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* WEATHER * Thursday, mostly fair and cool* er with high 70 to 76 north and 75 to 80 in the south. Friday, partly cloudy and mild with a few show ers in extreme south portion. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN, N. Cm THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 24, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY -| NO. 121 - V.*"- '■* ’ riLiiawari lift WANT CONSOLIDATED COLLEGE — Prominent Presbyterians mho will help rafate funds here for the consolidated college are Guyton Smith (mated) and Locke Muse. Smith is the senior cam paigner in the drire which got underway in Dunn yeeterday. Will they make their quota of S3&0M? "Presbyterians always get there.” (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Presbyterians Start L o liege fund Drive Presbyterians in 13 Dunn area churches joined to gether today to raise a total of $36,000 for the cause of Christian Education in the synod of North Carolina. Member* of the committee which win stage drives in fbe churches of District 1 of Fayetteville M# tery are Ouyton Smith, Locke Muse of Dunn, William MiJey of Erwin, end Mrs. Wilbert Lee, and the Rev. George H. V. Hunter, of Dunn, ■Route Two, Orove Church. The effort here Is a part of the "Forward with Christ in Higher Education'* drive now in progress throughout the synod of North Carolina for a total of *3.500.000 Of this amount, S3.000.000 will be used for the new Consolidated Pres byterian College to be built at Laurtnburg, with the remaining $500,000 to provide facilities for a campus Christian program with the Presbyterian students st North Ca rolina and Duke universities, and at East Carolina, State, and Wo man’s Codecs. At Laurinburg, the Presbyterians of North Carolina plan to combine the traditions, ideals, and heritages of Flora MacDonald. Peace, and Presbyterian Junior Colleges into one consolidated, four year, co-ed ucattonal. liberal arts college. The (Contimed on Pngs Plus) Record ERWIN TOURS — Anyone ln tsredted in touring the big textile mills at Erwin may telephone the office of Manager W. H Mlley, Jr., for an invitation. Among those going through on the invitational tour this week were J. N. Tates. L. B. Pope. Sr. and Ralph Wade. They were personally escorted by Mr. Miley. The tours are part of the overall, company-wide public relations program. Continued •* Page Mix) JhsiM J/Hfo Jhinqi\ Br ROOm ADAMS ED. JAKIE. GUTTON, A SONGBIRD, PREDICTIONS Regardless of who win* the Demo cratic nomination for Congress Saturday. Carlyle or Lennon, he’s facing another race . - C. Dana Maipasc of Wilmington, the Re publican nominee fo» Congress and a man more than three score years of age, has challenged the winner of the Democratic primary to a foot race . . Mai pass has never competed on track but holds a record for speed and agility on foot . . Chairman Ed Black of the Retail Merchanta Committee plans to call a meeting of local merchants early next week to make plans for the summer and fail months . . Ed has some good Ideas and local merchants owe it to themselves and their town to attend this import ant meeting . Guyton Smith, popular official of Johnson Cotton Company, is one of the most handsome and most distinguished looking "men in town. . . That white hair sets him off* . He's a prince of a fellow, too . .Jakie Bennett has an important date for the night of June 12th. . ."Yeaair," saya Jakie, “I’m taking Susie to the Tony Pastor dance. Wouldn’t miss it for anything.M. . .Jakie recalled that he and Susie had a very enchanting evening at a Tony < Can tinned On Pace Twei Pretty Redhead T ries To Hang Self In Jail -LAURINBURG flP> — Sultry, redhaired Laura Ham monds, a beautiful model held on burglary and safecrack ing charges, tried to hang herself last night in the Scot* land County jail. The girl's unconscious found on the floor of h< knotted a strip of blank bars of her cell and around her throat, but had broken. Salmon saU unconscious and that she was re vived only after IS minutes of artifical respiration. She was admitted to a hospital for examination and treatment and later was returned to Jail and kept under surveillance. The 21-year-old Falk Church, Va„ modei told Sheriff Jesse C. Olbson she had no explanation for the attempted suicide except that ■be was ‘‘tired” and "discouraged.” She has been in jail here for a week and was ordered held for grand jury action on charges of possessing burglary toots and for aiding and sheeting in aafecrack (CoaUaaed Oa Page Three) Nation's Demos Watching Vote In This State WASHINGTON <IP> — De mocrats are watching Satur day’s North Carolina pri - mary as another test be - twetn southern "moderates” and those demanding more aggressive efforts to main tain segregation. This teat Involve* the primary contests of three House member* who refused to sign the “southern manifesto' last winter. Moat south erners In Congress signed the manifesto, which called for resist ing by ail lawful means the Su preme Court decision against ra cial segregation in schools. The three North Carolinians who refused to sign were Reps Harold D Cooley. Thurmond Chatham and Charles B Deane. None of the three has advocated ending segregation. However, their failure to sign the manifesto has been the major issue, although not the only one. stressed by their op ponents in their campaigns for re nomination. ATTACKS ON TWO FRONTS Other political news: Sen. Estes Kefauver attacked bis rival for the Democratic presi dential nomination, Adlai E. Ste venson. on two fronts Wednesday tb Florida, where both are Bett ing votes tor that state’s May 2* primary. Kefauver denounced 1 as “scurrilous'’ fad “vicious” state ments made about him by a Ste venson Florida delegate • candidate, fMWer owe. Millard F. Caldwell. Kefauver said he was “surprised” Stevenson did not repudiate the statement. Caldwell, in introducing Steven son at a Tallahassee appearance, read from an editorial in the Rich mond, Va.. News-Leader which called Kefauver an "integration ist. . . a far-left Uberai’ a sy chophant for the Negro and union vote.” Stevenson replied. “I am not re sponsible for what Oovemor Cald well said about Sepu Kefauver and certainly I am not responsible for what the Richmond newspaper said.” (Continued On Fnge Three) Joke-Teller Pays $10 Court Fine A fellow can get right wrought up in a joke-telling session apparently. Anyway, Charley Knox, who appeared in Dunn Recorder’s Court this morning for "assault with a cinder block” said it all started because he told a joke on Samuel McNeill, Jr. McNeill, he sakl. didn't like It and expressed dissatisfaction by throwing a chair at him. Knox, who admitted that he had gone after McNeill, wa given 90 days on the roads suspended on pay ment otf *10 fine and costs. (Continned On Page Ms) RDinr AND GROOM—British film irtar Anthony Steei. 36, the hand orbJsVide, Swedish star Anita Ekber*, 24, following their marriage E Florence, Italy. The former Mis* Universe spurs ft. unique og-y>e-shou!jsy wedding ftess. Billy, Joyce Get Wedding License j NEW YORK «P) — Broadway producer Billy Rose, 56. and 36-year-old actress Joyce Matth^s obtained a mar riage license Wednesday bu* declined to disclose their wedding plans. The pint si*d Rose has been married twice. He waa divorced fronv' tbe late Fanny Brice in 1940 and from Olympic swimming star, Eleanor Holm in I9M. Miss Matthews slashed her wrists in Rose’s apartment atop his IZegfeld Theatre during his court wrangle r.ui over th<b- divorce noun The ijerice-marrfed blonde ac tress jwi Rose have been friends for sever* years. Mis* Matthew* was divorced once from Gonzales Gamez in 1940. and twice from comedian Milton Berfe In 1M8 and 1950 Benson Puts Blame On Cotton Farmers HOT SPRNGS, Va. <W — Secretary of Agriculture Ez ra T. Benson said today that cotton farmers, after 25 years of the “utmost government solicitude,” have lost markets everywhere and built up “big income-depressing surpluses.” Benson said in contrast soybean producers have resisted govern* ment restrictions and they , have increased acreage, developed a huge export market where none previously existed and vastly in creased the domestic market de mand for soybean produts. Benson compared the market situations of cotton and soybeans in a speech before the margarine all - industry conference here. Cot tonseed oil and soybean oil are the two main sources of supply for margarine manufacturers. Benson said the cotton industry was afraid to live with abundance while soybean producer* “willing ly expanded, even on the very acres taken out of cotton ” He said the steering wheel of agriculture is price. Cotton elect ed to freeae its steering appara tus with rigid high price supports while soybeans chose “to keep its steering wheel free so it can round the curves,” he said. Beunson said 25 years ago cotton was grown on 43 million acres in (Continued on Page five) Contract Awarded for Water System lallington s long anticipated new water system today moved a step nearer realization wit* the award of contract for construction of the filter system and water main to hide the county seat with the Cape Pear River. The new system on completion will replace the five deep wells ] that furnish the town its water supply. In a called session on Monday night the Town Council opened hide and found that law bidder on the general contracting work was L. O. Chapman and Co.. Inc. of Charlotte The electrical contract •went to Aaheboro Electric Com pany; the heating to Byrd Butane Heating Company, Jonesboro Heighte Moore. Oar drier and Associates of Aaheboro. the engineering firm engaged to make the water survey which furnished the basis of the call for a bond election to finance the new construction will be re tained a* consulting engineers un til the system is completed. Meantime. Mayor Henry Hamil ton and the town board announc ed that the purchase twice paid for the site of the new water plant was *1,000. The land, located near the Cape Fear River, was purch ased from the five Heirs of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Spears. Out of the five Spears heirs, tiwo returned their $200 checks as do nations to the town. They were John W Spears, cashier of the Bank .of Lillington, and Joseph McKay Spears of -Washington, D. C Other heirs are Mrs. Walter Lee Johnson of Lillington, Mrs. John Mullen of Lincoln ton and Marshall T. Spears of Durham. The Spears heirs also have de dicated street rights to and from the water plant, and right-of-way for water lines In the streets near the site of the new plant. Letter of appreciation to John and Joe Spears for their public spirited donation to the town have been sent by the Mayor and the town board. Lillington residents short of suf ficient water for fire protection and seeking more water to interest new industrial attractions over whelmingly voted t *146,000 bond issue this Spring to finance the near , water system Cooley-Debnam Fight Holding Chief Interest I RALEIGH (IP» — The race issue flared up again in the 4th Congressional District today as candidates headed into the final days of cam paigning before Saturday’s Democratic primary The controversial question of a veterans’ bonus also appeared for the first time in the gubernatorial campaign as candidate Torn Saw yer pledged to support a bonus. In the 4th district, where the ice i.«sue has been paramount in the campaign. Rep. Harold D. Cooley <D-NC' said last night at Rocky Mount he was ' proud" that he had refused to sign the South ern Manifesto. Cooley, who is facing one off the stiffest fights of his long political career, said the manifesto was a “complete castigation' of the Su preme Court. Cooley’s refusal to sign has been a major issue in his campaign battle with Raleigh au thor-commentator W. E. Detonam. COOLEY REPLIES In his Rocky Mount speech. Cooley charged that Debnam “is a Republican ’ who "hated and despised Mr. Roosevelt and Harry Truman and voted a Republican ticket" in their adminirfratton*. Cooley called the manifesto “a complete, castigation of the Su preme dmrt—a court of the last resort. Itf endorsed actions taken in many Southern states to fight the cour's decision — legally and Illegally. Meanwhile, the first race litera ture of the campaign made its ap pearance. issued by Debnam back ers. The circulars called Cbhley the “boy" of the Notional Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People and quoted editorials from Negro newspapers praising (O—Haas* On Page Mx) 17 Arrested At Raleigh Rock 'N Roll RALEIGH (B) — Police arrested’ at least 17 persons on drunkenness charges last night at a "rock and roll” music show at Raleigh’s Me morial Auditorium. Two police cars were “kept busy” shuttling between the auditorium and the jail four blocks away, po lice said. The audience was sepa rated but included both whites and Negroes at the same performances. Police said most of those arrested were Negroes. The audience included a large number of teen-agers and young college students. Except for the drinking there appeared to be no other trouble at the show, police said. In Green ville, S. C.. a "crackpot’s” report that a time - bomb had been plant ed in the Textile Hall forced can cellation of one of the “rock and roll" group’s shows there Tuesday night There have been protests by white citizens' councils in Ala bama and other parts of the Deep South against "rock and roll” music. FIRST STROLL — A tiny two-week old rabbit takes just about the first stroll of his life on the shoulderblades of delighted and freckle-faced Kenneth Kirby, 13, The rabbit belongs to Rex Wat son. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Craii.) SEVERAL DRAW COURT SENTENCES Two Years In Pokey For Lady Mae Poe “All the folks were trying to pull nie down,” explained Lady Mae Poe, Dunn colored woman who was tried for lar ceny in Harnett Superior Court yesterday afternoon. “Now they’re trying to get me just talking about empty fish boxes and old garden tools. . i* 1 Lady Mae — pleading her own caae because, she told the Jury, a lawyer wanted to charge her a hun dred dollars — said in the first place she hadn’t stolen the garden tools from her neighbor Isaac Wil liams and in the second place. “Anybody who would say they are worth twenty dollars Is certainly tjrinf’ Lonnie Jackson, Dunn policeman, told the court that he had searched her heme, a few doors away from where Williams’ Used, and found the tools wrapped in a burlap bag over a fish box. That wasn’t all he found. .mere were so many new uusn In Lady Mae’s bouse, Mid Lonnie, that he couldn't walk. “New shoes —downs of pairs—like they’d been skipped on once. Eleven new hats in a bag. Forty of fifty new drew es. Eight or ten shoulder bags.” The tags and names of the merchandise had thoughtfully been removed. Chief Alton Cobh also pot in a word against Lady Mae, and there wasn’t much she could do about it. He said that she had twice served prison terms and that the mer chants of Dunn didn't Uke for her to come into their stores. It was a bad day for iLady Plan (Continued on Page Five) I Missing Farmer /s Found Hanged Laudie Thornton, 44-year-old farmer of Dunn, Route 2, i» bel ieved to have committed suicide about 4 p, m. Wednesday after noon, hanging himself in woods aibdut a quarter of a mile from his home. The body was not discovered, re ported Dunn Undertaker Charles Skinner of the Hatcher and Skin ner Funeral Home, until eight a. m. this morning. When Thornton did not return to his home last night, a search was instituted Skinner said that no note was found nor was Thornton known to have made any threat* of taking his life. Coroner V. J. Underwood of SmUihfleld conducted an Inves tigation. Thornton reportedly left hid home about 2:46 p. m. yesterday afwraoon and was not seen agHL He went across a field into Via woods where hi* body was fodfid, hanging from a tree. Funeral sendees we to toe held Friday afternoon at 3 p. m. .-in Holly Grove Church. Burial «U1 follcw in the Thornton oemetgjjy. Services will be conducted by Rev. John William Smith, pastor hi Holly Grove. The dead man Is a native ol Sampeon County and a tenser. ADAMS CASE A MISTRIAL Jury Can't Agree On Teacher A mistrial was ordered to day at 12:20 in the trial of Clifford Z. Adams on charg es of indecent exposure and assault. The eleven men and one woman on the Superior Court jury failed to reach agreement after more than six hours of deliberation. Judge William Y. Bickett called lc Jurors for the third time and uk ed the foreman Percy Bernard of Ltllington. if a decision had been f reached. “No, sir," replied the fore man. • “Is there any chance you will agree?” asked the Judge. “No, sir,” said Bernard again. The declaration of mistrial means that the case must be tried again if it is to come to a verdict. Jurors received the case shortly after | three p. m. Wednesday following a h ard-fought three-day trial I Shortly after • p. m. Wednesday, I the Jurors reported a split of eight . to four. Today tt was still the same. 1 In addition to Bernard who is from Lilllngton others on the Jury g include Jean Bowdin of near Brou • | way, and C. C. Cummings, Cart M, - Neili, Lexie Patterson, Bragg Hi* Neill, 3. E. Butler, Grady M. Gil bert. Sion O. Harrington, J. P. ;i Coats, Sexton Ennis and J. C. Lar s* ( don. Defense Counsel A. R Taj of said his client will ask for trial at the next criminal term of HamjiS Superior Court, which will be lit * September. "The outcome of th s case is highly important to the pro. * J
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