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DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 46
Liz McRae of Fayetteville Gets London Role
Wanted Well-Stacked Blonde;
Fayetteville Girl Fills Bill
By EARL WILSON
Special to the Daily Record
NEW YORK —CBS-TV producer
Edwin Knopf wired from London
List week: ‘ NEED BLOND AMER
ICAN ACTRESS WELL STACK
ED.”
This week N'frth Carolina*
Elizabeth MacRae jetted to Lon
■' don.
Winning out over several other
blond, well stacked young ladies,
Elizabeth-who looks like Kim No
vak-was chosen for the lead in a
TV play, “Magic Touch”, which
will be filmed in London and
shown here in the Spring,
“Magic Touch” is an episode in
a new dramactic series which de
buts in New York on Feb. 18, It
will be sold to CBS stations out
side of New York under the name,
■1 “Rendezvous.” In New York it will
be called ‘The Rheingold Theater
59.”
This is Elizabeth’s biggest break
so far in New York.
“It’s fantastic the way things
sudenly happen all at once” dec
lared Eliza^ethi whose parents.,
the James MacRaes, live at 914
Brook St. in Fayetteville.
“During the last couple of months
not much has happened for me,”
she continued. "Then boom! In
one day I get a great TV role, a
tree trip to Europe-and I’m also
earning money!” she laughted.
“This is the first time I’ve been
to Europe, so I may stay a little
longer than the five days it'll take
_tfl. shoot the film. I want so much
®***W*jt» W the Louvre Museum in
Paris,” said Elizabeth, who’s still
pursuing a painting career, as well
as acting.
“But if I can’t stay. I’ll even be
happier-beca use the only reason
I’d come back right away is to
make a screen test for movie pro
ducer Otto Preminger.
“Preminger’s considering me for
of a Murder, which I’ve already
read for. And he’ll let me know
if he wants me for a screen test
while I’m in London.”
Elizabeth was recommended for
the CBS film role by the casting
director of ‘The Verdict Is Yon rtf’
-on which she appeared last
Thanksgiving.
“You know, in the middle of my
second reading for the casting di
rector of ‘Magic Touch’ the phone
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LUCKY LIZ WHO WENT TO LONDON
Sold On Revolution Movement
David Blalock Likes Castro
Jh&M
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JhinqA
By HOOVER ADAMS
THE HOPE DIAMOND JUST
BIG OLD PIECE OF GLASS!
Ever since the fabulous Hope
diamond was acquired by Smith
sonian Institute there has been a
rash of newspaper and magazine
articles about the little old 67V*
carat bunk of glittering glass.
And every time the diamond is
v mentioned we recall the wry com
ment made about it by our old
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David Blalock, a farmer and ru
ral carrier of the Haire’s Chapel
Road near the Harnett-Cumber
land county line, is “sold” on the
“26th of July movement” of Fidel
Castro after a harrowing six-day
experience in the middle of the
recent Cuban Revolution.
Blalock, discounting rumors of
Castro’s moving in on the Fulgen
cio Batista government in the
Carribbean nation, left the United
States the Sunday morning after
Christmas for a “quiet” sunny va
cation with his brother, Alfred, in
Reparto Fontanar, a suburb of
Havana. Mrs. Blalock, the former
Peggy Hockaday of Lillington went
with him.
The “vacation” turned out to be
a peek at a perilous leaf in the
history of the turbulent Latin Am
erican nation. "We lived history
while we were down there,” says
Blalock, who arrived at Internat
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Brother Says Doctors Baffled
Mingo Girl Hit
By Strange Illness
A mysterious illness that com
pletely stiffened her body on Sun
day night has releted and Mingo
basketball player Barbara Phil
lips has been brought home from
Duke Hospital
Benny Phillips, a brother, said
she was at home talking with her
boy-friend when the attack came.
Carried to a car and taken to
Dunn Hospital, she was transfer
red to Duke. A local doctor sa^d
he could not determine the cause
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S&H Unit
To Be Here
Fri. & Sat.
S&H Green Stamp Company’s
modern new 35 foot long merchan
dise mobile unit, a new idea in
merchandising directed to the con
suming public, will be in Dunn,
North Carolina at the Winn-Dixie
Store at 323 East Broad Street on
Friday and Saturday of this week.
This van is now operating
thoughout the Carolinas by the
Sperry & Hutchinson Company in
co-operation with Winn-Dixie
Stores and others who display the
S&H Sign.
In the mobile unit the customer
may find hundreds of items in the
15 hundred that may be obtained
with S&H Green Stamps. She
may make her selection with the
aid of an attendant who will take
the order and mail it to the near
est warehouse of the company
where it will be filled and mailed
pre-paid to the customer. The en
tire process will require only a
few days before the order is re
ceived. The mobile unit is one of
only three in existance. The oth
ers are being built. They are
“Made To Order Jobs” each with
its own air-conditioning, heating
system and generating plant for
electric power.
This unit is being used in com
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I
Car Slides
Through Curve,
Three Hurt
Highway Patrolman W. T. Har
ris said there would be no indict
ment in a one-car accident Mon
day night which sent three per
sons to the hospital.
Ray Tart, 24-year-old driver of
a 1950 Plymouth which overturned
on a sharp curve, was unhurt.
Those sent to Betsy Johnson Me
morial Hospital in Dunn were
Franklin Jernigan, 25, of North
Lee Avenue, Dunn; James Tart of
Route 1, Dunn; and James Jerhi
gan of Route 2, Dunn.
The patrolman said none of the
three appeared to be seriously in
jured. ,
At the time 'of the wreck, Har
ris said, the road was wet and
presumably slippery. Tart; he
said, was apparently not exceed
ing the speed limit. The wreck
occurred about 10 p.m. on a rural j
dirt road two miles west of Dunn, i
CORONADO, Calif. (UPI) —
Vice Adm. Clarence S. Kempff,
84, died Tuesday at his home af
ter a lengthy illness. He was, the
second oldest vice admiral on the
Navy’s retired list.
Case Has Stiff Penalties For Everybody
After Chainings: 13 Children
Split Up Into Foster Homes
By TED CRAIL.
Record News Editor
The crime was like an enormous '
fan. Once touched, it spread a
part, further and further, until
there was really no end to it
and won’t be an end.
Thirteen children lived in the
home where an all but incredible
tale of beatings and bondage had
come to light.
Each of those thirteen must be
cared for, given a chance. And
wdii'le Hassell Allen and Irene
Geddis were being packed away
to serve their prison tei%is, the
children left behind were quietly
Spirited into homes where the
nightmare, if not forgotten, will
at least grow dimmer.
The crime spreads out further
than that, however, tor in not so
many months there w’ill be still an
other child, another problem.
Irene Geddis is pregnant. She
goes to prison carrying a child
who will be born in March. She
leaves behind, among ten others, a
16-month-old infant.
For the Harnett Welfare De
partment, yesterday was a sort
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"Honey" Wanted To Kill Her A Man
Stripper Is Held
Under Heavy Bond
LAUREL, Md. (UPI)—A bosomy
teen-aged stripteaser was held In
$10,000 bond today to face charges
that she tried to kill a 22-year old
companion in his parked car on a
lonely country road.
Geneva Garrard, 19, who also is
known as Jean Lewis and per, -
formed in a Washington night
club as "Honey B. Darling,” was
accused of assault with intent to
kill in the shooting early Tuesday
of Robert F. McCudly, an estate
owner from Charlottesville, Va.
McCuddy remained in critical
condition in a Washington hospital
after surgery for removal of two
.38-caliber bullets from his chest
and abdomen.
1 The 19-year-old stripper, a di
vorcee, was expected to be ar
| raigned today, but a preliminary
hearing was scheduled tentatively
for next Tuesday.
The dancer still wore a G string
and halter under a sweater and
outer coat when arrested.
Miss Lewis said she met Mc
Cuddy Monday night at the club
where -she performs. She left with
him in his car when the club
closed at 2 a m., and drove to her
apartment where she picked up
the revolver before rejoining him
for a ijre - dawn ride into the
country, she added.
They drove to a dirt road near
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Expand J & W into Clinton
Dunn Men Now Own
SecondSupermarket
Two fast-moving Dunn men who
made their start with a small
neighborhood grocery have now
opened their second supermarket.
Pill Woodall and Aaron Jackson,
owner-operators of the J and W
Supermarket on East Broad St,
thriving store half a block from
their present location in Dunn.
They built the J and W Super
market here, building and all, two
j and a half years ago. They later
i affiliated their store with the Red
i and White organization, which is
BILL WOODALL
now have a similar store in Clin
ton.
There, as in Dunn, it is called
the J and W Supermarket. At pre
sent, Woodall is on-the-spot man
ager of the Dunn operation and
Jackson is in charge at Clinton.
For several years, the two men
were partners in a small but
i!
AARON JACKSON
made up of independent grocers
banded together in a supply chain
that helps to keep down overhead.
Their new market in Clinton is
comparable in site to that In
Dunn. It was f' merly operated at
the D it M vy W. C- Martin. Mar
tin, saiii Hill Woodall, will devote
! his fulltime to the meat business.
m
!
THGKE CELEBRITIES comparing dark xlaMts In r*itenUy’i
balmy (If windv) weather were two beauty college students rigged
un for a sorority initiation. At left is Bonnie Jackson of Wade and
at right Myrtle Chance of Erwin. Others inflated: Linda Summers
of Clinton, Ann West of Turkey and Marie Pope of Clinton. (Record
Photo by Ted Crail.)
Found Nude In Bed With Man, Denies Selling
Vice Dolls Will
Appeal Conviction
NEW YORK (UPl) — Virginia
McManus, former Brooklyn high
school teacher, and Beatrice Gar-1
field will appeal their conviction
on prostitution charges in connec
tion with a $400-a-night vice ring,
their lawyer said today.
Attorney Martin Benjamin said
the two women would also sue
Magistrate Hyman Bushel for ille
gal imprisonment in refusing them
bail at the time of their original
arraignment last Friday.
Miss McManus, 85, and Mrs.
Garfield, 29, a previously convict
ed madam, face maximum prison
sentences of three years. They
were found guilty Tuesday of liit
ering and offering to commit pros
titution by Bushel, who s%t F*b.
25 fol sentencing. Mrs. Garfield
was also found guilty of allowing
her apartmest to be used tot
prostitution.
Two other women arrested in a
police raid Feb. 10 on the $350
a-month apartment were acquit
ted.
Raiding officer John Murphy
said he found Miss McManus nude
in bed with Harry Evans of Hous
ton, Texas, but he said she denied
she was seLUj^g sex.
Miss McManus wa acquitted on
a loitering charge last October,
Evidence Shows
Gangsters Run
The Juke Boxes
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Cong
ress marked time today while the
blare of its juke box Investiga
tion played on.
The Senate was in recess, and
the House scheduled onily a ses
sion of routine business. Many
legislators were back home pre
paring for Lincoln day observ
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but the board of education dis
charged her as a substitute .Eng
lish teacher. She came here from
Chicago last summer to work her
way to a doctor of philosophy de
gree.
/
Assures Brandt
At Conference
'
This Morning
WASHINGTON (UP! - Presi
dent Eisen-hower firmly assured
i Mayor Willy Brandt of West Ber
lin today that the United Stales
will “defend" the German city
against any destructive efforts of
the Communists.
Brandt said he was given the
assurance in a 30-minute confer
ence with Eisenhower and Liv
ingston T. Merchant, assistant
secretary of state for European
affairs.
“The President gave me the
firm assurance that the United
States shall defend the people of
the free Berlin against any effort
to destroy their freedom." the 44
year-old mayor said.
Brandt said Ihe President also
told him, "No Communist threat
whatsoever shall deter the United
j States from the discharge of its
resi>onssibilities to - the people of
Berlin and that the United States
will not be pushed out of free
Berlin.”
Brandt described Eisenhower
, as “pleased to hear that my fel
low citizens are not in the lea-t
frightened by the renewed Com
munist threats against their city
and that they are absolutely cer
tain that the western Allies will
stand by them.”
Soviet Russia has insisted that
the four-power occupation of Ber
lin end by May 27 with the former
capital becoming on open, un
armed city under some sort rtf
international protectorate, possib
ly under the United Nations.
The United States and the other j
! Western powers have rejected the I
: plan on grounds it is merely a
| thinly-veiled plot for a Commun
| ist take-over of the city.
1
Teague Killed 1
At Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH. Fla (UPlv
—Marshall Teague, nationally fa
mous stock car race driver, was
killed shortly before noon today
w^hen his Sumar Special race.'
flipped over at Daytona Interna- i
| tional Speedway,
i Observers said Teague, of Day
| tona Beach, was trying to break I
j t he record he set Monday ol I
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Ervin Takes New
Blast At Court
NEW YORK <UPI> — Sen. Sam,
J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.* charged to
day that on many occasions during
recent years the Supreme Court
has usurped and exercises the j
power of Congress and the states j
to am nd th Constitution while
professing to interpret it
Ervin said. 'In so doing, the
Supreme Court has encroached
upon the constitutional powers of
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Smith Again Heads
Dunn Investors
Guyton Smith, one of the key
figures in encouraging the expan
sion of the Bien Jolie garment
factory here, last night was re
elected president of Dunn Inves
tors.
At the annual strockholders met- ;
ing of the organization, h^ pre-1
sented a report showing that$9000
of the longterm debts against T4^e
building they have Erected havX
now been paid off.
The new Bien Jolie plant was
financed by the Investors three
years ago at a total cost of $133.
38019.
Raymond Cromartie, secretary '
rof the organization, said, “We
really feel that more such opera
tions in Dunn, encouraging indus
try, would be greatly to the bene
fit of the whole community.
“Our corporation is being op
I erated on a sound basis and t he
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