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and tonight with hazardous driving
conditions developing. Wednesday,
mostly cloudy and cold.
THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 7
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 15, 1957
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‘NO- 2*
INGRID IN CANDID POSES — Ingrid Bergman,
celebrated and controversial actress who will re
turn to the United States just long enought to
accept an award this weekend, is shown here in
a melancholy mood at the height of her personal
problems. At the right she is with her daughter,
Robertina.
"I'm No Saint — Just A Human"
Senator Who Condemned
Ingrid Has Softened Up
Council Will
Have Varied
Agenda Items
J. A. Jackson has had the street
layout approved for a projected
190-unit development by the city
Planning Board. However, it will
still have to face the inspection
of the City Council at its meeting
on Thursday night.
City Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr.,
said that Jackson has laid out
25-foot units. The development will
be on an extension of South Elm
and is half a mile from the city.
The town board has jurisdiction
over street layouts within a mile
of Dunn’s city limits.
Other matters to be taken up
at the Council rheeting Thursday
include the tax collector’s report,
a request for a change in zoning
at Layton and Cumberland across
from the Baptist Parsonage, and
consideration of the policemen's
position in relation to social se
curity."
The council will also have be
fore it a recommendation of the
Planning Board that the city try
to incorporation suggestions made
by Babcock and Associates in the
traffic engineering report recently
given the city.
This report specifies many steps
to be taken that would improve
driving conditions and parking
both’ immediately and for the
future.
IN HOSPITAL
Mr. J. O. West is a patient in
Veterans Hospital in Chapel Hill.
By JACK V. FOX
United Press Staff Correspondent
Second in a series of three
NEW YORK (IP) — Sev&n years ago Edwin C. Johnson
of Colorado took the floor of the United States Senate
to demahd that Ingrid Bergman never be permitted to
set foot On American soil again.
Johnson said he had been en
joying movies for more than 40
years and that Miss Bergman had
become his own favorite actress
of all time—until she ran off with
Roberto Rossellini.
Johnson excoriated Miss Berg -
man then as “our most popular
but pregnant movie queen” and
said her “unconventional free-love
conduct must be regarded for what
it is—an assault upon the institu
tion of marriage.”
This week the fanner senator
was asked how he felt now..
“I still think the 6peeoh was a
pretty good stand,” he said, “but
perhaps I’ve softened with age. I
guess I’m glad she’s coming back.
Time changes everything.”
Brief Return
Whether time has changed oth
er bitter critics of Miss Bergman
may be seen this weekend when
the actress comes to New York
for 34 hours to accept the award
of the film critics for her per
formance in "Anastasia."
She was at the top of the movie
pinnacle when she left in March
1949. She had won the Academy
Award for her performance in
“Gaslight.” Her leading men, one
after another, had been such stars
as Humphrey Bogart, Bing Cros
by, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Ga
ry Cooper, Charles Boyer, Spencer
Tracy.
But she became the object of
a great hue and cry in Amerioa
when it became known she 'had
left her husband. Dr. Peter Lind
strom, and 10-year-old daughter,
Pia, for Italian director Rossellini.
The criticism reached its peak
in February, 1950, when Miss
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Textile Leader
Warns About
Japanese Threat
CHATTANOOGA, Term.
(IP) »— A textile industry
spokesman sounded an a
larm over the danger of
Japanese imports Monday
night at a conference of
cotton men from Tennessee,
North Georgia and North
Alabama
R. H. Jewell, in a briefing for
manufacturers, said Japanese tex
tile imports have increased from
1,500,000 yards in 1952 to 154 mil
lion during the first 10 months of
1956.
“The Japanese can buy cotton
about 25 per cent cheaper than
U.S. mills can buy it and they
pay wages that are approximate
ly one-tenth the American wage
scale,” he said.
This competitive threat affects
both the textile and apparel in
dustry throughout the nation,
which together employ more than
2 million persons-or one out of
every seven manufacturing employ
es in the nation, it was reported.
On of a Series
The meeting was one of a se
ries sponsored by the American
Cotton Manufacturers Institute
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Heslip Won't Appeal Case
• . • » •
Chief Defense Attorney Duncan
C. Wilson of Dunn announced to
day that the defense had dropped
its Supreme Court appeal plans in
the ease of Edsel He&lip, 25, De
troit Negro convicted of second de
gree murder is Harnett Superior
Court Friday in a widely -publiciz
ed love triangle slaying.
Judge Malcolm Seowell gave Hes
iip the maximum penalty of 30
years in prison and said the fact
that he was not found guilty of
‘ first degree murder was a victory
for his attorneys.
Jurors connoted him in the De
cember 1954 shooting of Private
Samuel Long, Negro husband of
Heslip s 23-year-old mistress
Long was taken for a gangster
style "last ride-* on a lonely road
in Harnett and shot to death. His
wife, now Mrs. Dorothy Long Jack
son, took the stand as the State’s
principal witness and put the fin
ger on Heslip as the one who ac
tually pulled the trigger.
Put Finger On Him
She claimed that Heslip, with
whom she had been living, shot
her husband after they had come
to Fort Bragg to discuss • divorce.
Attorney Wilson said after a con
ference with two Other defense at
torneys, Archie Taylor and State
Senator Robert Morgan that they
had advised Heslip against appeal
and he bad agreed.
Sheriff Claude R. Moore Is ex
pected to transfer tjhe farmer well
to-do Detroit Negro to State’s pri
son within the next day or two.
Attorney Wilson said he felt the
Jurors had been fair and unusually
conscientious in trying to arrive at
a just verdict.
Judge Sea well, while disagreeing
with the verdict and expressing be
lief that both Heal ip and Mrs.
Long were guilty of first degree
murder, also' praised the Jurors for
the type of close attention which
they gave the evidence.
Some of the jurors, questioned
after the trial, said they would ha
ve retimed a verdict of first de
gree if both had been on trial, but
would not send Hesllp to hie death
unless assured the woman would
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Ike Expected
To Call For
Record Budget
WASHINGTON (IP) — Pres
ident Eisenhower is expected
to send Congress Wednesday
a record peacetime budget
calling for total spending of
$72 billion in the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
The budget, (however, will be a
balanced one because revenue in
the new fiscal year is expected to
exceed spending.'
The budget will indicate a sur
plus of $700 million for the current
year ending June 30 and of $1.7
billion for the following 12 months.
Total spending for this fiscal
year was estimated in the last of
f*cial Treasury estimate last sum
mer at $69.1 billion, about $3 bil
lion under the expected new total.
increased military spending will
account for most of the predicted
budget increase next year. The
forecast for this item is expected
to be more than $38 billion, an in
crease of about $2 billion over de
reuse expenditures ior me current
fiscal year.
With one exception, a $72 billion
budget would push federal spend
ing to the 'highest level for apy
year since the close of the Second*
World War. In the 1953 fiscal year,
btfore the end of the Korean War
government spending rose to $74.S
billion.
Administration spokesmen alread
y have indicated the new budget
calls ior no tax reductions. And It
baa been announced that the White
House is giving high priority to a
bill to extend present excise and
corporate tax rates which are sche
duled to decrease April 1 under ex
isting law.
AO WORKERS COUNCIL — The
monthly meeting of 'the Harnett
County Ag Workers Council will
be held Wednesday, Jan. 16 at
3:30 p.m. In thd county agriculture
building in Lillington. John W.
Crawford of Raleigh, program pla
nning specialist for the State Ex
tension Service, will be the guest
speaker. Hie Lillington agricul -
ture teacher, John W. Blackmon is
the author of a new town-farm ec
onomic plan to change farm prac
tices in .the Lillington school dis
trict in order to supplement farm
income expected to suffer losses
from the cut in tobacco acreage.
Crawford also is expected to speak
oh community development.
ANNIE, EMILY AND VIOLA (TWO OF EACH)
—i^ttere are the triplets bom at Dunn Hospital
this morning, lined up with the nurses that Dr.
C. B. Codrington suggested they be named after.
Left ,to right are Annie with Nurse Annie Leola
Smith; Emily with Nurse Emily Frances Bunce;
and Viola May with Nurse Viola May Bryant.
Center baby was the smallest — three pounds,
three and a half ounces. (Daily Record Photo by
Ted Crail.)
Triplets Barn At Dunn Hospital
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TED CRAIL
*9 'News Editor
Nearly everybody at Dunn
Hospital knew, half an hour
after it happened, that trip
lets were bom this morning
to Lillie Bell Presley, 22
year-old mother from Dunn,
Route 1.
But the mother herself didn’t
know of the extraordinary birth,
and neither did the father.
Mrs. Presley lay unconscious in
a bed in the colored ward at Dunn’s
Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospl -
tal. The uproar occasioned by the
triplets didn’t reach into the quiet
of her room. Nor could she hear
the pint-sized squalls of her three
tiny daughters.
It was a first for nearly every
body, including Dr. C. B. Codring
ton, who delivered them, and Nur
fOtnttaMd Ob Par* Tww)
Farmers Called To
Tobacco Conference
Latest in a series of vitally important meetings between
local farmers and experts who can answer many of their
questions will be held tomorrow night at Dunn High
School.
Jeff Denny, vocational agricul
ture teacher at Dunn High, report
ed that the last similar meeting
had a turnout of 120. This was
highly encouraging for there has
been a widespread effort here to
stimulate interest of the farmers.
He hopes for an even bigger
turnout Wednesday night as the
current tobacco situation and the
outlook for 1967 comes in for a
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thorough analysis and dissection
by J. H. Cyrus, tooacco marketing
specialist from the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture.
* ‘‘We feel that all farmers have
unanswered questions about this,”
Denny said. “Especially about the
marketing of tobacco varieties that
will receive one-half support price
from the flue-cured stabilization
coroporatlon.
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ATTENTION
Dunn Merchants
DON’T FORGET YOUR MEETING
Wednesday 10:30 A.M.
In The Dunn Theatre
YOU’LL MAKE MONEY BY BEING THERE
DAVID POPE,
Chairman
Nurse Testifies . '
Against Doctor
EASTBOURNE, England (IP) — The bedside nurse of a
wealthy widow who died while under the care of Dr. J.
Bodkin Adams testified today the patient once threatened
to cut the doctor out of her will.
Nurse Caroline Randall was
called as the first prosecution wit
ness as the preliminary hearing
on the patient’s death went into
its second day. The hearing will
determine whether the Crown has
enough evidence to order the
chubby, 57-year-old doctor to stand
trial for murder.
In its opening statement Mon
day the prosecution charged that
Dr. Adams murdered Mrs. Edith
Alice Morrell five years ago with
overdoses of heroin and morphine.
It also brought up the names of
two other patient* who died un
der questionable circumstances
while under Adams’ care.
The attorneys said the defend
ant profited from all three deaths.
Gave Her Heroin
Miss Randall said she served as
Mrs. Morrell's nurse for 22
months and was at her bedside
when she died. She said she gave
the patient nightly injections of
morphia on orders from the doc
tor, and later he ordered injec
tions of heroin, which caused the
patient to become "very collapsed.”
Blames Heroin
Asked if she associated Mrs.
Morrell’s illness is any way to the
Injections, the nurse said: “I did
— to the heroin.”
She said when Adams went
away on vacation in 1950 without
telling Mrs. Morrell, the patient
was annoyed.
"Did Mrs. Morrell tell you when
Dr. Adams was away that she in
tended to alter her will and cut
him out of it — or word* to that
effect?’’ defense attorney Geof -
frey Lawrence asked In cross-ex
amination.
"Yes. She was annoyed,” the
nurse replied. However, she said
she did not know if Mrs. Morrell
actually cut Adams out of her will
at that time.
Termed Modern Bluebeard
In Its long opening statement,
the prosecution described the pink
faced little man as a modem med
ical bluebeard whose bedside man
ner won him all sorts of gifts from
his devoted patients — most of
them from elderly widows ami
spinsters.
Among the accusation* listed by
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Cold Kills
16; 50 Below
Zero In N. Y.
By UNITED PRESS
No relief was in sight today
from a frigid cold wave that has
gripped most of the nation, causing
at least 16 deaths.
While the East continued to
shiver through zero and sub-zero
weather, a new invasion of Arctic
air blew into the Northern Plains,
whipping up fresh snow storms.
Temperatures plunged to as low
as 50 degrees below zero Monday
in upper New York state. At New
York City, the mercury dipped to
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Roads Reported
Very Dangerous
In Some Areas
ASHEVILLE (IP) — Snow
flurries swept across Nortlx
Carolina in a huge crescent
from the north and west t£T
day bringing hazardous
highway conditions and
plunging temperature^.
Only light snow was expected
except in the mountains but the
U. S. Weather Bureau warned that
sleet and freezing rain mixed with
the snow as the front moved east-„
ward.
By afternoon, the flurries were
expected to be general over the
state.
The snow started Monday night
across a northern band of the
state as cold air poured in from
the north. By dawn, snow had
fallen along a crescent extending
from Elizabeth City on the north
east coast to south of here on the
southwest. * ,
Mountain Roads Slick
There was two-tenths of an inch
on the ground here and a full half
inch on Cllngman's Peak at Mount
Mitchell. It was snowing hard *t
dawn in Burke County and the
state patrol warned that all roads
were slick in Western North Car
olina. ♦
Intermittent flurries started
about dawn in Charlotte, and High
Point reported a light covering on
the ground by midmoming. There
were traces along the swinging
crescent at Greensboro, Winston
jAtem and' Raleigh, *•»—»—-•,* -
The weather bureau in RaMgh
issued a special weather bulletin
saying the snow and sleet "will
result in hazardous driving condi
tion in many areas of the state
by late afternoon.’’
At Greensboro, the bureau said
“freezing rain and sleet Is expec
ted to coat Piedmont highways by
late afternoon."
Bayles Given
Prison Term
RALEIGH (W — A former guard
at Central Prison was sentenced
in City Court to 30 months on
charges of trafficking with inmates
there and stealing from the prison.
Jessie Caswell Bayles, 4g, of
Cary, Rt. 1, had been employed at
the prison for about four years
when the charge* were brought
against him last December. He ap
pealed to- Superior Court and bond
was set at $5,000.
Bayles is a former resident of
Coats, Route 1 and is well known
in Harnett County.
Bayles was sentenced to 44
months on the charge of violating
a state law prohibiting the convey
ing of messages and weapons to
prison inmates or trading with con
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Blakely Is Named
New Texas Senator
f •
AUSTIN, Tex. (IP) — Gov. Allan Shivers, an “Eisenhower
Democrat,” today appointed William A Blakely, a Dallas
attorney and nejvcomer to Texas politics, to succeed Priefc
Daniel (D-Tex) in the U. S. Senate.
There was so Indication wheth
er Blakely will challenge Demo
cratic control of the Senate by
voting with the Republicans. This
would result In a 48-4* tie, and
throw control to the OOP when
Vice President Riohard M. Nixon
would cast his tie-breaking vote.
“How will Blakely vote?” an ex
ecutive office spokesman was
asked.
“I don't know” was the answer.
Daniel took office as governor
of Texas at 13 noon today, suc
ceeding Shivers.
Announcement of the appoint -
ment came one hour and 47 min
utes before Shivers left office. He
has served seven yean* gx
months and seven days — longer
than any chief executive in the
tustory or tne state.
I Shivers said in hie announce
ment that Blakely will serve “un
till a successor has been elected
and qualified.1’
Under Texas lav, Daniel could
call an election immediately. It
must be held at a date not sootier
than 60 days nor later than 9Q
days after that time.
“Mr. Blakely will not be a can- •
didate in the special election,
Shivers said.
, The governor then added:
I "Under the law, a 10-day inter
val is allowed attar the appoint
ment of an interim senator before
a special election must
X am not setting the
tion at this
tag this matter to