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DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1859
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HUGH PRINCE GRAHAM HENRY OTTIS WARREN
, Two New Directors Added
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Home Loan NamesHugh Prince
Court Action
On Car Thefts
Bobby Baker, Erwin youth «1
legealy involved in the recently
uncovered operations of several
teenagers who stole approximately
20 cars, was given another hearing
in Lillington yesterday.
, On Monday, in Dunn, he was
bound over on two counts of
grand larceny for trial in Superior
Court. Judge Robert Morgan of
Lillington has also bound him on
another charge' of grand larceny
for a car reputedly stolen prior
to the weekend’s escapade when
he allegedly stole two cars, ditched
both.
Harnett Chief Deputy B. E.
Sturgill said Baker, 18 years old,
may face other counts as well.
Jerry Sills is also awaiting trial
, in the car theft case,
c Three juvenile offenders, whose
names have not been given, are
expected to appear before juvenile
judge Elizabeth Matthews later
this week. All five youngsters were
accused as a result of investigiv
tions stemming from Sill’s admis
sion that he and his friends had
lifted a number of cars.
SMASH JEWEL RING
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) —The
state prosecutor’s office Tuesday
announced the arrests of 25 man
agers and employes of five state
owned jewelry shops on charges
of selling smuggled watches.
Hugh Prnce, a prominent Dunn
businessman and head of Prince’s
Department Store, has been re
elected president of Home Sav
ings and Loan.
The directors of the association
were retained and two more add
ed to the board at a meeting here
on Tuesday bight, said Raymond
L. Cromartie, Jr., secretary.
Founded in 1922 by a stable
bunch of stockholders, the local or
ganization nasn’t had a foreclos
ure since 1931 and currently
boasts total assets of $801,692.34.
All of this, saki Cromartie. is
“either in cash, government bonds
or first mortgage loans.”
Added to the board which sets
high policy for the association
were druggist Ottis Warren and
Graham Henry, owner of Henry’s
Taxi service.
Howard M. Lee, Dunn furniture
dealer Who has presided at every
shareholder’s meeting for 15 years
—and attended his first meeting
while stift a schoolboy—was ag
ain in charge of the stockholder's
session.
Directors who were re-elected
by vote of the membership includ
ed, besides Prince, Cromartie and
Lee, C. W. Bannerman, Mack M.
Jernigan, G. F. Owen, R.D. Strick
land, Myers W. Tilghman and I.
R. Williams.
The directors afterwards re -
tired and chose officers, naming
Prince president, Tilghman vice
president, Cromartie, secretary -
treasurer* Magdalene Ennis as
sistant secretary-treasurer and I.
R. Williams and Mack M. Jerai
gan attorneys.
Association members, said Cro
martie, were “very happy at the
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Maniac Kills
Girl, Hurts
TOKYO (UPP — One teen-age
girl was killed and eight other
young women injured Tuesday
night by a maniac who rode
through a crowded Tokyo street
on a bicycle and slashed away
with a razor sharp instrument.
The attacks occurred so sud
denly that most of the victims
did not even see the slasher.
Dead from excessive bleeding
from slashes across her breast
was Yoshiko Tanabe, a 14-year
old junior high school student
Who was on the street in front
of her house.
Another 17-year-old was in criti
cal conditipn with chest wounds.
Several of the others, all in
their late teens or early twenties,
were reported with serious injur
ies.
Witnesses reported that the as
sailant, a young man about 20
years old and dressed as a fac
itory worker, did not Mop his
bicycle during the attacks.
SNOW PELTS SICILY
PALERMO, Sicily — (UPI) —
Snow fell in many areas of Sicily
Tuesday. Generally it, melted as
soon as it hit the ground. Except
on the lofty slopes of Mt. Etna,
snow is rare in this Mediterran
ean island.
Others
Bosom, Waist, Hips Back Where They Belong
They II Look Like Women Again!
PARIS (UPI)—Yves Saint-Lau
rent, boy wonder designer for the
house of Dior, revealel today a
back - to - nature spring line with
bosom, waist and hips where they
belong.
Saint - Laurent, 22, who suc
ceeded the late Christian Dior as
the world’s most influential dress
designer, broke tradition today in
an exclusive interview with Unit
ed Press International to tell how
he plans to make women feminine
again in their fashions.
Paris designers normally keep
their collections tightly-held sec
rets until the actual showings.
But with less thas 24 hours to go,
shy Saint-Laurent was talkative
about his.
Bust Restored
"The bust will be In its place
again,” he said*, “and for the first
time in years woman will be sim
ple, supple and natural.
"But at the same time she will
have all the refinements that
fashion can provide to make her
elegant.
"She will be long in line, with
nine of the previous architectural
construction surrounding her.”
Thus Saint - Laurent, along with
most other Paris designers this
year, proclaimed as posse both
last year’s high - waisted facade
and the figure - concealing sack
of yesteryear.
Then the soberly dressed young
designer, blushing behind his tor
toise shell glasses, said “women
finally will be liberated.”
He dropped his voice to a whis
per and spelled out in details his
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Lag Blamed on Collectors
Campaign Droops, Fund Heads
Need To Raise $10,000 More
By TED CRAIL
Record New* Editor
The United Kind, supposed to
brace a host of charitable activi
ties in and around Dunn, has sagg
ed like a droopy corset In recent
months.
Last night the directors of the
organization met, tried to pin down
the difficulty and decided that
icoUectoic for the fund simply
haven’t done their Job.
•‘The cards had not been work
ed. The calls had not been made,”
said Rev. George H. V. Hunter,
‘Jr., Presbyterian minister at Grove
Church who acts as a spokesman
for the group.
Although the end of the drive
should have come long ago, the
fund is still about $10,000 short
of its goal-*—less than $16,000 of
the desired $26,000 having been
pledged or collected.
Local Salvation Army head Ho
ward M. Lee recently announced
that for lack of money, he has
sent stranded tourists for a guest
stay In the Dunn jail—not being
able to stake them to motel rooms.
This has been due In part, Lee
asserted, because United Fund
checks are overdue.
Rev. Hunter agreed there has
been serious difficulty In wrapp
ing up last year's collections as
well as getting this year's pledges
in order.
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Ya. Governor
Asks Private
School Grants
RICHMOND, Va. fUPI) —Goy.
J. Lindsay Almond urged a spe
cial session of the General Assem
bly today, .to enact an immediate
program of tuition grant and then
consider a wholesale revision of
Virginia’s public school system to
head off integration.
Almond cast aside as impracti
cal demands that he use his pollibe
powers to close down at least nine
schools threatened with integra
tion before they open Monday,
The governor, in a dramatic ap
pearance before a hastily - con
vened special session, cayed for
cash grants to permit students to
attend private facilities.
Almond also asked for repeal
of the compulsory school at
tendance law which was seen as
giving the integration - threatened
County, Charlottesville and War
ren County room for new legal
mansuvers.
Some May Close
He strongly hinted that the state
might have to abandon public
schools in some area and turn
to other mean to educate it chil
dren. There "is no longer gny
hope for many thousand of them
to be educated in public schools,"
he concealed.
As Almond spoke, school auth
orities in Norfolk were going a
head with plans to start inte
gration Monday with admission ol
17 Negroes to previously - white
schools.
Federal District Judge Walter
£. Hoffman strutflf down la*'
Tuesday the Norfolk City Coun
cil's plans to withhold funds and
close all high and junior high
schools in the shipping and naval
center.
Almond told the assembly police
powers “cannot be assented to
thwart or override the decree of
a court of competent jurfisdiction,
state or federal.
Will Keep Order
“If the necessity arise I can
and will invoke the police power
to protect the safety and good
order of the community to restore
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SANDBURG ON RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT — Poe^ Carl Sandburg, left, sits in the
cockpit of an American Airlines jet airliner in Los Angeles. With,him is Capt. Hamilton
Smith, plane commander. The four-jet plane made a record flight from Los Angeles to
New York and back in 10 hours and 23 minutes. The flight inaugurated transcontinental
commercial jet service.
Hearing in Raleigh on Water Rate Hike
Coats Folks Fail To Protest
T ! .. \
- Not a single-voice was raised in
protest today as the State Utili
ties Commission held a hearing
on the water rate hike in the town
of Coats.
It was expected that some citi
zens from there might lock horns
with Angier’s Norwood Adams,
owner of the private water system
in Coats.
In an earlier episode with Ad
ams, there were great outcrys
when he temporarily shut off the
water system the night of a bond
election when Coats voters approv
ed getting a municipal water sup
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Atlas Is Fired;
Not A Moon Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI)
A mighty Atlas thundered into the
skies on a brilliantly-high course
Tuesday night but the comtnand
er of the test center said today
that it was "no an attempt to go
to the moon”.
Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates,
boss of the missile testing center,
told reporters the firing of the
100-ton Atlas was “a perfectly
routine test.”
To reporters wno watched the
firing, the engines seemed to burn
longer than in even the launch
ing which put an Atlas into orbit
Dec. 18. It also appeared to climb
to an unusually high iiltltude.
But in reply to a query from
United Press International, Yates
said the shot was “a perfectly
routine test in the Atlas ICBM
series. We didn’t attempt any
thing other than that.”
There w>ys widespread specula
ion that the firing may have been
another satellite shot dr even an
attempt to send an Atlas to the
moon. But Yates said, "It was
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Sexton Is Heading
Lillington Chamber
W. K. Sexton, new president of
W. K. Sexton, new president of
the Lillington Chamber of Com
merce, said today first project of
the year would be to increase
membership. Invitations to join
have been issued to all business
places in Lillington and the vicin
ity.
Other officers include Bill Rand
all, vice president; Selwyn O'
Quinn, secretaryfcreasurery Offi
cers were chosen by the board of
directors who include John Worn
ble, Elliott Johnson, W. K: Sexton,
Bill Randall, Selwyn O'Quinn,
three year terms; C, S. Vowler,
D. P. Ray, Johnny Wlbourne,
Robert Womhle, R. M. Turlington
for two years; G. M. Norwood, Sr.,
Gibbons Crews, George Carroll,
James Sexton, and M. P. Crews,
for one year.
W. K. SEXTON
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Ike Says No Rift
With Earl Warren
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi
dent Eisenhower today branded
as irresponsible a report of a rift
with Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He said he felt that if Warren had
some criticism of' his conduct of
the presidency he was capable of
telling the President himself.
The question of cool relations
between the President and War
ren was brought up in the chief
executive’s news conference be
cause of a story printed today by
the New York Herald Tribune.
Robert J. Donovan, chief of the
Herald Tribune’s Washington bu
reau, wrote that their relationship
today “is cold and distant and
marrel by disapproval on both
sides.” 1
Eisenhower spoke gravely and
swiftly when he was asked about
it. He said it was well known
that he thought a chief executive
should not offer his personal opin
ions on the actions of the high
court and that he knew of no per
sonal rift whatever, between him
self and Warren.
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Asks Criminal
Penalties
For Violators
United Press Interactional
WASHINGTON iUPI) —.presi
dent Elsenhower sent Congress
today a broad 20-point legislative
program designed to drive racket
eers out of labor and protect
union treasuries from corrupt of
ficials. • |
In a special message, Eisen
hower also called for major re
visions in the Taft-Hartley Act
to place tighter curbs on second
ary boycotts and outlaw coercive
picketing.
He said enactment of the pro
gram would eliminate abuses dis
closed by the Senate Rackets
Committee and ‘‘protect the pub
lic interest and insure the rights
and economic freedom of millions
of American workers.’’
EJsenihovder said his program
would be “complete and effec
tive’’ ajid not a “piecemeal" one.
This obviously was a criticism of.
the bill introduced by Sen. John
F. Kennedy (D—Mass*. Republi
can congressional leaders have
called the Kennedy measure J
“half-hearted.*’
Criminal Penalty
The President said his recom
mendations would end improper
bitrary restrictions or punitive
measures on the legitimate activ
ities of honest labor and man
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Deacon Wants
Name Of
TownChanged
LOLLTA, Tex. (UPIV A dea
con in the First Baptist Church >
of Lolita, embarrassed over what
he called a “nasty, sex-filled
book” with the same name as the
town, 'circulated a petition today
■to re-name the town Jackson.
"We feel that our town has been
smeared by this book,” Deacon
R. T. Walker, 71, said.
“Lolita.” the novel, was written
by Vladimir Nabokov, a native of
Russia who now is professor of
English at Columbia University.
It was on ihe best seller lit for
months.
Walked a real estate agent, has
lived in Lolita since the town was
laid out in 1909. It was named
after Lolita Reese, granddaughter
of Texas patriot C. K. Reese.
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How To Make A Pawnbroker Sneer
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By TED CRAIL
Record News Editor
Alexander King is one of the
nation’s most prominent ex-dope
addicts.
He has written a book called
“Mine Enemy brows Older," which
has put him in the news, more
or less.
While he’s up there, Mr. King
has been spouting off a bit. Re
cently he remarked that he had
never won an election in his life—
except when he was sent to Lex
ington for a cure and was voted
“most popular man in the bug
house.”
I MENTION THIS to comfort
all those who are not going to be
named Dunn’s Man of the Year
on Thursday (or Its Woman of the
Year or its Young Man of the
Year or even its Most Absolutely
Outstanding Barbecue Ticket
Salesman).
Maybe, like Mr. King, you’ll
have to go to the bughouse before
you get recognition.
But shucks, plenty of good fel
lers had rough going, and few
compliments, before it finally
dawned on their playmates that
they were just about the greatest
thing going.
A now-forgotten p:ano teacher
told the great Paderewski he'd nev
er be much on the pedals. Through
much of his early life, Franklin L>.
Roosevelt regarded as bind of
a charming no-good by many uf
his relatives.
Alexander King was put down
as a rotter by many of his assoc
iates and in spite of it all he
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Roberts, Smothers, Calhoun Coming
Leaf Market Operators Named
Dunn’s two tobacco warehouses
will be shooting to sell six million
pounds each during the next sea
son said local businessman Louis
Baer.
Baer, on important figure in
the effort to build up the leaf
market heiV, said a meeting Tues
day indicated that both the Big
Four and Planter’s warehouses will
have an active management.
King Roberts, the colorful cat
tle-rancher and tobacconist, who
made his first appearance on the
Dunn market last year, is expect
ed to return as the operator of
Planter’s.
Last year he managed Planter's
in combination with Everett Clay
ton.
Baer said he believed Tom
Smothers and Jack Calhoun of
Reid'ville, owner of the Big Four
warehouse, are likely to take per
sonal charge in Dunn this season.
A 12-million-pound year is not
out. of the question, said Baer.
"We’re going to push it,” he de
clared. “If everybody comes in
with their support, we’ll do all
right."
Tobacco sales in 1958 totaled
approximately eight million
pounds. Baer said King Roberts
and other veterans considered that
“reasonably good” under the ex
isting agricultural setup.
Local leaf men believe the pri
ces received here during th« 1958
sales provide Duns with a good
arguing point. There was a com
plaint last year that in spito of
excellent prices being paid hero,
some farmers were tending to
put their poorer grades of loot
in the Dunn warehouses and totct
their best leaf elsewhere. *
There was a greater effort than
usual last year to get farmers to
use the Dunn warehouse*. J. II.
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