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4 * WEATHER * Partly cioudy with widely scatter ed afternoon and evening thunder storms Monday and Tuesday, most ly In the north and east portions. High temperature Monday 86 to 04. Eins pay Kerk THE RECORD IS FIRST . VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY N<X1S$ ... —.—.. ..... HAPPY DAYS AHEAD — Junior Ml Club boys and girl* of Harnett County boarded a bus Mon day morning for Camp Swannanoa near Ashe ville. Then were JS campers In the group which will spend sis busy days at the Mg mountain camp. Assistant Farm Agent T. D. O'Quinn and Miss Sarah Flcquctlc, new assistant home agent, accompanied the group. They'll return Saturday. In the group are: Carolyn Shaw. Patsy Prime, Ginger Guy. Gail Strickland Peggy Marie Messer. Judy Poe. Susan Carole Johnson. Kuby Jean Gilbert, Jean Matthews, Judy Lee Cannady, Elowe Johnson, Jran Mabry, JrrIran Barbour, Cheryl Lee Byrd, Barbara Langdon, Sanda Nell Shaw Mary Jane Dean, Lois Faye Stephenson, Brenda Whittaker, Nancy Lee Christian, Glenda Wade Marks, Basel Louise Byrd. Mayo Cameron, Rex O’Briant, Albert Jenks. Colon Hobby, Emory lip church, James York Rogers. W. B. Tudor “Jr.. Vern on Charles Ballard, Tommy Stephenson, Edward Turlington. Benjamin Stewart. Sherril McLamb. Larry Hoff, Daywood Kent Langdon, Ernest M. Walker, Joe Gregory, Larry Coleman. Woman Badly Wounded; Lovers Duel To Death XTAnurt/^TT _ JhltM 3fungi B* Room ADAMS ELVIS. THE PELVIS; OTHER LITTLE NOTES I Our good friend James Tate*, lo I cal theatre manager, told us a good story the other day about Elvis (The Pelvis* Presley. Elvis, as you know, to Just about the hottest thing hi show business today. He's sort of a male Marilyn § Monroe, the difference being that her natural assets are In front; his are behind. !! Marilyn slinks when “She walks; he gyrates as he plays the guitar. Both bring on a kind of mass-mad ness with their audiences. The women go as wild about El vis as the men do over Marilyn His act resembles a male strip tease, except that he doesn't dis robe. But when'the Elvis pelvis ro m tates, it gives the gals that old feeling — the same sort of feeling, we suppose, that a guy get* when he sees an exotic stripper like pony <ConUnand On Pegs Eight' VWUMt. - A 30-year-old woman was in serious condition in a hospi tal today with a bullet wound and shock suffered when her estranged husband and her boy friend died in a blazing gun duel. Officials planned an autopsy to day to determine whether the wo man's husband Ralph Schnabter. 30, died from wounds received In the duel early Sunday with Robert E. Miller, 42, or killed himself af ter Miller died, Mrs. 8chnatter told police her husband shot her in the back when she ran toward Miller’s body, but officers -aid they also heard that she was hit by a rldieting bullet. Hie couple had been argu ing over Schnatter’s rights to visit their children. Police said Miller, a leader in civic organization, and Mrs, ScSh natter planned to marry after ob taining divorces. Officers -aid that two hours before the shooting, had complained to police that Seh natter was causing a disturbance in the building where he and his Wife occupied separate apartments. The duel apparently began after Schnabter accosted Miller in front of the building and called him a "slob.” Police said Schnatter fired a shotgun and a revolver at Mil ler who blazed back with five (Continued On Page Two) I Betts Joins Firm As Credit Manager — ' Eston F. Betts, active in local business circles for sev eral years, has been named credit manager of the Sher win - Williams new Dunn branch, located at 1414 west Cumberland St. under resorts The appointment was announced recently by J. L. Rutledge otf Phil adelphia, Pa.. South Atlantic re gional director for the World's largest paint company. Betts received his high achool education at Buie's Cleek High School and attended Campbell Col lege When he moved to Dunn to 1962, he was associated with the Dunn Coca-Cola Bottling Co., where he was bookkeeper for sev eral years. He toft Dunn Coca-1 (Continued On Page Two) FBI Seeks Man Who Revealed H-Bomb Miss HONOLULU OPt — The FBI is seeking the service man or servicemen who dis closed that the recently air dropped hydrogen bomb mis sed its target, the Honolulu Advertiser said today. The informant also said two servicemen were blinded by the blast. The newspaper said authorities consider it “imperative to find the leak on EnfWetok and plug it. no matter whet service he belongs to. Intelligence authorities are “far more concerned with the fact that he talked at all than with the mix ture of fact and scuttlebutt he dis pensed,’’ the Advertiser said. j_ The FBI’S only comment on the story was "We are Interested in any possible security violations in volving the Atonfiic Energy Act, *hich we are obiiagetd to en • force.” The FBI knows that whoever was responsible for the leak stayed at a small Waikiki hotel on a furlough, the newspaper said, but is interested in learning whether the informant was drunk when he told a nightclub reporter that the H-bomb dropped over Bi kini May 21 exploded seven miles away from the target and blinded (Centinned On Page Eight) Record Roundup ERWTN MILLS TOUR — Parti cipants in the regular weekly invi tational tour through the Erwin, N C.. plant* of Erwin Mills. Inc. on Thursday, June 21 will include the following Enwin-Dunn area people: Alsey Johnson, A. B Johnson Howard Johnson and M. M. Jer nigan. The tour will be conducted by W. H. Miley, Jr., manager od the Erwin plants. BIBLE SCHOOL — Bible school begins today at Davis Chapel Ames Church, from 9:30 to 12:00 each day this week. thief Also has Conference With Mr- Dulles WASHINGTON (W — Pre sident Eisenhower conferred privately with vice Presf - dent Richard M. Nixon for 15 minutes today at Walter Reed Hospital. Nixon told reporters that “the question of the President’s future po litical actions was not dis cussed.'’ , * Mr. Eisenhower also held a »ep arate private meeting with Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles and a brief joint meeting with Nixon and Dulles. It was hi* first | talk with Nixon since the Presi I dent's emergency operation June ; 9 to relieve an intestinal block.... 1 Later in the morning, doctors removed the superficial skin stitches from the President’s sur gical incision. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said the ‘ deep, through and through wire sutures" of the operative wound were left to place. A mid-day medical bulletin said Mr. Eisenhower was continuing to i "progress very Satisfactorily.'’ He enjoyed a lunch of beef broth, broiled beef patty, baked potato, pureed carrots, skimmed milk and a gelatin dessert. After lunch, he conferred for 15 I minutes with his leglslaUve aide, i Maj/Cten Wilton B. Persons. Ha gerty said the President express^ his deep and continued Vital in terest” to having congress restore a "major portion” of the House cut in the foreign aid program, and his "very great interest in getting movement on the school bill.” Reporters beseiged Nixon on his departure from the presidential suite with questions about Mr. El senhower’s political intentions. After denying "categorically” that the question was discussed this morning, Nixon said that the question of whether the President will reconsider his decision to run for re-election is one that “the President alone” can answer. IKE KNOWS BEST He said Mr. Eisenhower will make the decision and select his own -time and place” for an nouncing it. He said It would not be "proper” for him, Nixon, to speculate on when or what the de cision will be. Nixon said the President him - self knows best thw requirements of leadership, both in national and international fields, and knows the burdens of the office and his own physical capacity. Nixon said he is sure the Presi dent will ’weigh” all the factors involved and make the “proper decision.” TAKE OVER MAN — In his long career as a store manager, Locke Muse has learned to do a little of everything. Saturday, when Midget Chef Oscar Mayer was laid op In the hospital and couldn't accompany the Wiener mo bile to Dunn, Muse took anyway. Above, with Chefa * the photographer (Dally | GIVES BIRTH TO DAUGHTER— Janet Leigh, wife of actor Ton] C urtis, was reported “doing fine' today after the birth of a daughtei | at St. John's Hospital in nearb] ; Santa Monica. The baby, bor* Sunday afternoon, weighed sii pounds and was the couple’s first child. Curtis was jolr%d in tin waiting room by Rosemary Cloo j ney and Jose Ferrer. Orphan Youth Fatally Hurt Martinus Faircloth. ll-year-ol< sixth-grade student and resident a the Falcon Orphanage at Falcon was dead on arrival at the Dunr Hospital Friday night at 9:21 O'clock. the result of injuries re ceived father in an accident* a< the orphanage, farm. Charles E. Bradshaw, superin tendent of the orphanage, said thi hoy was fatally injured when h« I fell off the fender of a truck haul ! in* hay at the farm. POPULAR STUDENT The official said Martinus was one of the smartest students and among the most popular children adkthe orphanage. He was a mem ber of the orphanage choir and had made several concert tours with the choir. His mother, a mental patient, was deserted by his father at Fay etteville. the family’s previous ad dress. Two brothers are also at the orphanage. The accident occurred, Supt. Bradshaw said, when the boy play fully hopped up on the fender of the ’truck for a ride. He was not engaged in helping with the haul ing. Driver of the truck was Luther Johnson, friend and neighbor of the orphanage, who was relping out with the farm work. Johnson Raid the truck was going only about five miles an hour at the time, but the boy’s body fell be neath the vehicle and one of the wheels crushed his head. He died of a fractured skull. The child died enroute to th« Dunn Hospital. i Continued On, Page Twe) Pope Named Acting Postal Head Thad Pope. Sr., local busi nessman and secretary-trea surer of the Republican exe cutive committee in Harnett for more than a dozen years until his withdrawal a few weeks ago, has received word of his appointment to the post of acting postmaster, A letter came on Saturday from Postmaster-General Arthur Sum merfield. That makes Pope the favorite for endorsement as the permanent postmaster, but the presidential election is likely to intervene before the permanent appointment is made. Pope will become acting post master, he believes,on June 30— the date set far the retirement of the present head, Ralph Wade Starting salary is $5280 annually. It will be Pope's first stint in public office since the Hoover landslide in 1928 when he went In to the elective office of register of deeds for Harnett County and served for two years. The acting postmaster’s Job Is full-/time, said Pope today, and he /plans to devote himself to It. How ever, Pope* Department Store will continue in business. "In the event I get a permanent appointment,” Pope said. "I would of course re move 'myself from my business.” [ A permanent appointment must be confirmed by both the president , and the Senate, and Is usually made on the basis of recommends - i tiong_from the Civil Service as well as the postal service. Pope’s name master General Stunrn/erHeld thttmeh the county and state Re ppBican organization. Active in busines* here since 1938, Pope has been a stalwart in the Methodist Church, where he is on the board of trustees, as well as in the Republican party. He is a Soottish Rite '32nd Degree) Ma son and plays the cymbals in the Oriental Band of the local Shrine Temple. In 1962, he was a candidate for the North Carolina house of rep resentatives, but lost the election to Carson Gregory. The Popes have a daughter— Mrs. Gordon Clapp of Bangor, Maine—and a son. Thad. Jr„ who is in his third year of medicine at the University of North Carolina. GETTING BETTER LONDON I® — American - bom poet T. S. EUot is “getting better” following his recent miid heart at tack aboard the Queen Mary, his doctors said today. Statue Didn’t Cooperate TOKYO, Japan (W — 21-year-old laborer blew himseif to bits with dynamite Saturday beside the sta tue of a nude woman in what police said today was a “death pact” with the statue. The statue was not damaged. WASHINGTON W — Sen., Estes Kefauver has taken steps to “kiss and make up? with Adlai E. Stevenson. Ste venson promptly replied that he was “much pleased." Kefauver insisted that his move had no political implications. He said he still is fighting "to win” the Democratic presidential nomi nation over Stevenson and other hopefuls and that his “present” position is that he would not ac cept the Vice presidential nomina tion. But Kefauver made the- first move Sunday in apologizing for his personal attacks on Stevenson during their recent presidential primary battles. He said on a na tional television program that "I got mad and lost my head” and ‘got somewhat out of character” in criticizing Stevenson. WOULD JOIN C AMP He said that if Stevenso win the Democratic no again, he would campaign Stevenson, in a telegran fauvef from his Liberty home, praised the senat helping •‘immeasurably h unity to our party and sti our common cause.’* He was ’‘much pleased” by er’s statement. Although Kefauver. reft count himself out of the tial race, many Democrs his chances suffered a no blow with his Florida tad nia defeats. There has b< ulation that he might a< number two spot on a pn ticket headed by either £ or New York Oov. Avere (Continued On Page COMIC PAIR SPLITS AGAIN Martin And Lewis Calling It Quits HOLLYWOOD <IP> — Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, one of the most famous teams in show business, confirmed today they are breaking up after a farewell nightoflb A The final "divorce’’ or me team came to light when Martin played golf instead of attending a party Sunday to celebrate completion of their last movie together, ironical ly titled "Partners.** Lewis said the pair had huddled tim Paramount executives Friday and agreed to go their separate ways. Martin previously had notified Lewis he did not want to co-star with the comic in a picture Lewis planned to direct, “Damon and Pythias.” The rubber-faced Lewis then asked Paramount President Barney Balabsn for permission to seek another co-star, and Friday Balafban sent his permission. “The boys also have told their agents to a* WBC for permission to star smsrattfy m their own (Continued On Fags Two) l
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