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Dunn Christmas Parade Begins Friday At 5 P. M. +WEATHER+ Fair and moderately cool this af ternoon. Fair and colder tonight. Friday, mostly sunny and a little warmer. sähe B ZW- KMW THE CHRISTMAS QUEEN chosen by class mates at Dunn High School, alter the original election ended in a five-way deadlock, was I.inda Sue Whittenton (above). She’ll be featured in Christinas parade tomorrow afternoon which will bring in Santa Claus with a bang. It starts at 5 o’clock. (Record Photo bv Ted Crail.) Payola, False Ad Practices Bring Action WASHINGTON OJPI) — The Federal Communications Commis sion took an unprededented step today aimed at cracking down of payola and deceptive advertising practices on radio and television. It ordered every radio and tele vision station in the country to submit within 30 days complete information on the financing of its programs. The request for the information was contained in a letter sent to all of the 5,236 radio and televi sion stations licensed by the FCC. The action clearly stemmed from the recent disclosures of TV quiz show scandals and a coming in vestigation of payola, the practice of paying disc jockeys to play records on the air. Payola or any other type of hidden commercial practice is il legal under the Communications Act of 1934 which created the FCC to police the broadcasting indus (Continued On Page Two) So Judge Sends Him Off Erring Pop Was Ready For Roads Mack Weldon Jones, a young father castigated by Judge H Paul Strickland for taking off “on a wild trip" without making provis ion for his family, admitted he had quit a job after returning home. The judge asked why he quit. “I figured you were going to send me away,” said Jones. "You figured about right,” said Judge Strickland. “Officers, take this man into custody.” Until Jones conceded that he expected to be sent to jail, Judge Strickland nad ten ntm out un now he proposed to take care of his family. Jones is slightly over $200 behind in support payments. During his courtroom exchange with the judge—who had hitr brought up for not complying with an earlier court order—Jone; claimed he had taaken off foi Alabama after losing his job ‘‘be cause of the steel strike. He had worked in a Clin tor plant manufacturing parts for 196( i automobiles Wanted To See His Girl Truck Thief Caught, Fingerprints Match Nathaniel Williams, a Dunn col ored man who admitted riding oft with a cotton-load worth $10,000, told Chief of Police Alton Cobb he didn't want the cotton, he just wanted to see his girl-friend. ■'He said he knew' he couldn’t sell the cotton,” said Chief Cobb “and he was just aiming to go to Lillington and see his girl-friend." Williams, suspected by police be cause of a similar theft he hat made two or three years ago wher he drove off with a florist’s truck was arrested last night after hi had gone to bed. The truck and cottonload, valiu at $18,000, was f'Und abandonee on the river road near Erwin yes Continued On Page Four Heavy Session Of County Court Held Eighty cases cluttered the doc ket in Harnett recorder’s court in Lillington Tuesday. They were an aftermath of a Thanksgiving ho I liday weekend and in which traf | fic officers were kept busy. In addition, some had paid off jon Monday '44 in all» making one of the most crowded dockets in recorder s court history, som cases were continued for variou reasons by Solicitor Jake Lamir Jaw Bones Broken Clayborn Holder, Lillington R 3 pleaded guilty in court to a: sault on J. C. Byrd Jr. in whic Byrd’s jawbones were brokei and teeth knocked out. The a: sault occurred on October !• Judge Robert Morgan gave tt defendant a six months suspent ed sentence on condition he pa for use of Byrd's $200. plus a $f fine and court costs. Officer Disillusioned Jack Lucas of Dunn. Route (no kin to Paul Lucas, the a resting officer' was charged wit operating on the wrong side i the road resulting in* an acciden and injuries to himself and ehil Patrolman Lucas testified that was his first experience in seeit a father think of himself instei ef his own child. “He told tl doctor in the emergency room leave the child alone and ‘sa1 my life’ ” said Patrolman Luca "The child had suffered a he; injury and needed immediate i tention.” The court fined the f ther $25 and court costs. Cash bonds of the followi (Continued on Pace Tvo) Ike Leaves Tonight On Peace Mission WASHINGTON iUPI) — Presi dent Eisenhower embarks tonite on a fateful peace mission along the perimeter of Russia with a parting word to fellow Americans to compose their economic quar rels lest the entire free world suffer. The chief executive and a rel atively small staff leave for Rome by jet transport from near by Andrews Air Force Base about 8 p.m., on the first leg of Eisenhower’s 22.370-mile journey to 11 nations. Before departing, however, Ei senhower called the National Se curity Council into session. He | also arranged a farewell confer (ence with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter who leaves later this month for a North At lantic Treaty meeting in Paris. Eisenhower will address the na tion by radio and television at 7:15 p.m. e.s.t., outlining his trip and pointing to the unbreakable connection between economic sta bility at home and the mainten ance of peace through strength in other , lands. He leaves the country deeply concerned over the steel strike which is now in abeyance because of a federal court order. The President intends to stress again tonight the importance of steel management and labor coming to an agreement to prevent a re sumption of the walkout next month. He will base his appeal for suc cessful steel negotiations on his belief that the United States can not do a good job of helping her friends stand firm against Com munist expansion if America is (Continued On Page Eight) Several street laeas pending Board To Consider One-Way Alleys Several proposals involving street and traffic problems will be put before the Dunn city board when it convenes at city hall at 7:30 tonight for its regular bi- j weekly meeting. One suggestion the b"ard will consider is pushing the curb back Chief feet on Railroad Avenue from Broad to Cumberland Street. The reason: “to give sufficient room for traffic to move safely by parked cars.” Some months ago the town tem porarily tried to shift from angl ed to parallel parking on this street but objections quickly cau Continued On Page Four Leaves rasrorare in uecemoer Q S Hundreds Turn Out To Hear Dr. Gardner u y o 4 h »f t, 1. it Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, one of the most popular Baptist pas tors ever to serve here and cur rent recording secretary of the Baptist State Convention, was guest speaker here last night at a prayer week foreign mission service. His friends turned out by the hundreds for the dinner in the church basement and the service which followed. g ! Dr. Gardner Is the North Caro d lina representative on the For te | eign Mission Board for the whole to i Southern Baptist Convention, e Chairman of the state conven s. tion’s Committee of Twenty-Five, d which recently concluded recom t- mendations on church-supported a- colleges, he has been a leading (figure in Baptist circles for a gen ig eration (Coottnaetf O* P»T» 4 t 111 EV. 1. NORFLEET GARDNER INTERRUPTED — This is the car which George Perry Lee was driving in an effort to catch c customer who hadn’t paid for ten and a 'nail gallons of gas. The chase was ,interrupted when l.ee’s car ran into a pickup. Patrolmen later caught up with the gas thief. (Record Photo by M. T. Strickland.) George Perry Lee Unhurt Wrecks Car Chasing Thief Trying to overtake an out-of state driver who left Lee's Truck Terminal in a hurry after fail ing t<> pay for a tank of gas, Geor ge Perry Lee collided with a pickup making a left turn on Highway 301 jus: south of Dunn oday. Soon after the accident, a rad o call from police headquarters here to Fayetteville led to the interception of the fleeing driver. He was bp'Ught down by the high way patrol. Nobody was hurt in thp crash of car and pickup but both vehicl es were seriously damaged. A for Patrick L. Lermond, 22, ol Massachusetts — he ended u| minus $25 and walking Though he tried to make off without pay ing for the gas, police said ht had almost $60 on him. A swift trial was arranged a the police station. Sergeant K M Fail said Lermond left headquar ters suitcase in hand after th( owner of the car announced ht would continue on his way with cut Lemond’s company The judg had fined the youth $10 and cour costs. Highway Patrolman Hermai Ward, who investigated Lee1! collision with a pickup driven b; John Freeman, a Negro, f*>r th Jones Bargain Store, issued ticket to the truck terminal mar "He charged mp with imprope passing," said George Perry Lee One of the county’s busies wrecker-service operators, Lei called in his own wrecker to hau back his brother-in-law's ca which he had used in the chast Hoodlum Slain In Restaurant SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (UP! —A well-known hoodlum was sht anj killed late Wednesday nigl in a crowded restaurant before tl eyes of mobster Mickey Cohi and other patrons. Jack Whelan, 39, a convict* extortionis also known as Jat O'Hara, was fatally shot after 1 walked into Rondelli’s restaurai and hit a man in the face. The attacked man eating in booth, pulled out a gun and fir< point-blank at Whelan two three times. 11c then fled. Police said nobody present a mitted knowing the man (Continued On Page Two) , “I had. them in sight all the time," Lee said. I Lermond — whom the ear owner, David Ear! Flemming, lat er described as a man he hac picked up on the highway — wai driving when the car pulled intc l the truck terminal. He ordered a tankful ot gas i tried to pay for it with a credi ’ card which Lee described as no ! good in N"rth Carolina. When i 1 Wasn't honored, He jumped ir the car and beat it, Lee hot or his trail until the wreck. The collision occurred near Re gister Bros. Lumber Company. , i Unidentified Man Sought, One In Hospital Bv TED CRAIL Managing Editor A search was underway in and around Mingo Creek this after noon — for a man nobody could identify and who possibly wasn't there. Crawling out of the wreckage, of a ’47 Chevrolet, 21-yJtnr-old Cecil Strickland, an emplo ye of Skinny's service Sta employe of Skinny's service Sta tion here, gasped to rescuers. “Get the man out of the creek.” Strickland was still in a semi conscious state at 4 p. m. today, two and a half hours after the car in which he was riding took a flying route into the creek. Highway Patrolman W. O. Grady said there was some corrobora tion for the belief that another rider was pitched into the creek when the car went off the road. I A full-scale dragging operation i was underway by 4:30. Searchers were seeking the body, or clues, both in the water and along the hanks of snarled, root encrusted Mingo creek. According to the patrolman, one man has s'ated he saw Strick land just before the wreck, travel ing at a normal speed and with another person in th(> car. Skinny Ennis, Strickland's em ploy r, said the youth had been j scheduled to work today but ] hadn't shown up. At H. P. John ' son Oil Co., where he was seen | about 9:30 this morning. hp was alone. "I Just don't know wheflhet there's anybody out there or not.” said Patrolman Grady. "Cecil says there is. The man that glimpsed his car before the j wreck says there were two of them. "We'd hate mighty bad to go away and leave this spot and ha ve a body turn up later.” I At Betsy Johnson Memorial Hos pital here, a staff member report ed that Strickland, not fully con scious, said he "did not know who it was" lie had picked up. A straight stretch of roadway, . about four miles beyond Dunn, leads to the spot where the car • left the road. The bridge which (Continued On Page Six) — Unusual Proposal -— Should Town Raise Trees? t “It may be a crazy idea,” said l City Manager A. B. Uzzle, Jr., , ; "but cities have got to get some , 1 new revenue somewhere.” a Uzzle has proposed that the towr ‘ of Dunn might try a tree-growing - i scheme that has yielded unnsua . | returns tot) private Landowners t ! He has suggested to the citj > council, which will discuss tht 1 | plan tonight, that it might c«n r I sider buying up some cheap acre . age and hiring professional tree growers on a percentage basi: i "to push production of pines a: a source of additional revenue it I thc future.” ' Oar children wculd benefit a ther than urselves". said L'z/ e “It woul l take 15 to 20 years to realize a profit But the poorest land could be fcca-ht un<i me tree-growers can do much better with the land than it mi just leave it to nature.” It would be possible. lizzie thinks, to create funds for a fut ure city hall or waterworks pro jects by making a relatively small investment in the present day and 1 selling the pines in 1980 Youth Left Accident Scene Hodges, Jackson Face Dunn Judge d a x k James Alien Hodges, a 21-year ie , old Dunn youth who lives on Nortl it Wilson Avenue, supposedly wen with his brother to phone polic after an accident — and ne\e returned to the scene of t h )r wreck. Mrs. Henry Elmore testified a i- gainst Hodges in Dunn Recorder' Court this morning and Judge H Paul Strickland found him guilt; - of careless and reckless chiving i and leaving the scene of an ac t cident. 1 The Judge fined Hodges $73 and r costs, recommended that Ids h s cense be revoked and irdeied him to make sure ihat $250 dam - ages 10 the car with which he had i collided were compensated for Mrs. Elmore claimed tha’ aft t Continued On Page Four
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