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* WEATHER * Cloudy and cool today with oc casional rain. Clearing and cold er tonight, preceded by showers in the east. Tomorrow sunny and moderately cold. The aitg Kewrd THE RECORD IS FIRST VOLUME 8 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 195 FIVECENTS PER COPY NO. 16 JOYOUS MOMENT—For thousands of little girls in Harnett County, finding a doll un der the Christmas tree or in a slocking is a moment of sheer delight. Here, Yvonne Smith, six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. , Smith of Lilllngton, reached eager arms to em brace her bride’s doll. Only a Christmas doll can bring such a Lift to the heart. (Photograph by Carroll Vaughan.) Recused Of Murder Mooney, Keane Trials Set For Coming Term Of Court Dead Man Found In Water Ditch Claude Winfield Murchison, 56 year-old colored man who had been missing for five days, was found in a ditch near his home today. He was almost covered by wa ter from the three-foot deep ditch. Sheriff Claude Moore said the death was apparently accidental and there was no evidence of fowl play. Murchison, who had worked around Lillington at odd jobs, was found in the flat woods near the town, just left of Bethune’s stock yard. His body was removed about 11 this morning and funeral sex' vices were scheduled for this af ternoon. Deputy Walker O’Quinn said it was apparently death by drown ing: Officers conjectured that the colored man had fallen as he at tempted to cross the ditch and, though it was not deep, had been incapable of extricating himself. “He had been missing abopt five days,” Sheriff Moore said, “and the undertaker felt he had been dead about that long.” Some hunters from Durham — J. D. McBroom and I. W. Morgan and H. H. Cheek — found the body. Coroner R. L. Pate concur red with the view that Murchin son had slipped and drowned, said he did not plan to hold an inquest. The dead man lived by himself in a barn on the Coleman farm. Two men accused of mur. der are among those sated for trial in the upcoming term of Harnett Superior Court. A one.week criminal term begins on Monday, Jan. uary 6. Marvin Mooney turned himself in to Dunn police following the fatal shooting of crippled Dallas Lee on August 13. A scuffle down town preceded the pistol shooting at the American Legion fair grounds a mile from Dunn. The big colored man, built in Othello-like proportions, is ex pected to make a plea of self-de fense. Accused with him is James Vernon (Brother) Smith. Smith was taken into custody after it was testified at the in quest that he handed Mooney the death-dealing pistol with the words, “Go ahead and do what you’re gonna do.” Grover Lee, a brother of the dead man, claimed that he was the real target ol Mooney’s wrath and declared they had gone to the fairgrounds to fight. He maintained that Mooney had replied, to Brother Smith’s re mark, “I’m going to kill this crip pled Mooney allegedly referred tc Grover Lee -as “Hog Man,” a re mark which has had its sequel— for a few days ago in Dunn Couri Grover Ig-e was convicted of steal ing some ho'gs. The Mooney trial is on the doc ket for January 7. Slated for tria ion Thursday, January 9, is W. M I Keene, Jr., of Coats. The long /Continued on Page Fire) Her Voice Gay And Cheerful Ingrid And Roberto In Holiday Reunion ROME (UP)—Actress Ingrid Bergman said today shf had a wonderful Christmas reunion with Roberto Rossel Uni and their children but she would not say how lonf Rossellini might stay in Rome __ "That's up to him entirely,” she said. Miss Bergman flew to Rome from London to spend the holidays with the children and with Rossel lini, from whom she recently ob tained a legal spearation Her voice was gay and cheer ful when she accepted Christmas greetings on the telephone but she would give no details of the chil drens’ Christmas except to saj they had a delightful time. "We’re just helping the chfldrei to play with their toys,” she said "They have lots and lots of toys many of them gifts from ou steadfast friends.” The children are Robertino, ' who received an electric trail and the daughters, Isotta Ingri and Isabella, 5, who received doll from Paris. Rosellini is staying with his si ter, Marcella who lives above tli big apartment Ingrid and Robert shared in the past. i Gates Trying To Save Worker NEW YORK (IP) — The Amer ican Communist Party has voted to close down the Daily Workei as of next week. The decision to stop publishing the party organ came at a secrel meeting of the party’s national ex ecuive committee last weekend. But Daily Worker editor Johr Gates said Wednesday in a forma statement he would try to continu* the 34-year-old paper. Gates saic he did not consider the vote bind ing, and “in any ease, the Dail; Worker will cease to exist onl; when it alone says so.” The Daily Worker in Octobe: printed a sworn statement that it: average paid circulation in th< preceding year was 5,574. This wa: a drop of 1,821 from the previou year and a slide of 15,500 fron the paper’s all-time high in 1931 of about 20.000. Indications that the Daily Work er was operating deep in the ret came recently when it was cu from eight to four pages and fron five to four issues a week. Woman Believed Dead Shocked Back To Life BELLMORE, N. Y., (UP) was used to give a Christmas to Mrs. Alexandra Skoch, 73. When Mrs. Skoch suffered a heart attack in her home Tues day night, her daughter-in-law, Germaine, 30, called police who dispatched a squad car and noti fied the local Deputy Fire Chief Henry Griffin. Giffin sounded the fire-house ‘ siren and raced in a rescue truck • to the Skoch home with a dozen r volunteers. 1 The volunteer firemen used oxy gen resuscitator and then artificial respiration on Mrs. Skoch in at tempts to revive her, but with no r success. A nurse at the scene could detect no breathing or pulse and said she thought Mrs. Skoch ,, was dead. j Then the volunteers brought in s their new resuscitator which gen erates electric shock timed to ac tivate the body’s muscles and ner i- vous system inducing breathing, e The firemen had not yet used it o in an emergency. The machine worked. Mrs. Koch —An electric shock machine present of “a return to life” regained consciousness early Wed nesday morning. The elderly wo man was hospitalized but her con dition improved so quickly she was permitted to return home lat er in the day. "This is the most wonderfu Christmas present possible,” hei daughter-in-law said. Atlanta Shopper Dead; Others Hurt ATLANTIC (W — A womai motorist apparently lost control o her car in downtown Atlanta todaj and the vehicle plowed into groui of post-Christmas shoppers. On man was reported killed an< several persons injured. The automobile was travelini v'est on Hunter Street, when i ran of control at the iner-sectioi of Broad Street. The victims wer reported pinned against a wall a (Cootinned On Psp Us) ROBBER RELENTS SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Christ mas spirit apparently had its tell ing effects on a bandit here Wed nesday. Mrs. Marguerite Plummer, a junior high school history teacher, notified police the savings bonds someone had stolen from her Monday were returned in a strong box to the home of a neighbor. CATALOGUER AVAILABLE CHICAGO OF) — Mrs. Clyde E. Wilson of suburban Des Planes is -estless since her retirement six weeks ago as a librarian. “If any library, large or small, needs to be recatalogued, will it <*ase get in touch with me,” she i appealed. Mrs. -Wilson is 80 years ■ old. AUSSIES BATTLE BLAZES ! SYDNEY, Australia (W — Hun t dreds of residents in remote rural i areas of New South Wales spent ; Christmas Day fighting bushfires t which have burned out more than two milion acres of pastureland. Ike Working On State Of Union Message WASHINGTON (IP) — The White House said today Pre sident Eisenhower will go to his Gettysburg, Pa., farm Friday for about a week of rest and work on a missile geared 1958 legislative pro gram. The President worked today on the proposals he will send to Congress when it returns in two weeks. The State of the Union message, to be delivered Jan. 9, is expected to propose the biggest peacetime military budget in U.S. history as this country’s reply to the challenge of Russian sci entific developments. Indications are that the Presi dent is preparing to ask for a I military budget of about 40 billion dollars, 2 billion more than he asked last year and about one billion more than is expected to be actually spent in the year end ing June 30, 1958. Money for Science The president also is expected to ask an increase in economic aid for nations menaced by Com munism and a larger federal stake in scientific training. The president will confer in , Gettysburg with a series of ad ministration leaders, including Budget Director Pgrcival Brund age, on the budget message. ricaa ocuciai j ^— erty said that while the President is in Gettysburg, his primary job will be completion of the State of the Union message. No decision has been made as to whether he will deliver the message in per son. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower plan to leave the White House by car at about 2 p. m They are expected to remain at (Conttnned On Paee Six) Polite Borrower: “Thanks so much for the use of your hotwater bag. It leaks just a little, but my husband put on a machintosh over his pajamas.” , Postal Employees Complete Big Job 5Y2 Billion Letters ; 85 Million Packages 1 WASHINGTON (UF)—mat roaring suunu yuu | is the collective sigh of relief heaved by 500,000 postal em ployes. They have just finished deliver , ing an estimated five and a half , billion Christmas letters and 85 million packages. All of which indicates the Post Office Department has come a long way since 1775. (Continued an Page Eight) FIRT PRIZE WINNER—Christmas decora tions at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan B. Bass at 60!) North Ellis Avenue won first place in the contest conducted this year by the Dunn Chamber of Commerce. The choir scene at right was beautifully illuminated, with recorded Christmas carols floating into the air. An angel decorates the door. Mr. and Mrs. Bass received a $15 cash prize. The decorations may still be seen. (Daily Record Photo.) Boom Seen Missiles TIT A OXJTTVTm-'r^XT /TD\ Draai dent Orval R. Cook of tile Aircraft Industries Assn, predicted today that guided missiles will make up more than 35 per cent of the avia tion industry’s total sales by the end of next year. He also said in a year-end re sort that unfilled orders for mis siles were expected to comprise at ease 50 per cent of the manufac urers’ total military backlog. Cook said, however, it was pos (Con tinned On Pure Bobby Jernigan Confesses Slaying Admitted By Sampson Youth A youth who first denied that he slashed a neighboi to death with a knife, but who later admitted to officer that he committed the crime, is being held in the Sampsoi :ounty jail on a charge of murder. Teams Racing To South Pole AUCKLAND, New Zealand OR— A radio message crackling out of the snowy wastes of Antarctica to day announced Sir Edmund Hil lary has set off on another epic dash — this time to beat a rival British team in an overland race to the South Pole. "Heading hell-bent for the pole, God willing and crevasses permit ting,” the conqueror of Mt. Ever est message din Morse Code to New Zealand’s Scott Base this morning. Barring ill fortune, it appeared Hillary’s New Zealand team would win the race. Hillary’s message indicated he had some 325 miles to go. The British team was 500 miles away from Its goal at dawn Wednesday. , JUST RIGHT What’s your favorite illustrated paper, Izzy? Izzy—The $10 bill is my choice It’s big enough to buy something worth while and it isn't so big that nobody will change it. 1 Killed By Car Death Comes To A Traffic When he got drunk enough, which was often William Hall of Erwin woulc sometimes stumble into the highway and act as a direc tor of traffic. The custodians of the law die not think much of this aid. A num ber of times he was arrested foi drunkenness in the midst of hi: efforts to keep the traffic movinf smoothly. Two days before Christmas, Hall was dead—the victim of his own odd trait of directing traffic. The inquest was held at five o’ clock in Erwin. Witnesses includ ed John Eldredge Smith of Dunn, Route 4, 24-year-old driver of the i car which had taken his life, and . Harvey Byrd of Erwin. • Byrd said there wasn’t anything i Smith could have done. He had ; been coming up behind the Smith car and saw it all—the man in the highway waving his hands and sagging from side to side, the lurch into the line of traffic. A few minutes before his death, Hall had stepped from the cafe run by Pauline Tart. The proprie tress told the coronor’s jury that he had been “highly intoxicated.” Highway Patrolman David Mat thews told them he had arrested Hall a number of times for drunk (CenUnmed On Pao Btfht) L/iau ar> ua 1 cjuu an aigu nent between four men during irinking spree early Saturda norning is John Ransom Barefooi 10, of Dismal township. He died i i Dunn hospital an hour and lalf after he was found sitting i he middle of a highway bleedin ifnntimjed On P»n 8I*> With Daniel Family In New York T ruman Raps T elecst By Ike And Dulles NEW YORK (UP)—Former President Harry S. Tru. man said today that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’ telecast to the nation Monday night was “a lot of gobbledygook.” "The show was fixed up by BBD&OP),” Truman said, referring to a New York advertising com pany which has been employed by the Republican Party, "and they didn’t do a very good job. "BB&O—that’s Bunko, Bull, De ceit and Obfuscation,” Truman said. The firm’s proper formal name is Batten, Barton Durstine & Os born, Inc. # The former president, who had refused until today to comment on Eisenhower’s report to the nation, made his statements during a 15 minute morning walk in the rain from the Hotel Carlyle where he and Mrs. Truman are staying fContinued On, Pace Holiday Death Toll Higher Than Expected By UNITED PRESS A short but tragic Christ mas holiday ended with a nationwide traffic death toll that topped the 200 mark. The total was 2xk times as great as the normal toll for a non-holi day Wednesday in December. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said that "there must b'e a better way to celebrate Christmas on the highway.” The council had estimated that only 180 persons would be killed in Christmas traffic. “We can only hope that the shock of this toll will bring about sober thinking that may hold the new year holiday toll down to a new low.” Dearborn said. FIVE IN THIS STATE Raleigh latest United Press sur vey shows at least 10 persons died violently in the state during the Christmas holiday. Five died in traffic accidents, four by gunshot wounds, and one apparently of exposure. At 9:30 a. m. today, the United Press had counted 213 traffic deaths between the hours of 6 p.m. Tuesday and midnight Wed nesday. At least 27 persons were killed in fires and 27 in miscel laneous accidents for an overall total of 267. Ohio led the nation in traffic deaths with 26. New York had 17 deaths, Michigan and California 12 each, and Washington and Ok lahoma 10 each. Two of the worst holiday high way wrecks killed four persons Continued n> P"MT* HlX) New Year to Start A Triffle Late 5 NEUCHATEI, Syitzerland — 1 —If you want to kiss someone exactly at the start of the new year, wait until three-thous andths of a second after the a stroke of midnight. y That’s the advice from Swiss , International Geophysical Year a scientists who explained that the a slowing rotation of the earth a around the sun would delay the i I start of 1958 by about three - thousandths of a second.
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