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♦WEATHER* Scattered showers, turning colder this morning. Partly cloudy, windy and much colder tonight with a few snow flurries in the mountains. Saturday generally fair and colder. The B aily Kieer VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER (j. 1959 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 237 CBS CHIEF DENIES QUIZ FIX BLAME Disclaims Responsibility For Dept. Mayor Wants Chief Fired Mayor J. Ed Johnson this week renewed his charges that Benson Police Chief Johnny Medlin had used the police station telephone for out-of-town calls on personal business and also sought to oust the local chief on the grounds that it is not legal for him to hold the position while living outside the town limits. The mayor brought these mat ters to the attention of the local board of commissioners at their meeting Monday night, Medlin was present. When the board did not take any action with regard to the police chief, Johnson said that he wanted it specifically un derstood that he was not going to be in charge of the police depart ment and that he was going to have nothing to do with it. Johnson brought a list of police telephone calls to the meeting. He asked Medlin if he had not made three calls to the Raleigh-Durham airport asking about weather for fishing, three calls to a Dunn to bacco warehouse on personal bu siness. and two calls to Sneed’s Ferry to arrange for fishing trips. Medlin admitted to making most of the calls and said he could not remember some of the others. Johnson asked Medlin if the American Legion had not given him a gift of $50. Medlin said that the gift had been in appreciation of his policing the Legion dances on off-duty hours. The mayor brought up the case of another town employee, Jethro JJarker, who was dismissed on (Continued On Page Seven) JhsiM <£Mk JhinqA By BOOVEIt ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Army Private Leroy Myers of Alexandria, Va. was killed in that horrible automobile smashup near Holland’s Lake late Saturday af ternoon.But his parents didn’t get word of his death until late Sunday night—they were enroute to another State where his sister had been seriously injured in an auto accident earlier the same day.. The Rev L. O Leet (re member, Meet Mr. Leet and Ida Lee McCuller, who conducted a big evangelistic campaign at Dunn's Hood Memorial Christian Church a year or so ago, have just concluded a meeting at the Broad way Methodist Church....Mrs. Mor decai Vann is out in Tujunga, Cal ifornia with her daughter, Ann... There’s a story behind these Dutch masquerade costumes worn by Bill and Peggy Bryan at the Hallowe’en masquerade ball at Chicora Coun try Club Saturday....The popular city official serves as Eastern Car olina representative for Bradley and Baker, distributors of Cal Nitro, a nitrogen substance used in fertilizers.. .Practically all of it is imported from Holland and other European countries ..A few inontlis (Continued On Page Six) »v SEEIN” AT THE SEASHORE—Dolores Kirby came down to the seashore to see what she could see, and wound up right in front of the camera. An alert cameraman found Dolores at Miami Beach, Fla. (NEA Telephoto.) Fired Policeman Hired As Deputy Fired by the Benson town board as a policeman two weeks ago, Charles V\*jodall was appointed Monday by the county commission ers to serve as a special deputy sheriff for the Benson area. Appearing before the commis sioners to request Woodall’s ap pointment were J. Ed Johnson, Benson mayor; Ralph Whittington,! town commissioner; C. M. Black man, former local mayor, Norman Duncan, former town utilities sup erintendent; Harry Canaday, loca attorney; and Sheriff B. A. Henry All except Whittington made briei statements in Woodall's behalf. There was no mention of Wood all’s dismissal as Benson police (Continued On Page Eight) Case Will Be Aired Next Week Beasley Charges Dupree And Son Still another charge of assault with a deadly weapon is to be pressed against Jet Drive-In oper ator Thomas Dupree. Local authorities lisclosed to day that both Dupree and his son, Tommy, a teenager, have been charged with assault by Graham E. Beasley. Beasley, described as in his early twenties, accuses Dupree of getting a shotgun after him and charges the son with hitting him on the head with a bottle and causing “serious bodily injury.” Chief of Police Alton Cobb saic that when Beasley appeared ai city hall to discuss bringing i charge, his head was bandaged Although the alleged assault sup 1 posedly took place on October 25 no warrant was taken until Octo ber 31. Constable Lonnie Jackson has ! served the warrants on Dupree ! and his son. Duncan C. Wilson Dunn attorney, has been retain (Continued On Page Eight) Garbage Cans Too Old-Fashioned? Never Grind Your Daddy In That Lovely Dispose-All By TKD ( RAIL Sometimes it seems that our city council is almost as interested in the family garbage as Sid Caesar used to be on his television show. Garbage, of course, is a uni versally interesting subject. Dogs are interested in it. Housewives, too. And now somebody has renew j ed a suggestion, first brought u here about three years ago, th< I everybody ought to have a mi chanical dispose-all. By local le| islation. This, so the theory goes, woul eventually relieve the city of ti whole problem of collecting "w< | garbage” (as distinguished froi ! good old dry garbage, which ever; p! body adores and which the citj t loves to put in its garbage dump) 1 WHY, DEAR FRIENDS, ther< is a garbage dispose-all in my lit tie home and do you think i' d solves all our garbage problems' e No, indeed it doesn't, t j The dispose-all is willing but th< n human heart is weak Personally r-1 (Continned On Page Six) Stanton Admits His Network Was ‘'Wrong" WASHINGTON HJPIl — CBS President Frank Stanton today hotly denied a congressional in vestigator's charge that network officials ignored 1957 “storm sig nals" that TV quiz shows were rigged. “Sure, we were wrong,” Stanton said. “1 don’t want to deny that -but a lot of people were in volved. I wouldn't say there were storm signals up all over. Very few people knew about this." His voice raised, the head of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem fired the reply at Robert W. Lishman. chief counsel for a House subcommittep investigating quiz show fixes. Lishman hud challenged Stanton’s statement that he was “completely unaware” of any “irregularity” on the CBS network until Aug 8. 1958 Stanton had said in' a prepared statement that “when gossip a bout quiz shows in general came to my attention. I was assured by our television network people that, thesp shows were completely above criticism of this kind 1 rigg ing),” “With benefit of hindsight.” he said, “it is now clear that I should have gone further.” Vo Sure Antidote Stanton also said Congress could pass a law making it a crime to “use deceitful practices. ’ but that there is no sure way to eliminate the danger of rigged quiz shows. That is why CBS took all its big money shows off the air, he said. He conceded that the television industry “didn't exercise suffi cient diligence" prior to 1958 to prevent quiz show rigging. But he added that “hindsight is al ways 20-20.” “I grew up in the business,” (Continued On Page Seven) IH rices Un Way Up Due To Strike WASHINGTON (UPIt — Price increase on a variety of consum er goods are expected unless strike - idled steel mills resume production within the next few days, government economists said today. The 115-day-old walkout is now close to the point where it cre ates shortages that in turn cause prices to go up or remain firm instead of declining normally. Government experts so far have nut been able to put their finger on any inflationary movements in the price of steel or products Continued On Page Four COMING TO CAM PHI 1.1.— Hie boyfriends in (be Theatre of the Woman’s College production of "The Boy Friend" pose in their costumes for the ball. Shown left to right are John Jones. Bruce Johnson, Bob Putnam and Roger Jewett, all of Greensboro, and seated Jack MeFayden, Greensboro: \V. C. Burton. Rcidsville, and Hunter Tillman. Greensboro. Ttre show-will be Fie opening at traction on tlic Campbell College Concert scries Monday night. November !i, with curtain time at 8 o’clock. Season tickets for the six attractions offered on the series will be on sale at the boxoffice until curtain time. Adult memberships are $5 and all student* memberships are S:t. Police Would Have Sent Her to Boys' Town Girl Posed As Boy-Hoodlum r* i i\L'N' For Next Year's 4-County Fair Legion May Put Up Exhibition Hall Fleshly excited over the possi bilities of the Four County Fair here, the Dunn American Legion post has laid tentative plans to put up a permanent exhibition building. At their meeting last night, they decided to cal! for plans for such a building. These will be review ed as soon as possible and con struction may begin within a few weeks. Legionnaires who discussed the proposed building last night ag reed that it should go up right away, if they take the jump and finance it. While bad weather cut into the gate receipts at the recent Carolyn Hawley Student Of Month CAROLYN HAWLEY Carolyne Hawley, a chipper young lady and currently a sen ior at Dunn High, was chosen the school's “Student of the Month’’ this morning. She was elected in open assem bly partly because of the good job she did as chairman of the school’s recent College Day. On that occasion, representatives from North Carolina’s major (and minor) collegiate institutions talk ed with students from this area in individual conferences. Carolyne, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Hawley, will go to college herself next year. She is president of senior Tri-Hi-Y, and a member of the annual staff. Ophelia Matthews, principal oi j Dunn High Scho- said students of the month 'e chosen as a function f indent government ; The cho) is entirely up to the j slud> b y itself. y - concluded fair — first to pe held here since year before ast — the Legion was not down learted over results. “We feel we came out all right.” said a spokesman for the club. The Four County Fair had been gradually attaining the status of an institution until it was tempo rarily dropped in 1958. Farm and tome exhibits are always an im portant adjunct of the Midway. However, if an exhibition build ng is established, this part of the fair is likely to be expanded The puilding would provide advantag ?s not compensated for by the giant tents which have been used a ere in the past. Legion Commander Hub e r t I’eay said that the call for plans will go out immediately and any action to be taken will click right along. bora Ann Malpass of Albany, N. Y., who impersonated a 16-year old boy for six m ntlus and fool ed police in three states, relaxed in a skirt and nylons today, but fretted about her crew cut The 20-year-n!d fast talker said her imposture began six months ago when she left New York to “see the west." I was scared to death," Bar bara Ann said, every time she was confronted by police But they never caught on. She sneaked sponge baths dur ing her 37-day stlni in the Jeffer son County Jail at Golden' Once she picked a fight to keep from having to sharc a cell with a (Continued On Page Eight) Stores Set Longer Hours For Xmas Stores here made an advance announcement today on special ar rangements they will make to help shoppers through the Christmas season. The Dunn Retail Merchants As sociation agreed that stores here will stay open until 9 o’clock for three successive Fridays starting December 4. And starting with December 19. the stores will remain open each evening until 8 o'clock. On Christ mas Eve, which falls on Thursday, they will be open until seven. Nearly all local retail establish ments arp expected fo follow this pattern. And most stores will pro Continued On Page Four ■ M a 1 I Grandmother Kills Illegitimate Child HIGH POINT <UPI> — A 45 ylear - old grandmother was sen tenced to 3-5 years in Woman's Prison Thursday for killing her daughter’s illegitimate child. Mrs. Nellie Marie Snow entered a plea of guilty tn manslaughter The newborn infant's body w s found wrapped in rags and hid Will Try To Clear Up Traffic Problem Council To Act As Corner Checkers Dunn's town council has agreed to act as a committee of the whole in order to inspect "blind corn ;rs" here which are reputed to be traffic hazards. Mayor George Franklin Blalock has indicated he thinks a cam paign is in order to improve visi bility at all city intersections. At last night's regular biweek ly meeting of the board, a number bf subjects were discussed and the board closed shop earl> ar >und nine o’clock when an ex pected delegation failed to appear The delegation "as supposedi> to protest present use i alleged sto ring of ears and lumber> at a lot on the southwest corner of Mc Kay Avenue and Carr Street. The board refused to reduce a $200 out-of-town fire charge. The reduction had been requested b> I Burnette W Mitchum. , Couneilmen followed through on their plan to ask five years with in which to complete new sewage disposal treatment facilities City Manager A. B Czzle, Jr., (Continued On Page Eight) doa unde: a log in a ditch ni«*r the Snow heme. \ tag had been tied around the tiby's throat and the head had been injured. A neighbot said he sa v Mrs. Snow "stomp' the bundle con taining the infant several times. Dist. S"1 Horace Kornegay said the slaying was the "most repul sive" he had encountered. Judge Richardson Preyer said he believed Mrs. Snow was trying to help her unmarried daughter "in a sort of twisted way.” A. charge against tne daughter of concealing the birth was dismiss ed when Mrs. Snows attorney said the urandm-aher was assum ing "full ri'spoitsibiit\ by plead ing guilty to manslaughter.” I Students Rally For Van Doren NEW YORK API — Several hundred Columbia University stu dents. supported by a o ntingeirt of coeds from neighboring Bar nard College, rallied on the uni versity campus Thursday night to protes’ the firing of Charles Van Doren The rally was the second step m a concerted effort by Columbia (Continued On Page SI*)
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