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Uu Is a a W'W Warner RAIN IN' WEST PORTION COAST LATE FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW , IN MOUNTAINS TONIGHT. VOLUME I. ALLIES MOVE NORTH ON 90-MILE FRONT * Congress Sees Higher Income Taxes May Rule Out Sales Tax Hit Incomes To Balance Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—(UP)— A well-informed congressional source said today that President Truman has ruled out a general sales tax and instead will ask for heavy income tax boosts to balance federal budget. Truman is expected to detail his tax plans in a special message to (Congress soon. He said in his bud get message that a $16,500,000,000,- 000 tax increase in necessary to balance his $71,600,000,000 budget for fiscal 1652. Congressional sources said the President told Senate Democratic leaders on Saturday he does not plan to ask for a general sales tax. However, this decision could be fjl changed, according to one infor mant. ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS Foreign Policy—Sen. William F. Knowland; R., Cal., said the United States will have to act alone if the United Nations doesn’t brand the Chinese Communists as aggressors and apply’ sanctions soon. Sen. John L. McClellan, D., Ark., acknow ledge “military considerations," but .said he could “find no excuse on V God’s earth not to fight this war with everything we have.” Communists—Sen. Karl Mundt, ~ S. D., demanded that President (Continued On Page Four) faojund * CapM SqjuuaM By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT PETS—Nearly every legislator has ■ some pet measure or project in which he is especially interested. It is customary to work up trades to secure support for these pet schemes. Some of these trades are in the making now, whereby spec ial advocates of spastic or otho pedic hospitals are promising sup port for large welfare or education appropriations in return for votes for their special items. All of the causes are worthy and It is easy to find selling points for each of A them. Aggregate result means w much larger total appropriations than any one member would fully endorse. 25 PER CENT—Most of the lobbying so far has been in behalf of more spending, but one gentle man has been diligent in seeking to hold down tans. . Robert L. Smith, Jr,, of Albemarle and Wash ington, representing the Western < (Continued On Page Four) PRELIMINARY LIST OF ENTRIES DAILY RECORD Prize Subscription Contest Mr. Robert H. Alphine, Dana Mr. 818 Hinton, Damn Mr. Harold Bass, Damn Mr. Joseph Odell Jackson, Dana |oh. « a Bauer, w. Mr. Charles T. Johnson, Daaa Mrs. Non Byrd, Benson D ®«MI Mrs. David CUfford, Daaa Edith *■ Du* . Mbs Faye Deaton, Coots JP* j M mb .Bim uiimyion Mrs. G. W. Ferrell, Dunn Biro. Pauline Tart. Erwin Mr. B. E. Herron, LiUagtoa Mrs. J. W. WMttentosft Daaa Addtttowsl entries as* Invited and theee received wtS bo ia- i Coded in more JMt. : I ■ A 1 GET IN THE GAME TODAY TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 - 3119 ■B* Hcit W HpR / ■■ SPARK DIMES DRlVE—March of Dimes campaign leaders and entertainers who help bring in the coin in Benson are pictured above by The Record’s staff photo grapher. Kneeling in the front row are the four Rag Dolls of Wilson Mills, who sing for the campaign. Left to right, they are: Gwen Langdon, Shirley Casey, Betsy Uzzle and Anna Jean Johnson. Standing in the second row are, left to right: Mrs. Smith, co-chairman; Mrs. C. W. Sanders, chairman; W. O. Buie, county chairman; Ray Meldin, committee members; Nowell Smith, co-chairman; Mrs. C. W. Sanders, chairman; W. O. Buie, county chairman; and Mrs. A. T. Johnson, committee mem ber. At the rear are Haden Ivey and James Thornton, the Simle-A-While Boys, who picked out music for the Rag Dolls. (Daily Record Staff Photo by T. M. Stewart.) 6,170 Rural Homes Served In Harnett Rural electric lines in Hainett county, as of July 1, 1980, served 6470 customers, acoording to a re cent REA report, said H. M. Tyler, 4lstrict manager far Carolina Pow sfeanUMeht Company. If) the whole state, Tyler said, 417,518 consumers are connected with rural linos. "It should M noted," he added, “that this does not mean solely farmers. Mahy othpr customers get their power from rural lines, including stores, mills, churches, and suburban resi dences.” In Harnett county 4,823 'of the 6,170 rural customers are served by Carolina Power and Light, and 1,347 by electric co-operatives. “Contrary to popular impression,” he said, “Investor-owned companies serve approximately 78 per cent of this county’s rural power con sumers.” Coops Serve 32 Per Cent In all of North Carolina, pri vately owned utilities had 244,743 farm and rural consumers, or 58 per cent of the total farm and rural consumers. Co -o peratives served 137,302 such customers, or 32 per cent, and the rest are served by municipal plants and public institutions. Speaking of farm customers only, as distinct from “farm and rural customers” on rural lines, the REA report said that private utili ties were serving 43.1 per cent of the power-using farmers in North Carolina, membership co-operatives 39.2 per cent, and municipal and other agencies 8.3 per cent. In the 26 North Carolina coun (Continued On Page Four) M fll ■ |M f ■ - - • ▼ H lb » ■ I V ■i H| 0 W ■ S ■ pH I ILA H Get In And Win Car, Cash, Commissions Coats Fuel House Burns . t Three lire* « the weefc end were reported this morning by Howard M. Lee, secretary-treasurer W the Dunn Fire Department. On Sunday morning, the depart-* ment answered a call to Stewart Brothers Lumber, Co. at Coats, where a fuel house burned to the ground. The company suffered a loss of several thousand dollars, and there was no insurance on the building. Cause of the fire is un known. Arrival of the Dunn firemen localized the blaze and prevented the fire from spreading to other buildings on the property. Firemen extinguished a grass fire in the 400 block of S: McKay Ave. Sunday afternoon. The fire was on vacant lots, property of Hoover Adams, H. M. Lee and J. W. Purdie Jr. On Saturday afternoon, firemen responded to a call from the resi dence of Mary Watkins, at 811 S. Fayetteville Ave. Small damage was done to the house, property of R. E. Duncan, as the blaze was quickly extinguished. S3O Is A Club A “Club” of subscrip tions in the “Everybody Wins” Prize contest is any group of subscriptions to talling $30.00. For example Five One- Year subscriptions at reg ular rate of s6joo would constitute a $30.00 “Club” on which 50,000 EXTRA votes are given toward winning the big prizes in addition to the regular schedule of votes on each indiwidual subscription. Such a combination counts for 90,000 votes al together. Three Two-Year sub scriptions amount -to an even $30.00 likewise con stitute a “club” and as 25,000 regular votes are is sued on each 'full limit” subscription plus the 50,000 extra votes due on a “club”, this counts for exactly 125,000 total votes. Those who make It their aim to obtain "one club a day” will undoubtedly be among the winners of the biggest and best prises. rates, appiy mj man ue- DUNN, N. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1951 - _ By BILL AND DORIS GUPTON Contest Editors This coming Wednesday marks the first announcement of rela tive vote standings in the big race for the grand capital prize Pack ard 4-door sedan to be awarded winning contestant in the jfecffifs “Everybody Wins”. .sub. MfijilliA 'drive contest now tinder way. , With nearly $5,000 in prizes to be awarded just six weeks from this Saturday noon, all entries are out to make every minute count Votes cast for publication for each of the active contestants, which will appear in this Wednesday's Record will include reports of subscription collections up to and including turn-ins on Tuesday of this week. For this reason, and the fact that votes Issued on both new and re newal subscriptions are at present larger than they will be during any other period during the contest, people participating in this Inter esting race are calling on all resi dents of t*»is area for immediate support. Friends. Relatives Can Help As has been stated before, friends and relatives of contestants can do the most to help their favorite at tain a winning position in this short, exciting contest bv giving every possible support at this time. A mere handful of new or renewal subscriptions, if turned in now while votes are big, could very eas ily mean the difference between a winning position and that'of an also-ran when the awards are made on Saturday, March 17. Those desiring to help a contest ant by subscribing or renewing their subscription can make pay ment by mail or personal call to the Record office or by direct pay ment to the contest worker. Also, by helping their favorite, sub scribers can take advantage of the special subscription rates in effect only during the contest. A special contest feature that is well worth consideration. Contestants, realizing the Impor tance of leadership, are at this very moment going from door to door In Dunn, Erwin, Coats, Benson, 141- (Continued On Page Four) BULLETINS WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—(UP)—The Defense Depart ment today identified 164 casualties in the Korean War. The 213th casualty list reported 24 dead, 40 wounded, 18 injured and 82 missing. The werst cold wave in years broke recof ds with tempera tures of more than 50 degrees below zero today and laid a sheet of ice from Indiana eastward to New England that caused scores of deaths and hundreds of Injuries. - The cold had caused 61 deaths since it swept out of the artic, a United Press count showed. ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Kttrea, Jan. 28 (UP) - Thousands of anti-Communist refugees, who have a formi dable intelligence system of their own headed north today yninfffffr vozxunuiust troops n&u started a iarge~scaie witncirawai* j ‘ -it'. -A WHI Defrost Wage Freeze WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—(UP)— The [government today prepared orchß to lift the wage freeze from millrtns of workers and adjust the harf and fast price ceilings. Pp e Controller Michael V. Dis alle s so said he would try to achieve “su6 antial rollbacks” in some Prig Tn first action was expected to pen! [' pay increases already con tract d for and to exempt from the'; general freeze the 4,000,000 muni ipal, State and federal em ployee , like policemen, firemen and teaoi ;rs whose salaries are fixed by law- > iqf irmed sources said the wage I stabi zation board will approve the SI.OO daily increase which John L. Lewi has just negotiated for his 480,0( 9 hard and soft coal miners. A pri :e order authorizing the mine owne s to add the pay raise to their price:. was expected to follow. The mine owners agreed to start pay ing lhe higher wages Feb. 1. Op the' >asis of past experience, the mine: s ■ will get it on that date or walk out. WILL FORM POLICY Soi rces said the wage board woul( have some “defrosting” an ti ontinued On Page Seven) Merchants Set Mass Meeting A mass meeting of Dunn mer chants wil be held Wednesday afternoon in the courtroom of the municipal building, Joe McCullers, manager of the Chamber of Com merce, announced today. Purpose of the meeting will be to {decide times the stores will,, be efijeed for holidays, and to dlskuss jsfMptopn closing during 1951. pointed out that con siderable business has probably been lost by Dunn merchants In the past, when shoppers came to town and found the stores closed when they were led to expect them to be open. He urged that, what ever plan Is adopted, all merchants adhere to a uniform closing pol icy. ’State News Briefs RALEIGH, Jan. 29 (UP)—Mon ley and motor vehicles will claim the major share of the attention from the North Carolina General Assembly this week. The Joint Appropriations Com mittee will open hearings on bud get requests tomorrow, and every State agency but one has asked for a hearing. In the hearings they will ask for more money. CHARLOTTE, Jan. 29.—(UP)— Two cars crashed head-on at an intersection here last night, killing one woman and injuring three other persons. Police identified the dead woman as Mrs. Elizabeth Newton of Char lotte. The Injured were Mr. and Mrs. William A. Medlln and W. A. Med lin, Jr., pf Monroe. Officers said the Medlln car was going east when it smashed into the side of the car driven by Douglas C. Newman, husband of the dead woman. The Newman car overturned, pinning Mrs. Newman under it. Dunn Will Be Host At Meeting Os Law Enforcement Group Dunn police will be hosts at a meeting of law enforcement offi cers at Johnson’s Diner Tuesday, February 6, according to an an nouncement by cy;y Manager R. Thomas Hobbs. The meeting will include a Dutch dinner. It is scheduled for 7:30 p. m. In addition to members of the Dunn police force, the highway patrolmen working out of Dunn are expected to attend. The city commissioners, Deputies O. R. Pearce and B. E. Sturgill, Sheriff W. E. Salmon, Recorder's Court Judge H. Paul Strickland, Prose cuting Attorney J. Shepherd Bryan and representatives of the press and radio have also been invited. Johnstone to Speak Carlisle Johnstone, director of public safety for the city of Ra leigh; will be the principal speak er. He will discuss law enforce ment problems and show a police training film. The training film is part of the six-weeks course con ducted by Johnstone some time ago, a course which Mack Den ning of the local police force at Al Wullenwaber Is Defense Director; Mixon Moves Up A. C. Wullenwaber has accepted appointment to the position of di rector .of civil defense, Mayor Ralph E. Hanna announced today. Effective immediately, the ap pointment replaces Willard Mixon, who will step up to the task of di rector for the county. I sun delighted that Mr. WHjleo-. water has accepted this position.” Mixon said today. "I know he is already a busy man, but I feel sure he will do a good job, and I am pleased that he has agreed to join our staff.” EXPECT CD IN ERWIN The new county director reported that there is now a civil defense director in every town and city in the county, with the exception Young's Booze Bill Lands In Committee Pigeon Hole Erwin Tops In Campbell Fund Drive Erwin was reported today as the first town “over the top” in the Campbell College Expansion Pro gram. With a quota of SIO,OO, Erwin has contributed a total of $11,564, ac cording to information on the drive in the home area from program headquarters. Donations made by the faculty members have also totaled more than the original quota of $6,000. Contributions from this source are listed at $6,598. Contributions listed at the last tally reached $60,506, about 40 per cent of the goal of the program. GOAL IS $159,000 Sponsors of the program expect to reach a total of $150,000, with the chief aim of the fund-raising activities the building of a new gymnasium and the development of a well-rounded recreational pro (Continued On Page Seven) Charges Made In Accident A 1939 Ford sedan was demolished In an accident midway between Lillington and Angler about 12:33 Sunday, Patrolman R. B. Leonard reported this morning. Boßby Matthews, who was driving the car, left the road on the left side, on % sharp curvi, traveled about 330 feet and overturned on the front porch of T. A. Thaxton, the patrolman said. ', Hie driver, and several passengers who were riding with him, escaped injury. Matthews wtU be given a hear- i tended and passed with honors. ■ Johnstone will complete his pro , gram with a judo demonstration. The group will discuss the gen . eral subject of law enforcement, with particular emphasis on means i of cooperation between the police • and highway patrol, and coopera tion between police and court offi • cials. ' Whittaker to Speak i Patrolman Joe Whittaker, of the ' State Highway Patrol, has been . asked to contribute to the program I with an explanation of the kind of ; cooperation the highway patroi ■ wants from the police force. i Considerable cooperation has al > ready developed between local po . lice and the highway patrol. Police here are now using a GE receiver, ’ and the Raleigh dispatcher has ■ been transmitting messages to the • Dunn department. An order has ■ been placed for a high frequence ! crystal-controlled FM receiver to i be installed at police headquar ■ ters, so that the Raleigh dispatcher ! will be able to receive messages ■ from here, as well as transmitting ■ messages to the police here. of Erwin, where a director is ex pected to be appointed shortly. Completion of the roster of de fense directors is part of a concert effort to prepare for some protec tion for the people of Harnett County in case of "The civil defense organization i*. .something we hope never to Wurienwaßer sivfd this; ffiorh ing. •’But we can’t take chances. The sooner we get started, with everyone working together, the sooner we’ll get set up for the most efficient performance.” He called on the people of Dunn for cooperation In carrying out plans of the directors. Plans and calls for help will be made public from time to time. RALEIGH, Jan. 29—Harnett Sen ator J. Robert Young’s bill calling for a State-wide referendum on allowing ABC liquor stores in all of the State’s 100 counties or in none of them is still resting in the cubbyhole assigned the Senate’s committee on propositions and grievances to keep bills referred to it for consideration. And there are strong Indications that the Young bill Will remain in the cubby hole until New Hanover Senator Alton A- Lenon, who is chairman of the Senate’s P. and G. committee, finds out just what kind of bill the State Allied Church League will offer In its efforts to get a State-wide referendum. Trustees of the league met here during the past week-end and ad opted a resolution demanding that the 1951 General Assembly pass a bill calling for a State-wide refer endum on the sale of liquor, beer and wine in the State. The motion I (Continued On Page Four) Harnett Lawmakers Oppose Revival Os Inspection Law RALEIGH, Jan. 39—The stage is being set for what mdy be a big show here Wednesday when the House Roads Committee, headed by Durham Representative Oscar Bar ker, conducts a public hearing on bills designed to bring back a State automobile inspection law. - Two bills, one of which is spon sored by Governor Scott’s com mitee an highway safety, are be fore the committee. Each bill pro vides for return of the inspection lanes that were.criticized with such fury that the 1949 General Assembly repealed the inspection law pass ed by the 1947 legislature. 8 HARNETT MEN OPPOSE Harnett County’s two members of the General Assembly—Sena tor J. Robert Young and Represent tative Carson Gregory—have gone on record as saying they will op pose any bill aimed at bringing back the w— Both Plant More COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Heaviest Red Counterthrust Thrown Back Navy Shells Inchon For Fourth Straight Day As Offensive Gains Ground - TOKYO, Jan. 29 (UR)—. The U. S. Bth Army pushed north along a 90-mile front in Korea today after smash ing the heaviest Communist counter-attacks since the the start of the four-day-old Allied offensive. The Chinese Reds hurled some 2,700 troops against United Nations forces in eight separate counter attacks on the western sector below Seoul last night and early today. One Red patrol penetrated into Suwon. Two other Red forces broke through to UN command posts. But by dawn, all had been beaten off and the Allied line re stored. Then the Bth Army resum ed its advance. UN tanks and infantry probed north against mountng enemy re sistance within 10 miles of Seoul in the west. An armored spearhead in the east pushed within 30 miles of the 38th Paralle without oppos ition. ARMY ON OFFENSIVE Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the Bth Army, jub ilantly told newsmen: “A dammed good part of our Army is on the offensive and giving a good account of itself. Everything is going fine.” Ridgway told Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur during the supreme com mander’s ninth visit to the Korean front yesterday that his foroes have killed at least 40,000 Red troops and wounded another 120,000 since Jgn. 1. Naval and Air Forces also pun 'ttetetewwyr-— i- ■ —g-Msiwfinj The U. S. heavy-, cruiser St. Paul, British cruiser Ceylon and Amer ican destroyer Hank carried the (Continned On Page Seven) Street Signs ToGoUpSoon Work will begin soon on street markers for Dunn, according to City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs. Metal forms to be used In mak ing the concrete posts have iffTlnd. Pouring the concrete into these forms is slated to begin in the near future. Plans call for wlde-iUs tribution of the markers, Which will show the names of the and block numbers. A completed marker will be a concrete post, set two and a half feet in the ground, and standing five feet high. It will be painted white, with street name adff“Mock number stenciled on all four sides. The posts are to be set In con crete. * It will be some time before* the markers will be painted IdflbWlfag erection, Hobbs said. Concrete re quires some time to cure properly before paint will stick, so the* ports will stand blank for a while ’Before it will be possible to paint them. The project was started some time ago, when the -city, council appropriated money for trie mark ers. It was held up for a consid erable time because of the shortage of cement. Now that cement is readily available, and the forms are here, the work will ue Inaugurated soon. ■ •• • i the practice of hunting whiskey • stills “and hanging around'on the streets of the smaller towns." Both also think there should be stronjS V enforcement or present traffic lam. The Harnett lawmakers . are not alone in their views along ttt| line. Many legislators are hearing from their home folks tfc*' bills proposed to bring back lnspee- ; tion. Chairman Barker is ajpttSfil ing a large crowd at Wednes hearing and he said today »*rrt “we will hear everybody to be heard on the inspection MO." Meanwhile, Senator ”«rrHtua Hobgood of Franklin county has Motor sL*| -im 9
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