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THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 8
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118
DUNN, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7, 1956
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' GOOD LUCK FROM A QUEEN — Ray Heston,
Jr., newly elected president of the LUUngton Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce Is here congratulated
and wished good luck by ~Mft* Wake County."
S°nja Averethe from Fuquay Varina. Occasion
was the Ladles Night banquet held last evening
In Lillington. (Dally Record Photo by T. M. Stew
art)
Nat'l Jaycee Director Speaks
m loom lOAin
TV SHOWS, HARRIET. ED
JOHN MACK. JANET. ETC
The Town of Dunn is receiving
nation-wide publicity this month,
bat i& the kind of jubdcitv |liH
mane friend* of E C. Dafflet.
big scandal magazines has a store
which reportedly wives the “tnsWe"
reasons whv his msriiawe to Mar
raret Trtimsn won't last — which
is pure nonsense .The store taMs
about the davs when E C. worked
In Dunn on Stonnv Tflwhman’s
Dalhr Bulletin ' *f vouTe plan
nine to be in New York next week
and want to see some wood tele
vision shows in person wet in touch
with Margaret Strickland of Dum
The local school teacher has a bit
bunch of tickets five in each set,
for some of the too TV shows which
originate tn New York. Including
the Arthur Godfrey Show and se
veral ouia show programs . . She
had planned to be in New York
next week but has decided to wait
until later In the summer and visit
Canada instead Margaret taught
hi Canada one vear as an exchance
teacher . . She’ll be happv to give
the tickets to someone who can
use them—they’re all for free, of
course. . The marriage of Mrs
Worth (Harriet) Stewart of Dunn
and Charlotte to Tom Rogers came
as no surprise . . The two had
been romancing for a long time
Harriet Is a charming gal. . . .He’s
a good looking fellow, too Mr
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. . One of the
LUlington Junior Chamber of
Commerce installed Its new officer*
hat night in a golden blue setting
at the LiUington community can
ter
Lt. Tom Eggleston, local Jaycee,
served a* ma*#er of ceremonies
and Charlie Briley, national Jay
cee director for North Carolina,
made the feature address
Hay Seaton, tobacconist, was In
ducted as president and other offi
cers installed included Chester
Brown and Lincoln Neale, vice
oresidents; Truie Johnson, secre
tary; A. B. Sherman, treasurer;
■ Roger Hawley, publicity chairman;
Joe Caviness. Jr., state director.
Members of the board at direc
iters also ins: a*# were Harry
Shaw. Seiwvn O’Oiinn. Paul Mac
Donald. Billv Ray Matthews, John
Pat Hamilton. Bobby Passmore,
and JOe Caviness.
Around fiO attended including
members their wives and other
eueets. Hamilton gave the invoca
tion and Caviness. the Immediate
oast president. recount red vMtocs
Marvin Koontz of Raleiyh. vlce
nremdent in rbaiwe of the 7th Dis
trict. officiated at the installation
ceremonies. New president Sexton
urged members to mage/ the year
»h«*d the best in Javcee historv.
music was rendered by
family Kellv. voraHvt. of Linimtou
Rhe was ar-omtmnied on the oisno
bv her brother Teo K“llv. Jr. She
sill* "A little Bit of Heaven” and
other numbers.
T .tlliovton restaurant* served as
cater* for the meal, and arrange
ments were headed bv Oavlneas. as
chairman, assisted bv Rav Moore.
Buddy Gregory and Hamilton.
"PALS" TAKE TV SET
DETROIT W — Eddie Williams
met three men in a bar Tuesday
and took them home with him to
watch television. Eddie fell asleep.
When he woke up his friends were
gone and so was the television
YOUTH FACES POSSIBLE BLINDNESS
Arrest May Come
In Jernigan Shooting
Sheriff B. A. Henry said late this afternoon that no
Warrant has yet been issued in the liquor raid shooting of
£lmon Jernigan, 20-year-old Meadow Township farmer
^reportedly threatened with blindness from the gunshot
wound in his face.
"1 just don't know” what deve
lopment will come next, Sheriff I
Henry Mid today. Jernigan waa shot
when officers raided a still and sets,
ed a, large quantity of beer.
Sheriff Henry told the Smith
field Herald that one of the offl
eera on the raid, ATU Agent C. 8.
Coats, fired several shots after at
tempting to board a pickup truck
E
which came down the road with
dim lights. i
Officers on the raid included,
according to Henry. Sheriff’s Depu
ties E. O. Beasley. ErSaieen Creech.
Aivin Narron. J. T. Smith and
8pecial Deputy Jack Hudson.
Sheriff Henry declined to state
against whom a warrant might be
Issued.
Model Given
1 1-2 Million
Settlement
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LUO A VO, Switzerland OH — Ttie
“dream marriage” of a baron and
a model ended today In a putt of
dollar bills.
Baron Heinrtsh von Thyaaea and
Nina Sheila Dyer agreed to divorce
conditions under which the baron
agreed to give her more than *15
in ca-h, jewelry and property.
In turn, the former English mo
del agreed never to use the name
Thyssen and to return some val
uable antiques to the baron.
Erwin Church
Plans Evenf
A “Home Coming" at the Erwin
Presbyterian Church will be held
Sunday, June 10th, at 11:00 o’
clock.
The Church celebrated its 50th
Anniversary last year, and it has
been felt by many members that
the opportunity of coming together
has been a meaningful experience.
Therefore, the ‘Home Coming” has
been made an annual affair, to be
held the Second Sunday In June
each year.
It Is hoped that all members and
former members, together with their
families, will join in the partici
pation of the moranig worship ser
vice at 11:00 o’clock and the pic
nic dinner, which will follow on
the Church grounds.
10-20 Years
For Webb
Safe Looters
Ten to 20 years was the heftiest
sentence meted out to four who
pled guilty to the robbery of a safe
containing $70,000 from W. T.
Wetb on Jonesboro road
Horace Garland Tate. 50, of Zeb
ulon and Delray Beach, Florida,
received this sentence in Johnston
County Court. John Edgar Shipper
Of Raleigh received eigb|r to 10
years, Dewey Hunter Moore, 31, of
Norfolk, eight to 16.
The fourth man tried. Bari Har
dison, is in jail without bond, and
sentence will be passed on him at
the nert session of court which
starts June 25 in Smithfleld
HERSHEY GETS PROMOTION
WASHINGTON ilh — President
Eisenhower Wednesday nominated
Maj. Oen. Lewis B. Herahey, di
rector of selective service, for the
permanent rank of lieutenant gen
eral.
School Aides
Are Named
By The County
Dunn’s two elementary
schools have official new na
mes.
They are Magnolia Avenue
School and Wayne Avenue
School (that’s the new
school). Names were chosen
Monday by the county board
of education at its monthly
meeting in Lillington.
In other business the board ire
ejected the county supervisors. Miss
Bessie MasseengiU and Beaman
Kelley for the white schools, and
Miss WiUa Mae Jeffries for the
Negro schools. Mrs. Ted Malone
of Goats was re-employed as visit
ing teacher or truant officer
Two speech correctionlsts, Mrs.
Palmer Davis of Dunn for the white
schools, and Mrs. Mildred Holloway
for the Negro sehoois were re-elect- j
cd, and also a special education <
teacher, Miss Bertha Westbrook of I
Coate.
Contracts for principals and tea
chers whose contracts have been
received by the county superinten
dent to date were approved.
Mis. Maggie N. Douglas, and her
husband who operate the Seminole
Boardjng Home, a detention home
for Negro children who are wards
of the Harnett Juvenile Court, ap
peared to request the use or the
abandoned Ridgeway School build
ir.g Mrs. Douglas said that the
school building, when converted to
a home, would afford much more
space than she now has, and also
would pmee the home five miles
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BOB DICKEY
Dickey Succeeds
Hooper As Prexy
Of Lions Club
Bob Dickey of Dickey Motor Co.
was recently elected to succeed to
the presidency of the Dunn Lions
Club. Glenn Hooper, Jr., Dunn at*
tomey, is the outgoing president.
Other new officers of the local
organization include James Yates,
first vice president, Charles Whit
ten ton, second vice-president and
Harriman Lynch, third vice-presi
dent.
Carl Parnell was elected secre
tary-treasurer; Charles Hutaff, as
sistant secretary-treasurer. Junius
Morgan, lion-tamer arid Nathan
Cannady tail-twister.
Named to the board of directors
were Ed Welborn, M. T. Thompson.
Louis Godwin and Glenn Hooper,
Jr.
+ Record Roundup +
ANNUAL PICNIC — The Hoe
and Grow Garden Club held Its
annual picnic. Tuesday night at
6:30, at the Dunn Park. Charles
Hildreth gave the invocation and
a delicious picnic basket lunch was
enjoyed by all.
CATTLE TALKS — Harnett
County cattle growers will meet in
LUlington today to discuss various
matters. A] Howard agricultural
agent for the Atlantic Coast line
Railroad will speak. Howard also
represents the North Carolina
Cattlemen's Association and discus
sion of that organisation win take
place.
FELLED BY LIMB — A tree
limb he was helping to cut down
shipped and seriously injured James
McNeill, negro employe of Dunn’s
street department on Tueatfty.
City Manager A. B. Usde. Jr., *aid
McNeill had hold of a rope tied
around the limb, the limb slipped
and he couldn't get out of die way.
Injuries include a fractured pel
vis, broken ankle and several bro
ken ribs.
TEEN-AGE CLUB — LUlington
teen-agers interested in reorgan
izing the Teen-age Club for the
summer are asked to meet Satur
day, June 9, 7:30 p. m. at Lilling
ton Community Center. Last year
around 05 reported for a similar
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BEEFCAKE BRAWL - MAE BOUNCED
Mae West's Muscle
Men In Battle
WASHINGTON UP) — Two muscle-men appearing with
Mae West in a local night club act got into a fist fight in
her dressing room yesterday. One ended up in the hospi
tal with a cut mouth, and the buxom Miss We^l was
knocked off her feet in the melee.
The fight broke out while Mias
West was conducting a news con
ference backstage at the Casino
Royal, where she and her “chon*
line" of male “beauties'' are ap
pearing.
The “come up and see me ' act
ress was explaining to newsmen
that the "Mr. Universe" of her
show, Mickey Hargltay. 26, will
soon be replaced in the cast. She
said the replacement will be "Mr.
Universe of 1956,” due to be pick
ed this weekend. She denied the
cast change had anything to do
with Hargltay’s interest in curva
ceous New York actress Jayne
Mansfield. I<p
At this point in the proceedings.
Hargltay entered the room and tg||£
to get in a few words of his own.
Each time he interrupted Miss West,
police said, be was told to shut up.
The advise was dispensed by Chuck
Krauser, 24, s member of the “chor
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{Charge Brings
Stiff Denial
From The GOP
WASHINGTON (01 — Hou
1 se Democrats today accus
j ed the Eisenhower adminis
tration of aiding private ut*
ilities in a fight to destroy
public power and remove all
opposition to “a complete
private power monopoly in
the United States.
The Democratic majority of the
Hou»e Government Operations
Committee made public a 250-page j
report calling for President Eisen
hower to fire Interior Undersecre
tary Assistant Secretary Fred O.
Aandahl
The report accused former In
terior Secretary Douglas McKay,
Davis and Aandahl of a “brazen
attempt” to subvert the law toy
favoring private utilities in the
sale of federal power.
Republican members of the 30
man committee l-sued an an$ry
dissent. t
They denotjhced what they
called the r/onocraits* “venomous
attack on private enterprise.” The
Democratic report, they said, was'
a “textbook for socialism.'’
MISUSE OF POWER
Tne Republicans 50-page dissent
said the Democrat* had displayed
a ■‘shocking misuse at congression
iaJp#rog»tives and functions foe
pfman purposes.'’
The reports are based on.lt
day* of stormy hearings held
across the country last year by
a subcommittee headed by Rep.
Earl Chudoff (D-Pa).
“The announced afkahototration
policy’ the Democratic report said,
“is identical with that of the com
panies.”
”rt is designed to destroy the
federal power program and elim
inate every vestige of opposition
to the establishment of a com
plete private power monopoly la
the United States.”
“In carrying it out. the acAM
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Arthur Godfrey
Loses Parker
NEW YORK iW — Frank Parker,
a member of Arthur Godfreys
-family” for six yean, declared
himself an ex-member today.
The 88-year-old tenor said hie
association with the Oodfrey gang
would end after June 30 when his
present contract runs out. Parker
said he plumed to devote much
of his time to production of a
proposed TV drama series and
outside singing engagements.
Parker said the break with God
frey was amicable.
“It is most gratifying to me not
iMlng Arthur's friendship, which
goes back long before I started
working for him.'* Parker said.
"This means a great deal to me
and it will be wonderful to be a
guest on Arthur’s Show.”
Parker was at a low point in
his career when Godfrey picked
him up. Before the war, Parker
had been wed known as a musical
comedy star and as a radio per
former on the Shows of Jack
Benny. Burns and Allen. Ben Ber
nie and Eddie Cantor.
Ike Says Have
A Little
Fun Every Day
WASHINGTON — President
Eisenhower offered this advice to*
day:
• Everybody ought to be happy
every day. If you don't have some
fun every day. that Is a day wasted.
“Play hard, have fun doing it
and despise wickedness.”
He gave the prescription for
happiness in an informal talk to
a group of visiting young Republi
cans'.
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Church Will Have
Newlyweds On Staff
The Gospel Tabernacle in
Dunn will soon have a pair
of newly-weds on its staff,
but they aren’t hitched yet.
Twenty-one year-old Earl Reotor,
a '56 graduate of Holmes Bible
College In Greenville, South Caro
lina, took over this week as the
Tabernacle's first full-time educ
ational director and church sec
retary.
Bari who Is tall, dark and wavy
haired plgns to be married in Aug
ust to Betty Jane Gravett, of Dan
ville, Va. The bride-to-be, also a
graduate of Holmes Bible College,
will become the choir director of
the church.
Rector is a native of Roderfleld.
a small, town on the edge of Welch
In West Virginia. His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Rector, still live
there.
At Holmes, he was president of
the senior class, worked on the
school annual and was pianist for
the college trio which traveled in
North and South Carolina.
The trio never came to Dunn,
though, and Rector’s first visit here
was two mohths ago when he came
for an interview. Rev. Bane T.
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Nobody Knows
If Grace
Is Pregnant
MONACO «* — Nobody know for
sure today whether Grace IWly
was pregnant. But the Her. Francis
Tucker, chaplain to her husband
Prince Rainier, said, "I sure hope
she is *
“I ha* had no definite waM
that she ls,“ Father Tucker added
'hastily in Parts, where he waa
on tain way bade to the United
States.
“But neither of them has madp
any secret that they want to bade
children," he said. “Nobody Is
taking a very big chance who
he says the princess is eapocttndf
He noted a Berlin newdMMM
report that Grace to eaqpecttog fto
heir in January, said he kafd
nothing definite but added "X aw*
hope die to." ,v„ Tj
Father Tucker mwk h*#.c««a
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AFFAIRS OF THE HEART AND AUTO
Divorces And Other
Cases To Be Tried
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Two divorces and a long list of other cases are sche
duled for trial at the civil session of Harnett Superior
Court which will convene Monday morning in Lfllingtan.
Judge William Rlckett of Ital
*lfh will preside over the sexton
** -'nirt, the last scheduled this
sprint!. v v
Most of the second week of the
term will be taken up with Mae trial
of appeals from the State Commis
sioner of Motor Vehicles. Use suits
were brought by persons completed
of motor vehicle violations whs are
seeking return of their driving li
censes.
The two divorce cases will be
heard at the opening of court Mon
day morning.
FoOowtnr Is a Dot «f the eases:
ditows wen
Roosc
veK Pope: Eugene Norris vs Doro
thy Eleanor Norris.
MOTION DOCKET
i C. H. Oozsrt vs Sam H. Boas et
al: H. C. Cameron Lumber Co.. Inc.
vs Herman Thomas.
trial docket
McLamb Supply Co. vs Board of
Education; Harold R Wilson vf
Donald A. Dyer; McCreary Tire M
Rubber Co. vs T. J. Corbin Concrete
Products CP.; In Be: Adoption of
Settle Jean Davis; Pauline H WiU
Hams vs Joaenh B- WUii4*w- -
TUESDAY. JUNE if