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* WEATHER * Partly cloudy and not so hot Tues day with a chance of scattered showers in the south. High 80 is the mountains and the north and 88 to 84 elsewhere. - This Bang Wie-org THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 -* TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 161 A PAIR OF QUEENS—Miss Jackie Yates, right, of Clayton, who represented Dunn in the Miss North Carolina pageant last weekend, i| is shown here with Marian Ann McKnight, the current Miss America. They were photographed at a party held at the Burlington Country Chib Sat urday night after the pageant. (Dally Record Photo.) She Hit Him With Hot Iron? Mrs. Jackson Sues For $75,000 Jhn&si Jr°r///o JhingA A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS Hubert Peay missed the Miss North Carolina beauty pageant last weekend for the first time in years.. .He forgot about the date and agreed to take a group of Baptist children to Ridgecrest. All the girls were asking about Hubert Saturday night, too....But he'll be in Roanoke this weekend to see Dunn’s Becky Lee .rowned as “Miss Virginia.”.So will a lot of other local people....The Vir iContinued On - are ) Mrs. Otis Jackson, shot three times by her husband who had to be routed from his home after the shooting with tear gas, has entered ci vil suit to collect damages for her injuries. Dunn Attorneys Everett Dof fermyre and D. K. Stewart have filed a complaint on her behalf asking for a total of $75,000 ($25,000 actual damages, $50,000 punitive) and specifying that her husband should be placed in jail if he doesn’t meet the punitivie damages in the case. Mrs. Jackson’s version of how the shooting occurred is told for the first time in this complaint. She states that her husband came home after painting a house he owned—a locally famous residence which was padlocked after it ren ter, Huckleberry Jackson, was con victed on bootlegging jounts—and Continued on Pare five Wife Says It Was All His Fault MIAMI (IP) — A 68-year-old cat driver died of a heart attack ir court Monday at the opening o: divorce proceedings against him Mrs. Harry McAllister, 58 showed no emotion as her husbanc slumped across his chair in th< courtroom. He was dead before i rescue squad could reach him. “It’s his own fault,” Mrs. Me Allister said calmly. “I asked hirt for an uncontested divorce. Hi wouldn’t give it to me, but insteai got himself all riled up.” The couple had been separate! for the last eight years but Me iContlnned on h|c five) Admits Slugging Woman At Time Of Crime Man's Confession May Free Dr. Sam * Sheppard DELAND, Fla., (UP)—A convcited burglar has told police here that he slugged a woman in an upstairs bed room in a fashionable Cleve land, Ohio, residential sec tion about the time Mariyn Sheppard was killed in 1954. Sheriff Rodney Thursday said to day the man, Donald Joseph Wed ler, 34, of Washington, D. C., did not confess to the celebraten Shep pard murder but told a story filled with details of the circumstances of the crime. Mrs. Sheppard’s husband, Dr. Samuel Sheppard, is now serving a life sentence for the slaying. Sheppard insisted during his trial that a bushy-haired stranger killed his wife while he was asleep on a downstairs sofa. Thursdy said the story told by Wedler checks with many of the i circumstances related by Shep pard. Authorities in Cleveland have been notified of the state ment given the sheriff Monday night. He said Wedler appears ti be telling the truth. Wedler, who has a erimina record dating back to 19t8, is tal and bushy haired. Whil.f servini a 10-year robbery sentence here he called In the sherrlfi Monda; and said he had “something oi his mind.’’ Wedler said he robbed a lake side home in a fashionable Cieve land residential section in 195 about the time of the Sheppan murder. (Continued mi Fa*o fire) Lone Bandit Holds Up Jewelry Co. A lone bandit armed with ! a .45 pistol held up Gre gory’s Jewelry Store in Lillington around $:30 p. m. today. Mrs. Buddy Gregory, wife of the owner, pvas in the shop alone, She de scribed the bandit as a Negro about 20 yedrs old and weighing perhaps 145 pounds. He was dressed, she said, in a three-toned, : yellow, brown and blue ; sport shirt. Tlie youth threatened her with the gun and de manded money. Told there was none in the safe, he scooped up jewelry— mostly watches and rings —and then ran to his ear parked outside. Fotoce, who believed he was headed toward Fay ville on 401 or 210, said he was driving a 1956 two toned Chevrolet. The car had South Carolina licen se plates numbered D-415 317. Officers theorized that he was a serviceman. They believe his weapon was dn Army .45 automa Mrs. Lockhart's Mother Is Dead Mrs. B. C. Howell of 401 Oak wood Ave., Durham, mother of Mrs. Sam Lockhart, prominent Dunn woman, died this morning at 1:30 o’clock at her home there. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’ clock at the Hall-Wynn Funeral Home in Durham. Survivors in addition to Mrs. Lockhart include another daugh ter, Miss Mary Howell, and a son, Booth Howell. l -c . . . j BECKY ANT) A BOOSTER—Dunn's Becky Lee, who will repre sent Roanoke, Va., In the Miss Virginia beauty pageant this wek end is pictured here chatting with Mrs. Alton A. Lennon at the North Carolina pageant held during the weekend at suiting ton. ^ Mrs. Lennon, wife of the Seventh District Congressman and a very I clamorous lady herself, was a judge at the N. C. pageant. She told Becky that she’s counting on her to win the Virginia title this weekend. (Daily Record Photo.) FACTS ABOUT HOUSING—Leaders of the move to set .in FHA housing project in Erwin last night met with officials of the federal gov ernment to obtain a plainer picture of what lies ahead. In photo (back row, left to right) are Joseph L. Smith, president of the Textile Workers of America local at Erwin; Julius R. Fry, regional director of the union; Rev. Eldridge Taylor of the Episcopal Church; James P. McRae, evaluator for the FHA; Ellis Barbour, real estate agent; (front row) Sam Mirlello, business agent of the union; John N. Malone of Atlanta, Ga„ supervisor of co operative housing for the FHA; J. L. Widman, state director of the FHA; and architect Alfred Kastner of Washington, I>. C (Dally Record Photo.) Top FHA Men At Erwin Dinner Housing Experts Pushing Project A witty architect from Washington, D. C., and twc FHA officials who are well up in the government ranks met with enthused Erwin residents last night and dis cussed prospects for a hous ing project there. All concerned seemed to think the prospects were good. Sam Miriello, business agent of the Textile Workers local at Er win, came out of the special din ner meeting predicting that a mo del house which potential owners can look at will probably be up in (Continued on Pare Flee Lillington Police Probe Break-Ins Lillington police and the SBI were investigating a series of three break-ins Saturday night in Lillington. Brock Chevrolet Company, Lew is Super Service, and Matthews Oil Company were entered Satur day after midnight, probably in the early morning hours of Sun day, police said. Losses at all three places were minor. Robbers pushed a small hole through the front door at Matthews Oil Company and gained entry. Several cartons of cigarettes were reported missing but thieves found no big sum of cash. At Brock Chevrolet Company, Clifton Erock, the owner, said the robbers broke a pane of glass high on the door that leads to the office. They reached in and unloc ked the door, but Brock said the automobile agency keeps no mo ney in the office and that the safe was unlocked. He said few things were disturbed in the office. The outside door of the office is on the South side of the building which is located on highway 401. Entry Through Window Less than a few yards away is Lewis service station. Mrs. N. F. Lewis, bookkeeper said there rob bers broke a pane in a casement window and gained acces to the station. Service station attendants had taken all money out of the cash register and emptied cigar-, ette and other vending machines late Saturday night. “Robbers may have taken a can of oil from the shelf, but found little to interest them,” she said. This marks the third time Lewis’ has been entered in recent months. The brick sta tion is newly built and has no en trances on the back. All three places entered are lo cated along highway 401. Sen. Kefauver Takes Stand Against South WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) bitterly denounced Chief Justice Earl Warren and At torney Gen. Herbert Brow nell today in a Senate speech attacking the administra tion’s civil rights bill. Byrd likened Warren to Thad deus Stevens, the South’s chief foe during the Reconstruction era. And he said Brownell would be “20th Century American Caesai” under the bill. Byrd’s assault came as the Sen ate prepared to vote some time between 4:15 and 6:15 p.m. on the motion to take up the measure. The motion was sure to be ap proved by a sizable majority de spite southern opposition. Byrd said President Kisenhow er, the House sponsor of the bill and the chairman of the House committee which handl 'd it did not know what it contained. “Of course, I have no documen tary proof,’’ Byrd said “and I suspect by design there is none, but speaking only for myself. I strongly suspect that the modern Thaddeus Stevens now cloaked in the robe of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, has a thorough and complete knowledge of what could and would be done under the bill.” Brownell Powers Byrd said Brownell had ducked questions whether the armed forc es could be used under the bill to force racial integration in public schools. Kefauver Favorable In another prepared speech, Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) announced that he would vote for the measure to take up the bill the first southerner to do so. lie said he felt that any senator or group of senators should have the right to have a bill considered after sufficient debate to alert the country to its significance. Kefauver said the bill contains parts which he disapproves. He said he does not think it should be tied to the question of racial inte (Conrtinued On Page Four) James Cox Dies; Sought Presidency DAYTON, Ohio (UP)—James M. Cox, who arose from a country school teacher to be newspaper publisher, gov ernor and Democratic candidate for president in 1920, died at his home here Monday night. He was 87. v/n me iiv.itci wiiii V/UA wa: vice presidential candidate Frank lin D. Roosevelt, at that time as sistant secretary of the Navy anc who later was elected presidenl four times. Cox, Ohio’s first three - tim< Democratic governor, won his par ty’s nomination for the presidencj on the 44th ballot in the 1920 Sar Francisco convention after a heat ed contest against U S. Attornej General A. Mitchell Palmer am Sen. William G. McAdoo. Cox’s nomination for presiden maue ueiioaii an umu newspaper man would be elected the coun try’s chief executive. Beaten By Hardin; The Republicans had nominated Warren G. Harding, a U.S. sena tor and publisher of the Marion ■ (Ohio) Star. Harding won a sweep ing victory with his front porch campaign calling for a 'return to ■ normalcy.” Cox and Roosevelt had taken a I strong stand in suport of Wood row Wilson’s position for a League (Continued >n t*i(e Two Crosses Continent In 3 Hours, 23 Minutes Navy Jet Sets Record NEW YORK (UP)—A Na vy jet fighter set a new transcontinental speed rec ord today. Marine Maj. John Glenn Jr. took off from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California at 9:04: 12.2 a. m. e.d.t. His F8U-1P Crusader jet was flocked over the control tower at Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station here at 12:27:20 6 p m., an elapsed time of three hours, 23 minutes, £.4 seconds. That beat by 21 minutes and 45.48 seconds the official record set March 9, 1955, by an Air Force F84F jet. Glenn slowed down for three re fuelings in flight, over Grants, N.M., Emporia, Kans., and Co lumbus, Ohio. His average speed was figured unofficially at 726.48 miles per hour for th e2,460-mile flight, about 60 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound at 45,000 feet. The Navy had announced Glenn was trying for a “first supersonic speed record" across the contin ent. It figured this would be set at an average speed of 760 miles per hour, which is the speed of sound at sea level rather than at flight level. He failed by about five minutes. Glenn broke through the sonk barrier at least four times in flight to maintain that average, after take-off and after each re fueling. Top speed of the supersonic Chance Vought jet h»s not been (Continued on Pave Fin)
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