* WEATHER *
Portly cloudy Tuesday with
widely scattered thundershowers
occurring mostly in the south por
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THE RECORD
If IS FIRST
DUNN, N. C\ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1956
VOLUME 6
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
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PAINT STORE SOON READY — Several earner*
men, who Rave been bussing around pretty steadi
ly as Sherwin-Williams paint company prepares t*
open a branch here, paused momentarily this
r moraine to listen to Bill Klnlaw, sign erector (far
left) tell a fish story. I-awrencr Marshburne, far
right, will be manager of the new dor* which is
going up beside Quinn’s Shopping Center. Grover (
Headmen, owner of Quinn*, is second from
the rifht; in the middle is Dewey Godwin, con
tractor, and A. J. McGraw, area manager for
Sherwin-Williams, is next to Kinlaw. Marshburne
expects construction to he finished in two to
three weeks. Inside and outside paint, enamels,
wallpaper and other products win be sold. (Daily
Record Photo by Ted Crafl.)
ELABORATE FAIR PLANS UNVEILED- ' I
Legion Will Erert New
Exhibit Hall At Fair
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Juitlfi
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Bt loom ADAMS
BANANA SANDWICHES AND
SHOCKING NEWS OF WtMMIN
Chairman Fred Byerly and mem
ber* of his committee are making
plans to welcome a crowd of at
jeast 1500 for the Lennon rally here
Wed. night , Mr. and Mrs. Abe
Elmore are back home after a few
days of rest and visiting in Georgia
. . Dunn has a new flower shop
. , It's operated by Thomas Aman,
formerly with Fairview . . .Loca
tion of the new florist is on South
Clinton Avenue Banana sand
wiches are listed on the menu of
the Village Grill. . .First time we
ever saw them on a menu any
where Wonder why local drivy
ins don’t use girl car hops instead
of boys .Pretty glris dressed in
those real short ballerina skirts,
like they wear ’em out in Holly
wood and in Miami, would draw a
lot more biz . Never Underesti
mate the power of a Woman. . .
But here's a piece of shocking news
. . A survey Just completed by
the Veterans Hospital in Oulfport,
Miss, tends to prove that "Women
are the Inferior sex,” unquote.
(Those words aren't ours, girls.). .
Tests undertaken by leading socio
(CaattmwA O* Pace TWW)
Construction will get un
derway here soon on a big
new permanent exhibit buil
ding at the American Leg
ion’s Four County Fair -
grounds on the Dunn-Jones
boro road.
Plans for the permanent Improve
ment program at the local fair
grounds were announced here to
day by George Franklin Bialock.
chairman of the Legion's fair com
mittee, and C. M. Rumley of Dur
ham, promoter - manager of the
fair.
Mr. Rumley was here fir a con
ference with Blalock and other fair
officials. Also present was Garland
Norris of Goldsboro, who is in
charge of the commercial exhibit
displays at the fair.
The locaf fair, which each year
attracts thousands of visitors from
Harnett, Johnston, Sampson and
Cumberland counties, will be held
this year the first week In October,
about two weeks later than last
year.
The change In dates, pointed out
Chairman Blalock, will allow more
time for the elaborate arrange -
menta being made for this year's
exposition.
The new permanent exhibit hall
is being erected at a cost of several
thousand dollars and will be the
last word in modem exhibition
LONG-RANGE FLANS
This first permanent building is
the first phase of the Legion’s
plans to make the locai* fair the
greatest in this part of the State.
Other buildings will be erected
later, a race track is to be added
and long-range plans also call for
a big stadium which couid be used
throughout the year for other big
(Continued On Tags Two)
MAD MAYTAG MARATHON AT STAR
Ed's Maytags Came
By Land And By Sea
Ed Black’s Star Furniture Company in Dunn will be
among appliance dealers in the Middle Atlantic states
selling sea-going washing machines, starting Thursday of
this week. ,
The occasion U “Operation 64" in
the four-state area of the Maytag
Company’s Richmond sales branch.
Maytag dealers In Virginia, West
Virginia, Maryland and North Ca
rolina are participating.
Mr. Black and the other dealers
are planning a trading spree calcu
lated to place att entire trainload
of Maytag appliances in customers'
homes by Saturday night. Star Fu
rniture Company is offering a
number of unique attractions and
customer - Inducements during this
three-day sales event.
PAST OP HUGE SHIPMENT
The Maytag appliances now or
display at Star Furniture Oompanj
awaiting the “Mad Maytag Mara
thon" were supplied by a tralrubec
shipment valued at over a mittiox
dollars.
Mr. Black said the washers aiu
/
Teenage Beauty
Charges Rape
GASTONIA W—City court hear
ings ware adbeduled today tor two
men charged w*th rapine a high
school beauty contestant in a
woods Sunday night.
The men. John Lunsford. 22. and
Ralph Boldin. 25, both of Gaston
ia. were held in jail last night
without bond. Rape is a capital of
fense in North Carolina.
The girl. 16-year-old Starlene
McKeehan. Identified Lunsford
and Boldin a» her attackers. She
told police the pair and another
man stopped to helo her and a
trid friend Sunday ni<dit after the
atria’ car broke down on a high
way near here.
Police quoted her a* saying that
she and, he companion knew the
two men '‘slightly’’ and that the
men Offered to help get the car
started.
She told officers that while rid
ing with the men back to their
stalled car. a small fire broke out
in the rear seat of 'the men’s oar.
When she went with the two men
to a creek to get water, she added,
she was attacked by them.
The girl said one raped her and
the other kicked and beat her into
unconsciousnss. A Gastonia physi
cian, Dr. John Crane, said he
treated the girl.
News Shorts
LONDON W —Minister of
Health R. H. Turton told parlia
ment this week that a statistical
Inquiry undertaken in Britain
had failed to show any relation
between lung cancer and tho
taking of snnff.
CJUNE. Italy ‘Ot—Four students,
exploring a cave of the Caudano
Mountain range near here, discov
ered a jawbone with 11 teeth be
longing to a prehistoric bear dat
ing back several thousand years.
BATON ROUGE, La. (IB—The
pro-segregation Southern Gen
tlemen ef Louisiana are threat
ening to support a third party
movement If the Democratic
platform “is not acceptable to
the Southern people."
FINEHURST. N C. Wl-Or. Ber
nard Walker of Charlotte read ai
the North Carolina Dental Sociertj
l convention here the results of •
seven-year program of fluoridattor
of Charlotte* water supply.
1 Dr. Walker said studies showed
Huge Crowd
For Lennon
Is Expected
Rally Wed.
A mammoth Lennon - For
Congress rally and fish fry
will be held Wednesday night
at 6:30 o’clock in the Big 4
Tobacco Warehouse in Dunn
and a crowd of more than
1,500 is expected for the ev
ent.
Former U 3. Senator Alton A.
Lennon of Wilmington. who is op
posing Congressman F. Brtel Car
lyle in t a heated campaign, will
arrive in ©unn late Wednesday
afternoon In a 50-car motorcade
of supporters from his home coun
ty of New Hanover.
The Lennon motorcade will be
Joined by Lennon supporters from
every section of Harnett and some
predict that as many as 3,000 will
be on hand for the occasion.
EVERYTHING IS READY
General Chairmen Fred S. Byer
ly of Dunn and Roger Mann of
Lilltngton said this afternoon that
everything is in readiness and ar
rangements have been made to
serve as many aa 2300 or more.
There was much enthusiasm
among Lennon supporters today
on the eve of the rally, which is
the Wgge«t planned in Harnett in
(Cantinned On Pip Fear)
Local Pastors
Hold Meeting
The Dunn Ministerial Associat
ion held Its last meeting unt'l Sep
tember this,morning at 11 o’clock
at the Divine Street Methodist
Church.
Rev. Robert Palmer, pastor of t’
Glad Tidings Church, presided in
the absence of Rev. J. W. Line
berger, president.
Several business Items were dis
cussed, among them was the vaca
tion bible schools in the various
churches.
A list of the churches and their
selected dates for the vacation
schools are as follows:
Presbyterian — June 20-29: Me
thodist Church, June’ 4-15: Christ
ian Church — June 1S-23; Gospel
Tabernacle — June 4-8: Stoney
Run Free Wjll Baptist — July 9
18; First Baptist — June 4-15;
Qrove Presbyterian Church — Ju
ne 11-22; Olad Tidings — July 30
Aug. 3.
Present at this morning’s meet
ing were Rev. Herbert Carter, Rev.
Robert Palmer, Rev. Leslie Tuck
er. Rev. Ernest Russell, Rev. Bane
T. Underwood, Rev. George Hunt
er, and Rev. Jack Daniell.
ALTON A. LENNON
HARNETT CORONATION
Helen Page New
Queen Of Health
Miss Helen Page of Boone Trail 4*H Club tfas crowned
Harnett County Queen of Health at a program held Sat
urday morning in the agriculture building in Lillington.
At the stun* program Lefts Ste
phenson of Bunnlevel Junior Club,
won flrtt place In the county dairy
foods demonstration contest. Miss
Lane Siler, home economist for
Carolina Fowe- and Light Com
pany In Dunn, and Miss Evadean
Ingrain of LaFayette served as
judges.
Miss Page, who won her honor
on a baste of written records, was
CARRIES BIKINI FOR HONEYMOON
Anita, Tony Off
To Be Married
ROME — After a wild Is
because they had overslept
berg) Ekberg and actor Ant
Lake Como in North Italy to
and religious strings holdin
They hope to be married In
Florence before May 55, wtaer
Steel has acting commitments in
England
Anita. 24, who arrived here yes
terday from Hollywood, traveled
light. She had two bar* which con
tained, among other things, a bi
kini and a streamlined, shirt
skirted wedding gown.
SEEKING AN OFFICIAL
While they are sunbathing ai
Lake Como. Steel’s Italian lawyei
will try to cut red tape for theii
civil ceremony. Steel had estab
lished residence In Florence ant
pasted the wedding banns, but An
ita had not yet established resi
dence, as requiml.
There was also a question as U
who would perform the ceremony
Catholic Mayor Giorgio La Fin
has refcaed to many them be
JUh?~0 ' '
ist-minute dash for the train,
, actress Anita (Sultry Ice
hony Steel left for a visit to
await the urttangling of legal
g up their marriage.
r
l&p.
crowned, by Mrs. Jessie Taylor,
county public health nurse who
made a short talk on the impor
tance of health.
The Hearth Queen is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Page Of
Mamers. and will represent Har
nett at an expense paid stay in
Raleigh during State 4-H Club
Week. The dairy foods winner will
receive a pafl trip to summer 4-H
; Camp. She % the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Stephenson. *
No 4-H Club boy qualified far
County Health King. For the first
time in several years there iwas no
title holder.
In her talk Mrs. Taylor empha
sised that healthy boys and girls
are usually happy boys and girls
3he challenged the young people
to have a set of moral -tandards to
live by. such as the belief In the
worth of every other boy and girt
She urged them to be kind, courag
eous, honest and generous
"A person with a healthy per
sonality," she added, "usually mas
ters his environment. In your clut
work you have an excellent oppor
tunity to learn how to work, how
(Continued on Pm* Two'
Ike Vs Estes
In Nebraska '
Voting Today
WASHINGTON OP) — New
ifork Gov Averell Harriman
ms picked up his first sizea
ble bloc of delegates outside
lis own state in his cam -
paign for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The Wyoming *tate Democratic
convention, which Hardman ad
dressed Monday .elected a slate of
28 delegates of which 12 are ‘Har
riman supporters, though not of
ficially pledged
• Hardman's campaign In Wyo
ming and other northwestern
states and today's presidential
preference vote in Nebraska high
lighted political developments on
the national scene. ».
In the Nebraska primary Sen.
Estes Kefauver iD-Tenfi) is un
opposed on the Democratic ticket
■and President Eisenhower is un
opposed on the Republican ticket
Write-in votes are permitted, how
ever. ' -
LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE
The contest is staunchly Repub
lican Nebraska will have little sig
nificance unless normally GOP
voters in rural areas cro* over
to the Democrats to protest El
senhower administration farm pcd
icies. Voters in farm areas ant
towns of less than 7,000 are not re;
quired to register by party am
may ask for either ballot. ,
Delegates being named in to
day’s Nebraska voting are no
bound by the outcome erf the presi
dential preference balloting. Ne
bra ska will have 18 votes at tfh
GOP convention and 12 at th
Democratic convention.
In the 1952 and 1954 Nebrasfc
primaries, about two-thirds of th
vote was cast on the Republlcai
side. Sixty-nine per cent of th
Nebraska vote,went to Mr. ELsen
hower in the 1962 election.
NOT FAVORITE SON
Harriman put himself direct!
into the Democratic jace Monda
when he toid the Wyoming con
vention his name will be entere
at the convention "not as a favor
tte son but as a candidate.”
Later Monday Harriman move
into Montana and told an airpoi
(Continued On Page Four)
The Rev. Ted Pltchard will begMV
a revival service at 7:45 Sunday
night, May 20. at the Dunn Advent
Christian Church. He cm be heard
aver WCKB Radio Station cacti
morning: at 5:15.
A 23-month-old Godwin young
ster, James Ronnie Tew, was sevft*
rely cut about the face and head
by the two-foot blade of a fan
yesterday. V
Dr. C. L. Corbett, who treated
the youngster after the parent*! ■
I Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Tew, Jr., brought
him to Dunn Hospital, said 4®
stitches were taken In the face
i and head.
The parents apparently did not
. witness the accident. Dr. Omtoett
» said he believed the child had
| stumbled or fallen head first Into
the fan.
k Although the fan stopped, ‘Mttle
f James suffered several cuts at the
, front of his head, including one
> that reached to the nose. A big area
. of skull was exposed, and the hack
ol his head was also cut.
i Dr. Corbett said he expected the
r child would be able to leave the
y hospital In three or four days. The
. cuts may leave a mark said Dr.
j Corbett, but he does riot believe
- the scars will be disfiguring.
The accident served as a warning
i to children and adults as well that
t fans without adequate safety guards
are dangerous. 1 1
Child Goes
Head First
Into Fan
Police Find Knife
In Prisoners Boot
\
James Faison had a bad dky yesterday. First he re
ceived a 30-day sentence on the roads in Dunn Court, and
then police discovered what might have been his ticket
out — a knife that he had hid in his boot
Police Chief Alton Cfcbb reported
that another prisoner tipped offi
cers to the knife in Faison’s boot,
as the latter was being led away
from court. Faison, though he did
n’t have much chance, made a
fight against being searched.
Two or three officers joined to
take him down on the floor and
remove the boot so they could get
at the knife "He’s mean, all right,"
Chief Cobb, who was undisturbed
by the incident. He drew the sent
ence of 30 days for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct.
It was considerably calmer up
stairs than downstairs at city halt.
The regular Monday session of
Dunn Recorder's Court was run
through with nothing more spect
l Continued On rage Six)
Shriners Plan |
Ladies Night 1
The Shrine Club is
one of Its big events of
On Monday, May 31, the
ladies night program win take
i Continued On ~
A
PLUMP SPINSTER'S FIRST TRIAL SET
Million—Moochin g
Goes On Trial
NORFOLK, Va. <IP» — The |
first trial opens tomorrow
for Miss Minnie Mangum,
the plump spinster and for
mer Sunday school teacher
charged with embezzling
nearly 3 million dollars from
a Norfolk building and loan
• company.
Kjnd-bearted Miss Minnie, S3,
whose alleged embezzling more
than doubled the Brinks robbery
figure and amazed her friends
and federal investigators alike, fa
ces three specific charges of mak
ing false statements to Virginia*
Corporation Commission,
They are among M Indictments
charging her with stealing tajM,
957.06 from tbs Commonwealth
Bujlding and Loan Assn, where
ended nearly 90 yean' service as
Minnie |
. n
T omorrovi
a *9,000 - * - year assistant secro
tary-treasurer.
Next Monday, she will go <«
trial on another indictment charg
ing her with S3 embezzling counts,
dating back to IMS and totaling
*1.082.965.25. They are the only taw
trials scheduled thus far.
Her attorneys have refused to
make statement#, The only indi
cation of how she Intends to plead
(Geattaaed Oa rage Two) '
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