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VOLUME II
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111 Indicted
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Eighteen of the. 29 defen
dants, indicted by a tyue
ribbon Federal Grand Jury
on bootlegging charges are
residents of this area, it was
retooled today, ' They are
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' Indicted by the Grand Jury are
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7 Joseph Smith of Erwin, charged
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Baldwin Shaw, both of Route Cam
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■ ating a distillery and manufactur
ing 80 gallons of non-tu paid
Bernice Elbert Moore of Dunn and
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Ike, Kefauver Win Smashing Victories
Honey Pouring
Into Treasury
Os The State .
By LYNN NI3BET
Record Correspondent
MONEY—Motley is pour
ing into the state general
fund right now faster than
the clerks and adding ma
chines in the revenue de
parment can count it. This
is income tax time. Usually
something like a third oft the
annual general fund rec
eipts come in March.
This year it iS predicted that cor
poration payments will be no more,
possibly a little less, than last year
that individual payments will
more than make up any decrease.
Add to that condition the upward
trend In sales taxes and larger
yields in other schedules, and you
have the reason for the flood of
money coming In right now. The
immediate reason, that it. It is
necessary to go back twenty years
to find the real reason.
FOUR MEN Th-re Is historical
basis for the statement that four
men are mainly responsib’e for the
current satisfactory condition of
the North Carolina state' treasury.
In chronologic order, without ref
erence to- relative Importance of
their contributions or their Widely
divergent motives, these men qre
Rufus Doughtoh, Blucher Ehring
haus, Adolf HUler and Josef Stalin.
Sounds screwy, doesn’t It? It should
sound screwy, because it it. Maybe
several other names should be ad
ded to the list, including A.
W. McLean, who set up the budge
tary system In North Carolina, fend
MAX Oar&ier, who centralised State
niySn U T B njrni T y
dPrS?d«ls w«bs With
collection than with spending of
state tax money, and from that
viewpoint the twd North Carolin
ians and the two Europeans named
ayem to havjs had most Influence.
ROLES Analysis of the roles
these men played In the drama of
Sthto reveoHe 'discloses some per
tinent facts, 'Hie General Assembly
of TB3B oonyened in the depth of
the great denresslon. concurrently
wibt- inauguration of J. O. B. EHr
inahaus and two months before ta
ausn’fatfhn of Yranktin ' Roosevelt
ss President. Conditions .' In the
state treasury and In the homes
and tallnesses, of the people were
desperate. There * was • nothing
wrong with baste structure of' the
■ state’s, fiscal poHey, except there
Hist wasnt etwugh money ooming
lit and no hobs of getting it from
the established eourew of state
revenue. The sales tax had been
debated and defeated in the 1931
assembly. It. was till} unpopular
with tlHi people.
SCHOOLS The 1831 assembly
had relieved bounties of current
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DISTINGUISHED VISITORS The Daily Record yesterday after- 1
noon had distinguished visitors. They were State Auditor Henry 1
Bridges, left, and Lynn Nisbet, right, popular Raleigh newspaper 1
MEumplsl and correspondent for The Daily Record. White hem, 1
the State auditor reported that North Carolina is In good financial
condition. (Daily Record photo by Bill Biggs).
State Auditor Says
NC In Goad Shape \
State Auditor Henry Bridges revealed on a visit to
Dunn today that North Carolina State funds now on de
posit are earning for the taxpayers $4,204.15 every hour ,
of the day.
Morris, McCarthy!
In Angry Clash
WASHINGTON (®—New
bold Morris accused . Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis.,
today of not being a “gen
tleman” and of “going after
me like a dog” in an angry
clash before Senate investi
gators.
“You've knocked off a lot of
characters, and you’re not going
, to knock off mine.” Morris shouted
at McCarthy in a turbulent hear
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“DOPE OR bOTP
McCarthy had fust said that Mor
ris, corruption clean-up chief, was
“either the greatest dope or dupe
of all time" or “r&ponsible for
making a, vast amount of. profit
soaked in American blood” through
leasing of cut-plus tankers for
(Can tinned On Pat* Three!
Tourist Bureau
Has New Name
The Dunn Tourist Bureau changed
its name yesterday m line with the
expanded iscope of its activities. It
win henceforth he known at the
Dunn Tourist add Convention j
Bureau.
The change in name emphasises
another phase of the activities pro
posed for the organisation, that of
attracting conventions ***** rfw><kf
meetings to use the facilities that
of providing for
DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, 1952
(Declaring that the State is now .
enjoying its best financial condition i
in history, the State official report
ed that since the funds were de
posited on January I, 1949 and
through March 10. they earned a
total of *7,316,281 .82.
Investment of the funds—an Is
sue in the last gubernatorial cam
naign—was authorised by a special,
act passed by the 1948 legislature.]
Mr. Bridges estimated that the]
invested funds will earn an addi-'
tlonal SBOO,OOO from March 10
through June 30 of this year, and
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TUSCALOOSA. Ala. (18-The
J. E. Springer family took high
meat prices Uehtly this winter.
Springer and his two .sons bagged
four buck deer in the earlv winter.
The deer, ranging from 200 to 250
pounds each, were stored to give
the Springers a winter meat sup
ply. '
Alabaster* Belote
To Head Merchants
Frank Belote and Bert, Alabaster wars elected co
chairmen-of the Retail Merchant’s Committee of the Dunn
Chamber of Commerce at a fleeting held yesterday after
noon in the Chamber office*. , j • \
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The group discussed the propos
ition of having two trade events
yearly in Dunn and decided to car
ry the matter to all the merchants
in Dum and act definitely on the
result of their findings at the next
i meeting.
j The tentative plan would call lor
I two such trade events, one in the
summer and another in the win
ter at spring. They would be de
signed to encourage shoppers from
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Truman Jail
Defeated In
NH Primary
CONCORD, N. H. OPI
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower .
and Sen. Estes Kefauver j
won smashing victories in
the New Hampshire Repub
lican and Democratic ori-!
mary, complete Hnited Press -
returns showed today. :
A final tabulation gave Eisen- f
how'r and Kefauvrr a clean sweep'
of the legalized popularity poll and 1
the state’s delevatss to tiie no- ■
tional political conventions.
The complete vote in the '
“straw” poll was: Eisenhower,
48.441; Sen Robert A. Taft, .V> «®l. j
Elsenhower’s plurality was 10,750. •
Sen Krfanver topnH Presl- ■
A*"t Truman by *0.240 to j
181S8, giving him a margin of 1
4,l>* votes. |
Hr-ntd E. Ptnssen. nn: entered -
in the delegate contest, polled ‘
6.677 “straws.” Gen. Douglas Mae-i
Arth”r a rel»ctant entrant, receiv-.
ed 3,160 “write-in” ballots, but hist
slate of delegates trailed far b*-
hind. William R. flchn*tder. a St.
’ aids lawyer, received 243 voter. f
New Hampshire voters, wooed by ]
one of the most bitter pre-primary
campaigns in the state’s history
turned out in heavy numbers de
spite inclement weather. When the ]
final tally was reached, it showed ;
129,085 had marked ballots. Four j
years ago a little more than 75,000 |
voters participated.
Eisenhower commented that the
vote was a thing to make any
American proud and feel compli
mented: Kefauver said it showed
the voters want new Ideas and
personalities: Mr. Truman went for
a walk at Key West aru] had no
comment; Taft snapped at Qlllas,
Rear Tree Still Bears
JERSEYS VIL LE. 111. 6B-
Friends of Ray Nevtus were treated
once again this year to pears from
a tree which was planted In 1830.
A pioneer, Dr. Ralph H- Van Pelt,
set out the tree 121 years ago.
Smith Calls On
Truman To Back
• Senator Russell
WASHINGTON.—Senator WU
| lis Bmltii (D-NC) today called on
President Trtunan to “approve
and cooperate with” the candidacy
of Senates Richard B. Russell of
Georgia.
Burnell two weeks ago an
nounced he was available far the
Democratic nomination for presi
dent.
Senator Smith mid that Rui
sell’s entry into the presidential
race “Is not a sectional matter.”
Rather. Smith said, “Senator
RnsseH represents the best noa
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the surrounding tmi to do their
shopping in Dunn by showing that
the Dunn merchants could provide
values comparable to any other
ahoimim center.
4- SEEK full cooperation
> T?»e plan is to have the. active
cooperation of every merchant in
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FINER CAROLINA COMMITTEE Pictured here with District Manager Henry M. Tyta
j Carolina Power and Light Company are General Chairman Earl McD. Westbrook and members of the ‘
steering committee for the “Finer Carolina Contest" to be conducted here. Left to right are: Chske»' w *'
j D " Hwteff. Jr., of the Jayceea, Mr. Tyler, Mrs. Westbrook, Mrs. Pat Lynch, president of the Senior Wo
j "*"* Club; President A. B. Johnson of the Rotary Club and President Waite Howard of the Lions >
] Club. Abo on the committee but not present when the picture was taken is Mrs. Paul White, presl- *
j dent es the Junior Woman’s Club. (Dally Record photo by Bill Biggs).
CPSr L Lau r y-ssittest
Carolines a finer place to livennd
work . was announced tonight 'by
Carolina Pbwer 6c Light Company
at 80 dinner meeting* held simul
taneously throughout. Its service
area.
The company offered $8,750 in
prims 'for towns which mai(e the
greatest improvement In terms of
commuhity development during this
'The competition is built
arouijd_ttie theme of “Building A
Tta contest is open to the 340
communities whose electricity Is
served .at. retail by the, Carolina
Power ,6s Light Company. Towns
have imtil April l to enter the
competition, and the contest period
will extend to November 1, after
which the contestants will be judg
ed on improvements made during
the previous 12 months.
THREE GROUPS
. Details of the contest were dis
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National WOW
Official Coming
HVO. Braden of Omaha. Neb
raska, national secretary of the
Woodmen of the World, will de
liver the main address at the an
nual meeting of the Capitol Dis
trict to be hem at Clinton on Thurs
day, March 27th.
The sneaker was announced to
day bv ft A- Duncan. Sr. of Dunn,
president of the district which
embraces eight Eastern Carolina
eouhtieo. and Eugene Hood of
DuUtt, district manager.
Mr. Braden’s acceptance was
telegraphed to Mr. Hood by State
Maokrer Nick T. Newberry of
Cheriotte. who will also he among
♦h* sneakers. ‘ ■ “ .
PROGRAM NEARLY COMPLETE
Woodmen officials
«that plans for
rapidly nearing
•e complete pro
unced within the
samnson
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Committee In Dunn
Earl McD. Westbrook, one of Dunn’s best known busi
ness, civic and religious leaders, last night was electwl
eral chairman of the Carolina Power and Light
“Finer Carolina Contest” for Dunn. $
His ejection took place at a ban
quet meeting of city and chamber
of commerce officials, civic and
Club leaders and prominent bus- (
iness men of Dunn, Erwin and Four!
Oaks held In the Dunn High School I
Cafeteria.
Henry M. Tyler, district manager
of the power company, presided
over the banquet and welcomed
the guests.
Purpose of the meeting and de
tails of the contest were outlined
by L. P. Stephens, head of the
company’s sales department here.
Mr. Stephens expressed confidence
that tl)e three communities repre
sented at the meeting would be
among the winners.
PROJECT PRAISED
A<l those oresent offered high
praises of the contest and voiced
enthusiasm over the possibilities.
“We can’t lose," declared Chair
man Westbrook. “The benefits of
civic Improvement will be worth
far more to our community than
the big prize money offered."
President Bill Biggs of the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce pointed
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Dr. Ellis To Preach
For Baptist Revival
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t Ernest P. Russell, pagtor.
StoMath* the Un f a ilowta
March 23rd. .• ' ’f
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out that several major protects'are
already underway here and- all Use
town has to do is to finish them
• and possibly take on a few others.”
I Commissioner J. V. Bsiss, “we’re
! already at work on the projects.
All we have to do is to cMSfaNf lb
work hard and merely make a re
cord of our pi ogress. 1
Louis Baer, prominent total mer
chant, suggested Quit one of DtanV
great needs is for a milk itatg 'th
encourage farmers to raise cows
and produce milk to ‘provide them
with a year-round income, His Idea
was applauded by Mr. Tyler arid
in a suggested projeetgiij&at of
n-ojeets which -the towt^^HjHgg
screened bv the commttto£l§fßM,
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