♦ WEATHER * Partly cloudy In the northeast. Considerable cloudiness el«e*ghere and cool today with occasional Ultht rain Thursday partly cloudy and warmer. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117 - 31 IS DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20. 1956 • FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 140 PATROLMAN TURNS PHOTOGRAPHER — To help oat with a massive study of automobile in juries involving new model cars. Patrolman Pauv Alberghlne (seen here) and other North Carolina highway safety officers are submitting extensive report* and many photographs of wrecks which they Investigate. Car above was a 19M Chevrolet —and very beautiful, too — until two nights ago when It went off the road. See below. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail) JhsAs JiHto f JhunqA •? HOOm ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Attorney L. L. Levinson o< Ben- ■ ton figures th* tit will probably rain Sunday . * . Sunday is the day pf the big Ben-on Singing Convention and the popular attor ney says It very often rains that i day ... He has been a ram-rod j in the singing convention for many years and does a good Job of it. too . . . Dorothy KilgaHen, famed New j York writer, said in her newspaper ,; column last night. "Bandleader Tony Pastor's son Ouy is getting j the close once-over from recording : Coo tin oeg on Page Stan Crash Information Goes To Cornell Patrolman Paul Alberghine, like other North Caro lina highway safety officers, is compiling special infor mation for Cornell University Medical College on accidents involving 1956 model cars. First to come his way since the study began was a wreck night be fore last in which a new 1056 Chev ro4et two-door sedan was aunost to tally demolished. The owner and driver of the car, Charles Franklin Butler, is a carpenter who lives on Dunn Route 3. Butler received a gash in the forehead when his car turned over on the highway near the Parrish Oarage four miles north of Coats. The wound was sewed up at Dunn Hospital and Butler was released. Butler’s car went off the road at 7:45 p. m. Monday night. Just as a wild storm was kicking up its beets around Coats, Alberghine. fighting his way to the scene said it took. him 45 minutes to go 12 miles. At one time the storm was so bad he "couldn't see to know where the road was” and had to stop. On arrival, he found the Butler Chevy had traveled 80 feet beyond the point of impact. Tire marks were still clearly visible after the storm had cleared off the neat day and showed the course of the car into the ditch. Alberghine conduct ed what examination he could, and was following up yesterday with a fuller examination. Complete data will be forwarded on the wreck to the Cornell Medi cal Center which is Correlating millions of pieces of data from (Continued On Pago Two) KEATON SAYS FIGURES REAL BACK THEN Sweaterspert OKs Marilyn, Says Others Just Too Big By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Reporter HOLLYWOOD W — When Bus ter Keaton reflect* upon the five most beautiful sweater girl* of all time in the movies, he thinks df bosomy beauties back in mother's day. And what about the busty queens of 1966? Either top-heavy or phony, he charges. The famed silent screen comed ian didnt even hesitate when I asked him about the champions of today? Jane, Oina, Sophia and the rest. "Too big*" -aid Keaton. "Marilyn Monroe ia all right, though,’* he added. To him the moat beautiful sweater girls “aren’t necessarily the biggest, but the most beauti ful.” On his list the undisputed champ of all time” Is the late Bar bara LaMarr. ALL-OVER BEAUTY “She had beautiful proportions plus a gorgeous face," he said. “Nowadays the girls concentrate too much on the bust, ft's the all over proportions that count.” The other Keaon champs in the measurement department are Bil lie Dove, Betty Blyth. OUie Thom and Jean Harlaar—all stars 35 and more years ago Buster explained he picked old timers because In those days the female figures were not only not top-heavy, but real. “The girls who had good figures iidnt wear bras or girdles,’’ he =old. “Today you never know whether a girt'a figure Is real or not." Keaton picked his list at the studio where he’s teaching Donald O'Connor his famous falls and stunts for a movie on the dead pan comic's life. | BUST RETIREMENT Buster is extra busy these days. He also appears often on televis ion. And with the fortune he col lected from Paramount for his story he’s setting up a one-acre “ianch" far out in the San Fer nando Valley. Every day Keaton show* O’Con nor his routines as they rehearse for the picture Between scenes the veteran made out his list of cheesecake beauties and .showed it to another expert on females in Hollywood history, Director C. B. DeMUle ' “DeMllle wanted to add Nita Naldi. but I said no. She was a big girl" mid Keaton. “If they want sire, ril my | Marie Dreader! She had such a Rec. Board Taking Budget Before Council A tentative budget for the city recreation department which runs to "eight or nine thousand dollars," according to the vice-chairman of the recreation board, will be pu!t before the city council Thursday night. This U a lower figure than was submitted last year. The tentative budget waa adopted at a tpeclal meeting of the recreation board which convened Monday night, with the vice-chairman. R A Duncan. Jr., presiding. City Manager A. B. Uarie. Jr., recently warned that recreation and other special activities sup ported by the town may receive no appropriation unle«* the town is successful in finding some new source of revenue. TtWEE-WAT SUPPORT In the past, recreation activities have been sustained jointly by city funds. United Fund allotments, and self-support .from swimming pool receipts. Mrs. -John Dalyrmple, a member of the recreation board, reported that attendance and participation records were gone over at the Monday meeting. The reports showed that a total of 6,760 par ticipated in all activities sponsored by the department. While this represents some du plication (the same child paiti cipettr* In several countable cate gories). It demoradratos that many Ideal children have been benefit ting from the diverse program of the recreation department. Vice-chairman Duncan stated that the reason the budget is at a somewhat lower figure tris year is becauw the department has drop ped the idea of a year-round, full time director. Following the resignation of Gene Driver last winter, the board did not hire a new fulltime direc tor until Dunn High's Coach Jim Brown was hired to supervise the various program in progress dur (Oaattawed an Pago Two! DOUBLE HONORS — Two Wilmington boys, Bob by Matthews (center) and Jimmy Cherry (right) composed the only team to win two first places in the annual 4-H Club District Elimination Con tests held in LJUington on Tuesday. And Harnett County 4-H Club leader Bertha Lois Ray, (left) eras the first to congratulate them. The New Hanover presented by contestant* front 17 Southeastern Counties. District winners will partctipate In the finals daring State 4-H Club Week in Raleirh. More than 35® clnb boys and girls and 5® Extension Ser vice Specialists attended. Suicide Banker Left Shortage KINSTON W — A thoAugh check of the books of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Co. was in progress here today in the wake of the suicide of a bank official who confessed a shortage. Joseph Edward Peterson, vice - president of the company and c^ief here shot himself to death Mon day night in his office at the bank Coroner Raymond Jarman ruled the death a suicide. Before shooting himself with a .38 caliber pistol, the highly re spected banker wrote two notes, one to his wife and the other jo hank President R P. Holding of Smithfleld. Contents of the notes were not disclosed but Holding said Peter son "admitted a shortage and as sumed full responsibility for the same, saying It was incurred with out the knowledge of his associ ates.” (Continued On Page Two) ! + Record Roundup + DRIVING TROPHIES — Faye C. | Avery of Coats and William J. Creech