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* WEATHER <■ Snow flurries in the mountains today. Partial clearing elsewhere and rather windy. Tomorrow gen erally fair and mild. Price Is Right Days Continue Thru Saturday VOLUME 8 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 24. 1958 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 37 NORTHEASTER JUST A FEW HAMS—A1 W'uilenwaber, secretary-treasurer of Tomahawk Farms, is shown with a very tiny percentage of the hams which will be spreading the name of the new firm from one (Record Photo byTedCralL) coast to the other. 4 Colonial, Lundy's Combine In Enterprise Tomahawk Farms Expected To Gross %2V2 Million Annually By 1961 JhoAe duUtth JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS KI.ANSMAN JAMES COLE WELL KNOWN IN DUNN The Rev. James Cole of Marion. S. C., the Ku Klux Klan leader, is nd stranger to many of the ci tizens of Dtfnn When we first saw Cole’s picture in The Charlotte* Observer the other day in connection with the Indian uprising at Maxton, we knew his face was familiar. It finally dawned on us last nite that he's the same fellow who con ducted a revival meeting under a big tent on North Clinton two or three years ago. We checked with a number of other citizens who confirmed the fapt. In an interview. Cole told how he was wouyded in the war and how doctors had given him up to die. As we recall the story he told us, they even had his body tagged for delivery to a battle i Continued On Pare Six) lomahawk Farms, a new business enterprise w.iich is expected to be grossing two and a half million dollars annually three years from now, will be dedicated here next Thursday by Governor Luther H. Hodges. Governor Hodges has agreed to personally signal the start of a remarkable ham distributing firm which has been built out of the combined efforts of Colonial Froz en Foods in Dunn and Lundy Pac king Company of Clinton. Although Tomahawk Farms has been in the works for months, ma ny preliminary steps were neces sary before Colonial manager A1 Wullenwaber could announce this week that the new enterprise was an accomplished fact. Declared an official statement released by the manager of Tom ahawk Farms, “The new company has set a goal of 150.000 hams the first year of operation and 250, 000 annually within three years." Burrows T. Lundy and his son. Burrows, Jr., are president of the Clinton firm. They occupy simi lar offices in Tomahawk Farms and Wullenwaber will serve as secretary-treasurer of the new1 concern Their aim is to capture business I r'nnttnne<1 On Hfr» Bared Minister's Affair With Pianist Deacon Given Year; Tapped Rev.'s Phone HOUSTON, Tex., (UP)^ A Baptist deacon today faces possible sentence of a year in jail and a $10,000 fine for tapping his pastor’s tele, phone to find out what he talked about to the church pianist. Mrs. Inez Caylor, things that Co burn himself admitted were “rot ten. horrible.” “It was something I’m not proud of,” Coburn testified Cnmlnufd •» I-h*-* r«t The deacon, Henry Buescher, 29 an insurance man, found out and the pastor, O. W. Coburn, now has a job in a department store after spending 17 years in the ministry, U. S Dist. Judge Allan B Han nay announced after Buescher was confided Thursday of tapping Co burn's phone last May 23 that he would pronounce sentence Jan. 30. Evidence in the trial disclosed a controversy between members of Spring Branch Baptist Church, just outside Houston, over whether their minister of three months was using the telephone properly. Buescher tapped the line and heard the minister tell the pianist, SI KA.MjK MAsThKriELK—Robert Bryan listened with embarrassment last night as his father posted a brief epilogue on his son’s career after announcing him as the Jaycee-selected “losing Man of th Year.’’ Shep Bryan (at speaker's stand) de livered a strang masterpiece on his son's varied activities, start ing off his summary with the dry remark. "I don’t know if this young man is any more remarkable than any other young man.’’ Few knew he was speaking of his son. The younger and elder Bryan are law attorneys here. Bryan, Sr., turned from school ad ministraiton to law, his son, an Annapolis grad, turned from urts as well as his successes, and the circumstances of hLs mar the Navy to law. In his speech, the father listed his son’s fail ure* as well as his success, and the circumstances of his man riage—“He didn’t wait two days after he graduated from An napolis, I don’t believe.” (Record Photo by Ted trail.) Cooler Boy s Corpse Discovered Missing Negro Found Murdered a Lamngton Negro van. i Dusly known as Cooter Boy1 Smith or Little Boy Harris seas discovered floating in a j pond yesterday and authori. ties promptly announced that he had been murdered. Cooter Boy had been missing since December 2 and relatives had maintained that he must have been the victim of foul play. Rural Policeman B. E. Stur gill, chief investigator, said that a blow on the head was apparent- j ly responsible for the Lillington ; man’s death To check this, an | autopsy will be performed in Goldsboro. An arrest in the case can be ex pected shortly, Sturgill declared today, but he gave no indication of whom the authorities expect to blame with the crime. One of the early clues in the case was a blood-stained ax found at the home of Joe McMillan, who was with Cooler Boy when he was last seen. They were near the pond in which the body has now been found. Sturgill said the blood on the ax was human but there was so lit tle of it, it could not be typed. Since the disappearance of Coo ter Boy, 23 days before Christmas, McMillan has been sentenced for larceny and is now in the Wilson County prison camp on an 18 - month sentence. iCoattnaed w Pa«e Tni Georgia Warned Of Tornadoes; Snowing In NC. H> UNITED PRESS A .storm which caused Gull Coast floods swept north, eastward today with u fore, cast of heavy snow and aa. ies for the Middle Atlantic States and Connecticut. Kain, snow and strong winds were forecast for much of tin east today and Saturday A spe clal weather bulletin said snow depths would range from four to eight inches and added that grea ter amounts arc possible." Tornado and severe thunder storm warnings were issued for Southeastern Georgia and portions of South Carolina. The weather bureau said twisters could occur in the area up to 7:30 p. m. Fri day Slert Snow \nd Rain Drumming rains which doused the Gulf Coast for the last 24 hours had moved into the South Atlantic states More than an inch of ratn had fallen in Georgia since midnigl* \ treacherous mixture of sleet, snow and rain extended across Tennessee and Kentucky into western North Ca rolina. Snow ft*!I from the mountains of North Carolina northward into southwestern Virginia early today and heavy snow warnings werg. issued for the next 24 hours for portions of North Carolina, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania The weather bureau described the storm as a "typical north easter along the Atlantic Coast " Gale warnings were up along (he coast from Florida to Rhode Is 1 md and on both Chesapeake and Delaware Ba>s The storm sent streams over their banks and flooded the streets of Corpus Christi, Tex. Dunn Man Fined For 100-Mile Spee ’ A Dunn man was found guilty of driving in excess of 100 miles per hour on highway 242 between Salemburg and the intersection of 242 with 421 on the night of De cember 3 and fined $100 and taxed with the costs in General county court at Clinton. Defendant in the case was Wil bert R Beasley, who was also charged with careless and reck less driving by Patrolman George Willets. Willets said he saw the 38 year *»ld Beasley driving at an exces sive rate of speed and took after him He said Beasley increased his speed still more and a 10 mile chase followed before the driver came to a halt TROPHY FOR A RE<'ITERATOR—Kminrlt Aldredge, iihaky but smlllnf, was taken com pletely by surprise last night when n gay group of friends accompanied Reverend Mr. Ernest Russell to the Aldredcc home where th Man of th Year award »m presented. Kmniett and hi* father (right) underwent duplicate opera lion* at the I Hi n n hospital lerently. are recup erating together. I Hally Record Photo by Ted ( i ail J Receives Trophy At Home Man-Of-Year Award Goes To Pajama-Clad Aldredge Emmett Aldredge is un doubtedly the first Man of j lie Years who has ever re. •eived the award Is his paja. mas. It was a high-spirited troupe of friends, led by the pastor of the First Baptist Church, who made their way to Emmett'* house last night — more than an hour after the other winner, Mr*. T If San sorn and Robert C. Bryan, had received their trophies The Young Man of the Year was presented to Bryan by Jds fa-1 tber Few hail an Inkling of who it would tie and. despite being hi* father’s law partner and confi dante, it was one matter In which Bobby was completely In the dark Mrs Sansom, receiving her aw ard from WCKB’s John Thomas, sparkled as he pinned on her a Dunn grown orchid which Charles Skinner provided for this dramat ic moment at 'tfe annual Chamber of Commerce banquet There was a rustling In the crowd when the Reverend Mr Ernest Russell, after a friendly talk ab out who the rhan of the Year might be, announced that it was j < nrmr.urj On 7t(r Isrol Bobby Jernigan Admitted Fatal Stabbing Trial Of Jernigan Set For Next Week A Dismal township youth who has admitted slashing a neighbor to death on a lonely rural road early on the morning of December 21 will face a murder charge during a two.week term of Sampson Superior court which con. venes at Clinton Monday morning. Judge Henry L. Stevens, veteran Warsaw jurist, will preside at the criminal term. Also due for trial is a Honeycutt township white man, De Vane Mr Lamb, who is alleged to have rap ed a Negro girl on November 11 in a stable in Little Coharie town ship McLamb, who denies that he forced the girl to submit to nlm, claims she went with him to the stable of her own accord. Defendant in the murder case will be Hobby Jernigan, 17, a resi dent of Route 1, Godwin He has been held in the county Jail with out bond since his arrest a short* , while after John Hanson Barefodt [tiled in a Dunn hospltal-frum cuts across the face and throat. Jernigan at first denied cutting the 40-year-old Barefoot. But he finally admitted unc|p> questioning by Sherrif W D lytft and Deputy John K Warren t|(|P%n was the one who wielded the knife in-on argument with the victim. The youth had bloodstains on his clothing when taken Into custody at his home a short distance from where the crime took place. According to Sheriff Hall, Bobby (i nnllnimi *ti For Distinguished Community Service William H. Randall, Jr. Named Lillington's Man Of The Year By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer A young Lillington phar. macist who didn’t let thi fact that he works everj day, and also every other' night in his business, pre. j j vent him from taking a lea. i ‘ding part in community ac.: ‘tivities was cited last night] las the winner of the Jayceei Distinguished Service Award for 1957. William H Randall. Jr., phar macist for Kelly's Drug Store, w,s announced as Lillington's Man of The Year at a Joint dinner given by the Lillington Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club at the school cafeteria. The Distinguished Service Award is sponsored nationally by the Junior Chamber and award ed by the Jaycees in Lillington for the past three years. Announ-; cement of the winner was made by Dr David Huffines, Jr., chair man of the committee which se lected the winner from nominees submitted by individuals and clubs. Randall, who b a native of Fal con, has lived in Lilllngton for the past three years. He b mar ried to the former Miss Margaret Ray, former assbtant home dem onstration agent, and they are the parents of one daughter, Diane. The University of North Carolina alumnus has distinguished him self in a long list of community service projects in the county seat Continued On Pmgn Its
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