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VbENlT or NEICBBOR8 ^ Their ene-ttme
Mairy 'kWh lat pwiailr become port of *
CoUf-devt>0pe4 raefataitlal section sod the main
"open opacea” Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Raynor have
now b their hbre; airy poly* where they r*J
;V orchid* and orange*—and consider the use*
an old spinning wheel. (Record Photo by T<
Crsil.) •' '
/* Mdngs ta Mr. and Mrs.
By HOOVER ADAMS
NO HUSBAND BUT THREE
PROFITABLE DIVIDENDS
For some people, the more chil
dren they have the more expense
they have.
But that’s not always true in
this, welfare age.
Miss Bessie Massengill, a very
popular lady and a county school
supervisor, tells the story of a
woman who came to her recently
to rent one of her houses.
Wanting to be sure the prospec
tive tenant would be able to pay
tbe rent. Bessie asked her where
she worked and how much money
she made.
“Oh,” said the unmarried woman
proudly, "I don’t work. You see,
I h*ve three children.”
Our apologies to Miss Lela
Moore Hall, the very efficient
(Ooatinned On Pago Six)
CWJII1C IUIPC4 JiTI * . ttUU .
Mrs. ft R; Raynor chore them
selves a coQntry home way out.
northwest of Dunn.
When Mrs. Baynor and, her two
daughters, Shirley and Libby,
Wouldn’t think of anything else to
do, they’d wander out and pick
cotton blooming all around them.
“For five years,” Mrs. Raynor
said, “we didn’t have a neighbor.
When X saw someone coming, I
had plenty of time to put my
shoes on.”
The mysterious thing is that in
far less than a generation t h e
Raynors have been converted
ftom country to city-dwellers and
they haven’t moved an inch.
Instead of picking cotton in the
back yard, they now 'grow orchids
in 'the front porch.
The Raynors are not in the least
disheartened by this —in fact,
they kind of enjoy having neigh- j
bors—but they have helped keep !
the feel of their country wonder*
land by installing a raft of won
derful things on their porch.
It’s the best porch in town.
Converted from a former car
port, it features great slabs of
window which extend all the way
up toward tall beams In the ceil
ing.
The windows provide a gentle
fumacing that enables them to
grow anything—and so they grow
(Continued ea Page Two)
Beauties Confess
Smuggling Money
HAVANA (UP!) — Two Bronx
bred beauties admitted today they
arrived in Cuba with $57,000 in
Cuban pesos hidden in their un
dies, but they added, “we did not
think we were doing anything,
wrong.”
Laine Mitchell a nd Xenia
Thoroadekis were interviewed by
United Press International at the
Mantilla women's prison where
they wire confined following the*
arrest Friday.
They warn picked up fey Cuban
airport officials as they stepped
off a plane froin Miami No charg
es were placed against them but
police'said they were investigating
the possibility the girls were being
used to bring discounted Cuban
pesos into the country.
Under a law passed by the rev
olutionary government persons
entering the country may bring
in only $50 in Cuban pesos. The
law w$s passed following reports
that sailed supporters M ousted
(CisHani Om rage Two)
To Support
Her Family
A mother who told the Harnett
Recorder’s Court she sold liquoff
to earn a living submitted yester
day as guilty to violation of the
prohibition law. Mrs. Ella Partin,
40, > Angler had judgement con
tinued for two years and was
fined $100 and costs. Her son,
Elbert, 24, pleaded not guilty, and
was acquitted.
Walker O’Quinn, rural police
man, testified that Elbert told him
the whiskey found in their home
belonged to him. The officer said
whiskey had been found in the
home on an earlier occasion. The
woman told Judge Robert Morgan
she was supporting “nine in the
family and had only one acre of
tobacco.”
"I know you are having a hard
time supporting your faimly, hut
it’s against the law to sell whisk
ey. You better get you another
way of making money,” the judge
told Mrs. Partin.
Peeping Tom
Gets 18 Months
Jesse Ragland, 27, alias Jesse
"Bill” Ragland and Jesse Mc
Neil, came up for a completion
of his trial on a “peeping Tom”
and trespassing charge.
The defendant charged his ear
lier reluctance and told the Judge
about four prior convictions. He
admitted he had just served five
years in prison for breaking and
entering in Harnett county. He
had completed five years of an
eight-year sentence. Judge Mor
gan refreshed his memory of a
loog 11st of convictions, one in
Lumberton for assault.
You’ve got a bad record.” com*
(Continued na Pago Two)'
Ike Speaks
On Crisis At
9:30 Tonight ^
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Presi
dent Eisenhower delivers his ra
dio-TV report on Berlin tonight
against a background of crisis de
scribed as “the most serious sin
ce Korea, perhaps more serious."
The President, who will speak
over all maor radio and televi
sion networks from k:30 to 10 p.
m., e.s.t., was said to regard the
speech as’ one of the most import
ant he has delivered sintre enter
ing the White House.
The seriousness of the Berlin
situation was emphasized by As
sistant Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield Mont, who called
for Eisenhower to “lay it on the
line” in his address to the nation.
Mansfield urged the govern
ment to evacuate U. S. military
dependents from Berlin so Amer
ican forces there would be ready
for any showdown with Russia- -!j
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He said the continued presence of
military wives and children in
Berlin created a "hard situation"
for American forces.
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“I think it is far better to over
emphasis than to understlmate, j
and 1 think his is the most serl- ■
bus crisis confronting our country’
since Korea and perhaps could be j
more serious than that,'” Mans
field said. J
The President may work on his
speech almost until broadcast
lime. He passed up church serv
ices Sunday ahd restricted his ap
pointment list today to work with
Malcolm. Moss, the chief presi
dential speech writer.
Eisenhower is expected to cou
ple his report on the,' Berlin situa-.
tiop with a strong new defense of
his- military and foreign aid pro
grams* both under heavy fire in
Congress. - /
He probably will not unveil any
hew strategy for dealing with the
German crisis. But he is certain
to emphasize again that the Unit
erd Stines ytfll not he forced out
of Berlin by Soviet bluff and
bluster....
For Dmtrauding ! 2-Yet
Kirchofer
James W. (Jim) Thompson, Jr., .
52-year-old securities salesman ■
who until Friday of last week was j
vice president of the defunct Ra- 1
lelgh liivestment firm' of Kirchof
er and Arnold, was indicated by
the Harnett County Grand Jury
today on charges Of defrauding a
12-year-old Dunn boy and obtain
ing money under false pretense.
Jjistrict Solicitor Archie Taylor
gave the case top priority at the
opening of a criminal, session Of .
Harnett Superior Court this morn- ;
ing..
Quick Action )
The. grand jury did not convene
until 10:40 and before 11 o'clock
Forefnan W. B. Bruce had return
ed the true bill of' indictment.
By 11 o’clock, at the instructions
of Solicitor TaylOr, Sheriff Wade
Stewart had a deputy on his way
to Raleigh to take Thompson into
custody and return him to Har
nett. Bond was set at $10,000.
Rural Policeman ( Bernice Tem
ple returned from Raleigh about
3 o'clock this afternoon and said
he had been unable to find Thomp
son to arrest him there. He re
portedly is at his summer home In
More head City.
Solicitor Taylor taid he expect
ed the warrant to be served on
Thompson before the ehd of the
day. Authorities at More head were
expected to pick* Thompson up be
fore the end of today and hold him 1
for return td' Harnett.
-'This * was the1 firtt in a series
of' chaTges expected to be brou
ght against Thompson, one of the
top officials of the firm whose pe
tition of insolvency was fled £ist
Avfew dayr%«o in U. S. Dltffat
Court under the Federal, jtfahk -
niptcy -Law*. *• ^ '*- ■*
( . - Thousands Face Less ■fi
... Bankruptcy of the firm threat
ens its - US creditors and thous
and! of Stockholders with life sav
ings and losses which could rah
Into 1 millions of dollars in what
sotne -lawyers predict-will be the
biggest - financial scandal In the
kbtSry-'of- the’ State. -
T^kh-‘debts totaling $5,396,300.62,
Kircbhfer -'and 1 Arnold's cash oh
hipd ih banks totaled only $460.49
jigiCS: January 3l of this year, ac
cording to Hie balance sheet fil
0# with ' Federal; 0“urt 'Clerk A.
Hand James in Raleigh. n
^Continue* Oa rut Two)
MMUsruHT, renn. tut*!) —
“General" John Sailing, 112, one
of the last two surviving veterans ,
of the Civil War, died today. <
The old rebel, who would have ' j
been 113 on May 15, succumbed1
| to pneumonia and old age at the
Munal clinic here, not far from
the Slant, Va., home where he
Spent almost all his life.
Sailing's daughter, Mrs. Hugh i
.McCamp, and his grandson, H. E.
tiawkirvs. b<ith of Slant, were with
he old soldier when he died.
The Virginia mountaineer, who
;njoyed good health even after he j
>assed his 110th birthday, c<>n-j
iracted pneumonia Thursday and'
vas brought to the clinic.
He held his own for a brief time j
>ut then started getting gradually|
weaker. Sailing slipped into a1
oma Sunday and the end came
(Continued on Page Two)
State Capital Exec
The newly-formed Dunn Un -
derwriters Association will hear
C. R. Darling, vice-president and
director of training of State Cap
ital Life Insurance Company, on
Thursday evening.
Darling will be introduced by
the vice-president of the local
chapter, Roland Adcox.
Organization of the group here
was completed last month and
the State Capital executive will
be the first of a long line of ex
perts In the field who win be
brought in to address local un
derwriters.
Darling la a graduate of Rice
Institute, a chartered life under
writer and was associate director
of the Institute of Insurance Mar
keting at Southern Methodist Un
iversity before joining State Cap
ital.
All insurance men of this area,
;as well as present members of
the group, are Invited to hear his
talk at a dinner meeting Thurs
day evening at the B % H
ing hall, it starts
ir-O/cf Dunn Boy
Official
WSMsiM
Indicted
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YES—THE NEW STATE — HoUtyp* extra .editions of the
Honolulu Advertiser which hear statehood news, three HnutflU
misses stand on the beach near Diamond Head, HonoJulu. They
*n, from left, Janie Kinrata, Miss Cherry Blossom of Hawaii;
Georfietta Parker, Miss Hawaii of 1958, and Caroline Tom., Miss
Narcissus of 1959. In order, of Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese
decent, the rlrls represent three of the prime nationality, groups
on the islands.
Held For
Entering
Germ-Killer
Found At
Liquor Still
.it.
Cleve Norden, Charles Lucas
and Malcolm Ivey faced charges
bf operating a( liquor still in
Neill’s Creek Township. <.
Rural policeman B. E. Sturgill
in explanation of where the still
was located told Judge Morgan,
“It was located close to where an
other still operator got water from
the pond.” The raid was made on
Feb. 25. i
Lucas testified that Norden had
nothing to do with the still. Ivey
also testified the still did not
belong to his step-father, Cleve
Norden. They claimed he was just
visiting. When ask«d how long he
had been making liquor, Lucas
didn’t know, but added, '"Ws is
the first time I have ever been in
court.” , -
"You’ve been lucky, haven’t
you?” asked Solicitor J. T. Lamm
and the defendant admitted he
had.
A case of rubbing alcohol was
found at the still. “That” said
Ivey, “was used to kill germs!” i
(Continued on Page five)
Li. j. wooa, zo, uunn, tti. a,
waived a preliminary hearing in
Harnett Recorder’s Court and was
bound over to superior court for
allegedly feloniously breaking and
entering the Ruby Ray grocery
store and larceny of money and
checks of more thian $500. Bond
was set at $1,500. *
Velton Silas, 23, E. Broad St.,
Dunn, also charged with break
ing an<j entering the same store,
waived a hearing and his bond
was also set at $1,500. Pervie
Mason, third member of the al
leged theft ring, also waived a
hearing and bond was fixed at
$500.
Fined For Whiskey-Making
Rufus Capps of LilUngton, Rt.
(Continued on Pare Two) ■
Charges Dropped
Against Long Widow
By TED CKAIL
Record News Editor ,
The famed Edsel Heslip murder
case took its last turn—apparently
into a dead in—this morning!
District Solicitor Archie Taylor
moved to drop a long standing in
dictment against the slim young
Negro woman, • Dorothy Long,
whose lover has gone to jail for
life.
Taylor said his action was tak
en because Michigan authorities
have refused to extradite her to
Harnett for trial.
“Only a change of administra
tion in the City of Detroit would
(Continued on Page Five)
Overseas Policy
Could Slump, ,
Secretary Warns
WASHINGTON <UPI> —Acting
Secretary of State Christian A.
Herter told Congress today U. S.
foreign policy will become "inef
fective” unless President Eisen
hower's $3,929,995,000 foreign aid
program gets strong support.
He made the statement; in open
ing the administration's drive to
sell the program to a reduction
minded, Congress.
Testifying as the first witness at
House Foreign Affairs Committee
hearings, Hester said the mutual
aid program is "fundamental to
the pace of the world our own
future welfare and progress; and
in the years ahead the survival of
our American nation and our
American way of life as we know
it.”
His statement was made in the
face of open and veiled threats
by Democrats to try to cut the
program by up to one billion dol
lars.
An even deeper cut-of two bil
lion dollars-was recommended on
the eve of Herter’s appearance
by hte recently organized “Citi
zens Foreign Aid Committee.” X;
'Proof of Friendship
Herter told the House group
that the foreign aid program, rep
resenting but 5 per cent of th»e
national budget, would contribute
as much to .the achievement of
“the great objectives of our na
tional life as comparable expen
ditures for any other activity.”
- He said approval of the request
ed funds would toe "tangible
proof” of concern for other coun- -
tries threatened by the Commu
nist bloc. ■'
“Militarily it supplies the shi
eld,” he said of the aid program.
"Politically it promotes freedom
(Conthnaed On Page Six)
Roberts Can't
Be Tried Now
Authorities at State Hospital
have reported that Roy Roberts of
Coats is not mentally competent
to stand trial at this term of Harn
ett County Superior Court for the
murder of Norman Faulkner.
Roberts was originally sent to
the hospital for sixty days obser
vation but indications are that he
will remain there for the present.
District Solicitor Archie Taylor
announced this morning, as the
new term opened, that Roberts will
not be tried until a later date.
The grand jury this morning re
turned indictment 1 for murder
against Mack McCoy, accused in
the theft of Adam Oates and
against Josrphus Moore, accused
of the bludgeoning of Ernest Mc
Lean.
First Federal Savings Ana Loan
Passes Half Million Mark
Dunn’s newly-eat a Wished First
Federal Savings and Lqan Associa
tion has set what appears to be
i State-wide record of growth
tor savings associations.
The financial institution first
>peo«d its doors for business here
mi January 20 with deposits of
>nly $269,000.
As of Saturday, total deposits
n the association had risen to
• . ; . u
past the half-million dollar mark,
a growth of nearly a quarter of a
million dollars in only 45 business
days. ,
Roughly speaking, that figures
new deposits averaging approxi
mately $5,560 for each day of op
eration.
This announcement came today
at’ a time when citizens of the
area are facing loss of approxl
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lately a million dollars which
tiey have invested through the
ow-defunct Raleigh securities
f Kirchofer and Arnold.
The announcement by Manager
ohn Simpson, of course, made no
tention of those losses but he
id give a reminder that funds
eposited in First Federal are
ife, sound and insured against
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