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fentee change UndghtTnd Sri mday. »OI,PME 1 i » P- ‘, .. ?/"-' *", I • I -' ’ •, - Ztart Hurh« / 9 „| “ ‘ “!"£ W a be| *“ Tuerf»y morninf. The distinction of being the first to arrive with a load went to hi “” l » S *, mp “ n * h ?“ f *• *• Jernl ** n ot Rt SHe brought his tobacco to the Grower,' . where he seUs each year. Warehousemen Dick Owen and Billy Frank Celsor. on hand to,welcome the farmers, predicted J tobacco would bring 70 cents a pound. Left to right are: Buddy Jackson, Rodney Chestnutt, Celsor, J. W. Ennis, Owen f Th * F * rmer * “ d Growers warehouses last year sold a million pounds more than the year before and Owen said this \ Zt* Golden Weed Rolls Into Warehouses As Dunn Market Prepares To Open Tuesday 'v. i —r* Korean Demand Denied By U. S. WASHINGTON (W —Shocked American officials turned thumbs down today on South Korea’s at tempt to collect a quick $100,000,000 “debt” from the United States. The South Koreans did some > fancy bookkeeping and made a 110. . eral interpretation of a war-time agreement to reach the conclusion that the United States owes them $100,000,000. South* Korea wants the money now. The United Siates mar P*r South Korea some dollars at this time but nothing near the amount requested. BILL PRESENTED South Korean Ambassador Yu Chang Yang presented the bill for $100,000,000 yesterday to Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs. Yang told reporters later that the United States owed that sum for Bouth Korean currency which his country turned over to the U. S. Army. The American Army used the South Korean currency to hire local laborers, buy some supplies on the open market and pay rent on American-occupied buildings. The U. S. Army also sold some of ' the South Korean currency to American troops for spending mon ey. Yang told reporters that the tJ. S. acknowledged the debt, did not question the sum, and favored quick payment. But American officials disputed these statements ,as well as Soutn (Continued On Page Four) ; • v -COTTON Ip.m. prices NEW YORK - (W Oct. 34,68: Dec. 34.63. NEW ORLEANS W Oct 34.63; Dec. 3454. k RALEIGH tffl - Hog markets: Clinton: Mullet steady. Top 22.50 for good and choice 180-240 lb. bur- Dunn, Washington, Kinston, Lura berton, Marlon, Fayetteville, Vlor- Greenville, Wilson, Rocky Mount, . BnUthlie^: Btcady at 22 00 , TELEPHONES; 3117 - Silt - 3119 " ■ : The golden weed started roltinfe- into Dunn’a big tei baeco warehouses early this morning and by the time of the opening Tuesday morn ing at 9 o’clock all of the five warehouses here are expec ted to be full. First load of tobacco was brought td the Growers’ warehouse this morning by Robert Hughes Jemigan of Dunn, Rt. 5, son of former Sampson Sheriff A. A. Jem igan. He brought several basketfuls of top-graded tobacco and Warehouse men Dick Owen and Billy Frank Celsor predicted it will bring 70 cents a pound when sold Tuesday. A busy weekend is expected at Buck Currin’s Big-4 Warehouses and at the Fanners’ and Growers Warehouses as tarmers bring in their first offerings on the local market PREDICT 12 MILLION POUNDS Both bun-in and Owen are pre dicting that sales this year will total at least 12 million pounds, in comparison with last years’ sales ot eight and a half million. For the first time In Its four-year history, the Dunn market this year will have foreign buy4rs. Sales Su pervisor Joe McCuUqrs announced yesterday that Imperial Tobacco Company has assigned Howard Slmmonse as a buyer on the local market All of the -other big companies, along with the Independent com panies, will be represented on the Dunn market Competition will be keen, thus assuring the farmers the top dollar for their entire to bacco crop here. BOARD MEETS MONDAY Dunn’s Tobacco Board of Trade will meet Monday morning at 10 o’clock to reorganise for the year and to deckle In which warehouse sales will be held first. Both warehouse groups will have a sale every day. Supervisor McCullers aakl today that he is expecting all of last year’s sellers beck again this year, along with thousands of farmers who have not sold here before. “Farmers throughout this section are realizing,’' he sain, “that the Dunn market is the beat place, the nearest and most convenient for pitting their tobicoo crop.” /> —» Guest Pastor Jt. t»,. I O. Site JBailu Ttetnrfl i1 5 \ ; Paving In Erwin May Begin Within Next Fifteen Days 1 Band To Give Variety Show A one-hour jnusical variety show featuring Burt Massingale and his band will be presented Sunday by the Special Service Section of the Third Army Service Command in the Lillington and Dunn high schools. The program, which will Include four novelty acts and will feature Singer Betty Ann Knight, will be presented in Dunn at 6:30 p. m and in Lillington at 8:30 p. m. for the benefit both of civilians and Army troops located in Harnett County. Admission will be free to civilians and servicemen alike. The shows will be under the su pervision of Capt. Martin A. Koett ler, Special Service Section com mando: for the Third Army Service Command area, and Sgt. David Gillard, in charge of the Harnett County area. The following Lillington girls will (Continued On Page 4) DRIVERS MUST WAIT Harnett motorists who want there drivers' licenses renewed will have to wait another week. Ed Wade, local driving license examiner, left today for summer encampment with the National Guard. The State office was unable to secure a replacement for the com ing week, but will have one In Har nett the following week. BULLETINS' WASHINGTON («f>) —Administration leaders said to day that they have enough votes to defeat House GOP attempts to cut $1,590,000,900 from the $7,848,750,000 for eign aid program. PUSAN, Korea (KPS)— South Korea disclosed today it has instructed its envoy in Washington to protest a pro posed 00 per cent slash in U. S. funds for the war-ravaged ' I __ TEHRAN (fffl)—Tanks and truckloads of police were rushed to Tehran’s central mosque today to block a threat ened Nationalist demonsration against concessions in the | Ap%kj-aToil dispute. < ' kiJ‘ 1 ■ DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1951 Paving of streets in Erwin, by the State Highway Department is expected to begin within two weeks, J. Thomas West, union manager and sparkplug of the town’s drive for more streets, said today. West added That the town may get the full 5.6 miles of roads ori-’ ginally requested, rather than the 3.9 miles allotted by the Harnett board of commissioners. He said he is awaiting word from George oble. Sixth District highway commissioner, on pefi tions for the additional 1.7 miles of paving. REQUEST CUT DOWN The union manager and other members of Local 250, Textile Workers Union of America, peti tioned the board at its August meeting for nearly six miles of blacktop. The commissioners par ed the request to 3.9 miles in send ing it along to the State High wav Commission. This week West sent special pe titions to Commissioner Coble asking that the original amount of mileage be granted the unincor porated town. He said an arnsj; is expected momentarily. Meanwhile, road building equip ment is expected to be moved in to Erwin before the end of toe month.- West quoted Coble as say ing “you’ll have blacktop In Erwin before cold weather.’ In case the town has to limp along on 3.9 miles of paving, West said it is planned to have all toe new road-surfacing run on east west streets only. That way, he explained, toe larger part of the (Continued on Page Two) Hope For Compromise On Truce Line Rises Sharply Wreck Kills One, Injures 1 Six Others Mrs. Rosa Brown, 55, of \ 43 Ravina Street, Yonkers, . N. Y., died in Dunn Hospital | this morning at 2 o'clock as 4&he result of an accident last Aight in which six other per sons were injured. The accident occurred when an automobile being operated by Andrew Clark, 21, of 225 Grove St., White plant, N. Y., overturned be tween Benson and Four Oakc. ! State Patrolman David Mat thews of Dunn investigated. He said today that the accident was ■till under Investigation. 5 Mrs. Brown suffered a frac tured pelvis and abdominal in- I fj? Juries. Others Injured In the accident were: / Andrew'.Clark, the driver, a * fractured spine. | William Clark, 48, his cousin, S |. who resides at 195 Woodworth Avenue, Yonkers, New York, a broken left leg, broken right leg .!. . And a possible fracture of the right arm. P Margaret Clark, 46, his wife, i f light hip fractured. Ir. Eloise Clark, 7, their daugh- J , ter, shock and lacerations. Rusocener Clark, another r daughter, shock and minor in- Ernestine Logon, 13, of 136 f& Kdgwcombc St, New York City, (Continued On Page U** LATTA WILL LEAVE The Rev. W. M. Latta, who ban been rector of tS. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, for the past three and a half years, Is leaving earily in September to become rector of St Paul’s Church, Loalsburg. He will also serve as chalplaln to the Epis copal students at Wake Forest College. Legion Seeks New Members Dunn Post No. SB of the Ameri can Legion opened its annual mem bership campaign this morning with a goal of 345 members by Jan. 1. Commander Paul G. White has appointed Kle Hudson, past com mander, to serve as chairman of the drive. The present membership of the Legion is 228. At one time, the post had nearly 500 members. Chairman Hudson said this morning that contests will be held between teams and other events will be staged to put this cam paign over the top. Members of Chairman Hudson's membership committee are: Paul White, Keith Finch, Roy Brown, Charles Lee, Belvln Strickland, C.j T. McGugan, S. T. Quigley and Billy Godwin. Dunn Firm Seeks Old Refrigerator If ywu've been casslng s wheezing old refrigerator of vintage make which dees lit tle except grew! and tasks and refuse to make lee cakes then yea're due for a pleasant surprise. That Information comes from TLontra and Warren Furni ture Company of Dana, which la seeking the oldest refrigera tor still In nee in Damn and vicinity. The company not only wants to find the oldest refrigerator hereabouts, hat is offering a brand-new FhUeo refrigerator— free—for it. Other prizes to the .search tpf tfrtr Most inrkiftt fgg| fMII tor to these parte ran the total cash rate# to about S6OO. Sec ond prise will So a PhUoe ra- A remto^^frJJchalnnan fIVE CENTB PER COPY jj NATIONAL WINNER William Wellons, Dunn appliance dealer, national grand prize winner in $50,000 refrigerator sales contest, is presented keys to a 1951 Buick in Chicago by W. E. Macke, merchan dise manager, Hotpoint, Inc., who said that Wellons’ outstanding record Is a reflection of the general business growth of the Caro lines. Mr. and Mrs. Wellons were special guests of the appliance company for three days in Chicago. Included in their schedule was a guided tour of\ the eempnay’s automatic washer, dryer, and push button range plants, an International golf meet and a big league baseball game. No Clues Developed In Safe Blast Case Investigation continued today in the dynamiting and attempted rob bery of a safe early yesterday morn ing In the office of the Sash, Door and MlUwark Company In Dunn, bty Police Chief George Arthur Jjckson reported there were no new dcvAoMMBkL ... j■ •4i> 1... » v > " Early Thursday morning, an ama teur safo-cracker set off two sticks of dynamite In the office, but fail ed to crack the 40-year-old safe. The would-be thief was driven away when a protective vial of tear gas hidden In the safe door burst, filling the small cinder block build ing with acrid gas. PLENTY OF WRECKAGE There was plenty of wreckage, however. There was only a small dent In the safe, but the celling was damaged, window panes were blown Battery Leaves For Alabama Battery “B”, 113th Field Artillery Battalion, left Dunn Armory at 1 p.m. bound for Fort McLellan, Ala., where v lt will begin a two-week training course with other Nation al Guard units Simday. The local unit will travel by mo tor convoy under Battery Com mander George F. Blalock, Guard Captain. ' The Dunn Guard unit, a tiring battery of 105 millimeter Howitz ers, Is scheduled to arrive at Fort McLellan Sunday afternoon and re turn to Dunn Sept. 3. The Dunn battery rendezvoused around noon at the armory with the other four batteries of the 113th battalion—“A”, "C", headquarters and service batteries. STOP AT BAEFORD I The convoy will journey to Rae ford to bivouac for the night. Sat urday night will be spent at Ath ■i I ViTtAVAt HITARn CHt iVVAV __ a*rU| nlu>ln»r« nil ahmtm <v,„ 1 f OfK 1 H- If MfiA'ig” iiAtiunnu *■“ *«*■ i»*wwji*w.pii shuwb wf epopß *»inww*i*y- SipiMi§egSV|| of ike 30th Infantry UvUm heading east on Comber land St e» /Mite to Fort ■ and two weeks of war games. Inctaded to the convey are five officers and SO enlisted men of . -.fT; ' «i - .1 i The Record Gets Results out and furniture was damaged by the dynamite blast. r Homer Starling, agent for the State Bureau of Investigation, came to Dunn yesterday afternoon to as sist with the investigation. He tSBkl fingerprints and photos, but found i imMlliß. rlnlr ite inilm Th* SBI sweatsato iliL QR'IW • gerprints might show up In some other crime eventually. He was (Continued on Page Two) NEW HOME ECONOMIST Mrs. Elwood Mintz, wife of Ben son’s new Chamber of Commerce manager, has been appointed as home eoonomist for the Carolina Power and Light Company In Dunn. She will succeed Mr 3. Catherine Simonette, who is being transferred to Goldsboro. ens, Ga.. and toe battalion will move on to Fort McLellan Sun day. The guardsmen will be In the field Monday and Tuesday and will return to the main post at the fort Wednesday morning. Their maneu vers will be aided by air support from the Air Force. Approximately 5,000 North Caro linians and 4,400 Tennessee guards men will make the trip. The Dunn unit will have 100 per cent rep resentation for the third time in four years. The full complement of five officers and 84 enlisted men will be on hand. Officers of toe local unit, in ad dition to Captain Blalock, are Sec ond Lieutenants !?d Wade, G. W. Duncan and Francis Hall, and Nel son Lee( warrant officer, junior grade. "no: 17^ Atmosphere Friendly As " Talks Begin By Peter Kaliseher UP Staff Correspondent PEACE CAMP, Korea, Sat (UP)) —Htye for a comprom ise agreement on a Korean truce line rose sharply to day as United Nations and Communist commands Fri day opened informal negoti ations in a friendly atmos phere. There were mdicaVons that hc-th sides are prepared to make -con cessions in an attempt to end j a three-week deadlock on the line 1o be drawn between the U. N. and Red armies. A subcommittee named to discuss the truce line on a man-to-mm basis under a news blackout,, met for four hours and iwo minutes *t Kaesong yesterday. HINTS AT ADJUSTMENT The Chinese Communist Peiping radio, giving the strongest indica tion yet that the Reds mignt he ready to compromise, said tocH’ demand for a truce line along thf 38th Parallel “can certainly be ad justed where necessa. y and reason able from the point of topography and the defensive ;.teds of both sides.” A broadcast by the “voice of ths . U. N. command ' radio of Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway’s supreme head quarters in Tokyo, referring to to* Allied demand for a truce line based on the present batUelcotlL said: WOULD GIVE CONCESSIONS “The U. N. command is wilUug lAyW balance isn imu a „ui (Continued On Paris!) "DemT Woman In Good Condition GREENSBORO <(W> A 60-year old woman who ‘died” on an oper ating table was reported in “fairly good condition” today after being revived by two surgeons 29 minutes after her heart stopped. The doctors said they beUevtß it was the longest anyone had gone without a heart beat and survivOß. She was still not out of danger The patient, whose name was lsa| released by the hospital, was.JbplM given anesthetic for minor «us£- ery yesterday when she suffered w heart attack. MASBAGED HEART " JE The doctors, who were in the 4 next room preparing the operation, 3 dashed to her side, opened heT“7:h4Mt and took turns massaging the* ffr. I Continued Or ra|k;BtxdT^ TO DRAFT 360,660 “ WASHINGTON <W» The goverito j ment plans to draft 300,000 man by next July 1, and may call low* ranking college students at Mlßl term if they already have Col. Richard E. Banes, repress!*- ' 2 ting Selective Service Director Lew is B. Hershey in recent testimov i before a House appropriations sub committee, admitted that 300,000 / was a “guesswork figure.”
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