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♦WEATHER* Generally fair and continued cold today and tonight Wednesday in creasing cloudiness and not quite as cold I Mu- B aily Tät-card . - M ·-» VOLUME 10 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3118 DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 22, 1959 •4 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 14 I WHAT A CINGERBREAD MAN!—Linda Perkins looks hungrily at a nine-foot gingerbread man in Memphis, Tenn. J. C. Stocsscr boosts Linda up. He’s foreman of the bakery where the 185-pound cookie was baked. Hobby Cars Hot New Fad, Selling Big Plenty of teen-agers in this area will think of it as a great Christ mas present — but Santa will nev er be able to get it down the chim ney. Out at Easy Street, between Dunn and Newton Grove, Charles Tart, expects to have finished on Christmas Day a curved track for a great new craze which has spaw ned clubs around the country. Sears manager David Pope des cribed the craze for Hobby Cars, a type of midget racer which have to be seen to be" believed. “The way it started,” Pope said, “A lot of firms wound up with excess lawn-mower engines and they didn't know what to do with them. “So they built frames for them, on wheels, that the engines could power. “You know, adults will always buy the kind of toys that they want. The big toys are all designed for adults because it’s the adult who lays out the money. “The Hobby Cars just have a lot of appeal for those older peo ple. “We've had plenty of them order ed as Christmas presents. The par ents will want to know. Is it safe?' and, 'How fast will it go?’ and. ‘How much weight will it carry?” The tiny go-buggers, which can do up to 60 miles per hour (the strongest are powered with two engines' already have many local adherents They’ve been visible in the big A&P parking lot, zipping around even when the skies were pouring rain. Almond Westbrook bought one for the Shriner clowns. Ro bert and H D. Strickland and Do- i ug Glover are all closely connect- j ed with the growth of interest in | the Dunn trea. The drag strip prepared especial- j ly for Hobby Racers is supposed (Continued On P&ge Five) Drunks in Short Supply Two Face In Prison Holiday Camp Th? holiday cheer apparently is n’t turning up acres of drunks Like it used to. “We haven't made an arrest for public drunkenness in two or three days,” said Dunn Police Sergeant K. M. Fail. Only two men were In the city jail today but it looked as though both might be eating their Christ mas dinner in a prison camp. Then was an escape rcu'e for each but they hadn't made it. William B. Tyndall, convicted of failing to meet the prescribed court payments lor support of his family, faces a 12-montjh term and was to be sent off today. Judge H. Paul Strickland yes terday ordered that Tyndall ser ve the term unless he could rai se $300 to cover back payments for his family. Earl Stewart, arrested on an or dinary drunkenness charge, was described as unable to meet the small fine imposed and officers were preparing to send him off for a holiday stay in prison camp He was given the alternative of a fine or 30 days. Living Costs Reach Peak WASHINGTON (UPI) — The nation’s living costs edged upward last month to another record high, the government reported today. The Labor Department said its consumer price index rose 1-10 of 1 per cent to 125.6 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. It was tre sixth time in the last seven months that it climb ed to an all-time peak. Higher costs for transportation, medical care, housing and per sonal care more than offset de clining fopd prices in November. -ATU Keeps Vigil— No Letup In Liquor War Billy Richardson, chief of the federal liquor raiders stationed here at a four-man post, said the bootleggers aren’t calling off their activities for Christmas and neith er is the ATU The Dunn ATU agent guarded closely what time his men would turn to Santa and forget about those big snifters that somebody was making out in the woods. Liquor officers feel the boot-j legging business is likely to step up, if anything, around Christmas. Late last week, an airplane was flown over the Broad Slab and a dozen or so stills put out of com mission. No significant raids have been made since then but Richardson said the unit is on the alert. The bootleggers better watch out or their Christmas present may be a summons to federal court. And it won’t even be wrapped in a nice package. Ministers Of Small Nations OK Summit PARIS (UPI) —The foreign min s ei's of small nations in the NATO Council flared up at big power summit strategy today but endorsed the Big Three invitation to Russia for an April summit conference. The 15-nation council reaffirmed the need for a strong stand by the Big Three of Britain, the United States and France to main tain their rights in Berlin when the leaders of those nations meet in Paris with Soviet Premier Niki ta Khrushchev. The NATO foreign ministers called together to “ratify” t hjle policies laid down by President Eisenhower, British Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan, and French President Charles de Gaulle in the Western summit conference that ended yesterday did their duty. But the bulk of the time was (Continued On Page Five) He Told The Truth About His Larceny OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)—Police smiled politely when Air Force M. Sgt. Garold L. Townsend said he had stolen an estimated $12,000 in merchandise from major de partment -stores from here to Sa cramento. But he was so persistent, of ficers finally sent inspector Eric Gustavson to Townsend’s home in Vacaville. An hour later Gustavson made a hurried call to headquarters: "Send another truck. Mine’s not big enough.” Gustavson had found 466 sepa rate items in Townsend’s home— including electric organs, chicken incubators, lamps, hi - fi sets, electric belt massagers, whirlpool hath pumps, movie cameras, tools, guns, clocks, typewriters, air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, and swimming pool filters. Rescue Attempt Underway i Dutch Ship Caught On Reef, Sinking MIAMI (UPH —A 368-ton Dutch freighter began sinking on a Cu ban reel' today as a Cuban patrol boat made an attempt to resi n - the eight persons aboard. The commander of the patrol boat reported shortly before noon he would have the eight person - removed from the freighter June within an hour. Just how the rescue eould be accomplished was not clear. The Coasi Guard reported only min utes earlier that the freighter could not lower its own lifeboats and other vessels could not reach it because of heavy seas on the reef. The freighter’s master also re ported that the reef had pounded a hole all the way through his vessel’s double bottom. A Coast Guard spokesman said this would enable the sea to rush in swiftly and sink the ship. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UPI) — The New York Rangers and Springfield Indians have renewed their working agreement through the 1960-61 season. Springfield, currently leading the American Hockey League, is the top farm club for the last place Rangers. 8-Year-Old Grabs Bag With $5,675 NEW YORK (UPI) — Was the little girl a prankster or a trained 1 robber? Was the man who ran off with the money her father, her mentor, or just a bystander who saw an opportunity? These questions w'ere unan swered today because the little girl, the man anti a bag contain ing more than $5,600 cash were all missing. Monday afternoon Miss Cather ine Bacon, 62. a bookkeeper for a West Side cafeteria, was walk ing to a bank to deposit $5,675 which she carried in a paper bag White she was waiting to cross the street a girl about 8 grabbed the bag and started running. Miss Bacon ran after the girl shouting “Help! A thief!” A woman passerby stopped the (Continued On Page TwoV ALL THE RANKS — Soon to be named an Eagle Scout, Rill Blackley, recently recovered from a serious accident, has gone through all ranks and is on'1 of the county's best Scouts. He was photographed, special for the Daily Record, by fellow Scout Brent Adams, who is earning a merit badge in photography. A few of Blackley’s 25 merit badges are visible here. After a Kick, a Come-Back Top Scout Rank For Dunn Youth Bill Blackley, a young Harnett scout whose face might have been designed to go on a Boy Scout pos - er, has already hit most of th# pinnacles he can hope for in scmut ing. But this Sunday he will reach one more. At a Court of Honor at St. Stephens' Episcopal Church in Erwin, he will become an Eagle The Dunn youth, son of Mr and Mrs. O. P. Blackley, has already served as chapter chief of the hundreds of scouts in the Harnett County units He has frequently been cited as one of the outstanding Scouts I developed here in recent years, j Last summer, when he went to giant Philmont Ranch in New ! Mexico, his patrol of 12 all recei ved the Boy Seo' Silver Award —the onlj ^ro’' ut of 3000 boys J to win it. Top se< from every part of (Con'i.iced on Pajr “Pwo) Nixon Heading Reception Unit In Maryland WASHINGTON (UPll — liun- | deeds of dignitaries and thousands of other Americans will give ITe sidtnt Kisenhower a cheering, tor chlight, welcome home tonight, trom his Christmas season quest lor peace on varth. Vice President Richard M. Nix on will head the estimated 500 to 600 U S and foreign officials who will gleet Eisenhower at nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md Nixon has urged Americans to give the Chief Executive an en thusiastic reception when he re turns from “this terribly hard schedule in the service of the cause of peace.” Sparkler Display The President’s luxurious four engine jetliner was scheduled to land at 10:50 p. m. e.s.t., bringing him home from his exhuasting 11 nation, 23,000-mile mission in time to spend Christmas with his fam ily. Alter simple ceremonies at the airport, 15 miles from the capital, Elsenhower will ride to the White (Continued on Page Tw»l Little Spanish Miss Makes Ike Late MADRID. Spain lUPD - Presi dent Eisenhower kept a blind date with a little Spanish miss today which made him late for break fast with Generalissimo Francis co Franco. The date was 7-year-old R<*sa .Maria Jimenez. Calvu. who plant ed a kiss smack >>n Eisenhower's lips in a burst of affection The President blushed noticeably. It all began last Sept. 8 when tiny dark-eyed Rosiia wrote to President "Esinyaguer" - which is how his name sounded to her - and ask d to see him when tie visited Spain. U S. Ambassador ,J<>hn Davis Lodge learned of the letter from the little girl, who referred to Ei senhower as "the good-looking grandpa.” Waits At Stairway Lodge arranged for the meet ing this morning as Eisenhower left the palace where h? spent the night to drive to El Pardo palace for breakfast witn Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Rosa, scrubbed to shining clean liness, and wearing a prim blue dress and white stockings, was waiting at the bottom of the broad Ad Claim Probe Is Still Underway WASHINGTON (UPI) — A spokesman for Better Business Bureaus told the Federal Trade Commission FTC today to avoid creating a “national neurosis” that would le.d cusumers to be lieve that all advertising is “sus pect.” Edward M Lockard, manager of the organization’s Baltimore office, made the statement at a conference of business and con summer groups called by the FTC to alert the public against phon; advertising and "trickery in tht market place." The last day of the eonfPrenct dealt with swindlers who attempt to milk the public through bogus job offers such as "earn monej at home" schemes and offers ol (Continued on Page Two) stairway of Moncloa Palace at 7:40 a. m. when the president came down. L"dge and Rosa's parents, Mar io and Ann Jimenez, were with her. The president, natty in a fresh ly-pressed gray business ~,uit and carrying his topcoat over one arm, smiled broadly when Lodge in troduced Rosa. The President posed for pictures with tile child, telling her •let’s wait until the pictures are i/ver and we can talk." Gives Her .V Doll Then he led her to a chair and sat down, but she decided she'd stand. Placing a hand affeetlon (Continued On Page Two) Rich Pair Are Fined For Never Filing LOS ANGELES <UPI) — Two wealthy brothers in their were fined 510,000 each and given suspended one-year prison senten ces Monday on their guilty pleas ot never tiling uu income tax re turn. Federal officials said the broth ers owed the government more than half a million dollars on four million dollars income since 1935. "Oh what a blissful life it must have been.” said Federal Judge William M. Byrne. "Even a poor judge has to pay taxes.” He said he suspended the prison sentences of Irving Koppel, 60, and his brother Leonard. 69, be cause of their ages and the fact that they had led "exemplary lives”—except for not paying in come taxes Dunn Retailers Find Sales Rip Along Definitely, It's A Big Christmas The surprising news was that most Dunn retailers, currently swamped in the Christmas rush, are as happy as Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear. A! the Sears mail-order office, these two stuffed toys, based on television characters, have been among the big-sellers this year, along with guided missiles, elec tronic sets and telescopes. And Sears manager David Pope said flatly, “This has been our best Christmas.” A telephone check indicated that most store-keepers here, far from bemoaning a slack Christmas, were finding the sales figures very good indeed. There had been some fear that money wouldn’t jingle around much this Christmastime but ap parently that was a false esti - mate. The head of a clothing and var iety store cautiously suggested. They’ie buying small pieces but they’re buying.” To him, the crux of the season would be the next 30 selling hours. “The last three days count," he said. “Oh. my - , yes!” Said a furniture dealer, “It’s definitely picked up the last three or four days. A normal pickup. We’ll have a higher volume this year but it’s the last two or three months that pulled you down.” The same dealer suggested that buying habits have changed some what after two or three years when farm money has been com paratively short. j "I think people are more caut ious now,” he said. "They won't ! stick their neck out and they’re ' more inclined to buy what they can pay for. "It's been kind of rough <nd people who had been in a hole, and begun to come out, ain't go ing to fall back in again ” Chamber of Commerce manag er Ned Champion has been check ing several store-keepers daily. says most of thorn art’ fueling pretty upbeat. “Sometimes they'll talk that things are worse than they are,” he said, "but 1 haven’t noticed lhat lately. I think they're pretty enthused.” « - .. X AVGEI.S NKiini V \V VTCH — These angels in striking tableau at First Raotist Church betrayed not a shiver during long vigil. Fellow Sunday school members would recognize them as Betti Russell, daughter of the chinch pastor. Martha l.ou Green and Frances Pope. The tableau is given from 7 to 10 each night through Christmas Eve. (Record Photo.)
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