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■lt lH# *» I It n m COLD* NIGHT. LOW TONIGHT, 16 TO 22 IN CENTRAL AND EAST PORTIONS. I* VOLUME L ALUED PLANES BUST RED REINFORCEMENTS * COwand (fapiiol Sqjuuate '*t By Lynn nisbet RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT CONGRESS Public announce ment by Congressman M. Redden of the Twelfth District that he will not be a candidate again next year offers additional assurance that at tendants at the Jefferson-Jackzon dinner scheduled to be held in Ral eigh Saturday night will be con a cerned with other matters than w food and National Democratic Com mittee funds It had already been certain the occasion would serve to crystalize sentiment for the 1052 governor’s contest, as well as other State offices. Certainty of a vac ancy in the Twelfth District, with more than likely prospect incum bents Robert L. Doughton in the ninth and Hamilton Jones in the Tenth District will not seek re-elec tion, means a lot of attention will % be given congressional races. CANDIDATES Preparatory to the dinner event western politics here in connection with the General Assembly have been busy talking about a probable successor to Red den. Among the names freely used in speculation are Senators Zebulon Weaver of Buncombe and William Medford of Haywood. The rep resentatives mentioned include all three Buncombe incumbents—Roy w Taylor, Claude Love Lamar Gudger; Lee Whitmire of Hender son and Tom Bryson of Macon. Former legislators were not omitted with Frank Parker of Buncombe, Ed Whitaker of Swain and a flock of others getting on the tentative list. Given priority ratings in this (Continued on Page Eight) ' BULLETINS jg£ ,' . / T:-*- 7 . 1 Lake Success, N. Y., Feb. B—(IP)—A United Nations committee completed its work yesterday in rewriting a proposed World Treaty on Freedom Os Information by adopting a 69-page report sufnmarizihg its three-week labors. ; ■ -;:v - ’ ® Woodbridge, N. J., 'Feb. investigations sought to learn today whether excessive speed and the absence of warning signals caused the nation’s woist train v wreck in 33 years. It was estimated that $75,000,000 in claims may be filed against the Pennsylvania Bailroad in the Tuesday night wreck in which 84 rush hour passen gers were killed and 500 injured when the Broker Express toppled off a temporary trestle in this small town. # St. Paul, Feb. B.—(lß—An explosion ripped through the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant to day and police said a lot of people were hurt. A fireman quoted the St. Paul Fire Department dispatch as saying (Continued On Pmge Two) "BMStar Week" Adds Hope, • Vigor To Record's (eatest By HR and Doris Gupton Contest Editors The first few days of 'Booster Week,” the one and only extra vote offer during ‘Hie Record’s big sub scription drive has added new vig , or, new effort, new Hype for all contestants in their race to keep at the top and be among the maj or prize winners when the? final A votes are counted at noon Satur i day, March 17. I'i v “Booster Week’’ also promises to see important changes in the line* up when relative vote standings are released for publication next Wednesday. It behooves each and every contestant to maintain and accelerate the momentum that “Booster Week” and the offer of 13,800 extra votes for each two year subscription in addition to the regular vote credits, has gener ic "Booster Week can well wind up I as the biggest the drive This weeTmay be the'means "BdUAfIIAW BBf l-» I AMflir.M Ta BflHiil KAUIII * Telephones 3117 - 3118 - 3119 Young To Introduce ' V -i » ■ 1 . City Manager Vote Bill In State Senate By WADE LUCAS Record Correspondent RALEIGH, Feb. B—State Senator J. Robert Young of Harnett said today that he will introduce a bill in the Senate next Monday night to give the citizens of Dunn a vote on whether or not they wish to retain or abolish tne city man ager form of government Young said he had not yet set the date for the election, depend ent upon legal technicalities for registration and advertising, but that he would fix the date “as early in March as possible, and certainly not later than the 15th or 20th:” WILLIAMS PRESENTS PETITION > City Attorney I. R. Williams pre sented the petitions to Senator Young -Tuesday while in Raleigh Tuesday to attend a hearing on the proposal for the State to help maintain city streeta. Senator Young was engaged in the hearing at the time and Will iams was also interested in the matter and neither had time to dis cuss the petitions .at length, Mr. Young said. ' Lawmakers Would Establish General Court In Harnett Harnett’s representatives in the General Assembly ar 1 ? now consi dering a proposal to abolish the Dunn Recorder’s Court and the County Recorder's Court at Lill ington and set up a General County Court which would sit’ in both towns each week and would have juris t-door sedan, valued at $2604.94 in cash, or other special cash bon us awards. , V Again we emphasise, there can be no losers In thl| subscription contest. Right doWA to the last contestant, rich cash awards in the way of liberal commissions that are well worth working for will be paid to every participant. And a gairr, we emphasize, it is still any body’s race, as there are Ax weeks In which to strive for top honor* and still two days during "Booster Week,” when ea«h and every sub scription adds 12£00 evtra votes in addition to regular votes. The contest office of The Record is a veritable behlve of activity, with eonteatants turning in new subscriptions at a recordbreaking 'pace and this week may see many changes In position tar next Wed nesday, Through the two remaining days of "Booster Week,” there promises to be no letup and we urge all participants again to “turn on the heat to their to* deavor to gain every possible sub ■Sssfe promptly Saturday evening,' Feb. (Eke JBaiiu ]ft ctutfr The Harnett Senator has not anounced his stand on the city manager system, but reiterated: “I feel about that just like the liquor business—that the people ought to have the right to vote on it.” Senator Young predicted, how ever, that the city manager system would be defeated in the election. “That's just my horseback opin ion," aserted Young. He said he was basing the opinion on the num ber of people who had conferred with him about the matter and also by, the names appearing on the petitions. Senator Young had originally planned to introduce the bill today, but said he wanted to wait to con fer with City Attorney Williams to determine whether or not the town had entered into any con tract with the present city man ager which might make the town financial liable. He pointed out that it is so late in the week that nothing could be gained by introducing the bill to day and that Monday night will be ample time. diction almost as great as the Sup erior Court. State Senator J. Robert (Bob) Young said today that a number of attorneys of the county and an even larger number of laymen had con ferred with him about the matter, and that all of them excppt one bad voiced approval. officials/ Approve Hanna of Dunn and Lofton Tlfft ■tttalJTTTlL tflfa. Hff copnty board of commi&sioherA had both voiced their approval of the plan. Chairman Tart pointed out that it wqiild save tne county consider able monev by eliminating mttch of the costly work of Superior Court sessions. - ' -.Another prominent Harnett leader, Neill McK. Salmon of Lillington, president of the Harnett County Bar ' Association, indicated today that ’he would favor the change, provided v satisfactory system could be worked out. Everette Doffermyre of Dunn vice president of the county bar, is also on record as favoring the change. “There would be a lot of things to take into declared Mr. Salmon. Under the present system, the Dunn Recorder's Court tries all minor cases originating In Averas (Continued On Page Seven) Red Cross To Hold Disaster Institute An Institute on Disaster Prepar edness will be held here Friday In the Dunn Armory by the Dunn- Brwin chapter of the American Red Cross. * ‘ Plans for the institute were an nounced jointly today by Dave Rimmel, chapter chairman, O. W. (Billy) Godwin, Jf., chapter pre paredness chairman, for Dunn; T. J. Harper, disaster chairman for DUNN. N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951 Ms 1 m m ft HP W W *4 Jm ft 1 ~ J i "'1- Hr -' '• I 'fiHBS ik. _ M ■l* r-,'Wk hr k \ . TALK IT OVER—Replresdhtative Carson Gregory, right, of Harnett confers in the House of Representatives with Representative Larry I. Moore, Jr., chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee that is now considering requests for a state budget for the next two years that will, if adopted, approach the SSOO million dollar mark. Gregory is a member of the appropriations committee. Moore represents Wilson County in the House. School Board Asks Changes The Harnett County Board of Education, in session last night, endorced two resolutions drawn by either counties and instructed County Superintendent C. Reid Roes ito forward the endorsements Aa ffie,Genejul, Assembly. One origtewOing in Vance County, asks the legislature for sufficient money for school bus transportation to allow school buses to go within a half mile of all children living on State-maintain ed roads instead of the present one-mile requirement. The resolution also asks that children living one mile from school be allowed to ride the school buses. At present, buses will only transport students living a mile and a half away. CHARGES DISCRIMINATION Second resolution endorsed by the board was one originating in Alamance County which declares that the Biennail Appropriations Act granting salary increases for some teachers is discriminatory be cause it does not include those holding C-certiflcates, and prin cipals, an'* certain other personnel. Chairman Sidney G. Thomas pre sided over the meeting. Robert (Continued On Page Seven) BILLY GODWIN . Erwin, and Mrs. Grace Swain, ex i ecutlve secretary of the chapter. The institute wil be conducted by i J. Stanley Lewis of Atlanta, Georg ia, Mr. Godwin will preside. Sessions will begin at 10 am. and > one hour courses of instruction and . discusion will be held for each of . the various committee groups. The Red Cross official is expected (Continued on Page Seven) Former ATU Agent Is Facing Trial Officer Who Raided Stills In Harnett Area Allegedly In Cahoots With Bootleggers RALEIGH, Feb. 8— (UP)— HtfWr jljfcsp, from a dope peddler led to WtU*ant» today for the «nwst of a former U. S. Alchollc Tax Unit In spector far protecting bootleggers. Warrants were drawn charging former ATU Investigator James C. Haithcock and seven others with violation of Federal liquor laws. The eight men were indicited yesterday by a Federal Grand Jury in Wilson. The grand jury brought in. a true bill with six counts of violations a f ter hearing Testimony by convicted drug peddler Charles L. Beasley. WELL KNOWN HERE (Haithcock was assigned to the area which included Johnston and Harnett and was well known throughout this section. He had participated- in countless raids iq this county. Two Dunn men, Former Constable R. C. Oakley, and Carl isle Corte, were among the witnesses who testified before the Federal Grand Jury.) The others indicited were J. Percy Flowers, James T. Flowers, L. D. Allen, Roy Lee Dyson, Abner Buie, Clovis Sullivan and Wayne Wall, all of Johnston County. The Grand jury charged that the Flowers ran a flourishing illegal liquor busbies, manufacturing, trans porting and selling non-taxpaid whisky. It charged that Haithcock on several occasions warned them of impending raids and that he Wreck Victim Buried Today Funerffi services for Albert Reg ister, 47-ycar-old employee of Erwin Milla and, victim of an accident that killed two people here early Wed nesday morning, were held 'Thurs day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Mt. Carmel Free Will Baptist Church. Officiating at' the services were the Rev. C. W. Kirby and the Rev. Samuel Hardison. Burial was in the Barefoot family cemetery. Mr. Register was ohe of two men killed early Wednesday -morning in a freik truck-auto wreck on the outskirts of Dunn. While going to the aid of the truck driver who sideswlped his car, Mr. Register stepped on a brbXfcn electric power line lying on' the ground and was electrocuted. The truck driver, 21-year-old Henry Goodman of Sanford, died later of internal injuries received when his brickladen flatbed truck cupped a telephone pole and rammed (Continued On .Page Seven) also transported some of the whisky. Bedgey k serving five years in l tBjF.IDMLraI prison at Atlanta lor peddling marijuana and illegal liquor and transporting obseene materials in interstate commerce. He was brought to Wilson to testify before the grand jury and the U. S. District‘Attorney’s office here said (Continued on Page Eight) Governor Lauds Colonial Ham Governor W. Kerr Scott today officially recognized Harnett County hams as “hams what am,” and sent his highest praises for the loqplly growh, Colonial-cured product to A1 Wullenwaber, head of Colonial Frozen Food Lockers in Dunn. Mr. Wullenwaber, who has de veloped a ham-curing process that’s becoming famous all over the coun try, recently became quite disturbed when he read in the papers that the Governor of North Carolina had served Smithfield, Virginia ham to Tar Heel legislators. So Mr. Wullenwaber promptly dispatched one of his biggest and , finest hams to the Governor and penned him a note in which he ex pressed the hope that never again would anything but North Carolina ham grace the table in the State’s executive mansion. GOVERNOR AGREES Governor Scott wrote Mr. Wullen* waber today: “I agree with you that Harnett County Colonial Hams are some pf the best produced anywhere. We have already sampled the one that you sent us recently and it is certainly delicious, “I am sorry in away that the (Legislators missed a breakfast of Harnett ham, but the last legislative breakfast was on January 25 and your ham reached the mansion thereafter. They were eating rather high up on thd ham by that time and our meat was getting rather low. .“Mrs. Scott and I want to thank you for your generous and tasty gift. Best wishes and my kindest regards. W. Kerr Scott.” * • Mr. Wullenwaber said today that he was happy the Governor had . taken note of Colonial Hams. “The hams raiised in this section and cured by Colonial are the finest in the world,'’ he added. A police force of 4,000 men, sec- j ond in size in England to that of , London. i 3 employed by British , railways which includes units of ] police dogs specially trained to , work with the men on Isolated , beats. I World Prayer Day Scheduled World Day of Prayer will be ob served throughout Harnett County on Friday, and various churches are planning special observances of the day. Women of all denominations are invited to take part in the Day of church doors open at 9:3p o’clock, organ music will be present ed from 9:30 until 10, and prayer services will begin at 10.. Erwin church women will gath (Continued on Page Eight) SU oJ^£D-PnTRX4^ E aC* HICKm> |SMOhy SALT MANUFACTURERS HERE—Colonial Frozen Food Lodw yesterday had a visit from Richard Colgin of Dallas. Texas, president I the Colgin Salt Company, and Francis Ellens of So=.h Hill, Va., regional representative. They spent the afternoon with Manager A1 Wullenwaber | and offered high praises for the work being done by the plant. Mr. * Colgin, pointing out that the Dunn concern is the largest user of salt § In 14 Southern states, said he was anxious to come to Dunn and vfelt i! the plant that used so much of his product,, heft to right are ftr Stewart.) Plant More COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own . Profit, Security. Troops Are Three Miles Nearer Seoul Typhus Reported Among Chinese Soldiers; Tanks Lob Shells Into Capital TOKYO, Feb. B—(W—Al lied planes, in one of the heaviest raids of the war, blasted hordes of Chinese Comunist reinforcements to day pouring south into Ko rea from Manchuria. On the ground, the Allied line plunged three miles closer to Seoul and two tanks fired shells into the Red-held city “'just to show thei Chinks we were on their tails.” \ British troops on the western front captured two Chinese pris oners suffering from typhus. It was believed the dread disease was prevalent among enemy troops massed in the Seoul area Fresh Red war traffic was' sight ed by airmen pouring into Korea all along the Manchurian border from the Yellow Sea in the west to the Sea of Japan in the east. Airmen counted 1,350 vehicles in (Continued on Page Severn USAF Opens L ~ Enlistments Enlistments in the Air Force aj open again. Sgt Winfield Picket local recruiter, announced today. ; “The training centers are mucl improved,' he said, “and we carl take care of every one very well."’ He added that Airborne and Reg- ’ uiar Army volunteers may still ba'-s also. Air Force enlistment * ate still on a qouta basis, though, Scrgeapt ,-Piekett ■ -powtad <w», ‘ Durifegr the-past week two me%. were slipped through Picketts of fice at *iie Dunn Post Office. -They- - were George Douglas Elliot, Erwin and Rufus Hunter Parrish, Coat' both of whom chose the Airborn , division. NO. 47*
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