* WEATHER +
Monday scattered showers and
widely scattered thundershowers
over the central and east portions.
Tuesday partly cloudy and moder
ately warm.
Ttie B ailg Kieer
THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 7
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1957
FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 185
NO COP IN SIGHT—This boat, adrjft at a
Dunn intersection, wasn’t paying very good at
tention to the traffic signals yesterday—but
there wasn’t a cop in sight and who cared? A
flood that came with a massive rain delighted
everybody. Those who didn’t have boats, took
off their shoes and socks and waded. A few un
lucky churchgoers, coining home in best clothes,
had to wade for it, too. Daily Record Photo
by Ted Crail.)
Flood Makes For Good Boating
Driver Says
Vodka For
Dad's Asthma
The vodka wasn’t for him per
sonally, complained Cecil Otis
Turnage, it was for his father’s as
thma. i
A recorder’s court jury didn’t
accept the ingenious excuse given
by the Geensboro man who was
tried Friday for drunk driving.
They brought in a verdict of guil
ty.
Announcing that he would make
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In the aftermath of the
big rain yesterday, kids were
frolicking in the street in
bathing suits and at one in
tersection an intrepid party
of boatment were out in a
rowboat.
This flood at the intersection of
Pope and South Magnolia filled
the street, swooshed onto lawns
and, since it didn’t do much real
property damage, was an exciting
event for everybody.
Except, perhaps, for six car -
owners who -got stalled in the big
puddle when • their transmissions
and brakes became wet. Mrs.
Therlo Barefoot called the wreck
er, and it pulled them from the
water, one by one.
City Manager Uzzle said the
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Oppose Premature
Opening Of Bypass
Aroused at the possibility that the 301 bypass around
Dunn might be opened independently of other strips of
the new highway, the Dunn City Council has passed a re
solution opposing any such action.
City Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr.,
said the board passed this reso
lution at a meeting Thursday nite
and that it has been mailed to W.
F. Babcock, North Carolina’s di
rector of highways.
Earl Westbrook, who has been
prominently associated with the
development of Highway 301 into
a major north and soute route,
was one of three Dunn business
men who appeared before the co
uncil and requested the resolut
ion. The others were Frederick
Haak of Dawson’s Motor Court and
J. D. Barnes, owner of Johnson’s
Restaurant.
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Drives After
License Removed
Loses Until I960
Madison McNeill of Angier has
had his license for driving remov
ed until early 1960 by the state
highway safety department and se
veral others from this area have
lost their right to drive for lesser
periods.
A weekly bulletin on license re
moval actions states that McNeill
was convicted of driving after his
license had been revoked. He was
tried in Recorder’s Court at Lil
lington. Those receiving one year
revocation notices:
Charlie Bass of Bunnlevel, con
victed in Lillington Recorder’s
Court of drunk driving.
Willie McAllister of Lillington,
convicted in Recorder’s Court at
Williamston of drunk driving.
James Wesley McDonald of
Dunn, convicted in the Dunn Re
corder’s Court of drunk driving.
Willis Stewart of Dunn, convic
ted in Recorder's Court at Lilling
ton of drunk driving.
Those whose licenses have been
suspended include:
Robert Eugene Hobby of Apex,
who lost his license until October
as an “habitual violator.” Charles
Billy Lipscomb of Angier also los
es his license until October; he
was convicted in Fuquay Springs
Recorder’s Court of speeding over
70 miles per hour.
Senator McClellan Says: ....
Loopholes Aid Racketeers
WASHINGTON (UP) — i
Chairman John L. McClellan ■
(B-Ark) said today the Sen
ate Labor Rackets Commit
tee has found "woeful inade
quacies" in existing law
which make it possible for
gangsters and racketeers to
invade labor unions.
V^Clellan made the statement
to the Senate before his committe
called Teamster boss Dave Beck’s
number one assistant to the wit
ness stand at an afternoon session
to explain how the hoodlum ele
ment invaded the Teamsters Un
ion.
McClellan, asking the Senate for
another $150,000 for the opera
tions of his committee until next
Jan. 31, said that more than 65
days of public hearings “have
proved most fruitful in revealing
conditions which require remedial
legislation.”
“We have found that there is a
dearth of protection of the work
ing men and women by the diver
sion and misuse of uion dues and
welfare funds by unscrupulous
union officials an dtrustees,” Mc
Clellan told the Senate.
“We have found improper prac
tices in the nature of collusion be
tween some management and
some labor officials to the econ
omic advantage of both and to the
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Civil Rights
Action Is
Stalled Again
WASHINGTON (UP) —
Virginia Democrat Howard
W. Smith today stalled ac
tion on a compromise civil
rights bill for several more
days.
Smith, a foe of any civil rights
legisluation, used his position as
chairman of the House Rules
Committee to prevent the House
from considering the bill.
“I’m not going to take the in
itiative” in convening the com
mittee, he told United Press.
His decision—which was expec
ted—forced northern and western
Democrats in the committee to
resort to a time-consuming par
liamentary maneuver to bypass
the chairman and convene the
group, which acts as a “traffic
cop” in controlling the flow of
bills to the House floor.
They planned to get at least
three signatures on a written no
tice to Smith calling for a meet
ing. He can take three days to
think over this request. If he still
refuses, the committee member -
ship can convene despite the
chairman's opposition.
Presidential Conference
President Eisenhower had a
breakfast conference with Speak
er Sam Rayburn who wants a
compromise accepting the Senate
rights bill except for a more lim
i ited jury trial amendment. But
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said he did not
believe they discussed House ac
tion on civil rights.
Giants Go To
Frisco For 1958
NEW YORK (IP) — The board
of directors of the New York
Giants baseball club voted today
to transfer the team to San Fran
cisco for the 1958 season.
Club President Horace Stone -
ham announced that the nine-man
board had approved the San Fran
cisco offer by eight votes to one.
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Man Killed On
Railroad Tracks
A young mechanic who drove his automobile for
about a half mile up the railroad tracks was killed Sun
day morning about 1:30 o’clock, just outside the city limits
of Dunn.
The man was identified, through
the license number in his car and
after hours of checking, as David
Thomas Lewis, 19, of Erwin, Rt.
One.
Harnett Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr.
of Erwin said Lewis’ 1949 Ply -
mouth was struck by Atlantic
Coast Line passenger train No. 74,
headed South. The train traveled
321 feet after the impact before
stopping.
The train’s engineer, R. V. Hub
bard, of Florence, S. C. said he
saw Lewis’ automobile straddle the
track next to the one on which
the train was traveling and that
Lewis was lying between the T
irins on the track in the path of
the train.
He said it was impossible to
stop the train in time to avoid
hitting him.
Lewis had left the front door of
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One Killed, Three
Hurt In Accident
One person was killed and three others were badly in
jured when an automobile went out of control and crashed
two miles south of Lillington on Highway 210 Sunday
morning at 11:30 o’clock.
Henry Gladden, 28, of Spencer,
was dead on arrival at the Dunn
Hospital. His skull was fractured
and he had a crushed chest.
Admitted to the hospital and re
portedly in a serious condition
are:
Lilly Bell Harris, 37, of Lllling
ton, head injuries and abrasions
of the left arm.
Collin Riddick, 28, of Spencer,
[ lacerations of the scalp, a fractur
• ed left wrist and a broken right
: leg.
Flora H. Harris, 64, of Lilling
ton, Route 2, head injuries, bruis
es and lacerations.
State Highway Patrolman Da
vid Matthews, the investigating of
fimer, said Gladden lost control
of the vehicle, it ran off the left
side of the road, skidded back ac
ross the road and overturned two
or three times.
The automobile was completely
destroyed.
Harnett Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr.
of Erwin investigated the fatality.
He ruled that the driver was at
fault and that no inquest was ne
cessary.
Syria Under Iron Control Of Red Backed Coup
Fear Mid-East E xplosion
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press Staff Writer
A Communist-backed coup
that placed Syria under iron
control of a Pro-Soviet mili
tary clique touched off urg
ent Anglo-American Con
sultations today in London
and roused fears in neigh
boring Israel of a Soviet
backed Invasion.
President Eisenhower summon
ed Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles to a White House lunch,
*t which the Syrian question un
doubtedly loomed large. At the
same time diplomatic quarters in
London said Khalid Bakdash, a
45-year-old Moscow-trained Syrin
ed Syrian Communist, has been
identified as the leading agent
behind the Red drive in Syria and
the Middle East.
United Press diplomatic corres
pondent K. C. Thaler reported in
London that diplomats considered
that the Red move in Syria had
given Russia a firm toehold on the
Mediterranean in the severest
challenge yet to the Eisenhower
doctrine.
The West regarded the Syrian
development as the worst setback
for Western Mideast policy since
Egypt seized the Suez Canal a
year ago. There were indications
other NATO powers might be
called in to confer on the threat
to allied strategy involving NATO
partner Turkey and the members
of the Baghdad Pact.
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Tobacco Averages
Up $3 Locally
Prices on the Dunn Tobacco
market were rising today, run
ning almost three dollars higher
than the average for the first
two days of sales.
At both the Planter’s and the
Big Four warehouse here, the
day’s averages topped S56 per
hundred. Planter’s reported 27,
392 pounds sold for $15,441.68,
an average of $56.50 while the
Big Four totals were 34.064 sold
for $19,115.02, an average of
$56.12.
HUGE LIBEL SUIT—Mrs. Tita Purdom, former wife of actor
Edmund Purdom, is shown in Los Angeles Superior Court
where she filed a three-million-dollar libel suit against Con
fidential and Whisper magazines and Hollywood Research Inc.
Mystery Witness
At Scandal TriaL
HOLLYWOOD (UP)—The defense in the Confiden
tial libel trial indicated it may call to the stand today
a man the magazine involved in a story with actress Mau
reen O'Hara.
Testimony in the trial which I
opened two weeks ago resumes to- |
day following a weekend recess j
during which Miss O’Hara em-1
phatically denied testimony put
ting her in Grauman’s Chinese
Theater at the time the magazine
article claimed she was there with
a “Latin.”
She said she has a stamped pass
port and 10 witnesses to prove she
was in Spain making a movie in
the fall of 1953 when the alleged
incident took place. She backed
up her denial by increasing the
ante inher libel suit against the
magazine from one million to five
million dollars.
Defense Attorney Arthur J.
Crowley maintaine dhe could
prove Miss O’Hara was in the
theater with the “Latin boyfriend.”
Michael Mourdant-Smith, Confi
dential’s chief European corre
spondent, was to wind up his tes
timony for the defense today, fol
i lowed by a "mystery man” whom
Billy Ready
To Wind Up
Big Crusade
NEW YORK (UP)—Evan
gelist Billy Graham said to
day the first phase of his
New York crusade that be
gan May 15 will end in about
a week and a half.
Graham said he will return here
to speak to ministers at a hotel
meeting Sept. 24 and to evaluate
his campaign. On Oct. 20, he said,
the second phase of the crusade
will begin. It will last four days
and will be marked by "a visitat
ion” campaign” of evangelism.
The New York crusade will close
officially at an hour-long after
noon service in the Polo Grounds
Oct. 27.
A crowd of 19,000 at Madison
Square Garden Sunday night heard
Graham give “delinquent” parents
1 seves rules for helping teen-agers
i through a fearful atomic era
"that man was never meant to
live in.” The crowd brought to
1,601,300 the total attendance at
the cru«ade.
If the Communists overrun the
Middle East. Europe and Asia,
Graham said, "we could have an
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Crowley indicated might be the
man Crowley claims was with
Miss O'Hara in the ornate Holly
wood theater.
Claim that she was in Europe
and therefore could not have been
ma'king love in an off — camera
scene in November, 1953, as Craig
testified she did. Crowley said the
month given by Craig was ap
proximate and there the incident
may have occurred earlier or
later — “a month or two in either
direction.”
‘‘Therefore there could be a
month or two in either direction,”
Crowley said.
Makes Appeal
To Rayburn
To Avoid Slash
WASHINGTON (UP) —
President Eisenhower coun
ter-attacked today in an
11th hour effort to save the
foreign aid program from
what he considers crippling,
budget cuts.
He held an unannounced break
fast with the speaker—and Demo
cratic leader—of the House, Sam
Rayburn, and appealed for his
help in restoring the 30 per cent
economy cut made by the House
last week.
At the same time he sent a task
force of four top administration
officials to Capitol Hill to plead
with Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to put back the 809 mil
lion dollar cut by the House.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles led the delegation of wit
nesses. They warned that U. S.
prestige and security are threat
ened by a budget slash so large
that it would change the (basic)
nature of the foreign aid program.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, re
tired chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, delivered the bluntest
warning.
The alternative to the size mili
tary aid program asked by the
administration is for the United
States to increase its own defense
strength and draft more men so
that “nearly every able - bodied
young man of military age would
spend several years of his life in
military service’dverseas.”
Staggering Cost
“The cost would be staggering,”
he added.
Or, he said, “we could adopt a
'Fortress America’ concept.”
‘“In the world we live in today,
such a concept is entirely nega
tive and would merely mean that
we postponed an ultimate and vio
lent showdown with international
communism or, in the long run,
would capitulate,” Radford said.
Dulles said the House cuts are
se severe that they will make the
free world wonder whether it can
count on the United States as a
dependable friend.
Outgoing aid administrator
I John B. Hollister said the cuts
1 made by the House in the de
I velopment loan fund “would
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Heavy Criminal
Docket Is Set
A wide variety of cases rang
isg from public dlunkenness to
first degree murder are scheduled
for trial at the criminal session of
Harnett Superior Court which will
convene on Monday, August 26th.
Judge George M. Fountain of
Tarboro will preside over the one
week term and Solicitor Jack
Hooks and Assistant Solicitor
Glenn L. Hooper, Jr. will prose
cute the docket.
A list of the cases was released
today by Court Clerk Elizabeth
Matthews.
Following is the calendar:
Monday, August 26, 1957
Grand Jury
Bobby Pope, Murder; Harvey Lee
Murchison, Armed Robbery; Ottis
Jackson, A.D.W., with intent to
kill, etc.; William Herman Parrish,
Jr., Op. Auto after license suspend
ed ; William Henry McDougald, A.
D.W. with intent to kill, etc.; Har.
vey Lee Murchison, Murder; Chas.
Starling, Leon Tyndall, Forgery;
Bobby Upchurch, Calvin Upchurch,
Walter Upchurch, A. D, W., with
i intent to kill, etc.; Raymond Gray
i Stone, Careless and Reckless Driv
I ing; Johnny Add Johnson, A. D. W.
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In Again, Out Again
On Murder Charge
Officers are having a hard time remembering whe
ther Marvin Mooney, 37-year-old Dunn Negro, should be
in or out of jail.
A coroner’s jury gave prelimin
ary consideration last Thursday to
the evidence that Mooney had kil
led Dallas Lee, 43. Lee, crippled
Negro who lived in Dunn, was
shot to death with a pistol at the
new fairgrounds.
Mooney gave himself up after
the shooting, claimed Lee had
trained a shotgun on him and that
it was self-defense. The coroner’s
jury pondered, decided Mooney
should be held for the grand jury
without bond. •
Coroner R. L. Pate, Sr., advised
by assistant court solicitor Glenn
Hooper, Dunn attorney, reversed
this decision, and Mooney was re
leased under bond of $5000.
Privately, it was conceded that
the county has a crowded jail
right now and will have a hard
time getting all the prisoners tried
at the next term of Superior Court
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