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Girls, Use That roe If He Attacks You NEW YORK — A womans, best defense against a mugging is her scream Speedy use of spike heels also helps. "Yell at the top of your lungs,” said Edna Fitzgerald, on New York City's force of 249 police women for six years. "This usual ly frightens the asailant and brings help. But so many women don’t even think of it ” "As for the use of the heel,” she continued, "most muggings are from behind. Often a girl can push her foot backward and scrape a spike dowm her assailant’s shin. That’s real agony for him, be - k iieve me it may give me gin a ; ■hance to break free ” Miss Kil7gerald, Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm and I were talking about safety of a woman in a big city. Particularly n New York, crowded wilh wom an who have moved here from oth »r parts of the country. Wave Of Teen-Age Crimes The city in recent weeks has tad a wave of teen - age crimes, 'rom murdet to purse-snatching, jiving many of us a case of icrves. In ose instance, this week, wo young television actresses were attacked by a teen - aged youth who brandished a home - I1 made weaoon called a zip - gun / and their purses One of the girls c screamed, the other kicked and clawed, and when the youth ran, i both trailed him until they located r a patrolman. Commissioner Arm insisted that » such Incidents are “sporadic and f isolated” in this city of eight mil lion people. "If it is any comfort [ to the folks back home, their | l daughters are as safe here, as in i« any other town Probably safer,” i j he said. But he added that crime Is on ( the increase nationally; that fel- i onions assaults, which include t muggings, are up everywhere. Would training in judo help pro- ; teet the weaker sex? “I doubt it.” said policewoman 1 Fitzgerald, who Is sitting in while , j her boss, Mrs. Teresa Melchiose. . 1 is on. vacation “Unless a woman . < as had extensive training, that Is i little judo knowledge can be a angerous thing.” Carry A Police Whistle She suggested these protective rieasures. applicable in any town: —Don’t get friendly with strang rs; be careful in choice of new riends. —Carry a police whistle in your iur.se Or make one of those small iuzzer alarms part of your purse quipment. When set off, the larm can be heard for blocks. — Never hesitate even in a large Ity to stop at a house or apart nent building asd ask to use a elephone to call police, if you ense that someone is following rou -Don’t carry larbe sums ol noney And don't let shoulder trap bags dangle. Keep hand or landbag, "else you’re an ope in station to a purse snatcher,” said i TOBACCO GROWERS BEST WISHES FOR THE SUCCESSFUL SALE OF YOUR 1957 CROP GET TOP PRICES For Your TOBACCO By Selling On The FUQUAY-VARINA MARKET OFFICERS R. E. PRINCE President R. P. HOLDING, JR. Executive Vice-President MRS. MAUDE B. VAN HOOK Vice-Predident I)R. J. R. EDWARDS, SR., Vice-President W. B. YATES, Cashier CHARLES T. ASIIWORTII Mgr., Installment Loan Dept. MRS. HELEN J. SENTER, Assistant Cashier WINFRED E. MEDLIN Assistant Cashier MRS. ANNIE MAE YATES Assistant Cashier B. C. ROLLINS Assistant Cashier YOU WILL FIND A FRIENDLY WELCOME at the BANKofFUQUAY 3 Per Cent Interest paid on deposits Made by the First of Any Month We Gladly Cash Your Checks and Remain Open Until All Sales Are Completed Each Sales Day. Shop With Our Friendly Business Firms For Qua lity Merchandise, Reasonable Prices, and Cour teous Service. BANK OF FUQUAY FUQUAY SPRINGS-CARY MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION . I the policewoman. ) • —Don’t travel alone at night ; | Pair up with a friend even for a ! short walk home from the bridge s i club or PTA meeting. . I —At home, don’t open the front .'door unless you’re sure who is v ringing. Miss Fitzgerald said a door equipped with safety "peep r hole” and inter lock and chain I should be a routine precaution. e "It used to be,” she said, "that e no woman would be caught out along without a big hatpin. Maybe p we should revive it.” ; Harrison Baker ? Buried Sunday C Harrison Fields Baker, 65, of r Route 8, died in Lee County Hos pital Friday afternoon. He was born in Harnett County j a son of the late Jack Baker and Nancy Dean. Funeral services were held at Macedonia Church in Harnett Co unty at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial was in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, the former Bess Ashworth; one dau ghter, Mrs. Hurley Ashworth of Route 6, Sanford; five sons, De wit Baker of Route 6, Sanford. James Felton, and Leroy of San ford; Rufus O. and Lonnie Jr. of Route 8, Sanford, 20 grandchild ren; one brother, Cleveland Bak er of Route 1, Holly Springs; and one sister, Mrs. Flowery Tutor of 1 Fuquay Springs. WORLD DEATHS By UNITED PRESS MELLS, England — Msgr. Don ald A. Knox, 69. a former Angli can clergyman who was converted | to Roman Catholicism and won recognition as an outstanding translator of the Bible, died Sat urday night after a long illness. GREAT NECK, N. Y. — Dr. James Baster, 53, chief of the Africa and Middle East Studies Section of the United Nations Bu reau of Economic Affairs, died Saturday. NEW YORK—Willard B Crosby, 52, a copy editor with the New York Times and a former editor of Collier’s and Argosy, died Sat urday of cancer. WASHINGTON — Rear Adm. Paul M. Stewart, 68, retired chief medical officer of the Coast Guard, died Saturday of a heart attack. TUCSON, Ariz.—Mrs. Helena A. Dickinson, 81, author, lecturer and the first woman to receive a doc tor of philosophy degree from Heidelberg University in Germany died Sunday. TOUGH ON BETTORS EVANSVILLE Ind. If) — Gam blers here may have to tiavel a distance to place a telephone call, company to yank out 22 public phones thought used for horse race betting. FORGETFUL POSTMAN NEW YORK UP) — Postal em ploye Frank Scherzi was sur prised when police woke him up and accused him of stealing a mail truck. Scherzi said he forgot he had left his car at the post of fice garage and had driven home in a red, white and blue delivery truck. STEAL EMPTY WALLET STOCKTON, Calif. .V) — Three butter — fingered robbers dropped $15 and a cigarette lighter in making their escape. All they had left was the empty wallet of cab driver Liesy Cashara. TALLEY BROS. 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