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Weather CLOUDY TODAY AND TONIGHT. COLD AGAIN TODAY AND COLDER TONIGHT. VOLUME!. TANK-LED TASK FORCE REACHES HAN RIVER Work-Or-Be-Fired Order Puts Halt To Rail Switchmens Sir ike Request Turnpike Authority RALEIGH, Feb. 9 (UP)— A spec ial turnpike study ccmmittee re commended today that the General Assembly set up a turnpike author ity with powers to build a proposed toll road through Piedmont North Carolina. The legislation would be purely ..permissive, Committee Chairman Orion A. Boren of Greensboro said. would be taken ad vantage of only in the event that the need for a turnpike and its feaslblity from a financial standpoint should be clearly demonstrated. Boren’s group agreed with the State Highway Commission that the proposed toll road is presently financially impossible. But it said it thought changing traffic condi tions would make the project feas ible later. The commitee was set up by Gto. Kerr Bcot a year ago to study the possibilities of the Piedmont toll foad. The road would be built at no cost to the state by Root Caves In While Fire Razes Government Building ; <,! Mich., Feb. 9.—(UP) -■The roof of the $3,500,000 Mich igan State Office Building caved in early today while firemen battled flames in sub-zero weather for the second straight day. State Fire Marshal Arnold Ren ner said the blaze started about noon yesterday in a mimeographing room where military and defense highway plans were being put on In. He discounted the possibility fwabotage. and said a discarded Ifearet' probably started the re. skid he believed firemen had confined the lire to the top flows of. th seven-story building, hut the flames still were out of control at 5 a.m. DAMAGE MAT HIT *2,000,000 . The fire destroyed irreplaceable state record and officials estimated flcFarland Will Make Top- Level Speech At J-J Dinner RALEIGH, Feb. 9 (UP)—Some *OO North Carolinians will eat turkey here tomorrow night at SSO i plate. ■ The occasion will be the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner of the state democratic party. E. W. McFarland, D„ Ariz., BRiate majority leader, will de liver the main address on “Where Bulletins WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—4P>—Postmaster Jesse M. Don gajtopp today lifted all restrictions on mail which had been J3Esbsed because of the rail strike. . ■ »■ — ——— |§? WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—« R—The government exempt- Rid frpfw its construction ban today radio and television | Stations, newspaper plants and printing establishments | lifted for publishing books or magazines. K feT. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 9—(lP)—The number of dead Kfribmian explosion at the Minnesota Mining and Manu ■ lac twin g Company plant stood at 11 today and doctors pteaxm that more of the 55 persons injured might die. ■ explosion yesterday, caused by leaking butane ■ was, Smashed walls and heavy machinery at the plant. if* CHICAGO, Feb. 9—(lß—Doctors watched in astonish- I inehs today as a 24-year-old woman staged an impossible [ fight to recover after being frozen as stiff as rigor mortis I Jtfth a body temperature of only 64 degrees. W*T The physicians said Mrs. Dorothy Mae Stevens’ temp ■"lbfcture crept up to normal, 98.6 degrees, and continued ■ Jift climb to 100 by 3:45 a.‘ m. as they thawed her out and plasma and cortisone in an effort to save ■ her life. I 9—flß—*nie~Oeo of Repre- I ttmfotlvpfi irntffl tndftv to shut off a.ll funds tO DUbltC Contest “Booster Week” Will End Saturday TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 - 3119 floating bonds payable from toll revenue. FINANCING NOT FEASIBLE The committee’s report today said “it appears from the preliminary findings of traffic engineers and general estimates of construction costs that on the basis of the pre sent traffic the flanancing of the project on a self-liquadating basis would not be feasible. “However, the West Virginia Turnpike Commission is proceeding rapidly with—a turnpike in that State, having a Southern terminus at Bluefield. With the construc tion of the turnpike and a short connection through Virginia the traffic situation in the Piedmont section would be materially differ ent. “R is believed by the comittee that a toll road or turnpike would prove on further studies and in vestigations to be financially feas ible.” the damage would reach at least $2,000,000. Five firefighters were overcome by smoke. Two of them—fire Chief Hugh Fisher and State Po lice Capt. Larry Meahan —were hos pitalized. 1 Some 5,000 tons of watei* pouring into the 32-year-old, U-shaped building each mlnjite began freezing and expanding the walls to the cracking paint. Plaster broke off In great chunks on all but he bot tom floor.pf the building, forcing firemen to retreei- slowly. Renner said toe only access to the building was through a narrow stairway and three outmoded el evators and that firemen could not get to the top floor when the blaze started. > 1 Eight towers ring the building, (Continued on Page 7) America’ Stands Today.” His speech will be broadcast on a national ra dio hookup and the National Dem ocratic Committee has described it as a top-level national and inter national address. • Sen. Clyde Hoey will introduce McFarland and most of the Tar Heel national legislative delegation is expected to attend. Bailu Jfo ttatb Railroad 1 switchmen ended their strike today and began the mon umental task of clearing up the jam of freight cars from switch yards. ' As they set to work restoring the nation’s basic transportation system to normay, the men grum bled feelingly about the Army’s work-or-be-fired order, the 12-V4- cent hourly pay boost handed them with the order, and the President’s charge that their union leaders act ed like “a bunch of Russians.” STRIKERS ARE STILL SORE The switchmen, members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, let it be known that they were sore and that they .were returning only to retain their jobs and seniority rights. Their attitude was typified by i group of Birmingham, Ala., switchmen. “If we could be ordered to work for a lousy 12-14-cent raise, we might as well be Russians,” said William L. Moore. “They can’t be much worse off.” His sidekick, D. H. Easter, nodd ed. “just for what I’m thinking I could bo sued for defamation of character," Easter said. Knoxville, Tenn., strikers sent a telegram to Sen. Estes Kefauver, D. Tenn., informing him that they were returning in spite of what the President said and not because of it. I BRT Official Boyce Edson at Pittsburgh said the Army’s order made his members really sore. He warned that the men might stay out at Pittsburgh but the latest reports showed that they were go ing back to work today. CLEAN UP TRAFFIC SNARL In the big Chicago switchyards, a normal complement of men wprk (Continued On Page Two) Road Injuries, Accidents Hit New High Mark In 1950 J. E. Johnson Joins Force James Edward Johnson has been hired by the City of Dunn to as sist the Police Dep« ’•ment in im proved enforcement of parking laws in the metered section of the the business district. He will asuhte his new duties Tuesday, according to Chief George Arthur Jackson and City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs, who made the announcement jointly. Johnson is now assistant man ager of the Dunn Theater. Educat ed in local public schools, he is a veteran of two years service in the Navy. His appointment was approved Monday at the last meeting of the City Council. The council respond ed to a demand for an additional man to work the metered area In order to get better and fairer re gulation of parking spaces in the business district. Johnson, who lives at 809 W. Broad St., is married and has one child. < linden, Feb: 9—lncreasing in terest and attendance marks the progress of the Youth for Christ services hsld in the Colliers Chap el Community Church, Linden every Saturday evening at 7:30 under the leadership of Mrs. Aster Ray of Erwin. Mrs. Ray extends to everyone in this section a cord ial invitation to atend the service this Saturday evening. Case Thieves Were Hungry Thieves broke Into Russell Dor man’s S. and 8. Grill on the Fay* etteville highway last night, tout apparently their only motive was to satisfy their hunger oh a cold Russell said, the only merchandise he found missing was chewing gum, dipped, into his hot dogs, mustard * W ’ DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951 - J k ’JB , \ JML uHkr'll \ ■ lira 1 wmK DUNN STUDENTS HONORED —Pictured here are Miss Rita Fleish man and S. K. Adcox, Mr. Dunn High and Miss Dunn High for 1951. They were hailed last night at annual Stunt Night exercises held at the local school. Miss Fleishman, one of the most popular students at Dunn High, Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fleishman. Mr. Adcox is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Adcox. A large crowd was on hand for the event. RALEIGH, Feb. 9—(UP)—Traffic accidents and injuries set all-time highs in 1950 and fatalities were the second Highest since World War n, the State Department of Mbtor ehicles reported today. The department said highway fatalities jumped 17 per cent over 1949 and were the sixth highest in the last 30 years. The total was 998. Some 12,352 persons’were injured in the year’s 28,252 reported accidents. The year 1941 set the all-tlmg traffic death record in North Caro lina with 1286 fatalities. Tffif post war high was set in 1946 when 1,028 persons died. Other years which topped 1950 were 1835 with 1,096, 1986 with 1,026, and 1937 with 1J23. The Motor Vehicles Department reported that drunken driving again headed the list of violations causing suspension at drivers licenses in January of this year. A total df 791 persons were convicted of the offense, compared with 540 fbr Jan uary of 1950. Driving after their licenses were revoked convicted 84 persons. Eigh teen were found guilty of driving after their licenses were suspended. Aiding and abetting in drunken (Continued On Page Seven) Help Your Favorite Contestant During The High-Vote Period By BILL A DORIS GUPTON Contest Editors Starting last Saturday morning, and continuing throughout the week, to and including Saturday night, Feb. 10, the Record will issue special balots good for 12200 extra votes on each-and every two year subscription (or extension of pre vious contest subscription payment to the full limit) turned In by con testants between these dates, as stated in opening announcement.of this subscription drive and as com pletely outlined elsewhere In this goTorU^dmrliJ^B^ter applies to bfih new and re newal subscriptions or extensions from previous contest subscriptions ■— —■——— GimgorySets State Record In Cow Sale Representative Carson Gregory set a new high price State record for Holstein cows when he sold an animal for SBOO at a recent auction, County Agent C. R. Ammons re ported today. The cow was one of the herd which Gregory sold when he got rid of his dairy farm at Angler, Rt. 2, Jan. 19. The routes and good will were sold to Agriculture Com missioner L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine of Raleigh. The first 50 cows in Gregory's herd of 80 went for an average of $415 per head, Ammons said. The overall average, Including three week-old calves up to full-grown animals, was $320 per head. Dr. W. T. Scarborough of Raleigh organized and conducted the sale of registered Hblstein, Guernsey and Jersey, and High Grade Hol stein, Guernsey and Jersey cattle. WAS GOOD SALE “This, in my opinion, was one of the best-organized, advertised and developed dispersal sales it has been my privilege to see,” Ammons stated. Buyers were present from North Carolina, Virginia and South Car olina. Cattle from the sale went (Continued on Page 7) extra vote offer of this spirited contest and results obtained by contestants during this seven day period from Feb. 3 to Feb. 10 will play a most Important put in de termining the “top flight" leaders in the campaign and the final win ners when the contest closes at 12 moon on Saturday, March 17.. NEW CONTESTANTS BENEFIT Another definite advantage of “Booster Week” is the opportunity offered new contestants, or some few who may have started late in this subscription drive. A beginner, or one who. started late, may step right into votes, which coup led with earned will skyrocket thrir vme count and com parative. standing trap one in the lower bnutoet to a re* contender’s position. In fact, extra effort dur ing “Boottor Week” could change rirmenf to J„.1 7 hnrne Mint vrrtlllH prwciit ■ wuK nurse wuiv wuuiu l^^^l^rd^^mrytoody Building Permits Hit $33,500 In January Byrd Promises Budget Fight WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UP)— ‘ Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., today I picked up President Truman’s chai- 1 lenge to congress to chop his s7l- I 600,000,000 budget. “I accept the challenge,” Byrd I said. “I think we can do a great! deal if we follow the public sent- j iment which is very strong to re- 1 duce all non-essential spending.” 1 Byrd has claimed that $9,100,-1 000,000 can be slashed from the I President’s spending program for ■ fiscal 1952. Truman said yesterday that Dem- i ocrats and Republicans are per fectly welcome to try to cut the budget. He said the same .Con gressmen tried last year but ended up adding $1,000,000,000. ELSEWHERE IN CONGRESS RFC—Truman’s outburst against a Senate subcommittee may spur the investigators to hold even more hearings than planned on favorit ism and influence in the Recon struction Finance Corp., an in formed source said. The subcom mittee’s report last week named White House Personnel Adviser Donald S. Dawson as attempting to influence RFC lending policies. Truman said the report was asin (Continned On Page Seven) Erwin May Be Incorporated ImHm * Briefs RALEIGH, Feb. 9.—(UP)—The General Assembly today ratified a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would limit the President to two terms In office. The House-approved joint reso lution passes the Senate today. RALEIGH, Feb. 9.—(UP)—A bill to eliminate runoff primary elec tions for major offices in North Carolina if a candidate receives 45 per cent of the votes cast was introduced in the General Assembly today by Rep. Bill Atkins of Yanc ey County. The measure would affect races for U. S. Senator, Congress, the State gupreme Court, Superior Court judges and solicitors, the governor, lieutenant governor, trea surer, auditor, secretary of state, commissioners of agriculture, labor and insurance, and for superinten dent of public instruction. CAMP LEJEUNE, Feb. 9.—(UP) —Six Marines drowned near here Wednesday when an amphibious landing craft sank during landing maneuvers were identified today. The bodies of the marines wer recovered shortly after the tragedy. (Continued on Page Seven) Wins” contest provides equal op portunities for every entrant and contestant. Regardless of the status of most any contestant at this point in the contest, there is still ample time to reach an enviable position among the big prize winners. And “Booster Week” provides Just that added impetus that may place any name at the top. It is truly any body’s race. SURFACE HARDLY SCRATCHED In the vast trade territory cov ered by the Record, and consider ing the fact that about 17 con testants have entered this big prize subscription race, the opportunity to secure hew and renewal sub scriptions is unlimited. It would Permits for new construction totaling $21,500 and for $12,000 re pair work were issued last month by City Building Inspector Mann Norris. His report has been filed v/.th City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs. Permits were issued for various types of projects ranging from re pairs to a church to burial of an oil tank and removal of a residence from one block to another. Largest permit was for $7,000, issued to Aaron Jackson on West Cumberland Street. Following is a list of the permits: BAER TOPS REST Louis Baer Department Store, E. Broad St. additions and repairs, $2,000; Louis Baer and Company, N. Clinton Ave., $5,000 for additions and repairs; Louis Baer Livestock Co., E. Surles St., $1,500 for new construction; Alfred Blalock, SBOO for removal of the old Andrews house from E. Broad St. to E. Edg erton. Glad Tidings Church, S. Magno lia Ave, $3,000 for repairs; Ottis Jackson, N. Wautuga, $4,000 new construction; G. F. Pope, E. Edg erton St., $2,000 for repairs; Her man Hockfleld, burial of oil tank on E. Broad: Aaron Jackson, W. Cumberland St., $7,000 new con struction; Lonnie Wright, E. John son St., $25,00 new construction. Norris reported plumbing inspec tions at the following places: Fran ces Lilly, N. Sampson St., Jimmy Nasslf, E. Divine; George Joseph, N. King; Ottis Jackson, N. Watuga; J. M. Suggs, W. Barrington; Tom Shaw, N. Elm Ave. and Thomas Brewington E. Cumberland. RALEIGH, Feb.’ 9—Possibility that Erwin in Harnett county may soon become incorporated now that Erwin Cotton Mills Company Is selling its houses' resident, of the town was envisioned by Harhet* Senator J. Robert Young in a re mark'made at a meeting of Jhe Sen ate appropriations committee. The bill under discussion was the one signed by Young and 38 other senators of the 50-member Senate to give towns and cities of the State $5,000,000 more than the $2,500,000 they now get every year from the State Highway Commission for maintenance of streets in incor porated communities. WOULD LEAVE ERWIN OUT - In event the bill passes, Erwin which is not Incorporated, would not share in the big street fund whicn the majority of the senators and the State League of Munici palities want distributed on pop ulation based on the 1950 census. Erwin streets that form a part of the State Highway Commission’s system are now cared for. by the highway commission. Sponsors of the Senat bill have decided to allocate the road money if they get it on the basis of $3.50 per resident on the basis of the 1950 census. This would mean that Dunn, which has, according to Sen ator Young, a population now of about 6,800 would get $23,800 yearly to help maintain its streets. And should a bill offered by Vance’s Representative Fred Roy ster and 21 other House members fbr a Statewide referendum on the question of the State taking over all the city and town streets ii event the voters favor an increase of another cent in the State tax on gasoline Dunn might, like other municipalities in the State, get more or less than under the bill Senator Young is helping support. Court Docket Is Very Light The Dunn Recorder’s Court had an unusually light docket yesterday, according To a report today from Assistant City Clerk Clayton Black; David Johnson, charged with as sault, was given six months sus pended for two years on JHymsCt of fine and costs, was ordWed to ; stay away from the premises of UUteJane Cook and remain of good Plant More COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. Push To Han Climaxes 16- Day Offensive 100.000 Man Red Force Cut To 20.000 In Allied Drive On Korean Capital TOKYO, Feb. 9—(W—A steel-tipped U. S. task force lunged to the Han River op posite Seoul’s southern out skirts today in hot pursuit of fleeing Chinese Reds. Simultaneously, American infan try outran their own tank support southwest of Seoul and swept V, within one mile of the industrial suburb of Yongdungpo and within 3 and one half miles of Seoul itself. RED FORCE DECIMATED The thrust clamped tighter the jaws of a massive Allied death trap around the remnants of a 100,000- man Communist army on the south bank of ;he Han. Fewer than 20,000 Reds remain, and almost all had. lost the will to fight. Task Force Myers from the U. S. 3rd Division radioed at 5:15 p, m. (3:15 a. m. that it had reached thf Han at the eastern end of a bii loop in the river just southeast or the former Korean capital without a fight. • The loop encloses a sand spit on the southern outskirts of Seoul. It was there that the U. S. 7th Division crossed the Han last September to join the successful Bth Army assault on the city. “ We are getting ready to wash our feet in the Hans,” Capt. Arthur W. Myers of Lander, Wis., The task force commander, jubilantly report ed from his lead tank. On Korea’s east coast, south kor rean forces swept through Kang nung, 17 miles south of the 38th Parallel, also without a dght. They lemffted that some 8,900 (Continued on Page Seven) ' •* RECORD LATE Since the first week The Dally Record began publication, its press time has hot varied as much as a half hour. Near the end of the long press run yesterday, however, a gear was stripped in the big press on which The Record is printed and publication was delayed for sev eral hoars. 'lt is the policy of The Record to go to press on time—usually a little early—and we extremely regret this mechanical difficulty which delayed delivery of your paper. CUwundl Qapiiol .£.• Squabs^ By LYNN NISBET :% RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT SCHOOLS The public school system of North Carolina is not ir as good condition as it could be, ol as good as many public spirited citizens sincerely wish it to be Neither is it in the deplorable state of near disintegration pictured bj some zealous speakers on publi< programs sponsored by the Unttec Forces for Education at numeroui points throughout the State. I) can be stated with assurance that the public schools will operate this year and next on approximate level of operations for the Immediate past school year. With equal oertainte It can be predicted that the current General Assembly will appropriate sufficient money to carry on a) Ute school appropriation wiß bi no. 48: