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VOLUME 7
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1957
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 79
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sex VP SAFETY PROGRAM — Register Blathers
Lumber Co. has set up an extensive safety pro
gram. Above are five members of the official
family who helped adapt general safety practices
to their own plant. Seated, from left, are Cart
Register, C. R. Simpeen, and Gus Register. Stand,
tag are D. B. Register, Jr., and Mira Cucilte Carr,
Big Changes Since Day He
Saw His Uncle Get Killed
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0j HOOVER ADAMS
TAR HEELS HAD SECRET
ASSET — FAITH, PRATER!
A lot has been said and written
about the team’s various good luck
charms and superstitions in con
nection with Carolina’s victory ov
, er Kansas Saturday night to win
(Continued On -’age wo)
Gus and Carl Register,
owners of a lumber company
which now does $350,000
annual business, both know
1 from personal experience
| what a rough and perilous
business it can be.
When he was 21 years old, Cfus
saw his uncle get killed. A piece
of slab came off a log, was caught
by the saw and ricocheted with
great force into his uncle’s head.
The incident was tragic but not
unusual.
Forty, thirty and even twenty
years ago, railroads., dams, steel
mills and lumber mills regularly
contributed to the obituary lists
of newspapers all over the country.
The casualties were innumerable
(Continued on Page five)
Jerry Lewis, Celeste Holm To Preside
Hollywood Oscars
To Be Given Tonite
HOLLYWOOD, (IP) — The Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts and Sciences stages its 29th awards spectacle tonight
to present “Oscars” for top achievements in films during
1956.
The event will originate in Hol
lywood and New York and will
be carried by radio and television
from 10:30 p.m. to 12:15 a. m.
EST over NBC.
In Hollywood, filmdom’s top per
sonalities will convene at the RKO
Pantages Theater to learn the re
sults of the vote of the Academy’s
1,170 members with comedian Jer
ry Lewis acting as master of cere
monies.
Actress Celeste Holm, winner of
a 1947 award, will be master of
ceremonies at New York’s NBC
Century Theater for presentation of
the coveted “Oscars” to winners
who are in the East.
Chief interest centered on the
probable winners in the best ac
tor, actress and picture categories.
\ The Nominee*
Nominees foa the best actor aw
* (Continued on Page Eight)
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Elvis Has
Private Chat
With Judge
MEMPHIS (IP) — Entertainer
Elvis Presley’s “toy pistol” brush
with a teen-aged Marine appeared
settled today after a closed meet
ing with a city judge.
zThe rock ’n’ roll singer said he
had sent a telegram to Marine
Pfc. -Hershel Nixon suggesting a
"get-( together” in the private
Chambers of Judge Tveverly
Boushe.
Nixon, 18 .agreed. As soon as
Boushe cleared his morning dock
et, Presley and Nixon were sum
moned into his chambers for the
15-minute talk behind closed doors.
“Did you apologize to Nixon,”
Presley was asked when the meet
ing broke up.
“We just got it straightened Out,”
Presley said.
The Marine had said Presley
owed him an apology for brand
ishing the Hollywood prop pistol
last week on a downtown street.
Nixon had accosted Presley and
Presley said he thought |Nixon
was picking a fight.
Neither Boushe nor Nixon would
di^uas the closed meeting.
"Nothing happened,” Bouth e
said.
"Fifteen minutes of nothing?"
the judge was asked,
i Boushe smiled and walked off.
TO DEAL WITH BECK
WASHINGTON IK) — AFL-CIO
President George Meany today
called an extraordinary meeting ol
the federation’s executive council
•n Friday to deal with Teamsten
Boas Dave Beck.
An AFL-CIO caUed
Meany’s action In calling the spe
cial meeting, to be held here, “ax
unusual procedure.” He would no!
discuss Ms purpose except te say
Ike Attacks
Piecemeal
Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON (IP) —Pres
ident Eisenhower today ve
hemently attacked piece
meal budget cuts by Con
gress as fatuous and the most
foolish kind of economy.
As for a specific recommends -
tion by Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D
Val that the 71.8 billion dollar
budget for fiscal 1958 be cut by
5 billion, the President said • he
did not believe a out of this size
could be accomodated within the
security and welfare requirements
of the United States.
Byrd made that reduction pro
posal in a speech prepared for de- *
livery in the Senate today.
In his most vigorous discussion
of the budget to date, the Presi
dent challenged Congress to de r
cide for itself whether the Ameri
can people want to cut down on
payments to veterans, agricultur
al benefits and the construction of
new schools.
He said these are the only ex
penses that could be chopped do*
wn, because to reduce expendi
tures for defense, mutual aid and
the Atomic Energy Commission
would be to invite international
trouble.
|
Mr .^Eisenhower’s news confer -
eace 'ran unusually lortg—36 min
utes—as he went to great length
to support his budget against
growing demands on Capitol Hill
for sharp reductions,
He said savings undoubtedly were
possible but he was somewhat am- J
azed to notice reoently that a num
ber of persons were beconfing more
economy-minded than before.
He said he also wanted to point
out that Congress has authorized
many public works without prop
er preliminary surveys. He said
he believed that Congress had
done this obviously for political i
reasons. j
Frequently raising his vfoice, 5
the President said let some one 1
older than he say it Is not c
necessary to meet fixed obliba - ]
tions to veterans; let some else
say a healthy agriculture is not
necessary; Jet some one else say *
that efforts to relieve the school; s
room shortage are not necessary. t
Byrd’s economy plea followed a r
new round of budget cuts by the (
house, which cut the already re- i
duced Labor Department bill t
Tuesday and appeared prepared -\
to make more cuts today In funds
for Labor and the Health, Educa- t
tlon and Welfare Department.
In Court At Benson
Two Are Convicted
Of Drjving Drunk
iiwo aeienaants — ones ter Ar
thur Adams of . Route 3, Benson,
and James Wilbur Hudson of
Route 1, Coats—were convicted in
Benson Recorder’s Court Monday
of drunken driving.
Judge J. Ed Johnson handed each
defendant a road term, 30 days in
Adams case and 60 days in Hud
son’s case, suspended on condition
that he pay a $100 fine and costs
and not drive for 12 months.
C. H. Johnson of Route 1, Ben
son, was Judged guitty of non -
support and drew a six-month road
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Blackman, Barefoot
Seek Mayor's Post
Contests for the municipal primary slated in Benson
on Tuesday, April 2, developed just before the filing dead
line of noon Tuesday when Former Mayor J. Roscoe Bare
foot filed for the town’s top office and Sanford West, a
political newcomer, paid the filing fee as a board candi
date.
Receiving the primary nomina
tions without opposition were
Judge J. Ed Johnson of Benson
Recorder’s Court and Town Con
stable David Wood. Johnson was
1
Jlected the first Judge of the court
m Juo^ 11, 1863, and the court
Began, operation* July «, 1963 Wood
Bas served a* town constable since
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THE GLOOM LIFTS — R^h^Bass^w^Ures on
takes a look at some freshly picked flowers. Thonjh
Fires Bring Tragic Losses
To Truck Driver, Grocery man
By TED CRAIL
Record News Editor
Fire struck twice and trag
cally in this area last night,
hreatening the future of a
mall groceryman who lives
tear Erwin and an indepen
lent truck driver from
I’lorida.
A mile south of Erwin the gro
ry store belonging to Elmon Brad
haw collaipsed Just as the Erwin
Ire department was pulling up.
'raining their efforts elsewhere,
he firemen managed to save two
uildings a few yards off which
elong to Harold Spell and Albert
V Eason.
But the grocery store was gone
nd all contents with it. Bradshaw
(Continued On Page Five)
Ervin Says Beck
Emulating Adam
WASHINGTON (IP) — The quizzing of Dave Beck, who
rose from laundry truck driver to the biggest wheel in
the Teamsters Union, is providing the hottest show on
Capitol Hill since the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.
arena — the cavernous caucus
room of the Senate Office Build
ing where white marble walls
stretch two stories high, camera
men cuss each other In the crush
and newsmen are packed at press
tables like sardines without olive
oil.
Only the red carpet, has been
changed. The old one wore out.
Long Walt In Line
The taxpayers show up for this
one. They were in line 2 1-2 hours
before Tuesday’s opening session
waiting far seats.
There was the big man who was
n’t there: Former Sen. James H.
Duff (R-Pa), who recently became
Beck’s attorney, but, as he made
plain at the time, did not show up
to sit with him! Instead Bede was
counselled — frequently — by Ar
thur D. Condon, a member of
Duff's firm.
But Beck seldom let the sena
tors forget that one of their for
mer colleagues was In his corner.
For more than an hour he hauled
“Big Jim” Duff's name into near
ly every answer saying Duff ad
vised him to Invoke the Fifth
Amendment, though sometimes he
phrased it more elegantly ’ than
One assiduous reporter figured
Beck invoked Duff’s name about
<100 times.
Not Impressed
Finally Sen. Pat McNamara (D
Mich.), himself a former union of
ficial, announced he was “not at
all Impressed" by the invocation
of “ex-Senator” Duff — and he
stressed the “ex.”
The crowd applauded.
When Beck kept citing Duff as
his authority. McCarthy declared
he was getting “sick," of it. He
said Duff “was defeated when be
that.
. N
run lor re-election last year, fine
hasn’t practiced lav for 25 or 3<
years.”
“Sen. McCarthy, you couldn’
have no personal dlaagreemen
with Sen. Duff, could you?” aske<
Deck Innocently.
(McCarthy said he had none.
(Contimed on Pace Elcht)
Items Ranged
From Nylons
To Loveseats
WASHINGTON (IP) —
Teamster boss Dave Beck’s
personal purchasing agent
swore today he did not know
the union paid for the $85,
000 worth of luxury items,
including $19 silk shirts,
which he bought for Beck.
Nathan W. Shefferman of Chi
cago admitted to the Senate Rack
ets Committee that he spent more
than $85,000 for Beck and Dave
Beck Jr. from 1949 through 1953
for items including $54 worth of
golf balls and $15 worth of dis
pers, * _
Shefferman insisted, however,
that he never knew the money
came from coffers of the Team
sters Union until the income tax
people dropped around to study
Beck’s finances.
Shefferman was called to the
witness chair as the committee set
out to show the defiant boss of
the nation’s biggest union that it
can prove what he did with some
of the $322,000 they claim he took
from the union treasuries.
Beck waited in a chair behind
Shefferman to resume his own
testimony, which Tuesday consist
ed mainly of invoking the Fifth
Amendment’s protection against
self-incrimination.
,. Repaired False Teeth
^hafferman, a friend of Beck
for 20 years, said he is a labor
relations consultant for manage
ment.
He said Beck "would call and
tell me he’d like to have an ice
box, probably, or a washing ma
chine.”
The order would then be turned
over to a secretary with whatever
shipping instructions Beck gave,
Shefferman said.
Shefferman said the bills he
paid for Beck included $8 for re
pairs on the Teamster chiefs
false teeth when Beck “turned up
in Chicago with a broken plate.”
Shefferman sparred mildly with
Committee Chairman John L. Mc
Clellan (D-Ark) over Just what
procurement services he had per
formed for Beck. McClellan final
ly tagged him Beck’s “purchas -
ing” agent.
Shefferman stressed that he
paid for the material with his
own money and “I was reimbursed
with union funds.”
Then, at the request of McClel
lan and committee counsel Robert
F. Kennedy, Shefferman began
reading through the committee’s
list of sample items “purchased
for Dave Beck by Nathan Sheffer
man with Teamster Union funds.”
In The Records
His express ions of amazement at
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Engineer Is Named
Ear Gas Project
One of the nation’s most successful engineers in the
field of trans-continental fuel transmission will direct
the mammoth construction project which will bring
natural gas into Dunn and twenty-eight other eastern
Tar Heel communities by early year.
_ i K JKvk Jr T4HiiftiA.no.
native and for the past two 'decades
prominently associated with ma
jor pipe line companies in the
South and Midwest, has been nam
ed vice-president apd general man
ager of North Carolina Natural
Gas Corporation, according to an
announcement earlier this week
by ' P. McDonald Biddison, presi
dent of the corporation.
Mr. Kyle has already arrived in
Fayetteville, regional headquarters
far the concern, and is busily en
gaged with planning activities in
connection with the upcoming ven
ture.
OUTSTANDING RECORD
The veteran engineer has a dis
tinguished record of achievement in
his chosen profession, which start
ed in the 1920‘s with the construc
tion of one of the first large dia
meter cross country pipe lines