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partly cloudy with HtUe change in
temperature tonight. Tomorrow fair
and a little warmer.
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NEW STATION aNd PROMINENT GOLF MEN Pictured above b the beautiful new Gulfpride
Service Station which will open here Thursday beside the city hall. It b one of- the most beautiful
and most modern stations in Eastern Carolina. Pictured below, left to right, are, Oscar Strickland,
owner of the station; his son. Chubby Strickland, manager. of the station, and Arthur F. Pope, local
Gulf distributor. All three are well known in the oil business. (Daily Record Photos.)
,MfyrMe To Open Thursday
Gulfpride Service Station, the
newest and mast modern In Attls
section of the State, will holer its
grand opening here Thursday, it
wns announced today by Oscar
Strickland,, owper of the new' bus
iness.
The beautiful new station, con
structed of the new-type marble
faced white blocks, is located at the
comer of East Cumberland Street
| and South Wilson Avenue right be
side the city hall.
Gulfpride was especially designed
by architects and engineers of the
Gulf Oil Company and is the latest
word In service stations. Many have
acclaimed its as one of the prettiest
and finest to be found on Highway
soi.. - .
Mr. Strickland, veteran service
station owner and prominent Dunn
business and civic leader, will op
erate this new station in addition
|to the well-established Supreme
w Service Station. Hg has operated
Supreme here since 1943.
CHUBBY 18 MANAGER
Gulfpride will be managed by his
son. M. E. (Chubby) Strickland
well-known young business man who
Is also Welt experienced In sqprtce
station operations.
Many free prizes will he given
1 r«rthuj«i no Pace Two)
‘STAR NEWS
BRIEFS
WINSTON ,r~ SALEM ffl
Mayors, city managers and civil
defease directors from throughout
the state jrere here today,to watch
a a demonstration of a new type air
raid warning. I
ASHEBORO —(IB Charles Leo
«nk, 40. of High Point was held
today on a charge of auto theft
tCenttaaei On Pag* Twe) j
JF. ’’' ir*-' jafcr
Duncan Jo, Preside
Over WOW Meet
R. A. Duncan of Dunn, District.
Consul of the Capitol Log Rolling
Rolling Thu£
TELEPHONES: 111) - 8118 - SIM
Butcher b Charged With
Trying To Sell Daughter
HOUSTON. Tex. —(W— A 37-
year-old butcher who allegedly tri
ed to sell his blonde, three-year-old
daughter ofr *6OO and an automo
bile went free on *SOO bond today.
Steve Ribnikar attempted to bar
ter Sharon Ribnikar to two persons
without knowing they were proba
tion officers called in by the sus
picious intended baby purchaser,
police said. •:
Ribnikar was charged with traf
fic In children, „a Texas Penal
Code offense.
He immediately posted (500 bond
set by Justice of the Peace D. F.
Thompson and was released In su
burban Pasadena, Tex., late yester
day.
Little Sharon was turned over to
probation authorities.
Defendants Enjoy
Easy Day In Court
Out of an array of 30 eases,
largely traffic violations heard yes
terday in Harnett Recorder’s Court,
not a single defendant went to the
roads, nor were any defendants
bound over to superior court
Fines and suspended sentences
wem the punishments the court .
ordered for the defendants, only 1
three of Whom contested their
i matin . X .
I Willie Jones Moore, 30, of Bur
lington, pfeadKl guilty to careless
i and reckless driving and was or
, derAd to-pay epsts. He was Involved ,
in ajwTwek near "Spring Lake Rftay
| The mtaoipal «»Meer_wfll he
j Judge William O, Branden, a for-
- .of ■ ■ r a * ~ , n . * v
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•1 Ribnikar was arrested earlier at
-a Pasadena bank as he attempted
l to cash the *SOO check the proba
- tlon officers gave him for the
. child, police said.
DIVOR/CED BY WIFE
i He told oficers his "wife divorced
■ him in Pittsburgh, Pa., last year.
• Then last March or April, Ribni
, kar said, his wife walked into a
Houston restaurant with Sharon,
• handed her over to him and.walk
-1 ed out. ■ ,
*T don’t want you .or your
I 'daughter,” she said.
He wanted to sell the ehild, Rlb
■ nikar told officers, because ’’l
■ wanted her to have a good home.”
He needed the automobile, he
i said, '“to get away from Houston.”
(Cantfamed On Page Twe)
his cay rolled 150 feet after It had
overturned. His young son was cut
In the wreck, and his wife was
thrown from the car.
Bula Ann McCoy. 30, Carthage
Rt. % pleaded guilty to driving a
car without operators’ license.
of Unden Rt. 1 pleaded guilty to
speeding. He was charged with a
*5.00 fine and cost*
Jessie Parker 1 and Aaron Pope,
were convicted of larceny of a ham
And shoulder from W. L. Parnell.
ThW were given 90 days In. JaU.
on payment of ousts.
* Jackson Laurence Lasater, 30, In
Army Engineering OOrpa at Ft.
Betvolr, Va.. of guilty
on payment of *costs.
Baker, Angler, entered
pleg of guflty to pomessieykLhtiq
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DUNN, W. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 26, 1952
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Wisconsin Primary Warms Up
Frank Lewis Files
For Register ; Is
First Candidate
BY LOIS BYRD
RecorS Staff Writer
Frank Lewis, 35, Lillington fuel oil dealer today filed
as candidate for County Register of Deeds subject to the
Democratic primary, and a lively race between Lewis and
Mrs. Inez Harrington, present Register of Deeds appeared
in prospect,
Mrs. Harrington, one of the top
Democratic -vote -getters has indi
cated she will seek re-election.
Lewis indicated that he will use
the long tenure of office by Mrs.
Harrington and her husband as one
of the chief issues in the race. Mrs.
Harrington succeeded her husband.
Lewis paid his filing fee of *38.40
to Dougald Mcßae, member of the
County Board of Eiei-.lons pending
organization of a new election board
later today.
Mcßae, Democrat and Franklin
DuPree, Republican, members of
the former board were renamed on
Saturday by the 'State Board of
Elections. The tajrd member ap
pointed was TM&as West, Erwin
Democrat, who (replaces Henry
Strickland of Angler, resigned.
The chairman if the election
board to succeed Strickland will be
chosen by the group when they as
semble later today.Mcßae said they
awaited receipt of "their credentials
from the State Baird of Elections.
Lewis is the fijst man to file
seeking first courdy elective office.
He was previously elected to Lil
lington’s town couicll.in a spirited
race several yearsfago.
He is a veteran of World War n
and served as a Sergeant in the
Air Corps. Lewis relumed last fall
from a year’s service’as a member
of the Reserved Corjft.
J- PROMINENT LEADER ’
The candidate is a, member of the
Mafenic Lodge Yqr two
lint ( u. Post of the American
gio .. n stive in affairs or the PtH
bytertairHMrurch he is secretary ot
the Men of the Church and a for
mer Sunday School secretary.
Lewis is the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. F. lewis of Lillington and
is associated with hi§ father in an
oil business. Born in Dunn he at
tended school in Coats and gradu
ated from the Coats High School
in 193*. He is married to the for
mer Miss Mary Lee Harrington and
has one sen, Frankie, aged three.
Committees Named
By Little Theatre
Rehearsals for the Little Theatre’s next production,
“Claudia,” are progressing rapidly and the famous play
ttill be presented her* on Friday and Saturday night, Ap
ril 18th and 19th.
The dates were set last night at
a meeting of the board of directors.
Leading roles in the play, which
proved a big hit on Broadway and
in the movies, are played by Mrs.
Emmett A1 dredge and Edwin Stew
art.
They are supported by an out
standing cast.
DIRECTOR PLEASED
Earl Olmstead, director of the
Little Theatre, said today that he
is well pleased with the rehearsals
and predicts this play will' be the
biggest hit of any presented here.
Earl Mahone Is president of the
Little. Theatre Group and Jim Me
YKSTY Y YTTWRE!
AB.UEJLIL I liH®
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WASHINGTON m Russia faces the hard eheiee of
lifting the Iron Curtain in Eastern Germany at giving
up one «f its last chances for halting West German
reamament, diplomatic experts said today.
LOS ANGELES (W - Emil Monge, 29, last nighl
became the seventh victim of a flash fire that raced
through the top three floors of a Los Angeles “skM
row” hotel, seriously injuring nine other persons.
kuwhood - - ■ - ,
nißi Muuu, rex. w secretary of tne Army Frans
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' HOUSTON, Tex. OR The Hmisten Housing Antfc
ority drew charges of “socialism” today nfter disclosini
FRANK LEWIS
Wesley Chapel
Revival Set
Beginning next Sutoday night
March 30, at 7:30 P. M. The Rev.
erend Joyce V . Early/ Pt^^jX
I method Ist Church. Rev. Mr. Earl]
’ *will preach each night from Marc!
30 to April 4th. Special music b
planned for. each Service, by Mrs
C. G. Oriffen, director of Music.
The Wesley Chapel Church is or
the Newly formed Wesley Chargi
and is located on Highway 103 be
tween Newton Grove and Fayette-
I ville. The Rev. S. O. Dodson' Jr. li
Pastor of the Church.
1 The public is cordially Invited to
attend each service.
; Ml lien is assistant director.
At the jpeeting of the board, sev
-1 eral committee chairmen were nam
-1 ed.
They were: Mrs. Eugene Huggins
scenery; Mrs. "Curtis Ennis, prop
erty; Mrs. E. B. Graham and Mrs
Wilma O'Brien, costumes; Mrs. Al
da Keen, make-up; Mrs. A) Wull
enwaber, sound effects; Mrs. How
i ard Dixon, tickets and advertising:
: Jim McMlllen, publicity, and Electa
i Maynard and Effie Lou McLean
stage assistants. .
The play will be presented >in
j the auditorium of the Dunn Gram
- mar School.
FIVE CENTS PER COPT
Taft Facing
Major lest
Next Tuesday
WASHINGTON OF) The
returns from the Wisconsin
] presidential primary will \)e
,in one week irom today. !
j If Sen. Robert A. Taft does well
1 in Wisconsin his campaign for the
1 Republican presidential nomination
will receive a most useful boost. A
reverse In Wisconsin would hurt
the Taft campaign badly.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is not
entered in Wisconsin. Gov. Earl
Warren of California is represent
ed by a slate of convention delegate
candidates who also are friendly to
Ike. They are so friendly that the
Warren vote reasonably may be in
terpreted a week from today as
very substantially an expression of
Eisenhower sentiment, also.
BTASSEN TO AID IKE
Harold E. Stassen also has a slate
of delegate-candidates, but last
night he announced he would give
half of any elected to Eisenhower
on the first ballot at the Republi
con national convention. The move
was regarded in general as'a bid
for support from voters favoring
Elsenhower. Stassen is not likely to
get any support from fringe sup
porters of Taft especially now.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur has dis
avowed the slate of delegates en
tered in his behalf but without his
name being on the ballot. That dis
■ avowal should be more advantag
lUontlnaed On Page Twv)
Mrs. B. F. Aiken
a 'Wednesday Hope
I? Hospital in Erwin. She had been
h in ill health for sometime and ser
is iously ill for about five weeks,
s. Mrs. Aiken was a native m Prince
ton, Lawrence County, 8. C., daugh
n ter of the late James B. and Katie
;e Davenport McCuen. She moved to
!- Erwin with her family 35 yean ago.
!- She was a member of the First
is Baptist Church of Erwin and also
active in other affairs,
o Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
- Hrit' Baptist Church in ® rwU h
f The Rev. Forrest C. Maxwell and
I the Rev. R. M. Phillips. Cr., will
officiate. Burial win be in Harnett
Memorial Park in Lillington.
Surviving are her husband, B. F.
Aiken; two daughters. Mrs. Helen
Aiken Carr of Erwin, Mrs. E. L.
(Sonny) Parker, Jr, of Winston-
Salem; three sons, Floyd V. Aiken of
Langley, 8. G., B. F. Aiken Jr, of
> Tampa, Fla.; apd William M. Aiken
! of Statesville; one brother, Robert
. fc. McCuen of Greenwood, 8. C,
nine grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
MK. DEARBORN ILL
Lewis Dearborn, sity editor of
'* the Dafly Record, has been 01
since Saturday and Is aodsrgslng
a a series es examinations at Good
Hope Hcapital in Ml. He ex
. |eds to be essi fined fee several
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i- RALEIGH —HP Todays’ egg
and live poultry nunteta:
Fryers and brilen steady, sup
plies adequate to yiHifai. demand
fair to good; heavy hens stondy,
supplies plentiful, demand fair.
Prices paid producers FOB farm
Fryers and broHfea 3S, heavy hens
_ 35-3*. mostly 35.
Eggs one to two cents neater,
f supplies plentiful, demand do*.
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current collections 34.
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WISCONSIN PRIMARY CONTESTAMrS !
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POamM OO VSR NOR of Minnesota Harbld E. Stassen (top) talks tor
ntwomen during a television interview in Milwaukee Wit, where ha
ig seeking the GOP vote in the Wisconsin Primary on April 1. In the
Milwaukee suburb of Shortv. .ic;* C. ! 'o; ria's Governor Earl Warren
takae n early lead in race r.-i i :• (;. h 1 r. osidtntial nomination M-
Will (flag a baton in the >• - l-i-r national Soundphoto):
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Governor In Rift
RALEIGH (IP) A growing rift appeared la North
Carolina’s Democratic party today with Gov. KeTr Scott
and State Elections Board Chairman Charles M. Britt on
one side and Everett Jordan, chairman of the State. Demo
cratic Executive Committee, on the other. H
Jordan fired the opening round
with a statement issued late yes
terday hinting that Bcott and Britt ‘
were to blame for .changes in ielec- i
tlons for county boards of elections. <
Jordan said he submitted the list i
given him by the county exeeubve 1
committees “exactly in the order in
which they were given to me.” .
“Personally I went to eee Mr. Britt .
f ffrf requested that he bock up the j
recommendations of the executive j
committees of the counties by-nam- ,
ing as the Democratic members the .
first two persons listed as generally
followed in previous year,” Jordan .
HAD TO SEE SCOTT
“Mr. Britt told me he would have
to confer with Gov. Scott about it.
I understood such a confePence was
held Saturday morning, following
which in executive session the State
Board of Elections ignored the rec
ommendations of the Democratic 1
Executive Committee in 30 counties <
of the state. .....
“X furthef understand the Repub
lican . recommendations ware fol- ;
lowed* without change.”
The 30 counties involved all have 1
strong Republican and the
Democrats are hard-preeaed to stay 1
in control in most. ■*-'
At Asheville, Britt said he was
“very much surprised at Mr. Jor- '
dan’s statement; he never mention- '
ed anything ataut naming the first
two persons listed
Britt sai4 Jordan hed only talked
about the States Rights Democratic
party, which tried unsuccessfully to i
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McCarthy Sues Bento
For Two Million Doßnrs|
I WASHINGTON —IW S«I, 9b? ,l
NO. 78
American MP
Is Slain In
Love Wrangle -•
NANCY, France km.
triangle involving an
military policeman, a French -gen
darme and the woman ufSSfWjgw ?
Nancy’ case ended in trapfedy 'fßUky
when the gendarme pumpwQdb
bullets into his young ri*St--r'Slifc' ■
James Wilkins. 23, Air Vmce
MP from Newport fteWvtfc. was
killed instantly when tha»fuisßt»
of bullets from the gendaanif*
pistol cut him down as W**toppM
from the bedroom of Mtas.EjffinM;
Courrier shortly after mifiSSaM
Forty-two-year-old
long-time admirer of
fled but was arrested by QjßbW
pollcemen a few hours WdiSS*'
HER SON TELLS STORK
Police witheld details ' -bf 'the
shooting pending invkßUfntrrW—saM
thi? story? 1 " * te * naß * <^^^S
been Jealous of the Amsrtt^aJß
room above the bar w.hjgrJa SSto
?fdS£ r 1“
ersl court here. He Is t'SiHSgjm,
and Benton a D*faoe*»t.-vr
McCarthy later told a
that he can c^Uxao^lgggS