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PARTLY CLOUDY TODAY
AND MILD TONIGHT.
» VOLUME 1.
ALUES FORGE SOUD FRONT ACROSS KOREA
* Hunt Made Near
Wilmington For
Crashed Plane
WILMINGTON, Feb. 25
£ (IP) - Highway patrqlmen and
~, a four-motored Coast Guard
plane searched early today
for a plane reported crash
ed in dense swamp between
here and • Acme, 25 miles
west.
Patrolmen splashed through the
swampy country last night in an
effort to find traces of a crash
but were handicapped by the rug
te ged terrain and darkness and
w were forced to abandon the search
until daylight.
BOMBER JOINS SEARCH
This morning the Coast Guard
station at Elizabeth City sent out
a B-17 to join the search and a
party of highway patrolmen re
sumed their tortuous hunt on the
surface.
Patrolmen said Billy Wilson,
auto parts salesman here, first re
ported seeing a twin-engine air
* craft losing altitude and go down
In the trees. Later the highway of
fice and the CAA were swamped
with calls from others.
The CAA said no planes were
reported missing or overdue. The
Coast Guard said they were search
ing anyway on the chance that
someone took off without a flight
plan and crashed.
The searchers said that so far
g Dunn Man Fined
In Cumberland
Driving after his license was re
voked proved to be an expensive
proposition this week for Cecil
Allen Bagley of Dunn.
A Cumberland County Recorder’s
Court jutoe slapped a fine of S2OO
and" costs* Whan prayer for judg-i
meat was continued in his case. !
ja Ward D. LOCKhart, 20, a Fort
” Bragg soldier, paid a similar fine
for the same offense.
Other convictions Included: Ar
nold McD. Simmons, speeding, SSO
and costs; Sommerland Tichon,!
speeding, no operator’s license, SSO
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STRAWBRIDGE HERE TODAY
A large crowd is expected to hear
Daane Strawbridge, representative
of the United States Chamber of
a Commerce, this afternoon at 4
w o’clock in the Doan etty courtroom.
Manager Joe McCullers of the
Dunn chamber said this morning
that the public is Invited and that
Strawbridgo would have a message
of much interest.
DOWN TO BEDROCK
IN THE
SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
GRAND PRIZE PACKARD
_ AUTOMOBILE WORTH $2694.94
Contestants listed below in numerical order with votes cast
for publication up to date.
Mr. Bill Hinton—Dunn 2,200,050
Mrs. David Clifford—Dunn 2,199,550
Mrs. Geo. R. Souders—Lillington 2,196,350
Mrs. Pauline Tart—Erwin ..../ 2,160,350
Mr. Cha». T. Johnson—Dunn 1,291,050
Miss Mamie Butter—Donn 682,550
Mrs. Willie Glover—Erwin 567,200
it, Mrs. Nell Stewart Byrd—Benson 548,600
~ Mrs. J. W. Whittenton—Dunn 530,200
Mr. Joseph Odell Jackson—Dunn 265,500
Mr. D. G. Johnson —Dunn 203,500
Mrs. Edith R. Lloyd—Erwip 161,400
Miss Betty Lou Smith—Clement 148,500
Miss Faye Denton—Coats 142,500
, Mrs. G. W. Ferrell—Dunn 140,500
Mr. Harold Bass.-Dunn y 113,700
BOOST YOUR FAVPRJTE NOW WITH A “FULL-LIMIT” SUB
aa BCRIPTION i . . THIS WEEK . . . WHILE IT . COUNTS MOST
W IN VOTES!
I - Ne New Caateatawta Allowed.
I Only abeve Mated oeateetaata official.
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WATCH THE BIRDIE—3ome of the spectators at the county basketball tournament in Lillington watched the cameraman’s birdie while ;
others watched an Angler player lay up a snowbird in the feature game Tuesday night between Angler and Erwin. The tournament, which ,
started a week ago, has drawn capacity crowds to Lillington School gymnasium each night it has played. The Angier team is considered a
shoo-in for the countywide championship title this year. (Dally Record BtafT Photo by T. M. Stewart) I
Young Backs County Court
Plan; Gregory Is Silent
By WADE LUCAS
Raleigh Correspondent
RALEIGH, Feb. 28—Harnett
Senator J. Robert Young said to
day he expects to get the views
soon on two Harnett groups study
ing a suggestion b the senator that
the Rocotder’s Court at Dunn and
Lillington be abolished qnd that
a general county court be created
in their stead.
The Harnett groups now study
> ing Young’s proposal are composed
of members from the County
Board of Commissioners and the
Dunn City Council. Senator Young
recently met with both boards and
council, whose members decided
they want more facts and figures
on such a court.
GREGORY IS SILENT
Harnett Representative Carson
Gregory is remaining silent on
the matter. He did not attend the
Dunn meeting.
Senator Young thinks a general
county court for Harnett will not
(Ete Uaitu
only work for the best interests of
law enforcement agencies in the
county but also serve to create
additional revenue for the county’s
general fund.
Meanwhile, Representative (Greg
ory is studying a proposal fo)fU>ur
chase by the county’ tpf sit least
five radio-equipped automobiles for
use by law enforcement officers.
He thinks such cars, which would
two-way radios, would be of great
Value to officers in the apprehen
sion of those who break the law.
LIQUOR BILL TIED UP
The bill of Senator Young call
in for a statewide referendum on
the question of allowing ABC
liquor stores in all of the State’s
100 counties or in none of them is
still getting the silent treatment
in the Senate.
Meanwhile, the House commit
tee on propositions and grievances,
whose chairman is Representative
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Upsets Feature
Prize Contest
By BELL A DORIS GUPTON
Contest Editor's
Like a whirlwind, all the more
exciting, because so sudden and
spectacular, Bill Hinton of Dunn
furnishes the chief sensation and
surprise in this vote tally by cast
ing a block of almost 400,000 votes
to his credit and thereby holding
to first position in the Record’s
now famous "Everybody Wins”
prize subscription contest.
Also casting a tremendous block
of votes for this count, but not
quite sufficient to regain the co
veted top spot, Mrs. Divid Clifford
popular local lady is just a pace
behind, and the next move will be
watched by the general public with
the keenest of interest.
RUNS CLOSE SECOND
Mrs. George R. Souders is follow
ing Mrs. Clifford very closely to
occupy third position in today’s
relative standing. But energetic
Mrs. Pauline Tart will not long be'
happy to remain behind. We look
for this hard working lady to give
the present leaders a real run for
their money through the balance
of the “second period” and on
through to the close of the contest
just 15 more working days away,
Saturday noon, March 17th.
Mr. Chas Johnson, likewise, oc-1
cupies a less favorable spot, being
in fifth position, but again, all
five top leaders are so closely ar
rayed that much less sensational
strength than that displayed by
Bill Hinton could again see any
one of the second, third or fourth
pltfce contenders again within
striking distance of coveted first
place. Miss Mamie Butler is by no
means out of the runlng and her
many friends and followers will
rally to her support with subscrip
tions and aid that could see her
“on top of the heap.” Watch Miss
Butler here on out!
CLIMBING PAST
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DUNN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951
State News
Briefs
GREENSBORO, Feb. 28 —(IB-
Two men were held in the Guil
fordtCounty Jail without bond to
day, l charged with murderin# and
betofcdtng the eorpse of textile
Worker Elmer Owen.
Sheriff John E. Walters said
James Clifton Snow, 27, and John’
P. Shields, 29, were arrested for
the murder after a three-day in
vestigation.
The 46-year-old textile worker’s
headless body was found by e
party of amateur photographers in
a woodland Saturday. The body
was partly covered with leaves,
and Coroner W. W. Harvey said
it had been badly damaged by
animals.
RALEIGH, Fqb. 28-flß—An of
fer of more than $1,000,000 worth
of Italian Renaissance paintings
for a North Carolina art gallery
was disclosed to the Joint Appro
priations Committee yesterday.
Robert Lee Humber, spokesman
for the State Arts Society, reveal
ed the gift of the Samuel H. Kress
Art Foundation, In a bid to keep
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Speaker Cites
A.R.C. Needs
The need of the Red Cross this
year is greater than it ever has
been before,” declared Mrs. Grace
Swain, evecutive chairman of the
Dunn-Erwln chapter, in an address
last night to members of the Dunn
Business and Professional Women’s
Clubs in the Dunn Armory.
DEMANDS ARE HIGHER
Mrs. Swain, Who has directed the
work of the local chapter for a
number of years, declared in
all her experiences with the Red
Cross she has never before seen so
many demands for service.
She cited .the fact that the arm
ed services are being expanded,
that service men wounded in Korea
are still coming back to luApitals,
that families of service men are
still going overseas, and that the
number of distress cases seems to
be increasing instead of decreas
ing.
Mrs. Mailie Adams Jackson,
president, opened the meeting and
Mrs. C. Howard White was in
change of the program.
In addition to citiag the needs,
Mrs. Swain gave the club members
many interesting sidelights and
told « number of humorous, as well
as pathetic stories, about her work.
ASKS FULL SUPPORT
She appealed to the club women
far their full support in the 1951
Roll Call, and the Business and
Women pledged their
T SLtog 1? chapter officers,
Connally Says U. S. Doing
Nothing To Help Pact Army
ounn-Godwin
Ama May Get
New Industry
A •possibility that the Dunn-
Godwin section may become the
site for a new industry costing
millions of dollars was suggested
in the current issue of Collier’s
Magazine.
It is found in the story entitled,
“Carbine Williams,” which is the
life story of David Marshall Wil
liams, the famous Godwin gun in
ventor.
Says Colliers: “Winchester pays
Williams an annual retainer for
first look at all his inventions.
Thoce they reject he is free to
offer to other arms companies.
MAY BUILD LABORATORY
“One of these companies is con
sidering building a factory-size
laboratory on the Williams’ farm
for experiments with automatic
cannon, a project which would run
into millions.”
Williams’ farm is located about
ten,miles from Dunn, just off the
Dunn-Fayettevllle highway.
Manager Joe McCullers of the
Dunn Chamber of Commerce said
this morning that the Dunn cham
ber would contact Williams and of
fer the full cooperation and assist
ance of the town in bringing the
proposed industry to this section.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(IP)—Tobacco-growers were
given an opportunity to expand production today, as
the Agriculture Department ordered increases in acre
age allotments for both • flue-cured and burley* tobacco.
Secretary Charles F. Brannan said the flue
cured acreage of 1,120,000 acres win permit an increase in
planting 14 per cent greater than in 1950. The burkjy al
lotment of 470,000 acres wil permit 18 per cent more
production.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 28—Of—A 40-map posse
captured a Negro safe cracker in dense underbrush near
here today after a wild exchange of gunfire in which the
Negro was hit twice.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(W—Gen. J. Lawton Collins,
Army chief of staff, said today it is wholly possible “that
two more National Guard divisions may have to be called
to dhty late this year.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(fft-Gen. Lucius D. Clay
told senators today that Russia will start World War H
whenever the odds insure success.
gtat^ndr i t? I M^? l * cw pre ** il ****
Hanna Hints He Will
Run For Reelection
Mayor Ralph E. Hanna this
morning virtually threw his hat j
into the political arena for a sec- ;
ond term as Dunn’s chief executive,
but didn’t quite make it official.
But a poll of Dunn’s present |
city councilman indicated that |
some of the other members are un- :
decided and at least two of them
may not run again. •
Mayor Hanna left little doubt I
that he will be a candidate in the
municipal primary to be held in
April—on a date to be set Monday
night by the officials.
Asked by The Record if he plan
ned to run for another term,
Mayor Hanna said:
“I think so. I’m planning to.”
“Can we say definitely that you
are a candidate?” asked the repor
ter.
“Not yet,” replied His Honor.
“Let’s wait awhile.’’
Close friends of the mayor, how
ever, have said for weeks that he
will definitely ask for a second
term.
WILKINS WANTS TO RETIRE
Mayor Protem Joe A. Wilkins
who has also been rumored as
being interested in the mayorship,
indicated that he might not run
for re-election.
“If I’m a candidate, I’ll have to
change my mind between now and
! the filing deadline,” said Mr. Wil
j kins. Friends, however, have al
j ready started a campaign to per
suade him to seek another term.
(Continued On Page Four)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—(IB
Sen. Tom Connally, D. Tex., said
today the United States has not
done "an infernal thing yet” to
help ( the Atlantic Pact army.
Tb* Senate Foreign Relations
Chairman said for the* nilß
former President Herbert Hoover
ought to stop "growling and kick
ing” about the combined army un
til this country does more.
Connally’s remarks were in reply
i to Hoover’s criticism that thus far
! the Atlantic Pact allies have given
I only “paper promises of armed for
-5 ces.”
Connally also wanted more speed
in rearming Western Germans as
part of the Atlantic Pact army un
! der Gen. Ddvight D. Eisenhower.
. IN OTHER CONGRESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS
5 POSTAL INCREASES: Presi
dent Truman’s new reguest fpr
: postal rate increases may be head
' ed for the dead letter office, Rep.
Harold C. Hagen, R. Minn., said.
Hagen is a member of the House
Post Office Committee. He said
he would opose the increases In
' rates for such items as postcards,
second and third class mails and
he didn’t think they would be ap
' proved.
RFC: Sen. J. William Fulbright,
D. Ark., doesn’t want to get In
t another row with the White House
s over the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. investigation. Fulbright is
, chairman of a Senate Banking
[ subcommittee investigating the
. RFC. He said he didn’t think the
. committee would be helped much
. by forcing Presidential Aide Don
> aid Dawson to testify. Dawson was
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Dunn Gl Gets
Bronze Star
Cpl. William F. Godwin, 19, son
of Mrs. Felton Godwin Byrd of
W. Harnett St., has been award
ed the Bronze Star medal for
“heroic achievement in connection
with military operations” in the
Korean War.
A member of the headquarters
and headquarters company, Ist
Battalion, 35th Infantry Division,
Corporal Godwin has been in Ko
rea since the early days of the
war.
SUBJECT TO ATTACK
According to the award citation,
Corporal Godwin, while serving
with the battalion near Yongdong
July 29, “was subjected to an in
i tense hostile barrage and attack,
which severed communicsfaen linee
between battalion headquarters and
the companies.
"When the intensity of the act
ion necessitated withdrawal, he
and four of his comrades carried
radios across exposed terrain to
the company positions, thereby fac
ilitating an orderly displacement.
"Corporal Godwin’s couragjeoijs.
initiative and selfless devotion to
duty are in keeping with the high
est traditions of the United States
Army.”
The award was made Jan. 26 by
order of Major-General Kean.
Corporal Godwin attended Dunn
High School before fntering the
Army about two years ago. He
trained first at Camp Jackson, S.
C., then in Japan before going to
Korea.
Doctor Cures Wife
GOLDSBORO, N. C. Feb. 28—UP
For nearly a year Dr. Wilton
Clark listened to. his wife’s remarks
about his golfing ability. She scor
ed a hole-in-on* on the 159 yard,
par 3 no. 4 ho*e of the Municipal
Gold Course here. Last weekend,
Clark made a hole-in-one on the
same hole.
Cbwund
Capitol
£nurtho
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
MHiLBNTBM "The millenium
has arrived,” said Charles Parker,
director ot the State Advertising
Jgiireau, as he read and re-read a
letter Menday marning. The letter
was .treat John Farrell, manager
of the Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce. There was nothing un
usual about that part of the re
quest. It was the next paragraph
or tw» that surprised and delighted
the State adversising man. Farrell
especially commended the excel
lent treatment accorded the PM
slant and Mountain sections, and
wanted the books to encourage Wil
mtogton visitors from outside the
State to travel through the up
lands an their way home. This at-
Plant Mon
COTTON
For Your Country'!
Defense, For Your Own
Profit, Security.
South Koreans
Seize Another
Enemy Island
TOKYO, Feb. 28—0 PI
The U. S. Bth Army forged
a solid 140-mile front
straight across Korea today”
and chased fleeing Reds
through primitive hill coun
try near the eastern end.
At the same time, South
Korean raiders were dis
closed belatedly •t o have
struck new blows against
enemy coasts far north of
| the front.
A small force of republican troops
seized a fifth island yesterday off
Wonsan, east coast port 80 miles
north of the 38th Parallel, under
the heavy guns of an American
Naval task force. The island was
Hwangto.
South Koreans from a Naval
Armada off the west coast killed YI
Reds, burned 20 barracks and de-
(stroyed three vehicles in a raid
near Sagot on the Onjon penin
sula, 10 miles below the 38th Par
allel. Sunday.
The enemy dead included a North
Korean regimental commander.
Apart from “Operation Pursuit”
North and west of Pangnlrti, only
patrol and artillery activity was re
ported along the new trans-Korean
line some 35 miles south of the
38th Parallel.
ALLIES OUTNUMBER REDS
An estimated 160.000 UN troops,
including seven U. S. divisions,
faced some 150,000 Chinese and
North Korean Reds across a shell
torn no-man's land. It is the first
time since Red China’s interven
tion that the Allied forces have.
outnumbered the Communists. But
the Reds have uncounted reserves
farther north.
i On the east-central front, U. S.
\ 7th Division troops pursued brok
en remnants of the North Korean
3rd Corps north and west of Pang
him after cracking the enemy’s
. lain. Roe. st. resistance in a sur
- -prise attack yesterday.
Command officers said the disor
ganized Reds were surrendering
more readily. Fourteen gave up
•‘They’re ripe for surrender right
now. what with the pasting we’ve
yesterday to one regiment alone,
been giving them,” said Capt. Elmo
D. Parroll of Lawton, Okla.
Maj. Gen. Claude B. (Buddy)
Ferenbaugh, commander of the 7th
Division, estimated his men have
killed 1,730 North Koreans since
the start of “Operation Killer" *
week ago.
“That must be pretty close to
half the 3rd Corps,”’ 1 ' he -said.
Polio Driik
Nets SIO,BOO
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The 1951 Harnett County Polio
Fund Campaign, recently complet
ed, exceeded the goal of fIO.OOO
by several hundred dollars. The
total amount raised was*flO,B22.sS
which is the largest amShftt ever
raised in Harnett for this worthy
cause. The success is attributed to
the excellent group of Volunteer
workers throughout the county
and the very generous response
given by the people. “ ;
The schools raised mofe by fu
this year than ever. Many of the
classes raised and exceeded. thHr
quota. All who did were’ given.*
certificate of appreciation by the
chairman which also bore the sig
nature of Mr. Basil O’Connor, na
tional chairman for the, Infcntilo *
Paralysis Fund.
COMMUNITY REPORT *
A breakdown of the community
contributions is as follows: ;>.
Angier, *926.50 of which toe Ap
gier white school raised $413.00 and
the Angier negro sbhhbt $24.50.
Mr. J. S. Sanders was toe chair-'
man. Dr. A. Paul Bagby was chap
man for Buies Creek where $375.<•
000 was raised which far exceeded •
the goal. Bunnlevel raised SIOI.OO
and that drive was lead by the
Rev. A. C. McCall. The school
(Continued On rage 81*)
Mrs. Stewart
Dies At Coats
Mrs. Lula Burt Stewart, 78. pio
neer Coats resident and widow of
igpl
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