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♦ WEATHER 4 Considerable cloudiness and cool this afternoon with occasional rain tonight and Friday. Warmer to night and Friday. le Bang Kett-w - THE RECORD IS FIRST VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 —"3118 DUNN, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 47 RECOGNIZE THE BLONDE?—K you don’t know who the blonde is at right, it's because you’re used to seeing her as a brunette. Sophia Loren, known for her dark, sultry Italian look, left, wears her hair blonde for part in “Heller With a Gun,” a western. JhsiM By HOOVER ADAMS lilHU NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Dunn’s on - the - ball Wellons Brothers last week opened a big new addition to the already huge Wellons Village Shopping Center in Durham.The Citizens National — Bank, a laundry and dry clean ing establishment and the shopp ing center’s headquarters office building were formally opened.... Several other big chain stores will be added as soon as buildings are completed for them.Billy -Well ons of Dunn and Charles Wellons, who stay in Durham to manage the big operation, were on hand for the event, but Johnnie and Calvih were too busy in Dunn with the formal opening of the new First Federal Savings and Loan Association, held the same day.Johnnie is president of First Federal and Calvin is a directtor... Imagine that, not even bothering about the opening of a new in vestment of a couple hundred thousand dollars but devoting their time to a civic project in their hometown instead.Incidentally, (Continued On Page Eight) Thousands Weleenpe Tar Heel Evangelist Arrival Of Graham MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) —Thousands of Australians turned out today to cheer American evan gelist Billy Graham trn his a*ttv#i here to open a religious revival crusade. More than 600 persons cheered and sang hymns at the airport, while others lined the route to the Victoria Palace Motel which will be his headquarters. Graham told a battery of press, radio and television newsmen that he had not expected any “film star” reception. ‘T’ve never sought publicity," he said. “My only aim is to serve Christ. There will be no play on emotionalism during my crusade. But I believe we have made re legion a bit too stuffy—one of the greatest needs of the church to day being a bit of enthusiasm.” Asked whether his crusades had any lasting effect, Graham an swered: “The effects of a bath don’t last, but you need it and it’s good for you.” Graham will begin his crusade in West Melbourne Stadium Sun-, day. He arrived here from Sydney where he told newsmen he had recovered from a stiff neck suf Learned Lines of Play In Trance Sessions Hypnosis Helps Linda Score Hit CHICAGO (UPI)—The husband of ^ ter an film queen Linda Dar nell, who once appeared in “For ever Amber,” today credited hyp nosis for a successful perform ance in “Late Love.” Hypnosis helped her relax,” husband Robby Robertson said of Miss Darnell’s submission to a physician - hypnotherapist who helped her learn her lines for the stage play’s opening here. The actress’ trance memoriza tion sessions, arranged just 72 hours before' the play opened uesday night, included one per ormance before Chicago Daily' ews science writer Arthur J. ider. Arriving in town in an emotion turmoil, Snider wrote Wednes y, the screen star felt inade ate. Line learning for the mov s involved separate, short se ences, he said. Physician To Keacue She telephoned their West Coast ysician, Robertson said, ar nging for him to fly here and >ach her through the chore, us (Continued Oa Page Four Abe Lincoln Paid Tribute WASHINGTON (UPI) — Poet Cfcrl Sandburg today told a joint session of Congress the “most en during memorial to Lincoln is in the hearts of lovers of liberty.” The Congress met in pomp and humility to honor the memory of the Civil War President on the 150th anniversary of his birth in a Kentucky log cabin 20 years aft ar the founding of the union that he later preserved. Southerner and Northerner—De mocrat and Republican—sat side by side as Sandburg praised Ab aham Lincoln as the rare type of man who appears “here and there across tire centuries.” Ear lier, the Army Band crashed out “Dixie” and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Sanburg, , rne of Lincoln’s most famed biographers, described the first Republican president as a (Continued On Page Eight) fered during the flight from the j United States. Jhe evangelist gave credit for Charles Lake, an osteopath he visited in Honolulu. He said this eye trouble also ap peared to be somewhat improved. "Today my left eye is better— almost normal, but as the trou ble comes and goes it could be worst tonight,” he said. Graham will remain in Mel bourne until early April. He said he would launch his Sydney cam paign on April 12. Wife-Slayer Sent Back To Hospital FAYETTEVILLE —Two Cum berland County residents, facing murder charges, were ordered re turned to state hospitals for further treatment Tuesday in Superior Court, after Judge Raymond Mall ard heard medical recommenda tions they were not mentally cap able to answer indictments. The judge ordered Almon D. Hall, 42, Wade, Rt. 1, returned to Raleigh; and Eva Jane Mc Laughlin, 33, Negro, Shaw Road, sent back to Goldsboro. Hal was accused of slaying his wife, Elizabeth, 52, last Aug. 2 at their Wade area farmhouse. Mrs. Hall's body was found in the living room, with a single shotgun blast in the rear of her head. The McLaughlin woman was accused of ^stuffing her infant in loan outdoor toilet near her house. Search Debris For Victims ST. LOUIS Mo. ‘(UFI) —An army of workers today struggled to clear away mounds of debris than once were homes and search ed for possible additional victims of a tornado that killed at least 12 persons and injured more than 350. A check of police districts in the' tronado disaster near the center of the city showed one person still missing. An officer said, “we are no sure if he is missing due to the tornado, or if he is just dislocated.” Rescuers believed they had re covered the last of the dead and concentrated on cleaning up the wreckage from a teeming Negro tenement district hit hardest by (Continued On Page Seven) Bomb Threats In This State RALEIGH (UPI) — A group of senators introduced a bill to day which would allow courts to hand down stiff sentences In bombings or bomb threats on church or school property. The bill, - introduced by Sens. John Jordan of Wake County and Carlyle Rutledge of Cabarrus County, is an outgrowth of a wave of school bomb threats which hit North Carolina late in 1958 and again recently. Jordan said the law would not apply to youths under 16 because they could not be treated as fel ons. The law makes the offense a felony. It would provide a 10 - 20 year sentence for anyone convicted of placing a bomb in school or church property. It would also provide for fines of more than $500 and imprison ment for 10 years for anyone con victed of making a false bomb report or for putting a fake bomb in a school or church building. Gov. Luther H. Hodges and a ! number of other state officials have spoken out angrily against the rash of bomb scares and promised legislation strength ening the state’s hand against of fenders. Both the House and Senate ad journed after brief sessions to continue their study of the billion dollar budget Hodges proposed MoadiMf night. State Revenue Commissioner James Currien went (Continued On Page Seven) HGIS iNGEiS REFRlf,fRATO COMBlNA7iq| AUiOMATlCJ vVRINGfR M 'G! M EF7.ERS FREEZERS CONTINUOUS DEMONSTRATIONS — A jam packed showroom in Johnson Cotton Co.’s tractor division was the sit* today tor an unusual re ception in which the company displayed the major appliances that will be sold this year under its own Nathane trademark. Seen with part of the appliance display are (left) Rosa Turlington, an employe of the firm, and Lane Siler, representative of Carolina Power and Light. There were continuous demonstrations of the products today and refreshments for visitors.,. (Record Photo.) NEW YORK — Waitress Mrs. Anna Thompson, 38, explaining why she robbed one bank teller of $1,000 and then tossed the mop ey into the cage <>f another teller: “I wanted to see how easy It was to get money out of the bank.” In Egypt, the Aleutians and Dunn Round - The - World Religious Service The World Day of Prayer chain begins on the Tonga Islands with Queen Salote leading her subjects as dawn breaks over these tropic isles. When the sun sinks behind the Arctic horizon on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island in the Aleut ians, the last supplications of the 24-hour unbroken cycles will be murmured. In Dunn, a service prepared by the Christian Wonjen of Egypt will be given by representatives of (Continued On Page Seven) * •‘V J AZALEA PRINCESS — Hanna White (above) was chosen today to appear In the teenage division at the 1959 Azalea Festival in Wilmington. From April 2 until April 5 she will le an expenses paid guest of the city. A Junior at Dunn T' jh, Hanna is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard White, record Photo by Ted Crail.) Moonshine-Totin' Gets Him A Year I William McNeil, who pled guilty in Dunn Recorder’s Court this morning to transporting liquor on a ’41 ■ Cadillac, has been sentenced to a year on the roads. Sole witness for the state was policeman Raymond Thomas. The| officer said McNeil, a Negro, was alone in the car when it was chas ed and that two jars of whisky had been thrown out. Judge Strickland said the car in volved would be released to its owner. Jackie Ray Tyndall, 16, pled guilty this morning to careless and reckless driving. He was ac cused of turning around in mid-' street, sentenced to 60 days, sus pended on payment of $10 fine and costs. Alton Bryan Prince, 54, of 704 West Broad Street, pled guilty to speeding and was fined with costs. Beam Drops, I Derails Train, Injuries 32 MIDDLE RIVER. Md. fUPI) — A steel beam fell from a passing freight, buckled a track and de-, railed an 80-mile-an-hour Washing- | ton to New York express train to day, injuring 32 persons. Engineer T. L. Winsey of the Pennsylvania Railroad's derailed Potomac said he saw the buckled track as he rounded a bend into the straight stretc where the wreck occurred. Winsey said he applied the brakes but the train wobbled out of control on the bent track. v Only one truckrof the locomotive left the rails. The sleeping^ car behind it stayed on. The remain ing 10 cars of the train derailed, tore up more than half a mile of trackage and came to rest still upright but tilted precariously across three of the four tracks of the New York-Washington main line. The steel I-beam, 7 feet. 9 inches long and weighing about 250 pounds, was found beside the J track. Railroad, police and FBI investigators said it apparently had fallen from a passing freight car. Twenty-five injured persons wer« taken to City Hospital and seven to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Tourist Bitter At Court Fine A Yankee tourist—Herman Klar of New York City—toyed with the idea of taking a jail sentence to day rather than paying $12.50 for speeding. * Klar, brought directly to court from Highway 301 by Patrolman David Matthews, wrangled with the judge when told he couldn’t send the money back later or leave a check. On his way home from a trip 1 to Mexico and Miami Beach, Klar was driving a '58 Dodge but told Judge H. Paul Strickland that he had only $17 to get home on and (Continued On Page Four 1200 Families Had To Flee Surging Wabash PARU, Ind. (UPD—The threat of further severe flooding along the banks of the Wabash ap I peared ended today and Peru ! officials met to consider meritting j 1,200 families routed by the flood waters here return to their homes. Gov. Harold Handley urged that 13 comities in north - central In diana affected by floodwaters from the ice-choked river be de clared disaster areas, Peru, a city of 12,000. was hit hardest when the swollen river, backed up by an ice gorge four miles downstream, tore through a sandbagged levee late Wednesday. It inundated the southwest section of the city in a flash. Many resi dents had to be rescued from their homes by boat. The flood crest, highest in 46 years, rolled post Peru and by this morning the level was down to 20.4 feet, a drop of nearly four (Continued On Page Four Anna Thinks Her Ma Will Be There HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Singer Anna Maria Alberghetti says she thinks her mother will attend her April wedding to composer-ar ranger Buddy Bregman despite trie older woman's opposition to the match. “I was hoping my mother w'ould be resigned to my wedding to Buddy by now," Anna said Wednesday. “I thought she had. When I told her about it she was calm and we talked about it but she still says she won’t come to the wedding. "But I think she will. Mrs. Vittoria Alberghetti has opposed her 22-year-old daugh ter’s plans to marry Bregman, who is divorced from his first wife and has a 6-year-old son. When Anna announced Tuesday She was going ahead with the marriage plans, Mrs. Alberghetti said, “I will not attend the cere mony. I said I was going to be sick the day the marriage took place. I am still going to be sick." Mrs. Alberghetti said she op posed the wedding bectause of Bregman’s divorce. Both she and Anna are Roman Catholics and natives of Italy. — Afraid Of Husband— Judge Sends Her Home Vert Surles, a Dunn Negro wo man, said she was afraid to go home to watch over her children because her husband had threat ened to kill her and the childreii, she said, were not in school be cause they had no shoes. Her testimony came as Judge H. Paul Strickland, presiding in Dunn Recorder's Court, heard a non support case against Mayfield Sur les. Pleading not guilty, the husband denied that he had run her away from hom? or sworn he would murder her. Judge Strickland found him guilty of non-support but ordered Mrs. Sflrles to go home and start talcing care of her children. Moth er of nine, she lias five children still minors ranging in age from 16 to 8. By her testimony, her husband, who had been working only in (Continued On Page Four Officers Round Up Accused Robbers Four young Harnett County men have been charged with the January 30 breakin at Jones’ Gulf service station in Broadway, Sheriff D. F. Holder said today The four charged with breaking and entering are: Michael Jones, 17. Bunnlevel; Jack Bowling. 18, Ullington; Ear lie Olive, 23, Fuquay Springs, Rt. 2; and Floyd Colville, 21, Lilling ton, Route 2. In the Broadway robbery, mer chandise and money totalling 9460 were stolen. Missing were two tires valued at $324; and holding five dollars; a cigar box filled with $20 worth of nickels, a act of keys to the American Legion building in Broadway, keys to an automatic cracker vending mi - chine, an electric Ron sou razor, a set of automobile keys, and five cartons of cigarettes. Sheriff Holder said that the fool (Continued On Pago Pew
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