» WEATHER + Fair ;n the east portion today and incresi cloudiness in the wett and a iitile warmer. Mir D aily Ketord THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 7 1ELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 15. 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 234 MISS JANE JACKSON Jane Will Appear With Top Twiriers Three years a majorette, and accomplished enough to be teaching others, Jane Jackson was at home with the flu today but cheerfully thinking of what’s going to hap pen three weeks from now. On November 4th and 5th, Jane will join other top majorettes from around the state in a Kiwanis Club show presented before their convention at Jacksonville, N. C. Jane is currently the head ma jorette at Dunn High School. Now i (Continued On Pare si*) New Drug Offers Hope To Millions BOSTON (UP)—Two doctors, one of them the incom ing president of the American Heart Assn, have announced discovery of a drug they said promised new hope for 15 to 20 million Americans suffering from high blooo pi'essure'. The drug, named chlorothiazide, is expected to be ready by next January. It was reported in pro duction now and available as sam ples to doctors. Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, 50, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., and president-elect of the American Heart Assn., and Dr. William Hol lander, 32, of Waltham, Mass., made the announcement at Mas sachusetts Memorial Hospital, where they are on the staff. May Extend Life They said the discovery, pro ducing a “startling new cure,” would aid in the 25-year battle against America’s most common form of cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure, or hyperten sion, reduces life expectancy of i most sufferers by as much as 20 years and strikes at the a”erage j age of 32. Wilkins and Hollander based : their opinion of chlorothi izide's effectiveness on tests made of 31 hypertension patients in Boston during the past eight months. Among their findings was That chlorothiazide tablets W'ere not on ly a potent diuretic but appeared directly responsible for a lower ■ C ontinued On Paee Two) ASC Committees Picked The second step has been taken in the selection of the groups of men who will play a major role in guiding Har nett County agriculture dur ing 1958. Jeffress Wells, manager of the Harnett Agriculture Stabilizatior Office today releasel the list o: comtnunity committeemen electee by farmers in the October 8 elec tion. The chairman of each commu nity committee will, in turn, serve as a delegate to the county con vention to be held in Lillington 01 | October 23. On that date the raera i bers of the new countly ASC com mittee will be chosen by secret ballot. In each community a chairman, a vice chairman, a regular mem ber and two alternates were elect ed by their l-armer neighbors. Some of the farmers elected are old timers, experienced with ASC programs, others are newcomers. ■'Whether old or new” said Wells, farmers who have been elected for 1958 are to be congratulated ■ on the fact that your neighbors 1 th »ught so highly of you as to ■ elect you to these positions. A t great deal of confidence has been Brandos Exotic Indian Bride Just Ex-Welche Butcher's Aide rHJLl, I WUUU (Ur|—SC Marlon Brando’s exotic In dian bride turned out to be a former Welch butcher’s as sistant name of Joanna O’ Callaghan. Well, the joke isn’t on Brando, gentle reader, it’s on you. And on us newspapermen. For this is the sort of hoax Hollywood has been staging without inhibition and with good profit since the silent flick ers first made those of us born everf minute curious about the private lives of the stars. And, what’s more. Hollywood will go right on doing it. We asked an independent pub licity man today what he thought of posing Miss O’Callaghan as that Buddha-worshipping daughter of the Himalayas, Anna Kashfi. “So what?” he said. “As long as no one loses money, or is hurt, what difference does it make? It’s a game the public expects.” Miss O’Callaghan’s own studio. Metro Goldwyn Mayner, says it didn't know that Anna was not an Indian. “I didn’t know' her read name until this marriage business came up," said MGM publicity man Ho ward Strickland. “We discovered by checking her passport and work permit that her name is O’Cal laghan. “Of course we Exploited the fact she was Indian. It is always a plus factor when an actress can hp PJlllpH or* ovnHn imnnrl ’* Brando himself is the result of a publicity campaign. He of the mumbles, torn shirt and Bohe mian background turned out to be a kid from a quiet family in Oma ha. He must have a yen for the Orients. In his first Broadway play, the program listed him as born in Bangkok. Arrests Fall, But Drunks Are Plentiful Total arrests by the Dunn police force took a slight dip in Septem ber but the number of drunks, taken off the streets for their own or others’ safety, continued to stagger right along. Chief Alton Cobb, in his monthly report to City Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr., specified that 22 per sons had been arrested for public drunkenness in the month of Sept ember. That compared with 18 in a relatively sober August and 34 during the heat of July. Driving drunk was not as much in evidence last month, however — only three persons suffering ar rest for that cause where there had been eight in August and five in July. Nevertheless, police esti mated that whisky was involved in 44 1 percent of all arrests. In August that percentage was only 40 percent and in July it was 38.1. Of the 77 arrests recorded in September, 4 were for assault (well down from the total of 29 in the two previous months), 9 for no operators license, 1 for non support, 15 speeding, 4 for care less driving, fi for possession of whisky, 1 for disorderly conduct, 1 for hit and run driving, 2 for al allowing an unlicensed operator to Continued e>n Pa** fw», UIU!>riI 111 >UU. llldl L'UUIlUtllUtf must be earned and then kept. The first way that the high man in every community can earn this confidence is as a delegate or Oct. 23 to see that the very besl qualified men available are elect ed to serve our county as countj committeemen.” Complete list of communitj committeemen by townships fol lows, with name listed first the chairmen. (Vice chairman, regu lar membmer and alternates fol low in order.) ANDERSON CREEK—Hartwell Butts, R-l, Bunnlevel; Luchlin N (Continued On Page Six) I ] NO LONGER ELIGIBLE—“Most eligible" bachelor, actor Marlon Brando, is shown with actress Anna Kashfi, 23, of Dar jeeling, India. They were married at a quiet ceremony in Holly wood, California. It’s the first marriage for both. In Kansas City Today Coats Ag Teacher Gets High Honor M. O. Phillips, teacher of agrciulture at Coats High School, Harnett County, for the past 21 years, will be awarded an honorary American farmer Degree, highest honor of the national FFA organization, at the 30th annual national FFA convention in Kansas City Mo., today. A well-known teacher and FFA . adviser, Phillips will be honored for the outstanding program of! vocational agriculture and for the FFA record which he has develop ed at Coats. Since he has been teaching at Coats, 20, of his FFA members have become winners of the Amer ican Farmer Degree. Among these five have become established in farming. In addition, 35 of his students have won the Carolina Farmer Degree, highest honor of the State FFA Associatin. Of the 35 stu dents, 15 have become established in the business of farming. Two of the teams which Phillips has coached have won gold medals in State-wide FFA contests. United Fund Needs Help Toward Goal In spite of some spirited campaigning by the fund’s leaders and reminders from President Eisenhower that there should be no shirking on contributions, there was no assurance today that Dunn will go over the top in its Unit ed Fund campaign. ■r By this morning, total collec tions had reached $9,035.83, roughly about a thousand dollars less than a third of the target goal which the community has set for itself. Rev. George Hunter, publicity chairman of the campaign and a polished spokesman for the cause, said that ‘‘Advance Gifts” and the I ‘‘Chapter Plan” are counted on to I bring in the weightiest contribu tions from those who can make the United Fund zoom, i With solicitors now going be yond the preliminary beachheads, the “Advance Gifts” part of the i drive is over. The Chapter Plan— ■ which involves the signing up of ituniiiiued ijry wo, No Tricks, Just Treaters | From Halloween Headquarters, this message for those who some times neglect a knock on Halloween: When your doorbell rings on Halloween, and a youngster in cos tume cries, “Trick or Treat for UNICEF”, you can breathe easily ir the knowledge that the Halloween pranks at former years are nol involved. With this abundant organizing skill, the churches have giver Dunn children a new outlook on Halloween and transformed this da> into one of wholesome treating to replace the old-styl tricking. Pennies, nickels and dimes dropped into UNICEF cartons will supply needed milk, essential drugs like penicillin to cure yaws, sul fones to treat leprosy, and DDT to control malaria in' parts of the world bearing the exotic names of Beehuanaland, Ruanda-Urundi Burma Afghanistan. Ecuador, Surinam, and the more familiar Greece Italy, Lndia, Mexico. Haiti and Peru. Countries like these, lacking the resources and skills to solve the basic health and welfare problems of their children, found i impossible to progress until organizations like UNICEF provided the necessary help. By sparking self-help. UNICEF has started many o these countries on the road to a happier future for their children. Youngsters from the Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian and Metho dist churches will be out to see you on Halloween night, collectinj with “Trick or Treat for UNICEF’’. You will be able to identify then by the official badges and cartons. Please answer your doorbell whet it rings and help our children help the World’s Children by givinj your pennies, nickels and dimes. Linden Youth Killed Enroute From Scout Meet Thirteen-year - old Jackie Gainey, Jr., walking home from a scout meeting at Lin den school, must have “tak en a terrific blow” said Cum berland County Coroner Alph Clark. With only scratches on the sur face of his body, he was found dead in the middle of a road about midnight lasct night and an autop sy performed in Fayetteville es tablished internal injuries as the cause of death. Coroner Clark would not state that a hit and run driver was at fault but said that "being hit by a oar or thrown from a car” could have caused the injuries which took the boy’s life. As soon as some of the mystery lifts, he expects to hold an in quest. The highway patrol and the sheriff's department of Cumber land County are both investigat ing and three men were at the scene all morning, said Clark, searching for clues. “I’ve just talked to Wilson (a Cumberland patrolman),” said the Coroner, “and they don’t have anything.” The youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen Gainey, Sr., have a farm on Linden, Route 1, about 14 miles from Dunn. Though his name was Joseph Allen Gai ney, Jr., friends and family call ed him Jackie. He was in the eighth grade at Linden school. Coroner Clark said that he was last seen alive at approximately 10:30. Leaving the scout meeting at the school—he was a charter member of a newly-organized troupe—he accompanied another young boy to a crossing where they split up. That was the last seen of Jackie until the soldiers found him. His parents, though un easy at his failure to arrive home, had not organized a search when news of his death reached them. The surface scars, said Clark, included some places on his back and face which resembled skin burns like those acquired from rubbing across gravel or a skin ning. Funeral arrangements are in complete, pending the arrival of •me of his sisters. Mrs. Billy E Byrd, from Nolanville, Texas. The two other sisters are Mrs. Donald Sherron of IJnden, Route 1, and Mrs. Robert Simmons of Fayette ville. A 21-year-old brother, Ern est, lives at home. Lillingfon JCs Will Be Hosts Lillington’s Junior Chamber of Commerce will entertain the quarterly meeting of the Seventh District of the State organization on Thursday, October 17. W. H. Randall, Jr. president of the Lillington Jayeees, said regi stration will begin at 6 p.m. at the Community Center. A dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. at the new • Oontlnoed nil Parn Two I --Life In The City -And Bingo Costs Three Dollars By TED CRAIL Record News Editor “The big thing in toys this year is going to be the teen-age doll.” That’s what they said in Syracuse and, sure enough, on returning to Dunn, which after all, is part of the train 1 of world events, it turned out that the local Winn-Dixie store has one of these super : adolescent dolls (so human you’re afraid to leave them ; alone at night) already on ' i sale. High heels, filmy evening dress, washable hair and all the rest of it. These new dolls have every thing that live teen'agers have ex cept an inferiority complex and by 1960, the toy world begin what it is, they will undoubtedly have that. This is only mentioned, though, to emphasize that when one goes to the big city, one gets cut in on the nature of things to come. The great movements sweeping this nation of ours become apparent. Truly, travel broadens. YOU WOULD THINK, for in stance, that anyone unforttmate enough to be seated on an air plane on the final day of the World Series would be in' a per fect dither about the outcome of the game, wouldn’t you? But you are so wrong. E istern airlines not only kept feeding the score to us passengers through out the game, it had the thief pi lot himself deliver the final, au thoritative word on the Milwaukee Braves' great achievement. AWAY FROM HOME—10 mat matter what home you are away from—the mind becomes sharpen ed and alert to words, details, even smells and touches ‘.hat would otherwise go unnoticed. (Continued On Pift Two) OFF FOR AMERICA—Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phi lip are shown in the doorway of a specially fitted DC-7C moments before the American-built ship was buttoned up for its flight from London to Ottawa. Canada. Her Majesty leaves Ottawa October 16 for her visit to *the United States. Around Magnolia Avenue School Council Studies One-Way Streets ^rie-way iramc arouna inree siaes oi Magnolia Ave nue School is a proposal that will be under discussion at the Thursday night meeting of the Dunn city council. This area is well-policed during the periods when children are go ing to and from the school, but Mayor Ralph Hanna, who has pre sented the plan to the council, feels it would be worthy of adop tion both as a safety measure and to eliminate congestion. City Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr., has written a number of other communities, where such one-way systems have been put into effect, for their comments and examples of ordinances of the subject. Also scheduled to come before the council on Thursday is the final forming signing of the gar bage contract with private contrac tor Herman Neighbors. It was mistakenly reported that councilmen had taken the final step in this regard at their previ ous meeting. Actually, two minor matters delayed the signing. One was the objection of coun cilman Bill Bryan, who has stead fastly opposed the contract with Neighbors, to include his name with the signers as the contract offered at the last meeting provid ed. The other was passage of time which means that the contract must be adjusted to cover a per iod of 21 and a half months in stead of 22 or 24 as previous pap ers had provided. Elements of controversy have been present over the city’s dis position of garbage collection but (Continued Ol Pago llxt Business Men Plan For Daily Prayers Beginning weanesuay morning, daily prayer services will be made easier for the business men in Dunn’s downtown business dis trict, James Yates and Bert Alabas ter of the Men of the Methodist Church announced today that a Business Men’s Prayer Croup Is being formed. It will meet every morning at 10 o’clock in the George Pope Room of Porter’s Restaurant. mere win ne a snort devotional, prayer and coffee. They stressed that it is non-de nominational and men of all faiths will be welcomed. The en tire* service won't last more than 15 minutes, they said, which is about the time of the average coffee break. The Rev. D. B. Critcher, pastor of the church, will conduct the prayer group the first day and ‘Coutlnned On Pare Sill

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