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DUNN. N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8. 1956
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PROJECT NCMBER ONE — *>n neighborly walk
around loom. Angler’* youthful Chamber of Com
merce monagrr (he is fresh out of college) runs
into Jacks Barnes (right) rice*president of the
'Chamber, and stop* to chat afcout a project. Pro
ject Number One I* to bring industry Into town.
Henry Benton Thorpe. Jr., the manager, think* a
chemical work* might be a good bet.
HIRES STATE'S YOUNGEST C of C MANAGER
Can Angier Be Jet-Propelled?
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LITTLE NOTES ABOITT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Mr, and W« *TVwn Rooem f she's j
• H*. fn«me>- Hardest Ptesmrtl are
fmrtew’onnnlne for two weeks a*
rvvrtwl Fiver. BV>Wd* . . . Mr*
p»»r'« «m, err*'t
»a*«d this w~Oc from Rmneton
jSWlteev A"»dw and B-'bNe
Drake. m*wa*t.. •mother «o«. cead
ueted from TViVe , . . B'+Wf will
rvow study tow at the Tlniversitv o»
Miami . . . The newb-wed* wiH
rrnie to Dunn to vi«tt her sister.
Mm, phoeb* Leona Johnson. aft»r
their hnnevmoon . . . Ho-wnd M.
f ee sav* that he reeds th% Bible
*11 the w«v thmueh—e«verv word of
It—*t least twice s year . . . It-*
amarine i«*t what hwwt snv
ji«rr. about the President of the
United State* has on the world .
l»e ha* ftn unset stomach. Wall
Street trembles, foreien newsoan
ew brine out their bhr headlines,
apd the wire services fro crmrv
flterallv thousands of word, roQed
off the wire tod»v about I>e* “to
i&mh ftdhe . . Back in the da vs
when the late President Rons«yeM
was srravetr 1H—several times rteht
at the noint of death, the pihllr
never knew it because the Whit*
House made no announcement .
'Continued on Pace Pt*e>
(See Photos, Page 8)
An ex-football player who
was the villain in a kines
cope drama at the Universi
ty of North Carolina a scant
time ago has been suddenly
thrust into the hero’s role
at Angler.
The small but hopeful city of
1700. which wants to come alive
with new industry and pep. has
hired Henry Benton Thorpe. Jr., a
22-year-oid 19M graduate of Cha
pel Hill, to power them — if pos
sible — Into a new prominence.
The same city fathers who re
cently founded a Chamber of Com
merce branch In Angler believe
that Thorpe, if he can get the
community working unitedly be
hind him, can shake some of the
doldrums off what has plagued
this and other cities.
An intelligent and dynamic but
calm-mannered young man who
thinks of himself as a conaerva
: tive (but has a special definition of
conservation), Thorpe is believed to
be the youngest Chamber of Com
merce manager in North Carolina.
His specialty is "public relations.”
though he majored at Chapel Hill
in mdio movie and television pro
duction. Through his major he came
to play the villain in a turgid TV
crime-opera by a fellow classmate.
The major allowed leeway for var
l ious excursions.
At 93. he Is one of the small
handful of officially registered
public relations men in the state.
One of those who put Thorpe
in his present place said, "We re
alised when we started that we ei
ther had to hire a man in the twi
light yeras or somebody young but
resourceful. We took the latter
course, and I believe well be glad
. (Continued on Page Bight)
The Princess
Gets Around
LONDON <W —r Princess Mar
garet went to the theater Wednes
day night with Billy Wallace, less
than 24 hours after dancing till
nearly dawn with another highly
eligible bachelor.
Margaret and Wallace.' stepson
of. American writer Herbert Agar,
went with four friends to a char
ity performance of T. S. Eliot’s
"The Family Reunion” at the
Phoenix Theater.
Night before last the pretty prin
cess danced until 3 a. m. at the
American Embassy with Dominic
Elliot, handsome son of the Earl
of Mlnto
But Wednesday night she was
back with the man who has been
•tipped as a possible husband for
her for i^re than five years.
Movie Connie
Reveal Wedding
HOLLYWOOD W — Actor Rob
ert Dix. son of the late western
film star Richard Dix, and actress
Janet Lake today admitted they
were married secretly In La*
Vecas, Nev- last Thursday.
The MOM starlet previously had
anouneed she Would marry Dix
June 28 In religious rites of the
Baha’s faith, a Persian cult to
which both belong
"We didn't want to say any
thing about the Las Vega* cere
mony." Dix said, “because we
wanted to break the news to
Janet’s parents when they come
here.
LOSES FIGHT BUT HAS JANE'S LOVE
Mr. Universe, With Black
Eye, Goes Back To Jayne
for picture of Mbi Went »nd
jber mwscle men. gee (»f», Ire
NEW YORK (W — Mr. Un
iverse. a fallen gladiator, ca
me home with a black eve
today too actress Jayne
Mansfield.
He ms tiie loser to Mr. Csli
tem la in a Wednesday night fight
to Mae Went* night club dressing
room in Washington but winner of
the bosomy Miss Mansfields af
fections.
uin Mansfield was told one
Story and the district attorney in
Washington another of ■ the short
but violent flurry of haymakers
which also knocked Mb* West ott
Her fMt,
Mr. Universe, non-professionally
"own as Mickey HwrgtUy, 36. andi
) ^JATNE MANMTEL®
weighing 230 pounds, didn't throw
a punch. But he, displayed a black
eye and cut Up with three »ti tehee
from the “unexpected attack."
Mr. California, otherwise known
a* Chuck Krauser, 31. weighing
220 pounds, was released from
Washington's municipal court on
Miss West’s arm but lighted *300
in bond for a fury trial June 24.
RESENTED DEMOTION
Mis* Mansfield, who said she la
considering marriage to Mr. Uni
verse. said the had the correct
version “straight from Mickey."
She said there had been a new*
conference in Mia* West's dressing
room at the Caainp . Boyal. where
the M-year-dd actress is current
ly , appearing with her company
of seven iwuede men
(Onttnsi Oa rage Tww)
THRONG EXPECTED TO HEAR PASTOR TUESDAY
Famed Maestro To Play Here
Appearance of Tony Pastor
and his famous orchestra in
Dunn next Tuesday night is
attracting interest through
out a wide section of Eastern
Carolina and a huge crowd
is expected here for the ev
ent.
The celebrated orchestra will play
for a public dance in the Dunn Ar
mory Tuesday night from # p. m.
until l a. m.
It Is the first big-name orchestra
to appear In Dunn In several years
and the first time that a big-name
such aa Pastor has appeared here
at the peak of his popularity.
Scores of local citizens are hav
ing out-of-town guests here for the
dance and dozens of parties —
pre-dance parties, Intermission par
'tie* and breakfast parties — are
being planned in connection with
the gala occasion.
Pastor has played at pracucauy
all the big -*pots in the country.
Earlier this season, he played a
ten-weeks engagement at the
swanky New Frontier Hotel in Los
Vegas. Nevada and broke ay at
tendance records at the hotel's big
ball room.
He has played at such big spots
a* the Hotel Statler and the Para-,
mount Theatre In New York, the
Palladium in Hollywood; the Hotel
Sherman in Chicago; Catalina Is
land b California.
At present, he is concluding gj
two-weeks engagement at the Ho
tel Peabody in Memphis. Term.
From Dunn, he will go to Suffolk,
va. for a one-niefet stand and
then will ooert at the Steel Pier in
Atlantic City.
His engagement in Dunn will be
his la*t a trocars nee in North Car
olina this vear. His band is booked
solidlv threnwh next March.
Advance ticket* for the big dance
are now on sale at Unchurch* in
Dunn. For those who do not dance
hut want to enioy the music and
the many novelty and entertain
ment numbers of the orchestra, a
section has been reserved in the
big armorv for spectators at a re
duced rate.
ms iwsi
Pastor, famed vocalist and in
strumentalist is currentlv headine
what trade observers have called
the finest band in his tong and
lighlv successful career. .
Pastor has long been a familiar
item on the music scene. The ver
satile New Englander who was
bom in Middletown. Conn., came
nto prominence as a featured
member of the great Artie Shawi
Orchestra. Tony first started sing- |
ing When he was with the Vincent
tones band but it remained for
Artie Shaw to provide his reallv
big chance to Jump into the ^xrt-i
light
WORLD-WIDE FOLLOWING I
Tony regards that as his biggest
single break. Tt gave him a chance
to organise his own orchestra and I
after the unial trials and tribute-1
tlons, he w»* a too name maestro
with a tremendous world-wide foi- I
lowing. Darina his tong career as a 1
bandleader. V-wr has been nod\
contract to P’xehlrd PCA Victor.
Cosmo, Columbia, Label "X" and
Decca Records.
Along with the fame and for
i Continued on Page Eight)
TOKY PASTOR__
Liquor, T r attic
Cases In Harnett
Harnett recorder's court convict
ed two men, Billy Howard Ully
and James M. Page, for driving
drunk, while a third man, Daniel
Duncan Everett, was declared not
entity of the game charge. Both
Lilly and Page were fined >100 and
cost*. Page payed his fine in lieu
of a 60-day road sentence.
Riding with Ully at the time of
his arrest was Windell Edward
Lilly, who was charged with pub
licly drunk. Upon conviction, the
second Ully was fined the cost* of
court.
Lilly's case was the first of
eight of public drunkenness tried
by the court. The unusually high
number of drunkenneg cases could
"NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
Ike In Hospital;
Stomach Is Upset
WASHINGTON (IP) — President Eisenhower suffered
an intestnial ailment today and was taken to a hospital
by ambulance. His aides said there was “no cause for
alarm.”
The chief executive was stricken
at 2 a, m. wit* what was first
diagnosed as an upaet stomach,
late in the morning physicians de
termined that it was actually an
inflammation of the lower intes
tine.
He waa taken to Walter Heed
Hospital in an army ambulance at1
1:30 p. m., with Mrs. Eisenhower
preceding him in • limousine.
The smbulaftce had arrived at
the White Houee at 12 :M p. m. and
stood waiting as Secret Service
men and a white-coated attendant
paced the aidewafe. White House
gardener* continued to mow the
CeaNm* aa Va«e Hz)
not match the total of speeding J
cases, however. Convictions were
returned against 22 speedsters dur
ing the newtons.
Other cases tried in recorder's
court include:
Clyde Rudolph Partin, speeding
10 mph, judgment continued on
payment of HO fine and costs, (
lContinued On Page Eight)
Shoots One
As He Begs
For His Life
CHICAGO (W — An ex
convict, blasting away with
a double-barreled shotgun,
shot and killed three persons
in a jazzy night spot early
today. Two of his victims:
were cowering on the floor |
begging for mercy.
The third victim an unidentified
newsboy, tried to stop the killer
from escaping. He wa* gunned
dawn on the sidewalk.
Detective Paul Doleman said the
killer was identified by witnesses
as ex-convict Lawrence Neumann.
as
He walked into the Miracle Bar.
northside nightspot which features
• -Dixieland” style jazz band,
shortly alter 2 o’clock with the
shotgun in his hand*.
“Fm going to kill everyone in
the place,” witnesses quoted him
as *aving.
j Max Epstein- 54. co-cwner of the
cocktail lounge, dropped to the
floor behind the bar.
IGNORES PLEAS
He was begging for mercy. Hie
gunman calmly stepped onto the
bar rail and, leaning over, killed
i Epstein with two blasts in the
back
Lot* M. Gates, 2S who operated
the bar'* “28 game,” also fell to
. the flopr. screaming her plea for
* life. She died with a Shotgun blast
In the neck.
A “38 game" is a dice game j
popular In many Chicago bars. Pa-,
trons roll dice, trying to make 26 j
of a certain number in a given J
number of throws. An attractive t
girl keeps score and pay* off with
coupons good for free drinks.
The gunman then whirled on the
eight patrons in the bar and bar
tender Raymond Steinhoff. Many
of them were also on the floor.
I He seemed about to open fire
again. Steinhoff said, but then
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1
JIMMY’S NEXT?-G‘^
Irene Owens, secretary
Washington offlce of R*P
James Roosevelt (D - CalU),
where she is shown afrovd. «n»y
soon become the
next wife Roosevelt confirmed
that he would marry Mr*
Owens when his dlvorce tram
Romelle Roosevelt *> * <=° “e“
final next month, k"***"? T?
nled that he had confirmed tha
marriage. Mrs. Pw|“
to comment.
Caudle Denies
Charge Of Fix
BT. LOUIS <W — T. Lamar Cau
dle denied today he did anything
at 1951 to prevent a federal grand
jury from indicting a tax eyader
whose case he and Matthew J.
Connelly are accused of trying to
fix.
Caudle, former head of the Jus
tice . Department's tax division,
said he sent Ellis Slack, a tax at
torney, to St. Louia to help tha
grand Jury that indicted Irving
Sachs in 1951
He admitted Stack had no ex
perience with grand juries at the
time hut said he had no one else
to send from Washington.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Ike Has Big Night
At Photogs Event
By MERRIMAN SMITH
WASHINGTON (W — President Eisenhower last night
looked to me like a man who was feeling well and tho
roughly enjoying himself.
I have watched him at a num
ber of similar affair* and never
seen him laugh more heartily than
he did at the Jokes of Bob Hope.
He talked animatedly with the
men neat to him at the head table
— Anthony Muto of Movietone
New# and Henry Burroughs of the
Associated# Mess, the outgoing and
incoming president# of the White
House Photographer# Association.
When the spotlights were on tha
President he seemed a trifle pale.
But he appeared to be in bubbling
good spirits.
He got a particular kick out of
Bob Hope who told a side-splitting
variety of political and golf gaga.
IN GOOD HUMOR
He laughed uproariously when
Hope opened the show by saying:
I On tinned On Pag* Eight)
PARENTS FEAR FOUL PLAY
Erwin Girl, 18, Disappears
‘Most of the time she went ;
by herself when she went an
ywhere,” said Mrs. Robert
Wilson last evening of her
18-year-old sister Patsy Ruth
Baker, who disappeared late
Saturday night.
The miming girt, a very tall (five ,
foot-nine-inch)
ly bobbed hair, is tne daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Tom Baker of South
ITth Street in Bnrtn. She works in
a spooling room at Erwin Mills.
Dunn police, the Harnett sher
iff’* office, and Agent William
O Daniel of the State Bureau of
Investigation are attempting to lo
cate her. She was last seen at
dray's, a nightclub on the Dunn-,
Erwin highway, around 12 p. m. |
A man identified by the family
a« Winded Moot*, who Hw» near
Benson, told the miming fW*
brotrer-in-law, Robert S. WBnon,
that the miming girl left GW* In
i 1953 Buick Riviera witfti a Fort
Bragg sergeant named "Johnny.”
Moore *aia w
30-day leave, but did not know
his last name or where he lived.
HBI Agent ODaniell said an ef
fort to find the sergeant and W»ee
tlon him about Patsy Ruth will be
made. t
The family believe she may have
met with foul play. Her mother,
Mrs. T. B. Baker, said she tats nev
er been absent from home before
without letting the family know.
•The family waited until Mondi'%
when Patsy had been moving m u
than a day, to caB in police,
Mrs. Wilson, the striking older
sister whose hair is cut in tie
same kind of boyieh boh as t ie
missing girl’s, said last evening
-There waa never a time wfc?n
some man got fresh with Fatty
that She didn't tell her mother the
next morning. We pad know She
woiddnt have^rcm off."
«| the Baker home to Breda tost
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