f V * WEATHER * Friday scattered showers or thun dershowers and wahn. Saturday mostly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers. I' Eise Hang Umer THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 86 .. .. — BIG EASTER PROGRAM — With Easter no far away, Hood Memorial Christian Church is in re hearsal for a re-enactment of “The Last Supper.” Done last year as a pantomime with narrative, it wiH be a full-scaled play this year with Eugene Huggins directing. Some of the disciples are seen to right, are William Hinton, Biliy Jernigan, William Tart, Thomas Harrall, George Albert Neighbors and David Dixon. In front are Wally Dixon, Wallace Dixon (who plays Christ) and Ronald Earl Taylor. (Record Photo by Ted CraiL) JMM JttUla JhwqA ; NOTES AT RANDOM ON A VERY RAINY DAY Former Mayor1 Earl McD. West brook of Dunn, president of WNCT TV station at Greenville, and his manager, Hartwell Campbell, flew out to Chicago yesterday for a meeting of Columbia Broadcasting Company’s TV affiliates. Mr. Westbrook says the previous meet ings, all held in New York, have been a lot of fun...The network brings out all its top entertainers and really puts on a show.. .This is the first meeting in Chicago and Earl expects the Windy City to do It up right. .Dunn Jaycees on Monday night will be host to the annual meeting of the Seventh district.. .About a dozen club6 will send large delegations to the event .1 Marvin Koontz of Goldsboro is the president .. Work has been started on erection of the new Dof fermyre and Stewart law building ...It is being built behind the Thurman C. Ennis office building ... Lamar Stone of Dunn had his chest stuck out a few inches to i'ontlnn<<| on Pace Ax) 4. 1VV1 JL Negro men terrorized a white family for more than two hours early today and fled with a radio, a television set, a car and $1,102 after raping a mother and molest ing her 11-year-old daughter. Police said the three men, two of them armed and wearing hand kerchiefs over their faces, attack lid Fiery Orr, 63, when he parked A l 4111 The trio beat Orr, who was re turning home from work- on the attention shift at a Chrysler plant, and forced him to let them into his house. Orr’s dog started to bark ans the men beat the animal to deatt with their guns. They awakened Orr’s wife, Gaz 40; hie daughter, Shirley, 11 a roomer, Mrs. Eva Eden, 65 led them to a library on th< floor where all were bound. v-frr wrn one w, wir men rapea his wife *nd another threatened to rape his daughter unless tie opened a safe which contained the receipts from a candy store which the family operates. He said his daughter was taken to the basement where she was beaten and molested. She was then brought back to the library and bound again. the brio started to ransack the > house, taking $742 from Orr, $200 (C—Unacd O* I'aga > wm) Dunn s New Mill To Begin Shortly J. H. Elmore & Sons, Inc., 807 South Magnolia Ave. Dunn, N. C. has purchased completely new feed milling equipment, according to an announcement made todaj by James Elmore, Manager. * The local feed concern will now be able to grind and mix any and all types of fawn grains and rough ages, and blend id desired feed concentrates and liquid molasses thoroughly and uniformly in any amount required. Mr. Elmore said that the new mill equipment, scheduled to begin operation very shortly, was instal led to improve and speed up the firm’s service to farm customers. He said it will be “something bra nd new in the feed milling trade.” “We have ordered a Daffin Pac kaged Feed Plant which will be shipped on a Daffin Manufactur ing Oo. truck direct from the fac tory in Lancaster, Pa. It will be ready to go to work within a mat ter of days after it arrives,” he said. Mr. Elmore described the new unit as “complete in every respect. It will grind anything grown and fed on farms quickly and thorou ghly. The ground grist is then uni formly mixed with concentrates to make finished feeds, properly Contained On Pn«e fwt. Ellis Funeral Rites Held James David E11U, 76, of Four Oaks, died in Johnston Memorial Hospital at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday. He was the son of the late Bob and Kasandy Wood ail Ellis of Johnston County. He married Mary Frances Temple, who died in 1934. Funeral services were conducted Friday at 3 p.m. at Elevation Methodist Church on Benson, Route 1, of which he was a member, by the Rev. J. D. Capps of Benson, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hershey, his pastor. Burial was in the church cemetery Surviving are three daughters, Mrs Charlie Adams of Four Oaks, Route 3, Mrs. Wilson Dowdy of Bepson Route 1 and Mrs. Luna Hall of near Coats: three sons, R. D. ol Four Oaks, L. A. of Wilmington and Vemnie Ellis of Dunn, Route 1; one brother, W. R. Eli'is of Ben son; 18 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren. Old Negro Dead Three Days When They Find Him An old colored man, Haywood Morgan, who lived alone in the western part of the county appar ently Sled three days before some curious neighbors found him. Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., said that the body was discovered on Wednesday evening after neigh bors went to investigate. No-one had 3een him since early in the weekend. His door was locked, but they saw his body lying on the floor. Coroner Pate and Deputy lee Upchurch went to the scene. The coroner said the cause of death was probably a heart attack. Several different kinds of whis ky bottles were on the floor of his shack. Seventy-two years, old, Morgan was receiving old age as sistance and an unopened check was in his possession at the time of his death. He Is survived by a brother, John. His wife died many years ago. LICENSE REVOKED MIAMT OP) — The Florida Rac ing Commission today revoked the tfoem* of Tropical Park President Saul SiJberman fox “admitted care lessness and failure to comply with our laws and regulations.” Robert Lee Smith Heads Dunn Legion Robert Lee Smith, a meter reader for the Carolina Power and Light Company here, Thursday night was elected commander of the Dunn post of the American Legion. . ' . * Smith, who has been active in the legion and other community affairs here, was unanimously elec ted to succeed Retiring Commander George Franklin Blalock. Major Blalock is retiring after a very successful term of office. In a review of the Legion year, Commander Blalock discussed some of the achievements, problems and responsibilities of the post. OTHER OFFICERS Other new officers, In addition to Commander Smith, are. Dewey Bass, first vice comman der; Lonnie R. Norris, Adjutant; Lewis A. Gavifljf finance officer; (Continued On Page Four) Dr. Adams Lawyers Conclude Defence LONDON OH — Attorney Geof frey rested his case and began summation of the defense today against charges Dr. John Bodkin Adams murdered an elderly wom an patient with overdoses at nar cotics. Adams never took the stand. Hie trial headed into the home stretch 15 days after it started making it the longest murder trial in the history of the Old Bailey Court. As soon as the session openec today, Lawrence rose an talked jrith Edelman in Washing . ton, D. C., and that it seemed very likely the FHA could be Induced t take an interest in housing (or th Erwin area. Since returning from the ,capi tal, Miriello has taken up the plan with his union and local business men and states there fas enthusiast from ah sides. Rents have cllmbe in sod move to Erwin if approprl and a large-scale project there, h thinks, might help to combat th! as well as provide needed livln (Centime* On Hsgn Twe) Prosperous Farmer Arrested Still Found Under Pack-House .Linwooci iiiacK, aescrmea by rural police as a pros perous fanner and “big wheel” in Anderson Creek township, has been arrested for violating the liquor laws. Uncovering a still under a pack house on Blade's property, the ru ral officers found and destroyed an enormous quantity of white lightning — 146 and a half gal lons. They also found and destroy ed 800 gallons of beer. Black, said a rural policeman, was “very cooperative.” He lent them his truck so they could haul the liquor off and get rid of it. Returning the compliment, po licemen cited him to court but bond was not required. “He has a lot of property out there,” one said. “He isn’t going anywhere." About fifty years old, Black has never been arrested before. Offi cers went to his home yesterday with a search warrant after re ceiving information that a liquor still was concealed, on the premis es. Twenty-five steps from his ho use was a pack house with an “ordering pit” for tobacco. Under this building, fairly roomy quart ers enclosed a well-arranged set up for the manufacture of Illegal whisky, officers claimed. The vat-type still and its eq uipment is beipg held as evidence. Capacity is 400 gallons. Down the hill at a s&riag an ntectrici pump bad been Stttalled TOT'" pfovfdipf water. A ditch had been created from about 46 yards out, to provide (Continued On Page Two* MISS JACQUELYN YATES Fifth Contestant In Pageant Named Fifth contestant chosen to run for the title of “Miss Dunn” in the beauty-and-talent pageant here on May 1 and 2 is Jacquelyn Faye Yates. Twenty-one years old and a ’54 graduate of Clayton High School, she is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. P. F. Yates of Clayton. At present she is a sophomore at Campbell College. She also attended Mere dith College after graduating from high school. Jacquelyn has had six years of voice training and will display that talent in the pageant. She also plays the piano. At Meredith, she majored in primary education. She \ five-fool five and a half Post Office Compromise | Is Expected WASHINGTON OP) — The House '■ Appropriations Committee today promised to consider next Friday provision of funds to stave oft a cut in postal service. Members said they expect the Post Office to delay until then the cuts it planned to impose at midnight tonight. Assistant Postmaster Don Mel cher of Dunn said this afternoon . (Continued On Page Three) Inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, ha* brown eyes and hair and fair com plexion. Her hobbles are singing sports and sewing. In a contest at Campbell Col lege, she was one of twq girls se lected to represent the school lr the ‘‘Miss Dunn” event, statec Jaycee Publicity Chairman Wood: Myers. > Congress Accepts Dare; Cuts Budget WASHINGTON «P> — The House Appropriations Com mittee today slashed 26 per cent from the budget of Com merce Secretary Sinclair Weeks who had “dared" Congr^s to cut it. If approved by the House, the reduction will push over the bill ion-dollar mark the total cuts made by the house In President Eisenhower’s record peacetime spe nding budget of 71.8 billion. The ipommlttee approved $591 , 397,060 to run the Commerce De partment in the next year instead of the $803,790,000- requested by It also trimmed the budget for a group of independent Commerce agencies from *50,075,000 to *45, 640,400 and for the Panama Canal from *17,648,000 to *16,648,600. All the cuts added up to *217, 827,040. They pushed to *1039,245,740 the total reductions imposed so far by (Contained On Page Ton) Cause of Death Unknown Still Checking Girl's Death r r 5 Investigation is continu-1 l ing in the death of Naomi Wilkins Lee, a 17-year old girl who was out on a date ' Tuesday night when she . died. 1 Tests so far completed tame not - revealed the cause of her death. e Despite some far-racing rumors, an s authoriaUve spokesman said that g no-one knows yet why she died. “I don’t have the slightest idea' what caused her death," he said, •'tout we're going to find out," The young candy worker marr ied John L. Lee of Mingo town ship when she was 10 but had not lived with him recently, At the time of her death, She had not gone to work because she complai ned of feeling 111 Roger Godwin, her date, said that she had slumped over In the seat while they were talking at a drive-In restaurant In Dunn. It ras about midnight when this happened, end she was deed or arrival at Dunn Hospital. Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., and ot hers who investigated the Inci dent state that they ere baffled end have no alternative except to wait for medical reports. A newspaper story alleging that Mrs. Lee was three and a half months pregnant was described by one authority as premature since “it may have had nc“-‘— -*■ to do with her death.” at m Trio Sought; Angry After Thrown Out LOS ANGELES The coroner’s office reported five men and one woman died in the explosion that demolished the Mecca cafe and created a panic. The dead were tentatively iden tified as Antonio M. Smaldino. 27; Harry Robinson, 60; Philip E. Crawshaw, 29; Gilbert Gonzales, (Controlled On Pace Poor) Storm Damage Heavy Gy UNITED TRESS - ^Tornadoes and severe wind amims caused more death and d« auction In the South today*® flood threats Increased on acres of rivers and streams. BULLETIN RALEIGH. N. C. (IB — The weather bureau said at 1:30 p. m. today that the chance of se vere weather or tornadoes over inland sections of eastern North Carolina has “greatly diminish ed.” The report said, however, that a possibility of isolated tor nadoes still existed in parts of the Coastal plain. Two Negro children were killed early this morning when a tor nado swept down on rural areas near EllavlMe, Oa. The victims were Larry Harvey, 5, and a year t Continued On Face Three) JOY GIRLS WANT UNION • TAIPEI, Formosa, April 5 (IB — The provincial government turned down a request by prostitutes to day for permission to form a trade association. After some debate, of ficials ruled that brothels were not ordinary commercial enterprises.