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WEATHER Fair and continued cool today and tonight. VOLUME 1 REDS DISAPPEAR FROM NORTH KOREAN FRONT Board Os Health Jifcn Say Dunn's Water Plant Needs Major Repairs Immediately New Vehicle Law Passed By Council Streets and avenues other than regular highways and through routes are now off limits to huge transport trucks, following action taken by the city council last night. The council members took a wor ried glance at pavements being pounded to pieces by heavy trucks detouring around N. Ellis Ave., now under construction, and passed a redistricting ordinance. The law makss it illegal for motor vehicles weighing more than 19,000 pounds to be operated on streets other than those maintain ed by the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission. Some ex ceptions, such as Wilson and Edger ton avenues, were made. A fine of S6O or a 30-day jail term were set as punishment for violation. Chief trouble spots now are N. Orange Ave. and N. McKay Ave. SEEK SANITATION IMPROVEMENTS The council also moved to get homes not connected with present sewer mains connected to the lines as soon as possible. Mann Norris, Jr., city building inspector, pro (Continued On Page Six) (hound QapdJol Sqmm By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT RESUME Post mortem dis section of the 1961 general as sembly will be induced in by news paper writers and political analysts for a lohg |me. Each examination will disclose somthing new, either byway of discovering that bills though enacted into law failed to get through all the steps, or that measures designed to serve one purpose actually do somthing en tirely different. There will be com mendation for progress and criti cism for penurious treatment of worthy causes. Some of the. an alyses will go into minute detail as to personalities and specific purposes. All of that must wait for awhile. At this time, concur rently with sine die adjournment of the legislature, only a very gen eral appraisal can be made. •STABILITY Stability was one of the most obvious traits of the late assembly. It convened early in January with stated purpose to hold the economic line in North Carolina. In face of recommen dations proposed by Governor Scott and the advisory budget commission that school appropriations be re duced below last year’s level, and that the state move backward a few steps with respect to salary increments and retirement security for state employees, the general assembly Beemed determined not to drop below last year. That pur pose was steadfastly maintained and finally written into the stat utes. The legislature was equally set against new taxes Or basic re vision in the t&X structure which had proved adequate through depth of the depression and height of war time prosperity. That course also was maintained and the gen eral assembly leaves Raleigh with consciousness that it has not done a perfect job, but that stability of state government, safety of state Institutions, and reasonable func .. (Continued on Page Eight) .. fishing Rodeo To Bo Meld Hers 4 Dunn'S younger set will get a chance to compare fish story yams with their elders this summer. Better Fishing, Inc., a non-profit ;/ '■ . . 11 ■ . rs toat day. - TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 -31 V Like the Ancient Mariner, Dunn may soon find itself surrounded by water but without a drop to drink. That gloomy picture was painted for the city council Monday night by two digni taries from the State Board of Health. W. S. McKlmmon, senior engin eer for the State Board, and E. O. Hubbard, principal State sanitary engineer, told the council that Dunn’s ancient, wheezing water system is in urgent need of immed iate repairs. McKimmon said that the pre sent plant facilities, supposedly capable of pumping 2,000,000 gal lons of treated water every 24 hours, mustb e expanded to a 3,000,000 —gallon capacity. MAJOR REPAIRS NEEDED He said flatly that major repairs —and costly ones—will be needed in order to achieve that goal. Both McKimmon and' Hubbard pointed out that the present water facilities are being operated with the utmost efficiency by Eddice R. King, superintendent of filtration, and his crew. Aged and faulty equipment, however, is keeping the maximum rate of production down to about 1,700,000 gallons per day, they added. McKimmon outlined for the (Continued On Page Six) Maneuver Won't Interfere With Tobacco Market A. B. TBitek) Huerta, -uwmtaient Dunn tobacco warehouseman, eawi today that the use of one of hB tobacco warehouse as an Army maneuver depot late this summer will in no way interfere with the operation of the Dunn Tobacco Market. Currin, who operates three large warehouses here, has given the Army permission to use the old Big-4 Warehouse as a supply depot for the big maneuvers. The first contigent of soldiers is slated to arrive in Dunn on June 2 to begin receiving supplies. In addition to Currin’s warehouse, a field depot will be set up behind the warehouse and other storage (Continued on Page 7) Pair Who Broke Out Os Central Prison Sought RALEIGH, April 17—(W— Police and prison officers spread a search today for two Central Prison hos pital patients who knocked a hole through the prison’s aging walls with a sash weight yesterday and lowered themselves to freedom down an electric extension cord. Warden Joe Crawford identified the men as B. Earl Jackson, 63, Sanford barber, and Cecil King, 40, former High Point, restaurant operator. The two were patients in the tubercular ward, he said, and both were long termers with records as escape artists. Jackson and King used their window sash weight to bore a two foot hole through the age-weaken ed 31 inches of brick and mortar hospital wall which forms part of the outer wall of the prison. SLIDE DOWN CORD Leaving dummies in their beds, they emerged from their second floor room about 30 feet above the, ground and slipped down on -a heavy electric cord used for the hospital’s x-ray machine. The es cape -was not discovered until noon yesterday. « s BULLETINS DANVILLE, Va,, April 17—(»—Violence erupted at the gates of a strike-bound textile mill taday and at least one map was wounded in a flareup of gunplay and tear gas shooting among strikers, non-strikers and state police. WASHINGTON, April 17—The Senate Republican policy committee approved today a resolution ordering a “complete” investigation of United .States Far Eastern mniimr inrinritncr the dismissal of Gen. Douglas Mac policy, including we msnussw ul , * Arthur. 9 ii...; . A.I. ROME, Italy, April 17—(W—More than 6,000 tough I arrived refugees said today. 1 She JJailn lletrnri) HARNETT EDUCOS ENTERTAIN WIVES—Last night was at the meeting of the Har nett Educo Club, held in the Angler cafeteria. Some of the principals at the event are shown here with the speaker. Seated are, left to right, County Superintendent C. Reid Ross? Clifton Beckwith, the speak er and Mrs. Torrey Johnson; standing, Chairman Sidney G. Thomas of the county board of education; Principal G. P. Carr of Angler and Retiring President Torrey Johnson. Johnson Will Head Harnett Educo Club A. B. Johnson, ‘principal of the DQnn district schools, was elected president of the Harnett County Educo Club at the annual Ladies’ Night banquet and organizational meeting held last night in the Angier school cafeteria. The Dunn school head was elect ed unanimously to succeed Re tiring President Torrey principal of the Buie’s Creek school. Johnnie Pecora, teacher and eoach at Erwin High School, was'elected viee president of the organization of male school teachers, and C. H. Hood of Lilllngton, superintendent of the county garage, was renamed Secretary-treasurer. Practically all members of the Educo Club, County Superinten dent and Mrs. C. Reid Ross, Chair man Sidney G. Thomas and Mrs. Thomas of the Harnett Board of Education and a number of other guests were present for the meet ing. BECKWITH SPEAKS The speaker of the evening was Clifton Beckwith of Raleigh, as sistant attorney general, widely known orator and a familiar char (Continued on Page 71 . Three other hospital patients who remained in their beds told the prison doctor the two men were asleep when he made a routine check at 10 a. m. The doctor did not notice the dummies. The escape was the first from Central Prison since 1946, when a Negro • convict, Hosea Rodgers, scaled the wall and slipped through barbed wire carrying 2,300 volts of electricity. He was recaptured two days later. Rodgers was cap tured as he tried to repeat the stunt. in , 1948. Both Jackson and King were transferred to the prison from the penal ward of the State Sana torium at McCain last December after several escapes and attempts to escape. "Jackson was sentenced from Lee County in July. 1949, to 10-20 years for possession of burglary tools, breaking, entering and larceny. King was sent up from Guilford last November to serve 17-25 years for armed robbery. Both had ser ved previous sentences. DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951 Rumored Ouster Os Hobbs Ends In 'Love Feast' Reports that City Manager R. Thpmas Hobbs would be ousted at lsttL night’s session of the city CoAck. “blew, up” and instead the council meeting ended i*a “love feast” with the city council mem bers pledging their wholehearted support and cooperation to the city manager for the rest/of the board’s term. City Commissioner Earl G. Vann, who is also a candidate for mayor, made the motion for adoption of the resolution and it was seconded by Commissioner L. L. Coats of Ward No. I. •WASHINGTON, April 17— (TP) Defense Department officials said today that R. Thomas Hobbs, Dunn, N. C„ city manager, was a deferment from active service in the Naval Reserve until June 14 to break in a replacement for his job. Hobbs was to be recalled to act ive duty March 28, spokesmen said. They did not indicate whether he would receive another deferment when this one runs out. “I think it would be fitting,” Vann told the board, “for us to give our city manager our whole hearted support and cooperation .for the balance of our* term.” Coats then seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous. Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, who. has openly and continuously expressed his op position to Hobbs, did not vote. The mayor votes only in the case of a tie. City Manager Hobbs then ex pressed his appreciation to the board, saying, ‘T appreciate very (Continued on Page Eight) LAYTON WITHDRAWS Joel G. Layton, prominent Lilllngton business, civic and religious leader, announced this morning that he was with drawing as a candidate for Lil lington’s city council. Layton, who has served for several terms on the council, was re nominated but said this morn ing he would be unable to serve if re-elected and was withdraw ing. Layton owns and operates large business Interests which are requiring more and mare of' his time. Three Scout Troops To Participate In Paper Drive Sunday < f Three Boy- Scout troops will take part fib the scrap paper drive which .1. ... Uw, '— Ruffin Assails Union Leaders r WINSTON-SALEM, April 17—OP) —William H. Ruffin, president of the National Association of Man ufacturers, charged today that “labor leaders appear more inter ested in scuttling the Taft-Hartley Act than in getting this country re-armed and back on • a sound economic footing.” Ruffin, president of Erwin Mills, Inc., of Durham, spoke at a lunch eon meeting of Winston-Salem civic clubs. s‘*|he American people,” he said, “enactnd the Taft-Hartley Igw to BMeUMhe growing dictatorial- {x>wer Os these same labor bosses. . "Failing miserably in their ap peals to the people for repeal of tlie law which broke their strangle hold on the economy, the labor leader devised a new stratagem to achieve by subterfuge what they could not achieve openly and legal ly. “A Wage Stablization Board with almost limitless authority would be the vehicle by which they would regain the power stripped from them by the American people.” Ruffin said management repre sentatives on the president’s Mob ilazation Advisory Committee would fight, labor demands for a wage stabilization board empowered to deal With the whole range of em ployer-employe relationships. “Management believes that crea tion of a board with the sweeping powers demanded by the labor leaders would block any effective (Continued on Page Two) i||Psv A„ 11 -a . m Jyi 9 * illlp ' ,pm.’ff*Jp Hemingway, whose Bcs*. sSop across She street from the Municipal Building has beoome unofficial headquarters for Dunn’s politicians decided to do ttnnrtlilnr for the Stax. 80, dome April 80. nervom and thirsty MBetaeoekers may calm thstr Jtttcrs with one on tin FIVE CENTS PER COPY MacArthur Returns To Homeland Today To Defend Conduct HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 17—(IP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur returns today to the homeland he has not seen for 14 years to defend his conduct as Far Eastern commander. Park Says 'Anti- Scott' Feeling Killed Road Laws RALEIGH, April 17—(IP)— John A. Parks, chairman of the gover nor’s advisory Committee on High way Safety, saijl yesterday that anti-Scott feeling in the 1951 Gen eral Assembly killed measures aimed at highway safety. Park, who as editor of the Raleigh Times has frequently criticized Gov. Kerr Scott, said it appeared that the legislators ignored rec ommendations of his committee because they considered highway measures to be “pet legislation” of the governor. Park’s committee was appointed by Scott to recommend ways of cut ting the State’s highway death toll. He said the only committee rec ommendation followed by the as sembly was addition of 105 men to the State Highway Patrol. Recom mendations for a mechanical in spection program and stiffer pen alties for traffic violations were killed. Col. James R. Smith, Highway Patrol commander, said today the new patrolmen would be trained at patrol training school in Chapel Hill Hjfay 7 through June 16. He said applications for tne school should he placed immediately. The 105 new patrolmen will raise patrol strength to 528 men. ltaaa.l-r ~ - " T Two Women Badly Hurt In Accident Two women were badly injured in an accident which happened around 11:30 this morning at the intersection of N. King Ave. and W. Harnett St., Dunn police re ported. Mrs. Anna Laurel Godwin of Dunn was admitted to Dunn Hos- I Continued on Page Eight) . Deadline Set For Entries In Annual Fat Stock Show Plant Mon COTTON For Your Country’s Defense, For Your Own Profit, Security. The ousted U. S. and United Nations commander, his wife and 13-year-old son were scheduled to take off from Honolulu Interna tional Airport at 9:30 A.M. (2:30 P.M. ESTi for San Francisco. Their big four-engined Constell ation Bataan is expected to land in California eight to nine hours later—between 7:30 and 8:30 P. M. San Francisco Time (10:30 and 11:30 P. M. EST). MacArthur worked late into the night in the presidential guest house at Pearl Harbor last night on the speech he will deliver at a joint meeting of Congress in Washington Thursday. WORKS ON SPEECH He began work on the speech yesterday before his triumphant 20-mile tour of Honolulu through cheering crowds estimated at 180,000 to 200,000 persons—more than tur ned out to welcome the late Presi dent Roosevelt when he met Mac- Arthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz here in 1944. The only clue to the nature of the speech was MacArthur’s own disclosure that it would be in "gen eral ” terms. This indicated 'Le would wait until later to being defense of the Far Eastern policies that led to his removal by Presi dent Truman. He has kept a tight-lipped sil ence oh his dispute with the Tru man administration ever since his dismissal last week. Newsmen were forbidden to approach him on his arrival with his family aboard the Bataan from Tokyo early yesterday.! Refreshed by a sleep and a leis urely morning, the MacArthurs be gan their 20-mile tour {ft Hono lulu yesterday from the guest house alongside the hilltop resi dence of Pacific Fleet Commander Arthur W. Radford overlooking Pearl Harbor. The 17-car motorcade with mot orcycle police escort moved at 30 miles an hour along the six-lane highway leading from “Admiral’s Row” to Honolulu. Sun-baked laborers, colorfully dressed cannery workers and bare chested children cheered and waved at the five-star general in his first public welcome to American soil. Entries in Dunn’s Fourth Annual four-county Fat Stock Show and Sale, to be staged April 23 and 24, must be mailed in to the Dunn Chamber of Commerce by Saturday, according to an announcement made today by the show commit tee. In order to be eligible to com pete for premiums, all animals must be in place not later than 4 p.m. the following Monday, when judging begins. Two classes will be judged. The first is open to farmers, 4-H club members and Future Farmers of America. Swine are included in this class and must number three- or more to a pen. First prize is $lO, second is $8 and third is $6. A prize of $4 will be awarded to fourth place and $2 to fifth. In the second class, individual animals, the same stock growers will be eligible. First, second ond third prizes of $lO, $7.50 and $5 res pectively will be awarded. TROPHY TO WINNER The Dunn Hog Market, scene of the trials, will award a trophy to the owner of the grand champion hog. Registered service breeders' win compete only for ribbons in adult class for swine. > Following is a list,of the gom (Continued On Page^fwoi Cancer Drive Plane Are Made. the 1951 fund raising campaign Undertaken by the Amfcftban Can cer Society begins in earnest to day, the Rev. A. A. Amerine, chair man o l the local drive stolid h&s NO. 91 UN Troops Lose Contact Along 150-Mile Line TOKYO, April 17—(IP) Red resistance melted mys teriously across the entire 150-mile Korean front today for the first time since Allied troops surged across the 38th Parallel last month. a From every sector came mon otonusly repeated reports: “No contact with enemy.” But Allied forces were not teased into launch ing any headlong drive north. United Nations troops inched forward slowly but relentlessly, consolidating each new posiUon against the possibility of lighting Red counter-attacks. It appeared, however, that the communists had no immediate In tentions of accepting the challenge of the new Bth Army commander, Lt. Gen. James A. Vann Fleet, tl* . start their long-heralded spring offensive. NO RESISTANCE AT DAWN Van Fleet said in Korea yester day he would welcome a Red of fensive as “our best opportunity to kill a maximum number of them.” Even the withering enemy fire at the approaches of the huge Hwachon reservoir dam in central Korea disappeared. Heavily-censored front dispatches indicated the communists may have abandoned the mammoth concrete dam at the western end of the 14- mile long artifical lake. If so, it would mean the end of the long and bitter enemy defense of the reservoir line—and the danger of flooding out UN troops below it. The dam had proved' a major headache for weeks to Allied strate gists. In one briefing last month, it now can be disclosed, one front line general suggested the Allies themselves blow up the . dam by* Serial hojnbing rather than the Ask of being inundated during the march into North Korea. Thfe general withdrew his sugges tion after civilian affairs authorities said that it would have devastating (Continued Os Page te) State News Briefs BURLINGTON, April 17 (If! Three Burlington residents and a High Point man were held here today on charges of narcotics pos- ■ session. Police Chief D. D. Matthews said he and other officers arrested James Kirkpatrick 'at his home here Sunday night and at the same time picked up William C. Brown, Kenneth Todd and Mrs. Goldie Todd at a hotel here. Matthews said all had narcotics in their porsession and "had been taking narcotics for years.”*-* »- HENDERSONVILLE, April 17 i'j flPt—Rep. Monroe Redden says he believes Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur was removed from his command "in the national interest.” In a statement Issued at his home here over the weekend. Red den said MacArthur "is one of our greatest generals and is entitled to the welcome on returning. But I have never heard anyone , say he is a policy maker. The con trary seems to be generally hg-c j lieved." Redden added that “when all the facts are known, opinion is that the American people will reach the conclusion that it was in the nation al interest that General MacArthur be removed from his command.” ASHEVILLE, April 17—HR— The body of a IS I year-old toy who jumped to his death from the new Smokey Mountains Park Bridge here was found jn^ WaUrinsf son of (Continued On Page Six) w B i ish i b T “ qNnl 17—iIP —The 1,620-ton British sub-
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