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DUNN ACL AGENT PRESENTED FIN—H. H. Hill of Rocky M ount, general superintendent of the Richmond district of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad, is shown here as he presented Dunn Agent George F. Owen a diamond-studded pin for the completion of a half
century of service with the railroad. Witnessing the ceremony, left to right, are: Clarence Britt of Benson, who has 32 years service; Charlie
Upchurch, veteran of 38 years service; Mayor Pro-Tern Joe A. Wilkins; Mr. Hill; Mr. Owen; M. S. Jones of Rocky Mount, ACL train
master; J. N. Yates of Dunn, who completes his 41st year with the Coast Line today; and Manager Joe McCullers of the Dunn Chamber j
of Commerce. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) . j
George F. Owen Gets Award
After 50 Years With ACL
Fifty years of faithful service were
rewar eded here Tues. morning when
two top-ranking officials of the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad Company
paid a surprise visit to Dunn and
presented George F. Owen, local
agent for the railroad, a diamond
studded pin for the completion of
a half century with the company.
HITTING THEIR STRIDE
—IN—
SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
AUTOMOBILE WORTH $2694.94
Contestants listed below in numerical order with votes cast
for publication up to date.
Mrs. Geo. R. Souders, Lillington 1,431,600
Mr. BUI Hinton, Dunn 1,426,700
Mrs. David Clifford, Dunn 1,403,000
Mrs. Pauline Tart, Erwin 1,386,600
Mr. Charles T. Johnson, Dunn 1,175,050
Mrs. NeU Stewart Byrd, Benson 429,600
Miss Mamie Butler, Dunn 390,850
Mrs. J. W. Whlttenton, Dunn 300,500
Mr. Joseph OdeU Jackson, Dunn ...... 236,000
Mr. D. G. Johnson, Dunn ..". 185,500
Mrs. Edith R. Floyd, Erwin 161,400
Miss Faye Denton, Coats 142,500
Mrs. G. W. FerreU, Dunn 129,500
Miss Betty Lou Smith, Clement 124,000
Mrs. -Willie Glover, Erwin ,*. 121,000
Mr. Harold Bass, Dunn 113,700
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The prominent 70-year-old citizen
—a former city councilman and a
leader in various community act
ivities —thus became the 173rd em
ployee in the entire history of the
company which now has 18,800 em
ployees to attain this honor.
Presentation of the pin was made
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(She paifu Beniril
Local Cases
Hike Coffee
To 10 Cents
Here's bad news for the people
who eat out in Dunn:
Beginning tomorrow, the price
of coffee without a meal is golngto
10 cents a cup. and you won’t be
able to buy a plate lunch for less
than 75 cents. Also, the price of
hot dogs will rise to 15 cents.
That was the agreement reach
ed yesterday at a meeting of Dunn’s
restaurant operators. Coffee with
meals will remain at five cents.
The meeting was called by Man
ager Joe McCullers or the Chamber
of Commerce at the request of the
restaurant men.
Restaurant operators reported
they’re having a terrible time mak
ing expenses—much less make
money—in view of the rise in their
food prices.
One or two of those present balk
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RECORDER’S COURT
A single case marred what other
wise would have been a day off
from work for Judge Floyd Taylor
of Lillington Recorder’s CoUrt. King
David Bowden paid $25 and costs
for driving without a license. Then
court adjourned for a week.
Only 3 Days Left In
Maximum Vote Week
By Bill A Doris Gupton
With but three more days remain
ing in the first period of the Rec
ord’s big, "Everybody Wins” con
test, every participant is putting
forth extra effort to achieve the
maximum votes allowed for new
and renewal subscriptions. Satur
day, February 17th, just four short
days away, marks the end of this
all-important first period when
votes for each subscription count,
the most, and after that date, the
vote schedule through the second
period Will diminish.
These four days could well be
termed the most important of the
entire contest. It is possible for
any contestant to roll up a vote
total which might carry them
through to Ultimate victory on the
dosing day of this great drive, Sat-
All Are Rewarded
* Every entrant in this campaign
has his sdghts set on the new 1861
DUNN, Wffj§reSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951
Bremen Gef
Defense Head
F. E. “Buddy” Jernigan has been
chosen chief of the auxiliary fire
department which will work under
the local civil defense authority,
Howard M. Lee, secretary-treasur
er of the Dunn Fire Department,
: announced today.
Jernigan’s election came last
> night at a regular monthly meet
i ing of the Dunn Fire Department.
. Mayor Ralph Haan, fire chief, pre
; sided.
; An organizational meeting for
the auxiliary fire-fighting group
. will be held at a later date, Lee
; added. In the meantime, he asked
t that men interested in volunteer
ing for the new defense group
. contact either him or Chief Jemi
■ gan.
■ Applicants should be 30 years or
more old, Lee said.
I “We hope to get other members
. at the organizational meeting.” he
* continued. "This is a worthwhile
• community project which may
prove important in case of war.”
INTENDED FOR AIR RAIDS
Chief Jernigan said today that
the goal of the nqw group will be
to organize a fire department the
same size as the regular Dunn Fire
Deuartment. It will be set up as
part of the National Defense set
up and will be a duplicate of the
present group, but will operate
chiefly in case of air raids. Regular
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I Packard 4-door sedan grand capi
tal prize. But to be certain “Every
body Wins”, strictly in accordance
with the amount of effort put in
! to the race and every participant
will be rewarded, from the top
down to the last and final con
testant to enter the race.
During these final three days of
the first period friends and rela
tives of these contestants could
, be responsible for the eventual suc
cess of their favorite participant
. by renewing their subscription and
Iqr urging non-subscribers of their
acquaintance to subscribe now to
the Daily Record while maximum
vote schedule is still in effect.
Interest In this big “Everybody
Wins” subscription drive grips ev
ery contestant, as well as their
friends and relatives. AH eagerly
follow each published report and
hope that they might occupy a
more favorable position In the field
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Began Fiscal
Year $9,000
In The Hole
Report May Furnish
Ammunition For Backers
Os City Manager Plan
DUNN—City Manager R.
Thomas Hobbs this morning
issued a six-months report
to Dunn’s city council in
which he reported that the
town is operating in the
black, with over $60,000 cash
available in the bank, a gen
eral fund cash balance of
$27,000, and listed his ac
complishments during his
first half-year in office.
Hobbs’ report came today at a
.time when the city manager form
of government is being hotly de
bated in the town, and with a bill
in the legislature calling for a vote
on the system on April 14th.
His report is expected to provide
“ammunition" for those favoring rei
tention of the city manager form of
government.
The lengthy report fills 10 type- i
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No Strike At Erwin
Union Manager Says
r , Members of Erwin Local No. 150
wfflWta®! part in the
night Thursday called in 160 mills
by the Textile Workers Union of
America, CIO, Business Manager J.
Thomas West said today.
West added that negotiations cen
tering around wages and pensions
will begin between union represen
tatives and officials of the Erwin
chain March 1. Concerned will be
workers at Erwin plants in Erwin,
Durham, Neuse and Coolemee.
WANT 15 CENTS MORE
The projected walk-out of 70,000
TWUA members will come off
Thursday unless certain wage, pen
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State To Aid
In Tax Filing
A representative of the Depart*
ment of Revenue will be on hand in
Dunn and Lillington the latter part
of this month to aid citizens in fil
ing State Income Tax returns.
Assistance will be available at the
Agriculture Building, Lillington,
Feb. 22 and 23. On Feb. 27 and 28
the representative will be in the
Recorder’s Court Room, Municipal
Building, Dunn.
Returns must be filed op or be
fore March 15. Tax payers who have
previously filed should use forms
received which bear their names'
and addresses.
A single person with an income of
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BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—(UWSecretary of State Dean
Acheson warned anew today that any attack on Yugo
slavia would threaten world peace.
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Feb. 14—(W—A new Soviet
walkout may occur today when Secretary-General Thyvge
Lie opens a United Nations conference on President Tru
man’s proposal to combine the atomic energy and con
ventional armaments commissions into a single disarma
ment group. ,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—(IP)—A group of 108 House
Republicans demanded today that the United States con
centrate on defense of the western hemisphere and aban
don a foreign policy of ’’costly failure.”
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14-flß—Lloyd C. Douglas, 73,
Lutheran clergyman who became one of the world’s most
widely-read novelists, died of a heart attack last night at
Good Samaritan .Hospital
Dunn Church Will Be\
Host To Convention
A Missionary Convention featur
ing messages by five returned miss
ionaries will be held Friday night,
Staurday night and all day Sunday
at the Glad Tidings Church in
Dunn.
Plans for the convention were
announced here this morning by
the Rev. A. A. Amerine, pastor of
the local church and a prominent
leader in the Assemblies of God
denomination.
Mr. Amerine said today that the
convention will bring together miss
ionaries who have had experiences
in the various mission fields. They
will report to members of the local
church and to visitors Who are
expected from other churches
throughout the State.
The speakers will include:
Young May Force Vote On
Whiskey Referendum Bill
By WADE LUCAS
Raleigh Correspondent
RALEIGH, Feb. 14—When a mar
gets mad he is mad.
That is the situation Harnett
Senator J. Robert Young found
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(hound
Capitol
SrpuaAs
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
NUMBER TWO—Appearance of
a dozen or more prospective can
didates for lieutenant governor
around the capitol building and
Raleigh hotels over the past week
end started some of the fellows
looking on to talking .about that
office, significance of which is often
not appreciated.
FUNCTIONS—Major function of
the lieutenant governor is to pre
side over the State Senate during
sessions of the General Assembly.
Until a few years ago that was al
most the only duty imposed upon
the office, and it carried no com
pensation other than per diem for
legislative service. In 1&44 tile
Constitution was amended to pro
vide some\ pay for the lieutena«£
governor and the amount was fixed
by the 1945 General Assembly at
$2,100 a year, where it has remain
ed since, because of the increasing
obligations for the No. 2 man to
represent the state or the governor
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Rev. Glenn Horst, returned miss
iorary to China who is now in the
misionary promotional department
of the denomination; Rev. Corn
elius Van Dalen, returned mission
ary to Nigeria; Mrs. Van Dalen,
who is now serving as State pres
ident of the Women's Missionary
Council: Rev. J. Philip Hogan of
Springfield, Mo. missionary to For
mosa, and the Rev. Andrew Sterl
ing of Dunn, State missionary sup
erintendent.
AMERINE TO PRESIDE
Mr. Amerine, the host pastor, will
preside over the various sessions.
The convention will open Friday
night with addresses by Mr. Hurst,
Mr. Hogan and Mr. Sterling: Mr.
Hogan and Mr. Van Dalen will
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himself in today as he speculated
i over the rather sudden turn of
events in the maneuverings that
1 have been engaged in since he
introduced a bill some 40 days ago
; for a Statewide referendum on
1 allowing ABC liquor stores in all
of the State's 100 counties or in
none of them.
The Harnet senator is consider
ing calling for the ayes and noes
on the floor of the Senate even if
he has to call for his measure to
be brought on the Senate floor un
der Senate rules wherein* ■ “toW «
ator can call for a bill, (which has
been in committee ten days or long-/
. e7 to W brought up under a. min
ority report.
HEARING SET TUESDAY
The chairmen of the Joint Senate
and House committees today had
set next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
in the hall of the State House of
Representatives for a public hear
ing on the Young bill and all
other measures calling for referen
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State News
Briefs
r
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* GRANTS STAY OF EXECUTION
* RALEIGH, Feb. 14—(UP)—Chief
1 Justice W. P. Stacy of the State
1 Supreme Court granted a stay of
execution yesterday for Negro Clyde
f Brown, 20, sentenced to death for
- raping a 16-year-old whits girl in
j Winston-Salem. ;
The stay of execution was given
- to permit Brown to apply to the
> United utate Supreme Court for a
■ writ of certiorari. The State
r Supreme Court turned down his
2 appeal Feb. 2, automatically setting
\ his execution date for Feb. 23.
| Brown had appealed on grounds
! that there was discrimination again*
_ st Negro Jurors. The State’s high
' court found no error in the trial.
, The Negro was convicted ancksen
* tenced to death Sept. 14 in the beat
ing and rape of Betty Jane Clifton,
* blond Winston-Salem schoolgirl. She
was assaulted in her father’s radio
shop June 16, 1950, and was uncon
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•- ——•*—
Solons Study Wage,
Teacher Pay Bimm
RALEIGH, Feb. 14—(UP)—The
• House Manufacturing and Labor
. Committee was to hold a . public
hearing today on a bill to guaran
tee a 75-cent per hour minimum
wage for North Carolina workers.
The federal government already
> provides a 75-oent minimum for
. workers in .Interstate commerce.
The bill would include workers in
intrastate commerce and would nro
vide for time-and-one-half pay or
more than 40 hours per week..
■ ° ene STUlff l sSoOL BILL
The bill for adequate maintenance I
Plant More
COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
i South Korean \
Marines Hit
Wonsan Area
Battleship Missouri T
Lashes Beach Area As
Prelude To Hit-Rurt Raid
TOKYO, Feb. 13—(ID-
South Korean Marines
stormed ashore near the big 1
northeast Korean port of «
Wonsan, 80 miles north of
the 38th Parallel, today in
the wake of a furious naval
bombardment.
It was reported that the Marine
assault force encountered only light
resistance. No further details were
available, but it was believed that
the landing was a hit-run raid de
signed to inflict maximum damage
on enemy installations and gather
information for allied intelligence.
BULLETIN
U. S. BTH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Feb. IL (UP
Sooth Korean Marines drove to
the outskirts of Wonsan today
after landing at the north end of
the harbor under cover of a Naval
bombardment, the U. S. sth Army 1
announced tonight.
NO U. S. MARINES INVOLVED
The site of the landing was identl- '
fied only as the “Wonsan area.’* ]
First reports said U. S. Marines were
included in the assault force, how- 1
' ever, a Naval source said. .hehacLnd -a
information that they were involved 1
and he believed the reports incor- J
rect.
There also were unconfirmed 1
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Dunn Pooch I
Places First
A 14-months-old Boston Terrier 1
owned by Cooprr Jackson of Dunit. |
won first place in the National Dog ij
Show held Monday nighd-iin New
if 'S. ■
York’s Madison Square Garden, hi
was advised today.
It is the first time in history ,
that a North Carolina terrier had
taken top prize in the national '
show.
“Classen’s Dictator,” (fee prid|;-V
dog, went to the New York show *
after taking seven out of
shows in Florida last &<mth. He
will now begin a circuit ot dog
shows in Connecticut and Maine. I
BEAT 77 OTHERS
In the New York show, “Dicta
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of the public schools Was in the
hands of legislators today and JKf.a
called for $31,600,000 more
years
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