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Fair and quite cold tonight. Thurs
day fair, continued rather cold.
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DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER IX. 1959
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 245
BIG COLD SNAP MOVES IN ON STATE
THIS MOON-LIKE LANDSCAPE wasn’t taken from the cockpit
of a space ship and the lone inhabitant is not one of the moon
people. These other-earthly sand dunes are at the grave! pit a lew
miles out of Dunn and just off the Pope Road. The little girl is
the photographer’s daughter, pretending she's at the beach. (Record
Photo by Ted Trail.)
A Report on Teenage Drinking
They Know Where The Bootleggers Are
By TED CRAIL
Managing Editor
A rather sharp cutoff exists be
tween teenagers and those older
people who would like to exercise
a watchful, if patient, control over
their activities.
Two years ago, because a house
detective got wise to the drinking
of one young capital visitor from
Dunn, there was a sudden furore
here as to whether the annual
jaunts to \\iashington D. C. should
he called off.
The controversy ended with the
sensible conclusion that the trips
were good. Did that mean that
By HOOVER ADAMS
LITTLE NOTES ABOUT
PEOPE AND THIINGS
Father Francis Stokes, the good
natured priest of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, is one of our fa
vorite people.
He has a keen sense of humor,
is plenty sharp and quick on the
come-back. He loves a good joke
even on himself.
Father Stokes has just returned
from Pennsylvania where he at
tended the 50th anniversary of
his home parish. While there, he
had a reunion with other mem
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drinking on the Washington trips
I was a thing of the past?
Not at all.
“Some of the kids even drank
on the bus,” said a last year’s grad
uate who was along on the next
trip. “There were two buses and
on my bus both the teachers sat
up front. They didn’t see what
uas really going on.”
Before anyone rushes off to find
out who the chaperones were on
that trip, they might consider that
the teacher hasn’t been born who
can keep up with 70 assorted adol
escents. Or even ten of them. Or
five.
! The chances are that Dunn’s
] teenagers are policed as closely j
! as any in the country. No amount
: of policing and parental caution
can begin to control the situation.
At the national level, authorities 1
agree that a majority of confirmed
alcoholics—and thousands of nuis- i
ante drunks—started their drink
ing a long time ago. When, und- j
er the law, they were too young
to buy the stuff.
I
Perhaps the greatest accomplish
ment of the teenage set is that so
little word of their own world
within-a -world leaks through to
the adult population. And the
great accomplishment of the adults
would seem to be how quickly they
forget their own high school ex
periences, or conclude that today’s
youngsters “are different.’’
To bring you up-to-date on cur
rent facts and attitudes in the Do
bie Gillis set, here are some ver
batim questions and answers from
three young people who recently
graduated from Dunn High School.
(And anyone who supposes that
thP same would not be true at any
high school in the state should
check his psychiatrist—he needs
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ina ween or criminal term caiiea kjtt
Court Will Adjourn Early
Mother, 29,
Kills Self,
2 Children
DOWNEY, Calif. (UPI)—A 29-j
year-old housewife killed herself
and her two small children with
poison Tuesday night apparently
because she was despondent over
a difference of religion within the
family, police reported.
Mrs. Marion Spillman mixed
formaldehyde with water and fed
it to her daughter Robin, 4, and
son Neal, 8 months, and then drank
j the deadly solution herself, said
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State Says County Needs New One
No Immediate Plan
To Replace Jail
Lofton Tart, chairman of the |
Harnett County Board of commis
sioners, conceded that the county
will have to build itself a new
jail some day.
Not right away.
To a report that the state has
asked Harnett to get underway
on a new and nvre adequate pok- '
ey, Tart replied "Oh, we’ve had
i man coming to us for a number
Df years and telling us about the
jail.
"That’s nothing now.
“It seems you've got to have a
jail u little better than any place
in thp world. I think our jail is 1
adequate. We've been doing little
work to it right along — fixing
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Harnett Superior Court in Lil- ,
iington proceeded at a snappy pa- !
ee this week—so fast in fact that |
the second week of the criminal 1
term has been called orr.
Jurors summoned for duty were
informed this morning that the
majority of cases awaiting trial
have been tried or continued. The
current term is expected to ad
journ on Friday.
Larry Nordan, a Dunn youth
who, like his brothers and fath
er, had crossed the law, has es
caped a two-year term in county
jail on condition that he be ac
cepted at East Carolina training
school.
The 16-year-old pled guilty to
forging a check on Rupert Wade
and attempting to pass it in a
Dunn store. The check was tem
Prison Escapee
'Like His Mom'
Asserts Pop
The father of a defendant. Ed
ward Lee Royster, tried in Lil
lington for escaping prison, said
of his son, “I think he takes af
ter his mother.”
In explaining his son’s action
to the court. Royster asserted trat
the wife hy whom he had 27 boys
and four girls was equally proli
fic at leaving him.
She had departed the family
home some 24 times.
Judge Q. K. Nimocks told the
father he was all sympathy but
a second prison escape is a fclo
ny and punishment inexorable:
two more years
porarily honored before it was
found to be a forgery.
Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fayette
ville, who has presided over this
term of court, told Larry that if
he tries to escape or breaks rules
at the training camp the two
year sentence will take effect.
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Six Deaths
In Midwest,
Dunn Shivery
The worst cold wave of the
year moved into North Carolina
today. In Dunn, it was a wintry
22 degrees but otherwise as shiny
as an otter’s nose when the sun
came up this morning.
At Raleigh-Durham airport an
early-morning low 21 cracked a
record which had held since 1891
The Arctic air mass is expected
to send temperatures plunging
further tonight.
Elsewhere in the nation. New
York had deep snows and there
was a trail of death and misery
in the Midwest.
Low temperatures in the ree
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Boy Charges
He Was Shot
Disrobing
GREENSBORO — (UPI) — A
I Greensboro couple must appear
in Municipal - County Court Dec.
, 1 to answer charges by a teen
l ager that he w as shot at after
^ being forced to disrobe while the
i husband took photographs of his
I naked wife and the youth.
Edgar F. Moore, 16, told police
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Leukemia Takes Life of 8-Year-Old
Death Comes To Ann Hudson
A blonde little girl named Ann
Hudson, fatally strirken with lcu
i kemia. died at 11:45 this morning
i She will be buried with the Cin
derella doll which was a last,
treasured gift.
Over a year ago, the doctors
discovered .that Ann. six years
old then, had leukemia. She grew
progressively worse. She had re
cently reached her eighth birth
day.
Even as she died, a town-wide
effort was developing to raise
funds for the Immense hospital
bills involved in the struggle to
prolong her life.
Her mother, Elizabeth Hudson,
was in partial collapse late this
morning. She had been almost
! constantly by Ann's side since i
Saturday morning when the eight
year-old’s condition reached the
final, fatal stage.
Those around her knew that ;
Ann was dying and did their best ,
to keep her cheery. She was first
taken to Duke Hospital at Dur
ham. The doctors let her come
back to Dunn from there because
she wanted to — and because
there was little left that medical
| skill could achieve for her.
Paul Drew of the Hatcher. Skin
ner and Drew Funeral Home here ;
! said members of Ann’s Sunday i
School class will be flower girls :
at the funeral on Thursday—ser- •
I vices are set for 3 o'clock — and I
the class will sit In a body at the i
church.
Before she died, she had be - '
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Labor
Issue
Bill Big
In Politics
W APiM iNU 1 UIN1N Ui II -IN CXI
i year’s Democratic nomination for
president probably is tiding on
Big Labor’s final decision on re
sponsibility for the 1959 labor re
be unanimous. Jimmy Hoffa al
, form bill.
Big Labor's decision may not
ready has committed his Team
sters’ fat treasury to oppose all
Democrats who voted lor the
labor bill AFL-CIO has been zig
zagging on that.
Ail of the Senate Democrats who
aspire to the I960 presidential
nomination voted for the labor
bill. Sen. John F. Kennedy iD—
Mass.) is more clearly identified
with labor legislation in 1959 than
is any other presidential hopeful
AFL-CIO seems unable to make
up its mind about Kennedy.
United Press international re
ported from Washington last week
a ruckus in the annua! conven
tion of the AFL-CIO industrial
union department, which is the
CIO element of merged Big La
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TO GET LAST LOOK AT SANTA—Smiling happily as she plays
with her doll, four-year-old Birgitta Tnerngren will see Santa
Cla«* for the last time in her life this year. Birgitta has been
blind in her right eye since she underwent an eve cancer operation
ai the ace of nine months. Now, in order to save :.er life, the
child will have to be operated on again for tb removal of her
good eye. Doctors said they would delay the ■ ration in Skoens
berg, Sweden, until after Christmas, so Kir^.lu can have her last
glimpse of Santa. (NEA Telephoto.)
Dor i he powerhouse • pposuton oi ;
the Machinists’ Union blocked a 1
resolution which would have prai
sed Kennedy and five other l)e- '
mocrats for their position on la- i
bor legislation this year.
Kennedy was the only Demo
crat among the six who is count- i
ed among the presidential hope
fuls. The machinists were - and
are - against anyone who voted
for the Landrum-Griffin bill. The ;
Automobile Workers’ Walter P !
Reuther was among those who
I wanted to give Kennedy a cheer.
| The en<l result of the commotion’
, was that the resolution was safe
ly tucked away without an explo
sive floor fight over Kennedy as
a friend or foe of Big Labor.
Kennedy can count Reuther’s ,
friendly attitude as a great and
| valuable political asset. Reuther
i is smart and powerful. He knows 1
| the political ropes and how to
pull them. Reuther demonstrated
j that in the 1959 Democratic na
tional convention when he broke
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EARLY DEATH came tii Ann Hudson today just as a town-wide
earn paten was developing U> .raise money to help tier. She is shown
above as she just looked just before tho fatal onset of leukemia.
Will Come Here for Pageant
New Miss America
Accepts Dunn Date
The current Miss America —
Lynda Lee Mead of Mississippi —
has skipped the cold wave by
swinging off for Europe and a
royal jaunt through England,
Switzerland and Italy.
Hut in the spring, she has one
of her dates in the USA all set
for her — she’s to be a guest at
the Dunn Beauty Pageant.
Jimmy Suggs, local furniture
dealer who will repeat this year
as the general chairman of the
pageant, said that she has al
ready accepted an invitation to
appear here.
Local Jaycecs, who understood
the competition, wasted no time
in asking Miss America to follow
the footsteps of her predecessors
and make Dunn one of her stops.
Few towns under 20,000 populat
'Colittnaed On Pare Troi
Home Security Exec Coming
Dunn Underwriters
Will Hear King
K. E King of Durham, division
' sales manager and promoter of
Home Seeur ty Life Insurance Co.,
will be the featured speaker at
the monthly meeting of the Dunn
I Underwriters Club to be held
Thursday night at 6:30 o'clock in
the George Pope Room of Por
ter's Restaurant.
Plans for the meeting were an
nounced today by Roland L. Ad
cox, president of the local insur
, a nee group.
President Adcox said he felt J
the organization was unusually
fortunate in securing such an out
standing insurance executive as
Mr. King for this program.
Mr. King, he pointed out, has
been a leader and a dynamic
speaker in the sales promotion
field for 30 years and at present
heads 12 large districts of his
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K K KING
Raleigh Broker
Major Speaker
At St. Stephen's
Featuring an outstanding Ra
leigh layman ns speaker, St. Step
hen's Episcopal Church will h^ld
its 1959 Parish Stewardship Ban
quet Thursday evening at 6:30.
Parents and children alike will at
tend tlr, dinner-meeting, and en
tertainment will be provided for
small children following the meal.
Will'am C E'heridg Raleigh
Broket and leading layman of
Christ Episcopal Church there,
will speak on the subject "Choose
i Ye This Day". Etheridge is noted
I for his eff'-rts in the Reid of
Christian Stewardship education.
Thp Parish dinner is a major
part of S’. Stephen's 1959 Stew
ardship education effort. It fol
lows a concentrated period of ed
ucation in this field of Christian
| living throughout the parish.
1 Mrs. E. II. Bost ancf Mrs. F. S.
Thomas of Erwin have headed
the committee on arrangements
for the banquet. Members of the
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Barbecue Has
Clear Purpose
If their two-day barbecue is
a success, members of the con
gregation at Pope's Chapel have
a clear idea what they will do
with trr money.
Reverend C. 11 Parker, pas
tor of the church, has six rhil
dreu. and his flock would dear
ly love Co provide him with a
ear. So proceeds of the barbe
eue will go into that cause
Plates will he available at the
church <$1 each). Deliveries will
be made on request, both Frida}
and Saturday of this week.