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PAGE TWO JHatlu Jt tmrb V * ]Mir■ J 7 * RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY . ■ ■- : NATIONAL advertising representative rHOHASTFT CLAHK CO., INC: BY CAR&IBB: N cents per advuee; 9* IN TOWNS NOT*SERvSTbY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDR NORTH CAROLINA: S&M par year; RH Mr she month*; » for threw months ♦ OCT-OF-BTATE: *B.s* per year to advance; IS far MX months, 91 ■ , for At 311 East Canary Street Application for entry as second class matter Is pending, i Every afternoon, Monday through Friday MEMBER, BUREAU OF ADVERTISING 11 American Newspaper Publishers Association ! Hopeful Signs Hopeful signs of a reaction against the dreadful slaughter on North Carolina's highways are shown in a report put out by the Motor Vehicles Department. The department said that Easter week end deaths this year“.totalled eight, as compared with 28 last Easter—a national record of which we may well be ashamed. Bad weather for driving was cited as the chief factor in keeping down the death rate over the holiday. But we prefer to think that the drivers of this State, finally sickened by the ghastly toll in lives, injury, human suffer ing and property, have decided to drive as though they have sense enough to control their machines. Comparative figures show some hope. Some 217 per ;;sons have been killed on North Carolina’s highways through this morning, as compared with 214 for the same ■« date in 1950. The Department of Motor Vehicles, in pre dicting the number of persons to be killed or injured in automobile mishaps for any year, usually add about 10 to 12 per cent of the previous year’s total. So far, we are running well below that prediction figure in both deaths and injuries. Perhaps the situation will remain that way. And perhaps—although this is so un likely as to seem fantastic—drivers will become so cautious and careful that the death and injury rates will enjoy a decline. Considering human fallibility, all this seems highly unlikely. Still, the performance of our drivers over the past holiday week end may be a sign of better, saner times on our Highways. We fervently hope so. Senate Gets Liquor Bills RALEIGH, March 27 (IP) Administration leaders opened a drive to put teeth In North Caro lina’s liquor laws today with a flurry of bills Introduced In the state senate. Sen. Rivers Johnson of Warsaw brought 'in five untl-bootlegger measures which he said were Re quested by Gov. it err She hills were written from tne r£c6- mendations of a special committee Scott created in October, 1949, to study enforcement of prohibition laws. Scott himself sent a special mes sage to the lawmakers with the bills, saying that the demand for mare effective liquor traffic curbs “is not confined to the so-called drys of our state, but Is shared by Funeral Directory Qflis H. Parker, 80, of Clinton Sunday afternoon at his home -here. Funeral services were Tuesday afternoon at 3 pm. McGee Methodist Church. Rev. Dennis Kinlaw and the Frank Hurley officiated. Bur ras in the church cemetery. Us the father of Mrs. Joe Hand of Dunn. FLOWERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A REMINDER OF DEEPEST AFFECTION JS F i ORI L eeJ HATCHER & SKINNER It* lit „„ _ I R. 11 I.A ■*i .-l'’ W- A Calf T)ay 1 A lr I W I Slfi • /J the so-called wet element.” One bill would provide 25 new ABC officers, and would give all members of the ABC force state wide Jurisdiction. Another would make it a felony to transport more than five gallons of whiskey into or through the state, and would pcovldfß a payoff for informers tautfpg Ipw officers to illegal whisk? The third bill would provide a SIOO minimum fine for any liquor law violation, and the fourth would memorialise Congress to prohibit issuance of federal liquor licenses in states where It is unlawful to manufacture, transport or deal in alcholic beverages. The last bill would make it un lawful to hold a federal license. Braxton C. (Bud) Barefoot, 70, of Four Oaks, Rt. 2, died Mon day at 4:30 pjn. in Dunn Hos pital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 pm. from Barefoot Memorial Free Will Baptist Church by the Rev. J. R. Vann and the Rev. Mr. Simmons. Burial will be in family cemetery on Benson, Rt. 3 QUINN'S FUNERAL HOME 24-HOUR SERVICE PHONE 3306 211 W. HARNETT ST. DUNN, N. CL These Days £ckeUklf INDEPENDENCE HALL One Sunday recently, I took my children to Philadelphia to look at Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and other historic evidences of the founding of our country enshrined in that building. I think that parents would strengthen their children’s lore of country If they, even for once In their lives, walked the floor upon which Washington and Jefferson and Franklin stood on the occasion of the founding of this country. It gives one a feeling of continuity, of belonging to a grand tradition. It relates one to the great spiritual strength of America. I was, however, disappointed by the environment. The streets are narrow and shabby. There Is c Httle park In front of the build ing, but not an impressive one. My little girts wanted to see Betsy | Ross ’3 house, where our first national flag was sewn, and we drove through narrow Arch Street where we stopped In front of 239. The house Is burled in a mass of buildings and Is perhaps best rec ognised by a replies of cm first flag that hangs on a pole from it. We wanted to see where Ben jamin Franklin was burled In the Christ Church Cemetery and even to enter Christ Church itself, but parking was difficult. Yet it was in that church that the fathers of our country prayed for guidance on those occasions when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I am told that a plan is afoot to turn Mils invaluable historic area into a national historical park. Since Jan. 1 of this year, Indepen dence Hall and the group of his toric buildings adjacent to it are under the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior. More than that is necessary to preserve these monuments. They should be restored. Independence Hall, for instance, needs a coat of paint on the Interior walls. Peeling ceilings are not impressive, parti cularly to young children. Could not the grand dining room of this building, which also served as a hospital, be restored, so that when the hall Is visited, children can see, in their ke£n imagih&HQPL. the great figures who risked lives that this might be a nation of free men? With all the billions of dollars that the United States has been spending all over the world for every variety of boondoggling, why has nothing been done until now to restore the entire area, from Spruce to Arch Street, from Second to Sixth Street, into a sljrine to American patriotism? I look at a map of the “Independence Nation al Historical Park Project” and I cannot help wondering why It is i still a project after 175 years. Why do we have to wait so long to do the fine things when we can waste so much on the meaningless? Are Americans so lacking In sen timent, so impotent in their love of tradition that it has taken them this long to rescue the most sacred spot in all this country from ob scurity and vandalism? How shall we Instill In our children the ideals of our nation If we fall to show any Interest In our national monu ments? In away, I must say that I came away hurt, because my children, who said It was all wounderful, betrayed their own disillusionment. The rooms were so bare. They had been to Plymouth where they saw the pilgrims’ houses and Plymouth Rock. They have not yet been to Williamsburg In Virginia or to the Lincoln Shrine in New Salem, Hi. When they are taken to those places, thehr imagination will roam among living things. Here at In dependence Hall that feeling of the living is missing and children must have that If they are to understand the quality of a place. No millions are too many to spend upon a complete restoration of this area, until an American child can see in his mind’s eye the grand flourish of John HancVk’s pen aM the aged Benjamin Franklin being assisted ter his seat, and the philo sophic Thomas Jefferson writing: "When In the course of human events. . . ’’And realise that 1$ was to this place that George Washing ton rode to assume a leadership that Is never to be forgotten. Perhaps If we made much of our national shrines and brought our eMldren to them, they would be more truly bound, hi these queer and disconcerting days, to our great national traditions. k *!»£ iX -jr i < /■* ? aren. •v ■ -as*-:. ■' • ' 4 ' THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C. Mister Breger “I warned yem—the Birgers ars the toughest people to say fDod-bye to .. . !” Little old NEW YORK Hr ED SULLIVAN PACIFIC REPORT Hollywood, Cal., March 24—At Hlllcrest Country Club, my old vaudeville aceompHcg, Patsy Flick, is getting laughs with his story of the grammar grade school teacher investigating her young pupil’s know lege at animals. Teacher exhibited the picture of a deer. “Identify this animal, Johnny,” She cood. Johnny,, perplexed, said he couldn’t. “O, come now, It’s a name your father often calls your mother,” prompted the teacher. “A Schmoe?” screamed the kid. California golf handicaps will continue to be one of the unsolved mysteries which quiz shows refuse 'to tackle. A few horns back, your roving correspondent played a four-ball match with partner Marvin Schenck of MGM against producer Sidney Lanfield and Danny Kaye. Kaye, with a handicap of nine shots, won all the dough with a 74. This is not so sinister as it sounds, actually. Kaye, playing golf for six years, has long been on the verge of playing great golf. But he never could sustain his scoring beyond nine holes, when fright would overcome him. On the last nine, he’d go completely to pieces. Yesterday he came of golfing age and from now on, since the jinx has been laid to rest. He’s going to be mighty dangerous. Lanfield, not long back, played as a partner of Lloyd Mangrum against Kaye and Ben Hogan. All the way ’round, Hogan kept coach ing his partner, Kaye, until tsanfield became quite incense to Mangrum. "Why don’t you give me some advice?” Lanfield finally popped off. O. K.,’’ said Mangrum, “I’ll offer you the best advice In the world —give up golf because you Just don’t have it and you’re not gonna get it.” , ' Charlie Correll of Amos |‘n‘ Andy wonders if you’ve heard this switch on an old story: /.> A guy decided to visit Russia Aid got a passport, *desptte the a&- ’▼tee of friends. “All right,” he told them, “if things over there are bad, I’ll write my letters to ydu in red ink; If things are fine, in black ink.” Two weeks later, his pals got the first letter. In which he raved about Russia. “Hie only thing you can’t get,’’ he wrote, “is red ink.” Hollywood continues to be bewildered by television. Most be wildered Would be Jerry Fairbanks, producer of shorts, who plunged Into the TV film production field as a, pioneer. Fairbanks made 26 film shorts for TV. On the advice of someone at NBC-TV who persuaded Fairbanks that TV would split the hour into three sections of 20 minutes, he made 18-mlnute reels. These would be preceded and followed by one-minute commercials, accounting for 20 minutes In all. His adviser, of course, proved wrong. TV continued the radio pattern of splitting the hour into four 15-minute sections. So Fairbanks has on his hands, unless they’ve been sold in the meantime, a whole flock of 18-mlnute shorts. As I understand, each of these 18-minutes TV shorts cost about $14,000. There are no “names" in these reels, so It would seem the price is exorbitant. Which 'brings up the fallacy of Hollywood thinking in relation to making films lor television. These studios, for years, have been rolling up enormous costs which TV advertisers could not possibly abedrb. On movie studio payrolls are hordes of people who should be dropped, all adding to the, overhead. Th wastetulness of Hollywood studios never could be accepted by TV advertisers. If films are to be made, studio production costs would have to be slashed radically. It seems to me that TV networks arid agencies may solve this by by-passing the studios and engaging expert directors and technicians to set up an operation divorced from the fixed overhead of movie corporations. Hollywood’s dream of stepping Into TV, on terms and at a time to be fixed by the studios, has serious flaws jp it. Where Hollywood’s major studios fit into the TV pattern perfectly is to respect to the studio vaults, bulging with pictures made by such stars as Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Irene Dunne. Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Shirley TefKple, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrick and Fred Astaire. TV can use this sort of film and would be In position to pay for It. Inasmuch as the studios have squeezed all money possible out of these old films, the TV revenue would be pure velvet. But I don’t see how Hollywood studios can make new film for TV, and do it within the budgets now prevailing. The studios aren’t set up ■for lean and careful production. The fixed charges are staggering rind TV IS to no position to absorb these appalling costs. It sounds like the perfect cliche to marvel that American commer cial airlines make it possible for a reporter to spend a week to Holly wdod, easily and comfortably. But each time you leave New York on a Sunday night, arrive in Los Ahgeles the next morning, meet numerous people on business, then fly back to New York on Friday with an enormous number of things dime, the boon of air lines Is accented anew. St - Mete [. The Met has a sideline. Y«S, sir. opera star .vsirid Vamay has announced that she Is avail Stddulim!* Bon 8on>opera <to ‘* re ■*“ to roice ■ ■ ■ diftioß fl •" k M f MB WASHINGTON Now it turn* out that Janies 3. Carroll, one of St. Louis’ richest men, makes sllO,- o*o a year for having' iiitHlng to do with a business In Whffeh he owns no Interest. Only the money's real The business is a little hazy, like the non-proprietor’* vasabulary. As an old 91 LoUlsdii .myself, T was particularly interested in Car roll’s rags-to-riches rise. Fact is, via telephone, I used to know him well. „■ When I was a 20-year-old report er and, or, copy boy in the old home town, one of my jobs was to phone Carroll, and ask him what were the odds on who would win the election. Any old election. He always knew, exactly. He was polite and helpful about it, while the rewrite man treated him in print with respect. Always identi fied him as James J. Carroll, the betting commissioner. As if there were no other oracle. And in that line I supp6se he had no rival. So the Kefauver crime commit tee hauled him into public view in the Senate Caucus Ropm. He was a small, gray-haired man with bril liant blue eyes behind rimless spec tacles; he looked like a banker. He said he was scared. "Why?” ask ed Senator Estes Kefauver (D., Tenn.). Carroll looked at the 11 movie and television cameras staring at him with one-eyed intensity, glan ced at the flood lights in the cry stal chandeliers, observed the 16 photographers popping spent flash bulbs on the red velvet carpet, glared at the rubber cables spread more thickly than on a MOM movie sound stage, and looked near sightedly at the seven microphones in front of him. He shrugged his shoulders. He said he had mike fright. He couldn’t think. The Senators were not sympath etic. So Carroll replaced his eye glasses with dark-colored ones and thought as best he could. The re sult was what you might call con fusing. Twenty-five years ago he used to accept bets on horse races and, since he had learned to know and respect the law of averages; he did • well. Then he retired. So now a couple of fellows named John Mooney and Michael Grady run a little business on the second floor of a beaten-up store building at 318-A Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, HI. Here they have 18 tele phones, which they use so much their annual phone bill runs to $120,000. They’re friends of the Hon. James. their seedy sanctum $20,000,- Special! THIS FUU-SIZI, TOP QUALITY 1951 -HtitpOt/tiT RANGE • I $54 down ■ ■ -I—r H $4.60 A WEEK Hc> Mod.l RS-39 * vftr V Can Enjoy tlio C Big Advantages of Electric Cooking! By the Maker* of Hawks** 9 9 1 b*<*| ihdfk t—H YoiHI never find a bigger, better buy than this one! W* •»* yw • genuine ISpQ Hotpoint Electric Benge rig •mm ffifnf— riHHpririktterihg price--payable on the easiest teem* In ™ ; town! All the joy* of cooking electrically can be yours, ye* • CAitOD# uwrs your badget will hardly notice the difference! e W-seHO HOUR Ukn HetpeiiW* famous Pushbutton Banger this low-cost • t-WKC ITUt BOOT !I3S. in *nd S^iSlgtd^MuS • PORCELAIN NMSH wok to BotpOinfc »o» no rawi ntui ..... - Ai| - BapA#l . makm -L I fl BLB MW W Mm flkfl B fl fl ft ' rßn*Kim|« | ILC 060 a year changes hands on horse nwe beta. Their gross profit is $760,000, but expenses are high and Carroll gets halLthe net. The latest figure available to the Senators showed fie took in *no,«eo a year. “So you flaefe an interest in the busines*?" naked Sen. Kefauver. "Not I do not,” snipped aartolt “I have what I call a pririfte WMrtnrel I give them advice and, er, fin ancial support.” His friends are p'oased to ac cept bets on any horse «t any PHONE 2789 PHONE 2789 ITg T]ME T 0 ORDER COAL The Norris Fuel Company _ JOE NORRIS PHONE 2789 PHONE 2789 V FOR YOUR MONEY V * ' Fresh milk is really important to good health and you, too, will discover that every quart of our energy-rich mitt is as tasty-fresh as it can be! Quart for quart, penny for penny you get more freshness, more quality, more value when you buy our milk. Ballentine's DAIRY" fejßP There’s None Better VARINA, N. G. Now Serving Harnett r • TUESDAY, MARCH f I track at any time. If anybody wants Hu* frog is 11k laiy to jump, they uaually ara pleas- Carxoll said, be was not con vine ssssra w it was necessary. "A biological necessity,” he saidr This sounded sexy to the stand ing-room-only audience, which pressed forward, but Carroll had no such meaning; He meant that peo ple like to gunble. "It gives substance to their day dreams,” he said. Fair enough. Their daydreams certainly have given substance to the commissioner. And I suppose he’s the only man I know who be came a millionaire by ignoring a business in which he owned no partjf I’m doing a little daydreaming my self. ■
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