V*-. r . . '■ 'r ' ^ , . . I Lucky Bill Contest Announced By Local Merchants WEATHER ■> Increasing cloudiness and some - what warmer Monday. .Occasional 4 light rain and cool Monday night. Tuer.day, clearing and colder. Etu- Dktil - ZEIer THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 - ym * TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1957 .V FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 52 AFTERNOON SNACK — Joe, a Mynah bird who acts like he was trained in an advertising agency, pauses alter a gulp of some Gardner’s Dairy milk. Owner James Suries, manager of the dairy, feeds him Gardner’s products, is training him to say firm, slogans. (Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Mynah Bird Will Tout Ice Cream l n Joe is a Mynah bird who drinks his milk good like a 1 Mynah’ bird should. Owner James Surles, bird col lector on the side and fuLi-time manager of Gardner’s Dairy, has installed Joe in his downtown ofr fice. Surles has nearly 200 feathered creatures, mostly parakeets and African love-birds, in his collection, but Joe is the only one he wants for company through the day. Here’s how he happened to get Joe and why he’s so pleased with him. A few months ago, Surles con ducted extensive correspondence with a California outfit about buy ing a Mynah bird. Came Christmas Eve and Surles, who had never actually ordered the bird, received a special smpment irom camomia. His secretary who knew of her boss's yen for one of the expensive birds (they cost about $100 each) had let other employes in on it. Together they ordered Joe. He almost didn’t arrive in time. In fact, a letter had been prepared for Surles, telling him that his Christmas gift was ordered but hadn’t arrived. Then, on Christmas Eve, Joe squeaked in, arriving by air express at'the Raleigh-Durham airport. The male Mynah bird is mighty strange in his eating habits—he likes' such diverse foods as creamed potatoes, bananas, grapes and mix ed vegetables—but, claims Surles, Continued on P(ww atx) d b ii a d C V F t 11 c Little Girls Hit; One Is Badly Hurt c o rs ct. Patsy Bryant. 10-year-old daug hter of Mr. and Mrs. Waylon Bry ant of South Washington Ave., is in the Dunn Hospital with a brok en leg and other-minor injuries as the result of an accident that occurred Saturday night about 6:30 o'clock at the intersection of gas Godwin and Washington Ave. Police Chief Alton A. Cobb sai< she was struck by a 1956 station wagon being driven by Edward Bari Hudson, local radio and TV repair I man. Slater Also Hit The station wagon also struck her sister, Bavon Hartley, age 9, knocking her off balance and knoc king off her shoe and skate. Her skate was knocked for a distance ;°f or 20 feet and'her shoe ne ver^ has been recovered. The girl Iwas not hurt. The two sisters were skating near the intersection of East Godwin (Can tinned On rag* Four) fi s \ E E d tl E F d \ T c Utj IfiVi • /(,); • , • ; •. {Dunn Bargain Days Will Open Thursday— Tooling up for what tlrey hope will be the most excit ing Bargain Days Dunn has j ever held, local merchants this mortiing announced the details of a Lucky Bill con test. On Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, the serial numbers of cer tain bills put into circulation by local stores will be posted in the windows of the Chamber of Com merce office and announced by local papers and radio station WCKB. Holders of those bills will be treated to Bargain Day’s best bar-’ ' gain: Lucky Ones will be worth ten dollars each, on presentation at the Chamber of Commerce. Lucky Fives will be worth twenty dollars >ach. David Pope, head of the Retail Merchants group which declared he semi-annual Bargain Days, said that three of the lucky one iollar bills will go into, circulation >n Thursday, three ones and a five >11 Friday, three ones and two ffVw >n Saturday. Those who come into possession f the Lucky Bills will have thro igh next Wednesday to present hem at the Chamber of Com - nerce office and* receive their Bar ;ain Day bonus. On Saturday, the iffice will foe open until fiye o’ lock so winners can present their , tills. ‘ No employes or immediate rela- ( iveg of retail establishments will ^ e eligible as holders of the Lucky Jills. Those who do win will foe ►aid nff in cilvpr rt/\llovc Quite aside from the free bills, c here will be many bargains almost 1 is spectacular during the three c lays of this trade promotion. * Pope announced that all local etah merchants are joining in the vent. Each store will cut prices £ o 'the bone, feature many special 1 ales. Prices won’t be so low again < intil next Bargain Days roll ar- ^ •und. 1 The Retail Merchants have un ertaken this event cooperatively nd are advertising extensively th ough various media. Special shop in 8 pages full of these arvertise lents will appear in the Daily lecord throughout this week. )an Byrd, 74, Juried Sunday Funeral services were held .Sun »y afternoon at 3 o’clock for Ro ert Daniel Byrd, 74, of Pope Road i Dunn, one of the town’s oldest nd best known residents. Mr. Byrd died at his home Kri sty night. The services were held at the romartie Funeral Home oh N. rilson Avenue. The Rev. Ernest P. ussell, pastor of the First Bap st. Church, officiated. Burial was 1 Old Bluff Church Cemetery in umberland County. RETIRED CARPENTER Mr. Byrd a native and lifelong isident of Harnett County, son of le late William Bright and Mary fcmeron Byrd. He was 4 retired strpenter. Mr. Byrd was a member 1 the First Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, M'rs. Lija tephenson Byrd of the home: four >ns, Robert L. Byrd of Danville, a : Theron Byrd of Fayetteville • arl Byrd of Smithfleld; and Carl yrd of Fort Riley. Kansas; three aughters, Miss Mildred Byrd of le home; Miss Evelyn Byrd of sleigh and Mrs. J. W. Swanner of ort Meade, Fla.; one brother, Ri lard Byrd of Erwin;1 two sisters Use Hattie Byrd and Mrs. Della ew. both of Erwin; also 13 grand lildrtn. .« s 5 c b n s f t I i C t I r I \ s t 8 c c c b o P C E P w i vw'V MRS. JAMES E. FISHER Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Godwin Benson Girl Dies In Head-On Crash Mis. James E. Fisher, 24, a; laboratory technician at st Josepbs Hospitai at Asheville, was killed in a two-car n°’lls'on °n u- f• Highway No. 1 five miles south of San ord Sunday afternoon at 12:10 o’clock. Mrs Ficher ic tho lonnie Louise Godwin of Benson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch ’• Godwin. Her father owns and perates Godwin Produce Coriipany n Dunn. She was a sister of Mrs. Robert Elizabeth) Tyler of Dunn, a nurse t, the Dunn Hospital, and of Ber :ard Godwin of Dunn, a member f the Plain View School faculty, ■he was .also a niece of Mr. and frs. A. B. Adams of Dunn. Mrs. Fisher had spent the week nd with her parents near Ben on and was returning to her home, he was the only occupant of the ar. Funeral arrangements had not een completed this morning. Wed Only Four Months Mrs. Fisher, a bride of only four ronths, was a native of the Ben on community. She graduated ■om Meadow High School, at - -nded Sacred Heart College at lelmont, and took her laboratory ■'Continued On fwt. Marilyn's Husband Indicted WASHINGTON (IP) — A federal grand jury today indicted Arthur Miller, playwright husband of Marilyn Monroe, on charges of con tempt of Congress. The jury returned a similar in dictment against Otto Nathan, New York University professor and exe cutor of the estate of the late A1-. bert Einstein, Miller in a statement issued through his attorney said he would seek dismissal of the indictment on grounds that refusal to answer “irrelevant questions" of a con - sessional committee “is not pun ishable.” (Continued. On Page Four) Fitchett Elected Dunn Rotary Chief Carl E. Fitchett, Jr., well-known young business and ivic leader, has been elected president of the Dunn Ro- « ary Club for the coming year. The election of officers took lace at the annual organizational meeting of the local civic group. Fitchett will succeed Retiring ‘resident R. Dennis Strickland. rho is stepping down after a very accessful' term of office. The club as enjoyed many outstanding pro rams during the year and has jmpleted a number of highly siic jssful civic projects. Under organizational rules of the lub, Mr. Strickland automatically :comes the vice president. New Directors Elected to serve on the new board t directors, in addition to the resident and vice president, were." ■eorge Franklin Blalock, Bobby ryan, Willard Mixon, James 8ni » and Ronunie F. Williamson. President-elect Fitchett, who ith his father owns and operates r dates are invited to attend. »lates will be $1.25 per person. Re ervations may be made by con acting - Noah Barefoot in Benson »efore Thursday noon. Bulldozer or Hurricane To Blame? Tempers Flare At W ade Cemeterv Two local attorneys have >een retained to protest vhat some descendants :laim is the unlawful listurbance of graves in the Vade Cemetery. They claim hat a bulldozer wreaked lavbcamong the grave tones. b, el m • George Franklin Blalock, target of their wrath, stated strongly to day that no bulldozer broke any head-stones and that the damage referred to was caused by Hurri cane Hazel and marauding dogs and hogs. \ Attorney Bill Taylor, who Is re presenting some of the persons who are angry with Blalock and grad ng contractor Lewis Godwin, plan : ned a meeting tonight with the objectors. Another Dunn' attorney, Doffermyre, stated that he, t has been retained to deal with < questions of tho cemetery. Lawyer Taylor said that the law a cemetery cannot turbed even if it is on -toe ty of^the disturber. Said Blalock” •» \ Busy Days Ahead For HtirnettLawmaker Rep. Gregory Gets Important Posts see^s 6 Carson GreS°r~v- a fellow who ft ™t rf,?t f J Z- and thnve on hard work- has plenty of pQ out_for h,r" during the current seSsTorTortfceNorth Carolina General Assembly. Harnett's veteran lawmaker, now beginning his fourth consecutive term, ranks high in the esteem of ! his fellow solons, which accounts for the fact that he landed one important committee chairman - ship and one vice chairmanship. He was also apponted to serve on 11 other ‘legislative committees, which gives assurance that he won’t have a moment" to call his own un til the current session adjourns. All Citizens Welcome Despite these busy legislative as signments, Rep. Gregory still main tains “Open House” at his head quarters in the Hotel Sir Walter and still, urges all residents of the county to call on him to discuss their problems and to give him the benefit of their views and opinions on the various issues to be decided. - “I am never too busy to talk to the people of Harnett County,” said Rep. Gregory. JHe is particularly happy over his assignment as vice chairman of the * Committee on Agriculture, which lie fanks right at the top in im portance to the State. He. was also named chairman of the Committee on Insurance. Other committees to which he - was named are: Counties, Towns and Cities, Drainage, Education, Manufacturing and Labor, Mental Institutions, Penal Institutions, Propositions and Grievances, Salar ies and Fees, Senatorial Districts, I Continued On Page Six) County Agent Asks $250,000 In Suit An unusual civil suit in which County Agent C R Am mons of Islington is suing former Lillington Mayor Joel ^r > *or $200,000 for alleged slander is stated for trial Tuesday. It will come before Judge Mal colm Sea well, who started a two week term of civil court in Lilling ton today. Subpoenas have been served on a large number of witnesses and one attorney representing Ammons said that at least 30 will take the stand. A motion in connection with the suit was due to be madd" today. However. Attorney A. R. Taylor, re F4WV,«W1,8 xviJUiiVJiid, fcUSK.ea II motion could be introduced at the time the case is called tor trial and the judge stated that it could. The suit arose out of a public hearing held June 6, 1954, at the court-house in Lillington. County commissioners had called the pub lic meeting to consider the re - employment of Ammons as county agent. He had served in that post from June, 1937. (Continued On Pant Six)