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General Utility
Company Adds
* Tractor Line
The General Utilitv Company of'
Dunn, one of the largest cotton
and farm business lirms In this
section pf the State, has been ap
pointed as the exclusive dealer for
Thomas E. MePhall
the Feiguson Tractor and Fergu
son System implement in .Harnett
\ County. *
Myres W. Tilghman, owner, of
the company which has been ser
ving the farmers in this area since
1918, announced today that the
implements have already arrived.
The Ferguson tractor is one of
the best known tractors on the
market and is “as fine a piece of
farm equipment as anybody could
ash for,” pointed out Tilghman
Board Approves
Road Petitions
Road petitions which were ap
proved by the county commlasion-
H era on Monday and ordered for
warded to the State Highway and
-Public Works Commission were the
following: t
1. The road in Null's Creek
township which runs from Tay
lor Bt. to Buie’s Creek cemetery
and through the cemetery back
around to Taylor’s street, to fin
ish with black top surface, a dis
tance of 2,378 feet 1
2. To treat with an all weather
surface, a road leading off N. C.
I No. 421 at H. C. Rogers Store and
running northerly a distance of ap
proximately four miles to Its in
tersection With N. C. highway 210
near Neill’s Creek Baptist Church.
3. To all-weather surface that
link of road leading from N. C.
421 at Hiram Stewart’s Store about
'me mile southeast from Buie’s
Creek to W. L. Franklins, near the
intersection of this link, with State
. (Continued On Page Five)
* Hill Funeral
Services Set
Mrs. Sarah Ann Forrest Hill, 78.
mother of Mrs. David P. Clifford of
Dunn, died Tuesday night at II
o’clock at their home on South
. Orange Avenue.
* She had been in ill health for
more than a year and critically
ill for several weeks. Mrs. Hill had
been confined to her bad ever since
•breaking her hip in a fan here
16 months ago.
The body was taken to her for-
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Cost Os Korean War
Set At $5 Billion
WASHINGTON—(W—A top congressional military
expert said today that the Korean war Is costing the Unit
ed States about $5,000,000,000 a year.
Chairman George H. Mahon
(D-Pa) of the House military ap
propriations subcommittee made
the estimate in calling up for House
consideration a *56,000.000,000 bill
to finance the Army, Navy and
Air Force during the fiscal year
that started July 1.
Mahon said the record-breaking
defense appropriation includes no
thing for the Korean war. Such
funds will be extra and will be
handled In a later bill. Defense of
ficials have Insisted that they can
not say yet what the war is costing.
WILL DECREASE
Mahon emphasised that his esti
mate was Just that. He said he
based it on the best information
available for the first 12 months,
and that it would be a little less
this fiscal year If fighting continues
at the presept pace.
Little opposition was expected to
$1,000,000 Fire Strikes
Wilson Leaf Warehouses
WILSON. (UP) Fire roar
ed through the tobacco warehouse
district here today and firemen esti
mated damage at (1,000.000.
Fire Chief T. R. Blssett was in
jured when a roof collapsed under
him as he inspected damage when
the fire finally was brought under
control at 6:46 am. Several fire
men and volunteers were overcome
1 by smoke but doctors said none
wore seriously hurt.
Thai f. VJanh- Innrr Rantep d.ul
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cost (750.000 to replace. The small
Center Brick Warehouse No. 2, a
restaurant, hardware store, body
repair shop, fish market and s> uOl
mercantile establishment also were
damaged.
NO TOBACCO LOST
The entire Wilson fire depart
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Little Theatre To Present
First Production Tonight
[ Tonight the curtain of the Dunn
. High School Auditorium will rise 1
■ at 8:30 on the current Little Thea
-1 tre production of “Dear Ruth”. This
- scintillating comedy by Norman
. Krasna has laughs for all the fain- :
l ily, and Is an excellent play to i
• stgrt the Little Theatre on Its 1
■ way to becoming a permanent as- 1
I set to Dunn and this region.
The cast has rehearsed for sev- i
1 eral wegks under the direction of '
; Knox Fowler, to insure the au- '
* Hiaya of an entertaining evening. -
1 Playing the title role of Ruth is 1
! Jeanine Ennis of Coats. Miss En
! nls has appeared in many play* J
and is known In this community !
for her radio appearances. As, well 1
as a most oompeteht actress, she <
is also an accomplished singer. In 1
the play, she portrays the oldest
Wilkins daughter who is tricked '
Into a love affair by the letter
: ■ WEST POINT COACH WELCOMES CONGRESSIONAL PROBE
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1 the huge defense spending bill, big
■ gest ever In a non-world war year.
! House leaders hoped to push it to
! passage late tomorrow.
I The measure provides all but
I about (1,500,000,000 of what the
• three services had asked. It would
finance a 3,572.000 man force and
; build the air arm from its present
' 87 groups to 95 at the end of the
1 year.
s While the Pentagon deliberated
• how much to enlarge the Air Force,
1 and at what expense to other serv
. ices, Ciysvian Carl Vinson,
(D-Ga) of the House Armed Serv
■ Ices Committee suddenly announc
! ed that he would sponsor a bill
1 calling for 163 groups. Hearings
, will start promptly.
1 AIR FORCE 18 COY
1 Vinson said today that a “major
portion” of the expansion -he advo
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Leaf-Markets Slump
(By United Press)
Demand fell off yesterday for
most grades of flue-cured tobacco
on the North and South Carolina
border belt.
The United States and North
Carolina departments of agricul
ture reported lugs and cutter* fair
ly steady yesterday but said prim
ings and nondescript dropped (1 to
"ah atoffceti report!?' light fiftesT
most of them completed before
noon. Quality was unchanged, with
low to good lugs, low and fair
primings and nondescript making
up 80 per cent of the safer.
Reports on Monday’s sales show
ed 4,208,586 pounds of tobacco sold
for an average of (49.55 per hun
dred. This was (2.83 higher than
Friday’s low average of (46.72.
writing activities of her younger
ktoter.
OTHER PLAYERS
John Conner of Catonsvllte, Md.,
will act In the part of Lt. William
Seawright, the soldier who believes
Ruth to In love with him due to
the antics of her sister. Conner,
now stationed near Dunn with the
443rd Quartermaster Base Depot,
to an actor of outstanding merit
and background. As an active
member of amateur theatre groups
In Maryland, he appeared as the
leading man In several successful
presentations. He organised, di
rected and acted in the St. Mark’s
Players which produced his ori
ginal play, “Meet My Brother."
Among the plays In which he has
taken stellar roles are: “Arsenic
And Old Lace,” "Beet Foot For
ward.” and “HeaVen Can Walt.”
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Millions Sought
To Aid Chiang's
Formosa Troops,
WASHINGTON (W —The
adnjinistration has asked
Congress to approve a
$307,000,000 ai d program
for Chinese Nationalist for
ces on Formosa, it was dis
closed today.
The program, including s-me
(217,000.000 in arms shipments,
aims to help Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek modernize an army of be
tween 25 and 30 divisions. It was
reported that guns, ammunition,
trmoreu vehicles and perhaps
planes are Included In the plan.
The program would be a further
sharp reversal of U. S. policy to
ward the Nationalists. President
Truman Insisted only 18 months
ago that the United States “would
not provide military aid or advice
to Formosa.”
RESULT OF WAR
Administration sources explain
that policy toward the Nationalist
regime is an outgrowth of the Com
munist attack in Korea.
The new Formosa program has
been described in secret session to
the Senate Foregin Relations and
Armed Services committees by
Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of
state for Far Eastern affairs. It
never has been mentioned In per
functory “briefings” given news
men by Chairman Tom Connally
(D-Tex) of the foreign relations
group.
Rusk has inalted that the In
creased assistance to Chiang is for
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12th Try Takes :
Gambler's Life
DALLAS (TP) The stubborn re
fusal of Herbert Noble to identify
the persons who tried 11 times to
kill him hindered police today In
their search for dynamiters who
• succeeded on the 12th try.
Noble, dubbed “The Cat,” proved
to have more lives than his name
sake until yesterday when he was
blown to bits by a bomb which
went off beneath his automobile.
The blast shattered the car,
throwing bits of wreckage over an
area of several acres outside his
ranch near Grapevine, 35 miles
northwest of here. It occurred as
Noble stopped In front of an RFD
mailbox.
KILLER SOUGHT
Texas Rangers teamed with city,
state and federal authorities in
seeking the hired killers. A round
up of known underworld characters
In Fort Worth and Dallas was
ordered.
But otherwise, the clues were few
—a detonating battery found near
the scene, the wreckage of Ndbls’s
1941 sedan and a description of a
pick-up truck seen speeding away
shortly after the blast.
Noble was nationally known as
the “clay pigeon” of the under
world” because of the 11 previous
attemptson his life. Although he
was only 41, hto hair was pre
maturely white, indicating the ten
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FANCY STEPPER -i Twg "fßWpa,tepplng steed, Lucky Streak, wIH be one of Hfe e*tradWllrW*r«
Dunh Hone Show, to be staged here Friday and Saturday under the' sponsorship es the Lions
Club. The three-gaited championship horse comes from the Sedefleld Stables, owned by Mr. and
Mn. Arthur DeAtley es Greensboro. _
| Bumper Cotton Crop
Forecast For 1951
t WASHINGTON. (UP) The
- Agriculture Department today fore
cast a 1951 cotton crop of 17,266,000
1 bales, 7,254,600 bales more than
s last year’s crop and 5,236,000 bales
s above the 1940-49 average.
* Added to the Aug. carryover of
’ 1,900,000 bales from last year's
small crop,' this would bring the
nation’s total cotton supply for
* 1951-52 to about 19,166,000 bales.
1 Roughly 16,000,000 bales are needed
' to satisfy current domestic and ex
* port needs.
5 ACRE YIELD RISES
The crop reporting board took in
' to account an average two per cent
r loss from the near-record 29,510,000
5 acres of cotton planted this year.
* The board figured an indicated
1 .yield of 288.7 pounds per acre, com
pared to 'last year's 269.2 pounds
s and the 10-year average yield of
■ 2375.
* Weevil infestation on Aug. 1 was
s (Sharply below that of a year ago
■ and materially below the 10-year
* .average in most states. With tem
•peratures above normal and rain
fall below, the report said, weather
conditions were favorable for in
sect control.
Drought checked growth In large
/areas Os Texas, the leading cotton
totate, bat current moisture to gen
erally adequate.
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
1 The 1951 bale production and
, (last year’s production Include:
Texas, 5,000,000 and 2,946.000;
1 Mississippi, 2,000,000 and 1332,000;
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NEWSMEN VISIT HERE
I Herbert Brauff of Wilson, pub
-1 liaher of The Wilson Daily Times
; and John G. Thomas, a member
of the staff' of that newspaper,
| were visitors at*The DaUy Record
Sanitary District
Commissioners Sworn
The ton*-discussed East Er-
I
I Sfi 11 * handle district at I
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Dr. Bagby Quits
Civic Club Post
, . i
At his own request Dr. A. Paul 1
Bagby was relieved of his duties
as president of Buies Creek Civic 1
Club last night. Dr. B. P. Marsh
banks, Jr., the former vice-presi- i
dent, assumed the office of presl- 1
dent. Dr. Bagby took the vice- ;
presidency. ' )
In making the request, Dr. Bagby
explained that the state of his 1
health demanded that he divest
himself of some of the responsi- <
bihties which he had been assum- :
ing.
After the short business session :
of the club was over, the meeting )
was put in charge of S. David Smith '
of the program committee. Smith ;
called for a poll of the members
as to their Individual preferences <
in hymns and secular songs, the :
five top favorites In each class be
ing listed by each man present. A
hasty tabulation gave “Onward '
Christian Soldiers” and “Old Black
Joe” top billing in the two classes. 1
Led by Smith the rest of the meet- !
ing was taken up with close har
mony.
The usual delicious dinner was
provided by a committee of ladles M
made up of Mrs. Worth Lanier,
Mrs. J. T. Jemigan, Mrs. Asfey :
Stewart, and Mrs. A. R. Burkot. <
Smith announced that the next :
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BULLETINS
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WASHINGTON—((W)—Maurice L. Braverman, at
torney lor several Communists, was arrested today in the
government’s crackdown on the Communist Party in the
capital area. v
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The Record
Gets Results
Cadets Riled By
Softened Policy
Toward Cheaters
WEST POINT, N. Y. (UP)
Resentment of “honest” West
Point upperclassmen rose today
against the U. S. Military Acade
my’s softened policy toward cadets
who have confessed to classroom
cheating.
At least 300 seniors and sopho
mores at nearby Camp Buckner
beefed to reporters when they heard
the wayward cadets would be per
mitted to resign and become officers
later If they could rise .through
the enlisted ranks.
“The sooner they go, the better'
off we’ll be,” one upper-classman
said.
MaJ. Gen. Frederick A. Irving,
superintendent of the academy, an
nounced yesterday the softer policy
toward 80 cadets who have confes
sed, but said that 10 others who
have denied the charges would be
court-martialed and discharged, if
found guilty. ,
OTHERS IMPLICATED
“We have Investigated and we
will investigate charges that others
are involved,” Irving said. “These
90 men have submitted a list im
plicating 29 others, but we have not
uncovered any evidence to find
them guilty. If we discover others,
we will do the same as we have in
the case of the 90.”
’ Irving's announcement of a more
lenient policy because the accused
cadets were not considered crimi
nals caused the Camp Buckner up
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No Sign Given , |
On Resumption
Os Peace Talks
By Robert Vermillion
P Staff Correspondent ..
TOKYO, Thursday— <W -*•
Communist radios blared
’.-ppaganda today but gave
no reply to Gen. Matthetf T 5.
Ridgway’s message teiljjig
them to respect the neutral
ity of the Kaesong neutral
zone or face a final break in
cease-fire negotiations. ■■ --
The talks to end the Korean war
have been interrupted since Sat- £
urday and there is no indication *
when they may be resumed. •'
United Nations cease-fire nego
tiators flew back to their advance
base below Kaesong in Korea yes
terday after conferring with Ridg
way here.
HAS “NO IDEA”
”1 have 1,0 idea when the taffies
will be resumed,” Vide Adm. C.
Turner Joy, leader of the negb
tiating team, said on hto arrival In ■
Korea.
When the Communist reply doeß
come. Ridgway must decide wheth
er it is satisfactory, and if it’ is
instruct hto U. N. team that they
are authorized to go back to Kae
song. Then the time for the next
meeting must be set.
The Reds up to a late hour today •’
had ignored Ridgway's demand for
a stronger guarantee that armed ' ;
Red iroops be kept out of the Kae
song conference area.
Instead, enemy broadcasts piled
up new charges against the U. BE.
Rapid Peiping’s latest propaganda -
accused the Allies of using poleon ;
gas In Korea and flying over Chian Jg
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The followed*Tfeß- yes
terdsy that U.N. land, sea and air
forces had violated Kaesong's neu
trality without the Communists
breaking off the armistice talks.
Tne Reds said the violation Ridg
way protested was a minor acci- j
dent and said orders had been giv
en against a repetition. They asked
“immediate" resumption of the
cease-fire talks.
Ridgway angrily denied that the , ‘
accident was minor, said he doubt
ed the violation was accidental,
and demanded an ironclad guaran
tee against future violations be- ,
fore consenting. / Wftn
There seemed little prospect the
armistic conferenpes could be*"re
sumed in Kaesong before Thursday
at the earliest, and even that.pros
pect was fading as the hours-went
by w’ithout a Communis! replff'''A
CLAIM GAS J
Radio Peiping said the South Xo
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Judge Orders
Hospital Term
Cpl. James Melvin Page of
Angier, a paratrooper who entered
a plea of guilty Tuesday In Has
nett County Recorder’s Court to. '
a drunken driving charge, was or
dered to a hospital rattier thfin to
m. ■’r-MBB
Judge Floyd Taylor found tttitt
Page, suffering from servJcq-cojiS
nected Injuries, later had an auto*:
mobile accident aggravating;.JjMP
hurts. He appeared in court os %
crutches. The judge ordered the
soldier taken to the U. S. Naval
Hospital in Portsmouth, Va.^wSg
Page had been charged with ■;
running down C. M. Dupree witik
an automobUe and driving drunk.
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