* WEATHER +
Thursday mostly cloudy and
cool with some scattered light rain
or drizzle. Friday mostly cloudy
and cooi with rain likely in the
east portion.
THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 7 TELEPHONE 3117 — 311S
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1957
NO. 65
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
HERE FOR STORE EVENT — Donald Hatch of
Raleigh, (left) representative of the Quaker Oats
Co. which makes Aunt Jemima pancake mix,
and B. M. Riggins of Wendell, representative of
the Carnation ’Co., were on hand this week as
the J Sc W Supermarket laid plans to give a free
meal to their Saturday customers. The companies
represented by Hatch and Riggins are joining in
the promotion. (Record Photo.)
Dean Martin
In Solo Act ,
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Martin proved he can Work alone
when he made his debut as a sing
le last night — but the singer iwm
so nervous he forgot part of his
act.
Martin joked, sang and prattled
on the stage of the Sands Hotel
alone for the first time since he
and Jerry Lewis broke up their
successful comedy team.
However. Martin also was sup
posed. to show off his new dancing
talent in a soft shoe routine and
sing special comedy, lyrics.
“I was so nervous X forgot to
dance," said Martin in his dress
ing room after the show. "I thought
I was doing a rhumba for a while
— my knees were shaking so hard.
I was scared but otherwise it was
great."
Martin was given a star-studded
send-off, including a "good luck”
telegram sent by his former part
ner Lewis.
Lillington Post
Gains Members
Lillington Post 28 of the Ameri
can X/egion has received a special
certificate in recognition of out
standing membership gains.
Gibbons Crews, post adjutant,
said the announcement of the aw
ard from the N. C. Department
Adjutant, Nash D. McKee. The dis
tinguished service award is given
nation-wide to all posts who by
November 11, 1956 reported a new
1957 membership equal to the to
tal on roll during 1956.
Lillington’s post scored a better
record than needed to win. In 1956
the post membership stood at 56
members. By Nov. 11 there were 87
members who had paid dues for
1957.
The certificate has been present
ed by Crews to Post Commander
George Souders.
At J & W Supermarket Saturday
"Aunt Jemima" To
Serve Free Meat
On Saturday the J & W Supermarket on East Broad
Street in Dunn is inviting everyone to turn freeloader
for the moment and come down for a free meal.
They are planning one of the
biggest store promotions in months
and will have Aunt Jemima her
self on hand to serve free pan
cakes. The store is also serving
Jesse Jones sausage and Miss Car
olina coffee—none of it costing a
cent.
The big supermarket which was
established here on J\ily 6 of
last year as a successor to the
popular J & W Gracery is running
a special sale on many grocery
items in connection with the free
pancake-and-sausage dinner.
There is plenty of free parking
at the sttore and the proprietors,
Bill Woodall and J. A. Jackson,
have free delivery service.
The pancakes will be ready by
eight o’clock Saturday morning and
will be served all day long until
six o’clock. Said B. M. Riggins,
representative of the Carnation Co.
which is helping to sponsor the
promotion, “I hope the word will
get around that this is strictiy
free and the customers can eat all
they want.”
EASTER REHEARSAL — Parts
will be assigned tonight at Hood
Memorial Christian Church in
their Easter pageant, “The Last
Supper.” Rev. Jack Daniell said
the religious play will be present
ed on Thursday, April 18, in the
church sanctuary at nine in the
evening. Produced as a pantomime
with-narrator last year, the Easter
pageant will be more elaborate this
'year and include speaking parts.
Funeral Held
For Marshburn
Funeral services for Leslie L.
Marshburn, 67, of Glenn School
Rd., Durham Rt. 5, were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 3:30 at the
Hall-Wynne Chapel. Interment was
In the Jiew section of Maplewood
Cemetery.
He was the father of Bill Marsh
burn, of Ro-Mar Mattress Co.,
weil-known business man.
Dr. Thomas T. Lindsey, pastor
of Hyde Park Pentecostal Holi
ness Church officiated.
Active pallbearers were Donald
R. Branch, R." C. Rich, H. Elliott
Johnson, Phillip Branch, O. H.
Brewer, W. W. Bowen, L. Harris
Davis, Tom Moore, N. P. Terrell,
Alton Marshburn and Shelton
Marshburn.
Honorary pallbearers were W. S.
Bagwell, M. M. Fowler, R. M. Tur
ner, L. H. Davis, J. M. Foreman, R.
T. Spain, Roy HU1, John Hacicock,
Percy Arthur, W. R. Edwards, Ed
gar Brock, W. W. Edwards, Gr.
Louis Roberts, Dr. Lewis McKee,
John Tiller, Sam Angier, Will Grif
fin, Elmo Cash, F. E. Steed, W. F.
Hackney, D. L. McGrady, Tom M.
Davis and Robert Currins.
Mr. Marshburn died at Watts
Hospital Monday at 4 a.m. fol
lowing an illness of two years.
He had • be.cn critically ill and a
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Deaf Mute Admits Killing
Woman Who Resisted Passes
BAILEY (IP) — A deaf mute Negro odd-jobs man ad
mitted the brutal slaying of a white! housewife because
she became Lightened at his advances, Sheriff Glen Wom
ble said today. »
The Nash County officer said
the Negro, Johnnie D. Knight, 29,
of Bailey, was taken to Central
Prison in Raleigh for safekeeping.
Womble said the Negro admit
ted, through interrogation by writ
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ten notes, mat ne went to me
home of Mrs. Myra 43,
Tuesday afternoon "i^th the in
tention of trying to have inter
course or raping her.”
The body or Mrs. Manning,
mother of four sons, was found
, \y
Tuesday night in rain and sleet
soaked Woods between here anc
Middlesex, N. C. She had Leer
stabbed several times in the throa
with a sharp instrument and then
were several other wound* on he:
head.
Womble said the Negro made -i
"very frank" confession of th<
slaying after his arrest Wednevia;
night.
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Missionary Leaders
From Tokyo, India
Ben Watson, former missionary to Japan who taught
at Sei Gakuin high school in Tokyo, and Kenneth Potee,
a Disciples of Christ administrator who made his head
quarters at Jabalpur in India, will both be in Dunn on
Tuesday, March 12.
Together they are presenting a
program explaining the needs and
aims of missionary work. Their
presentation is called, “Capital for
Kingdom Building.’’ and will he
given at Hood Memorial Christ
ian Church.
Rev. Jack Daniell, pastor of the
Dunn church, announced today that
for this program Hood Memorial
will be host to all churches pf the
Mill Creek district. The^dinner
meeting begins at 7 p.m. on Tues
day hight.
Both the speakers represent the
United Christian Missionary Soc
iety, which serves most of the 8000
Christian Churches in North Am
erica.
After returning to the U. S. from
Japan, the Watsons worked with
Oriental Americans on the Pacific
Coast, helping to organize the Ja
panese Christian Church in Los
Angeles. Later Mr. Watson was
minister of a Pasadena Church, be
came religious consultant for USO
work under the YMCA during
World War II. j*
Potee and his wife arrived, in
the United States this spring for
a year’s furlough. A Montana na
tive, he had first gone to India in
1921. He secured his Bachelor of
Divinity degree at Yale.
| F|rSt assigned as principal of a
' Christian high schocA tort%s at
Harjta, he was later naiir iTtoer
f 'lnfc»dent of all 17 elemf^^lnd
high schools then operated by the
Disciples of Christ India mission.
For 14 years, he has been the ad
} ministrative secretary-treasurer of
the mission in India which consists
of 50 missionaries and nine mis
sion district.
- During World War II, he and
his wife befriended many Ameri
can military meft and helped them
to an appreciation of India and
its people.
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tractive blonde today planned to
appeal her conviction and sen
tence to three years in the state
penitentiary on catti'e - rustling
charges
An all-male jury deliberated one
hour Wednesday, then found Alice
Mills, 30, guilty of rustling cattle
from a plantation where she work
ed.
Miss Mills was the only one ol
nine persons accused of operating
a cattle theft ring to be brought
loo trial. Seven others pleaded
guilty and will be sentenced latei
and one is still at large.
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BEN WATSON
Ike Orders
Review
Of Budget
WASHINGTON (IP) —Pres
ident Eisenhower said today
it might be necessary to
slow up federal spending on
some projects in order to
relieve inflationary pres
sures.
In his first news conference sin
ce Feb. 6, Mr. Eisenhower said he
has ordered an Intensive review
of the budget to determine whether
spending for certain projects could
be slowed down to achieve a bud
get cut for fiscal 1958.
He did not identify the projects.
His budget for fiscal 1958 calls for
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Kennedy Advocates
Progressive Program
NEW YORK (IP) — Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) call
ed on his fellow Democrats in Congress today to re-estab
lish the party’s leadership by building “a progressive pro
gram any Democratic candidate in 1960 can run on with
pride arid hope.”
That candidate' probably will be
facing Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, Kennedy said in an article
in Life magazine. He is “a tough,
skillful, shrewd opponent” who is
“far from being the pushover
some Democrats smugly expect;”
Kennedy wrote. And he will have
the advantage of four more years
i of a build-up which “no single
• Democratic hopeful can possibly
receive."
i The Democrats, furthermore, will
. be “facing an electorate which will
, not have returned a clear national
popular majority for' the Demo
crats in 16 years ...outside the
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ouuwi me Lneiuutiata
a clear majority in both Houses of
Congress since 1936.” *
Penetrating Reappraisal
He warned that if Democrats do
not make a penetrating re- ap
praisal of our party and its
course” the party faces the real
danger of dying, as the Federalist
and Whig parties in the last cen
tury, and for some of the same
reasons — sectionalism, factional
ism and evasion of controversial
issues.
"The’ discordant wings of oui
party, someone said recently, ari
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Seven Missing,
61 Others
Are Rescued
NEW CASTLE, Del. (IP) —
A U.S. Navy gasoline tender
and a Liberian' freighter f
collided at “the graveyard*
of ships” on the Delaware
River today. Both ships im
mediately burst into flames
with a terrific explosion.
Five Wurs later the tended Mis
sion of San Francisco, sank and
blocked the main ship cannel to
Wilmington, Del,, Philadelphia and
Trenton, N. J. The freighter, the
Edna II, blazed for hours before
the flames were brought under con
trol by Coast Guard vessels arid
a Philadelphia fire boat.
The Coast Guard reported 61 sur
vivors and listed an estimated se
ven missing, all of them from the
Mission which carried 45 men. The
Elria had 23 aboard. Among the
missing was the Mission’s captain,
William Allen of Houston, Tex.
The Mission did not carry a pi
lot because Allen was licensed for
the Delaware River. The only fire
fighting equipment aboard the El
na was a garden hose, one of the
survivors told United Press.
Both vessels exploded in a sheet
of flames upon impact, rocking ho
mes on both sides of the river
and awakening persons as far a
way as Maryland.
The Mission was nearly cut in
two -by the impact. The missing
ipen. all of them believed to be
ships' officers, were asleep in the
general area of the point of im
pact. The Mission is Navy-owned
but operated by a civilian tanker
corporation, and manned by mer
chant marine seamen.
Eugene McKenna, 33, of Provi
dence, R. I.,» an oiler, said "every
body in the middle of the ship
must have been killed.’’
1 Auction Sale
Is Delayed
The big auction sale scheduled
for selling the Joe Jackson Sub
division being developed on both
sides of the new 8uper U.S. High
way 301 has been postponed until
Friday, March 22 due to weather
conditions.
Announcement of the postpone
ment was made this morning by
Herbert Johnson and J. D. Norris
of Johnson and Norris at Coats,
the selling agents.
The auction was originally sche
duled for tomorrow.
, This sale will offer some of the
r most outstanding sifburban pro
• perty sold in Harnett County In
[ recent years.
The property consists of 225 choi
ce business and home sites.'
Free Coca Colas will be served
and barbecue will be available at
: the sale site.
Mr. Johnson and Mr.| Norris
pointed out that this is a real in
vestment opportunity for prospec
i tive buyers.
LAYS GREEN EGGS
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (IP! — A
little red hen is tuning up for St.
Patrick's Day. It lays a green egg
almost every day.
John Hubbuch, 77, and his wife,
Florence, 72, owners of the “new
Hampshir Reed” hen, said today
the chicken never has laid any
thing but ‘‘turquoise green” eggs
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JOHN ALLEN McLEOD, JR.
Dunn Native And Well-Known Newsman
John McLeod, Jr.
Is Killed By Bus
RALEIGH (IP) — A city bus struck and killed a pedes
trian, identified as a Greensboro newspaper reporter,
today at a Capitol Square intersection.
The victim was John Allen Mc
Leod, Jr. assistant city editor of
the Greensboro Record, McLeod
>died on the operating table at a
hospital. His chest was crushed
when a front wheel of the White
Transportation Co. bus passed over
his body.
Mr. McLeod was the son of
Attorney and Mrs. John Allen
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Seven Lived In
Ladies Rest Room
NEW YORK (IP* — Seven women, ranging in age from
45 to 72, admitted to a judge Wednesday that they trad
been using the ladies’ room in spacious Pennsylvania
I Station as a dormitory — some for as long as three
months.
The women told their story af
ter police arrested them for loit
ering in the sprawling rail terminal
in midtown Manhattan.
One woman produced a banlc
book showing a balance of $1,406.32
Others had varying amounts of
money. Two had no funds.
“This is the most unusual thing
I’ve ever heard. Seven women ho
boing in Pennsylvania Station!”
exclaimed Magistrate Jack L. Ni
coll. /7
Railroad police, after observing
the women for some time, made
the arrests early Wednesday as
the women were settling down for
the night.
The arresting officers described
the seven as “permanent" members
of the informal residence club, in
dicating that others also have been
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Council Faces Busy Session
The Dunn City Council, sched
uled to meet in regular sessiors to
night at the city hall, has two re
zoning requests to consider on pro
perty across from the 1st Baptist
Church on West Broad Street.
Dr. C. E. Roberts, Dunn dentist,
has asked for a rezoning to busi
ness of his lot next to the Hodges
motel where a clinic is planned.
Though clinics do not require bu
siness zoning, there is a plan to
establish some offices there which
would. Rezoning of the Howard
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Hodges lot has also been requested, i
A recent effort to have the Tem- ]
pie property on South Layton re
zoned resulted in strong objections
by church people and eventual
withdrawal of the request. But City
Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr., Said this
■week he had not heard the same
stir about the Roberts and Hodg
es’ resonlngs.
“I guess what people were wor
ried about -in the other case,” he
said, “was the possibility of put
ting in a service station."
Briefs Board
The town board will hear a re
port from the Tax Collector to
night. In a brief supplied to coun
cilmen preparatory to the meet
ing, City Manager Uzzle state*:
“J. E, Williams is at a stand
still on some of his tax collections.
When he attempts to collect from
some* people they throw back at
him the fact that some accounts
have not been collected on for
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