeen to the drive-in He stated that hi BiUra. Lea or two orothy May and Wilma o identified him aa h*v to nokte o t and Hal
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