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+ WEATHER * Partly cloudy and warm Tuesday with a few afternoon and evening thundershowers. Wednesday partly cloudy and quite warm with a chance of afternoon thundershow ers. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3115 DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 99 U S. Opposing Easing Trade With Red China WASHINGTON Iff) — The Unit ed States -will not approve any move by its allies to sell war po tential materials to Red China or any member of the Communist bloc, an administration spokes - man said today. Harold C. McClellan, assistant secretary of commerce for inter national trade, made the comment on current negotiations among the allies on East-West trade prob lems, Britain and Japan particu larly want a relaxation of trade controls. McClellan noted that for some time this country has been under increasing pressure from its allies to relax East-West trade controls. The State Department announced last Saturday it is ready to discuss certain modifications in trade cu rbs with 14 U. S. allies who par ticipate In the trade control pro gram. McClellan said itne United States took the move to avoid the possibility of losing all controls on trade with Red China and other Soviet bloc nations. He said this danger was present because of the pressing need of the allies, partic ularly Britain and Japan, for more world trade. During the coming talks, he said, “We will insist on. complete . safeguards against trading in any strategic materials.” But he said the United States peetoably will twfSe T>y its allies in certain non ^^ Strategic items, .particularly In the Aslan trade. He did not name the items. What the administration has In mind, McClellan said, la A possi ble tightening of East-West trade controls in Europe and a slight re laxation of same controls In Asia. Other international trade experts do not believe Britain and Japan have much to gain in such an eas ing off controls. Jaycees Choose Cretini President In a three-way race for the presidency of the Dunn Junior Chamber of Commerce; Corky Cretini defeated fellow candidates Tommy Godwin and Woodie Moyers. CORKY CRETIN! Cretin! and other new .officers ■will be installed in the near fu ture announced, outgoing president Paul Perry. Jaycees are currently embroiled in the year’s biggest promotion, “The Miss Dunn Pa geant” which they sponsor. Huber Register was chosen at the meeting in Westbrook Chevro let Co. last night to succeed Ed Boyette as vice-president of the organization. Tommy Oodwin was named secretary, a position that has been held by Lamar Stone. Since Pete Skinner left Dunn to attend embalming school in Cincinnati, Eston Betts has been acting as secretary of the club and he was officially elected to that position last night. Woodie Myers was chosen to suc ceed Derwood Godwin as state di rector. Cretin! made a brief acceptance (Continued On Pag* Seven* ’Inca Sun Goddess Yma Sumac Slaps Her Maid, Shrieks HOLLYWOOD <W — The District attorney’s office or dered full explanations to day of a wild brawl involv ing fiery Peruvian singer Yma Sumac, her estranged husband and an assorted cast. The brawl Tuesday was the sec ond altercation* in 16 hours result ing from strained relations be - , tween the South American beaut] billed as the Inca Sun Goddess, and her musical-director spouse, Motses Vivanco, 38. The district attorney ordered f‘ln person* explanations from Miss Sumac; her husband; two hot-blooded Inca dancers; three private detectives and a male Pe ruvian harpist. The family's collie dog, Prince, had a barking-snap ping role in the fracas. The luxurious $100,000 Cheviot Hills home of Miss Sumac and Vhranco, whom she sued far dl v vorce only a week a*o, fairly trembled from the piercing screams of Miss Sumac's celebrated five - octave voice during the face-slap ping, hair-pulling, head-bumping, clothes-tea ring free-for-all. Some blood was drawn and at least one 230-pound private detective hit the deck. Mias Sumac sported a black eye but was credited with uncorking some of the most resounding blows —five slaps across the face of one Robert Strom Retiring With $192,000 10-Year-0ld Is Biggest Winner Yet On TV NEW YORK (IP> — Robert Strom, heavier by $192,000, retired Tuesday night at the age of 10, the richest quiz winner in TV history. Young Rob, a fifth grade science expert from the Bronx, N.Y., bowed out of the “The $64,000 Question” after 1<1 appearances on the CBS TV giveaway. His parents, Albert and Beatrice Strom, made the de cision even though Rob .was of fered the chance of adding a final $64,000 to his stake. “Rob has had a wonderful ex perience on the show,” said Albert Strom, who earns $6,000 a year as a vocational high school teacher. “We’ve looked for signs of strain, but we’ve seen none. He’s taking it in stride. "But it’s been a big strain on my wife and myself. If he stayed on, there would always be the pos sibility of his missing—with all the heartbreak and feeling that would go with it. We’ve decided this would be a good time to stop.’’ Young Strom, a 51 - inch, 65 pound mental giant, will be paid his pile in three yearly install - ments by the sponsor of the show. That means he'll be able to keep some $83,000 after taxes. . . .what can you do with par ents?” McLamb Infant Burled Tuesday ' Qraveside services were held Tuesday fftemoon at 3 o’clock from Fberyezer church cemetery for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Brantley McLamb of Ben son. The Rev. W. O. Lanning, pas tor of the Benson Baptist Church, officiated. Surviving, in addition to her pa rents, are one brother, Dan of the home, maternal grandmother, Mrs. Joe Johnson of Coats, Route 1, paternal grandfather, Herbert Mc Lamb of Reidsville and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Eula M. Wiggs of Selma, Rt. 3. GRAIN TANKS—BIG AND BEAUTIFUL—Twin— grain tanks, each capable of holding 5000 bushels, are near completion on the Dunn FCX lot which will use them for storing oats, wheat, and barley In the Spring—corn in the Fall—before it is shipped out of the county to buyers elsewhere. FCX Manager Rupert Godwin said the huge, sil very tanks, which have a shiny beauty under the late afternoon sun, should be in. full use by early summer. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail.) Chance Gets Year In Slashing Leon Chance, a Negro about 55 years old, has gone to the roads for a year in the pre-Easter slashing of a twentish Negro he claimed had tried to steal his girl. In jail since shortly after the fight which occurred on the night of April 13, Chance was brought to trial Monday (before Judge H. Paul Strickland in Dunn Record er’s Court. Sam McNeill Jr., the young Ne gro who had a hundred stitches taken in hi* neck after the fight which began in a section of Dunn known as “Korea,” was also un der indictment far assault but he was acquitted. The court found Chance guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious bodily injury. Mc Neill had a long, shallow wound that ran from ear to ear. Both men took the stand but disagreed about the woman in the case. McNeill denied that he had (Continue* On Page Seven) Sexton Will Head Lillington Legion Fred Sexton, automobile agency head, is the new commander of the Lillington post of the American Le gion. » Sexton was elected commander to succeed George Souders at a supper meeting held on Friday night, April 19 at the Legion Hut at Little River. , (Continued On Page Poor) MANEUVERABLE GIANT—This hug* four-engined Douglas Model 1906A can cany 58 fully equipped troops and take off from either an aircraft carrier or extremely short, improvised runways. The high wing shown in artist’s sketch incorporates a high-lift flap system which permits short takeoffs and landing runs. Boasting a wingspan of 105 feet, five inches, the plane was designed specifically for fleet aerial resupply and marine light assault missions. Its top speed is 815 miles an gnur. __ \ \ Jury Chosen, Legal Battle Gets Underway By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer .. Evidence began today in Harnett Superior Court in the $250,000 slander suit brought by Harnet County farm agent C. R. Ammons against former Mayor Joel Layton, Jr., of Lillington. Selection of a jury to hear the unusual civil suit was completed quickly at the morning session as two new Jurors were seated from a special panel Sheriff Claude Mo ore had been instructed to call. Drawn from . the new panel were R E. Austin and S. R. Stephenson. Other Jurors approved were Don nie A. Smith, William B. Wilson, Henry R. Turnage, Leo Sessoms, Janies E. Norris, Jarvis Sessoms, Clavin Parker, Lacy O. Avery, C. E. Bass and J. Woodrow Gregory. Judge Malcolm Seawell of Lum ber ton, who is presiding, immedia tely excused other regular jurors, indicating he expects the trial of the slander action to consume the rest of the week. Hoover Adams, editor and pub lisher of the Dunn Dally Record, led off the parade of 36 witnesses counsels for the plaintiff announc ed they will call. Adams was fol lowed by W. B. Bruce of Overhill, chairman of the County Board of Health, and John A. Wamble, Lil lingtofi merchant and member of ■CTW*Wtlingiton town it Drew Para: board. Ilel Adams testified that, among ot her things, Layton had drawn a parallel between Ammons and- Ju das Iscarlat, the unfaithful disciple who betrayed Christ, and that he had also compared Ammons with a former county commissioner, C. G. Fields, who was sent to prison after admitting stealing funds from the First Citizens Bank at Angler. He also quoted Layton as saying at the 1964 hearing that a member of the Lillington Rotary Club had (Om tinned On Pag* Six) Will Price Houses By Local Need Union (Manager 6am Mirlello said today that a survey will determine local sentiment on housing prices in connection with a contemplat ed FHA project in Erwin, Business agent of the Textile Workers local there. Mirlello said he believes that most potential ho me-owners who would be interest ed in the FHA housing would pro bably prefer homes which could be bought for $45 or perhaps $50 a month. His discussions with Washington, D. C., architect Alfred Kastner, who was in Erwin to study the lo cal situation on Monday and Tues day, indicated that the homes can be priced and shaped in response to the expressed needs of those who will buy them. If the FHA lends support to the project, and union officials are ho peful that it will, a model home will be constructed exhibiting va rious features of the proposed ho mes. Says U. S. To Blame Newsman Outraged At' Bamboo Curtain NEW YORK (IW — William Dwight, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, charged to day that the U.S. government is responsible for keeping I the Bamboo Curtain around Red China. m a strong attack on the State Department's ban on travel by American newsmen in China, Dwight told the ANPA's 71st an nual convention that the govern ment's, policy runs counter to "the people's right to kndw—a precious right inherent In our way of life.” He promised that the ANPA would continue to oppose this policy “at the highest level.” Wants Travel Freedom Dwight, who is president of the Holyoke (Mass). Transcript - Tel egram, said the ANPA has asked the President, the secretary of State and Congress “that newspa permen who are American citi - zens and are employed by Ameri can publications and news gather ing services to gather and write news or express opinion on facts be accorded by our government freedom to travel for that purpose in any country in the world with which the United States is not at war.” “Anpa has in mind particularly the granting of the right to go to Red China and report back to the American people,” he said. “The Bamboo Curtain now stands by or der of our government between us and Red China.” Senate Calls Prostitute, ; Dope Addicts WASHINGTON OP) —Two women narcotics addicts, one an admitted prostitute, told Senate rackets investi gators today they were forced to sign a false affi davit on behalf of Mayor Terry D. Schrunk of Port land, Ore. Their testimony was denied by Portland Deputy Sheriff George Minlelly, who took their state ment. Chairman John L. McClellan (ID-Artc) of the Senate Backets Committee said somebody com mitted perjury today, and perhaps Twas guilty of subordination of KMtail On Page Three) Can't See or Hear Him or Read His Books — ..... *-S— ' - Catholics Forbidden To Hear Graham NEW YORK (IP)—Roman Catholics were warned today that they are expressly forbidden to listen to evangelist Billy Graham in Madison Square Garden, on radio or television, or to read his books or sermons. The Rev. John E. Kelly, direc tor of the bureau of Information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, writing In the Homilet ic and Pastoral Review, a maga zine for priests, said there is much to admire in Graham’s preaching. Preaches “Heresy” But he said Graham preaches "heresy" in his Insistence that th ere is no one denomination which is the true church of Christ. “Catholics are not permitted to participate in Protestant religious services,” Father Kelly wrote. He said Graham’s published works contain doctrines which are, 1 either false in themselves or false because they are incomplete and thus “fall within the scope of the index and reading them Is forbid den by canon law." > '‘Catholics should not tune In on Billy’s radio and television pro - grams,” Father Kelly wrote. “So well constructed are his sermons, so interwoven with false doctrine, so forceful and so (persuasive is his delivery, that even a fairly well Instructed Catholic may be deceiv ed.” (Continued On Pag* Saves) PTA Installs White, Other New Leaders Paul White was installed Tuesday night as the new president of the Dunn Parent-Teachers Association in a meeting he!d at the high school auditorium. Taking office as vice-president was Max McLeod Mrs. Earl Jones was Installed as Secretary, Joe Ruarlc as treasurer amd Herman Green as the ways and means ch airman. Chief speaker before the associ | ation last night was District Prin cipal A. B. Johnson. He ami sev eral students had a discussion on school drives. The outgoing president of the PTA, Mis. J. C. Andrews, led the group in repeating the Lord’s Pray 'Spunkiest Woman of frho Year* WASHINGTON OP) —The Women’s National Press C’.ub Tuesday night saluted Secretary of Defense Char les B. Wilson’s most potent secret weapon — his wife, Jessie. The Wilson* were so pleased they sane the club a duet that started; “Ob. the BM flies at 40,000 feet." The club honored Mrs. Wilson at a dinner as "Spunkiest Woman of the Year" In recognition of her \ I: ■ ; defense of her hudband against President Elsenhower last Janu ary during a fight over the Na tional Guard. The President criticised Wilson for making an alleged remark ab out draft dodgers. Mrs. Wilson huf fed publicly that Elsenhower’s com ment was “uncalled for” and that she was "Indignant" Club members not only present ed Mrs. Wilson with a special scroll but sang her a song: "Oh, Jessie "Didn't get mcaor. "But she spoke her piece / so loud and strong, "That even Eisenhower ‘'Had to toes a flower "To the wife whose husband couldn’t be wrong." Wilson laughed, stamped his feet In time to the music and Joined in on the choruses. Mrs. Wilson said that dinner I party and the scroll were “the ni cest thing that's happened to me since I married Charlie." | The grinning white-haired de - i tense chief told the club tie wee '“a little proud of the way Jess id
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