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VOLUME 1
"Iron Triangle" Stronghold
Is Imperiled By Allied Drive
Operation May
Settle Fate Os
Reds In Korea
TOKYO, Tuesday, June 5
—(lP)—United Nations infan
trymen are hacking their
way into the mountains
modntains guarding the Chi
nese Red Army’s “iron tri
angle” fortress in central
Korea today.
The future of Chinese Com
munist military operations In
Korea may hinge on the success
of the Allied drive into the Chor
won-Kumhwa-Pyongyang triangle,
it was reported.
Throwing hand grenades as they
crawled over rugged peaks honey
combed with a. fantastic network
of defenses, the Allied troops made
gains of up to three miles Monday
despite pelting .rain. The rain
limited sth Air Force operations
to 250 sorties.
COUNTERATTACKS REPULSED
The Communists threw heavy
fire Into the advancing Allies and
made three strong counter-attacks
which were beaten off.
From their bunkers and deep en
trenchments. the Reds poured ar
tillery, motar, machine gun and
rifle fire into the UN lines.
It was Indicated that the Allies
have hit a main line of Communist
resistance in fortifications which
were built by the North Koreans
before the war started. U. P. war
Correspondent Robert Gibson said.
The right arm of the two-prong
ed drive advanced 1,000 to 4,000
yards Monday astride the road
between Kfimhwa and Hwachon.
The left nettled counter-attacking
Chinese in the Call-Li sector near
Yetchon. 13 mile* south-southwest,
of Chorwon.
At the eastern end of the line
Communist resistance appeared to
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Capitol
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By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT '
JUDGES ln re-appointing all
eight special judges for two year
terms, Governor Scott followed pre
cedent of his predecessors—which
he had ignored in two major re
spects in his first appointments
two years ago. Governor Scott was
the first chief executive to name
the full authorized quota of eight
special judges at one time, and the
first to decline reappointment of a
judge, except when it was deemed
necessary to continue as many
men on the special judges roll. Gov
ernor Cherry did not reappoint
Judges R. D. Dixon and Jeff D.
Johnson, because he decided the
full quota was not needed. When
Governor Scott got around to nam
ing special judges In 1949 he re
tained only two of the incumbents,
Judges Sumner Burgwyn and
George Patton. He did not reap
point Judges Luther Hamilton, Paul
Edmon so n, George Bhuford,
Charles Coggin or Peyton McSwain.
APPOINTEES Os the original
Scott appointees one died, Judge
W. P. Horton of Pittsboro, and he
was succeeded by Judge Howard
Godwin of Qunn. The special
Judges reappointed last week were:
Judges Susie Sharpe of • ReldsviUe,
George Patton of Franklin, A. R.
Crisp of Lenoir and Harold Bennett
of Asheville from the western cir
cuit: Judges W. H. S. Burgwyn of
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Suicide Ruled In
Decth Os McNeill
Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen
derson ruled today that the death
of Neill Thomas McNeill, 37, of
Broadway, Rt 1, was a plain case
of suicide and said that no inquest
will be held.
McNeill shot himself to death
with a 13 gauge shotgun Friday
afternoon at the home of his
brother-in-law, Ralph MCKimmon.
Members of the family said they
heard the shot about 13 o’clock and
rushed to him and found him dead.
Earlier, he had borrowed the shot
gun "to go kill a snake.”
Mr. McNeill left a note to the
family in which he said ha was
Coroner sheriff
TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 -31 V
Chief Stands Pat
Over Star Chamber
Request To Resign
Police Chief George Arthur Jackson, scheduled to
be ousted at tonight’s session of the city council, was
still standing his ground this morning. He has not re
signed and apparently has no intention of doing so.
Acting City Manager Charles R.
Storey said this morning that Chief
Jackson has not withdrawn his
application for reappointment, as
requested by the board.
At the last meeting of the city
council, City Manager Storey was
instructed to request Chief Jackson
to withdraw hifc application for
reappointment.
Mr. Storey notified the chief of
the board’s decision. The veteran
police chief, who has served the
town for 27 years, has conferred
with members of the board, it was
learned, but has not withdrawn ills
application.
"I never have been fired,” he
was quoted as saying, “so I just
think I'll let them fire me.”
The action of the city coun
cil was taken at the executive
session held at the last meet
ing after the new board was
sworn in. ,
Although action of the request
for Jackson's resignation was tak
en in executive session, the General
Statutes of North Carolina slate
Harnett To Participate In
School Improvement Plan
A signal honor has come to Har
nett County with its selection as
one of 10 North Carolina countlH
to participate in a Bchool Admin
istration Improvement Program,
sponsored jointly by the Kellogg
Foundation and the School of Edu
cation of the Univerity of North
Carolina.
An invitation for Harnett County
to take part in the program came
from Guy P. Phillips, dean of the
School of Education at the Uni
versity, in a letter to C. Reid Ross,
county superintendent of schools.
Ross reported to the County
Board of Education at its meeting
Friday night that the small sum
of $250 each quarter will be need
ed from county funds to finance
the program. The University and
the Kellop Foundation, which will
seek to continue the program here
Two Persons Killed In
Accident Near Benson
Two persons were killed in ac
cidents near Benson during the
weekend.
Cletus Barefoot, 23, of Benson,
Rt. 2, died in Dunn Hospital early
Sunday. The wreck in which he
was fatally injured occurred six
miles from Benson when the car
in which he was riding overturned.
Funeral services for Barefoot
were held Monday at 4 o’clock at
the Banner’s Chapel Church. The
Rev. John W. Smith of Benson
and the Rev. I. Clyde Shepard of
Erwin officiated. Burial was in
the Young Cemetery, near Fair
haven Church.
. Surviving are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Golden Barefoot of Ben
son, Rt. 3; two brothers, Roland
CAMPBELL GRADUATES - Shown above are the Harnett County students Who graduated Friday
Wxt Baihj 'j&tmtb
specifically in regard to council
meetings that “every meeting shall
be open to all persons.”
NO SECRET VOTE
In addition, the governing body
of any municipality is enjoined
from voting on or considering any
question in private session.
According to law, full records of
council sessions must be kept and
must be opened for the inspection
of any voter or taxpayer. No men
tion of the action in regard to the
police chief was included in the
printed report of the council’s May
21 session.
The three “Citizens Committee
Commissioners, Leek Coats, J. V.
Bass and R. G. Tart, have been
credited with originating the move
to fire the chief upon demand of
Chairman Oliver W. Godwin and
the Citizens Committee for Law
Enforcement.
Whether or not Mayor Ralph E.
Hanna and Commissioner B. A.
Bracey voted and how they voted
at the executive session has not
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for five years, will gay five dollars
to every dollar expended by the
county. Participation in the pro
gram Will cost Harnett' less than
10 cents for every school child
benefited, Ross said.
Board members promptly approv
ed including this item of expense
in the tentative budget which is
slated for submission today to the
county commissioners.
MAY SET PATTERN
Phillips told Harnett education
officials that the University, the
cooperating schools and the foun
dation grant will "enable us joint
ly to develop a pilot leadership pro
gram in the state which will he
significant in the future of North
Carolina public education and
may become a pattern for other
states.”
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and Wayne Barefoot, both of the
home; two sisters, Mrs. Nadine
Williams of Dunn and Mrs. Wil
burg Ennis, Benson, also one
nephew.
In the other accident, Sylvia
iLaßue Hall, 20-month-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Hall of
Four Oaks, Rt. t, was killed when
she was struck by an automobile
near Hsnson Saturday night.
According to State Patrolman
Wallace L. Morrow, who investiga
ted, the child ran out In front of
the car as ft rounded a curve on
Highway 301, five miles north of
Benson.
Morrow, who classed the accident
as unavoidable, said that no
charges would be preferred.
DUNN, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1951
Hope Seen For
Heat-Blasted
Harnett Crops
Farmers who have been
casting hopeful glances at
the sky and doubtful glances
at their crops during the
overlong drought got some
solace today from
County Agent'T. D. O’Quinn.*
Mr. O’Quinn said the long dry
s]>ell “looks bad.” but that losses
in 1951 crops will be negligible if
rain comes within a reasonable
time.
“A lot of old-timers are predicting
rain for tonight.” he stated. “I
fully believe we’ll get some within
the next two or three days.”
Pointing out that “dry weather
is noted for scaring farmers to
-death," the assistant county agent
observed that most plants are in
a healthy state now. and will
doubtless survive if they get rain
before the end of the week.
Dry weather and record high
temperatures combined over the
Week-end to make life miserable
for city dwellers and farmers alike
in this area.
Temperatures Near 100
With no wind blowing and not a
cloud in sight, the thermometer
nudged the 100 mark over most of
Harnett and neighboring counties
Saturday.
Sunday and Monday were slight
ly cooler, with some breezes noted.
But the improvement was not
marked.
Throughout the county streams
and swamps have dried up entirely
or shrunk to mere trickles.
The resulting lack of water has
been bad for small grains in par
ticular, Mr. O’Quinn said.
however, has also taken a bad lick
ing.
Early-set tobacco is not growing
off normally, but hardening, he
pointed out. Most losses have been
in later-set leaf which was put out
after the dry weather moved in.
Corn is suffering from the lack
of moisture, he continued, but will
produce a reasonable yield if it gets
rain in the near future.
Cotton, which can stand a lot of
d*j) weather without suffering, is
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Life Os Faith
Is Stressed By
Dr. S. L. Stealey
Dr. S. L. Stealey, president of
Southeastern Seminary at
Wake Forest, advised yp graduates
of Campbell College Friday “the
only thing big enough for man is
an adequate man, and that man is
Jesus!” ‘To put your faith in Man
economic, or Man psychological, or
Man intellectual is to give frag
mentary meaning to life,” he warn
ed.
Lamenting that “our world for
the past 400 years has tied itself
up with a mess of tin whistles”,
Dr. Stealey pled with the grad
uates “not to pay too,much for
your whistles.*
After processional by Mrs. Bessie
Campbell Lynch and invocation by
the Rev. Charles B. Howard, the
college choir, directed by S. David
Smith, with Ruby Gray Baker at
the piano, sang Tschenanohoff’s
“Salvation Is Created” and Saint
Saens’ “Praise Ye the Lord of
Hosts”.
After diplomas were presented,
President L. H. Campbell wished
for the 101 graduates, whom he de
scribed as "public relations repre
sentatives,” “a life that grows” and
sweeters with the years." Dr. J. W.
Angell pronounced the benediction.
| Marietta Gates of Otsego, W.
iVa., was valedictorian of the soph
omore class, with Dewey Yarley of
Coats as salutatorian. Ann South
erland of Smithfield had the
highest average ' tor the gne-year
commercial students, with Dolores
McGee of Benson as runner-up.
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Red Threat In East Prompted
Concessions To USSR At Yalta
Move Was Aimed
At Conserving
U. S. Strength
WASHINGTON, June 4
(IP)—Secretary of State Dean
AGheson said today that
cohcessions were made to
the Russians at Yalta be
cause of “grave danger” they
would wait until we had
spent our strength defeat
ing Japan and then “come
in and do what they wish
ed.’
Also. Acheson told Senate Mac-
Arthur investigators, military lead
ers at that time anticipated a “very
bloody and terrible” battle in at
tacking the homeland islands of
Japan, and “it was of the utmost
ifnjortance that the Russians
should come into the war in the
Fa* East, in time."
return for entering the war
against Japan, Russia under the
1945 Yalta agreement won the
southern half of the Sakhalin Is
lands ariß restoration of her former
rights in Port Arthur and Dairen,
Manchuria, and of her former in
terest in two Manchurian railways.
Republican critics of the adminis
tration have called the agreement
a t'sell-out” of Chiang Kai-Shek’s
Nationalist Chinese government by
the United States.
Defends China Policy
In his third day before the Sen
ate committee investigating the dis
missal of Gen. 'Douglas MacArthur
from supreme command in the Far
East. Acheson put on a fighting de
fense of American China policy dat
ing back to the 1945 agreement.
’Now there was very little doubt
that (the Russians) would c«nae in
(iato. Far Eastern tern to i*), but
-IBB' grave danger was thax they
would really wait until the wa* was
over, and they would then come
in and do what they wished."
Besides, said the embattled Sec
retary of State, the late President
Roosevelt didn’t give the Russians
anything at Yalta that they could
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First Large
Army Group
Arrives Today
Officers and men of the
443rd Quartermaster Base
Depot rolled into Dunn
this afternoon and started
settling down for the big
Army maneuvers which
will get underway on Aug
ust 13th, and continue
through September 2.
Colonel Murdoch K.
Goodwin of Philadelphia,
commanding officer of the
unit, arrived in town sev
eral hours earlier and was
on hand to greet the
troops.
Colonel Goodwin point
ed out that the 125 enlist
ed men and 30 officers
who arrived today are the
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State News
Briefs
RALEIGH. June 4 OR —Two
white men escaped from the Samp
son County prison camp last night,
State Prison officials announced
today.
The fugitives were identified as
Allen Colon Ward. 32, of White
ville, and Walter Stanley Lawson,
36, of Orrum.
Ward was serving terms totaling
10 to 14 years for secret assault
with a deadly weapon with Intent
to kill. He was convicted in Col
umbus County In February. 1948.
Lawson was convicted In Robeson
County last November of forgery
and sentenced to three years.
FORT BRAGG, June 4~<m—The
82nd Airborne Division started k.
Jump school to train airborne vol
unteers today, Maj» Elden C. Camp
bell, school commandant, announ*
The school ms established to
sfcve time end money In sending
Imps to Fort feenning, GNu tori
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' Theatre on the Campbell College campus makes these two outstand
ing Campbell students twice as pretty as nature made them. Nancy
Marshbanks, left, was chosen to receive the school’s athletic award
this year. Bonnie Lynch, right, was selected for the best all-around
award. Both girls are natives of Buie’s Creek. (Daily RecqrtkPhoto
hk T. M. Stewart.) \
Woman , Daughter
Injured In Accident
Two Illinois tourists were badly
injured this morning when an
other tourist crashed through a
red light at the corner of W. Broad
St. and N. Ellis Ave. and smashed
into the car in which they were
riding.
Mrs. Margaret Ruth Dowell, 26,
of London Mills, 111., was
to Dunn Hospital with a fractured
spine, and her daughter, Rose
Marie, age 5, entered the hospital
with cuts and bruises and possible
internal injuries.
Officers said that Thomas E.
Allen. 23, of 3275 W. 141st St.,
Cleveland, Ohio, was going south
and ran through the red light and
hit the 1949 Ford, headed west on
Broad, and driven by Marvin
Chester Dowell, 30, of London
Mills, 111.
Allen told Policemen G. W.
Riley and J. F. Hassell that he
failed to see the stop light. He
assumed ful responsibility for the
accident.
Neither Allen nor Dowell was in
jured.
Cuats Constable
Causes Confusion
A delegation of Coats citizens
handed the county commissioners
a rather warm potato today —and
the commissioners handed it right
back.
The delegation, headed by Her
bert Johnson, asked the commiss
ioners, holding their June session
today, to appoint a new constable
for ihe town, whose Constable W.
J. Sauls moved to Sanford some
six moqjbhs ago.
The Coats citizens said their
town board has written Sauls
for hit resignation, but so far bad
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BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, June 4—(lP)—The Supreme Court to
day upheld the conviction of 11 Communist Party Head
ers for conspiring to teach the violent overthrow of the
PARIS, June 4—(lP)—Russia agreed today to attend
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The Record
Gets Results
Horse-Drawn
Cotton Sprayer
Demonstrated
The first skirmish in the all
out 1951 battle against the boll
weevil was fought quietly on a
farm near Dunn last Wednesday.
The - occasion was the first for
mal demonstration of the Lynch
horse-drawn cotton sprayer, a
novel invention which allows the
lint farmer to deal deadly doses
in wholesale lots to boll weevils.
Worked out and produced at the
Lynch Manufacturing Company in
Dunn, the sprayer enables the
farmer to cut spraying time by
two-thirds, according to Herman
Neighbors, manager of Tart’s Gin
No. 1, where the machine is on
sale.
The sprayer proved itself “the
most perfect thing I’ve seen in
the way of poisoning cotton,” Mr.
Neighbors said, commenting on
the two-hour demonstration held
at Ben C. Denning’s farm near
Dunn.
COST IS LOW
As for statistics, Mr. Neighbors
said that the cost of the operation
runs from 35 cents an acre for
young cotton to $1 an acre for
mature plants. To spray a one
acre field 10 times a season would
cost only sl2, he added.
The spraying tubes are con
structed to cover six rows sim
ultaneously. As the cotton grows
large, nozzles are added to spray
er to Increase the flow. Up to 18
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NO. 125
School To Use
Dunn Armory
As Gymnasium
Conversion of the gymnasium at
the Dunn High School to a cafe
teria was approved Friday night
by the County Board of Education
at its meeting in Lillington at the
county education building.
At the same time the board also
suggested that a rental contract
with the Town of Dunn be drawn
for use of the armory for the high
school’s physical education pro-'
gram.
Education board members also
named Dr. C. B. Codrington. Dunn
Negro physician, as a member of
the advisory committee of the
Harnett County Training School.
In addition to careful study of
the tenative budget, the board
members voted to renew the con
tract for an annual audit of the
county education board funds by
Thurman Ennis, Dunn accountant
Sidney G. Thomas, Broadway!
Rt. 1, is chairman of the county
board, and other members include
Charles U. Skinner. Jr„ Dunn; W.
E. Nichols. Coats: J. R. Baggett,
Jr., Lillington; and W. M. Pear
son. Chalybeate Springs..
Pearson is expected to retire
shortly. A. C. Barefoot who will
succeed Pearson, was unable to
be there Friday night.
Harnett County will add an as
sistant to the county superintendent
of schools next year if the wishes
of the county board are followed.
Board members recommended
' that the county employ such a
person effective with the new
fiscal year in July, pay him an
annual salary of $5,250 and allow
him $75 a month for travel ex
[Penses.
J This.. itezjLs .waflhg. pthers, were
to be sent with the tenative school:
budget to the county commissioners
Monday for final approval.
C. Reid Ross, county school sup
erintendent, said that the Board
of Education had asked him sev
eral months ago to talk with the
State Department of Public In
struction about the possibility of
using one of the State-alloted sup
ervisors as an assistant superin
tendent in charge of instruction.
Ross notified the board on Friday
night that Dr. J. Henry Highsmith,
State director of insttuctional ,
services, had approved their sug
gestion, pointing out that the
neighboring county of Wake and
others had similar assistants.
No candidate for the job has been
named as yet.
Benson Gets New
Chief Os Police
Johnny G. Medlin, \ Elevation
Township farmer and a former
Johnston County deputy (sheriff,
has succeeded Aaron Johnson as
chief of the Benson Police Force.
The change was mafle Friday
following the resignation, of John
son from the post. After six years
as police chief, Johnson submitted
his resignation to the town board
at their meeting Tuesday night, v:
Naming of. a successor to Benson
Policeman Percy Owens, who also j
resigned, has been deferred for the
time being. Others remaining on
the police force are Carson Mc-
Lamb and E. N. McLamb.
Chief Medlin served as a deputy
under the late Kirby Rose and
later under C. L. Denning. He was
released as a deputy when Sheriff
Barnio A. Henry took office last ’
December.
Town officials reappointed at the
Tuesday night session were Julian
Godwin, town clerk; N. L. Duncan,
water and light superintendfcs&:
and Fire Chief H. O. Dixon.
Swimming Pool Will” • ?
Open Here Tuesday «^g|
Coach Paul Waggoner announoed
today that the swimming pool wig
open Tuesday morning at 10 O’CmU,
The pool is better equipped this :
year with two diving boards agg{|
concrete on two sides, he
One diving board is one meter
and the other one is three ttiriWi
high.
Prices will remain as
Admission for children
school age '“ill be nine
those of school age the pricerSM
be 20 cents. Admission for adriM
Thursdays have been set aMgSj
age.
Waggoner asked that anyone