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* WEATHER * Partly cloudy and warn today with a chance of a few showers la the afternoon or evening. High temp eratures in the 80s. Tuesday con siderable cloudiness and warm with scattered afternoon and evening! thundershowers. THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 13, 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 112 SNOW WHITE AND HER PRINCE—Charm - infly dressed for a first-graders re-enactment of the old, wonderful story of Snow White were Rita BipMBaw and her Prince, Michael Bryant. Rita Is •even aid Michael 6. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Elmon Bradshaw of Erwin and Ms par ents are Mr, and Mrs. C. D. Byant. Michael de monstates the kiss that supposedly wakes 'the sleeping Snow White—in this case, she stayed bright awake to receive it. (Record Photo By Ted Crail.) Girl Says She Was Stripped, Badly Beaten NICOSIA (IP) — A beautiful young Greek Cypriot girl alleged in court today that a British po lice sergeant stripped her naked and whipped her with a leather strap. The girl, 22-year-old clerk Vas so Lizia, is on trial accused of carrying a letter from one Eoka extremist to another asking for Sten-gun parts. Miss Lizia appeared in court today in a turquoise blue frock with no make-up. Her dark hair spilled down to her shoulders. Her face was drawn. In a slow, quivering voice, she charged that police sergeant Geoffrey Leach “in a fit of temp er" tore all her clothes off. She alleged he kept tearing at her clothes until she stood naked in front of leach and two former Eoka youths who turned inform er! A few Turks were also with Leach, she said. In an earlier ’hearing Leach de nied the charges. After Tuesday, Dunn Kiwanis On Its Own Attorney Charles O. Rose, Jr„ of Fayetteville will address the regu lar meeting of the Dunn Kiwanls Club tomorrow in the George F. Pope Room of the Cottondale Ho tel. After tills meeting in concluded, the Dunn club a fledgling chapter of Kiwanls which was started just a few weeks ago with an enthusi astic group of charter members — will be on its own. The Fayetteville Club is ending its term of sponsorship and the run of meetings during Which it has furnished the programs. Kiwanis President Charles Roach expeots a good turnout tomorrow. One order of business tomorrow will be the induction of two new members. The Dunn Kiwanis al ready stands about 60 strong. Quite a number of Fayetteville Kiwanians are expected to come down for this meeting, which re presents a milestone in the program (Continned On Page Seven' Graham Ready For Sin-City Crusade New York Campaign Biggest For Billy NEW YORK (UP)—In the spring of 1917, with the world at war, a former major league baseball player stood in a New York tabemac’e and “converted” 98,264 persons to Christ. The late Billy . Sunday breathed hellfire-and-brimstone to more than a million listeners in 10 weeks, and before leaving the stage he announced, “We piled up so many home runs to heaven that the devil was out of the game,” Now Bi'ly Graham has come to town, his job cut for him. The devil is still here. Not for 40 years has the big town, with its full quota of cynics and sinners, paid such need to a man of religon. The 38-year-old North Carolina evangelist has waited and prepared for seven years for the moment which arrives at 7 30 p. m., Wednesday. Biggest Battle In an arena recently reserved for the circus and tag wrest’dng, on an avenue lined with bars, in a city where only seven people in a hundred share his Protestant faith and about three out of five profess no faith at all—Gra ham will launch the biggest batt’e of his metoric career. It is not merly a fight to “win New York for Christ.” tcontt—« Om n«i Ktght) Gina Scala Breaks Down On TV Show NEW YORK (UP)—Gia Scala, a 21-year-old actress, broke down during an appearance on the NBC TV Steve Allen show last night and had to be led off-stage. A spokesman for Columbia Pic tures said Miss Scala “apparently was suffering from a bed case of mike fright." The young actress, who was on the show to plug her movie, “The Garment Jungle", was reported in normal condition today. A nationwide TV audience saw Miss Scala walk out on the stage, blink up at the studio lights and nod durnbly to Allens first question. Allen put his arm around Miss Scala to steady her and she then began to cry. She put her head in her hands and the camera quickly panned to a closeup of Allen, who gave a quick resume of events scheduled for his show next week. The actress, who was born in Italy but has lived in this country since the age of 14, was scheduled to appear on Mutual’s “Luncheon at Sardi's’ today, but Columbia cancelled that appearance. HOG MARKETS RALEIGH OF — Hog markets: Kinston, New Bern, Benson — Steady at 17.00 to 17.50 for good gilts. Rocky Mount, Tar boro — 25 cents lower at 18.75-17.50. • Siler City — Steady at 16.76 17.25. Goldsboro, Smithfield, Dunn, Mount Olive — Steady at 17.06. Florence, Clinton, Fayetteville, Elizabeth town — 25 cents lower at 16.75. Record Roundup HOSPITAL OPEN — Mrs. Doro thy Lynch qf the Hospital Auxi liary announced that “Hospital Week” begins today, and members of the public are Invited to visit Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital in Dunn. There will be displays up town commemorating the event. Benson Says He Has No Plans To Quit WASHINGTON (UP) — Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson said today there is no basis, so far as he knews, for several recent re ports that he will soon leave President Eisenhower’s cab inet. ‘‘I’ve never worried about ten ure in this job,’ he added In a news conference with members of the Newspaper Farm Editors Assn., holding a two-day meeting here to day. Benson assailed as ‘‘unwise’ a House Appropriations Committee cut of 100 million dollars in his proposed budget for the acreage reserve section of the soil bank program. He said his aides have conferred with House members fo both parties, seeknig to reverse the cut on the floor. If this appeal fails, Benson indi cated he will ask the Senate to re store the soil bank fund and several other cuts. If the committee action limit ing acreage reserve funds to 600 million dollars this year and 500 million next year stands, Benson said, the administration will have to scale down the program under which payments are made to fann ers who cut back plantings of sur plus crops. M-M-M-MINK! — Four-year old Camilla Neilson obviously isn’t too young to get that feel ing that only mink can give a girl. On hand to meet her aunt at San Francisco’s International Airport, Caif ilia just had to try ojj auntie’l ijjnk coat.._ .— School Teacher Held For Disrobing Girls FAIRFAX, VA. (UP)—A 31-year-old male teacher, called the “most popular teacher in school,” today faced charges of disrobing eighth grade girl students and giv ing them ‘maturity tests’ at Mt. Vernon High School here. Fairfax County police said teach er Jack E. Hamilton, father of two small children, was arrested on two charges filed by the parents of two teen-aged girls. A third child's mother said she also would fiie charges. Hamilton was released under $10,000 bond pending a hearing Friday and the county school board said he had been, suspended. Police said Hamilton was accus ed of using the promise of jobs in a modeling studio to lure six girls to an interview in an empty class room. Three girls were called back later to be given “maturity tests” in which they Were required to dis robe, two of the girls charged. PAGEANT HELPERS—These two Harnett educators and two widely known women leaders of the comity are among those con tributing much time and effort to promoting the production of “The Highland Call,” which opens Thursday night for three nights In the Paul Green open air theatre at Campbell College. Thousands are expected to see the colorful pageant written by Harnet playwright Paul Green. At top left Is Sidney G. Thomas of Broadway, chair man of the county board oI education and top rgfht Is Harnett school Supt Glenn T. Profit. At bottom left Is Miss Basel Matthews of Kipling ami at bottom right is Mrs. Virginia Johnson of Ul Flood Destroys 90 Per Cent Of Entire Town DALLAS, TEX. (UP)— Emergency crews pushed ov er f'ooded and broken roads today into the town of Lam pasas, Tex., where a 10-foot wall of water washed 50 to 100 homes away and ravaged the business section. While the emergency crews were taking food, water and clothing to Lampasas, a tornado hit Paris. 85 miles northeast of Dallas, near Red River. It twisted off a radio station tower, unroofed buildings, partly wrecked a church and knocked out nearly all the telephones in Paris, a city of 23,000 residents. Another Tornado Another tornado, hit northwest Dallas today, where, according to officials, it scattered a lumber yard over the countryside and pluc ked the roofs from garages and homes in three contacts with the earth. A tornado in Dallas April 2 killed 10 persons, injured 200 more and wrecked millions of dollars worth of homes and factories. Three persons were 'believed to have lost their lives at Lampasas last night. Eight others were treated for injuries at a Red Cross center set up in a church. In tjie midst of the flood, a con tinuation of an unparalleled epi demic of tornadoes, cloudbursts and floods that began April 19, a gas main burst and caught fire in the business section of Lampasas. "Ninety per cent of our town is as near completely destroyed as could be," Publisher Ward Lowe of the Lampasas Dispatch said. "The goods in the buildings are washed out and where there were basements they are caved in, leav iny gaping holes in the floor. There isn’t a piece of plate glass left in town. Homes Swept Away "Fifty to 100 homes were either swept from their foundations or washed completely away. The town square is pretty well covered with cars washed around like pins in a bowling alley. From a business standout, we’re Just about wiped out.” Lowe, talking today on the sin gle emergency phone left In Lam pasas. said he was not talking ab out the town as a whole when he assessed the damage! Lampasas has about 5,000 residents. He was refer ring more to the business section. Linda Sobs Over Death Of Her Lover MILAN, Italy (111 — Copper-hair ed film star Linda Christian wept hysterically Sunday night when she learned that Spanish Marquis Alfonso de Portago — the man she might have married — was killed in an Italian road race. The Hollywood beauty who was once married to actor Tyrone Power saw part of the race, and she gave De Portages a farewell kiss at II a. m. at the checkpoint of the Mille Mlglla in Rcme, half way point of the classic race ar ound Italy. She boarded an airliner to Mi lan near Brescia and arlived here smiling and without knowledge of De Portagos’ death. Her smile faded when She saw the serious faces of newsmen waiting at tile airport to greet her and was re placed by a look of disbelief. “Please tell me the truth," she said. Her mouth fell open at first to disbelief and then to horror. 8he broke into sobs. Friends took her by the arm and led her to a se cret hiding place f*r Brescia where she was spending the night. The Spanish nobleman was mar ried to the former Carol McDan iel, 35, of Charleston, 8. C., and was reported planning to divorce Tirrtt-Tri ta rags Ms) MRS. ELLEN EASON Now She's N. C Safety Queen ■ rjsa Dunn Beauty Wins State Safety Crown Ellen Eason, already an old land at talking about good safety practices, will be spreading her message throughout North Carolina during the coming year. The thrilling end to her guest for the safety queen title came »t Winston-Salem on Friday night when she won, over two other fin alists, in the state competition. An attractive, brown-haired se cretary at Gardner's Dairy in Dunn she is married to T. C. Eason., Jr. of Dunn. Though the contesting is over, the responsibilities of being North Carolina's Safety Queen are just beginning. She'll try to promote interest in the vital aspect of day-to-day llv (Continued On Pag* Six) Man Fined $500 On Liquor Charge Lemuel Black, Anderson Creek farmer who allegedly had a big liquor still hidden in the ordering pit of his to bacco pack house, Thursday was convicted in Harnett Re corder’s Court of possession of jnachinery for illegal manu facture of whiskey. ? Judge Robert (Bobby) B. Mor gan, Sr. sentenced the 50 year-old farmer to nine months on the roads, suspended two years on con dition the defendant not violate any prohibition laws, and pay fine of $500 and costs. Through his attorneys, Taylor and Morgan, Black! unmedt»atelly filed notice of appeal to the Su perior Court. A parade of character witnesses, including the new may or of Llllington, Casey S. Fowler and Dr. A. W. Peede, chairman or the school board, had given Black a good character. Others tes tifying for Black were Dewey Joh nson, Sheriff C. R. Moore and Roy Butts. All said they had never heard qf Black selling liquor until the case in question. “Lot of Whiskey” But the fudge said he could not ignore the testimony of Rural Pe licem&n Clarence Moore that 141 and a half gallons of whiskey and 800 gallons of beer were found fin the pit. “That’s a lot of whiskey/ (Contisoed On Page Seven) Johnson Raps Ike WASHINTON (UP)—Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson accused the Eisenhower administration to day of speaking out of “both sides of its mouth” on spend ing. He called oh President Eisen hower to embrace publicly either the “spending wing” or "econo my wing" of his administration so Congress will know what be wants it to do. He added that the President's televised budge* speech Hiesdsy night should show whether "he wants an economy administration or a spending administration." The Texas Democrat loosed his new attack as the Senate prepared to take up this afternoon its first regular appropriation oui iot me fiscal year beginning July 1. It was a House - approved measure carrying $3,965,291,000 for the Tre asury and ost Office departments. The Senate Appropriations Com- . mittee recommended acceptance of tre House figure which was $60, 364,000 below the administration request. The Senate’s action will be considered a major teat of Its ec onomy attitude toward other Hou se budget cuts. In other budget developments:
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