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* WEATHER * Cool tonfyfht. Warmer and scatter ed showers Friday. itæ Bang Kett-ro THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN. N. C/t THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1956 FIVE CENTS PEE COPY NO. 126 IT'S STILL THERE — As members of Dunn High’s Ctsss of -31 fathered at the high school for their Ulh anniversary. Dunn Insurance man L. C. Dupree. Jr., pointed out to Margaret Smith Knight, now of Raleigh, that her name is still on a cup I i 'Smm I / j In the trophy cue. Twenty-five years are, she was named best-all-around student — (or sebo la rship. athletic prowess and leadership. Another Photo on Pare—Story on back pare. Jh&M cmis JhinqA Br mom ADAMS DOT UU8 TOUT; OPEN AIR PEACHES AND OTHER NOTES Mrs. Lula Buchanan had quite A surprise this week . The 74 year-old Lidington resident became IB and the doctor'* verdict wa* mump* Mrs. Buchanan had Just returned from a visit with relatives In Alabama and children in the home where she visited had the childhood disease. She reside* with her daughter. Mis* Kate Bu chanan. an employee of the county ASC office. Joe Currin of Angler the newly-elected county commis sioner, is an exceptionally popular fellow and Saturday’s ejection prov ed it .Joe did no campaigning— d dn’t ask a single person to vote for him—and still ended up with the biggest majority of any candi date In Harnett He defeated Commissioner R. Glenn Johnson bv s vote of 715 to 400 . Mrs. Robert Strickland savs she’s lookln forw»'"l is the Tony Pastor dance here Tuesday week. . -Dot. a very kvelv litUe ladv. points out that Tony Pastor is one of her favorites and she al*6 likes Lawrence We.b , . .’Actually," said Dot, "Law rence Walk’s arrangements are very similar to those of Guy Lombard: and I like him, too”. Carl .Jai cos is offering some really aensat tional bargains this week st . A Erwin Super Market In Erwin.. For instance, Carl is selling Swift Ahsweet margarine for only fiv< cents a stick and four pounds o' pure pork sausaare and a pound o all-meat franks for only a buck Erwin’s new super market is provini very popular and a big success Carl is a very smart merchant . Make no mistake about that LHlington high school senior* wer among the favored ones *hls weel . Buddy Oregory of B and Jewelers presented each girl grad (Continued On Page Two) WARREN TO GET SECOND TERM Graham Says Racial Problem Is Local KANSAS CITY, Mo.. 0P» — Evangelist Billy Graham told some 10.000 delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention last night that racial Inte gration should be handled on the local level. Today the convention was sched uled to re-elect Dr. Casper C. War. ren of Charlotte. N. C , to a second term as president Nominations were to be made from the floor, but It is customary for the president to hold two con secutive terms. Also scheduled for re - election were secretaries James W. Mer ritt of Gainesville. Qa., and Joe W. Burton, Nashville, Tenn.. atone with executive secretary-treasurer Dr. Porter W. Routh of Nashville. Only two positions were expect ed to be filled by new officers those of first and second vice presl dent! John R. Haldeman of Miami, hai served as first vice president, while Kyle M Yates of Houston. Tex has been second vice president, Graham said the race question could best be handled pn the local level. But he said it would “tak< courage, prayer, humility, *love anc above all patience" to solve th; problem. He said the Christian churc* »a* in the midst "of the greatest (Continued on Page Five) Abney To Build Big Warehouse GREENWOOD, 8. C. W—Ahne; Mills will build a 150.000 squar foot warehouse here for the star age of cotton and rayon, it wu announced today. Officials said storage capacit of the new warehouse would b : 35.000 to 4OJD0O bales of cotton o e rayon. Daniel Construction Co., c I Greenville will build the war* - house, which is scheduled ft completion by September. Son Of FOR Ike^ Again Is Backing WASHINGTON (W — John Room veil, son erf the late Presider Franklin D. Roosevelt, attend political platform with Presider Eisenhower today. Young Roosevelt, who supports Elsenhower in 1952, spoke o "Why Democrats should vote ft Eisenhower" at a meeting at tt recently-organized Citiaena ft Eisenhower. He said, the Eisenhower admix 1st ration has destroyed the Den ocrats’ 1952 campaign sloga "Don't let 'em take it away " "The only thing that has bet taken away is the mess that v found here in January of 1953 Roosevelt said Youth Entrain For Montreal, Then Europe Montreal, Oanada. is the fir leg on a trip to Europe for a do en young Tar Heels who boardi a train here today at 5:25. Rev and Mrs J. W. Linetoerg are accompanying this “Method! Youth Caravan.” At Montrei Saturday, the group will board r boat and be aft for Europe » A consecration service was sdh • duled for today at four o'clock 1 s the members of the caravan. Th come from various towns in Not 1 Carolina. None are from Harnett. t The caravan is sponsored by t r Board of Missions of the Nor t Carolina Methodist conferen - Several months will be spent trs r eling in Europe and working wi church groups on the continent. FIGURES DON'T Ui - AND NO PADDINGI New Bathing Suits Force The Gals To Be Honest NEW YORK (IP) — Plenty of ordinarily calm wives and mothers, and a few daughters, show signs of nervous in security at this season. , Catch them unawares and you’ll' me them back up to the full, ' , length mirror, swivel their heads j around, take a long look and emit a deep sigh. They show no en - thuaiaam for the bright sunshine and even leas for the first family trip to the beach, They simply are trying 10 as semble courage to squeeze into bathing suits and inarch out to meet well formed competition from long-legged lovelies. It’s too late to Atfbamllne curves so the only hope is to bolster the nerves. Any pale, paunchy and slope shouldered man who ever found himself standing next to a broiu lifeguard at the beach under stands the feeling. COCKTAIL PARTY There are certain things we 1 perfect figures of American wo anhood could do to enhance < appearance at the beach. Frenchman who designs bath suits suggested cautiously dur , a recent visit here. (Continued On Page Two) Pierce, Bass Fined $50 Each For Trespass •Bobby B. Pearce and Bobby J. Bass of Dunn, Route 5, both pled guilty to forcible tresspass In Dunn Recorder's Court this morning and were given 90 days on the roads suspended on payment of $50 fine each plus court costs. ——— Judge H. Paul Strickland accep ted a plea to this reduced charge on recommendation of Solicitor J. Shephard Bryan. The original charge was larceny and receiving. They were accused ot stealing a radio and door from a 1950 Ford parked at Henry's Body Shop on S. Clinton Avenue. Rudolph Gil bert, Indicted on a similar charge, pled not guilty and was found not guilty by the court. Besides the fine levied on Bass, Judge Strickland made his sus p«*ided sentence conditional on payment of $25 for a car door. Two residents of Eaat Vance St. in Dunn, Rachel McMUlion and Maggie Manning, were in Record er's Court on complaint of Virginia and Willis Smith. Rachel McMUlion, charged with assault and disorderly conduct, "by throwing glass bottles and sticks,” pled not guilty but was convicted and sentenced to 30 days in Jail suspended on payment of court costs, Maggie Manning, accused of da maging property by breaking a wthdfw, and of using boisterous and jpqgape language, pled not guilty, was also convicted and gi ven 30 days in Jail suspended on payment of court costa. Moat serious of several traffic violations cases was the trial of Edwards Adams Smith for operat ing a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and driv ing at 60 miles an hour in a 35 mUe zone. Smith pled guUty to the first count only and the plea was accepted by the court on re (Continued on huge Five) 10 YEARS AFTER NEAR-FATAL MISHAP Out Of The Skin Grafts Came A Strikeout King By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer Once, in the middle of an operation, Jimmie Wilson came wide awake. This re mains in his memory as the “wdrst part” of that strange nightmare which began when he was walking to school with some other kids, and a truck ran over him. It was not pain, exactly, that he felt when he awoke there on the operating table. Fright and con fusion were intermixed. He heard someone screaming, but he could n't he sure that it was himself. Be fore he dropped off to sleep again, some force inside him caused him to Strike out. and he hit one of the nurses. Jimmie feel* pretty maty that the nurse didn't get after him later for whacking her like that. But it couldn't have been much of a hit. He was only seven years okl. awl had been sick so long that most at ■ (Continued On Page Two) Open House 'Til Nine At Dunn's New Florist's Carnations and refreshments were being served up at Aman’s Florist in the Cottondale Hotel today. The [.open house will continue at Dunn'S i newest flower shop until 9 o'rlcrt total ght. Thomas Aman, an experienced florist, actually opened for busi ness two weeks ago. He owns the shop in partnership with W. P. Williford Dry Goods Co. Aman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edie Aman of Route 1, Dunn, has worked as a florist for several years; he studied at Harper’s in Atlanta. Georgia, before opening the shop in downtown Dunn. T * Record Roundup -i « A % n « VACCINE AVAILABLE — In Har nett County, the Salk vaccine is available through the health cent ers to those who cannot afford It through a family physician Johnston County Medical Society is currently urging parents in that county to get their children vacci nated before June 15, "The epide mic season is approaching." an of ficial statement warns. They ad vise the vaccine for children six months to 19 years. Johnston Coun ty's heatfh department has 30 per cent ol the county allotment ot vaccine. Thor M Daniel, chair man of Johnston's Poliomyelitis Ad visory Committee, says, "In the past the supply of vaccine....has been exhausted partially through abuse by private patients who were able to pay.” ROTARY TALK — W W Miley Jr., manager of Erwin Mills, will (Continned on Page Five) \ ed ri ii iur a ng n* STILL UNDER HIS EYE — Under the ministering eye of Attorney I. Shephard Bryan of Dunn — formerly superintendent at schools —'IS students who were once a port of the Class of ’SI lined up again for a new “class picture” on Monday night. Some SO others didn’t quite make It to the spe cial 23th anniversary reunion. Those who did are (seated, left to right) Mary Shelton Pridgen, Ra leigh; Mrs. Dennis (Wheatley Martin) Strickland. Dunn; Mrs. Elisabeth (Highsmith) Dunbar, High point; Mrs. Margaret (Smith) Knight, Raleigh. Middle Row — Agnes (Gainey) Cannady.\Dunn; Vann Eleanore Freeman, left, now Uvea at Martins Mrs. Milton (Teddy Martin) Read, Halifax. N. C.; Mrs. Sam (Grace Lee) Strickland, Dunn; Mrs. Iris (Norris) Shoaf, Richmond. Va.; Mrs(. Chris tine (Barefoot) Hale, Dunn. Back Bow -j*. Arthur V. Su«s, Dunn; Mrs. Gladys (Yates) Am lin. Fayetteville; L. C. Dupree, Jr(., Dunn; Mrs. Genevieve (Warren) Nichols, Herkimer. New Yerk; Forest (Buddy Elliott Jemlgan of Du An; Mrs. Mary (Hobson) Bullard. Lumber ton; Nathan Baoo, Dunn; T. C. Pridgen, Troy, N. C.; Fulton Godwin. Dunn Route 4. (Dally Record Photo.) II ALL SORTS OF HONORS — A number at tumorahare mmUu way of Cadet "Staff Sergeant" iumm Vanee WUaon. 14. This trophy for best pitcher is only one of them. He also took a medal for scholarship (making the honor roll every month), and a mono era mined letter for prowess in sports generally. But then the real story of Jimmie is the story of what he has overcome. (Daily cord Photo by Ted Grail.) Death Penalty OKd For Dope Peddlers WASHINGTON (IP) — The Senate today approved a tough narcotics control bill calling for death penalties to help stamp out illicit drug peddling. The measure wwua jur»c» ui federal court* hand dawn a death sentence for a third conviction tor the sale or smuggling of narcotic*. It ‘also would permit juries to mete out the supreme penalty for sale of narcotics to persons under 1®. vote. Hie action came 4iortly af ter the House Ways and Mean* Committee unanimously approve* a similar bill providing still Jai sentences but not the death penal ty—for narcotics offenses. Before approving the bill thi Senate rejected, by voice vote, ai amendment by Sen. Wayne Mora iD-Ore'.) to delete the death pen ally provision. But the Senate did delete a pro vision which would have permit ted federal courts to authorise th use of wire-tapping to secure evl dence for use in federal narcotic cases. It substituted a couapromti provision which would put sdi penalties on the use of the tell phone, mails, or any other com munications facilities to violate tt narcotics laws. fells Cheering Workers He's Feeling Fine . WASHINGTON <» — Pre sident Eisenhower told cheer ing GOP campaign workers today that he is feeling fine ind intends to campaign for re-efection "as cheerfully, en ergetically and enthusiastic illy as it is possible to do so.’*' He said he feel* <*o good thaf ie wouldn't even know to* had a Heart attack last Jail except that ‘the doctors keep reminding me >f It.’' The President told leader* Of the recently-reorganized Citizen* for Eisenhower movement that “I am perfectly ready to go forward.” He urged them U) go out and fight, not only far hi* own re-elec tion, but also for a Republican Congress His voice ro«e noticeably a* h* told a group at 600 leader* he will campaign for “clean government, good government, progressive gov ernment and government that knows its place and doe* not In terfere with me a I go about my daily business." DOCTORS remind him He followed this with a <jui<* explanation that hi* u*e of the word “me" was generic and re ferred to “aU of us.” “You know. I was ill last fall," he said with a broad grin. "The only' way I know about it now 1# I that the doctors keep reminding me k it." Tint brought thunderous cheers from the leaders from 40 state* assembled here foe a three-day campaign conference. _ Warning' against a cawgsrtgrt complacency, the President said, “it has no place in my vocabu lary." He called for a tiemendou* get> cut-the-vote campaign, saying thw| when an American citizen vote*, -the form of self government Jus tifies itself.” f He said the goal of the cam paign is to make wore "that tM* great middle of the road philoso phy of government can ooHttaue* -We are carrying a torch, car rying a fire and we are not car rying ashen," he wdd. PARTY LOTAltT Urging the Citizens for Eisen hower to devote themed vas an energetically to the election of a Republican Oongree* as to re taining him in the Whit* House, i he said that if the voters *•«* . him again he thought the people who run with him Should lie bound to him by “party loyalty” as well as personal and official loalty. Several members of Congress— Including Rep. Richard M. atasp 1 son (R-Pa). chairman of the OOP ! congressional campaign commH ' tee—were scheduled to taHt to th* group during its meeting. At the morning session, Mrs. . Dorothy D. Houghton of Red Oak, , la., co-chairman of the organin* ! tion, predicted that 76 per cent of 5 the women who vote in November . will cast OOP ballots. 1 She- said women in IMS made _ the difference between a “dender e margin” and a “landslide” vic tory for the President. But she warned against slipping into the “fatal complacency" in November. Erwin (jraduation Exercises Held D. T Stutta, principal for 26 years at Erwin, presided Monday night.a« final commencement ex ercises for the “Class of W were held with Dr. W. Amos Abrams, editor of “North Carolina Educa tion" as chief speaker. It was a milestone for Principal Stutts as well as the graduating seniors for he has announced hi? retirement, effective with the end of school, and plans to move to Durham during the summer. Among students ^aofalfr hon ored during cart Lesha Byrd, Jr., and Mancie Bum*. mm'd ■best all-around.” The award fnrt the Orace Boat Book Club v: * presented to Byrd hy Mi*. D. T. atutte, While Mi* J. V. Fowler made an award (from the Worn* in's ClUb) to Mhigie Banes Other students honored: Thomas Byron Stephens, Jr* presented with the Baggett Sd« oe iward by Z. E. Matthew*. jean Weaver (high school), and Ur.is. kutry (grammar school) received -Ml* Bruton* Award for Most Progress to Music.” Hie prssen. (Costinned On Pag* Twe) * ?' I 8 SB
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