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VOLUME 8
TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118
DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 27. 1957
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 17
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LIMBERING—Out on a limb, pert Ginger Stolz makes like a
high wire artist at Cypress Gardens, Fla. That little parasol
won’t keep her dry if she falls in the drink, but the water’s
warm anyway.
Official Predicts
Greater Prosperity
WASHINGTON (UP)—Wendell B. Barnes head of the
Small Business Administration, said today that “continu.
ing prosperity is inevitable” even though the nation is
experiencing “some sackening in overall business activity.”
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LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Christmas Day was quiet in
Dunn ...Only four customers land
ed in the hoosegow, two for pub
lic drunkenness, the other two for
driving drunk....Mr. and Mrs. Geo
rge Anthony Estvander, the bride
and groom, interrupted their hon
eymoon to return to Dunn Christ
mas Day for dinner with Mrs. Eva
Core, then took off for Cleveland,
Ohio to spend the rest of their
honeymoon.. .Still more business
firms have reported business this
Christmas equally as good or bet
ter than last year....Col. Jack
Brown, Jr. of Dunn has been as
signed to the big missiles base at
Cape Canaveral, Florida.Santa
Claus brought Dewey Godwin a
sleek new 1958 Cadillac from Den
nis Cadillac-01ds....And his busi -
ness partner, Tommy Gorwin, has
a new Cadillac ordered ana' en
route. ..Those fellows, who operate
the rapidly-growing Nu-Home Buil
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Barnes said in a speech to the
Washington Rotary Club that his
“reading of the business barome
ter indicates that 1958 will be an
other relatively good year.”
He said a mild economic down
turn now in progress “undoubted
ly” will continue -into the early
months of next year. But he added
“I do not expect that this correc
tion phase will be one of long
duration.”
Barnes said prosperity will
continue because “we are enter
ing a new age ... of thermo
dynamics, astrophysics, satellites
missiles, jet planes and atomic
energy.”
“Here alone is untold opportu
nity for business in the fields o:
research and development,” he
said.
“This continuing prosperity i:
ineveitable and rests on our ac
complishments, not only in the
fields of science, but in economics
which has leveled the boom and
bust cyles, and the sound leader
ship of your government.”
Barnes said 1958 will be a
“year of golden opportunities, anc
barring unexpected upheavals, a
year of wholesome prosperity tied
to the astounding frontiers of
science, and the sound fiscal poli
cies of our federal government.’’
Christmas shopping can be
more enjoyable for a busy home
maker if she knows that she has
a complete dinner ready to heal
when she returns home. One-disl
meals can be life-savers.
Eva Bartok Has
A Titled Visitor
LONDON (UP)—The marquess of Miford Haven visit
ed actress Eva Bartok over the Christmas holidays but re
fused to teli newsmen whether a romance was brewing
with the four.times married film star who gave birth tc
a mystery baby in October.
The last meeting was Thursday
at a small white cottage outside
London, reviving rumors of a ro
mance between the marquess, who
is divorced, and the 27-year-old
Hungarian-born actress.
Miss Bartok. whose marriage to
her fourth husband was dissolved
more than a year ago, gave birth
to a girl in a London clinic in
October but declined to identify
the father. She returned to Mu
nich tc make a film but came back
:o London far
see her baby.
Christmas
and t<
The 38 - year - old marques
fisited the film star on Christ
mas at her mother's cottage a
Kingons - on - Thams. He wa
there again Thursday for 10 hours
leaving shortly before 11 p.m
Neither he nor Eva would com
ment on the meeting.
“These rumors are all made up,
he snapped. "I'm saying nothing.
'—The Dogs Came Up Close'
John E Norris spoke with the
youth who spent a nightmarish nine
days in Mingo Swamp.
At the time he was brought in,
said Norris, "He couldn’t even mo
ve his feet. They were swollen two
or three times normal size.
"The fellow who saw him knock
ing on this outbuilding was scared
to go near him. He called the
police. Lonnie Jackson, the con
stable, and Buddy Jackson went
after him.
"He was in pitiful shape when
they brought him back.
"He told me that he had holler
ed hour on end until his voice ga
ve out.
"The hunters’ dogs would come
right up to him but he couldn’t
make anybody hear him.
"He spent the first three days
on the north side of the swamp
but then he crossed over and got
lost.
"I don't think there was a place
on him as big as a quarter that
hadn’t been scratched by briars.
He was wearing part of a pair of
pants and a shirt—that’s all.
"He said his legs gave out on
him and he couldn't get up and
move.
"He admitted cashing this check
at the freezer locker.
"Last night I took hiy old paja
mas to him at the hospital and he
got to talking to me. He said his
mother and father were wealthy
people, owned a lumber company
in Pennsylvania.
"I asked why didn’t he call his
folks an dhe sai dhe didn’t have
any money. And 1 told him I’d be
glad to get them on the phone and
pay for it if he wanted to contact
them.
“I put in a call and got up with
his brother This brother said his
daddy did used to have a lumber
company but he was sick and in
the hospital. The brother said he
hadn’t seen John in two years.
"He said he couldn’t come down
because of his daddy’s being in
the hospital but he would send so
me money down.
"Everything this boy told seem
ed to be pretty straight.
"He weighed 210 pounds at the
iime he was fingerprinted. You
i couldn’t tell much about him, loo
king at him when he came in
from the swamp. He was dried up
but his body had also swelled.”
Poll Shows
Rock Tops
At The Box
; HOLLYWOOD OP) _ Theater
owners across the nation have se
lected Rock Hudson as the top box
office attraction of 1957 in a poll
conducted by Quigley publiations.
The list of the top ten money
maekrs included John Wayne, Pat
Boone, Elvis Presley, Frank Sina
tra, Gary Cooper, William Holden,
James Stewart, Jerry Lewis and
Yul Brynner.
No female performer made the
list, for the first time in the 26
year history of the poll.
Fire Came Near
Dynamite House
Howard M. Lee, secretary-treas
urer of the Dunn Fire Department,
today told of a hazardous little as
signment taken on Monday by six
men from the Dunn fire depart
ment.
A grass fire got away at the
construction site on the new High
way 421 three miles west of Dunn.
Timber and lumber in the yard of
' Wilson Construction Co. of Salis
' bury was on fire,
i In the same yard with it; a dy
namite house with plenty of ex
plosives.
i The firemen were able to con
trol the fire in time although con
siderable damage was suffered.
’ Called out at 2:45 on Monday, the
’ firemen were on the scene almost
_ two hours.
’ Findings of a nationwide 1955
Household Food Consumption Sur
vey suggest that homemakers are
balancing time savings and money
costs in their uses of ready-pre
pared mixes.
WIDOWED AFTER TWO MONTHS-Mrs. Nicole Wilson, a
bride of only two months, is comforted by an unidentified priest
after arriving in New York on the liner Liberte to learn that
her husband had been killed in an automobile accident. The
French girl was married to George M. Wilson, 24, of Yonkers,
N.Y., who was killed near Albany while headed home to the
apartment he had rented for his w;fe and himself.
Economist Flays
Ikes Fiscal Policies
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (UP)—One of the nation’s lead,
ing economists said today that the Eisenhower adminis
tration’s fiscal policies this year showed a “willingness . . .
to jeopardize tho Security of the country.’’
Prof. Summer H. Slichter, La
mont University professor at Har
vard, made the charge in an ar
ticle to appear Saturday in Busi
ness Scope, a business newsletter
published here.
“It is clear that In 1957,” Slich
ter said, “the interest of the ad
ministraion in short-run stability
of the price level was given prec
edence over the security of the
country itself.
Sees Information Withheld
“In its efforts to hold down gov
ernment spending, the administra
tion was careful to keep from the
people information concerning
Russian technological progress re
ported by our intelligence serv
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Jimmie Osborne Commits Suicide
Hillbilly Star Spats
With Wife, Kills Self
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (UP)—Country music singer and
guitarist Jimmie Osborne, 34, whose “Song of Kathy Fis.
cus” sold a million records, killed himself with- a .32 caliber
pistol Thursday night after a spat with his wife.
Osborne, one of Kentucky’s best
known folk and hillbilly singers,
was found In the bathroom of his
trailer home with a wound in his
right temple Police said he and
his wife, Lorna Mae, had had an
argument.
While at WKEX, Lexington, Ky.,
after World War II, Osborne
wrote his best-selling record, a
lament based on the ordeal of the
little California girl who fell dowrn
a deep well and died despite
heroic rescue attempts. Osborne
reportedly gave half the royalties
to a memorial fund for Kathy Fls
cus.
He once stated his own formula
for singing folk music as, '‘Folk
music must come from the heart.
It must be honestly sung, and the
singer must believe in what he’s
singing and love the people he’s
singing to.”
Scott Given Life
For Killing Wife
LOS ANGELES, (UP)—I. Ewing Scott, 61.year.old
self-styled investment counsellor, today faced life in prison
for the murder of his wealthy wife almost three years ago.
Jurors who convicted Scott of
first-degree murder last Saturday
on circumstantial evidence re
turned to court Thursday to set
the penalty for the crime as pro
vided under a new California law.
After deliberating for almost
seven hours, the panel of seven
men and five women gave Scott
his life but ruled that he must
spend it in prison.
Mrs. Evelyn Throsby Scott dis
appeared from the couple’s fash
ionable Bel Air home in May 1955.
No trace of her has been found
since and her body was never dis
covered. She left a $600,000 estate.
Scott contended that his wife is
still alive, although there has been
no trace of her since he stepped
out on an evening errand in 1955
and returned to find her missing.
The disappearance of the 63 -
year-old matron was brought to
public attention when her brother,
Raymond Throsby, demanded an
investigation and asked to b« de
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Feels Lucky
Police Finally
Rescued Him
An accused forger who fled
into a swamp while resisting
arrest became lost in the
dense forests and under
brush and wandered lost
nine days without food, po.
lice reported today.
The man, John Richie, 24, of
Akron, Ohio, was discovered
Thursday night when he found
his way to an abandoned service
station and was spotted by a
passing motorist.
He was rushed to a local hos
pital where doctors said he would
recover but “it probably will be
a long process.
‘‘He said he sure had learned
a lesson. “It doesn’t pay to run
from an officer’,’’ said Police
Chief A A. Cobb.
Cobb said Richie was arrested
nine days ago on four counts of
check forgery and was taken in
a police car to jail. However when
he alighted from the car he broke
away from officers and fled on
foot.
The search for the fugitive led
to Mingo Swamp. Officers called
off the search the next day, be
lieving Richie had hitch-hiked a
ride on a highway, U.S. 421, bor
dering the big swamp.
“We thought he was long gone
until we had a report that a man
had been seen in a shack at the
edge of the swamp yesterday,”
said Cobb.
The police chief said Richie told
officers he had not had any food
during his nine days in the
swamp.
“He apparently had plenty of
water to drink because of streams
in the swamp,” said Cobb. “a
man can go a lot longer without
food when he has water.”
He said that Richie’s clothing,
a shirt and pants, were torn
“nearly off” by thorns and un
derbrush an dthat Richie had lost
his shoes. Temperatures dropped
to near - freezing several nights
during Richie’s wandering.
The fugitive said he finally
made his way to the highway and
crawled into a shack beside an
abandoned service station. The
nearest home was a quarter of a
mile away. ■“»
Weak from shock and exhaus
tion and lack of food, Richie be
gan knocking on the wall of the
frame structure and a passing
motorist who stopped nearby
heard the tapping, and notified
police.
Richie “was so weak he couldn’t
walk and his feet were badly
swollen,” Cobb said. “He had lost
a lot of weight too.”
“He said he was mighty glad
to see us.”
Rehearsing Bands
At Harnett High
Daily rehearsals are in session
at Harnett High for festival mus
ic. Th junior and senior bands
will meet at 1 and 2 p. m., res
pectively, this coming Monday
and Tuesday.
W. M. Wooten, director, wants
all members to be sure and attend
the coming rehearsals. The prac
t’ces are compulsory and involve
a penalty for those who do notj
get there. f
DRAFTY CHRISTMAS FOR ELVIS—Elvis Presley reads a
non-Christmas greeting under the Christmas tree in his home in
Memphis, Tenn. It's his notice to report for induction into the
Army on January 20. Says Elvis: “It’s a duty I’ve got to fill and
I'm going to do ilt.” His movie studio got an eight-week delay
in induction so that Elvis can finish iilimng a picture,
t
To Complete Fourth Movie
Elvis Is Granted
60 Day Deferment
MEMPHIS, Tenn., (UP)—Elvis Presley was granted a
60-day deferment from the Army today so that he can
complete his fourth Hollywood movie.
lviinon Bowers, Sr., Presley's
draft board chairman, announced
that the three-member Selective
Service Board had voted unani
mously to permit Presley to.defer
his induction into military servic".
The singer, who massed a for
tune from his rock and roll • e
cords, movies and various Elvis
Presley enterprises, had been slat
ed to report to Camp Chaffee,
Ark., Jan. 20.
Presley’s Hollywood studio had
asked for the deferment saying
“preparatory investments" of al
most $350,000 had been made i'cr
Presley's fourth movie “King Cre
ole” to be started in New Or
leans in mid-January.
Presley, 23, asked for a defer
ment in a letter to Bowers the
day before Christmas. Presley
pointed out that the songs for the
mov.e had been written and sent
to him to study.
Ti e singer asked the deferment
“so these folks studio will not
lost so much money, with every
thing they have done so far.”
Godwin Youths Die
In Dismal Township
Dismal township in Sampson County was the site pf
a car wreck on the day after Christmas which took the
lives of James Theodore Bedsole, 16, and Gene Bedsole, 18.
Both these youths lived on God
win, Route 1. They were fatally
injured when* the car in which
they were riding left the road and
hit a tree. The car itself was
.■mashed beyond use.
Ellis Chance of Baltimore, rid
ing with them, was seriously in
jured and taken to Betsy Johnson
Memorial Hospital in Dunn.
Highway Patrolman G^crge
Willetts investigated the accident.
Joint funeral services were to
be held today at three o’clock
from Shiloh Pentecostal Holiness
Church with Rev. M. M. Pope,
*nstor, officiating. Burial was to
rfoliow in the church cemetery.
Both the boys were students at
Eastern Carolina Indian high
school in Sampson County.
Surviving the younger boy,
James, were his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Bedsole of Godwin Rt.
1; six sisters—Mrs. William Wynn,
Mrs. Jams E. Brewington, Mrs
James Locklear and Mrs. Ellis
Chance, all of Baltimore, Varie
and Carol Bedsole of the home;
his grandmother, Mrs. Mandy
Bedsole of Godwin, Route I.
Surviving Gene were his mother,
Mrs. Mandy Bedsole; two broth
ers, J. X- Bedsole of Godwin, Rt.
4; two sisters, Pauline Bedsole of
1, and W. A. Bedsole of Dunn, Rt.
Hampton, Va., and Mrs. J. W.
Maynard of Dunn, Rt. 4.
In Argument Over Drink Bill
Gunmen Kill 2, Kidnap Couple
WASHINGTON (IP) — Two
men killed a bar owner and
a musician after an argu
ment over their bill early
today and then fled south,
kidnaping three persons and
switching qprs.
The killers, one wearing a red
carnation, made their getaway
from Washington after forcing
their way into a car in which Pfc.
I Larry Monteith of nearby Ft. My
er and his date, Doris Mattingly,
24 were parked.
They released Miss Mattingly
unharmed outside a bus terminal
at Richmond, Va., then drove to
Alberta, Va., about 15 miles north
of the North Carolina line. There
they locked Monteith in the trunk
of his own car, stopped a black
Cadillac driven by a lone man
and forced him to drive theny
away.
A general police alarm was
broadcast throughout the South
east for the ‘‘armed and danger
ous gunmen.
Police said the killers entered
the Jo-Del restaurant here about
10 a.m., Thursday and drank two,
bottles of whisky. An argument
developed over their bill, which
came to $20.
The restaurant owner, George
P. Kaldes, 33, ejected them. But
the two men returned about 2 a.
m. just as Kaldes was closing up
Police said the killers, one
about 22 and one about 45, shf*
Kaldes to death at the door of the
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