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VOLUME I.
Reds Smash Through Central Korea
State Solons
Withholding
Speech Views
Address
Is Received With
Mixed Reaction
By WADE LUCAS
Record Correspondent
RALEIGH, Jan. 5.—A rather gen
eral survey reveals that many ol
the members of the 1951 General
Assembly are quite convinced that
may be in for a longer session
“han they had hoped for after hav
ing heard Governor Scott deliver
his “state of the State" message
yesterday.
Most of them expressed a desire
to reserve their opinions until after
they learn the contents of the bud
get revenue and appropriations bills
and the governor's budget message
they are due to get at the first
night session next Monday night.
For while Governor Scott spoke
jpiostly in general and rather com
prehensive terms yesterday, he will
have to be more specific in his bud
get message outline in dollars and
cents what he thinks the State
ought to have to continue opera
tions during the 1951-53 biennium
beginning next July 1.
Just what exemptions Mr. Scott
and the budgeteers will recommend
to be removed from the present
three percent general sales tax, and
_just how much the governor and
budgeteers think the State is
likely to realize through anticipated
increases in general fund collections,
have the lawmakers guessing right
now.
On the whole, the reaction to the
Scott message yesterday was that,
despite the national emergency, he
wants to continue the “Go Forward"
progarm he outlined in his inaugu
ral mssaage two years ago and a
program that kept the 1949 General
gpnAuicu i Hiijor portion 01 wn&c
the farmer-governor demanded.
as the 1951 General Assembly
reaches the end of its first week,
although a short one. It is rather
crystal clear that its members are
in little mood to increase present
State taxes or levy aif additional
ones, even including removal in
whole or in part of the present 32
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AT COTTON MEET—Four principal figures in the round-table meeting on Har
nett’s cotton problems held at the Dunn Armory Friday are shown above. They are
(left to right) Fred P. Johnson of the State Department of Agriculture, County
Agent Clifford R. Ammons. J. A. Shanklin, entomologist of the N. C. State College
Extension Service; and George Jones, also an insect specialist for the Extension Ser
vice. The meeting, which began at 11 a. m„ was conducted by County Agent Am-
Mons. (Daily Record Staff Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Young Gets
Senate Post
RALEIGH, N. C., Jan.s—(UP)
Lt. Gov. H. P. Taylor announced
Senate committee assignments today
giving chairmanships of the power
ful appropriations committee to John
D. Larkins, Jr., of_Trenton and the
Finance Committee to J. H. Price
of Leaksville.
Appointments completed gearing
of) the Senate for 1951 action.
bther committee chairmanships.
Sens. James P. Lowder of Norwood,
Agriculture; William Medford of
WaynesviUe, Banks and Currency;
Sam M. Campen of Alliance, Com
mercial Fisheries; J. Emmett Wins
low of Hertford, Conservation and
Development; Wills Hancock of Ox
ford, Constitutional Amendments;
Hugh G. Horton of Williamston,
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Increased Cotton
Production Asked
Cotton production must be increased to forestall a
threatened shortage which may bring the smallest crop
since the Civil War, cotton growers, ginners and manu
facturers were told Friday by J. A. Shanklin, insect con
trol specialist for State College’s Agriculture Extension
Service.
Food Prices
Near Record
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—(UP)—
Retail food prices are zooming to
ward a record high, but the gov
ernment isn’t expected to do much
about lt.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today that retail food
prices on Decomber 15 had soared
within two-tenths of one per cent
of the all-time peak reached in
July, 1948.
The Bureau estimated that food
prices jumped 3.2 per cent during
the month ended Dec. 15. This was
a 5.7 per cent increase over the pre-
Korean war June 15 figure and
9.6 per cent over the figure a year
ago.
Prices during the past 21 days
may have surged above the record
high. The BLS report on food
prices in 50 cities said prices climb
ed at an average rate of about two
tenths of one per cent every three
days from Nov. 28 to Dec. 15. Since
food accounts for 40 per cent ol the
cost of living index, the increase
indicated that the index for Dec.
15 will hit another all-time high.
AGAINST FREEZE
However, strong bipartisan op
position is developing in Congress
against any move empowering
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Grand Jurors
To Hoar Cases
The Harnett County Grand Jury
may return true bills on capital
charges Against six men, when Su
perior Court opens in Lillington
Monday.
Three of the men are charged
with murder, two others with rape
and the last with aiding and abet
ting .rape.'
One of them, Charlie “Geech"
Stephens, about 40, is still being
sought for the Christmas Eve shot
gun slaying of a young Dunn Negro.
JONES GRANTED BOND
Rlcusrd Jones of Lillington, Rt. 1,
who will face charges that he stab
bed to death a neighbor, Otis John
son, was released from the county
jail Saturday under $4,000 bond.
Police say that Jones went to the
home of Johnson Dec. 23 following
a night of drinking and knifed the
38-year-old tenant farmer.
A third figure in a four-day orgy
srsTawy:
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still destroyed
Sheriff W. E. Salmon today r*.
ported deputies £
still wiß not in operation, though
DUNN, N. C. FRIDAt* JANUARY 5, 1951
Shanklin, speaking before a small
group at the Dunn Armory, quoted
the Arpty’s Quartermaster Corps jg
strategic- war material. Only steel
is more Important, he declared.
To meet the shortage, the ento
mologist said, either rayon plants
will have to be built or cotton acre
age increased. The plants would re‘
quire precious steel, he pointed out,
and would take at least two years
for production to start.
Increased lint production can be
brought about by the farmers this
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Dick Will Conduct
Seminar In Dunn
Dr. Russell L. Dick, head of the ... t „
Department of Pastoral Care of -
Duke Divinity School at Durham, v f
will conduct a Seminar for all min- “ .
isters of Harnett and adjoining l
counties on Monday, January 15th
in the Dunn Presbyterian Church. *
Plans ,or the seminar wer an- Rs
nounced today by the Rev. Sam F. , - W
Hudson, pastor of the Lillington ' If
Baptist Church and chairman of I,"- f
the in.r.isterml association's com- *» ®
mittee. ■
Hours of the seminar will be from, ' jßa|p|f '*'s§§■ .
10 a. m. until noon and from 1:30 C
to 3:30 p. m.
TO HOLD LUNCHEON 7
The ministers will lunch together '
at the noon recess. ,
The North Carolina Council of
Churches is cooperating with the A.
Harnett County Ministei Confer- ; '
ence in sponsorsl (? of this seminar. I •* ’ j*-
Mr. Hudson said today “Dr. IB K
Dick is possibly the most outstand- |pf'- IpSl*'
ing man in the nation in the field
of pastoral care. He has been con- DR. RUSSELL L. DICK
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BULLETINS
With sth Air Force, Korea, Jan, s.—(UP)—Allied Air
Fleets heaped death and destruction on advancing Red
armies today in the fifth straight day of the biggest and
most sustained air offensive of the Korean war.
WASHINGTON, Jan.s—(UP)—A high army officer said
today the United Nations retreat in Korea is “well organiz
ed, carefully planned and is fair from a tout.”
DETROIT, Jan. s.—(UP)—New automobiles will be mor*
plentiful in the immediate months to come “than presently
believed possible," Ward’s Reports, reliable industry re
porting service, predicted today.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. -(UP)- The defense depart
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GOP Demands
All-Out War
Against Reds
Bridges Says Bomb
€hkMia Bases
Ancgjupply Lines
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.
(UP)— Republican Senators
warnAS today that the Unit
ed States must decide now to
wage all-out war against
Communist China or get
out of Korea.
They; laid American forces may
suffer. heavy casualties and be
driven into the sea unless the
United Nations grants permission to
bomb Red supply bases in China
and Manchuria.
President Truman told his news
conference yesterday that the
government is not considering ask
ing UN permission to bomb Com
munist China because it might lead
to formal all-out war.
Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H..
said the Air Force should be ordered
to bomb Chinese Communist bases
and supply lines. Other Republi
cans agreed that it was “grotesque
and fantastic” not to let the Air.
Force strike back at the Chinese
homeland.
ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS:
Hoqslng—Key Congressional Dem
ocrats, assured the administration
they hull support a new defense
housing bill that may cost more
than $3,000*00,000. The bill was
expected on Capitol Hill as soon as
administration experts put the final
on it.
CrthuJ—Senate Crime Investigators
caUsd jßi Anthony J. (Tony) Accardo
to asj&hlm if he is the kingpin Os
tjMjfSfrUißfo organized crime. B«\t
W|Wrwefc-aeK*JHßfe to- ouswea
TN*y'be!fci ltd he would refuse tsf
answer questions on ground that
his answer might tend to incrimi
nate him.
Alaskan statehood—Sen. Hugh
Butler, R., Neb., said Congress should
hold on-the-spot hearings in Alaska
before taking any action on making
the territory a state. Butler, an
opponent of Alaskan Statehood,
said he will introduce a bill to let
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DR. GEORGE CUTHRELL REV. OTlStltFslt'Lr''
Dunn Pastors Name
Dr. Cuthrell Again
Plans Made For
Pre-Easter
Observance Here
Dr. George Cuthrell, pastor of the
Hood Memorial Christian Church,
has been re-elected president of
the Dunn Ministerial Association for
his sixth consecutive term.
The election of officers was an
nounced today by the Rev. Joyca
V. Early, who was re-elected sec
retary of the pastors’ organization.
Also re-elected were the Rev.
Ernest P. Russell, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, vice presi
dent; and the Rev. Richard Rhea
Gammon, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, as treasurer.
I Secretary Early is pastor of the
I Divine Street Methodist Church.
OUTSTANDING LEADER
Dr. Cuthrell, one of the leading
of Eastern Carolina, was
recently/- elected president qf the
Disciples of Christ of North Caro
| church.
! Diming their business meeting,
the pastors completed plans for Pre-
Easte- services, to be conducted
here*he week before Easter by Dr.
'red West, head of the Bible Depart
ment of Atlantic Christian College.
It was decided to close the pre-
Easter services on Friday night be
fore Easter.
statelnews
BRIEFS
RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 5 (UP)—
The Board of Directors of the North
Carolina Farm Bureau today pledg
ed all-out support to the Nation's
production mobilization program.
“The production qf farm com
modities during war-time is as vital
as industrial production,” the board
said in a resolution released follow
ing its meeting here.
RALEIGH, N. C„ Jan. 5 (UP)—
Col. Samuel A. Gibson, Director of
Military Training at North Carolina
State College, reported today that
29 students in the school’s Reserve
Officers Training Corps have been
offered commissions in the regular
Army.
Gibson said the number is “un
usually high in comparison to the
number of students in advanced
training.''
FORT BRAGG, N. C., Jan .5 —(UP)
—Former Rep. Hugo Sims, Jr., D.,
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Heads Named
Ferity Jobs
Mrs. Percy Walton has been de
signated official booking agent far
the city-owned Dunn Armory, City
Manager R. Thomas' Hobbs an
nounced today. Mrs. Walton has
been authorised to sign armory
rental contracts in the name of
the city and to acquaint all renters
with the terms and provisions of
the Armory Rental Ordinance
passed by the City Council Dec. 4.
Miss Louise McGugan, city treas
urer and payroll clerk, also got
another title. She was appointed
manager of water consumers’ ac
count- and will handle all water
billing, service complaint and other
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MRS. DUDLEY DIRS >
are In-
Evening Hours Are;
Reading Hours
Delegation
Returns From
New York City
Dunn’s industry-seeking delega
tion made a lot of promising con
tacts in New York, according to
Chamber of Commerce Manager
Joe McCullers, who added that
“there would be smokestacks in
Dunn today" if the trip had been
made three years ago.
| McCullers and two other Cham
i ber of Commerce officials made a
fast trip to New York City Tues
day, returning last night to Dunn.
The others were Chamber President
Guyton 6mith and Earl McD West
brook, chairman of the chamber’s
Industrial > 1
Mayor Ralph Hanna, who was
supposed to represent the city on
the trip, could not go because of
more pressing business engagements
at home.
NO RESULTS YET
No results can be foretold at this
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Bootlegger
Takes Term
A convicted bootlegger who pre
ferred a vacation on the State’s
roads to paying his fine was packed
oft to jail Thursday by Constable
David Smith, 33, of Coats, Rt. 1,
was arrested by Constable Pearce
Dec. 22 and later convicted of po
se sslon of illicit whiskey for sale.
When offered his choice of the
roads or a fine, Smith elected to
take the six-month stretch. He was
put in the Dunn jail to await trans
fer to a road camp.
Leaf Meeting
Is Scheduled
A tobacco production meeting will
be held in the Lillington High School
Auditorium on Tuesday night, Jan
uary 16, at 7:30 p. m. All tobacco
growers of the county are cordially
invited to attend, stated C. R. Am
mons.
Parents Wont Allow
Removal Os Eyes To
Save Life Os Girl, 4
ATLANTA, Ga., —(U.P.)—The
Parents of four-year-old .Carolyn
Joan Purcell decided today it
would be “God’s Will if she died
because they refused to permit an
operation on her cancer-stricken
eyes. .-•■ ..-.4:
Against the advice of four can
cer and eye specialists, unemploy-*
ed stone mason Frank Purcell and
his wife their pig-tailed
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Bold Attempt
Made To Trap
Bth Army
Enemy Division Now
45 Miles South
Os 38th Parallel
...TOKYO* Jan. 5.—(UP)—
Chinese and Korean Reds
Spearheading a flanking col
umn of 180,000 men smashed
south through Central Korea
today in a bold attempt 4o
trap U. S. Bth Army forces in
full retreat from fallen
Seoul.
Elements of a full enemy division
—IO,OOO men—already had driven
45 miles south of the 38th parallel
toward the Bth Army’s escape high- ~
ways to Taegu and Pusan.
The Bth Army broke contact w lth ,4||sj
the Communists in the West akip-;
Seoul and rolled on South wlthoMfH
even attempting a stand on the 'u
South bank of the Han River, which
runs around the southern and west- Vi?®
ern edges of the former capital.
The Communists shoved 1,000
troops across the frozen Han onto
abandoned Kimpo Airfield west of
Seoul this morning, but only minor
patrol crossings were reported else
where.
The Reds seemed in no hurry to <
occupy abandoned Inchon, the
port for Seoul 18 miles west of the
former capital, or to pursue in
force the Bth Army retreating due
south.
REPORTS “EVERYTHING FINE”
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, j
i commander of the Bth army, re- _
j turned to his headquarters after a
I visit to the front below Seoul and
: reported that “everything is going
| fine up there.”
Front dispatches indicated tha
I Bth ( Army is pulling back through *, i
1 ESjyon, 18 miles squtjiofJE
I uation of Inchon shortly after last
midnight (10 a.m. Thursday EflfT)
while a Naval bombardment kept
the enemy at bay.
A Naval task force commanded ,
by Rear Admiral L. A. Thackery
took off all remaining military and
naval personnel in the port and
thousands of civilians, then demol
ished all port facilities.
The evacuation marked a tragic
end to the triumphant UN am
phibious landing Sept. 15 at Inchon
which broke North Korean resis
tance and almost led to the com
plete liberation of Korea. .
Harnett Has
31 At State J
RALEIGH, N. C„ Jan. 5
ty-one students from Harnett j
County and at least 10 others
from the vicinity of Dunn are fi
among the 4, 034 students enrol-,
led at North Carolina State'.’Col- ,
lege, the College's Office of V
istration announced today.
The Harnett students are • as'
follows:
Dewey Allen Adams, Route
Bunnlevel, freshman; CUftoWs£jß
Roosevelt Ammons. Jr., HB&ag&fik
ton, sophomore; Paul Hadden Av
ery, Erwin, senior; Ambrose Httb- \
ert Ballard, Kipling, sophomoresvt|
Aldos Cortez Barefoot, Jr., Ang«i*j|
ier, senior; Neal Alexander Barn- |
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death for their daughter or allow
uTOiSy ir JIH
Telegrams poured into the