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* WEATHER + cloudy and aome«t*at warmer this afternoon, tonight nnd Friday. Hijrest today 70-77. lowest tonight around 50 In moun tains, 54-00 elsewhere. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME t TELEPHONES 1117-1118 DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 101 A GIRL LEARNS FAST - Seven-year-old Shell* MeCorquodale, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. J. M. Mctorquodale, I* *o proud of her doc Trixie she demanded the newspaper take Ita pie tore. The p«p proved to be Mke people — he tried to hold ——■arr-!-', .-i----—-..— his paw in (rant of his face while (be cameraman was at work. Sheila, who tboufht the *og looked fine la the picture, wasn't so sure of her own appearance. "My hair looks terrible she said." (Daily Record Photo by ted ( rail ) JJuiAe JiHte pf HOOVER ADAMS HOWARD'S CLUBS STUDENTS. BRAS. GIRDLES, AND AVA ~ Lindy Wood of Dunn, who's on duty with the Navy, arrived In Monaco Just one day too late for the royal wedding of Orace Kelly and her prince. But Lindy and some of his baddies took a stroll around the palace the next day and got g close-up glimpse of the Philadelphia actress. She came out on the balcony and waved at them and the Dunn youth got a couple pictures of her „ He sent his parents a fancy card from Monaco bearing pictures of the prince and princess . Lindy is the son of Mr and Mrs. K. M Wood Howard Benrtett. popular young Dunn business man, has gone Into the night club business in a bit way. For sometime now Howard has been operating Shug's and fihs it to capacity on Fridays and Sat urday* and some week nights .• He has fust purchased the old Club 15 in Raleigh and plans to make it Into one of the brightest night spots in Eastern Carolina. Har nett students are tWvalig this week - .Boone Trail seniors left Mon day for Washington and New York . Angler seniors left today for New York, and Dunn and Erwin seniors took off this morning for the nation's capitol With the rapid advance being made by avia iContinued On Page Two) New Jail Sentence For Lady Mae Poe I*dy Mae Poe. who Rets herself in trouble real re gular. had two new sentences of six months each hanging over her head this morning at the coonclusion of a trial on two different counts of larceny. She was found guilty in Dunn Recorder's Court of stealing some fWh bores, valued »t 13, from the “THeal Oroeerv - which la run by OfHs 8 Js<-V«on. tfrl* w»* *)*0 convicted of ,ta*un* o~me exo-den tools, valued at *20. f-om lease Williams. 1 Tisdv M«» d«dn-t admit *nv of this, and she Wn‘t restened to aerv 'n«r her «ent«nce either—even t.hon-di .Indee H. Paul St^nVand j rated that «he co*dd aerve the two te*m. of »•* month, m'-h concurr r“ntlv (co tret, that is, at the end of six months). As *st a* the fish boxes went. | ea'd I*dv Mae. Qttls Jackson trad <dv»n them to her. And the asrden tool*—well, thev were hist borrow ed W*lh»ms knew that. ladv Mae. who w«, tust released feom prison In January, had prev tons'v suffered a conviction for eteahre some shoes from Leder BHer aooesl is still nendine. She toM Judee Strickland this moraine that she’d have to acmes! the nresent sentences. too. because I she i*nt entity. The Jixtoe set her anneal bond at *400. but nobdv not it un immediatelv. So Lady Mae i- -till sitting hi tail. It doesn’t seem rirht to Lady Mae. She said that Constable Lonnie I Jackson who came to look for the ronUnoe* «n Wags Hb) 7 Children Die In Fire; Father Held ERIE. Mich. OB—Seven small children left unattended died in a fire at their home near the Michi gan and Ohio state line in Monroe County, Mich., early today, state police said. Police said the children of John and Laura Cooper burned to death in the blase of undetermined ori gin while Cooper took his wife to work at a restaurant in Toledo. Ohio, seven miles away. Victims were Brenda Joyce, t; Harrison Leonard. 9: Jacqueline May. 5; John Jr.. ♦: Shirley Jean. 2; Georgia Marie. 1, and Carter Steven, two months. All but Hariaon Leonard were children of the Coopers but he was being reared as a Cooper follow ing the death of his mother, who w»5 Mr*. Cooper's sister. Cooper. 33, told police he took his 29-year old wife to work short ly before 10 p. m. and intended to return home immediately. The fire iGenttaaed Os Page Tw«i Chiropractors Meet In Dunn Mavbe vou think winning a posture contest is easy. Well. Patricia Roe of New Bern High School, and Sonny Ward of Elizabeth City, who won the district pos ture crown last night. had to prove their excellence in a whole ^ft of categories to three super-critical judges. Dr. John I* Frizzell*, state pres ident at the Chiropractic A-eooia tion of North Carolina, Dr. Ivan Richards, vlce-'president, and Dr. J. B. Morris, state chairman of the posture committee, picked this pair from dther competitors for their superiority in 14 specific traita. Ambulation, for instance. The Judges found that not only eras their posture good in standing still. It failed to degenerate when they put their muscle In motion. Lillian Hartley, a finalist from Duma, came in second to Mias Roe, and manv of the other contest ante did well. But a thorough examina tion of such intricacies as the "for mation and proper development of the lower extremities'’ convinced the Judges that the pair named will have the best chance in the state final/ Dr Oerald James, who has steered the successful course of the pe«4ure contest in this local area, said the program was broadcast I over WCKB and interested reports . on the results have come from as 1 far sway as Raleigh. He believes i the contest has done a ro^d deal to focus interest on the often-ig nored subject of what constitutes good poture. Dr. J. B. Norris ot Durham was the orinclTwU speaker as veil u one of the judges He quoted, the dis turbing White House Conference report on Child Health that “sigh ty percent of aU children exhibit poor posture and bad body me chanics." The percentage in adults, he said, is even higher Postural defects, suggested Dr. Norrie, are mainly attributable to four causes, undiscovered and un rorrected InjuHuf resulting from falls and aof^hts sustained by the growing child; undiscovered in juries resulting from birth; lmpro Children's Art Exhibit Tours County Schools The N. o; Children's Art Exhibit, which embraces the best creative work of North Carolina school chil dren in grades one to six. went oh view in the tilling ton school on Wednesday. ft will be shown in the county seat school through Friday. Paint ings, which afe executed in crayons or cold water mediums, are arrang ed in the long hallway of the new classroom addition, adjoining the auditorium. Same pictures were seen at Coats on April 19 - 30. They were display ed at the Dunn Grammar School on Monday and Tuesday. In ail three schools, Miss Bessie Massen gUI, county elementary supervisor, reported the exhibit had been warm ly received by students and teachers alike. Pictures selected for the state - wide showing were chosen on basis of ideas expressed, freedom of ex pression, and attractive use of color. No tracing, stenciling or copying was permitted in pictures chosen for exhibit. Youthfui artists reveal a breadth of interests. There are reproduct ions of tractors, pigs, a head of cow, two sisters dressed alike, a choir in rehearsal, a baseball dia mond with players, apple pickers and geen a study of a violin player. Wgftian* College art department. tx» University Extension Division and the federated Women's Clubs of the state make possible the travelling exhibit each year. It Is hoped that next year samples of art work by Harnett County school children can be entered In the con test for the travelling exhibit. Paraplegics Show Tonight At 8 P. M. “Hell on Wheels.” a unique stage production, will be given at Dunn Hight School tonight. 8 p.m. It is the story of a hospitalised practical joker named Rocky Reese. ( The actors who are in this co medy-drama are real-life paraple gics, men who can never walk ag ain. The American Legion Auxiliary has helped to bring the show to Dunn. Part of the proceeds will go toward paying the way of two girls from Dunn High to Girls’ State, STUDENT PRINCE—Sweden’s Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, who'll.celebrate his 10th birthday April 30, tackles a geography assignment while doing his homework at the royal palace in Stockholm. Instead of having a tutor. Prince Carl goes to a local private school for lessons, returning to the palace nightly. Lillmgton To Get New Water System By.jypIS BYRD Recflfrd Staff Writer Everything is in readiness in Lillington to begin work on what Mayor Pro-Temp S G. Howei! of the Town Board today called the “most forward looking step taken in 25 years — construction of a new water system.” Mayor H. H. Hamilton and th* board or commissioners are adver tising for bids from contractors and materialmen to furnish labor and material to build a new water system which will use the Cape Fear River as source of water in steda of the five deep wells form erly serving Islington. Bids will be opened on May '5 at 2 p. m. In the Town Hall. Is lington voters recently authorised the Issuance of $145,000 in bonds to finance the construction. Howell presided at a special meeting of the board on Monday night to complete arrangement*. He said that a site for the filter plant, as recommended by the en gineers. Moore. Gardner and Asso 'Cantlnaed ad race Twwi + Record Roundup + MUSICAL VARIETIES — Mns. Reta Whitlenton unmnc^ the schedule for her “Musical Vane ties" radio program which is heard afternoons Monday through Friday at 3:00. Monday — Mrs. Coy Lu cas will render piano selections; Tuesday—-Mrs. Curtis Ennis will read with a soft musical back ground.; Wednesday — Mrs. J. El lison Goddard will sing and Mrs. E. W. 8mltd, Jr. will play the ac companiment; Thursday — Piano pupils of Mrs. B. L. Frink will per form; Friday — A girls trio of Ul llngton under the direction of Mrs L C. Pinnix will sing. TO DURHAM — Staff members of the county welfare department have returned from attendance at the recent N. C. Conference of So cial Service in Durham. General theme of study at the meeting was the relation of mental health to social work problems. Attending the conference at the Washington Duke Hotel were Miss Davie Jo. Lumsden, acting superintendent, and case workers Mrs. Annie Margaret Car ringer, Mrs. ■ Marjoie Ritchie, and Miss Floe nee Howard. SIGHTSEEING — Members of tCenttaned On Face Twoi Congress Expected To Reject Farm Plan WASHINGTON (IP> — Republican leaders said today the administration wi 1 oppose and Congress will reject a new Democratic farm plan for direct subsidy payments fit Rep. Charles A. Balletic (R-Ind) said the plan “hasn't trot a chance" of winning congressional approval. OOP Whop Leslie C. Arenda said it represents a “des perate attempt” by Democrats to delay action on the administra tion's *1500.000,000 soil bank pro posal. Arenda said the Democratic proposal is a' “glorified version of the Brannan plan." Bailee* also told newsmen that any new farm bill would be “cer I tain to be vetoed’ strain by Presi dent Eisenhower if Congress “again loads it up to the point where it is unacceptable. ’ VOTE NEXT WEEK Parmer# could receive as much I as 560 million dollars in govern ( ment checks this year under the new Democratic plan. The propo sal is scheduled for a vote in the House Agricultural Committee next week. , Producers of ft^e basic crops 1 (Caatfnoed Oa Pag* T*») * Edward Arnold Dies Suddenly HOLLYWOOD tilt — Edward Arnold, massive actor whose parts ' ranged from presidents to mod leaders, died at his home today of a cerebral hemmorrhage. He was 66, and was in his 50th year in show business. He was the star of the “Mr. President" series on radio and tele vision, but for decades was best known to movie - goers as the big man in faultlessly tailored suits who might turn out to be either the villian or the tycoon with the heart of gold. Arnold had no recent Illness and was in apparent good health be fore he was stricken at his home i nthe San Fernando Vatley. He died at 2:20 a m Born Guenther Schneider in a New York tenement, he entered the stage by way of a youthful performance at settlement house. For four years he was a juvenile iead In Ethel Barrymore's plays on Broadway. He made several silent movies and in 1932 he came to Hollywood to stay and become one of the first and most durable stars of the talking screen. He was well known in Washing ton for his appearances in behalf of motion picture legislation anti among leaders of the American Federation of Labor. He appeared before the latter group many times ' as the representative of the Screen Actors’ Guild. He is survived hr his third wife. Cieo, whom he main d in 1951 and three children, Mrs. William F. Orlando, Mrs. Jane Ebright and William Arnold. CONSTABLE SHOT HIMSELF Constable Preston Porter of Er win. who accidentalh' in the left arm wM's cl • 4 his pistol, has been released lrom the hospital. Reportedly, he’s doing fine. THEY STILL PAT FINES GASTONIA dp — Two men, scheduled to be prosecuted toy So licitor Basil Whitener on public drunkenness charges, appeared in Gaston Superior Court wearing “Whitener for Congress'’ campaign buttons. Whitener is a candidate for Con gress but each man was fined *28 and court eoxte. Russia Denies UN Delegate Abused Rights UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (W — Russia denied today that Adkady A- Sobolev, chief Soviet delegate to the Unit ed Nations, or any of his aides abuse their diplomattic privilege in arranging the return of five defecting So viet sailors to their home - land. Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Tnd.) demanded In Washington that the United State« oust Sobolev for his part in the "political kidnaping’ of the Russian seamen. The sail ors had sought asylum In this country after their vessel was cap tured by Chinese Nationalists. SHIFT IN POSITION LONDON —The Soviet Union suddenly shifted its position to day and announced It Is ready to discuss nuclear disarmament as well as conventional arms cuts. The switch was announced bv Andrei Oromyko, Moscow's chief delegate to the current five-power United Nation* disarmament talks Gromyko told the conference this morning that the Soviet may amend its proposal to cut only convention^ weapons, and Include nuclear arms reductions as well. The Sta te Department, in a nob handed, to Soviet AmtMtaaadoi Georei N. Zarubin yeaterday roundly criticised Sobolev's part lr the affair and barred from thfe country two minor members of Russia's U. N. delegation. Leonid M. Zamyatin, counselor and adviser on political affairs in the Soviet U. N. delegation, held a news conferesce at which he denied the State Department’s charges. Zamyati^ would not elaborate on Sobolev's role nor would he say whether the Soviet delegation planned to protest to the U. N about the note. Senate investigators heard tes timony that Sobolev and hi* tJ. N. staff exerted threats and intimida tion to get the five sailor* to re turn to Russia on April 7. MISSING—Mr*. Walter Biddle Page, 29, the former Dorothy Whitney of Boston, and her husband are reported missing In Mexico. Their car was found abandoned recently in Cuer navaca. The FBI has Joined in the search for the society couple, Many Sentenced In Dunn Court In Dunn Court today, Abron Mc Neill was fined for disorderly con duct and the state didn't proscute him on a charge of “forceable tres pass.’’ McNeill baffled officers by turn ing up at the Virginia - Carolina Chemical Fertiliser Co. just forty minutes after he had headed home from the police station In a taxi The disorderly conduct charge ns brought by theater manager Stupe Yeats. McNeid was given 80 days on the roads, suspended on condition that he pay a $10 fine and court costs. Judge H. Paul Strickland, presid ing in Dupn Recorder's Court, also dealt with 19 year old Charles Jernigan today Jemtgan was ac cused of stealing four gallons of gasoline from a Wellons mercantile truck parked in an ahey. Officers stopped Jernigan to , check his car, and found the gas , oline. By inquiring around, they dis* covered where it came from. The 'youth pled guilty to the charge of larceny. | Judge Strickland recommended that he finish high school — a step .which Jernigan has not taken yet.. I i Contained on Page Twe) Two Arrested In Goldston Break-Ins PITTS BORO, N. C. (IP) — Robert E. Greexl and Hosea Parker, both of Warsaw, N- C., were held here today pend* mg federal court trial on a charge of attempted bank robbery. • Hie two also face trial in state courts on five charges ot attempt ing to rob business establishments at Goldston. Hvey were arrestee after the attempted break-ins were discovered early Tue-day morning at Goldston. After a preliminary hearing yes terday before 17. 8. Commissi ones Henry Bane at Durham, they were round over for trial at the Sep tember term of federal court al Durham. Bond for Parker was set at $10,000 and for Green at $3,600 Chatham County Sheriff J. W Emerson Jr. said the attempted robberies were discovered when a newspaper carrier found the doors of several business places stand* ing open. Emerson said police at nearby Siler City, during a routine check earlier in (She night, bad noticed a wrecking bar in a car which they had stopped. Emerson said a similar wrecking bar was found in the bank of Ooldston. The car was traced to Green. He said Green had admitted hie part in the break-ins and had im plicated Parker, who denied the charges. Ex-Convict Admits Slaying Teacher MUNISING, Mich. (IB — A surly ex-convict confessed the murder of a pretty, 21-year old school teacher and led police to her body shortly before midnight Wednesday. Police said Leonard H. Lund* berg, 35. a parolee, broke down after 12 hours of questioning and showed them the bludgeoned body of Pat ricia Burdick only three miles from where she hitchhiked a ride with him Sunday night. The petite brownhaired woman's body was lying under a clump of lackplnes an dwas covered with straw and branches Blood spotted her tan slacks and red coat and her alrall <u crushed, police said. An autopsy was ordered today i» learn whether the girl was erta inaHy assaulted. Authoritte* said assarnt apparently was the motive for the slaying. Lundberg would glee no motive, police said. He admitted picking up Miss Burdick at an intersec tion near Saoey, Mich., 27 miles south of Grand Marais when ana
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