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DUNN’S NEW PIGGLV WIGGLY STORE — Shown here U an
architect’s sketch of the beautiful new Plyyly Wlyyly store now un
der contraction here by Ottis Jackson, who now operates Ideal
Grocery. Briny erected on N. Clinton Ave.. opposite the ECX Store.
the modern new Pl«ly H'i«ly will have more than oqoare
feet of floor apace and will be ultra modrrn In ererj respect. Open
tnj has been tentatively set for early fall. (Reproduction of archl
tect’a aketcb by Susan Black.>
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Uj HOOVER ADAMS
A WITTY OFFICIAL, LOVE
BABIES AND KING PERCY
Miss Lela Hall, the very clever
and attractive young lady who
serves as Harnett’s welfare sup
erintendent, not onl Is an effi
cient administrator who knows her
job. She also has a keen and de
lightful sense of humor.
The other night Miss Hall was
addressing Dunn Rotarians and
was telling about a six-months
survey on illegitimate children
which her department has just
completed.
"By nature,” declared Miss
Hall, "It takes a woman nine
months to have a baby. And”.
she paused."I really couldn’t
say how many babies a man can
spawn during the same nine
months.”
The Harnett welfare department
she reported, is now rendering aid
to a total of 1400 hildren.
Of this number, 269 wtre ille
gitimately born out of wedlock
They receive an average grant
of $19 per month.
All 269 of these “love" children,
as they’re sometimes called, are
In an even 100 families. That
means that each of the mothers
has had an average of 2.6 love
babies. Fifteen per cent of the to
tal are white, 85 per cent colored.
It's undrstandable how a girl
lOallaiH On Faer Fonr‘
Bride Near Death
After Car Wreck
A 17-year-old bride of less than one week ts fighting a grim battle
for survival in the Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital at Dunn, following
an auto accident which took place in western Sampson county about
6:30 Sunday nighf, July 20.
Highway Patrolman W. T. Em
erson, who investigated the near
fatal accident, said that Mrs. Jan
ice Barber Lee, 17, of Route 2,
Newton Grove, while a passenger
in a 1948 Plymouth being operat
ed by her husband, James Odell
Lee, of the same address, suffer
ed a broken back, a broken left
arm and a lung puncture, when
the ear went out of control on a
rural paved road at a location lis
ted as six miles west of Newton
Grove. The car swerved off the
right shoulder of the road. Into a
ditch, where it overturned several
times.
Lee, who told the patrolman
he was driving at approximately
55 mph at the time of the acci
dent, said the car’s transmission
suddenly locked—sending the old
model vehicle off the hard surface.
The driver suffered only minor
bruises and lacerations. The ve
hicle was demolished
Patrolman Emerson said that
DESERTER SENTENCED
LONDON (UPI) — A British
army private who deserted 1C
years ago in Palestine, joined the
Israeli army and rose to the rank
of captain, was sentenced to If
months Imprisonment Wednesday
by a court martial. Pvt Bernard
Wilkes, 28, surrendered to Brltisl
authorities in Paris.
New Styles Reveal, Flatter Figures
London's Designers
Restore The Curves
LONDON (UPI) — London’s fashion designers gave women bad
their feminine forms in 1958 showinfis.
On the second day of high
fashion showings by London’s top
designers, three more couturiers
joined In the decision to reveal
and flatter the female form.
Curves re-emerge In varying de
grees from the frankly conven
tional ones of Lachesse. whose
waists are where one expects
them to be to the youthful sil
houette of John Cavwnegh. which
takes the underbust as its demar
cation line.
Worth introduces the "chrysa
lis"—explained as an enveloping
sheath which opens to reveal soft
sinuous draperies. As befits a col
lection In the centennary year of
the foundation of the Paris house.
| there are strong Second Empin
influences.
Overcoats are cut boldly on tbi
lines of the redingote. lmportan
collars surmount dropped shoul
der lines and are worn with fo
ester’s hats.
Grand ball dresses with bac]
fullness often extending Into for
mal trains are worn over frothlnt
petticoats of scalloped lace
Rhinestone embroidery once agat
gives ceremonial glitter
For day. tweeds inevitable pre
dominate in autumn tones of oliv
green, brown and beige, frequent
ly with small overchecks of biac
or darker shades, enlivened wit
brilliant flashes of pure, clea
reds.
no charges were placed against
Lee, and that the Dunn hospital
lists Mrs. Lee's condition as "ex
tremely grave.”
Ola Ray
Still In
There Trying
PINE TOWN <UPI)—Pig-breed
er OBa Hay Boyd; slapping at
‘'dictatorial action” by the State
Democratic party, announced to
day that he would be a write-in
candidate for the U. S Senate in
the General Election.
"Tobacco-land and the people
must be represented," said Boyd
a perennial candidate for major
office in North Carolina.
Boyd criticized Gov. Luther H.
Hodges' appointment of Sen. B.
Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) to suc
ceed the late Sen. W. Kerr Scott
and said that Hodges and Jordan
"must and will be shown their
place" in Tar Heel politics
The Democratic executive com
mittee Friday Is expected to nom
inate Jordan as the party’s can
didate in the General Election In
November.
"Due to the dictatorial action
of the Democratic party of North
Carolina to select and dominate
among a few persons who shall
be appointed and run the party
behind closed doors. I shall be i
wTite-in candidate for the U S
Senate," said Boyd.
Sen. Knowland
Protests Reds
Meeting Terms
WASHINGTON' <UPI> — Senate
Republican Leader William 9
Knowland protested today that a
Middle East summit meeting on
terms laid down by Soviet Prem
ier Nikita S Khrushchev would
result In "another Munich’* for
the West.
The Californian particularly ob
jected to Khrushchev's demand
that Ind<an Premier Jawaharlal
Nehru participate.
Knowland also suggested that
President Elsenhower might con
sider calling In former presidents
Herbert Hoover and Harry S Tru
man for advice on the Middle East
crisis.
Of Khrushchev’s summit terms
Knowland told a news conference
"We cannot Idly stand by and
let him say who wlU attend the
conference and how It win be
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Thousands 01
Residents
Are Evacuated
BRLLXVtlXC. 01 \ Pit—Flv*
expl<*«lon« rockrd the Mir renter
of this city about noon today, re
sulting lr the evacuation* of thou
a a n*lt o' person from their
home* In an area two mile' lone
and half a mile wide
Police *atd the fifth explosion
occurred about one-half hour aft
er the first four
First reports luted two persons
Injured, but no deaths
Authorities aald apparetillv
natural gas had leaked Into thr
city’s water mains, cauhint •< -t
tered explosions In the area
Terrified resident* poured from
their homes, not knowing where,
or when the nest blast would
occur
Police and fir* crew* worked -
feverishly to evacuate cltlren*
from thel rhomes and at the same
time tried to anticipate where an- 1
othrr explosion might occur.
Man Is Facing
Assault Charg*
A 2l-year-old Negro man Daniel
Devone of route 1. Itoseboro. Is a
prisoner In the Sampson Jail on
charges of assault as the result of
•n argument In the Sergeant llrow-n
building a mile west ef Rovboro
on NC highway 24 at 1 * in Sun
day.
The man is alleged to have shot
a pistol from the night club oper
ated by Hubbard Bullard at a sec
ond Negro man. James Mack, Jr
The bullet did nnf strflte the In
tended victim and Devone made
his getaway. He was taken Into
custody Monday afternoon by de
puty hertff J. F. Warren at the
home of a Negro woman In Herr
ing township.
The pistol was recovered at thr
home of the boy's father Walker
Devone In the Roseboro coinmun
Ity
Devone will be given a prelimi
nary hearing before Magistrate
Clarence Hobbs In Roseboro
MANAC.UA Nicaragua (CPU
Dr Milton S Klsenhower leave*
by plane today for Puerto Rico,
ending a busy three-day visit to
Nicaragua The brother of Presi
dent Klsenhower l« on a fact -
finding tour <rf the Central inirr
Iran republic*.
Ditch Being Dug
In White House Lawn
R? DAYTON MOORE
United Press latereatiraal
WASHINGTON <UPI> — Back
stairs at the White House:
For tourists who may wondej
about the ditch being dug parallel
to Pennsylvania Avenue In thi
White House north lawn; It Is foi
some new telephone and electrical
cables for the executive mansion
White House aides still are j
shaking their heads In amazement
over the Canadians letting a
newsman caddy for the President
when he played golf on his recent
goodwill visit to Ottawa It Is not
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Floods Threaten
Kansas, Missouri
By UliM Pr«M IiltruUnal
Cool, Canadian air swept out of the Rockies and into the plains
states today, threatening another heavy dote of rain for flood-plagued
Kansas and Missouri.
I Forecasters said as much as
three Inches of rain were expect
ed during the weekend In parts
of Kansas and Missouri where
floods In the past two weeks have
caused an estimated M million
dollars In damage
A few Isolated severe storms
during the night crackled over
the northern plains. w%h K)e€.
N D , about 40 miles southeast of
Minot, suffering the heaviest
damage.
Torrential rain accompanied by
I hail and high winds damaged
homes and crops In the Kief area
and flooded basements
■ The cool air pushed through
Montana Wednesday and reached
through Wyoming and into the
western Dakota* and Nebraska
early today. The weather bureau
warned of possible tornadoes in
the path of the cold air mass.
The cool air sent reading*
plunging Into the 50* and 60* in
Montana Wednesday afternoon
while to the east temperatures hit
highs of M at Pierre. S f> . and
92 at Minot. N D
A storm system that dumped
heavy rains from Indiana east to
the Middle Atlantic states and
sent flash floods raging across
parts of Louisiana began easing
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>!K AND >IUs | IlKOWN HIII.IAMN lit
With loading Man And His Lady, It's For Real
Dunn Actor And Bride Prove
Smash Hit In Boone Paaeant
Hr I H> IK KHIl K
BOONE — Whrn {‘*ur and Tay
lor Wllllaina walk on thr art of
"Morn In Thr Wraf »« man and
wife. It'a for rial
I*hla bandaomr younn couple »ii<
married on June 6 and Ilt«*Ir wmli
In Oir huloi teal drama *ta«rd
Coffee Prices May
Go Higher, Higher
WASHINGTON <UP1> Latin
Airaerican coffi-r producing na
tlorid, brwl by c<jcn petition from
Afrlran grower* wlli decide In thr
next io dayt on a planned scar
city program that might send U 8
coffej price* skyward.
The Latin Americans arr trying
to persuade their Afrlran compe
titor* to Join them In withholding
coffee from world markets In a
restore sagging price*
The task will not be easy and
may require State Department
pressure on the African
Representative* of 14 I.a tin
American countries on July IH
agreed to a draft convention un
der which, during the next crop
year, HraxlJ would withhold 40
per cent of It* produced, Colom
bia 15 per cent and the other
producing nations 10 per rent
Agreement Nat binding
However the draft agreement
1* nr*t binding on the governments
concerned They have Aug 5 to
decide what they will do about It
Meantime. representatives oi
Brar.il. Colombia Mexico, K1 Sal
vador and Costa Rica will seek to
convince African producer* le
agree to a withhold program
While the meetings at which the
draft agreement was worked out
were sccerCt It Is known that some
'if the- other l*atln American coun
tries have not been enthusiastic
Many went along with the draft
! I»ecausr (1> It did not definitely
commit their countries; and. <2'
they fell they had to go along In
| eon aide rat Ion of Inter • American
| solidarity
If African nation* tifrrc to tin
| withholding program there I* little
I doubt that the other I.atln nations
would also go along Hut If agree
inent It not obtained from the
Africans some may decline ’<> go
along
African* Reluctant
The African*, who have been
Increasing their production under
the umbrella of Itrazll pricing
vheine* and the Mexico f’ltv
agrrernent. are naturally reluctant
to agree to any cut-bak program
A recent World Hank study com
mented that failure of the Afrl
cans to Join an agreement would
j he a major weaknea* of the
scheme would be It* main bene
flelarh ' enjoying both high price*
| and unrestricted volume of ile*
| and their ex (sort expan ion would
he- watched with unca lnc ■ by all
member* of the stahtll/atlon
scheme ”
State Department Influence on
the African* stems from the fart
that of the roffee situation < rtou
ly deteriorate* the United State*
In an effort to save the economics
of Its neighbor* might be forced
evolve an Import tpioya scheme
nightly during the >unmii'i In
Honor In having l» suffice for a
honeymoon
They arrived In (hi* mountain
rtnort two daw after •>peak inu
' their vow* to begin rehearsal for
the male and female lead* In the
*how.
Tayloi a native of Dunn and the
«un of Mr* M H t'urll*.* and the
late T Blown William* I cast
In the role of Di Geoffrey Stuart
and l*ai<e play* hi* wife
Until are June yiudiijic- of the
' University of North Carolina
iContluurd on I'agr si * I
Tar Heel
Held In
Wife's Death
CUtTHORKE England H IM -
U N Air Fore*- authorities here
»»ld today they have a Treated
M-Sift Marcua VI Marymont for
"suspected implication" In the
ar*enle poisoning death of hia
wife
III 43-vear-old wife Mary
[ ffeleri. of Ifohh -.ilir N (' was
i stricken .lone 't mil died the same
day at the If S \ F t>.»**' hospital
here
Marymont waa charged after
two post mor te m * revealed trace*
| of arsenic
Fending completion of the In
vestigation. Marymont may face
general court martial charge*,
the Air Force said
Their three children 13 year-old
twin* Maru* M Jr and Mary
! Helen and Harold 9 left late last
i month to *tay with Marymont'*
I mother, Mr* Gertrude Harriet
Marymont. of North Salinas Calif
ATU Agent* Busy In Johnston
21 Stills Are Smashed
Federal Alcohol Tux Unit ag
ent*, sweeping through Johnston
County In a "police action" Wed
nesday. destroyed 21 liquor stills
valued at approximately WO.OoO
ATU agents from Raleigh, Fay
etteville and Lhinn participated in
the raid*, which alao confiscated
10.900 gallon^ of beer and a small
quantity of liquor The stills in
si le from 50-* a I loo g to 1,200-gal
Ion capacity
Agent* said there were no ar
rest* as the stills were not in op
eration it was Just a police ac
tion to get rid of the stills.” said
! m gffh'rr
M-niima cpii _ \ baab
burled from a spading car ex
ploded In a sidewalk cafe here
Wednesday injuring five persons.
One of the Injured was a 14-year
old boy.