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* WEATHER Partly cloudy in east, mostly clou dy in west portion. Mostly cloudy and cool with occasional rain to night and Wednesday. The B ailg Kewrd t THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 8 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 17. 1957 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 10 DIG THAT CRAZY BEARD—Santa turned up on a pre-Christ mas visit yesterday and some of his young admirers were allowed to cheek that gleaming expanse of silvery whiskers to see how real it was. Their verdict: seemed mighty real. At left is Billy Ray John son, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Johnson of Dunn. Janice Ste wart, 2, watches with perturbeft interest from the arms of her mother, Mrs. Charles Stewart of North Wautauga Avenue. Beard puller on the right is Joy Norris, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Norris of D*inn, Route 4. (Record Photo by Ted Crali.) Florida Citrus Embargo Shoots Christmas Fruit Prices Up JhsAS JfiHtc Jhinq/k SHOE SHINES ARE FREE AT MUSE SUPER MARKET You can call Locke Muse “Shin Boy” now, and he won’t mind , bit. Just walk into Muse Super Mar ket and yell “Shine Boy,” am Locke will come running to shin your shoes in nothing flat. And it'll only take him about < half miniAe or so to put a shin on your shoes that can't be match ed by any barber shop shine boj On our way home last nighl we stopped in there to get ou wife a pair of hose. Yep, you ca buy just about anything in thes modern super markets—elothin store items, drugs, hardware, kit chen utensils, etc. “Want a shoe shine?” aske* Locke. We agreed we ne^ed on pretty badly. “Just stick ’em up here on th check-out counter," instructe Locke. At first, we thought he wa kidding. Before we knew what was hap pening. he brought out a little ca of stuff known as “Spray Shine and our old dusty shoes were glis 'Continued »>n Pare Twnt LAKELAND, Fla., (UP) — Florida’s giant citrus indus try screeched to a dead stop Monday night, and the price of Christmas oranges and tangerines shot up on mar. kets throughout the coun. try. A seven-day embargo on the shipment of all Florida citrus through any channel, went into ef fect at 7 a m. today. Until 11 o’clock Monday night. ? citrus growers and packers had i orpssed every man and truck into service nearly 24 hours a dav for - three davs In picking and trans 1 porting fruit before the deadline ■ They may have set a harvest ing record by handling in excess 1 of two million boxes of fruit in that period, inspectors said. The Florida citrus commission ■ ordered the embargo Monday to ’ orotect the state industry’s repu i ation by holding fruit damaged in last week’s freeze of the market. ' Since the full effects of the freeze ’ damage will not appear for an other week, citrus harvested over I the weekend and Monday will not ; have its quality affected. Picking also retards freeze damage, citrus ? men explained. j Texas and California citrus men 5 reported the embargo order im mediately boosted prices on their . fruit 25 to 50 cnts a carton across i the country. Prices undoubtedly ’ will go much higher during the - week. (Continued On Page Four! Sexton Is Named By Farm Group Election of new officers courses designed to teach new crops marked the meeti velopment Association on F W. K. Sexton was elected pre sident to succeed J. E. Womble and other new officers are N. R Upchurch, vice-president; Cheste A Brown, secretary-treasurer am publicity chairman, Frank Mur ray. Sexton served as secretary dui ing the first year of the organiza tion when Lillington merchant and farmers in the Lillingto and plans for a series of short farmers latest techniques in ng of the Lillington Farm De riday night. school district joined hands to win increased income which may be converted to better living. Plans were made to hold a ser ics of classes for farmers at the Lillington school agriculture class room during January, Februarj - and March. On Jan. 13-16 there - will be a series of classes for swine s growers; on Feb. 10-13 for poul l lContinued On Page Six) Leaf Price Was Highest In History RALEIGH OPt — The 1957 flue- ■ cured tobacco sales season pro- 1 duced the highest general aver- ' age of record, but total value of the crop was almost 188 million i dollars below last year. The federal-state market news service, in a report issued Mon day attributed the drop in total value to a decline in the quality , of leaf offered on warehouse | floors in the five flue-cured states i and to a 29 per cent decrease in , sales volume. The report said total sales in the five states were 1,086,176,254 i pounds, averaging $55.02 per hun dred pounds. Sales in 1956 to - taled 1,536.077,230 pounds and av eraged $51.13. West Acquitted Of Drunk Driving Coleman West, a 43-year-old Benson man, was found not guilty of driving drunk when he came up for trial yesterday in Dunn Re corder’s Court before Judge H. Paul Strickland. A Dunn man, 67-year-old Willie Elmon Johnson fo North Orange Avenue, was fined $200 and costs for driving after his license had been suspended but the fine was remitted. Three Negro boys fr^m Coats, Route 1—Elwood Vann, Robert Vann and Charles Johnson—pled gulity to stealing “several batteries and one tire" from Rouse’s junk yard. They were fined $25 and court costs and put under a 60 day suspended sentence. John William Johnson and Joyce Wainwright, accused by Pearline Johnson of trespassing after “be ing forbidden to do so," were ac quitted. Oland George David was fined $50 and costs after his attorney, Howard G. Godwin, tendered 'a plea of careless and reckless driv ing and waived his client’s appear ance in court. The court accepted this plea on recommendation of j .’Continued On Page Foot) Officers Say She Interfered Thirty-five-year old Letha Ma Jclntyre, a Dunn Negro womar 3 slated for trial Thursday 01 harges of interfering with an ol icer in line of duty. She was arrested around 11 f n. Saturday night as four Dun lolicemen raided the home of Wi' on McNatt, 42-year-old Negro, o Sast Vance Street. McNatt was charged with havln lon-taxpaid whisky in his posse; ion. Policemen who made the rai vere James Southerland, E. * Vhaley, K. M. Fail and Raymon i’homas. Police Seeking Runaway Driver Police are on the trail ef a drl\ ■r who banged around the Chev dace last night, striking light po ■s and other objects and doin ibout $100 worth of damage. The driver did not stick aroun o be arrested so police are aimin o track him down Mighty War Weapon Fired Successfully CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (UP)—The United tates sue. cessfully launched an Atlas intercontinental ballistics missile today—a war weapon capable of dropping hydro, gen fury on an enemy target oceans away and a peacetime prospect for orbiting an Am. erican satellite. Then Pentagon announced the At las had been fired successfully — in the third attempt to send up the “Big A”—and said it traveled “several hundred miles” to land in the prescribed target area. “This was a limited range test of several hundred miles,” a spokesman said of the missile which has a range of up to 5,000 miles. There was no elaboration on the distance of “several hundred miles,” It was noted, however, that in testing big military missiles it is not unusual for short range flights to be conducted before the missile is put through all of its paces. After emerging from heavy clouds the Atlas, a thing of im pressive beauty, zoomed into the blue, visible to beach observers. iContluneif Op Haee f fO| Christmas Parties ■ Are Rapped EVANSTON, 111 IIP — The presi dent of the National Woman’s 1 Christian Temperance Union today attacked office Christmas parties which she said “turn the Savior’s birthday into a pagan orgy and a , field day for death.” Mrs. Glenn G. Hays charged of fice parties will “cost many lives” f this Christmas even in traffic ■ crashes. 1 She said National Safety Coun cil statistics show that more than half of the Christmas traffic deaths involve a drinking driver. “This year,” Mrs. Hayes said, "the employer wishing to ‘treat’ - his employees would do better to y give them a cash bonus, or make - a contribution equal to the cost g of the office party, with perhaps the cost of a funeral or major d hospital bill added, to the Salva g i tion Army or other Christmas charity in his employes’ name.” Miss America Will Visit Dunn Pageant Colorado’s Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the reigning Miss America, has agreed to follow in the trim toesteps of her South Carolina predecessor adn come to Dunn.' Jimmy Suggs announced today, m behalf of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, that Jaycee President Corky Cretini has received confir mation of an invitation extended for her to attend on the final day jf the next Dunn beauty pageant. The pageant is scheduled for June 25 and 26. While laying plans for Miss Am ?rica's reception, the Jaycees are already tasting the wind for signs of a new local beauty who will be able to turn the judges’ eye. Their screening committee for next sum mer's roster of candidates is al ready at work. Miss Van Derbur succeeded to the national title held in 1956 by South Carolina’s Marian McKnight. Miss McKnight, a blond dazzler who specialized in take-offs on Marilyn Monroe, was a judge in last year’s pageant at Dunn which was won by a Campbell College coed, Jackie Yates. Dunn has more than had its share of beauty contest winners since the Jaycees began to prod these hills for home-grown nym phs. Most successful of all has been Becky Lee, daughter of the owner of Lee's Truck Terminal in Dunn. She not only ran second twice I'opiiniiMi On Tw*> Marilyn Elaine Van Dertxir JAYCEE PAST PRESIDENTS HONORED— Dunn Jaycees Friday night took the occasion of their annual Ladies Night Christmas Party to pay honor to past presidents of the organization. Left to right are: Willie Biggs, who served two terms as the organization's first president: Roy Lowe, Hubert Peay, and Pa,ul Perry, all past presidents, and Corky Cretini, the present pre sident, who was toastmaster. Each past president reviewed briefly his term of office. Only absent past president was Bob Leake. (Daily Record Photo.) ATU Men Raid Several Stills Whisky-LoadedJeep.ManSeized ATU officers made a fresh surge against bootleggers yesterday, moved in on sev eral stills and came up with a whiskey.loaded jeep and a man whom they popped in jail. Arrested during the raid on a large distillery in Boone Hill town ship of Johnson County was John Henry Hooks, a middle-aged white man. Hooks, a resident of Kenly, was put in jail overnight in Wayne County and was scheduled for a preliminary hearing today before U. S. Commissioner Malthus in Goldsboro. George Yutzy, an investigator with the alcohol and tobacco tax unit sationed at Dunn, released the news of Hooks' arrest and said that a spryer companion had elud (i ontinued >n huff Two) Sugar Indictees To Face Trial Five Johnston county men who allegedly made sugar sales they "didn’t report have been bound ov er to the April term of Federal District Court in Raleigh. They were arraigned yesterday in Dunn before U. S. Commission er Mallie Jackson. Though three were represented by attorneys, they did not resist the bonding ov er, saving their defense for the trial. The only witness was ATU ag ent Jim West of Hickory. John C. Cagle and J. W. Cagle, officials of Cagle Wholesale Grocery in Benson, were represented by at torney Alfonzo Parker of Benson L. O Sasser, owner of Carolina Wholesale Co. at Smithfield, was represented by Winfield Lyon of Smithfield. The other defendants were E V. McLamb, owner of McLamb Whol esale Co. at Benson, and Joe L. Whitley, owner of the Whitley Wholesale Grocery In Smithfield. For Upkeep Of Cemetery Council Will Get Trust Fund Advice Greenwood Cemetery, some years hence, will be a problem in upkeep for the city and the current town board expects to explore the means by which it needn’t be a bur. den to future generations. Dear Santa Dear aSnta Claus, Please send me a pump gun, a model of the “Mayflower” (a large one) a wrist watch, and a double set of guns with large bullets and I would like a sweater. Your were very good to me last Christmas. I have tried to be good this year. Love Ray Campbell 111 N. King Ave Dunn, N. C. Dear Santa, Please bring me a new 100 piece for apache set and a caroms 85 games on one board. My brother wants a atomic missile and fire truck with 5-foot extension lad der. Love, Jack and David Byrd Erwin, N C. Dear Santa Claus, We are twin boys 6 years old. We are in the 1st grade in Lilling ton school our teacher is Mrs. Haddock, She is a very good teach er. Please bring us a bicycle and • CnntlnnMl on Pur Twoi wii iiiuniid.v, ui uic ur.\i icgu lar meeting of the council, the aoard will hear from a represen tative of the First Citizens Bank and Trust Company. He will dis cuss the possible setting up of a trust fund to help support the ce metery when all the lots have been sold and there is no further income from the sale of its grounds. Citv Manager A. B Uzzle, Jr., stated that a number of other mat ters are also scheduled to come before the board at this regular meeting. Tax Collector J. E. Williams will give a progress report on tax fore closures. A list of properties joint ly owned by town and county, as the result of foreclosures, will be studied. The council will be asked to set a price for the use of city materials to fill low lots. They will review a recommendation from the city manager that a stop sign be plac ed on Granville at Clinton Street. R. Kenneth Scott, chief engin eer of the North Carolina Fire In surance rating bureau, has res - ponded negatively to a query on whether wood shingles would be acceptable building material. The council is considering a request from a contractor that he be al lowed to use the shingles on a house. “It’s conceivable that if we had enough houses like that, insurance rates could go up,” said the city manager. Two suggestions which the board (Continued On Pan Fonr' visits kjiu onape neaaquarrers Ike Feels Best In Long While PARIS (UP) — President t Eisenhower said today he c felt better than he had “in * a long, long time.” The President made the com- * ment on a visit to his old com mand at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe at Lou- a veciennes. i He appeared in good shape and t good spirits despite his cancella- a tion of Monday night’s NATO din- t ner. h His complexion was ruddy with v ne wind and his step was vigor us. His speech was like a talk > the troops, friendly and home pun and with none of the solemn y reserved for state occasions, [owever, his manner was serious. Energetic and Voeal The President, who canceled an ppearance Monday night at an nportant NATO council dinner ecause of fatigue, was energetic nd vocal this morning when he >ured the SHAPE command uilding outside Paris and visited rith a number of old friends. He told a group of SHAPE offi cers and their families, “I haven’t felt better in a long, long time than I have this morning, seeing you people.” His physician, Maj. Gen How ard MeC. Snyder, told reporters he thought the President today was in ‘ pretty good shape ” “If he can sit in one of those five-hour sessions of the NATO council as he did Monday, I would say he is fine,” Snyder said. “He sets a good pace for a man (CoBttnaed on r»ce Tw«i
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