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Weather CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESB AND NOT SO COLD TODAY AND TONIGHT. OCCASIONAL LIGHT RAIN TODAY. • VOLUME L Reels Push 60 Miles Behind UN Lines • GOP Senator Says Budget Means Ruin Bridges Demands Truman 9 Resubmit Budget; Asks For Cuts Up To 60 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—(UP) —Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., said today that President Truman’s $71,000,000,000 budget for fiscal 1952 is an “invitation to disaster.” Bridges said Josef Stalin couldn’t have thought up a better way to destroy the U. S. government. He f called on Truman to take back the budget and re-submit to Congress one that would not “spend our selves to ruin.” CUT SPENDING TEN PER CENT “Spending should be cut at least 10 per cent,” Bridges said, “and in some cases as much as 50 or 60 per cent, or eliminated." He said he will refuse to agree to any tax hike—Truman proposed one of about sl6,soo,ooo,ooo—“until an honest and comprehensive ef gfort is made to abolish the frills ▼of government.” ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS: Troops—Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee predicted the Senate will vote to sidetrack Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry’s proposal to have Congress decide the question of U.S. troops for the New Atlantic Pact Army. The Senate starts voting on Wherry’s proposal at 2 pjn. Controls—Chairman Burnet R (Continued on Page Eight) County Counts 16 Parolees RALEIGH, Jan. 23—As of yester day, -Kkrnett county provided re sidence for 16 of the 1,198 former jaState) prisoners now qn parole and ▼ under*'supervision of State and county author!tee, Dr. T. C. John son, State paroles commissioner, announced today. Wake, Guilford and Mecklenburg In that order provided residence for more parolees than any other coun ties. Wake had 69, Guilford 68, and Mecklenburg 50. Forsyth was fourth with 41 and Robeson fifth with 33. Figures for some other counties were: Johnston 14, Cumberland 25, * Sampson 15, Moore 8, Davidson 25, Scotland 8, Rowan 14, Gaston 23, Union 9, Buncombe 23, Lee 5, Chat ham 13, Anson 5, Cabarrus 23, and Cleveland 18. No parolees under supervision were reported residing in the coun tis of Clay, Graham, Swain, Alex ander, Hyde and Tyrrell. Most other counties had relatively Small numbers of parolees living in their midsts. . The parole commissioner has in- W stalled a hugh State map in his (Continued on Page Eight; (hound Capital SquaJa By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT BUSlNESS—Journalism may not he a profession In the strictest sense, but there is no doubt that newspaper publishing is a real * business. Long gone are the happy ]f go-lucky days when it was neces sary only to have a shirt tail full of type to start a newspaper. Capi tal investment in the smallest newspapers now must be counted four figures; and not many can get by with that The larger in this state are rated in millions. Hie littleet publishing business re quires almost a full time book keeper for wage-hour, social se curity and other governmental red So the mid-winter institute 9of the North Carolina Press Asso ciation at Chapel Hill was largely a business man’s meeting. STABILITY—Time was when the average newspaper in North Carolina pldfcned for one or two editions at a time. Not much . thought was given to next week’s paper until this week’s issue was in the malls. That, too, is different. Much of the discussion at the in stitute sessions dealt with plans for the future, preparing for what Bwill have to be faced six months or 10 year, from now. (Centinaed On Page Seven) Bailu ifcmnd TELEPHONES 3117 • 3118 - 3119 W '- Mi m SHRINERS PUSH POLIO CAMPAIGN—The red Fez of the Shriners today be came a symbol and a reminder that funds are desperately needed to fight and treat infantile paralysis. Members of the Dunn Shrine Club this morning donned their Fezzes and started out soliciting funds for the 1951 March of Dimes. Shriners are . shown here with Rev. Joyce V. Early, county chairman, at a meeting held last night. in the Masonic lounge preparatory to today’s campaign. Pictured here are: left to right, front row: Lewis Strickland, Earl Jones, president of the club; Mayor Pro- Tern Joe Wilkins, J. N. Stephenson, Chairman Early, Henry Whitehead; standing, Ottis Warren, Floyd Furr, Grover C. Henderson, Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, Willie Moss, W. H. (Bill) Laughinghouse, and City Commissioner B. A. Bracey. (Daily Record Photo by Lewis Studio.) Campaign To Open Officially Jan. 24 Bill and Doris Gupton Contest Editors Carrier boys of The Daily Record will benefit as a result of the sub scription contest announced this (Week, as their earnings will oe en hanced in proportion to the num ber of hAr subscribers the campaign adds to their routes. Old and new subscribers pay. in advance for The Record in Dtinn, Erwin and Benson, and papers will be delivered by carriers in the usual manner. By paying a contestant for The Record, the worker will receive votes in the drive for the grand capital prize 1951 Packard or one of the other attractive prizes and the subscriber will be saved time and trouble in paying for the pap er by the month. With the official opening date tomormow Jan. 24, the campaign is just getting started and there is still time for contestants to enroll in the greatest subscription drive ever conducted in this section of North Carolina. Early entrants may begin work at once, however, and it behooves all those who are thinking of entering, but who have (Continued on Page Eight) Priest Asks Equal Rights For Negros COLUMBIA, 6. C., Jan. 23—(UP) —A Catholic priest called on South erners and Southern churches last night to hasten equal reperesent atlon for Negroes and whites in the South, but warndQ that this was not time for minority groups to try to take advantage of a nati onal emergency “in bringing pres sure to bear for total integration of the races.” PROGRAM FOR SOUTH Father Vincent K. O’Connell of New Orleans, chaftman of the Cath olic Committee of the South, sound ed the keynote of the committee's Drys Meet Friday To Study Young's Whiskey Vote Bill By WADR LUCAS Raleigh Ourrespsndent RALEIGH, Jan. 23—There may be early action on Harnett Senator J. Robert Young's bill calling for a State-wide referendum on ABC liquor stores as well as on other whiskey legislation that has been introduced in this Generay Assemb ly. ' r- •■■■ ■ i. .State dry forces are reported to have scheduled a meeting here Friday to map plans for a referen dum on liquor, abolishing of the law that now allows a person to have as much as a gallon of State tax-paid liquor in his possession at ATJursmis iefrppß The dry forces an merged Into •* » - . ... State News Briefs-*- RALEIGH, Jan. 23 (UP)— A freshman representative in the General Assembly said today Gov. Kerr Ccott “sailed into me” for opposing the State Fair coliseum project. Rep. Edwin S. Pou of Wake said he was asked by the governor to come by and confer about a “rum or.” Pou said the rumor was that “I had a performance bond covering the contractor who had bid low on the heating contract that was not awarded and I was pushing opposition out of spite.” / Pou said he was going to tell the governor there was no foundation to the rumor but “I never got a chance. He sailed into me immed iately after I enterd his offle.” The representative said Scott told (Continued on Page Eight) mid-century conference here with a call for a concrete program for the South, in the face of the mili tary threat of Communism. More than 1,200 church leaders and laymen were gathered here for the three-day meeting. Archibshop Cicognani, apostolic delegate to the United States, headed the host of churchmsnt. \ Majority groups “must not resist the necessary change” which would guarantee eoual representation of all groups within the agencies of defense mobilization, the priest said. (Continued on Page Eight) what is known as the Allied Church League, the president of which li Francis Clarkson, Charlotte lawyer, and an ardent dry. ALL OR NONE Senator Young’s bill, which would allow ABC stores in all of the State’s 100 counties or in none at all, has been slowly gathering dust in the pigeonhole of the Senate committee on propositions and grievaences The chairmen of this committee i| Senator Alton A. Lennon of New Hanover, a county that has ABC( liquor stores. ‘ ’ Over in the House is a bill intro duced by two of Forsyth County’s three House members for a load option election on ABO stores ft) Winston-Salem, the State’s second (Centiaued an Page S) DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1951 Polio Chief Makes Appeal The current March of Dimes drive must really be two polio campaigns in one-an emergency drive and the regular January appeal-the Rev. Joyee V. Early, county drive chair man,'bald tdday. _Nepd forJundj was-acoontod-W --rises Ifi incidehce during Idle autumn, the Rev. Early said. He ex plained that an additional fund raising campaign such as the one held in 1949 was needed, but the situation developed too late in the year for such an appeal to be organ ized. As a result, the director said, the -foundation has been operating its (Continued on Page 8) Meetings Will Aid Farmers Harnett County’s agricultural ex tension officials have scheduled a> series of three “Outlook Meetings” for Wednesday to aid farm citizens of the county in planning their farm and home programs for this year’s operation. Cooperating in the meetings are: County Agent C. R. Ammons, Assis tant County Agent T. D. O’Quinn, Miss Lorraine Vail, county home agent; and Miss Lela Huntley, assistant home agent. The Hrsi meeting will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. in the Buie’s Creek High School. At 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, another meet ing. will be held at the Mt. Pisgah Club House, and at 7 :3<T “Wednesday night the final meeting will be held in the Johnsonville confnunity house. ' These three meetings—to be held. In strategic geographic points in the county—will enable every citizen to attend a meeting nearby. BULLETINS TOKYO, Jan. 23—(UP)—United Nations troops reoc cupied the strategic highway city of Wonju today and pushed patrols five miles north without encountering organized enemy opposition. ATLANTA, Jan. 23—(UP)—Southeastern firms, mostly in “small business” bracket, received federal orders for nearly $50,000,000 worth of goods and services in the past six months, it was reported today. The regional office Os the Department of Commerce here said a wide range of products, from lumber to fruit and socks, was covered by the contracts. A breakdown showed that Georgia firms received con tracts amounting to $9,915,425;/Alabama $5,228,903; Flori da $2,774,130; Mississippi $3,759,776; North Carolina $9,- 012,656; South Carolina $2,496,060 and Tennessee $14,484,- 900 • 1 vV , . ' x . -Sf * U. S. Jets Win First Large Air Action 01 Korean War In Hectic 20-Minute Battle F-84's Down Four Red Planes In Dogfight Wfcile Superforts Rain 150 Tons Os Bonmb On Two Airfields In North Korean Capital TOKYO, Jan 23—(UP)—Powerful Communist spear heads thrust up to 60 miles behind the U. S. Bth Army’s lines in the East Korean Mountains today. Benson Mayor Says Funsters Burned Cross “Pranksters” were responsible for the cross-burning incident which took place at Benson a week ago, Mayor L. L. Levinson of Benson said today. / “If any Ku Kluxes* are operating around ner, I’d know about it,” the mayor commented. He added that someone must, have been “havThg fun” witft Novel ties Salesman Murray L. Ballinger, on whose front lawn a six-foot high cross was burned about 10:30 p. m. Jan. 15. The cross, wrapped in burlap and soaked in keorsene, was fired off in front of Ballinger’s home by unknown parties. A note telling Ballinger that he had gotten his “first and last” war ning was tacked to the front door. The note later disappeared. Police Chief Aaron Johnson denied today that he authorized Ballinger to “shoot hell out of anybody who bothers you again.” Ballinger was quoted by a Record reporter a% making that statement. solon Asks Pay Range Os sbtoo-$5,400F0r Teachers RALEIGH, Jan. 23—(UP)—The first teachers pay bill was in the legislative mill today, calling for a top salary even higher than teachers planned to ask for themselves. The House and Senate planned to meet at noon, after getting off to a lively start with a bill on one of the hottest problems they will face. A salary scale of $2,400 to $5,400 was proposed for “A” certificate teachers in a bill presented last night by Sen. Thomas B. Sawyer of Durham. The teachers’ target long has been $2,400 to $3,600. Their base pay now is $2,061-$2,754. But in creases provided through ffie con tingency clause in the 1949 Appropri ations Act boosted that scale to $2,200-SB,IOO for the current bien nium. Sawyer’s bill would provide a starting salary for A certificate teachers of $2,400 and add SIOO per year for up to 30 years. It would give proportionate increases to teachers with B and C and graduate Certificates, vocational teachers, supervisors, principals and super intendents. All would be paid with 12 checks, spreading the salary over the entire year instead of concentrating pay ments in nine months as at present. In the house Dr. W. A. Sams of Marshall took the oath of office and began Ms duties as represen tative of Madison County. Sams’ right to the seat was dis puted by Republican R. S. Rice, (Continued on Page 8) ?TVE CENTS PER COPY One column of 2,500 North Kore ans was reported to have driven 15 miles Southwest of AiWbng, only 35 mile.; from the key Allied base of Taegu, northwest anchor of the old Pusan beachhead. Another 5,000 Communists over ran and chopped up a South Korean engineer battalion east of Andong, an important junction on the ap proaches to the old beachhead. ABANDON AIR STRIP Nearly 70 miles northwest of An dong, United Nations forces which captured Wonju Airfield yesterday for the second time in two days abandoned it and the hills overlook ing it at dusk Monday without a fight. Only patrol activity was reported i from the rest of the ground fronts but the air suddenly flared anew . with two of the biggest actions of the war. 1 Thirty-four U. S. Thunderjets ripped into 30 to 40 Russian-built 1 jets as the Manchurian border and ! shot down at least Sour or Them in the biggest ar.d wildest air bdttle of ! the Korean War. A fifth enemy MIG-15 probably ■ was shot down and many others were damaged in the 20-mlnute dog l fight over Sinuiju airstrip in the ' northwest corner of Korea. ’Not a > single American plane was damaged. i Returning airmen said the twist i ing planes and flashes of gunfire (Continued on Page 8) : Police Busy Over Weekend Assault and reckless driving kept Dunn police officers occupied dur -1 ing the weekend. Arrested Saturday were Neil H. 1 Bell, 30, Dunn, Negro, on a charge of-earless and reckless driving; and Slocomb H. Smith, 40, Negro, Dunn i Rt. 2, charged with driving while . drunk. Two were arrested Sunday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. They were Andrew Mc- Neill of Dunn and George Adams, 1 35, of 308 N. Railroad Ave. Both are Negroes. J. T. Maynor, 505 N. King St., 33, Negro, is charged with i assault. ! On Monday morning, police ar (Continued On Page Two) MILCH COW SELLS FOR sßoo—Harnett Representative Caison Gregory of An gier, Rt. 2, sold 84 milch cows and calves'Friday for a total of more than $25,000 in g the biggest sale of its type ever held in the county. Ht is shown here with a graded -* but unregistered Holstein which set a State-wide record by bringing SBOO. Dairymea * from several states .. and some from as far away as Wisconsin .. said it was the highest price they had ever seen paid for a milch cow. Another of Gregory’s cows aoht:£ for $750 and a third brought S7OO. Mr. Gregory has gone out of the dairy business, but sold his routes and good will to Ballen tine’s Dairy at Varina. (Daily Record Photo by Lewis Studio.) . ' Plant More COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Legion Conducts fg Drive For Members Dunn Post 59, American Legion, is still conducting its drive tor mem bership, Kie Hudson, commander, reminded members and veterans to day. The American Legion is the lar gest service organization in tne nation today, Commander Hudson said. However, he reminded vet erans, this group needs the support and enrollment of every eligible, veteran of World Wars I and II in order to keep its many service projects active. Among the projects carried out Kie Hudson by the membership of 1,592,583 vet erans, activities for child welfare are important. The group sponsors a junior baseball program each sum mer in which about one million boys take part. In this program, the boys are taught team play and sportsmanship and the importance of playing according to the rules of the game. About 14,000 medals are awarded »ts each , year, and 70,800 pam- Are distributed ahmklly ex plaining the flag codes, to teach’ people the proper methods of dis playing the flag, and respect for the national flag. OTHER ACTIVITIES More than 200,000 students take part in the Legion oratorical con test each year, speaking on a pat riotic subject. About 20,000 each year are enrolled in Boys State, a (Continued on Page 8) CORRECTION The Daily Record would like to correct a mistake it made in re porting’ a case tried in Harnett Recorder’s Court, Lillington, aJn. 16. Guinn D. Johnson and Law rence A. Wilkins of Fuquay Springs, Rt. 2, were Incorrectly listed as guilty of possession of illegal whiskey and discharge of fireworks. The boys were not tried for possession of whiskey, but for possession and discharge of fire works. Both were taxed costs of court in the Judgment. NO. 35 Austin Rails At UN Delay i LAKE SUCCESS. N.Y., Jan 23. (UP)—Red China’s new 'limited'’ Korean cease-fire proposal appear ed today to be driving a wedge between the anti-Communiab powers of the United Nations. Despite U.S. Ambassador Warren R. Austin’s rejection of the plan as “a transparent effort to divide the free world,” the 12-nation Arab- Asian bloc was prepared to so along with a seven-nation confer ence wanted by Peking to discuss the cease-fire and other Eastern qustions. The Arab-Asian group, led by India, is expected to present a re solution formally calling for the conference >at tomorrow’s meeting of the UN Political Committee. WANTS VOTE AGAINST REDS But the United States is equally ready to press for a vote on its resolution branding the Chinese Reds as aggressors and paving the way for economic and diplomatic sanctions against Peking. America was outvoted by the Po litical Committee yesterday 27-23 with 6 abstentions on a proposal made by India’s Sir Benegal Rau to adjourn for 48 hours to permit study of the new Chinese Red message. “Postpone!” Austin cried to the committee. "Delay! Procrastin ate!” CHINESE PLAN “BALONEY” Unofficial State Department re (Continued on Page 8) Flour Sack Underwear Is • • .... Suggested BILOXI, Miss., Jan. 23—(UP)— A return to flour-sack underwear was suggested today as a means of helping conserve cotton for defense production needs. “Every 100-pound bag salvaged for clothing purposes represent* one and one-third yards of cotton cloth released for essential military duty,” said N. C. Blackburn of Memphis, Tenn., a member of the National Cotton Council Sales Pro motion Committee. He addressed cotton industry lead ers who are meeting dis cuss ways of meeting the govern ments goal of 16,000,000 bales this year. WILL ENCOURAGE PLAN “The homemaker who sews with cotton bags in the face of mobiliza tion restrictions is parrallel to planting, growing And processing that amount of cotton for other (Continued on Page Eight)
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