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NO. II
RAMPANT REINDEER — Giant wreath enclos
ing a hard-charging reindeer is part of decorative
scheme at Anderson Arms apartment house on
West Broad Street. Reindeer is on second floor
and Frances Surles, taking a look down avenue
where everybody else was decorating, too, had to
- <s
at
reach it by ladder. Though complex Christmas
patterns were everywhere this week, home-owners
would have to be satisfied with admiring; glances
from neighbors—the usual prizes for best-decorat
ed yards and homes were not being offered.
(Record Photo.)
French Claims
May Erupt In
Summit Confab
PARIS fUPI) — Leaders of the
United States, Britain and West
Germany converged today on Par
is for a summit conference with
France that was already in trou
ble because of a Franco-American
dispute over NATO and Algeria.
The belief in the Allied camp
was that only a face-to-face meet
ing Saturday between President
Eisenhower and President Charles
de Gaulle could blunt the sharp
differences and permit the West
ern Big Four to try to chart a
dynamic approach to the end of ;
the cold war. ,
Elsenhower was arriving at Par- t
is’ Gare de Lyon tonight from
1 oulon and de Gaulle was formal- ;
ly greeting him. British Prime j
Minister Harold Macmillian was ]
flying in from London and West <
German Chancellor Konrad Ade- t
nauer from Bonn.
Nuclear Arms Get Priority (
The Western I|g Four planned f
at their three-day meeting start- i
ing Saturday to place the problem
of ending the nuclear age arms {
race at the top of the list in pre- ,
paring for their meeting next ,
spring with Soviet Premier Nikita
S Khrushchev. r
This approach had the ringing c
endorsement of all 15 NATO for- ,
etgn ministers who Thursday urg
ed the major Western powers to
take "every oportunity" to try to
defuse the world powder keg thro- c
ugh worldwide disarment.
An air of tension hung over the t
Western council table as the dip
lomats awaited the face to fice
confrontation <>f Eisenhower, fresh t
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ACL Might Agree to Underpass Says Mayor
'Traffic Problems
'Are Choking Us'
Mayor George Franklin Blalock
claimed today that Dunn is “slow
y being choked" by its traffic j
problems and promised action that j
,vill unclench it.
"The time is coming up when |
his town will need a master plan
o control its traffic,” Blalock
dated.
He stated the Atlantic Coast
Hne railroad has stated they
vould "be acceptable to talking
ibout an underpass” if the city
an get the state of North Carolina
0 take over the street involved.
Blalock said this would make it
1 joint-city-state project. Under
ts current setup, he stated.
Dunn’s through-town traffic i s
;reutly affected by train sched
iles.
“A train going through here will
reate a traffic problem four and
ive blocks away from the tracks"
e stated.
At a meeting last night of the
own council, the mayor also sug
ested that a bigger approach is
eeded to zoning problems.
The board agreed that spokes- (
len for the city should meet with .
ounty commissioners and at - .
?mpt to establish a joint county- j
ity approach to zoning.
"That’s the only way we can
ontrol these obnoxious businesses 1
lat grow up on the outskirts of 1
)wn,” Blalock stated.
1
As a first step in easing traffic (
oubles, the council agreed t o 1
all for a crackdown by police on j
double parking, parking in load
ing zones and in alleys.
Jailed Drunks
Ate Too Good
ELKINS, W. Va. <UPI> —Mayfcr
Ciarland Hickman had a sneaking
suspicion that hearty sandwiches
tnd booze were too inviting a com
bination. He was right.
Before a Hickman anti-drunk
move, this city treated arrested
drunks to delicious sandwiches
while they were in the local lock
up.
Three Are Facing
Charges In Death
By TED Cltall.
MANAGING EDI I Off
Frank Thornton, Jr., a 33-year-old resident of Route 3. Bv'nson.
and two companions were seized at a roadblock on the old Fairgrounds
Road near Dunn and held in the hit-and-run killing of youthful highway
I patrolman, Harry Eong
Patrol investigators will seek to prove that the young trooper,
less than six months in the State Highwax Patrol, had been cut down
| ry the officers’ arch-enemy, a drunk driver.
District Solicitor Archie Taylor
said at Lillington late this after
noon that an accusation of drunk
driving will be part of the indict
ment drawn against Thornton lor
manslaughter and hit and run.
All three of the men were jailed
at Lillington, and their bond set
at $7500. as the patrol worked
round the clock to gather evi
dence in tire patrolman’s death.
Oliver Creech of Benson and
Junior Dunn of Route 3, Benson,
have been charged with aiding
and abetting in manslaughter and
New Army
Recruiter
Arrives
Sergeant First Class Ray Stabb,
a Pittsburgh native assigned here
after duty at Fort Benning, Ga.,
is the Army recruiter for Dunn
and vicinity.
A recruiter, for the past Five
years. Sgt. Staab says enlistment
are likely to pick up after the ho
lidays.
December is the hardest month
of the year for the recruiter, he
says, because few boys are anxi
ous to leave home at Christmas
time.
Though he lives in Raleigh with
his family—a wife and three dau
ghters—Sgt. Staab will be at the
Dunn post-office three days a
week. Best hours to see him are
from 10 a m. to 4 p.m., Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Sgt. Staab is approaching 17
years of active duty himself. The
Army offers a gasic three-year
hitch for the new recruit.
“The boys can just about pick
out what they want,” he said,
“and if they pass the tests for it,
they're all set.”
Minister Kills Her, Kills Self
Lady Who Troubled
Preacher Gets Shot
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. <UPI>—
Authorities Thursday ruled sui
ide and murder in the death of
in elderly preacher and a wom
m, both tenants of the rooming
louse where the shooting took
dace.
The body of Mrs. Dovie Mark
and, about 62 and a cook at the
louse, was found in the kitchen.
The body c* the Rev. Frank
Hughes, 77, an evangelist at
he Antioch Holiness Church at
'ayetteville, N. C., was found in
n upstairs room, the death weap
Non-Smokers (From Harvard)
More Masculine Says Doctor
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A
Harvard scientist said today that
he-men smoke less than non he
men.
The scientist. Dr Carl C. Selt
zer, based his conclusion on
studies extending over several
years of 252 Harvard men.
The men were classified accord
ing to their "masculine compon
ent” as indicated by body build
and anatomical traits.
In a report to the American
Assa. for the Advancement of
Science, Seltzer said that “the
heavier smokers show the greatest
proportion of individuals with
weak or very wea*k masculine
components.”
Conversely, the more masculine
men smoke less than those of
more feminine build, he said.
Seltzer said this “suggests that
for a specified type of individual
smoking may be a reflection of
certain personality and be -
havorial traits which are charac
-eristic of his biological makeup.’*
i In addition to being heavier '
smokers. Seltzer said, the “less ,
masculine persons tend to have an
aversion for strenuous exercise ‘
and sports, are apt to be low in
, physical fitness for har muscular ,
work, and are often poor in mus- ,
cular coordination.” ,
“Trey are apt," he continued, i
“to be less well integrated and ;
more ideational, creative, and in
tuitive. 1
“They are more frequently shy i
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on at his feet.
Mrs. Markland had been shot
three times in the mouth and
Hughes once in the head, police
said.
In a suicide note, Hughes
blamed Roscoe Whitehead, an
other preacher and owner of the
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hit and i un.
"They’ve each made a statement
admitting implication in some de
gree." Taylor said.
Long, the dead state trooper,
was 22 years old, a native of Ta
bor City and a bachelor. He lived
at a Benson motel. It was only
last October that he arrived there
on his first regular assignment a-s
a patrolman.
Dunn police chief Alton A.
Cobb, returning here after attend
ing a funeral for his sister-in-law,
said he passed the patrolman
about 9:30 last night two miles
south of Benson.
“It must have been a car right
behind me that killed him,” said
Cobb.
Long had stopped an automobile
with three Negroes riding in it
and asked to see the driver’s
license As lie made the check, a
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No Major
Tax Change
Now Likely
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
House Ways & Means Committee
man Wilbur D. Mills of the
House Ways & Means Committee
tbday ruled out the possibility of
a major overhaul of tax laws
next year.
The Arkansas Democrat com
mented as his committee wound
up five weeks of hearings during
which it heard tax reform pro
posals from 175 lax experts, econ
omists and others.
Mills said in a prepared state
ment that the hearings were "ex
ploratory” and the next step
would be for the staffs of the
committee and the Treasury to
sift through the mountain of
suggestions. j
He said it would take “at least ;
until 1961” before the staffs could
lay a tax revision plan before his '
committee, which originates all 1
tax legislation in Congress
Mills' closing statement dealt
only with the theme of the hear- i
ings—how to broaden tax cover- 1
age to permit a rate cut, without <
reducing overall government rev- I
enue. He did not address himself i
to whether Congress in the com- 1
ing election year might vote an t
across-the-board tax reduction i
However, reliable sources said
the administration has no inten
tion of asking for a general tax
put in 1960. Democratic eongres- ;
sional leaders have indicated a
readiness to abide by the admin- ’
Istration’s wishes on this matter. '
Lillington
Doubling
i
t
i
Plant
Its Size
Lillington, which four years ago ,
'aised $150,000 by public subscrip
on to build a modern industrial ,
luilding, today was greeted with
he gr,od news that the venture
las proven so profitable that on j
•equest of the industrial renter
he Lillington Industrial Develop
nent Corporation is doubling the
vorking space.
Construction of the new mod
ern addition will begin Monday
norning and the target date for
tecupancy is June 1, 1960. it was
tnnounced today by officers of the
ndustrial development company.
Join in the announcement were
he executive officers of the Lilling
on Garment Company, The Bpav
tr Shirt Company and the More
head Garment Company. Company
officials said they were so well
pleased with the production re
cords, the morale of employees
and reception in illington that
they had requested the addition
al working space.
Meantime, from the local in
dustrial corporation came the
announcement that all financing
had been assured, all paper work £
finished, and actual construction c
will begin under direct supervi- 1
sion of a committee from the in- l
dustrial corporation and coordina- e
ted by a local c tractor. li
Steel and icr materials al- C
I'eady hav arrived at the site
it the j r. hem town limits at t
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Wade Stewart Charged in Wreck
Sheriff's Wife, Sister Hurt
mm
COMING TO DUNN — The 1959 Miss America, a Natchez girl
with a Southern smile and an international figure, will come to
Dunn for the jaycee-sponsored beauty pageant here in late April.
She’s L.vnda Lee Mead and needs no royal crown to make her
pretty.
Poison Plot Blamed
On Red Diplomat
MUNICH, Germany fUPI) — A
3ed Czech vice-consul stationed j
n nearby Austria masterminded!
ast month’s unsuccessful attempt i
o poison employes of Radio Free !
Europe, the U S. Army announced
oday.
“The counter intelligence corps
nvestigation shows tfiat Jarosalv
'I’emec, a vice-consul of the Czech
Consulate in Salzburg, Austria, on
Jov. 1G gave a Communist agent;
alt shakers containing atropine1
or placement in the RFE cate
eria in Munich.” the Army an
louncement said.
A spokesman for the radio sta-'
ion, which broadcast to Czecho- j
iovakia and other satellite na-1
ions, had reported earlier that1
he poison-loaded salt shakers
/ere discovered just in time.
He said the amount of the dead
f alkaloid contained in the doc
ored salt probably would have
een .sufficient to cause at least
ome deaths among the 1,200 em
iloyes using the cafeteria.
Petrified tree trunks are so
common in the vicinity of Piggott, ,
Ark., that many have been used j
as cO|netery tomb stones.
A red sandstone cave near j
Carksville, Ark . has Indian hier- |
aglyphics which have never been
deciphered
Harnett Sheriff Wade Stewart
was charged with following too
closely today after a three-car
wreck seven miles south of Ra
leigh put his wife and two other
persons in the hospital.
It was raining and somewhat
foggy in the Wake County section
where the accident occurred.
Mrs. Annie Matthews Stewart,
48. wife of the sheriff, suffered
head wounds when she was thrown
into the windshield
Highway Patrolman Earl Green
said the wreck occurred at 7:10
this morning at tne intersection
of McCullers Road and L'.S. High
way 401.
The sheriff himself was bruised
and hurt his left lower leg but he
vvaS released after treatment.
Patrolman Green said Mrs.
Stewart; the sheriff's sister. Miss
Hazel Stewart of Buie’s Creek,
and Virginia Catherine Stewart,
£1, of Maxton were all hospitaliz
ed. None of the three were con
sidered critical.
The three-car pileup occurred
as the Stewart car hit another
vehicle which had stopped behind
a 1960 Ford Falcon which was
preparing to make a left turn in
to McCullers Road.
The driver of the Falcon was
identified as Carl Edward Mat
thews of Route 1, Angier. Mat
thews is 20.
The patrolman said Matthews
had stopped in his lane of traffic to
make the turn and had his blink
er on
Howard Taylor Hight of Buie’s
Creek, 50, was behind the Falcon.
Neither llight nor his wife were
Injured but Virginia Stewart re
ceived head lacerations.
In the sheriff's car was Susan
Janice Fowler of 712 West Divine
Street in Dunn. She was treated
for abrasions of the right lower
leg and released.
This Won't Be
Exactly A
WarmGreeting
WASHINGTON tUPI) — The
government is netting set to send
out 59,300,000 reminders that the
best things in life tre not free.
Starting Dec. 26, postmen thro
ughout the country will begin de
livering federal income tax forms
to people who filed returns tor
'958. The deadline for reporting
1959 income is next April 15.
This year the Internal Revenue
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Probed on Dunn House Robberies
Soldiers Side Fasi
Bui Sold Too Slow
“They were really mopping up
“The trouble was they were col
ecting this stuff apparently fast
er than they could get rid of it.
“If they'd had a few more weeks,
hey'd have really had a pile .”
Jewelry store manager Hubjer
Register was talking about half a
dozen young soldiers from Fort
Bragg whcm Fayetteville police
have described as a "three-county
break-in-ring ”
Harnett was one of the coun
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Store Plays Santa for Wondertown Kids
Penney Customers V¥hoop It Up,
Prospering Salesmen Chip In
A Vjondertown store whose
reatest support are its penny
ustomers—buying Mary Janes,
re-balls, bubble-gutn, suckers,
utter - logs and peppermint
huneks—talked its salesmen into
elping out a big community
hristmas party
Soon after school let out for
ie Christmas holidays, a school
us'unloaded its passengers at the
store Other youngsters hud ar
rived on toot.
Individual bags were prepared
for 120 bovs and girls—the con
tents donated by salesmen who
put their wares in the store.
After store-manager James
Moore dreamed up the Wonder
town party, salesmen pitched in
with candy, oranges, snowballs,
ice cream, orange and grape*
drinks, even bolo bats.
Erwin ministers donated apples.
Ladies in the neighborhood help
ed fix the bags Santa Claus him
self accepted an invite.
Said Mrs. James Moore, “We
told the salesmen some of these
poor children would not have
much of a Chrtstmas and we
wanted to fix up a real party.
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