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+WEATHER+ Mostly fa - and continued rather hat tonight and Saturday. • VOLUME 1 Plane With 39 Aboard Missing Over Jungle Airliner Fails To Return To African Field DAKAR, French West Af rica, June 22—(IP)—A Pan American Airways Constell ation carrying 39 persons from South Africa to New York was missing today. It was believed to have crashed in the steaming jungles of laberia. The plane lost radio contact af ter passing over Roberts Field at Monrovia, Liberia. It ran into a violent rain storm and radioed at 1:30 ajn. (11:30 Thursday EDTi that it was returning to Monrovia In 15 minutes to land. Nothing has been heard since. British and French search planes were flying low over the river slashed, rain soaked jungle country and Uie rugged Kru, Grain and Ivory coasts without finding a trace of the plane. SEARCH IS SPREAD Every available plane in the area was thrown into the search over the jungles and rough plains of Liberia, which established as a Re public in the early 1800’s as a hav en for freed American slaves. All commercial planes on the route along the big bulge of Africa’s west coast were alerted. The plane carried 30 passengers and a crew of nine. Pan American said the plane had fuel to remain airborne only until 11 a. m. (7 a. m. EOT). (In New York, the air line said only three or four persons on the plane were bound there. The 'air line identified the pilot as Capt. Frank J- Ogawford, 38, of Hunt l Ca»tinned on Page 7) Jims JhintfA BY HOOVER ADAMS ’SANSON TELLS A GOOD .. JITORY—ON HIMSELF Elder T. H. Sanson an ardent Presbyterian and a great story teller has been telling a good one on himself since last Stmday morning. Mr. Sanson cotton buyer for Johnson Cotton Company is one of the most faithful and also one of the hardest working members of the Dunn Presbyteifan Church. He dan always be counted on for any work that’s to be done. Last Sunday morning, Mr. San som decided it would be a fine thing to go out and bring a car load of the soldiers into town to attend church. He drove out and loaded his car. He very obligingly offered to take the soldiers to any church they preferred—hoping all the time, of course, that they’d go with him to the Presbyterian Church. As fate would have it, Mr. San som picked up a load of Baptists (Centimed on Page 7) . , * i TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119 YDC Committees Are Named; Sen. Allsbrook To Speak Membership chairmen in every Harnett County precinct except Averasboro are busy this week pro moting new members and attend ance at the Young Democrats rally planned for June 29 at 8 p. m. in the courthouse. in Lillington. State Senator Julian Allsbrook of Roanoke Rapids, who has served several terms in the Senate from Halifax County, will be the guest speaker. All Democrats, old or young, are Invited to attend the party meeting. A slate of temporary county of ficers headed by Exum Tutor of Duncan, was recently named to di rect the affairs of what backers hope will become a well-organized Young Democrats Club. Previous ly Averasboro had its own club, but promoters would like to see all sec (Continued On Page Five) PMA Land Measuring St 40 Per Cent Complete Kyle Harrington, chief of the Pro duction and Marketing Administra tion in Harnett County, today re ported that measurements of the county’s 22,448.4 acre allotment of flue cured tobacco is about 4i> per cent finished. It is hoped to-have the work completed by June 30 or the end of the federal fiscal year. Harringtodn said the task of checking 3,871 tobacco farms is progressing rapidly under the di rection of six supervisors. The su pervisors with the townships in which they work, follow: John Henry Pope, A versa boro one and two, and Duke; M. R. Currln in Harnett Men Join Army Arid Air Force Four more men from Harnett County volunteered for the Army and Air Force during the week end ing June 23, Sgt. Winfield Pickett, local recruiter, announced today, John Lundle Adams, Benson, Rt. 2, Rayvon Tart, Dunn, Rt. 3, and David Shelton Raynor of Benson chose the Air Force and were sent to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex., for training. Thomas Ennis Cooper of Coats, Rt. 1, joined the Regular Army and was sent to Fort Jackson, S. C„ (Continued on Page 7) (Eh? B aihj Recreation Halls Opened For Soldiers * Fellowship Hall is now open for the servicemen and women each day from 4 to 10 p. m. at the Divine Street Methodist Church, it was | announced this morning by the i Rev. Joyce V. Early, pastor of the < church. A committee composed of Mrs. ; Maylon Parker. Mrs. Pat Tart and Mrs. Earl Vann has worked hard j to make the room attractive and members of the church contributed furniture and equipment for the recreation center. Among equipment are a, piano ana radio, facilities for writing letters, playing ping-pong, shuffle board and other games. The Wesleyan Service Guild has j taken the work as a project. Mrs. Frank Wilson is president of the i guild. A social will be held at the church | each Saturday night, Service men ana women are urged to take ad vantage of these facilities. Baptists Open Center The First Baptist Church has opened a Servicemen’s Recreation Center in the basement of the church. Hours will be 4 until 10 p. m. each night. The basement of the church, re cently painted, is equipped with ping pong tables, dart boards, checkers, dominoes, radios, a cold drink box, a candy machine, maga zines and other items placed there (Continued On Page Five) Black River and Grove; Hector Green, Hector's Creek, Buckhorn and NelU’srCreek; C. G. Collins, Lil lington and Upper Little River one and two; Mack McDonald in An derson Creek and Stewart’s Creek; C. C. McDonald in Barbecue arid Johnsonville. May Ask Recheck The supervisors, Harrington said, have employed around 43 men to assist in the surveying task but spot check workers in their areas themselves, or call on the services of county compliance supervisor Tyree C. Kendall. If any grower is discontented with his determined acreage on his farm, he may, with in five days, notify his PMA com mittee and have his acreage re checked. Cost for this service is 60 cents an acre, or a minimum of three dollars a farm. This year surveyors not , only measure the amount of land plaht ed in tobacco, but also ask the farmer to estimate the amount of tobacco and cotton he will produce. This is a part of the federal gov ernment’s effort to stimulate growth of more cotton. Harrington said, for example, this year Har nett County farmers have planted, he estimated, from eight to 10 thousand more acres of cotton than , they did last year. At any rate rechecking is cheaper than overplanting, Harrington (Continued On Page Five) DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951 Fighters Run (•Day Dogfight Score to 29 TOKYO, June 22—«P)—U. S. fighters destroyed or dam aged five more Communist jets over northwest Korea today to run their six-day told to 29. American F-86 Saberjets shot down two Russian-built MIG-15S, damaged three more and chased the survivors to the Manchurian border in two blazing air battles. U. S. sth’ Air Force planes also hit four Communist airfields, one of them just south of the Man churian frontier, to prevent their use by ‘i e Red air force in an anticipated Communist ground of tfesive. THIRD OFFENSIVE SEEN , There was speculation that Red ’ ground forces might launch what 3th Army commander Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet called a “thlrd j round offensive” on or before the first anniversary of the Com munist invasion of South Korea | next Monday. ! An Bth Army spokesman report ed the Communists were becom-. ing increasingly aggressive all' along a 55-mile front from below j Kumsong on the central sector, to the east coast. The Reds launched several prob ing attacks on this front and Allied patrols stabbing out as much' ] as seven miles ahead of the main UN lines found evidence of an enemy buildup just south of Kum song itself. Kumsong, 29 miles north of the 38th Parallel, is believed the prin cipal Communist staging area in central Korea. There was no late word from the western front whether Bth Army troops had occupied Kaesong, three miles south of the parallel and last important South Korean town held by the Reds. NO REDS IN KAESONG UN partols entered Kaesong twice yesterday, but pulled back south for the night. They found thevpitv empty of ehemy troops, opt 1,050 Reds were entrenched ><sn heights to the northwest. Today marked the fifth time in six days that Communist jets have challenged Allied air supremacy over northwest Korea. Maj. Franklin L. Fisher of Lake Arthur, La., destroyed one MIG and damaged another in the en suing battle. Several hours later, 'l6 more Sabrejets spotted 20 MIGS while on a sweep in the same area. First Lt. Raymond Barton, Jr., of Augus ta, Ga., damaged one of them be fore the formation could escape to the safety of Manchuria out of bounds for American planes. No Allied losses were reported. Night Classes Open With 19 Students Classes in special vocational courses opened Tuesday night at Campbell College with an enroll ment of 19 students, B. W. Jenkins, business administration head, an nounced today. Jenkins expressed satisfaction at the first night's attendance and said that he expects an even larg er enrollment before registration closes Monday night. If the success of the project con tinues, he stated, the courses may be held over during the regular fall school quarter. Typing, shorthand and bookkeep ing classes will meet each Mon day and Wednesday from 7 until 9 p. m. The following students were the (Continued on Page Eight) “Lack Os Spirit” Blamed For Nationalist Defeats SSK' V ‘ *•« ... KjjpyD i y f # pi NARROW ESCAPE Sgt. Bob Wright (In white shirt) and Pvt. Phillip Johnson, Philadelphians stationed at Pope Air Force Base, examine the light plane which nearly carried them to their deaths late Thursday afternoon. The undercarriage of the 1947 Aeronca snagged four liightension wires as Pilot Wright was bringing the ship in lor a landing at Lillington Airport. Electric service was shut off for three hours in two Harnett communities after the crash. Neither flier was injured. . (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.) Two Flyers Cheat Death When Plane Hits High-Power Wire McCullers Wins Army Deferment The Army has brought a smile back to the face of Joe McCuller*s Dunn Chamber of Commerce man ager, by deferring his recall to ser vice until Nov. 15. McCullers was notified Wednes day by a telephone call from Third Army Headquarters, Atlanta, Ga.. that he would not be called into service June 27, as originally sched uled. Friday morning he received a telegram from Lt.-Gen. John H. Hodge, commanding general of tlfe Third Army, confirming the defer ment notice. The notification came after Mc- Cullers spent weeks bouncing Dunn, Raleigh, Washington and Atlanta like the shuttlecock in a badmin ton game. McCullers. with the aid of interested directors of the Cham ber of Commerce and representa tives of the local tobacco market, buttonholed Army brass from the Pentagon to Atlanta in an attempt to win a deferment for the reserve major. Replacements Needed Chamber directors pleaded that McCullers be deferred long enough to allow him to train a replace ment. Such noted tobacconists as (Continued on Page Eight) . Youth Turned Over To Juvenile Court Weldon Thomas, Dunn Negro boy who was hauled into Recorder's Court Thursday on a larceny charge, was turned over to county Juvenile Court authorities for trial when the court learned he was only 16 years old. Young Thomas was listed on the warrant as 16 years of age. He was accused of stealing a wrist watch valued at ISO from the prem ises of Frances Roberson. Robert Mcßryde, Negro, of N. Fayetteville Av., convicted of steal ing a .46 caliber Spanish revolver from X. H. Melvin and later as (Continued on Page 7) . No Left Turn Motorists, horsemen, bicycle drivers and others are going to find It unprofitaMe to asake left turns at the Intersection of X. Bread St. and WBmd Ave. from now on. The Town of Bonn today lamed an ordinance which makes It a jta?aadkoirM^days^to^the^krig! •“lAnfdmwn vehicle, orbfcyelo, Is any pirtiin of the intareoc- * FIVE CENTS PER COPY Two Philadelphia, Pa., Air Force men wore all the luck off their rabbits’ feet late Thursday after noon when they flew into lour high-tension electric power lines, belly-whopped on the field at Lil lington Airport—and walked eway without a scratch between them. Their 1947 model Aeronca two seater didn't fare quite as well, though. Sgt. Bob Wright, owner and pilot of the plane, estimated the damage at S6OO. Most of the damage was done to the under carriage and the underside of the ship. The propeller miraculously missed being shattered. Wright said that he and a pass enger,' Pvt. Phillip Johnson, left Pope Air Base at Fort Bragg, where they are stationed, for a short spin yesterday afternoon. Deciding to land at Lillington around 6 p. m., Wright approached the field from the west across Highway 201. DIDN’T SEE LINES The sergeant said later that he did not see the high tension wires which run parallel to the highway next to Lillington Airport As soon as he felt the undercar riage snag the wires, the pilot con tinued, he pulled the nose of the ship up and gave the engine full throttle. Four power lines snapped and the plane fell some 30 to 36 feet to the ground, landing on its belly and skidding a short distance. It came to rest about 50 feet east of the high-tension wires. Service to the Neill’s Creek sec tion and the McKjenny’s Cross roads community was cut off for about three hours, J. L. Roberts, Lillington representative for Caro lina Power and Light Company re ported today. CREWS WERE DELATED He said that line and service crews were out on a call in another section of the county and were de layed in getting to the airport to (Cmtinned Ob Page Five) BULLETINS THE HAGUE; Netherlands, June 22—JW—Great Brit tain asked the International Court of Justice today for a temporary injunction to restrain the Iranian govern jnent from taking over the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. * The Record Gets Results Scout Leaders Map Out Plans Under the chairmanship of Waite ■ W. Howard, president of Harnett County District, Boy Scouts of Am erica, the executive committee of the organization met In Dunn to night to map out plans for pro motion of scouting for the coming year. Others present were J. K. Bru , ton of Erwin, finance chairman; John D. Follett of Buie’s Creek, or ganization and extension chair man; and Norman Suttles of Fay . etteville, field executive for Harnett and Cumberland counties. Plans were mapped out for an increase of 20 per cent from the total of 450 scouts now in the , county. Seven new units were pro jected, to be divided between cub packs, scout troops, and explorer posts. WILL OFFER RIBBON The plan to offer a ribbon to all existing units which recruit five new members during the fall was again put into the program. This , worked most successfully last year. Two county Boy Scout camporees were projected, the first in Octo ber, the second In March. These are in addition to participation in the Occoneechee Council camporee In May and full attendance at the summer program at Camp Durant next esummer. Plans were also made for contin uance of the training of volunteer adult leaders and for realization of the goal of at least two trained leaders for each troop. Suttles reported most satisfactory progress in Harnett County scout ing for the past year. Most troops i (Continued on Tnge 1) * ‘ Suttles reported most satisfactory progress in Harnett County scout ing for the past year. Most troops (Continued on Tnge ft * “ no. m General Says j U. S. Innocent * In Red Victory WASHINGTON, June 22 f (IP) —Maj. Gen. David S. -] Barr, who once headed an American military mission i to China, said today tli® Chinese Nationalists “never' 1 lost a battle” for lack of arms but were whipped by the Chinese Reds because they lacked “offensive spir it.” Barr flatly rejected charges that the U. S. government is ts blame 1 for the Communist conquest of China because it did not give Chi- | ang Kai-Shek's Nationalist regime enough military support. The General, until February • commander of the Seventh Infan try Division in Korea, testified be fore the Senate committee investi gating Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s _ : dismissal as Far Eastern cometan- ’ l der. He sharply dissented ftom MacArthur’s publicly promoted pro posals for expanding the war against Communist China. s RECEIVE SECRET MESSAGE Before the senators started ques tioning Barr, they received into the committee record a once-sec ret message in which Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway, shortly’after his arrival in Korea last December, - j disclosed that MacArthur wanted’ to use Chiang’s troops on Formo- VS sa against the Reds in South China. MacArthur has said several time* since his dismissal last April that he favored use of these Nation alist forces against the Oommun }sts but would let Chiang say j ■Where. , ... . .feja Barr, however, doubted C.hinMfosJ troops could contribute much to the United Nation's cause. He was called primarily for testimony on his experience in China in 1948 " | and early 1949 when he was ir U- j Itary adviser to Chiang in tha ,vil (Continued On Page TwoT J H®- 1 DR. D. C. WOODALL, shown here, has been installed as pres ident of the Erwin Lionc Club for the routing year. Dr. Wood all has been active in the Br win civic club since its organi zation and is also a leader in other affairs of the town; and connty. Other new officers .of the club are: A. R. Marley, first,- vice president: Melvin Stevei* . : second vice president; and B. ' G. Thomas, third vice - wMfejja dent; Louis Dearborn, some- ■ ; tary - treasurer; Morton Wil liams. tail-twister; and Leon idas Jackson and J. K. Bruton, directors. The elub officers now making plans tor. njBWMil gram of activity for tfco'-yonf.’. Farmers Hefo With fell HI Neighbor's,Crop isl g mere in Harnett Conhty (Mteue' that actions speak louder than kiio^ ylttU ~fe This is a busy wasonoa '#lll
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