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f WEATHER* NORTH CAROLINA Consid erable cloudiness today, tonight and tomorrow. Slightly cooler in the in terior today, otherwise little change in temperature. VOLUME II 0> ? IKL jd .' ? ® ' vV,' Jr 11 w I ( (( MM Ki 1//I I I Tuner a I For Ezzell Is Set For Sunday Lynn Craven (Chick) Ezzell, 55, widely-known Dunn resident and retired business, civic and religious leader, died Friday jnorhing at 12:55 at Duke Hospital in Dur ham. He had been in iIL health since* 1948 and his condi tion became worse about a week ago. • Funeral services will be helcilfun day afteroon at, at 3:38,. o'clock at the home oft East Divine Stiwt. The Rev. Joyce V. Early, pastor of the Djvine Street Methodist Church, and the Rev. Forrest D. Hedden of Lumberton, former pastor, will of ficiate. Burial will be in Green wood Cemetery here. Mr. Ezzell was a native of Samp son County, but had spent most of * Maysville Is Hit By Gasoline Blaze MAYSVILLE, N. C. (IP) A loaded 3,700 gallon tank truck sprayed flaming gasoline over the main street of this little town to day after a collision, burning one \ man to death and threatening to explode. * A furniture warehouse and a Service station were destroyed by the raging fire and three other buildings were damaged as the flames threatened to engulf the en tire business district. Trubk driver Grover Harrison 40, of Washington, N. C., crawled through a window and escaped aft er the collision Upped the truck over in front of the warehouse and ) burning gasoUne flooded into the Street. • CHRISTIAN CHURCH REVIVAL UNDERWAY Large crowds have been hearing Dr. D. Ray iIX dX Hood Memorial ChrisUan Chnreh her* thls week. Dr.Undley, president of Atlantic ooTtfthe ~**~~**~M pulpit speakers of the noth*. Tonight be will speak on “JULlfe Worth living?” and Mo subject Sunday morning will be, "If A Man Die Shall He Live Again.' nctsred hero, left to right are: Dr. Lindley, Eugene Huggins, song leader, and Dr. George. Cuthrell, TELEPHONES: 3117 » 3118 • 3119 .-■MO JnfctoV his life in was the son (SToMrs. Epla Mae Week*. Ezzell of Dunn and the late John David Ez zell. His father 1 served for years as superintendent of county schools. His father also operated one of Dunn’s first private schools, the old Moonlight Private School. WORLD WAR VET Mr. Ezzell served In the European (Continued on fact Sevan! A flaslj fire swept across the scene with explosive and blocked Harrison's desperate ef fort to reach J. Manley Foscue Sr. 82, a retired farmer who was trap ped In the car that collided with the truck. “He was hanging there head down when the flames reached him,” Harrison said. “There was nothing I could do.” Foscue’s body was recovered from the charred car two hours later. . - Police first reported that the tanker had exploded but later at tributed the explpslve-like roars to the flash fire. • | Authorities estimated damage at $40,000. (Eht* Jftailg Jteiml Eisenhower Resigns NATO Post Phone Strike May End; No Steel Break WASHINGTON IIP) l- I dustry and union negotia tors failed today in a new at tempt to break the deadlock ed steel. wage dispute. A morning-long negotiating ses sion with Wage Stabilization Board Chairman Nathan P. Feinsinger directing the talks, produced no indication that settlement is nearer now or is expected soon. As tlie negotiations hung on “dead center.” CIO President Philip Murray met with the execu tive board of the steelworkers union. Reports circulated that the talks would be recessed for the Easter weekend. ' ' Government officials still held out against any steel price increase that would breach existing stabili zation regulations PIIONE situation DETROIT (IP! Michigan Bell Telephone <?o. and the CIO Com munication workers .today an- , nounced "basic agreement” on a 12.7-cent hourly pay increase that possibly will signal the end to the nationwide telephone dispute. Details still are to be worked out "but the strike will be over as soon as we get the word out after official agreement." said Walter Schaar district CWA director. I Vets Urged To Join Legion Eighteen members of the Dunn American IgtiQgtefcftjfilS Js®Ste d in Broadway of the 16th District last Monday night. .C. E. Jones of Plttsboro was elected vice com mander for the district. Membership chairman Kie Hud son announced today that May Ist is the deadline for membership for 1952 in the Legion. He urged all veterans to sign up as soon a* pos sible. ThO present membership is 282. In n statement from Hudson to day he urged the necessity of the Legion remaining strong and stress ed all the bills that the Legion has been responsible for passing in Congress, including the Bill of Rights, Terminal Leave Bill and mustering out pay. Hudson stated that membership W up in the Legion all over the state -and nation compared to last year. New Atom Plant To Cost Million WASHINGTON IW The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced today that It plans to bulIU a filth atomic explosives plant to cost about $1,900,009,000. The new plant win be a uranium separation works even larger than the one built during the war at Oak Rridge, Tenn., and i the $500,000,000 new one being constructed near Paducah, Ky. t It probably will be built in the Ohio Valley. DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 195! ggjM <■ I £ f r' ~ i I Wm I Wm Mg * GENERAL EISENHOWER Varied Cases Are Tried Here The Dunn Recorder’s Court yesterday disposed of nine cases of public drunkenness and a var iety of other offenses. John Edward McCray and Rog- i er Massey ot Dunn were fined $25 i and cost for driving without a lie- | ense. Robert Murphy, charged with possession for sale, was given six months, suspended for two years on payment of SIOO fine and cost. He Appealed to Superior Court and bond was set at <250. Nathan Layton was found guilty, costs! James Mallard, charged with as sault on Arthur Hall, went free after Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan took a nol pros. James Henry Hayes, charged with assault on Lillie McLean, was given 90 days, suspended for two years on payment'of sls fine and costs and $5 for the woman's medical expenses. Leroy Council, charged with tres pass, was found not guilty. Wallace Wendell House, charged with driving drunk, Was given 90 days, suspended on payment of SIOO fine and costs and his license was revoked for one year. William Preston Holland, Edward H. Shause and Walter Clifton By son, charged with speeding, were fined $5 and cost each. Douglas Ray Overman, charged with speeding 65 miles an hour, was ordered to pay the cost. Dan Crouch and Robert Artis, charged with failing to stop at stop signs, were ordered to pay the Wilbert Cagle, $414 behind in non-support payments to his wife, was ordered to serve 12 months for failing to comply with the judg ment. Many Dunn Citizens Will Aid Campaign T. C. Hunderick, personnel man- j ager of the Oral Roberts Revival | group stated at an organizational meeting In Fayetteville Thursday' night that this section had given' the biggest response in the history of the Oral Roberts’ meeting to the Fayetteville revival. The noted evangelist will open the 16-day campaign tonight and thousands from the Dunn section are expected to attend. Buses will leave each night ai 6 o’clock from the Gospel Tab ernacle in Dunn. Over one thousand personnel workers from four gospel churches In this area attended the meeting last night. Two hundred men en BULLETINS SEA ISLAND (IF) —■ Queen Juliana and Prince Bern hard settled down today lof a three and a half day Eas tern week end at this romantic island resort. The Royal couple arrived early last night aboard President Truman’s private plane. “The Independence” after a visit to the Tennessee! Valley Authority. RICHMOND, Va. (OP) Sen. Harry F. Byrd D-Va who kept Virginia voters guessing more than President Tru man did about political Intentions this year, will run a gain and his ioes said today they expected it all along. [CwhMi m DP mi General Expscfed Home In June For Campaign WASHINGTON (U>) The ! White House announced to-! day that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had asked to be j relieved June I as supreme commander of the Allied j powers in Europe. Eisenhower sent a request dated j April 2 to Secretary of Defense ! Robert A. Lovett, asking that he be relieved by June 1 and placed on inactive status upon his return to the United States. l The general, however, did not ! | give the date when he expects to : | return to this country and take ! | an active hand in his campaign for I the Republican presidential nomin ation. EXPECTED IN JUNE Presumably he would return in i early June. The White House announcement j at noon today was made on the i day and hour selected by Eisen hower. White House press secretaary, Jo seph Short said President Truman is not yet ready to announce the selection of a successor. "I don't know how long that will take,” Short said. The White House disclosed that on April 10 Lovett, acting with the approval of the President, sent his brief reply to Eisenhower: TRUMAN’S REPLY “Dear General Eisenhower: i “In accordance with your request I contained in your letter of 2 April I and with the approval of the Presi dent, I am taking appropriate act ion to secure jtour release from as signment as supreme commander, Allied powers Europe, effective 1 June, and have you placed on in active statu* upon your* return to the Upitecf states.” 1 ■ .ff - in bis letter urLov formed with an understandinghe" had when he accepted the original appointment in Europe, in Decem ber, 1960. PLENTY OF TIME He said the June 1 relief date would leave “ample time for the appointment of a successor and for any preparation and counsel that he may desire from me.” ' Eisenhower stated that he felt the specific purposes for which he was recalled to dusy in 1950 and sent to Europe had been “largely accomplished.” According to Short, the general also sent a personal letter advising him of the step he was about *o take. The President sent Eisen hower a long handwritten reply. Short described both letters as "personal and very cordial,” but he said they would not be published OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Other political developments: 1. Elsenhower gained 10 dele gates at yesterday’s Kansas ' state GOP convention, giving him 20 and Taft two of that state’s delegates to the national convention. 2. Taft, who now has nearly 200 delegates against 81 for Eisenhow er, picked up six at three Ken ‘Continued on Page Twoi rolled as official ushers for the big revival. Following is a list of the repres entatives from the Gospel Taber nacle in Dunn who will serve as workers in the Oral Robert meeting: USHERS C. M. Hodges. D. B. Register. Charles Hildreth, L. W. Whittenton, Everette Warren, J. B. Rouse, Jr., C. W. Surles, A. G. Register, Earl Henry, W. E. Turner, A. N. Hud son. C. A. Roberson, John R. Lewis, Bijly Roberson. PERSONAL WORKERS W. S. Wellons, Dr. J. A. Jeml gan. Mrs. W. E. Turner, Mrs. G. W. Godwin, Cap Lee. Mrs. Can Lee, (Continued On Page Two' FIVE CENTS PER COPY f '^» < < H : ''* *. H ' :m - mb mb 1 £& 's>fe > - fjk W 1 wkk HB •> dm \ * «■ / MKv. JBHgfes: . k mHh r*' nH ||^ In; ‘ # ’’v lsi iSf K |§F;#B * •MMB? : .-:-v ■ ' -■ ; -hMIR Iff JHI-'" 7 IMK hh|Vv - UflV '•^.^•••‘ * . .Z&me£mSr -- > <->. -• .« - -'.. mmtm frfifflr* fffr ■ ** ' ',* 4sijb IS. ~v - : Tir? &^tmßa|amMMmßMHM^ mm % - ■-> WL C''fe£L£i;\« - P^pp ; fl • *4 it >.'*S . WALGREEN OFFICIAL HERE J. I. Thomas of Dunn, left, who is opening the new Thomas’ Walgreen Drug Agency in Dunn, is pictured here w ith J. F. Justice, official of the national drug store. The building is now being completed on East Broad Street, and installation of fixtures and equipment will begin next week. (Daily Record photo by J. W. Temple, Jr.) GOP Leaders Iq Meet Here Harnett County ReprihJirans wilt,-. Rally and to delegates and alter nates to the Chicago contention at 1 a supper meeting at Jeh neon’s Res taurant in Dunn on Friday night,] April 25th at 7:30 o’clock. Plans for the gathering were an nounced here today by Attorney J. O. West, county chairman and a delegate to the national conven tion. WILKINSON TO SPEAK The speaker at the rally will be John A. Wilkinson of Washington, N. C„ prominent attorney and Re publican leader and the Republican candidate for U. S. Senator two years ago. Chairman West, who will preside, said delegates from all over Eas tern Carolina are meeting here ic arrange for reservations to the na tional convention and to decide on committee appointments. Mr. West said that Vic Lee of Coats is in charge of arrangements for the Young Republican Rally. Both of the groups will meet to gether for the banquet and will then hold individual sessions for the transaction of business. Chairman West said approxima tely 75 or 100 Republican leaders from all sections of Eastern Car olina will be here for the event. NUMBER OF FIRES OCCURING AT GENERAL UTILITY CO. I The following fire was reported by Howard M. Lee, secretary of | the Dunn Fire Department. The call was to General Utility Co., Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the 100 block of E. Harnett St. A tractor was on fire. The fire was out by the time the Fire Depart ment arrived. Twenty-two men ans wered the call. ♦MARKETS* HOGS RALEIGH -01 - Hog markets: Rocky Mount: Steady at 16.25 for good and choice 180-240 lb barrows and' gilts. Burgaw, Kenly, Tarboro, Hamil ton, Pembroke, Elizabethtown, Mt. Olive Dunn, Wilson, > Goldsboro, Kinston Smithfield, Lumber ton, Marlon, Fayetteville, Florence, and Clinton: Steady at 16:00. Wilmington, Jacksonville, Wash ington Rich Square: Slightly high er at 16.00. EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH (W Today’s egg and live poultry markets: Fryers and broilers steady, sup plies plentiful, demand good. Heavy hens steady, supplies plentiful, de mand fair. Prices paid producers FOB farm: Fryers and broilers 26, heavy Bens 23-24, mostly 24. For the week; Fryers and broilers one cent weaker. Heavy hens steady to two cants weaker, i Eggs: Steady, supplies plentiful, demand fair. Prices paid producers and handlers FOB local grading stations: A large 38, A medium 35. B large 34, current collections 32. For the week: steady. Go+ Plans Are Complete k For Walgreen Store J. R Justice, olinas, conferred here yesterday with J. I. Thofhas, who will open the new Thomas’ Walgreen Drug Store here as soon as the beautiful new building on East Broad Street is completed. Work is progressing rapidly on the new building, although the exact date for the opening of the big new drug store has not been set. Mr. Thomas, well-known Dunn druggist, announced several months j ago that he would open a new drug store here. While waiting for the I building. Mr. Thomas has held a j position as pharmacist with the Wooten Drug Co. in Fayetteville. I He will return to Dunn next week, j however, to spend his full time in . preparing for the opening. i PRAISES SET-UP While here yesterday, Mr. Justice 1 Wellons Appointed Dealer For Carrier A new, low-priced 1-3 h. p. Car rier window room air conditioner, embodying the same standards fea tured in Carrier’s established line of 1-2 to 1 h. p. models was an nounced tody by Wellon’s Mercan tile Co. Carrier Corporation dealer for this area. W. S. Wellons. President, for the local company, said the new model is now on display at his firm's Underwood Named Sunrise Speaker Dunn’s traditional Easter sunrise service will be held Sunday morn- . ing at 7 o’clock in Greenwood Cem etery and a huge crowd is expected, to attend the impressive early mo’ning rites . The Rev. Bane T. Underwood, who several months ago became pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle, has been selected by the Dunn Ministerial Association to deliver the message this. year. Mr. Underwood, an aggressive young minister, is an outstanding minister and a forceful pulpit speaker and has prepared a special sermon for this occasion. j OUTSTANDING SPEAKER l Since Mr- Underwood cane to Dunn to take over the local past orate, the church has shown rapid and amazing growth and his Easter, sunrise message will be keonly an-j ticipated by citizens throughout this section. r ofj NO. 90 F 9 expressed delight that Dunr is to get a Walgreen drug Store and pointed out that, "We've been wanting a Walgreen agency here ; for many years and we feel par ticularly fortunate in having Mr. ! Thomas open his new store.” ,jj ! Mr. Justice visited the new build- I ing now under construction and i declared: “Without any reserva ' tion whatever, I can say this Is I one of the finest and most modern buildings and also one of the best ; locations for a drug store I have j ever seen." 1 The new Walgreen agencyt Mr. 1 i it'miiimird »n Pace Seven!*- *jj showrooms. It will sell for as low as $239.00. The 1-3 h. p. unit was developed by Carrier Corporation to meet a growing market for conditioning S small offices, bedrooms, and other spaces where cooling* loads do not require higher capacity equipment. “We feel that it was a real triumph to produce a unit of this ,1 on tinned On face T • 1 . s I %ls3pj
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