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I * WEATHER * Onoraliy fair and mild today anti Friday. Cloudy and cool to night ;i<- - . ■ THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 17, 1956 _______... FIVE CENTS PER COPY Nam — nui BEAltV AND TWO Or HER SONS — JeWR CMhi, one of movieiand’* toveUrat jmuk ' " to ***fciag a divorce from her Stolon* n, Jr., ea (round* that h# had affair* with ether hhn ef care-man tore tactic* and •»f* he often beat and in Jared her. Shewn with I IVtLY DIVonce FIGHT LOOMS Jeanne Crains Hubby Denies Love Affair With Other Doll Jh*M JhinqA ' Bv Room ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Dunn's Becky Lee will appear on television Friday night. She will be presented along with other pa* j grant winners of the State during ' Durham's contest, to be televised over WTVD. . Another big crowd is expected in Dunn Friday night for the Broadslab Drag and dance There were a lot of strange and beautiful girls at the Lennon rally last night . : Henry Bast, formerly of Erwin and now operator of an advertising agency at Wil mington, said tney brought 00 of the prettiest doll* In New Hanover . . And, brother, that's good po litics . . Dunn merchants are on (Cantinned On P*T Eight' HOLLYWOOD <W — Paul Brinkman said today he was “deeply shocked” at the “wild-irresponsible and un - true” accusations by film beauty Jeanne Crain that he beat her up The manufacturer's famous wife ripped the veil from their 11-year marriage yesterday by charging in an amended divorce complaint that their home life waa not as peaceful as the fan magaalnea had claimed. JEANNE AND PAUL Brinkman announced therefor* he “had no choice” but to sue her next week for divorce on his own charges, indicating the battle Caatlaoed oa Page Vive WANT TO SHED THEIR MATES 11 Couples Seeking Divorce In Harnett Nine divorce cases are scheduled to be tried at the civil session of Harnett Superior Court which will convene on Monday, May 28. mm* 5 Two other divorce owes are elat ed lor triai at the criminal tfrm of Superior Court which will con vene on Monday morning of next week. All of trie divorce caaes are ca lendared for trial on the opening 'day of court Most of the divorce actions are based on grounds of two yean ae | partition I The two cases to be heard Mon day morning are: Burchel C. Barefoot, who ie seek ing a divorce from Lesale M Bare foot and Vera Moore McCaekilt, from Theron J, McCaskil!. / Divorce cases to be heard on May 38 are: (CMtfaaad Ob ra*e Tww) \ Cooley Asked To Explain His 70 Acres [ RALEEOH — Candidate W E Debnam today asked Congressman Harold D. Cooley to ''explain to the hard-pressed farmers of the Fourth District" how Cooley managed ov er the years to raise the tobacco allotment on his Nash County (plantation to 70 acres. “While Mr. Cooley's tobacco al lotment of the small fanner in this district has been Just as steadily going down. In every county in the dirtrict farmers have asked me how this has come about,’* Debram* said “That is a question lor Mr. Coo ley' to take the witness stand,” Detonam declared. "Let him ted the farmers of this dbdrict how he started from nothing and now has 70 acres of tobacco allotment Let him tell them how much of that terrific increase was due to his personal Influence and power as a Congressman and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.*' Postage Rate May Be Hiked Denford Milton Stevens, 17 yean old and six-toot tall, disappeared from his Angler, Route 3, home last Saturday with his pay from the Raleigh Golf course on his person. HU father, J. M. Stevens, be lieves there may have been foul play. He described Ms son has blue-Ayed and sandy-haired, weigh ing approximately 140 pounds “mild-spoken, courteous, kind ant mannerly" The family, greatly disturbed over the bay's disappearance, it anxious to bear from anyone win may know his whereabouts. Demos Expected To Back Adlai Second Time Amid predictions that they ! will endorse Adlai Steven son, North Carolina’s De - mocratic party leaders met in Raleigh today to select na- | tional convention delegates who will go -to Chicago ih August. In Lillington last Saturday it was the declaration of the county counvent ion that every Harnett County Democrat who attend the state convention is an "official I delegate." » The only local matter threaten-' mg to come up before the state leaders in Raleigh ls an appeal j which is protesting delegation from j John«onvUle township intends to make. E. S. Perkins headed a groqp, which told the county convention, they would appeal to the state a decision seating Edgar J. Gilchrist on the State Executive Committee. CLAIMED ILLEGALITY Disputers of CHkfcrist* right to seat have alleged illegal stuffing ct the ballot boxes, claimed there was no check of voters again** registration books and that several voters from the JohnsanviUe ad* joining township of Barbecue cast votes.: j interest in the state ccf the'lfe ctr sentiment for vartou* pres idential candidate*. But National Committeeman B. Everett Jordan ha« already told United Press, “I think this convention will go on record ss endorsing Mr. Steven son.'’ The state's 30-vote delegation, largest in the Southeast, went to the 1962 convention with an en dorsement for Sen. Richard B. missel] of Georgia but supported (Owntinned On Pag* Tsai CAUSED BY GAWKING KNOXVILLE, Team OR — Sam , Marshall, 41, told police be ram med a parked ear with his aato because he “wa# closely observing • nice-looking gM with a beauti- , f ul set of tegs, clad in shorts " , FAULTY WIRING DID IT AZLE. Tex. TO — Mrs. J F. Kim- 1 berly proodiy pressed the button of i her new doorbell Wednesday to ] show a neighbor how it worked, i Faulty wiring set her six-room ! house on fire and it burned to the < ground. PERSON TO PERSON — Alton Lennon, candi date for Congress who emphasizes that he wants to put a personal quality into Congressional ser vice when he appeared at a mammoth rally in Dunn last night, did some person-to-person com municating following his formal talk. Be Is seen here with (from left) Fred Byerly, who was chair man of tile promotional ftah fry, Carbine Williams of Godwin, and Bock Carr in, prominent Dana tobacconist and Lennon supporter. Williams, sport ing pointed sideburns and a 10-gallon hat, is the famed gun inrentor. (Daily Record Phot*) ■ Lennon Rally Draws Heftily By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer Alton Lennon supporters, itipre than 1200 strong, whooped it up for their con gressional candidate last night at a giant, rock-and sock-’em rally in the Big Four warehouse. An exuber ant crowd picked fish-bones jff their tongues and exuded Complete confidence that Harnett will give Lennon a :lear endorsement in the jrimaries. The vigorous. wwry-haired, Morning-voiced ex-senator is seei ng to unseat Congressman F. Er el Carlyle of number ton. Stepping o the mike last night, Lennon as serted that he could do more in a >erson-to-person way tar his con itituents as a member of the louse than he had ever been able o as a senator. Cheers 1 and dapping started at Sequent claims that Lennon was roing to be a servant of the peo >le •‘twelve months at the year and tot three months of the year." >nnon himself aimed a number >f short barbs at the policy of (Continued on Page Eight) "WHO REPORTED ME?" Woman Is Fined For Bootlegging Mrs. Rita Wood of South Erwin was found guilty in Harnett Recorder’s Court on Tuesday of illegal pos session of Non-tax-paid whiskey, but cleared of the charge that she was engaged in the sale of the illegal beverage. Judge M O. Lee continued Judg ment for three years, on condition she not violate the prohibition laws of the State or federal government, and pay $50 fine and costs. Rural police raided her residence after securing a search warrant on information* from "three or more sources” testified Policeman Clar ence X. Moore. Moore said he and B. £ Sturgill went to the home, found the back door hooked, and read the warrant to Mrs. Wood through the screen. When she en tered Moore said, he saw Mrs. Wood's son coming from the bath room where there was a strong odor ot whiskey, but none to be seen. However, a search some 25 feet to a shelter proved productive of evi dence Moore found two half gallon Jars of "white" whiskey in a drum in the shelter. When he showed the Jars to Mrs. Wood, Moore quoted her as asking w Vtw TWet + Record Roundup + BUDGET SESSION—The coun ty board of commissioner* and the board of education will meet In Joint session on Monday. May 21 at 10 a. m. In the new conference room on the second floor of the courthouse to consider the bis school budget for the comint fiscal year County Superintendent a. T 1 Proflit wiU (resent preliminary budget figures sad outline school EXTRA DAY FOR SCHOOLS— All county schools will close on Tuesday. May »th. The extra day waa added to the announced sche dule to make up the one day lost this winter due to snow and alee*. AT JOHNBONVaiAB — The monthly meeting at the Johnsom vme Farm Bureau, held last Fri day night ait the JotmeonvlSe (Continued oa Page Eight) TEENAGE ROAD-E-O ON SUNDAY Car Exam Posed Some Real Stinkers Seventeen well-informed teen-agers have qualified to take the road tests in the big Teen-Age Road-E-O in front of the Woman’s Club on Sunday afternoon. Truman Visits Graves Of Service Men SURESNES, France » — Harry S. TTuman made a solemn artil leryman's pilgrimage today to the white-craned graves at his Amer ican comrade* who didn’t come back from World War I. It was the first thing the for mer President did on his first trip to Sinope since Potsdam, He drove out from Paris this morning to the American military cemetery here and walked among the gravestones of American sol diers at two generations. Obviously full of the thoughts that make old soldiers somber in the presence at long-fallen friends, he laid taro dozen red roses on one grave. It marked the burial place of 24 men who died In World War II and whose names are unknown. He was accompanied by Stanley Woodward, former U. S. ambassa dor to Canada, who is a traveling companion of the Trumans an thi* trip. They visited the grave of Woodward's brother, a pilot in the famed Lafayette Escadrille who was killed in action April 1, 1918. HE SHOULD HAVE EDINBURGH. Scotland If) — A Judge refused to grant a divorce to John McReadie of Paluley on the grounds that he had married his wife twice “and must have known her shortcomings. * The MoReadies wore married in 1938, divorced in 1948 and remar ried in 1953. a tncxy so - question exam—de scribed by Screening Co-Chairman i H. W. Heath as "much more trea- j cherous and complicated" than the ( license examination given by the state highway department—posed such stinkers as what factor in a i car produces the most road trouble. The answer: tires. Several Dunn High School stu dents tied for high score with M’s. Said Heath, who tried the exam himself for comparison purposes. “I'm not going to tell you what I made." TESTS BEGIN 3 P. M. Although the actual tests won’t begin until three p. m.. the Jaycees and All-State Insurance Co. who are Jointly' sponsoring the contest have asked the contestants and judges to appear for briefing at two o’clock on Sunday. The judges who will pick a win lOMitMMi m Baca Test Several Others Are Wounded; Under Control RAIFORD, Fla. «F* — A ^ | “hard core” of prisoners, ap parently rebellious over food being served them, rioted at the Florida state prison here today. Guards opened fire, killing one prisoner and : wounding several others. The riot began about breakfast i time near the prison canteen. The ; prisoners seized bottles and gla**- r* j ware and hurled them at the i guards and at Warden DeWitt Sln } olair. Jo Orotegut, an aide to Oov. I LeJtoy Collins sent here from the : nnrtital Min noarawnov fAtst nMTt* men no estimate was available ad far on how man*, prisoners tool* part in the riot. The warden would not see newsmen. Grotegr.it said the prisoners trie<k to force their way into the dining room and kitchen area but were thwarted. then they pushed through a gate into the ball park, grounds. •■There they grabbed baseball bats and tried to enter the main prison court yard." Orotegut said. "At that point the guards opened fire." ■ INJl’RFI) NOT COUNTED City Takes New Siren On Approval A new fire siren with a range of three to seven miles went atop Dunn’s city hall this morning, hoisted there by a crane. But A&yor Ralph Hanna (who doubles as fire chief) said it’s there on ap proval. "We have a thirty-day trial per iod." said Hanna, ‘and if it doesn’t vork the way it’s supposed to, we'll send it back." the No one. it developed this ng, had heard the liren as yet. The ffre was set to give it a trial this SUPERIOR COURT OPENS MONDAY 41 Criminal Cases Are Set For Trial Forty-one criminal cases are listed on the calendar for trial at the criminal term of Harnett Superior Court which will convene Monday morning in Lillington. Nineteen other defendants must appear in court for failure to com* ply with previous judgements and sentences Imposed on them. divorce cases are also to be heard. Burchel C. Barefoot is seeking a divorce from Lessie M. Barefoot and Vera Moore McCasill is seek ing a divorce from Theron J. Mc Casklh'. Both these cases are set for the opening morning. Judge William Y. Bickett of Ral eigh will preside over the session. Varied offenses ranging from public drunkenness to manslaughter are among cases to be heard. Solicitor W. Jack Hooks of Kanljr and Assistant Solicitor Glenn U Hooper. Jr. of Dunn will prosecute the docket. Ob Yage Two) Harnett Democrats Honored Two Harnett County Democrat* received high, honors this morning at the State convention in Ra leigh. W. H. (Billy) Byrd ot Bunnlevel was elected ae a delegate to the Democratic. National Convention to be held this summer in Chicago and Attorney W. A. CBW) Johnson at LHUnftau was dboeen aa one at the State's 13 presidential electors. As an elector, Johnson will cast one of North Carolina* 13 votes for the Democratic Presidential Nominee when the electors meet following the November lection. Byrd and Johnson were elected to these poets at the Seventh Con grosstonal District convention fcaM prior to the opening «f the glaij»»j MANY FROM BARNETT Harnett was well represented at the party powwow today. Among those from the county attending were: Johnson. By d. Judge Howard Godwin. George <Jo Jo) Williams. State Senator Rob tTv aaorgan, «wp. v&roon UTCfor< t County Sohcttor Neill McK. Boss, Glenn L. Hooper. Jr., BUty Thy'*
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