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TOLUME I.
TANK FORCE LEADS ALLIED PUSH ON SEOUL
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PetitionsTo Oust City Manager To Come Before City Council
Seniors To
Hun City On
Student Day
Citizens May Ask Vote
To Recall Hobbs; Youths
Take Over Government
With Dunn’s youth offi
cials scheduled to reign at a
special meeting of the City
Council, and with the city
manager issue to be present
ed to the board at its regular
meeting immediately after
wards, there may be plenty
going on at City Hall to
night.
«\n agenda released by City Man
er Tommy Hobbs listed a half
dozen or so routine matters to come
before the board.
EXCLUDES PETITIONS
But nprhaps signficanUy—the
agenda does not include the matter
of the petitions to be presented the
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CAMEL’S NOSE Ancient
story about the camel letting his
noae under the flap and later over
turning the tent is familiar to Tar
Heel legislators. They are reluctant
to enact legislation, however worthy
in Itself, that opens the way for
abuse or extension of authority In
other fields. Three Incidents of this
nature brought forth discussion
Friday. One dealt with a proposal
for the State to pay feee to clerks
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Booster Week Opens With
Chance For Extra Points
SECOND STANDING OF CONTESTANTS
IN
SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
The following contestants listed alphabetically have secured
three or more $30.00 ••dubs” of subscriptions in the Mg “Every
body Wins” prise contest, just getting under way:
Mrs. David Clifford, Dunn.
Mr. Bill Hinton, Dunn.
Mr. Charles* T. Johnson, Dunn.
Mrs.'George R. Souders, Lillington.
Mrs. Pauline Tart, Erwin.
The following contestants, listed alphabetically, Made sub
scription reports hut have not yet secured so many as three $30.00
“eMs”:
Miss Mamie Butler, Dunn.
Mrs. J. ,W. Wldttenton.
■ ' Mr. Joseph Odell Jackson, Dunn.
I The following contestants, hated alphabetically, have net m
■ yet secured a $36.00 “dab” of subscriptions:
M Mr. Robert H. Alphine, Dunn.
■ Mr. Harold Bass, Dunn.
■ Mrs. NeU Byrd, Benson. • 1
I Miss Faye Denton, Coats.
I Mrs. W. M. Draughon, Dunn.
I Mrs. G. W. Ferrell, Dunn.
I Mr. B. £. Herron, Lillington.
I Mrs. D G J.ohnson, Dunn.
I Mrs. wed Parnsn, benson.
I TUfTgw Amm Vann Finrm
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Courthouse Sees
Much Activity
Civil Term Opens In
Superior Court With
Heavy 2-Week Docket -
The February civil term of Har
nett Superior Court will convene
Monday morning.
On the full docket are 52 cases,
11 of these being divorce suits. Judge
Q. K. Nimocks, Fayetteville, who
presided at the January criminal
term, will also preside at the two
weeks civß term.
Six divorces had been granted by
noontime today at the opening of
a civil session of Harnett Superior
Court.
Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fayette
ville is presiding over the civil
session. A large number of
are scheduled for trial.
Those granted divorces tljis morn
ing were:
Grace Boone Tomosunaf from
Paul Anthony Tomosunaf; Roy Lee
Morrison from Doris L. Morrison;
James Harvey Smith from Blake
Jones Smith; Shirley Matthews
Griffin from George Oriffin; Clay
ton B. Johnson from Florine Lee
Johnson and Alice Smith from
Henry Smith.
All those divorces were based on
grounds of two years separation.
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Duncan Ray Chosen County
Jefferson-Jackson Chairman
•ipabttdt raising monerior toe
County of Harnett and the Demo
cratic Party, was doing botn pN
again today.
Harnett Democratic Chairman W.
A. Johnson announced this morn
ing that he has named the popular
county official as chairman of the
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner cam
paign In Harnett.
This county has been assigned
a quota of S3OO, and Mr. Ray today
was collecting the amount at the
rate of $5 per Democrat
JHailu lU’nm)
County Commissioners
Hold February Session
Today In Lillington
Harnett County’s Board of Com
missioners opened their February
session this morning by hearing a
lively controversy over the duties
of the county electrical inspector—
and his ability to perform them
over the widespread county area.
One Angler electrician plumped
for the establishment of a two-man
inspection department. It was
brought out that the county is
rather an extensive area for one
man to cover completely In view of
the present rate of construction.
Electrical Inspector Ben Sellers
parried this suggestion, however, by
pointing out that the population
distribution of Harnett County
w.ould leave all the gravy for one of
the inspectors, none for the other.
The Inspector who gets the north
ern end of the county will be in the
more densely-settled part, and
would therefore have little traveling
to do in order to execute his tasks.
On the other hand, the second
Inspector may have to travel 40 to
50 miles In order to collect a $3 fee,
he said.
MAT GET ASSISTANT
Sellers remarked that it might be
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bM Mlltt names drawn
The speaker this year will be
Senate Majority Leader E. W. Mc-
Farland, and It has just been an
nounced that he will driver a “top
level national and International
speech” at the dinner, to be held
In Raleigh on February 10.
Chairman Ray said today that
he anticipated no difficulty in col
lecting Harnett’s quota of S3OO.
We welcome the ever-growing
number of new subscribers now
being added to our lists, and also
thank the many regular readers
who are taking advantage of this
money saving opportunity to renew
their subscriptions at the special
reduced long term rate now In ef
fect.
The earnest, hard-working con
testants without exception, are
meeting with gratifying success on
every hand In their quest for sub
scriptions (the points issued on
each prepaid order, of course, mean
the winning votes for them) and
this newspaper appreciates the
wholehearted responses shown by
the people of this area to the sub
scription drive.
The encouragement thus extend
ed to the fine group of enthusias
tic participants for prises spells
SUCCESS in large capital letters
for this local enterprise and by the
same token will enable us to bet
ter serve in every way the general
interest of this entire community.
CAN REAP REWARDS
It Is our pleasure each week to
issue substantial commission checks
to the various contestants in the
race for Individual results obtain
ed and in due course, the most ag
gressive ones will reap their great
er reward in the form of rich prizes
and big cash bonus awards all
ift accordance with the extremely
liberal offer outlined In the opening
announcement of the contest
So far, the race has been a re
markably dose one between several
contestants and therefore, much de
pends upon RESULTS obtained this
and next week especially THIS
WEEK, and particularly NEXT
WEEK, while It Is Still possible to
get the BIG “first period” votes on
subscriptions—and therefore, our
“Booster Week” aim promises to
see Important changes In the lizve-
DUNN, N. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951
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YOUTH OFFICIALS RULING DUNN TODAY—Dunn High School seniors took over the various municipal of
ficers of the Town of Dunn earljr this morning arid will reign until after the city council meeting tonight. Youth
Judge Johnnie Willoughby, showp at left in front of City Manager Tommy Hobbs, is shown as he administered
the oath to the youngsters. Maydr Abe Elmore is shown in right foreground. The youth of the city are in complete
command today, so citizens may expect some sweeping inriovations in the municipality. (Daily Record Photo by
T. M. Stewart.)
Godwin Man
Pa&md By
3 Magazines
FAYETTEVILLE, Feb. S—(UP)
The life of Marshall Williams of
Godwin, one of this section’s most
colorful stories, will get nation aide
publicity this month.
Williams was sentenced to 20
years in prison in 1921 for killing
a deputy sheriff. He won 'a pardon
10 years later on the merit of his
gun inventions.
The ex-convict holds 30 gun pat
ents including the carbine—B,ooo,-
000 of which were issued during
World War 11.
It was announced today that
Collier’6 magazine will run his life
story Feb. 23, Readers Digest will
present him as the “most unfor
ge table character” in March and
the story of his guns will appear
in True magazine in March.
Acme News Pictures plans a com
plete photo display, and the “We
The People” television show will
interview Williams Feb 23/
Officers To
Meet In Dunn
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Law enforcement officers from
every section of Harnett County
will gather Tuesday night at 7:30
at Johnson’s Diner In Dunn, with
Dunn police to be beets to the
Manager Tqtnmy Hobbs said
today that all arrangements for
the meeting have been completed,
agithet a large attendance is
e P” - jj.H on I.™! noUce and
°°*°ty law enforcement officers,
members of the htohway patrol.
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Government Denounces Rail
Strike, Issues Work Order
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(UP)—
The government today denounced
the tall strike as a crippling blow to
the-defense program and called on
all strikers to return to work im
mediately. |
The National Mediation Board
said the wildcat walkout is a ser
ious roadblock to its efforts to settle
the long-standing wagehdur dis
pute between the unions and rail
road carriers.
Chairman John Thad Scott, Jr.,
of the National Mediation Board
issued the appeal and called union
and industry representatives to an
other meeting (10 a. m. EST). He
said some progress was made in
day-and-night sessions yesterday.
HINDERS SETTLEMENT
But Scott said that standing in the
way of settlement of the dispute is_
the wildcat strike by railroad train-'
men.
The prompt return of these em
ployes to their posts of duty would
remove this threat to effective nego
tiations, Scott said.
In scattered sections some train
men return to their jobs. But other
additional trainmen reported sick,
so the effect of the return-to- work
was counterbalanced.
The strike forced the post office
department to impose one of the
most drastic mall embargoes in
history. Steel mills, automotive
plants and other factories closed.
Thousands have been thrown out
of work. War goods for Korea and
mall are piling up at terminals.
The mediation board asked the
four rail union representatives—
conductors, engineers, firemen and
trainmen to bring In written pro
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BULLETINS
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RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 5 —(UP)— The last of three of
the seven Martinsville Negroes convicted of mass rape of
a white housewife died in the electric chair today.
The first four were electrocuted Friday. John -Clabon
Taylor, 32, the first of the three today, entered the base
ment death chamber at 7:33 a, m. and was pronounced
dead eight minutes later.
‘ Following Taylor were James Luther Hairston, 21, and
Francis Deasales Grayson, 38, oldest of the seven and only
WASHINGTON, Feb. s—(UP)— The Army plaVis to send
the 4th Infantry Division to Germany soon to be part of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atlantic Pact Army, inform-
Ths Air Force ai«r> is expected to send more jet fighter
Domoer groups.
Eight Injured
In Two Wrecks
Eight persons were hurt—some of
them crittcially—in two accidents
in Harnett County over the weekend.
The cars Involved included one
believed to have been stolen In Holly
Springs shortly before It was wreck
ed.
Two Harnett County men are In
the Dunn Hospital today critically
injured because they played tire
Good Samaritan act early Sunday
morning in rendering aid to a
motorist in distress.
Dewey McLamb, 50, of Coats, Rt.
1, and Henry Jatftson, 17, also of
Coats, Route 1 were riding along in
their jeep when they came across a
1941 Ford in the ditch, between
Coats and Benson.
Without even bothering to ask the
name of the driver, they obligingly
took a chain and pulled the auto
mobile out of the ditch.
HIT BY GAR
They had the car on the highway
and were between the car and the
jeep unfastening the chain when
a 1950 Ford driven by Roy Johnson,
29, of Dunn, Rt. 2 came along,
crashed into the back of the car
they pulled out of the ditch
crushing them between that vehicle
and the jeep.
Both McLamb and Jackson wer§
critically injured.
Most of the flesh In the calf of
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Plant More
- COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
Ross Confers
With Solaris -
Raleigh, Feb. 5 C, Reid Ross
of Lillington, Harnett County sup
erintendent of schools, conferred
here with Representative Carson
■Gregory o' Harnett, but both in
sisted the conference was of “a rou
tine nature. ’
Ross among the steadily growing
number of school people visiting
the legislative halls since Introduc
tion of bills to rase school teachers’
salaries from $24000 to $36000 for
those holding A-grade certificates,
Gregory’s lone bill ,so far this
session, a measure to validate the
acts of justice of the peace M. B.
Stewart of Lillington from April 1,
1949, to November 2, 1950, passed
the House today in routine manner
and was sent to the Senate. Earlier,
the Gregory bill was killed when
he was not present to explain it to
the committee handling it, but it
was received yesterday and given
a favorable report.
“I was attending a meeting of
the House agriculture committee
of which I am a member when
House Judiciary No. 2 considered
my bill validating certain acts of
Mr. Stewart and I just couldn’t be
in two places at the same time,”
said Gregory in explaining his ab
sence when the judiciary committee
took up his bill.
Army To Use Atomic
Artillery Shells
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(UP)—
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief
Os Staff, said today that the Army
will have atomic artillery shells
in the not-too-distant ftiture.
Collins also said the Army also
will have in pot many years guided
missiles to carry warheads. The
atomic weapons, he told the U. S.
News & World Report Magazine,
will be capable of considerable ac*
curacy.
Collins did not mention the atomic
explosion experiments now being
conducted at the Frenchman Flat, j
Nev., proving grounds. Four atomic
explosions have been set off in the |
past few days. There has been'
that 4-Ha ovnorimnnH <
oprvuiauuii uifti uic experiments .
involve atomic artillery shells or
guided missiles with atomic heads.
NO. 44
U. S. Troops
Are 8 Miles
From Seoul
Observers Say Chines*
May Try New Offensive
For New Year's Day
TOKYO, Feb. 5—(UP)—
The biggest UN tank force
of the Korean War speared
through battered Anyang
and the surrounding hills
seven to eight miles from
Seoul today, strewing death
and destruction through the
Communist lines.
Three armored columns making
up the massive force withdrew to
holding positions tonight after
completing their mission—to thrust
deep into enemy territory, inflict as
much damage as possible and re
tire.
TAKE ANYANG
U.S. columns smashed into Dit
terly-contested Anyang, eight miles
south of Seoul, and seized the last
hill below the Han River southeast
of the former Korean capital.
The twin drives came as the
Chinese Reds threw their heaviest
counter-attacks of the 12-day-old
Bth Army offensive against the
Allied line south and southwest of
Seoul.
United Nations officers believed
the Chinese were trying to mount
an offensive of their own in cele
bration of the Chinese New Year’s
Day tomorrow.
Tank-led American troops drove
into Anyang on the main Suwon-
Seouj highway at 11:45 am. (9:45
pm.'Sunday), but withdrew in the
afternoon to more easily-defended
positions south of thatr hurt big
village south of Seoul.
No details were available on the
American thrust, but some of the
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Drafting Os
Husbands Is
Expected §
pm
WASHINGTON, Feb. s.^r«P)
■ Members of the House Arm<& Ser
vices Committee seemed 1 ready to
give tentative approval today to
drafting married men 19 through
25 who nave no children.
All men with dependents nßw are
deferred fromv the draft by .presi
dential order. There were hints that
President Truman may be aSked
to change the ruling so that child
less married men can be inducted.
Draft boards have already started,
calling in men who marrie*- after
being classified 1-A. The Defense
Department, has said draft boards ,
should also call men married since
the start of the Korean Wat,
The House committee is alas con
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Propose 20
Per Cent Tax
.