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, Drive Entering Home Stretch
Winners Os 1951 Packard, Other
Large Prizes Will Be Named By
• Judges After Counting Saturday
By BILL AND DORIS GUPTON, Contest Editors
climax this Saturday noon! Seven and one-half
weeks of hard work and anxious uncertainty culminates,
in the closing scene promptly at the stroke of 12 o’clock
noon this Saturday, March 17, at which time The Daily
* Record’s far-famed automobile subscription contest of
ficially ends and the most aggressive contestants wjll
claim the magnificent prizes offered by this newspaper,
headed by that beautiful new Packard valued' at $2694.94
9 and really worth' more on today’s market.
For * all of seven weeks the var- j
ious contestants have been busily
engaged accumulating their pub
lished totals and building reserve
votes for final count. During this
time the contest has gained fame
that is widespread. It was hailed
from the start as being the most
liberal, unique and altogether at
tractive affair of its kind ever in
augurated in this area.
ml With the race now in its final
" stage, contestants are all a-tingle
with high hopes and ambition to
win first honors and now the ef
fort and diligence shown by each
daring the past few weeks will be
crowned by an avalanche of sub
scriptions and accompanying votes
that it sure to bring thousands of
"fans” to their feet, rooting excit
edly, for their gwe particular fav
wtKo will WIN &a«*UU>?A
fifth triuMphtntly with an Over
whelming number of vows, or are
you going to be self-satisfied at
this stage of the game and see the
efforts of these many strenuous
weeks go to waste and the choicest
awiards of this contest wrested from
your grasp Jjy some more enter
prising competitor?
Success in ah affair of this kind
somtimes depends upon keen judg
ment and timely action. Through
out all history, people possessing
9 that faculty of sensing opportunity
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Williams Off
To Hollywood
t About Movie
Marshall Williams of Godwin,
ex-convict who became one of the
world’s greatest gun inventors, left
during the weekend for Hollywood,
California to confer with movie
executives regarding the possibility
of a film based on his life.
He was accompanied to the film
capital by Fay Ridenour, a Fay
etteville photographer who has
acted as sort of press-agent for
Williams during recent months.
W They left from New York City,
where Williams has been busy with
personal appearances, television
shows, radio broadcasts and other
appearances.
Williams has appeared on BUI
Slater’s TV shew, "Headline Clues
—Broadway to Hollywood.” Barry
Gray’s midnight radio show, and
Lyle Vann’s Mutual network pro
gram. Friday night, he was a spe
cial guest of Jack Dempsey at his
tNew York restaurant.
The story of Williams’ life—
which first appeared in The Daily
Record here because Williams
• wanted hie hometown newspaper to
get the story first—occupied a dou
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Eagle Award
*To Be Given
Harnett County Boy Scouts wUI
. hold a Court of Honor Tuesday
n.h, at I ■ I—ll. O.aOMM
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"LOOK, CARL, I CAN STAND UP AGAlN”—That’s what WlHle
Glover of Erwin, Harnett County’s ace pilot, was saying to Carl Goe
rch of Raleigh, popular magazine editor and radio commentator,
when this picture was made yesterday afternoon at Glover’s River
View Airport, near Erwin. Willie and Carl are old friends and Carl
flew down to spend the afternoon with him. Willie was badly injured
in a smash-up a couple years ago and was proudly showing Carl how
much he has improved. Mr. Goerch, ardent aviation fan, had high
praises for Glover’s airport.
(DaUy Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
Control Forces Seek
Liquor Vote In Dunn
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State News
Briefs
WILMINGTON, Man* 12—« h
Rep. F. Ertel Carlyle informed in
terested* parties here today that
the Army has made preliminary
surveys for a possible military in
stallation mear Southport. _
However, he »quoted
spokesman as saying no definite
action is being taken for the ac
quisition of land at this time. The
Army said congressional authority
t and appropriations would be ob
r tained before any land buying be-
I gan, Carlyle reported.
* FORT BRAGG, March 12—Oh—
In the largest military exercise in
» this area since Exercise Swann
■ re in April and M.y last year.
Wkt JJailu
Erwin Local May Strike
Friday In Nationwide
Walkout Galled ByTWUA
Members of Local 250, Textile Workers Union of Am
erica, are set to go out on strike Friday morning, accord
ing to J. Thomas West, union manager at Erwin.
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The local met Sunday afternoon
at 3:30 and voted unanimously "to
give the general committee and
business agent of Erwin Local 250
permission to call a strke next
Friday morning at 6:30,” provided
the strike is . deemed necessary,
West reported.
Proponents of legal whiskey con
trol have informally presented
State Senator J. Robert Young a
request -to secure legislation giving
the people of Dunn a vote on the
establishment of Alcoholic Bever
age Control Stores in the Town of
Dunn and a formal request will be
made to the legislator later this
week, it was learned today.
Those who favor the establish
ment of legal whiskey stores in the
Town of Dunn today were busy
gathering facts and figures on
crime, law enforcement, liquor con
sumption and the number of illicit
whiikey outlets now in operation
here preparatory to making their
request to Senator Young.
A spokesman for the group, who
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Thief Takes Car
4:45’Sunday afternoon.
DUNN, N. C., MONiy, MARCy 12, 1951
The last strike at Erwin came at
the end of 1944, lasting for five
months into 1945, he added. That
walkout was over contract negoti
ations.
AFFECT 43 PLANTS
Locals in 43 plants throughout
the State are planning strikes in
connection with a nationwide walk
out called for March 15 by TWUA
headquarters.
William Pollock, general secre
tary-ter asurer of the Textile Work
ers Union of American (CIO), yes
terday predicted a nation-wide
strike by his union on Friday.
Pollock, in Charlotte to attend a
county wide meeting of TWUA
members, said he saw little chance
of a settlement of differences be
tween labor and management. v
He said locals all over the coun
try were voting to go out if con- ’
ferences in Washington failed to
solve the wage deadlock. Negotia
tions between locals and mills that
usually set the wage standard have
broken down, he said.
ASK 12 PER CENT BOOST
Pollock said the textile workers
were Peking a 12 per cent increase
from ‘their present average wage
or4V.2r an hour. He called that’*
figuri* one of the lowest wiges’ Si *
any basis industry.
Negotiations . which began be
tween TWUA leaders and Erwin
Mills officials last Thursday set
tled nothing. West characterized
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Big Gift Made
To, Campbell
By Mrs. Layton
Receipt of a SIO,OOO gift to the
Campbell College expansion fund
campaign was announced today by
President Leslie H. Campbell, head
of the Harnett Baptist College.
The large gift came from Mrs.
Joel G. Layton, Sr. of Lilllngton as
a memorial to her husband, the
late Joel G, Layton, Sr., prominent
! Harnett business man, Baptist lea
der and longtime friend and bene
factor of Campbell College.
This is the largest individual
gift yet received during the Camp
bell expansion program, although
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> By LYNN NISBET
■ RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
s STREET AH>-It is virtually
s certain that the senate street aid
measure, commonly known as the
■ Powell Bill, will be enacted into law
i Monday or Tuesday. The vote of
7 56 to 32 in the house Friday, fol
i lowing uarly two hours effort to
- defeat the bill, by use of almost
t every parliamentary device, seems
i to Justify' conclusion the third and
r final reading of tt»*ill will put
' It into the law books. The vote ac
-3 tually was 67 to 43, counting pairs.
Enactment was avoided Friday by
a narrow margin, when a final
delaying effort brought objection to
third reading. The house voted 66
to 37 to suspend the rules, but that
wasn’t enough. Suspension of the
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t. quires two-thirds vote In every par
margin of failure to get final vote
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HA NETT UNC ALUMNI CHAT WITH SNAVEL i’—Head Football Coach Carl Snavely of Carolina
was t e star attraction at the annual meeting so the Educational Foundation here Friday night and local
ahum i are shown here chatting with him. Left to right are: C. P. (Chuck) Erickson, assistant athletic
dircel r; Retiring President Bob Young; Secretary-Treasurer A. B. (Smitty) Smith; Dr. J. Ralph
John: n, the new president; Coach Snavely, and Jake Wade, a Dunn native who is now sports publicity
direct r at Carolina. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
D v Johnson T o Head
Carolina Foundation
Dunn Water
Plaßit Almost
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Dunn citizens, in another 24
months o* so, may—like the people
in New .York—wake up some morn
ing and find an order from the city
to quit washing their automobiles,
to cut out sprinklirig lawns and to
shave less because of a water sup
ply shortage.
Eddice R. King, superintendent
of Dunn’s water purification plant,
addressed the Dunn Rotary Club
Friday night and warned that
Dunn's system is near its capacity
output and by 1953 the demand may
be greater than the supply, accord
incr tn tho nraconf rtf tho frtwn'c
ing to the present rate of the town’s
growth.
The Dunn plant, which supplies
both Dunn and Erwin with water,
was built to purify and pump near
ly two million gallons a day. One
day last summer, the plant pumped
1,700,000 gallons of water and the
next day 1,600,000 gallons.
Working On Plans
City Manager R. Thomas Hobbs
and Superintendent King are now
working on plans for enlargement
of the water plant facilities and
Mr. Hobbs said today they planned
to confer with engineers in time to
present a projected plan to the city
board at its next meeting on March *
19.
Superintendent King gave the
Rotarians many interesting facts
about the town’s water plant oper
ations.
Among other things, he disclosed
that for the past eight months
calgon has been added to soften
the water and that it has been
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Coach Carl Snavely of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, builder
of championship football teams,
declared in an address to the Har
nett County Educational Founda
tion that “Carolina’s athletic pol
icy is sound and that if all schools
had this policy we would have no
reform- waves such as sanity codes.”
Speaking to" Carolina. alumni
from-68-seetions of the-eiumty-at
the Dunn Armory, "OBacfl'TSHori'eip
cited the work of the foundation
policy sound.
“It would be only the question
of alumni help,” continued Coach
Snavely. “In this way we do not
tap our athletic treasury to have a
good team. We do not hint our
athletic program, which is so im
portant, but help it.'’
Praises Harnett
The famed football mentor point
ed out that “Our only source of
help to players is the alumni, the
educational Foundation.” He
praised the Harnett County foun
dation fsr its splendid help in
raising money to help provide
scholarships for deserving students.
Last year, reported Coach Snave
ly, 30 students were given these
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Benson Plans
Paper Drive
Save this paper! Don’t throw it
away, or let it go up in smoke!
Let the: Boy Scouts have it, and
help in the defense program of this
country.
That’s the theme of the coming
Waste-Paper Drive, which will be
gin Benson next week, when the
drive becomes organized.
The program originated in Smith
field Tuesday night at a weekly
“Traineree” for Scout leaders in
the Johnston County district. It is
expected that Benson’s part qf the
waste-paper drive will be a con
tinuous operation, as troop commit
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Plant Mora
COTTON
For Your Country’s
Defense, For You# Own
Profit, Security.
Man Is Jailed
In Slaying
Sam Hallman, 25-year-old Har
nett County farmer; Ls being held
in the county jail without privilege
of bond pending an inquest in the
slaying of John Clifford McLean,
25-year-old Negro.
McLean died in the Dunn Hos
, pital iast night about 7 o’clock as
the result of a .22 rifle w>und. rtt
ceiyed in the leg
poon Between 4 and g
'
said Hallman shot McLeahl at the
home, qf an alleged bootlegger, Hat
tie Hicks, near Mamers. Belief was
expressed that both the slayer and
the victim were there buying or
drinking liquor at the time.
According to witnesses, Hallman
and his companions went to the
place and McLean was in the
kitchen frying eggs. Hallman, they
said, made some remark about
the Negro frying eggs and he took
; exception and an argument start
-1 ed.
Soon, the argument turned into
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BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, March 12—(IPV—The Supreme. Court
today rejected the appeal of Alger Hiss from a perjury
conviction and in effect ordered the former State Depart;
; ment official) to jail for five years. .7 ’ ~*
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WASHINGTON, March 12—(IP)—The Air Force; an
; nouneed today that 19 non-flying National Guard units
. with about 10,000 officers and airmen will be moralise*!
within the next nine months.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 12—(IP)—Baseball Com
! missloner A. B. Chadler will fafl to get re-elected today by
! a vote of 10 against him and six for him, the United P&sa
teamed.
NO. 67
Abandonment Os
Seoul Seen As
Enemy Flees
TOKYO, March 18—(TO
Communist resistant* col
lapsed along the 70-mtle -Ko
rean central front today and
Reds fled headlong toward
the 38th Parallel. .713,
Aerial observers reported signs
that the communists also 'Were
abandoning the former capital city
of Seoul, threatened by an Allied
flanking drive to the east.* ' --
Nine UN divisions reported gains
of up to three miles as thay moved
cautiously north along the-central
front in the wake of fleeirtg Chin
es and Korean Reds. They advanc
ed at will.
Tank and infantry task forces
darted within sight of the big en
emy base of Hongchon and the
strategic east-central Korean cross
roads town of Changpyong. Van
guards were within 24 miles of the
38th Parallel.
REPORTS "NO CONTACT”
Most of the advancing UN col
umns reported “no contact” with
the enemy. The rest reported only
scattered, sporadic resistance from
enemy rear guards.
There were ominous reports that
the Reds were digging in along a
line anchored on Hongchon. some
20 miles south of the 38th Parallel
for a new stand by possibly 100,000 -
troops.
But front dispatches told of
nothing but enemy retreats.
United Press War Correspondent
William Burson reported from the
east-central front:
“Reds who were concentrating
formidably here three days ago
turned into headlong flight toward
the 38th Parallel. American and
, South Korean infantry • scored
1 successes all along the
itlflrilk ~irtr sector.
■\ Tth Division unit cap-*
t. turtSt mite-high Mt. 'Taeml aftd its
f BMBe impregnable entrenchments
without firing a shot.
“The bloodless victory complet
i ed the cross-country conquest of
east-central Korea’s most forbidd
ing mountain wilderness.”
South Korean troops seized So
ksa, final junction for roads lead
ing north to the 38th Parallel and
east to the coast. The Reds had
• abandoned it. Three hills farther
west also were captured without
: opposition.
PLANES STRAFE TROOPS
Aillied planes caught one column
i of North Koreans marching north
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