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* WEATHER * Wednesday. mostly sunny and a little warmer except foe widely scattered afternoon and evening showers. High 85 to 92. Thursday, partly cloudy with widely scattered i mmdershowera, and becoming somewhat cooler In north portion. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES *117.3118 --- . ML, ■ ... I —.——. DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 195€ FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 12® BIG DRIVE BEGINS — Leaders at a drive U raise W.W for the near consolidated Presbyterian Collefe congregated today to make plana, tn pho to are (seated, from left) W. H. Miley. Mrs. WII bert Lm, m4 Guyton Smith; (oUadtar) Krr. George Banter of Grove Prr*brtert»n Church In Dun. (Dour Record Photo) JJut&S JUHIa SUE. SMALL WORLD. JACK Carl. tort, other notes Dr Robert Jordan, local opto* rretrist. broke a JO-year-old record a few nights ago .He had been a member of the Dunn Masonic lodge since 1918 and pays his dues regularly but hadn't attended a lodge meeting since 1636 . But when his nephew. Dr. Jack Jor dan. was admitted to the lodge a few days ago Dr. Jordan broke down and attended the meeting to see him raised. .... It was probabiy the only event that cculd get him to a meeting . Other members of the lodge thought they were seeing things when the popular local resident walked into the meeting and some of them turned to others and asked. “Is he a member.?". . .Dr. Jordan says he had a fine time . It's a great organization . . Many Masons put the lodge right next to the church. . . If any man lives up to the code of Masonry, he whl be an exemplary citizen .So exemplary are the rules of Masonry that few men, if any. can truly say they live up to it Manager James Tates of Dunn’s two theatres re ports that "Screaming Eagles.’* the story of one of the units in Oeneral BUI Lee's famous 101st Airborne Division, will be shown here Friday and Saturday of next week. . .It is the second movie about Oeneral Lee's division .. When the first, "Bostogne" was shown here. Gen eral Anthony C. McAuliffe and Oen. Oerald Higgins were here for the premiere . .Oen. McAoilffe, the New Gym Brightens Dunn High Athletics The underdog Oreen Waves ff Dunn High? School max not figure as the most likely to succeed in next year’s sports events, but nobody can deny that the athletic picture is brightening. At least the high school is em erging from the shame and incon venience of not having a gym to call its own. Midway between the football park and a scrubby exer cise field, a soaring steel super • structure has suddenly appeared. Principal A. B. Johnson declares that "Physical Education Building” would be a more appropriate title that gym. since the building is de signed Tor a lot more than just spectator sports. CM WILL PLAT Students up through the ninth grade are required to spend at ! least 30 minutes per day in or ganised athletic training. The high school, says Principal JottMon, has 400 students who will be making use of the new faculties and another 300 seventh and eighth graders who win also take recreation there. The new building will be wel comed by the National Guard, am ong others, because It takes some of the heat off the Armory, which— as the wily convertible facility In town — has had to function as the sit# of most indoor sports. Dunn High School has been with out its own gymnasium since 1951 when the building constructed in 1936, and never intended for spec tator sports, was converted into the present high school cafeteria. The new gymnasium will feature a band room so Bandleader Harvey Bose)! can shift his growing group of instrument-footers out of their present quarters in the cafeteria. ROLL-A WAY BLEACHERS An increase in capacity was not iCWtwnd On Page Twel WOULDN'T GET UP AT 6 AM Anita, Hubby Have Hectic Honeymoon FLORENCE, Italy (IP* — Luscious Anita Ekberg and screen idol Anthony Steel headed today for a London hon eymoon that threatened to be as hectic as their “circus” wedding. The British actor who melted the “Swedish Iceberg’1 was in no hurry to get to London where he is due to start work on a new film at 7:30 a. m. Thursday. “They wanted us to catch the 9 a. m. train,” said Steel before he and his wife retired Tuesday night to their hotel room. "I flatty refused. We pfcMk to catch the train to Rome around 11 a. m. and then tty on to Lon don. “As it is. well be vending our honeymoon in the makeup room of the studio.” The bride and groom dined out Tuesday night alter the wedding and than took a moonlit buggy ride through romantic Florence. . Anita still was dressed in the form-clinging pagan goddess &mt dress which she were, at the wed ding. but she covered her bare shoulders with a long mink eoat. »> , . - .■__ Mental Ward Held In Irons As A Slave DETROIT W — A Lansing. Mich, businessman faced a possible five* year prison sentence and 16,000 fine today for enslaving a mental incompetent and holding him, in irons. Malcolm N. Button, 66, who has a furniture business at Lansing and a large farm near Grayling, Mich., was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. The Jury charged Button with holding Chauncey A. Cook, 63, a ward of the court, in “Involuntary servitude by threats, force, beat ings and physical restraint.” No date was set for Buttons' arraign ment. Assistant United States Attorney Dpnald F. Welday said Button kept Cook in chains and leg irons from August, 1063. to June, 1966. because Cook repeatedly ran away from his guardian's farm. Button was named Cook's legal guardian in 1961 by the Ingham County Probate Court which paid 621 a month for the man’s board and >. eep. Welday said Cook would some times run away with "leg irons and all" and last June he was found wandering about in La nusing still in chains. Cook was declared mentally in competent in 1940. He is h*ing taken care of by relatives at Lan sing. Church Needs To Pay Loan Rev. L. E. Hines and members of livening Star Holy Church is sued a press statement this week, thanking all Dunn citizens who made contributions to the church after the building was destroyed by fire three years ago. “We are maw appealing,'' said the statement, '‘for help in paying the loan which jras secured at the time of (he disastrous fire.” Those who can make a contri bution are urged to do so. "We are looking for the same support you have given us in the past.” FIXING ROAD — Lewis Godwin and Co. are currently grading a thousand feet of read on West Pearsall St. west of Juniper Creek, j Truman Denies Remark About Squirrel-Head * NAPLES, Italy (W — For mer President Truman de-j nied today that he himself had called the planner of the bloody Salerno landing in World War II a “squirrel - headed general." American reporters traveling with Mr. Truman heard him make the remark miring a vlait to the famed battleground yesterday.. The denial came from Eugene Bailey, secretary for the former president, in an attempt to calm the furor touched off by Mr. Tru man s casual remark to reporters. Bailey said: BULLETIN NAPLES — Mr. Truman said today he la sorry about “very by published report# on hlo "•quirret-headed” general re* “Mr. Truman denies that this wtu hie direct statement. He said he may have been repeating what one the reporters said to him merely a# a joke." MORNING WALK The former president, oblivious on the surtoce to the worldwide controversy, strolled through the ruins - of Pompeii this morning while’ American tourists sang “for he*, i Jolly good fHtow." He was so busy sightseeing? along the stone steers left by his tory's moot famous volcanic erup tion that reporters had no chance to guegt ion him personally on the Salerno controversy He went to bed last night un aware that an offhand, sidewalk cafe remark had touched off a storm of reaction from Europe to the United States and left one British general seething with rage. The remark , was that a “squir rel-headed general” planned the Salerno landing, one of the blood iest battles of the Allied campaign to liberate Europe In Washington White House re fered queries to the squirrel* on the front lawn. U. a Gen. Mark W. Clark talked about ’higher headquarters.'' In London, a British general said the remarks .were “rubbish" and “Utter nonsense." CASUAL REMARK The obntrovery w*s touched off innocently enough yesterday after Cabbie Slain In Love Triangle WINSTON-SALEM W» — A 42 year-old cab driver was shot to death today, a victim of what po lice suspected was a "triangle" love affair. The body of Wilson Fowler, Ne gro, was found about dawn on the floor of his bedroom by a niece who lives nearby. Neighbors told police they heard shots during the night. Police said they have a sus- i pect believed to be a “jealous” suitor of Fowler's gin' friend. 1 * HENRY M. SMITH H. M. Smith Rites Today Henry Milton Smith. 53. of Fay etteville. died early Tuesday morn ing after an illne** of several months. Bom Oct. 20. 1902 In Ap pling County. Ga , he was the son of the late John and Martha Smith Surviving are his wife. Mrs. of Southern Pines; and one grand ier. Mrs. Joseph Henry Carter Jr., of Southern Pnee; and one grand son. Jay Carter. Mr. Smith had made his home to Fayetteville for the past 21 years. He was the former man ager of the City Optical Company to Fayetteville. At the time of his death, he was engaged in the opti cal business in JDurm and Southern Pines. He was a member of K* #MRls CM>. t * 1 Funeral service* were held Wed nesday at 5 p. m. in the Rogers and Breece Chapel to Fayetteville. The Rev. C. F. Boggs, pastor of the Haymount Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in LaFayette Memorial Paste. Mother Drowns In White Lake WHITE LAKE flft — A 28-year old mother of three children frowned last night in White Lake when she fell from a motorboat iperated by her husband, a Cum serlond County police officer. Rescue units early today recov ered the body of Mrs. W. C. Brown at Fayetteville after a six hour search. Brown said his wife struggled ind fought when he dived from the boat to attempt to rescue hear, tn the struggle, be said, she slip ped from his arms and sank. Brown said his craft and an 3ther boat had been racing on the lake and that his craft won the race. At the end. he said, he went jp in the boat to cut down the motor and had motioned to his wife to come with him. He said He saw her stand and fall' over She side. He threw a preserver o her but she failed to reach it ind be dived from the boat trying o rescue her. Brown said his wife apparently lecame panicky in the water and slaved and fought as he tried to Deep her afloat. Campbell Finals To Open Sunday Commencement observances for tome 130 graduates of the college and of the academy section will begin at Campbell College on Sun day, May 37. with a graduation sermon given by Dr. J. Olenn Black burn, chaplain of Walge Forest College. Congressman Charles B. Deane of Rockingham, representative of the B3ghth Congressional District, will deliver the commencement address at D. Rich Memorial Auditorium June 1- Both services are at 11 a. m. The college has extended an invitation to its alumni and friends to attend the various end-of-tbe 'e*r events. The alumni luncheon vrlil be held in Marshbanks Dining Hall at 1 p. m., June 1. Speakers Are Baptist Leader* Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn, bacca laureate speaker, is pastor of the Baptist Church of Wake Forest. In July Dr. Blackburn will assume duties as pastor of the new Wake Forest Baptist Church of Winston Salem, continuing as chaplain of Wake Forest College Dr. Black burn received the Ph. D. degree at Southern Baptist Theological Se minary in 1951. The commencement speaker, Con gressman Dean, is a Wake Forest College graduate of the class of 1923 He has served as a trustee of Wake (Ceottnaed Ob Pace Tire) Quick Action Is Taken In House, Senate WASHINGTON IW — The House today completed con gressional action on a “sec ond chance” farm bill and sent it to the White House. The vote was 304 to 59. Republicans said President Ei senhower will sign It. House actum on the compro mise measure came 37 days after the President retoed the first one. The Iona politically-explosive fight ended in legislative victory for him. The new bill contains the ad ministration’s H 200.000.000 soil bank plan. It was stripped of the rigid high supports in the original bM which would have scuttled) the administration’s flexible farm pro gram. Other major features cited by the President in his veto mes sage were deleted or drastically watered down. Rut Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.). floor manager of the compromise measure, told the Hou^ht the fight for restoration of rigid high sup porta had not been fruitless. He noted that the President or dered support prices for major crops booked when he vpfcoed the first price-boosting measure. He termed It an admission that the props set by the administration were “too low." ”Ihe President went part way," Poage said, “and, the fanners have (this 'Congress to thank for that " . Gregory Pecks Expecting Baby HOLLYWOOD an — Actor Gre gory Peck and his wife. the former French Journalist Veronique Pas sani. disclosed Tuesday they expert their first child in October. The lanky actor married the 38 year old French beauty last New Year's Eve Just 19 houts after his divorce from Jus first wife became final. Peck, 39, has three, boys from hi* previous marriage to the former Greta Konen. EXHIBITION GAME — The Dunn American Legion team will play the Raleigh American Legion team in a exhibition game Thursday night at eight o'clock at the local pork. The public is cordially in vited to attend. Coats Seniors Hear Maxwell On Sunday night at 8:00 P. M.. the Seniors of Coats High School received a very inspiring message by the Rev. Forest C. Maxwell, Pastor of the Erwin Baptist Church. Rev. Maxwell's sermon was on “The House That We Live In ” He used the house to represent character which has three stories —physical, mental, and spiritual. Our character or the house that we live in must have a good found ation which consists of the seven pillars of life. In order to build or develop this foundation for a successful life we must have a noble purpose, seal and enthusiasm, vision, courage, genuiness, generousitv, and faith in God which are the seven pillars of life. Coats Class Night Exercises will be held Friday night. May 25. 1966. at 8:00 P. M., and on Monday night at 5:00 P. M. they will have their graduation program. Everyone is invited to come * STILL KICKING—Grandmother* feel younger «U the time, this conga-dancing group seems to indicate. The “girls’’ were getting the first convention of the Associated Grandmother Clubs of Washington, Inc., off to a good start in Seattle, Wash., 1 Leading the line is Mrs. Rose Lander of Everett, Wash, a mere 79 veers old. MORE GRAFT DISCLOSED Under-7ablePayofh Told At Hearing WASHINGTON OR — A government subcontractor told Senate investigators today she paid a capmaker $27, 1475 to be used for “under the table” payments to an Army contracting officer. * The witness, Miss Jane Mackey, told the Senate investigating sub committee she made the payments to Sol Schiesinger of the Ideal Uniform Cap Co.. Freeport, N. Y Miss Mackey's firm made visors for Air Force caps under a sub contract with Schelesinger. J, W. Roberts, a shoe designer now living in the Bahamas, gave fcivestlsators an unsworn state ment that the payments were for warded by Schiesinger to a "Colonel Shirley.’' Roberts worked for Mias Mackey. A Col. Louis H. Shirley, former chief of the clothing and equipage branch of the New York Quarter master Corps'Purchasing agency in 1951, testified before the sub committee last year. He denied any wrongdoing. Subcommittee counsel Robert F. Kennedy sand Shirley was in f ; Washington but did not respond 1 to an invitation to attend the hearings. \ Roberts’ pretty 23-year-old ex i wife. Mrs. Patricia Roberta Eve rett of Arlington. Va., backed up , , ; his statement. Mrs. Everett,, a free - lance model now, said Roberts’ statement was substan tially correct according to what he had told her while they were married. Mrs. Everett testified that Roberts told her the alleged "kick back” was high because she said, at least part of it was going to (Csnttmwd On Pam Twwi Three - Day Trial Nears Jury Verdict Half a dozen lawyers concerned in the defense and prosecution of 27-year-old Clifford Z. Adams, Coats high school teacher accused of sexual perverision, finished their arguments today in Harnett Superior Court but the court verdict wasn’t in at press time. Chief Defense Counsel Jesse Jones of Kinston, one of the state's most criminal lawyers, calls it a "case of mistaken identity." He told a jury of eleven, men and one woman that they should free Adams. Duncan C. Wilson of Dunn, who heads the private prosecution, said, "If you let him off, you’re cheat ing the state and pitting him into society where something like this will happen again." Mrs. Robert E. Lee, key witness for the state, testified that Adams had esposed himself to her, and quoted him as saying, "I cant help myself " We other witnesses identified Adams as the man who was at the ctnve-in between Dunn and Krwin on Maxch_5. They are WHma and Dorothy Lucas, teen-age girls whose veracity wax attacked by Defense Attorney Robert Morgan (Continued On Page Five) Storm Interrupts 'Macbeth' Version Shakespeare’s three witches shook up such a storm at the Paul Oreen Amphitheatre last night, that Campbell College’s Little Theatre performance of Macbeth was drow ned out In the second act by rate and high winds. “Macbeth" will be reposted to night at T:M p.m. by the Campbell College Little Theatre players. 9 Drown In Lake Michigan MILWAUKEE, Wis (TO — Nine men drowned in Lake Michigan squalls off this ci ty last night and early to day, seven of them in the sinking of a barge at work on a construction project. A»w*H«r of the wartata an the barge Waa missing. Coast Guards men said. Three of the victims in the bar ge mishap were found and identi fied early today. Shortly before 10 a m. the Ooaat Guard mid It bad recovered four other bodies. lost night boa fishermen drowned. squall whipped over Km barge ab out 4 a.m. today, throwing i^s load of workmen into the wat r as it sank. Ten survivors wt r« hospitalized suffering with stock and exposure. Marty Wateh, 64, listed In Door c condition of the ol scribed as fair to (<
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