*w£awer+
NORTH CAROLINA lncreasing
cloudiness and mild Wednesday
with showers beginning late In
afternoon or early at night and
ending late at night or e>rly
Thursday. Partly cloudy and con
tinued mild Thursday.
•olumei
Farm Production,
Values Reported
Higher In Harnett
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
NEW YORK, Nov. 28 The -lot of the average Harnett County
farmer is found to be better than that of his counterpart in most
other sections of the United States and to be improving steadily.
That Is the conclusion drawn from official figures of the Bureau of
the Census, based on the 1950 agricultural tabulation.
The local farmer, it is shown, received more for his labors, in
dollars per acre, than did the average farmer elsewhere. Hts gross
production for 1949, the year covered by the census, amounted to
$122 per acre. •
This compares favorably with the average farm returns for the
country as a whole, approximately $25 an acre. The national figure is
based on data tabulated for most, but not all, of the 3,000 counties.
For the State of North Carolina the yield was $96 per acre...
The total yield of farms in Harnett County in the five-year
period showed a marked dollar increase, going from sll, 161,201 in 1944
to $13,528,186 in 1349. i
• ACREAGE VALUES UP
Farm values locally rose proportionately. The years compared
here are 1945 and 1960. The census figures show that the value of
farm lands and buildings locally went from $77 per acre to $135 per
acre in the five years.
This was more than the value placed on such property in the
United States generally,- an average of SSB an acre. Farm land In
North Carolina is set at $99 per acre.
‘ AVERAGE VALUE $6,953
The average value of the 5,331 farms In Harnett County in 1950,
exclusive of livestock and •julpment, is given as $6,953 per farm. This
is a marked rise over 1946, when the valuation was $4,225 per farm.
Most farmers locally conducted their operations in 1950 with more
mechanical aids than' they had previously. The tabulation shows that
there were 840 motor trucks on Harnett County farms In i 960 as
compared with 350 In 1945. The count on tractors In use showed a
total of 1,186 as against 370 recorded five years earlier.
The census data Indicates that American farms had an output of
about |3l billion in the year, or about a third total worth, including
land, buildings, equipment and livestock.
Fort Bragg Soldier
Acquitted In Wreck
Cpl. Bobby L. Stidham, Ft. Bragg
•oldtor attached to the 82nd Air
borne Division, was acquitted yes
terday In Harnett Recorder’s Court,
of two chapes arising out of do
•a
Un. John A. Bnnis was seriously
in lured on the road between Lfl
„ llrigton and Angler.
Stidham was accused of speeding
in excess of 80 miles an hour and
assault with a deadly weapon in
flicting serious bodily Injuries. The
soldier was represented bv J. R.
Hood, while the counsel for the pri
vate prosecution was Duncan Wil
son.
a, ' FATHER TESTIFIES
” The father, John A. Ennis testi
fied that the accident happened
around 8 p. m. while It was yet
light. He raid he and his wife
and two children, a daughter, 9.
and the little bdy, John A. Ennis.
Jr„ 3. had iuat driven Into the yard
of their home when the smaller
child ran across the road for a
ball. His testimony was that the
soldier’s car never made any effort
to avoid hitting the child and that
the toad , was straight, and the view
# clear for about a half a mile.
After the child was struck.' En
nis said he picked up the child, who
waa unconscious hastened in his
car to Angler to a doctor’s office
and was ordered to take the child
to Rex Hospital He said the sol
dier’s car travelled 10 feet before
stopping and that he did not see
the driver get out, but admitted in
cfoes examination that the soldier
went to Rex Hospital that night.
Mrs. Ennis corroborated her hus
“ band’s testimony. She said her son.
to still in bed and that physicians
have told her that the pelvic and
head Injuries he suffered may be
permanent
Stidham tpok the stand and told
(Oanthmed On Pace Threel
White Girl Admits Taking
SIB,OOO For Negro Lover
DETROIT —ah— A White seers- 1
tery st a mined congregation i
church told today of embezxllngl
SIB,OOO and agreeing to a «f J&<
fake holdup to keep her Negro boy
frieod from exposing their relation
ship.
Doris Keller, 22, was arrested
tocwoiv tor investigation of rob
bery. Miss Keller named Cleve Oil-
Jnd H federal prison, as her boy
She said Gilmore, son of a former
Site JSailij Jlwnrd
TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 • 3113
DEAR
SANTA:
• •> ■ Sj ' ' ■
* Dunn, N. O.
Dec. 3, 1951
Dear Santa Claus,
I am writing you a letter to let
yqu.know what I want you to
bring me for Christmas., Please
bring me a bracelet and necklace
set, a blackboard and a ring. Also
bring me a surprise.
Bye, Bye Santa Claus
From Mabel Bue Barefoot
Dear Santa Claus,
My name to Pate Turnage and I
am five years old. I have two
brothers. The oldest one. Jimmy, to
13 and Wayner to nine.' Please bring
us the following things: tinkertoys,
football, toy gas station, play type
writer, guns and anything else you
would like to. Remember all the
little children everywhere.
Thank yob,
Pate, Turnage
609 N. McKay Ave.
Dunn, N. C. ’
Clinton, N. C.
Rt. 3. Box . 178
Dear Santa,
I want a private Mack army
truck and a cap pistol. Santa,
please remember all the other little
boys and girls.
Thank yop,
Charles Strickland.
Dear Santa,
I am a boy thirteen years old.
I love you every much. Wouldn’t
(Continued On Pap Three)
(belled against thto but he said no
body would know! waa involved in
I it and that the holdup man wouldn’t
i ! hurt me.* ■ * -
The robbery took place last
March 19. Her description of the
robbery waa ao realistic that police
mrer doubted her story.
Last week however, Lt Stewart
Snythe of a neighborhood police
precinct received an anonymous
telephone tip tttat* rettery, in the
area had been a take. An Investiga
tion narrowed the poas'btUttoe to
the church holdup. “ v
Wells was arrested en informa
;
(plot.. Wells denied any connection
, I with the scheme.
i CONVICTED OF IMMORALITY
(j States from Otnad* sos YMMVi
REDS ASK FOR NEUTRAL OBSERVERS
PMA Election
Will Be Held
December 12th
PMA farmer-committee elections
' will be held In each of Harnett’s
1 15 farm communities on December
12, Mcßryde Cameron, chairman of
1 the Harnett County PMA commit
-1 tee announced today..
Polls will be open from 9:00 to
1 6:00 p. m. on December 13. Voting
places are as follows:
Anderson Creek, Hills Garage;
Averasboro 1, Charles Lee’s Store
in Highway 301; Averasboro 2, J.
W. Alphin’s Store; Barbecue, Mick
ey's Place; Black River, Angler
Town Hall; Buckhorn, Spence
Harringtons’ Store.
Duke, Keever Moore’s Store;
Grove, Coats Town Hall; Hector’s
Creek, Reid Smith’s Btore; John
sonvllle. Community Building; Lll
lington, Agriculture Building.
Neill’s Creek, Cleveland John
son's Store; Stewart's Creek, Joe
Strickland’s Store; Upper Little
River X, O’Quinn's Store; Upper
Little River 2, Thomas Farm Ser
vice.
ELIGIBILITY RULES
Any farmer Is eligible to vote
who is an owner, operator, tenant,
or sharecropper on a farm that is
participating in any program ad
ministered during the current cal
endar year by the coupty and com
munity PMA committees.
At each of these community elec
tions, farmers will vote for three
farmers to serve as a community
committee during 1952, and i. dele
gate to the county convention where
a county committee will be elected.
Even though the farmers some
communities may be perfects satis
fied with the admlnistratiorf-.of the
AAynmlHftPTnftn ZIOW in hffjpik . OwiH
should vote anyway. Fallurvw vote
may be interpreted as a lack of
Interest in the program and in the
democratic method of operation.
Farmers Voting
For Supervisor
A district supervisor of the Soil
Conservation Service will be elect
ed in Harnett County this week.
Ballot boxes have been set up in
the Agriculture Building at Lilling
ton, Albert Autrey’s store on the
Johnsonville Road and at Clarence
Adams’ store at Currin’s Cross
roads.
Sole candidate to be nominated. I*
R. A; Adams, of Route 1. Bunnlevel.
whose term expires. There art
three snnervlsnrs in Harnett, each
elected for a three year term, with
the terms staggered so one expires
eseh year.
The remaining supervisors are J.
Sherill Stephenson, whose term ex
pires next year and Everette Bar
nes, whose term expires in two
more years. Both of these super
visors U*e on Route 2 Angler.
PLAN PROGRAMS
The supervisors are charged with
the responsibility of planning and
nutting Into effect a program of
local policies In soil conservation,
desired by the people of the county.
Candidates are nominated by the
petition of 25 or more persons in
the country. Any person qualified
to vote in a regular election, is
qualified to vote for the supervisor.
Although Mr. Adams’ name is
the only one that appears on the
present ballot, a space has been
provided so that the voter can
write in the name of any other
candidate if he chooses.
RGGB AND POULTRY
RALEIGH. (0) Egg and poul
try markets:
Central North Carolina live poul
try: Fryers and broilers steady,
supplies adequate to plentiful, do
mend fair Heavy bens steady, sup-
Er-pgsrSs isrrß
*4teT7 JT? rente
paid prSuLri and handlers FOB
collections. - , j
I OOTTON
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1951
J.O.Wesuls Named
To Republican Post
J. O. West, prominent Dunn at
torney, has been named as chair- j
man of a three man committee to I
make arrangements for the Eastern j
Carolina Republican Lincoln Day j
Dinner, it was announced today. , I
. Assisting Mr. West in making' I
the arrangements are A1 Butler, 1
prominent Clinton Republican lead- II
er and Sam Morris, leader of al]
Raleigh Republican organization. M
Date of the meeting has not yet 11
been set, but the dinner will be held ! I
In Goldsboro. The eastern Carolina |
district includes all of the terri- j I
tory east of, Durham, West said. |
"The date will be steed to suit'
the convenience of the speaker
whom we obtain,” Mr. West said.
He said he had contacted several I
top Republicans, including Repre
sentative Dirksen.
West predicts that this will be
the most successful year for the
Republicans since 1928. "I feel,” j
he said, “that the general public Is
pretty well fed up with the actions I
of the party currently In power, and
Is ready for a complete change of
administration.”
Chamber Is Seeking
Additional Members
The Board of Directors of the
Dunn Chamber of Commerce at
yesterday afternoon to study the
completed audit of the organiza
tion.
' The study showed the need for
an enlarged and expanded book
keeping system to keep pace with
the growth of activities by the
Chamber of Commerce.
It showed that the present
bership was not sufficiently Surge
'tiHPfey the.oast of TSHewcpanded
activities, and the need for a larger
membership was indicated. A per
manent membership committee Is
to be appointed to bring in three
or four new members each month.
On the ' nominating committee
are Earl Westbrook, Henry Tyler
and Ralph Hanna. Membership
BULLETINS
• , 1 , / '
WASHINGTON.—HP)—Four Americeu airmen held in
Hungary may be freed as soon as they have served their
purpose as Communist propaganda, U. 8. officials said.
LQNDON. —HP)—A Russian secret warplane has’been
spotted over Northern Europe, apparently flying recon
naissance missions, the authoritative “All the World’s Air
craft” said today.
v LONDON.— (lP)— Scotland Yard’s Frederlka fell down
on her biggest assignment. She went absent without leave
while patrolling the grounds of King George’s Bucking
ham Palace. The “Yard” sent out an alarm for the German
shepherd dog Wednesday.
’ > BTH ARMY HO., Korea. —(TP) —United Nations jet
planes destroyed or damaged 10 Russian-made iets Wed
nesday in a series? of biasing battles over. North Korea.
'’CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.—(ol—The president of the
University of VirgPhia, Colgate W. Harden. Jr., Wednes
day urged abandonment of compulsory public education
beyond grammar school because “in our enthusiasm for
mass education in America we have overdone it.”
ALTOONA, Pa.— lff) —Daniel Lamont, a rags to riches
character who onfce startled the horse-racing world with
Er}trm . Told
df TB bund Need
J. Q. WEST
chairtpan is Charles Skinner.
PARADE WAS SUCCESS
The board felt that the parade
waa highly successful, but suggest
ed that a week night instead of
Saturday might have been better
In order to clear the streets of
autos that more people could have
a better view of the parade.'
It was alsb suggested that In
the future,, a diagram of thrf entire
parade, route be drawn and publish
ed in uHßwxpapen, so that ■*!»>■»
one would know the exact f&ute.
President £ugene Smith was dir
ected to set up a nominating com
mittee to submit 15 names, from
whom three members are to be se
lected to fill vacancies in the board
of directors, caused by the expir
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I f “Treatment at the average case
I of tubtrculoais is long and cost-
I j ly.” Dr. Charles W. Byrd, chatr-
Ihnan of the Harnett County Tuber-
I cuiosis Association told the Erwin
1 Lions Chib. “The average case
8 1 i Dr. Byrd waa guest speaker at
| J the regular meeting of the civic or-
I The speaker pointed out that the
I
I Lre u were tour
II "Thi* arrangement proved very
I Discussion On
War Prisoners
Blocked Again
PANMUNJOM, Korea —(lf) The
Communists Wednesday suggested
two Communist and three non-Com
munist countires to supply "neutral
observers’ for a Korean armistice.
Red representatives told U. N.
delegates in a subcommittee meet
ing that observers from Denmark,
Sweden, Switzerland and Commu
nist Poland and Czechosovakia
would be acceptable to them.
“NO BOSS”
The Communists said there would
be “no boss” of the inspection
group “except the terms of the ar
mistice itself”, the U. N. briefing of
ficer reported.
The Communists had suggested
that observers from neutral states
visit “ports of sentry” behind both
lines to see that neither side
brlught in fresh troops or supplies
during an armistice.
Until Wednesday, however, the
Reds had refused to name the coun
tries they considered “neutral’ and
thereby eligible to supply obser
vers. There seemed more question
whether the U. N. would accept
either Communist Poland or Czech
oslovakia as truly “neutral" in the
Korean war.
When the Allies Wednesday ask
ed the RdUs for examples of coun
tries which could qualify as "neu
tral” for supplying observers, the
Red said they would agree to in
vite representatives “of those na
tions not directly taking part in
the fighting.”
SAMPLE OF THINKING
It was emphasized that the five
nations were in no sense nomina
tions for. a neutral inspection com
mission, but only a sample of Com
munist thinking on the subject. The
U.’N. has not In fact accepted or
rejected the principle of neutral in-
OonuftunlsU blocked ah im
mediate discussion of an exchange
of war prisoners In Korea.
Jurors Drawn At
Board Meeting
Jurors whose names were drawn
on Monday for service during the
January term of Harnett Superior
criminal court Include the follow
ing:
John Thomas, Bunnlevel, Stew
arts Creek; O. D. Allgood, Bunn
level, Anderson Creek; John B.
Ennis, Coats, Route 1, Grove; W.
B. Olive, Olivia, Barbecue; A. M.
Jackson, Dunn, Route 3, Averas
boro; Sam Fleishman, Dunn, Ave
rasboro; Moses W. Warren, Dunn,
Averasboro; Isaac J. Williamson,
Jr., Dunn, A. B. Cam
eron, Dunn, Averasboro; Josqph A.
Palmer, Dunn, Averasboro;
And K. W. BaUentlne, Erwin,
Route 1, Duke; H. A. Westbrook,
Dunn, Averasboro; W. R. Jeraigan,
Dunn, Route 3, Averasboro; J. H.
Stancil, Dunn, Route 4, Averas
boro; Charles L. Pope, Dunn, Route
4, Averasboro; Preston McNeill,
Jonesboro Heights, Route 6. Bar
becue; Jesse W. Tart, Dunn, Ave
rasboro; John Coleman, Lilllngton,
Lillington.
And Floyd Whittenton, Dunn,
Route 3, Averasboro; Charlie Kelly,
Jonesboro Heights, Route 8, Bar
becue; William Draughon, Dunn,
Averasboro; James Bills Lilllngton.
Lilllngton; Fred Holloway, LUllng
ton; Carson Oregory, Angler, Route
l, Grove; Lofton L. Tart, Dunn,
Averasboro;
And Ayden G. Horton, Coats,
Route 1, Grove; 8- C. Oliver, Lill
ington, Upper Little River; H. O.
Blalock, Cameron, Route 2. John
sonville: Leoman Byrd, Lilllngton,
(OMttMri Ob Pure Three)
Erwin Union
Renames Wed 3
J. Thomas West waa re-elected
yesterday as Business Manager of
Looal Union 2*o of the Textile
Workers of America in Erwin
Frankie Morrison, was elected pres
ident of the local.
Otter officers were; Tice*
president, Hardy Johnson; finan
cial secretary, James Cameron; re
cowMb* •acraOuj. Mamie Everette;
Tifnrt cineron a. F. Lia, ogesr
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BERT ALABASTER
Local Masons 1
Name Officers
For New Yeat
Bert Alabaster, prominent Dunn
businessman was elected Master of
Palmyra Masonic Lodge last night,
to serve during the coming year.
•He succeeds Retiring Master Vic
Lee of Coats.
Alabaster, who came to Dunn
in 1934, is a native of Harnett
County, and moved here from
Overhills to take over the position
of manager of the Western Auto
Stores here. Mr. Alabaster Is act
ive In the Dunn Lions Club, the
Chamber of Commerce and various
other organizations of the city.
Other officers elected at the
meeting last night were: Fred By
erly, Senior Warden; Earl Jones,
Junior Warden; Charles Storey,
Secretary; R. L. Crorjiartie, Jr.jf
Treasurer; and Thad Pope, Trus
tee. Thd latter three were
ed to their offices. ■“?- . .
APPOINTIVE OFFICERS
Appointive offices filled are; Sen
ior Deacon, J. I. Thomas,; Junior
Deacon, Nathan Johnson, Jr.; Sen
ior Steward, Howard Johnson; Jun
ior Steward, J. Edwin Williams; and
Tyler, L. R. Norris.
The new officers will be installed
at the first meeting in January.
STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
RALEIGH —(W— Rate increases
on Railway Express shipments
went into effect today.
The increases are about three
cents a shipment oh food and
drinks. Shipments of other goods
will cost about 10 cents more.
ROANOKE RAPIDS —OTI— The
Halifax paper Co. offered 400 AFL
union employes two and a half
rents an hour wage increases Wed
nesday and said lt would Join the
union in asking government
approval of further increases.
CHARLOTTE —(Bt- Troy White
head, whose federal income tax
troubles made headlines last week
from testimony before a congres
sional investigating committee, had
another tax bill Wednesday. A
judgement of $62,560 was filed yes
terday against the Charlotte
machinery ma%ufacturer with the
Mecklenburg County Cou t by State
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Sen. Smith Selects
Helms As Assistant
ini .
RALEIGH—Senator Wiite Smith
today announced that d Raleigh ]
radio man wIU Join his Washington
staff in January.
is a Sttlth
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NO. 258
FRED BYERLY V
EARL JONES ,
Three Wrecks
Atinllilii si i tsa gs
Are Ke|»nea ji
Three accidents, all of a minor
nature, were investigated in itif '
past 24 hours by the Dunn ffc .
lice Department. None tnvoivai
personal Injury.
The first occurred yesterday
morning at North Ellis and IW’ |
Barrington, when a 1938 ChryslMti
driven by Harry Bowman of DMt i
Route 4, was struck by a 1951 In
ternational truck-trailer, driven fey
George Josiah Wolln and owned by
Wolmack Corp., of HollyWfeMa
Both were going south on KBgl .
when Bowman attempted a left
turn Just as the truck was pre
paring to pass. Damage to th&ipr
was S2OO and to the irate. SUm":
At 3:30 p. m. yesterday wftop
noon, a 1950 Chevrolet dllvstiaSP
Jack Rowleg, ran into Aha rear of
a 1951 Ford, driven by PayltUFijm •
Continued On Page Threw
County Seat - j
Be Opened^
open 10th or Ith street from Front
Street to the BrickCotk
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