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* WEATHER* Tuesday considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thun derstorms mostly in the south and west portions and cooler In the northeast portion Wednesday pertly cloudy The D mty Kett-ro THE RECORD IS FIRST i . ‘V VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 19, 1956 FIVE CENTS PER COPY V ■ J jft mJB * ......• 7i NEW STORE AND MANAGER — Pietured here b the beautiful new Sherwin-Williams Paint Store, located in the new Quinn Shopp ing Center on West Cumberland. Shown at lower right la Lawrence Marshburne, popular young store manager. Large crowds are ex pected for the three-dar opening, beginning Thursday at I* a. m. This night photo shows how brilliantly the modern *bulldlnc la illum inated PAINT STORE PLANS BIG'EVENT Sherwin - Williams Opening Thursday Grand opening of the new Sherwin-Williams Paint Store at 1414 West Cumberland Street — in the new Quinn Shopping Center — will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, It was announced today by Branch Manager Lawrence Marshbume. t JhnAS JhinqA •t ROOTn ADAMS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS WALTON’S TV, ETC, ETC. Chkimu M Blade of the Re* tail Merchant* Committee has been pluwtin* hard for some nw Christmas street decorations to replace the ones which have been haneing In Dunn for about a quarter of a century ... It ap peared today that Ed’s effort* are about to bear fruit . . Mayor Ralnh E. Hanna said last night that he i» 100 per cent in favor of local merchants’ request for funds to redecorate the town this Christ mas . . . "In' fact.” said Ralph. “I think we’d be better off not to have any at all than to use the old one* again ... to which every body will -ay “Amen” ... It Is estimated *'wt about *1500 will be needed and Mayor Hanna *ays the money is available without tap ping tax sources ... Ed will head a delegation appearing before the council at its next meeting . . . . Robert Llovd has been having some fun teasing Walton Lee. one (Cnntlnwed O* H«M* Preparations lor tne d« evem have been underway for weeks and thousands of oeoole are expected to visit the ftret exclusive paint store in this area during the grand ooening. Mr. Marshbome said today that everythin* is in readiness for the grand ocasion. Mayor Pahih Haima, President Charlie Hildreth of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce, orettv Mi* BeeVr loe. now reismin* a* “Miss thinn” and various other civic, so cial. business snd rchdoms leaders of the c.itv will nertiehwite in the rtbbon-eu*t*ng ceremonies M*VT DtlT PWT7FS The (ribbon-cutting will take -xi.ce at 10 o'clock Tbtimdav iwm tn<r at. the store entrant* on West rsi—herlsnd. The r*>*h1le t» invited to Visit the /•wnmWetv modern store on both <savr cf the oneninc. from ’0 a. m. to o o. m. Thursday .and the fol lowing davs. Snecial features ar ranged for the occasion Include a free drawing of naint for 20 rooms, (and yuill give-aways) And to the flr*t 1ns ladles, orchids will be on-sen ted bv Mias Lee. “The jv'w branch brines to Dunn one of tie most uo-to-date and romWletelv-stodred netnt outlet* in the state." aid Marahburne. "We am •t.ocke' and staffed to meet the mint an color needs of home makers. nrofe-eio-ol nalnters. com mercial e«*abH“”vments and indus trial firms.” • _ COLOH S**V1CE CFTNT7R One attractive section of the branch is called a Color Service f Con tinned On Page Ftvel Baseballer Of Yore Named Best Father The No. 1 Dad of Danville, Virginia, is Lawrence G. (Lefty) Wilson, who teaches math and coaches baseball at George Washington High School there. He U, of course, the wane Lefty Wilson who graduated from Dunn High School in the pre-ao’s, who became a star performer and cap tain of the baseball team at the University of North Carolina, and who can number many local and state citizens—tike Governor Lu ther Hodges and Playwright Paul Green—among his Wends. Hi* brother. Duncan Wilson, la the hard-hitting local attorney who is an ex-Wake Forest athlete LEFT 8PEECHLESS Lefty Wilson was speechless, fo Just about the first time In hi life, when the Father-of-the-Yea award caught him unawares at i luncheon meeting of' Danville’s re tail merchants. Here’s how an ob servant reporter saw the event: “First he took a swipe at hi bald pate—the only Indication c 'Continued an Papa Fhe) LAWRENCE MARSHBVRNE Teenage Girl In Gun Duel With Police BALTIMORE, Md W—A 14 ye&r-old girl shot it out with a down policemen in a running gun battle here today and fell with a bullet wound in her right ankle. Startled pedestrians dodged in to doorways tar cover when the gun-battle started after Patrolman Thomas Matthews found the girl in Patterson Park with a shotgun. Matthews approached the girl but she began backing off with a warning: *Tve got two shots in her." A3 Matthews came eloaer, the girl fired twice at him from a distance of about 12 feet. Both shots missed. Then the battle was on. Several police cruisers drove up to join the gunfight. The girl fired at least one more shot as she fled down alleys and (Continued On Page Eight) Brief Session In Dunn Court Dunn Recorder's Court, which is usually in session throughout the morning on Monday® and Thurs days, took only 45 minutes yester day. A number of minor violators were fined. Among them. Eddie C. Porter of Erwin, improper equipment on his motor vehicle, fined with costs of court. Fred C. Hawley, Dunn. Rt. 5, speeding, costs. James Edmund Oox, TJ. S. Naval Hospital. Camp Lejeune, careless and reckles driving, cost* Junius Odell Finch, 1206 N. Fay etteville. Dunn, careless and reck less driving, 30 days In Jail sus pended on payment of $10 fine and ■ costs. i Joseph Arthur Oodiwln. 1213 W ■ Divine St.. Dunn, speeding, costs. i Claude Leaman Johnson. Rt. 2 - Dunn, driving drunk. 90 day* or - roads suspended on payment a! j 4100 fine and costs , Amy -'-McIntyre. 1011 E Broat f St., no operator's license, $25 fin< 1 and costs i f 11 Heavy Damage Is Done In I By TED CRAIL Record Staff Writer A baby tornado took a ledge - hopping, witch’s ride | through Coats last night, knocked a fertilizer ware - j house across the railroad tracks, smashed windows In the business district, col - : lapsed a porch, and part of a j house and splattered shing-; les, soot and dirt here and there before ending its visit. ; It all happened in a few mo ments around 9 p. m. Nobody exactly saw1 the tiny twister, but there were a number of people who heard and felt it. One of them, drycleaner Mayton Upchurch, said it sounded like an airplane's roar. Mrs. Donahue Stephenson, whose home was dam aged as the twlrter passed, said, "It sounded like everything was being tom up. We were scared.” Greatest damage was to the, fer tilizer warehouse belonging to Haywood Roberts which was locat ed direcUy along the path of the Durham and Southern railroad. The twister ripped the warehouse down, leaving nothing standing but the platform, and scattered remain* on the tracks. ALMOST CLEARED g. M Wilson, a section foreman; W*fli railroad*: W|ti ill— * irains j were held up by the debris since j Coats only gets about two train* a i day By 10 this morning, a large crew of workmen had the area almost cleared. Insurance Salesman Herbert Johnson, whose office directly faced several business houses (Continued On Page Seven) TRUMAN WOULD BLOCK ADLAI __ Symington Boom Picking Up Steam WASHINGTON (W — The Symington-for-president Boom is beginning to make enough noise to be heard dis tinctly throughout the Democratic party. Stuart Symington is the 55-year-, old junior senator from Missouri, bom in Massachusetts, reared mostly in Maryland and a resident of the state he represents in Con gress for fewer than the past dozen years. He's completing the fourth year of his first Senate term, a fact which makes more remarkable the prominent position Symington noias in 1956 Democratic presidential politics. The senator has been get ting some of what are known as the political breaks. Former Air Secretary His best piece of luckk so far was Truman administration ser vice as assistant secretary of war (Continued On Tag* Seven) CITY DELIVERY TO START IN ERWIN Ike Names Crawford For Postmaster Job President Eisenhower yesterday sent to the Senate nominations to fill the postmasterships of four North Carolina post-offices including the one at Erwin, nh.-w Mifthael Crawford, act ing postmaster at Erwin since Oct. g 1, has been nominated for the per- ^ manent position. If this was good ; news for the postmaster, he also |S had some good news for Erwin. *1 In a few weeks now—possibly a |1 month from July 5-regular city fl| delivery of mall will begin in Er win. TWo regular carriers and a substitute carrier will Join the present five-man staff of the post of ice. nils cant be done immediately ; because the post -office is waiting on delivery of some necessary equipment. Crawford has infor mation that it will arrive on July 5 He expects the deliveries to be- J gtb somewhat later. Upwards o# 15 applicants origi- j naUy tried for the post which the I President now recommends he /Centtwed Ob Pag* Eight) -r-T-Ti MIKE CRAWFORD WAREHOUSE BLOWN ACROSS TRACKS — A* the above picture was taken, a crew of workmen from the Durham and Southern railroad had just about cleared the tracks of a fertiliser warehouse blown down by the tornado. Id-year-old Donnie Stone of Coats, I left, stands on the main tracks of the DAS, which was cleared first. » At right is E. M. Wilson, section foreman for the railroad. Wilson a train was about due; would go right through. (Dally Record . Photo by Ted Cmil.) Wife Of Gable Is Reported III HOLLYWOOD iff! — Actor Clark Sable’s wife, the former Kay Spre ;kels, was reported • resting com Fortably” today In Cedars of Le ja non Hospital where she is under jbservation for a possible heart xmditlon. The hospital said Mrs. Gable, rho had appeared in films under ler maiden name of Kay Williams, mould remain under observation or another few days. LEFT ALUfVE in tenement i Two Babies Starve; Mother Tfi baloon NEW YORK <IP» — Police looked for possible “official blame” today for the starvation deaths of two babies left alone for 10 days when their mother was committed to Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward. i The wasted bodies of Josephine - Velez. 21 months, and Antonio, • months, were found by a welfare worker Monday in a nearly vacant Ea«t Side tenement. The children had been dead four or five'days. KICKED IN DOOR Their mother. Anastasia Velez, 33. had been arrested June 10 by police when she kicked in the door of a Second Avenue saloon. Mrs. Velez had been acting strangely for more than an hour in the salon. She did not drink, but sat in a telephone booth drop ping dimes into the coin box with out dialing a number. When ejected from the saloon, Mr*. Velez kicked in the door glass and cut her leg. She attacked police when they tried to treat her leg wound. She was taken to Belle vue for observation. At the police station she was listed without her first name and with the notation: "No known rel atives and address unknown." The top brass police investiga tion .was ordered Immediately fol lowing discovery of the bodies. Chief Inspector Thomas A. Niel son and Chief of Detectives James B. Leggett (were called Into the closed door session. SEEKING FACTS “We are looking into all the fact*." Leggett said. “If we find there was any laxity we will not hide it.” District Attorney Frank 8. Ho gan said the investigation was or dered to determine If anyone in authority in the police, hospital or welfare departments knew the children were unattended. Thomas J. Watson Dies At Age 85 NEW YORK W — Thomas J. Watson. 82. chairman of the board of the International Business Ma chines Corp. and of" the IBM ! world trade corporation, died to day in Roosevelt Hospital after a brief illness. I Watson, one of the nations ; leading industrialists, went to the ■ hospital Sunday afternoon from his ’ summer home at New Orleans. Conn., apparently sufering Men a minor digestive disorder. His (death was attributed to a heart attack., And Finally Boys Came, Triplets D ESSO UK. Egypt (IB — Ibrahim Uadi, a butcher with a longing or a son and heir, said he ha£ leveioped “some kind of phycho logical complex” about his krife •very time she prepared to give jirth to a child. For that reason, he told the public attorney last week when his wife's time was approaching, he should be locked up in the city }ail. 1 think I will kilC my wife If she delivers another baby girl,” be said. He was married nine years ago and had hoped for a son to learn the trade and eventually inherit < Continued on Page Eight) SIN ON FIFTH AVENUE Says Unfaithful Hubby Was Psychic NEW YORK — Pressing her suit for separation with new feavor, blonde Mrs. Betty Myers of 880 Fifth Avp. charged in Supreme Court yesterday that her wealthy industrialist husband committed adultery with two wo men and also used certain “psychic powers he claimed tp possess” in order to intimidate her. Bo*H those tactics, contended Mrs. Myers, were Indisputable forms of cruelty. The accusations went into the record after Justice Henry Epstein yesterday authorized Mrs. Myers to serve an amended complaint against John Myers of South Compo Road. Westport. Conn., vice presi dent and general manager of the American Flange and Manufact uring Co. 30 Rockefeller Plata A clubman, a founder otf the John Myers Tr-adattoa. which aids “young and promising artist*" and c 1 2 t t t .t i ■ aaonier ui psycnic pncnwunm, [yers married his sparring parti - Nevada on June 22. IMS. Several months ago the cou >*"> •parated. and In April, Suprv nh hurt Justice Arthur Markevich ranted Mrs. Myers $22S veekljr •mpprary alimony pending tr il f her suit for separation. ; A fortnight ago. Mr*. My# hanged attorneys and her n-f' iwyer. Charles Rothenberg. of 5 Broad St. requested permiasl ih > serve an amended complaint oon# lining added accusations agatruft he industrallst. Bpeteta told hht» > go ahead and do it. Ike s Doctors Standing Firm - - WASHINGTON — IPiPrwMen* Eisenhower's doctors “aid bluntly today they have “no intention’’ of , setting into an argument witll other physicians over the chance* of his having more intestinal trow ble. , %■> t In effect, they stood firmly by their original opinion that the President s June 9 emergency op eration adequately relieved an in testinal block and even added t* hi* life expectancy. Today* statement by physicians was aimed directly at a series ef comments by medical authorities that there is a good chance the President wrill suffer more attach* of the intestinal inflammation which prompted his sudden opera* tion. The statement, issued by WWte House press secretary Jame* C. Hagerty. said: _ EACH CASE DIFFERS "The President's doctors have no intention of engaging In con troversy with other doctors who have no personal knowledge of this case. Each case is a law onto Itself and cannot be answered^ hi terms of generalities. thoughtful physician realise* ttogt there are biological variations In all disease proceees.”
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