TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 8, 1952 •
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BULLETINS
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MILWAUKEE (IP> Harold E. Stassen said today that
he is “out to win” the GOP presidential nomination des
pite Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s invitation for a draft.
NEW YORK (IP Fonyier Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles and Mrs. Harriette Post von Jeszenszkv,
a cereal heiress, were to be married here today. Each has
been married twice.
WASHINGTON OP The Rural Electrification Ad
ministration today approved a loan to the Blue Ridge E
leCtric Membership Corp., Lenoir, N.C., of $1,770,000.
BOSTON (IP Government witness Daniel Friedman
acknowledged in federal court today that he made at
feast five “inaccurate” statements last week in his testi
mony against ousted Internal Revenue Collector Denis
W. Delaney.
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CLEVELAND (IP Periodic X-ray checks were being
made today of an alleged drug addict’s stomach after po
lice said he had swallowed all-2 inch steel hypodermic
needle.
NEW YORK (IP) Economic stabilizer Roger L. Put
nam said today he will change wage-price policies and re
gulations “when the need arises,” but not “frivolously.”
NEW YORK (IP Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 27-
year-old heiress wife of Leopold 'Stokowski, is in a Ne\v
York hospital “expecting a baby any second”, a represen
tative of the conductor said today. Stokowski is 69.
PHILADELPHIA (IP Judge Vincent A. Carroll set
bail of $2,500 yesterday lor Marine Pfc. Hugo C. Black,
Chattanooga, Tenn., in the of a real-estate
salesman in his apartment here last Dec. 27.
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PHILADELPHIA (IP An accounting of the multi
million dollar estate of the late Samuel S. Fels, soap man
ufacturer and philanthropist, showed today that pay
ments totaling $7,119,718 principal and income have been
made by the estate to the Samuel S. Fels Fund, his prin
cipal lifetime philanthrophy.
PETERSBURG, Va. UP Police scoured the area sur
rounding Petersburg today for 10 Negro patients who es
caped from Central State Hospital here late yesterday.
Paris (IP France accused Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky today of disrupting the Korean arm
istice talks at Panmunjom.
v LONDON (IP Five persons accused of spying for the
United States with the aid of Mutual Security Act funds
weie senumcea to death today Warsaw court, the of
ficial Polish news agency PAP reported.
BOSTON (IP The American Woolen Co. may open
new Southern mills unless its unionized Northern employ
es agree to work harder and pass up pay raises.
BTH ARMY HQ. Korea (IP Counterattacking Com
munists recaptured two bitterly-contested positions in
Western Korea today only a few hours after United Nat
ions forces ousted them.
ABOVE FLYING ENTERPRISE (IP Skipper Henrik
Kurt Carlsen, waving jubilantly with his one free hand
as he clung to his battered freighter, headed into the home
stretch of his battle with the Atlantic today, riding easily
through sun-bathed seas.
WASHINGTON (IP Harry A. McDonald, new ad
ministrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. today
pledged a program of “full disclosure” in the huge gov
ernment lending agency. r
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (IP Damage in the worst fire
in this resort city’s history was estimated today at
$3,000,000. The general alarm blaze which roared out of
control in sub-freezing weather for five hours yesterday, de
vastated a three-bltock Boardwalk area, destroyed the 150-
room Congress Hotel where the fire started, and destroyed
or damaged three smaller hotels, 12 guest houses, 17 shops
and a theatre.
MIMS, Tla. (IP Mrs. Harriet Moore, 49, widow of a
Negro leader killed by a terrorist bomb Christmas night,
will be buried here today. Mrs. Moore died from injuries
received in the explosion that fatally injured her husband,
Harry T, Moore, state director of the National Association
fur the Advancement of Colored People.
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PITT, Minn. (IP A spray container of deodorant ex
ploded in a generi * > hile the patrons dis
cussed the Korean war. Storekeeper Clarence Peterson had
placed tiie container on the stove to warm it up so it
would function properly in the cold clime of this North
western Minnesota town. The spray exploded and blew the
chairs out from under two customers.
FORT WORTH, Tex. (IP A 15-year-old newspaper
carrier will tell in Juvenile court today how he tried to
“scare” his father with a rifle but fatally hounded him
for “abusing” his mother. Edgar Haynes Smoot, 38-year
old railroad freighter worker, died at a hospital here last
night of .82 caliber rifle wounds in his neck, chest aqg
HOLLYWOOD (V) Mishel S. Green, a Hollywood
brassiere and falsie manufacturer, pleaded guilty yester
day to evading part of his 1945-48 income taxes. He was ac
PHILADELPHIA OP The parents of an airline stew
says
Philadelphia. Mr. add Mrs. Jtiui Husky, Knoxville, Tenn.,
charged tathe suit yesterday Urnttae city violated the
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Dunn To Add
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alleys and byways when people
are asleep. We feel that one of the
members of our group could do a
good job in our section of town.”
He said that the groi\ would
like to recommend John Brocking
ton, whom he asserted had the
respect cf both white and color
ed. “The officer we get must have
integrity,” he declared.
“We do feel that the time is
ripe for such a move,” Dr. Cod
rington declared. He pointed out
that Negro policemen had been
added in Fayetteville, Raleigh* and
Durham for work in their sections
with excellent results.
City Manager Manning remark
ed that he felt the name “Korea”
which has been applied to a sec
tion of Dunn should be wiped out.
“The proper names are Lakeview
Heights and Aycock Streets. Es
sentially, he declared "It is* a very
nice section.”
"Last night at/ the hospital a
boy was brought in from this nice
section to the Dunn Hospital suf
fering from a severe knife wound.”
Dr. Codring ton reported. “I ad
ministered 500 CCs of plasma and
he was moved to Duke hospital’
in a serious condition," he de
clared. "I do not know whether he
is living or dead right now.”
Asked why the section had be
edn'e “Korea” Brockington told
the board that he felt it was be
cause a lot of people had moved
in the section that should not j
have been’ allowed to rent houses
there. He added that another
group hangs around the section
who had no business in the area.
KNOWS THEM ALL
Brockington said he felt that he I
could do a good job in enforcing
the law in the Negro section be
cause hq knew everybody down
there. “If an offender got away
from me,” he said, “I w'ould know
who he was and ’could get him
later.”
Brockington has offered to serve
for a nominal monthly salary of
$75. Law enforcement, he pointed
out, would be a part-time occupa
tion and he could still make his
living from his radio shop. He said
he had plenty of volunteer help
o«fered from other rvsictents of
the area.
TWO YVOCLDN’T VOTE
Commissioner Bass made a mo
tion that Brockington's offer be
accepted and that he be hired to
work under the supervision of and
at such hours as Chief George
Arthur Jackson should select, at
the $75 monthly salary. Commis
sioner L. L. Coats offered a second
to the motion, but Commissioners
B. A. Bracey and R. G. Tart de
clined to vote on the motion.
In discussing the proposition the
board members admitted that they
were frankly skeptical of ofie man
being able to handle such l an as
signment alone. They thought “the
idea of a Negro policeman in the
colored section a good one. but
felt that the danger would be too
great for one man.
After considerable discussion the
motion was amended to include
1 another man at the same salary,
if the City Mahager and the Chief
of Police can secure such a person
suitable to both. Commissioner R.
G. Tart voted no, the rest voted
for the measure.
In discussing the water situation
in Erwin, City Manager Manning
pointed out that water consump
tioh in- Erwin was more than three
times that of Dunn creating a ser
ious problem.
Mayor Ralph Hanna pointed out
that the water was not metered In
Erftin and that metering would
be the, oqly solution. "It Is no re
flection on the people of Erwin,
but people in any community will
use more of anything that they
do not have to pay for.”
He said that in all fairness to
the people of both communities,
Dunn and Erwin, that he felt the
Dunn officials should say defin
itely whether or not they were go
ing to take over this utility.-
Six concerns which are in ar
rears on payment of privilege lic
enses, have until 11:00 a.m. Sat
urday to either pay up or have
warrants served.
The concerns or individuals are:
Dunn-Erwin Motors, Dunn Fam
ily Laundry, A. P. Godwin. Jr.. A.
R. Maynard, Service Cleaners and
West Smith’s Blacksmith Shop
They owe a total of $204 between
them.
LAND SALE TABLED
Acceptance or rejection of the
bid on the lot'for the community
Building by the Dunn Woman’s
Club was tabled because the ten
day period for raising the bid had
not elapsed.
Alfred Surles said he felt that
he was being discriminated against
in the matter of placing no park
ing signs in front of his home. "I
see plenty of others who have
these signs,” he declared. He nam
ed George Pope, Tart’s Gin Num
ber I and others as having these
signs.
City Attorney I. R. Williams told
the board it could not place any
homes under special parking rules.
The only remedy, he said, was to
limit parking by . ordinance, and
on state highways tlfet would be
subject to approval. “I know
that,” laughed Commissioner Coats
who lives on the truck lane, “the
sign in front of my house says *no
parking’ perjod.”
The new sanitary ordinance whs
tabled for further study. City
Manager Manning, the board, and
the retail merchants art to get to
ptber to implement the measure
In -the downtown section.
Mayor Ham* pointed out that
Itwas ««y to keep garbage cane
toxntok* topped over by a meth
od he used of driving time sticka
tato the ground alongside the
< Sd drive m '
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THE DAILY RECORD. DUNN, BL C.
Address By Lyman
Paul Lyman, Industrial Sales
Manager for the Carolina Power
and light Company of Raleigh, a
past president of the Raleigh Lions
Club and an outstanding speaker
will address the members of the
Dunn Lions Club Thursday night
In making the announcement to
day, President Waite Howard urges
all members of the Dunn service
club to try and. be present. The
meeting will be held in the General
Lee Room of oJhnson's Restau
rant Thursday evening at 7 o’clock.
Congress Begins
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the budget for fiscal 1953 will in
clude about $53,200,000,000 for the
armed forces and military con
struction. Congress Is not likely to
cut that figure very deeply, but
members of both parties were
brandishing the economy axe for
other spending items.
TO CUT AID
Chairman Tom Connally (D-Tex)
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and Walter F. George
(D-Ga.) of the Senate Finance
Committee opened 'a drive for cuts
in foreign aid spending which to
taled $7,000,000,000 last year.
Connally said that fond as he is
of Great Britain and her prime
minister, Winston Churchill—now
a capital visitor—he doesn’t “wgnt
to promise to continue voting her
money every time she gets hard-,
up.” He thought chances were slim
that his committee would vote
Britain any further economic aid.
George observed that "the dan
ger of all-out war is more remote
now” than a year ago. «
“We must face up to the respon
sibility of holding down some of
our expenditures at home and
abroad," he said.
Many members felt that Mj*f.
Truman is well aware of the gen
eral attitude in Congress and that
his opening message will make on
ly passing reference to many of
the controversial measures he has
unsuccessfully recommended in the
past.
Slayers Attorney
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both the Grand and petit Juries
which prevailed in the selection ot
the Grand Jury which indicted Tay
lor and the one scheduled to try
him, that the defendant cannot get
a fair trial.
SUMMON OFFICERS
Therefore, in behalf of the de
fendant the attorney asks; That
the officers concerned In jury sel
ection appear in open court, bring
their records with them and sub
net to questions, and that the
rq&tion to quash the bill of indict
ment be granted and the Grand
Jurors who indicted the defendant
and the others called for the term
in which It is proposed to try him
be set aside, on the grounds that
the officers who selected and sum
moned them "corruptly, unlawfully
and avowedly, discriminated against
the right of this defendant by
systematically excluding and de
nying proportionate representation
to Negroes on the Jury Mst, whereby
he is denied the fair trial guaran
teed him by the laws of the land.'
Mrs. Inez Harrington, clerk to
the board and Register of Deeds,
was the fist witness. Others were
Tax Collector D. P. Ray. Jr.. Chair
man L. A. Tart of the county
board; Sheriff Bill Salmon; Tax
Superviser Berles Johnson, and
Commissioner Herman S. Hollo
way.
Defense Attorney had sent out
for Former Court Clerk L. M.
Chaffin, who had not been found
at the time of recess.
Questioning revealed that no
Negroes have served on the grand
jury in Harnett, but that in various
times Negroes have been summoned
for service on the petit Jury.
NONE EXCLUDED FOR COLOR
Every official questioned denied
specifically that at any time ever
excluding a man or woman from
jury service because of race or color.
Chairman Tart said the only
names excluded by the hoard after
being drawn by a child from the
Jury box were those of persons
known to have moved out of the
county or to be physically unable
to serve.
Taylor’s line of questioning Indi
cated that In his arguments he will
probably stress that the small per
centage of the Negroes ever called
for jury service is out of line with
their percentage in the population.
He also asked questions In an
to show that bystanders ar visitors
or individual board members pre
sent at meetings when juries are
drawn often make comment causity
names to be excluded. ’ ;S
Sheriff Bill J3sHnon tefcl. that
that all garbage and trash to be
collected must be placed In con
tainers with covers that will keep
put the rain. The covers must be
pecured so they will not blow away
from the vicinity of the can.
LAND TRANSFERRED
City Clerk Char lea Storey was
Instructed to make out a deed to
Townsend Heights property, for
merly owned by Ernest Smith to
Nehemiah Grace and his wife Boa
ale on payment of $43.64 in back
taxes. The county executed a sim
ilar deed Monday morning.
Mayor Hanna toM the board
that the County Commissioners
had agreed to let the town sell
tax land and that they would be
wining to share the exp bosh sad
results of the sake oa a percent
age basis, baaed on the tax in tar
eat. This would amount to tt pet
cent for the county and 53 par
cent^for^ the towrn^
Ike's Managers
Claim He Has
Nomination Won
WASHINGTON (IF) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s political
managers proclaimed jubilantly to
day that they now have all they
need to sew up the Republican
presidential nomination.
Eisenhower’s public confirmation,
that he is a Republican, can be
drafted, and will let his name go
before the voters in the March 11
New Hampshire primary was even
more than some of his backers had
expected.
It offset any possible dismay ov
er the fact that the general ruled
out coming home to take a per
sonal hand in the campaign.
HARDER FOR TAFT
The opposing forces of Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio -conceded priv
ately that Eisenhower's statement
will make it a little harder for
them to line up delegates to the
GOP nominating convention next
July. But they insisted that Taft
is still a sure winner.
A top-level strategy meeting of
the Taft forces is expected within
a few days to make plans for cop
ing with the changed situation. Up
to now the Taft movement has
banked heavily on uncertainty
about Eisenhower's intentions as a
persuasive talking point with con
vention delegates.
Taft himself accepted the Eisen
hower announcement matter —of
factly. He said he figured all along
he would have opponents for the
nomination and that Eisenhower
"might be among them.”
The official comments of the
Eisenhower boosters were mostly
formal statements hailing his an
nouncement as a sure sign he is
destined to win the nomination and
election.
PRIVATE REACTION
Their private reaction was an en
thusiastic: “That’s all we need.
Now we can really go.”
Eisenhower’s declared availabili
ty caused no apparent dismay to
the other two announced candi
dates for the GOP nomination i
Gov. Earl Warren of California'
and former Gov. Harold E. Stas
sen of Minnesota.
Actually, their prospects may
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him to sumon witnesses never had
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State Briefs
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a city-owned golf course without
losing part of the land it is built
on.
NEW BERN IIP) Gentleman
farmer Newton Hanes goes on trial
here today on charges of shooting
to death a Negro tenant farmer.
A special venire of 100 jurors was
ordered drawn by Judge John J.
Burney.
RALEIGH IIP)* Dr. Ralph W.
Cummings, director of research for
N. Q State College Experiment
Station, said today the state can
develop “a first class peanut re
search program" on the 366 J acre
farm in Besrtie County selected
yesterday by the State Board of
Agriculture.
JACKSONVILLE, N. C. (IP! A
13-year-old invalid was burned to
death here yfcsterday w'hen fire
destroyed a four-room home, police
reported today. Dawson Allen Sul
lvan was alone in the house when
the fire broke out. He was unable
to get out of bed.
MOUNT AIRY if Officers in
vestigating the week-old slaying of
William Cochrane Jr., said today
thq killer was "either a very
shrewd planner o, a very lucky
one.” There is still no solution.
RALEIGH (IP North Caro
lina’s teachers will aim at the rec
ord salary scale of $2,600 to $4,100
at the next session of the General
Assembly.
WASHINGTON (If President
Truman and Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill sought a common
Anglo-American policy in the Mid
dle East and Asia today as the
keystone of defense against “an
other Korea” in that turbulent
area.
actually be improved with Eisen
hower in the race. Political observ
ers regard bott) as dark-horse con
tenders whose main hope lies in
an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock at
the convention.
One of the next early steps for
the Eisenhower camp is to con
sider putting his name into some
of the other state primaries where
it can be done without the written
consent. He refused firmly to take
part in such pre-convention activi
ties.
The field for such action is limit
ed to only five other states-Flori
da, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon and
Pennsylvania.
Some members of Congress were
disappointed. Among them was
Sen. George D. Aiken R-Vt; who
seldom agrees with Taft.
County Board
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mission’s policies.”
"But if the county commission
ers should desire to divide its
claim for a health center into two
units, one in the vicinity of Dunn
and the other in Lillington the
question would arise as to the per
centage of a,d in square footage
that should be allocated to Dunn
and what reserved lor balance of
county.”
QUESTION OF SIZE
This was the question which
faced county commissioners at the
regular first Monday meeting yes
terday and why the Dunn delega
tion in turn was asked' to appear
before the board,
Dr. Ferrell pointed out to the
commissioners that out of a Har
nett County 48,000 population
16,000 probably would be served
by the branch center at Dunn,
while the balance of 32,000 per
sons would be best served at Lil
lington.
And while he noted that at pre
sent there is no demand lor a
health center in Lillington since
the county health department is
for the present adequately situ
ated in the Agricultural Building,
Dr. Ferrell reminded the com
missioners that some other county
board may seek aid for such a
center in Lillington and that it
could be viewed as a future pos
sibility.
On this grounds of reasoning.
Dr. Ferrell said, “it seems desir
able for the commissioner to limit
any grant that might be consid
ered for Dunn to a building from
1.440 to 1,800 square feet, leaving
from 2,200 to 2,400 square footage
for Lillington.
"We are quite satisfied,” said
Mayor Hanna after the appear
ance before the commissioners.
"After all he noted we received
the maximum Dorctor Ferrell in
dicated might be our share Han
na and Dr. W. B. Hunter, county
health officer who appealed with
Markets
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good Prices paid producers and
handlers FOB farm: Fryers and
broilers 28. heavy hens 28-39, most
ly 29-30.
Eggs steady, supplies adequate,
demand lair. Prices paid produc
ers and handlers FOB local grad
ing stations: A large 55, A med
ium 50, B large 45, current col
lections 45.
“If he Eisenhower feels he
can’t talk politics until after the
convention, I don’t know how the
people will know where he stands,”
Aiken complained. “I don’t fancy
supporting a phantom candidate.’’.
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Dr. Blackmon
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1947 from Bowman-Gray School of
Medicine at Winston-Salem and
is now an interne at James Wal
ker Hospital in Wilmington. He
will come to Buie’s Creek in June
after completion of his service at
the hospital.
Dr. Blackmon was married in
1947 to the former Lelia Lawrence
of Durham. Mrs. Blackmon be
fore her marriage was minister
of education at the First Baptist
Church of Durham. She received
her education at Randolpb-Maeon
Women's College, Lynchburg, Va.,
and at Duke University. The
Blackmons have one daughter, Le
lia Annette, born Nov. 6, 1951.
The new doctor is the second
member of his family to act in a
medical capacity In the looal com
munity. His sister, Mrs. J. T* k Vail,
the former Bradeene Blackmon, is
nurse at Campbell College. Since
her graduation from Presbyterian
Hospital in Charlotte in 1947 she
has served constantly in- Hat
nett County with the late beloved
Dr. Donald Fleming and j-gter
with Dr. W. D. Moore, i&e has
both B.S. and R.N. degrees.
The Blackmons, brothO.*'" an d
sister, come rightly by their; med
ical heritage. Their mother, the
former Katye Hatcher of Buie’s
Creek, is herself an R,N~' from
Watts Hospital, Durham. •-»-
INVITED TO COMMITTEE
Early in December a committee
of twelve under the chairmanship
of Leslie H. Campbell went to
Wilmington to offer the local’ prac
tice to Dr. Blackmon.
members of the committee were
Berles Johnson, Wade
Preston Butts, F. M. Caudill, Ly
mon McLeod, Howard Hight, L.
E. Chenault, Coyt Lanier, ’Herman
McLamb, Worth Lanier and Pres
ton Stephenson. ~,,
Yesterday Mr. Campbell return
ed to Wilmington with ”B. P.
Marshbanks, at which time Dr.
Blackmon formally accepted the
invitation. ■o<-.
“Everyone is elated oyer the
coming to his home community of
Dr. Blackmon," Mr. Campbell re
ported. Everyone has M&ressed
the greatest interest because of
a real need for his services and
because of the man himself. Both
Bruce and his wife will be great
assets to the community.”
the Dunn delegation both* Stressed
the convenience which. yviU, result
to patrons in the Eastern part of
the county by the construction of
the Dunn center. ...
As a practical matter they, poted
many indigent patients who. need
to attend the health center would
hesitate to do so if th6£‘!Mul to
seek transportation as far ’ away
as Lillington.