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DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8, 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPT
NO. S6
THE JOB KEEPS HIM RUNNING but most people would be
willing to trade places with Gene Driver (above). As head of the
Jaycee entries committee for the Miss Dunn Pageant, he was
chief interviewer of 100 suggested candidates for the local beauty
crown. Some other Jaycees have also drawn good assignments.
Cecil Lee will pick up Miss North Carolina, Betty Lane Evans,
and bring her to Dunn for the two-day pageant on April 16-17.
Lamar Stone will intercept Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley, at
Raleigh and bring her hejje. Woodie Myers, president of the
Jaycees, will deliver her to Durham following the Dunn event.
(Record Photo by Ted Crail.) •> ! —1 ‘
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By TED CRAIL
Record News Editor
Elizageth Taylor, you are here
by informed that the Dunn beauty
pageant would have to snub you
should you, by some quirk of na
ture, wdnt to be a contestant.
You, /too, Ava Gardner.
And ^ou, Susan Hayward (but
she, of course, got the gas cham
ber and isn’t in a position t o
care). ;
Need Minister’s Okay
In fact, there’s hardly a beapty
in filmland—or on that gay white
way where the models play—who
could live up to the rules which
govern the selection of contest
ants for this annual, pageant.
For one thing, not only must
your mother love you, but your
minister must give you a good
character. And the school princi
pal where you have (or are) gra
duating. And the people in your
community.
“Don’t get me wrong,’’ says
Gene Drive, chairman of the Pa
geant’s entries committee. “Eli-!
zabeth Taylor is as pretty as any
woman I know. Besides my wife
now, I say.-.But she is really pret
ty.”
Those three husbands, however
(and Eddie in the warmup pen)
fully disqualify her — as mar
Cant Remember All
18—Loved 'Em All
LOS ANGELES (UPD—The 72
year-oid marrying “Ding Dong
Daddjf of the D-Car Line” said
from iiis jail cell today that he
doesn’t , remember all of his ,;(1S
wives but he knows he loved ’em
all.
“Most of my marriages were
on impulse,” cherubic - looking
Francis) H. Van Wie said. “All 1
wanted was companionship, jus1
like someone to be with, to gc
to the movies with someone and
to the park.”
The roly-poly former San Fran
cisco streetcar conductor whc
served two brief terms in jail foi
bigamy was back in jail, this
time for breaking terms of hi;
1953 parole which ordered hip!
not to engage in any more mat
rimonial pursuits for seven years.
“One thing Van Wie wants
everybody to know,” the 5-foot,
2-inch man said, “and that’s that
I never never married a woman
for money.
“I can honestly say that,” he
said with a touch of pride. “No
woman ever had to work for
me. Some of them, didn’t have
any money at all, and I took care
of them.”
Van Wie married wives No. 17
and 18 in the past two years.
“But I loved ’em al* when I
married them, every one of
them,” he insisted. “But then
I’d wake up and realize I’d done
an awful thing. I didn’t really
love them after all, and so I’d
leave and marry someone else.”
riage has also disqualified som<
if the subtle beauties of Harnet
County.
In checking over the hundred o
so candidates who were’'consider
sd for this year’s pageant. Driv
er and his chief helpers, Mel Da
yis and Cecil Lee, found that mo
thers certainly do love their dau
ghters.
Mama’s Right There
It was usually the .mother whi
recommended her daughter as ;
contestant.
Though the rules applying t
[he Pageant knocked out a num
ber of potentially excellent en
tries — just as they would hav
ko’d Miss Taylor, Miss Haywari
and Miss Gardner — ten girl
survived all tests and they wil
be the key figures in what is cei
tainly one of the biggest small
town beauty contests in fifty stat
es.
At times it might have appeal
ed that Driver and fellow Jaycee
were waging a kind of psychol<
gical warfare against the girl
suggested for the Pageant, On
ploy: Driver knocked at a dooi
addressed the hopeful contestan
who answered as “Mrs. —-1
and asked if he could speak 1
her daughter.
“You sit in their living-rooi
and talk, and the way they reac
you can tell something aboi
them,” he said.
Chairman of the entries con
mittee for two years straight, h
has been as on-call as a sheriff'
deputy when a big jailbreak wa
on. Long hours of interviewin
time have gone into the selectic
of the ten successful candidate:
Winnowing Was Hard
At this point, the Jaycees hav
(Continued On Pare Six)r
Chamber Launching Get-Fit
Effort, Will Raise Budge1
An energetic debate from th
floor prompted the appointmei
of a committee last night whic
will try to lay the financial basi
for increasing activities here <
the Chamber of Commerce.
Since taking office, Chambc
President Carl Fitchett, Jr., hi
struck hard at the theme that tt
organization must boost its woi
and its efficiency.
A crowd gathered for a dinw
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h
a
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r
a
a
k
meeting, specially called by Fitch
ett at Wayne Avenue School caf
eteria, fell into urgent discussion
of ways and means for raising the
necessary funds.
Chief immediate problem is to
clear the way for hiring of a new
manager to succeed Wendy Hunter,
energetic minister’s wife who
left her post (the Hunters have
gone to a new church at Arch
dale) with the words, “Get a train
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sd manager*’ on her lips.
It was agreed last night, as
matter of policy, that the CShambe
will seek a fully-trained manage
and must lay the financial frame
work for paying his salary ani
defraying costs of' a bigger Cham
ber program in general.
On the committee that will tr
to set up a new budget structur
will be Abe Elmore, furniture deal
(Continned On Page Six)
Adenauer Still
Intends To lead
BONN, Germany (UPI) —
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
served notice today he intends to
continue leadership of free Germ
! any if elepted to the figurehead
post of president.
Adenauer told the nation bare
ly 24 hours after his decision to
retire from the chancellorship
that the president’s powers are
“much greater than one usually
believes.”
He said he decided to seek
election to the presidency “to in
sure the continuity of our policies
> (Continued On Page Six)
Only First-Day Filers Running
; No New Candidates
! For City Offices
At noon today, there was still
- no report at the city clerk’s office
s of any further filing for the three
- offices which will be at stake in
s the April 21 municipal primary
e here.
, The two candidates' for mayor,
t incumbent Ralph Hanna and his
* challenger, George Franklin Bla
o lock, have worn big smiles so far
and nobody has locked teeth,
n In the council elections, only
;, incumbent Dewey Whittenton has
t an opponent at the moment. Form
er board member B. A. Bracey will
- run for his seat.
Jesse Capps, also up for re
e
s
election, is the oniy candidate for
Ward Two but predicted, ‘‘There,
’ll probably be somebody want to
run. I’ve always had opposition
before this.”
The regular city election will
follow the April 21 primary. It
is slated for May 5 but won’t
amount to much if a run-off situa
tion does not develop.
In a preliminary statement,
Blalock indicated that one of his
intentions, as mayor, would be to
use city funds in development of
long-standing neighborhoods rath
er than in helping foot costs at
new real estate developments.
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Blalock Opens Guns
' In /Mayoralty Race
In mid-afternoon today, George
Franklin Blalock fired the first
salvo of a political campaign In
which he will challenge flve
( times-winner Ralph Hanna for the
post of mayor of Dunn.
Blalock said he had no specific
platform but certainly intended
to press for such Items as (1) a
» city civil defense program, (2) a
r West-side fire station in addition
r to the one downtown (3) a street
- resurfacing program “to prevent
1 heavier expense In the future”
- (4) tileing of ditches as a sanitat
ion measure f5> quick stop to
f charging property owner “for wa
» ter lines leading from the main
- line to the meter.”
“Hie mayor cannot vote except
i
In the case of a division of views
by the four councilmen,” said
Blalock, “but he can exercise his
personal influence and ^ integrity
and the prestige of his office...”
“Civil defense,” he said, “is an
integral part of (government pla
nning)...Dunn is in the radius of
damage of a 20-Megaton Nuclear
Weapon (equivalent to 400,000
tons of TNT) if the ground zero
is the center of Fort Bragg. ..
"Dunn is also an evacuation
area for Wake County under the
state evacuation program if Ra
leigh becomes a nuclear target.
“I would gr".‘ much personal
attention . t~ -he project in line
; with my 'justifications as a nu
(CouUnued On Faga Six)
Connie's Story
Postponed
For 24 Hours
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI> —
Mrs. Connie Nicholas’ story of the
shooting of her wealthy lover was
postponed for 24 hours today be
cause the death of a court offi
cial posed a question as to whe
trfthvhcr murder trial1 could legal
ly proceed. "
Marion County Clerk parry J.
Gasper, SI, whose offM^ handles
court entiies and orders, died late
Tuesday. His office was. closed
just as Mrs. Nicholas w&k ready
to tell a jury of husbands why
ana now run eat
ied man she gave 15 years of her I
life, was killed.
Conferences between Judge
Thomas Faulconre and attorneys
for the state and defense sought
to determine whether the entire
trial would be jeopardized if It
proceeded.
“We have come to the conclu
sion,” said Faulconer an hour af
ter the i rial was scheduled to be L
resumed, “That although the
curbstone opinion is that we cad
proceed, we have no legal auth
ority to back up that opinion at
this time.
“Ditfe to the nature of the
thasge in this case ant the fa°t
that we have already spent four
weeks trying it, the court and the
proscuion and defense agree that
it would be unwine to proceed,”
Faulconer then adjourned ccfcrt
until Thurslay in order to deter,
mine the, proper legal procedure
or await the appointment of* a
successor to Gasper.
Mrs. Nicholas said she was dis
appointed at the interruption.
“I am ready to go on,” she.
said.
The little divorcee with the
heart-shaped face was the only
witness to the fatal shooting of
Eli Lilly Co. vice president For
rest Teel in his white Cadillac
last July outside his new girl’s
apartment.
The jury will decide largely
from her story whether to find
her guilty of first degree murder
with a possible death sentence, a
(Continued On Page Six)
Foreman
Wendy: Cash
Means More
Than Oscars
LONDON UPI) —Actress Wen.
dy Hiller today politely dismissed
the honor of winning an Academj
Award Oscar.
It’s the mdney that interests her
"I h»pe this award means cash
hard cash,” said Miss Hiller, wh<
was awarded an Oscar Momlaj
as the best supporting actress o:
1958 for her role in the movie
“Separate Tables.”
‘‘Never mind the honor, thougi
I’m sure it’s very nice of them/
Ehe said in a London News -
Ihroniole interview.
“I want lots of lovely offers to
go filming in Hollywood, prefer
ably in the winter so that I cat
avoid all the horrid slush and colt
over here,” 46 year old actres
said.
Miss Hiller laughed ana said o
her award, “Isn't it incredible
qdite incredible? I was only 01
the screen in “Separate Tables'
for four minutes, and all I seemet
to do was walk in and out o
doors and look over my shoulde
at Burt Lancaster.”
“They cut my two best scenes
you know, and then gave one to
Rita Hayworth.”
NO STREET LIGHTS
HUNTINGFIELD, England <U
PI) — The parish council Tues
day refused to appropriate fund
for public street lights for thi
town of 255 population. The counci
said the lights were not neede
because townspeople rarely ven
tured out aft^r sundown.
oeain came w>aay u> lormer
section foreman Arthur Preston
AdcOx, Sr., 68-year«ld Dunn re
sident who came here with the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ear
ly in his career.
He died at Hinson’s Rest Home.
A native of Cumberland Coun
ty, Adcox was a section foreman
with the railroad for 35 years.
He was pastmaster of Palmyra
Lodge AF & AM 147 at Dunn. He
belonged to Divine Street Metho
dist Church, taught the Wesley
Bible Class and had served as a
’ steward of the church.
His mother, Mrs. Georgianna
(Continued On rage Six)
1 Oklahoma Ends
Long Prohibition ^
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! OKLAHOMA CITY <UPI> —
Oklahoma’s sudden thirst for le
t gal liquor alter of pro
hibition will have to wait thre<
[ more months before it is quench
’ ed, despite a record repeal vote
* Repeal carried by more tha]
80,000 votes Tuesday, ending pro
hibition that went into the eonsti
tution when Oklahoma became i
* state in 1907. It left Mississipp
* the only legally dry state in thi
Union.
Bootleggers, who grossed up V
^,100 million dollars a year as a:
_ industry! started looking for an
s other livelihood,
s It was the first repeal electioi
1 the wets have won in seven tries
1 But the prohibition laws will re
- main in force for the three mon
ths estimated for putting the nev
laws into the books. State Safety
Commissioner Joe Cannon declin
ed to comment on how hard he
would enforce prohibition during
that time.
Citizens in Oklahoma City and
Tulsa took the news rather quier_
ly. Oklahoma City police said it
was even duller than usual just
after the wet vtc'ory became ap
parent.
But later ,caravans of victors
roamed the streets, including one
with a Icasket containing “Old
Man Prohibition” ctu.Jap of a
truck. ■"
The beer industry glowed over
the results. Sale of 3.2 beer has
been legal in the state since 1933,
but the industry has always
feared prohibition would spread
r to it. __
Hope To Have New Industry Here in a Year
Westbrook Says Firms Nibbling
Earl Westbrook, speaking at a
Chamber of Commerce dinner that
portended a coming change in its
operating methods here, said local
leaders are now in contact with
four industries and “hope to get
one of them here within a year.”
To a crowd of 140 persons, West
brook and other committee heads
reported developments in the
Chamber’s receift activities to put
more vitality into the commercial
i scene in Harnett County.
His cautiously optimistic words i
Mere encouraging to the crowd, i
most of whom believe that new <
Industries must be found to keep i
Dunn steady during years when i ]
the farm income may be dwindling
or unstable.
1'
Westbrook is ,head of the indus- i
trial committee which started a l
majpr effort a few months ago to j <
attract a factory to the immediate j i
Dunn. He related that a telephone ' 1
■icinity of Dunn. He related that
telephone call from one Inter
ested firm caused him to call a
neeting of the full committee on
donday.
One of the four companies now
leing contacted, said Westbrook,
s nationally known and any
hem would be an important
lition to the local scene He
lot disclose the names of
inns.
fitfc
Mitchell Says
v"‘4L- ■
Job Situation -
Will Improve
WASHINGTON UPI) — Secre.
tary of Labor James P. Mitchell
told a giant labor rally today
that he. would eat his hat on the
Labor Department steps if the
job situation did not make a dra
matic improvement by fall.
Mitchell, representing the ad.
ministration at a mass conference
of more than 5,000 union leaders
and jobless workers, predicted
that employment will climb to 67
million workers and unemploy,
ment will drop orf to three mil.
iton by October. Latest govern
ment figures showed 62,828,000
persons at work in mid March
and 4,362,000 jobless.
The secretary’s pledge to eat
his hat was followed by a free
swinging blast by AFL—CIO Vice
President Walter Reuther at Pres_
ident Eisenhower and his “do
nothing” economic policies.
Behind 8-Ball
“When the President spends tod
much time behind the golf ball,”
he told loudly cheering delegates,
“he puts the American people
behind the 8_bail.”
Reuther called for a moratori
um cm installment payments of
unemployed workers so they wo.
uld not lose their homes and be
longings.
Liz, Eddie
Have VVoes
Hollywood (upi> —Actress
Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fish-N
er are running into all kinds d>f
stumbling blocks, but they're
going right ahead with their mar.
riage plans.
The couple learned Tuesday
that the rabbi who officiated at
Miss Taylor’s conversion cere
monies last week when she era.
braced the Jewish faith will not
be able to marry her and Fisher
in Nevada next month.
Rabbi Max Nussbaum, whom
Miss Taylor, 27, asked to perform
the wedding rites, was advised by
three Nevada judges that he can
not perform the Nevada cere,
mony because he does not have a
congregation in that state. Rabbi
| Nussbaum’s congregation is in
| Hollywood.