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+ WEATHER + Sunny and iwttftr hot this aifti* noon with highest tamperaturm 85 1*0 In mountains, 93.8 efcwwhere. Partly cloudy tonlcht and Tum o*y \ THE RECORD IS FIRST m VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY T CHAIRMAN TAYLOR AND VICE CHAIRMAN LASATER AT COUNTY CONVBNTION Archie Taylor Elected By Harnett Democrats Jhsuis JhlnqA ay loom tun GENTLEMEN NEVER KISS AND* TELL; OTHER NOTES Woody Myers has resigned as sales manager of the John A. Mc Kay Manufacturing Co. to take a position as regional representa tive for the Anchor Fence Com pany Gerry Tripp, the very pretty and very, very shapely sec retary to Dr. Gerald James, had a big weekend. Dr. and Mrs. Ja mes took her with them to the annual convention of the State Chiropractic Association in Dur ham Oerrv says she had a wonderful, wonderful time. .And Dr. James got elected a 8tate direc tor of the organization, too) Congratulations .Charles Ad cock. former Dunn youth and bro ther of Mrs. Bruce Byrd, has just landed a big promotion with West ern Union The company bw made him sales manager In charge of the whote Atlanta division, trans ferring him from Wilmington. . . Mr and Mrs Byrd spent the week end with Charles at Wrightaville Beach He's moving his family to Atlanta this week. .He’s a good - looking young fellow and formerly worked in the Dunn of fice . - Porter’s Restaurant was packed and jammed Sunday for (Ceattoaed On Page Twet Harnett County Demo - csats, holding their biennial convention Saturday morn ing in Lillington, elected Archie R. Taylor, Lillington attorney, aa new chairman of the county executive com mittee Taylor succeeds W. A. (BUI) Johnson erf Lillington. who had held the Influential post for six years. Johnson guided the party to a wide margin of victory at every ejection during this period. Other officers chosen at the aagnt time were: Mrs. Eugene Laaater of Erwin, Route 1, vice chairman; Henderson Steele of Lillington, sec retary; Henry Turlington of Dunn, Route 3, treasurer. Mrs. Lasater served the party In a wide variety of posts and suc ceeds Roger MWnn of Lillington Steele, Lillington newspaper pub lisher, has served as as secretary for more than 28 years. BAGGETT LEAVING COGNTT Turlington will replace Venable Baggett of LHlingtori, who is mov ing to Cumberland County to make his home. CLOSE DECISION The vote for county chairman wa* close. Twenty of the county* 21 pre cinct chairman were present. Tay lor won over Johnson with a vote of 12 to 8 Robert A. Draughon, chairman of Averasboro No. 1, was absent and had no proxy. Harnett County has 21 voting precincts and the precinct chair men were chosen May 5 at precinct meetings. Traditionally in Harnett, the man who holds the party chair manship is named county attorney which is a salaried jab. I (Continued on Page Eight) Principal Chosen For New School Dunn native Robert Cannady was announced today for the post of principal of the Wayne Avenue School, new elementary building near the high school which is to open this fall. L/L9inv« n iiwinu n- u. amuiaun •too reported this morning that the Dunn School Board determined at its May meeting to formally desig nate Wayne Avenue School ami Magnolia Avenue School as name* for the two elementary bulktlng? that wit! be in use during the next) school year. Earlier. Johnson had augg^stec that ideas for naming the school! were under consideration, and re rited suggestions from the pub Magnolia Avenue School is th< ‘ Dunn Grammar School Jig UH-4W1 IS 9110. j. oncv herd Bryan. Cannady. wt» Is to hear toe new elementary building, Is the aon ®! J. R Cannady. retired busineasmar and termer, we wa* bona to Dunr 31 yean ago on April 22, 1926!. Graduating from Dunn Hlgt School to 1942, he served to bhi Pacific area, and saw action to ttu i Philipptoee, Okinawa and Saipan He was a motor crewman. After hi release from' toe army Canned! i went to Atlantic Christian, when (Continued an Page Eight) I Dolls May Have Lured Two To Death LONDON to-A. British newspa per reported today that “raven haired Greek Cypriot lovelies’- may have lured two British soldiers to their execution on the troubled island of Cyprus. -Hours after terrorists claimed to have hanged two British sol diers,” The Sunday Dispatch re ported, “a non-fraternisation or der went out to the 18.000 British troops in Cyprus." ’The order is particularly di rected against women. For raven haired Oreek lovelies, known to be in the ranks of the terrorists, are believed to he acting as mur der decoys" the paper said. -These aloe-eyed girls may have enticed into captivity the two Bri tish soldiers said by Eoka Cypriot to have been hanged as a reprisal for the judicial execution of taro young terrorists.” News Shorts WASHINGTON to — Sen. Wal ter W. Oeorge goes to the White House late today, presumably to give his answer on President Eisen hower's offer on an administtra tion job. WASHINGTON lift — Rep. Ken neth B. Keating (R-NY) said to day the fate of the administration’s civil rights bill lies with the House Democratic leadership. OAK RIDGE. Tehn. OP — A non-nuclear explosion rocked the area of a top-secret atomic energy plant today, critically Injuring three workmen and sending up dense clouds of black smoke MILTON. Fla. W— A speeding log truck crashed into a Greyhound bus on D. S. Highway 80 near here early today Injuring 13 persons, none of them seriousiy. RALEIGH to — Kidd Brewer of Raleigh has decided that mother nature will provide the air condi tioning at his campaign headquar ters. Brewer, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieuten ant governor in the May 26 Demo cratic primary, said yesterday his i headquarters Will be of the "opea i air** type~v>n a street corner of i the state eapitol grounds here. NICOSIA. Cyprus to — British ; troops killed a fleeing Cypriot to - day in a search for underground i extremists. A Nicosia judge sent (Continued on Pag* Eight) 1: Byrnes Declares Supreme Court Must Be Curbed WASHINGTON itF> — For mer Supreme Court Justice James F Byrnes said todav the Supreme Court “must be curbed” because of its school segregation deci|ion and other moves whicli he said constitute a “trend to destroy the power of this 48 states.” . I , Declaring Congress ha, ps*w to regulate the court’s Jurisdiction, be called on "the court of p">bUc opin ion" to ur*e Congres, "to set be fore it is too late.' Byrnes, former secretary of state, senator and governor of South Carolina. Jjsued a watching dttack on the Supreme Court in a copy righted article In V. S. New, * World Report, a weekly news magazine published here. He charged that the tribunal's school Integration decision two rears ago ‘‘amended” the ft C. Constitution rather than interpre ting R. thus “usurping” the power of Congress and the states. Asserting the school decision ha* "undone* half a century- of pi-ogress toward racial amity, he said It has caused racial-tennesion tn the South unequaled att»* Re construction days and threatens dosing of oubbe schools In many Southern states. j Byrnes went on to asm 11 more recent • Supreme Court decisions nullifying state sedition laws and a New York City regulation under which a teacher was fired. He said these, added to the school decision, amount to “trend ... to destroy the powers of the 48 state*." “Power Intoxicates men.", Byrnes wrote. “It Is never voluntarily sur rendered. It must toe taken from them. Hie Supreme Court must be curbed.” He did not give details of his proposed move to “curb" the court other than to say that “the Con stitution authorize, the Congress to regulate the appellate jurisdic tion of 'the Supreme Court. + Record Roundup + REVIVAL BEGINS TONIGHT — A revival begins tonight here at 7:45 p.m. at Pope Is Chapel Church, it was announced today by tire Pas tor Rev. David Cassie. The evan gelist will be the Rev. Zeb Hojlar of Durham. The public Is cordially invited to attend. IN CKRJCMONY — Martha Ann Johnson of Benson, a student at E.C.C. in Greenville, participating Sunday in a candlelighting service by the E.C.C. YMCA and YWCA installing new officers for the 1956 57 term. (Continued On Pagn Eight) OPPOSED mocratic convention Saturday morning at UI Wm0*m GilcbrM wma noted despite inutile (Daily Record Photo by Ted CratL) ' ' " ' " ■ - > ' ' ' I te' ;s TUNING IT — Curtis Amos, manager of Ledcr Bros. |n Dunn, surprised the Broadslab crowd Friday night. Borrowing a guitar, he stepped into the spotlight and sang a country-style song with a voice clearly professional. He has written two 99ffgn which are to be published shortly. He Is seen here “tuning up” to present s ballad to the crowd. Another Mg dance will he held here Friday night. (Daily Record Photo by Ted CralL) WATER PLANT VIEWS RECONCILED Two Resign* Bayles On Trial Discussions of who is and who isn’t to be fired at the Dunn water plant appear to have reached a state of re conciliation. And the draft board it seems has given an unconscious assist. Joseph Jackson. Jr., one of three employees whom the city council recommended for replacement, has been called up far induction, and will leave for S. C. on Thurs day, according to City Manager A. B. Utzle. Jr. the city manager also reported today that Angus Monds, whose scrap with a former water plant employe. Percy WMton. precipitat ed the council's action, has not worked his weekend shift for the past two weeks. Monds. said TTarte, ha« ‘quit"—necessarily so, appar ently. because the weekend shift has been eliminated. All the work at the water plant Is now being carried on by Jimmy (Can timed On Page Eight) MORE UNDER IKE Demos Report GOP Has Lost Ground WASHINGTON (W — The Democratic Digest said to day the Republican Party has “lost more ground and more elections” under President Eisenhower than undei any previous GOP President.' The Digest, otnciai puoncauon of the Democratic National Com mittee, said ‘even President Her bert Hoover did better when he was in the White House.” The article said ttie voters gave Mr. Hoover a Republican Congress durir^f the mid-term election in his term of office. Democrats, it pointed out, won a majority of both houses in Mr. Eisenhower’s mid term election. Ibis, the Digest added, was de spite the present chief executive's “barnstorming campaign” for his party's candidates jn 1954. "President Eisenhower’s voter appeal ragged even further in the 1956 presidential primaries,’ the article said. It called the 1966 primaries “particularly significant in view of the strong Democratic gains over the past three years.” “. . . they clearly indicate that President Eisenhower is getting the same treatment at the poHs this year as the Republican Part] ha* been getting since early 1963,' it added. The Democratic publication sab Mr. Eisenhower has failed to Provl an effective drawing card In case where the Republican Party ha (Continued on Page Eight) NEW TWO-STORY ADDITION Belk's Is Being Enlarged Again Belk’s Department Store in Dunn — already the larg est in a four-county area and the largest departmet store in the world in a town the size of Dunn — is being en larged again. Manager Marvin Raynor dis posed today that work has already Seen started on a new two-story addition that will Increase the lire of the big store 25 per cent. The addition is being erected n the area now used as a parking ot behind Beik’s Shoe Department and just across the alley from the police station. R. M. Turlington of Lillingtoo is the general contractor. Work la expected to be completed by early rail. Mr. Raynor said the new addi (Continued on Page Eight) i JVIAiM %.niLV NUI out He Pleads Guilty To Assault Charges John Robert McLean, 21-year old Negro laborer of Lillington, was the defendant in two caste which engaged the attention of Harnett Recorder’s Court most of Tuesday. McLean was acquitted of Don iupport of an UlegfUmato child, s child Novella McMillan testified ivas his. McLean entered a pfea )f innocent to the charges, and hn trial was marked by heated exchanges between Acting Solid - Sr Jake Lamm and the defending wyer, Duncan Wilson. The young Negro woman who was tccompanied by her child, was the only State witness in ths first woman showed cies in her •aid, "I give th of the doubt* Trial of the aeeauR chart* follow* ed immediately. The lawman wo man said on the stand that Mc Lean “snatched** her out of a ca r in which she was ridilng with Hn vey Rosser, a. white man. pulled her arm and then drew a knife At her. cutting her coat and ioflictin.; a scar on her neck, which she ex hibited to the court She added that McLean threatened to cut eff her head with th# knife. The alleged ■( near the home of 3ays it irouia Endanger Our Defense Effof r WASHINGTON (IP) — De fense Secretary Charles E. Wilson told senators today that any major cut in Presi dent Eisenhower’s 3-billion dollar foreign military aid program “would present sen* ious risks to the defense of the United States.” He said it also would require a complete overhaul of the defense budget, which was. based on the expectation that arms aid would continue flowing to our allies. Wilson testlifed before the Seag ate Foreign Relations Committed in support of President Eisenhow er's request for nearly 6 billion lit foreign aid funds for the year starting Jul yl. About 3 biliidft would be for military aid. “To cut military assistance ma terially at this time," Wilson said. “would present serious risks to the defense of the United States and (the free world and would require a complete re-evaluation of our in ternational position and of ear wwn military budgets." j Help* 200 Divisions j Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the Joint Chief of Staff, backe dup the plea for the full amount of requested military aid funds. Radford told the committee the sum “is not excessive.” Wilson said America la now helping to support 200 divisions in allied armies, a force “several times the strength of our own army.” Allied air forces and navies also receive support and these forces are taken into account la deter mining America’s defense require W1N CONTEST Dr. Gerald Jama announced that Janice Lee and Ray Utewerwsrt placed first at Mary ■ Stewart School In a posture contest con ducted there. i Janice is a sixth grader, Steven son is in the seventh grade. Run i nersup were thiry-grade Manha i Johnson and fourth-grader Stacey Lee.
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