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+WEATHER* NORTH CAROLINA Fair and not quite so warm today. Little change in temperature tonight and Thursday. •VfLUME 11 Chief Jackson Fired By Manning, Cobb Named •" t -—ini ■ hum i mi n niiMiaiai'i—«i-^n > -j/ 'MfV ; i .. ’ I 1 pBcEP II jpa MM R K . DUNN’S. NEWEST SHOPPING CENTER Pictured abeve is the new shopping center erected here by Alfred Blalock and Dr. W. W. Stanfield to house the new Piggly Wiggly Food Store and Walgreen Agency Drag Store on East Broad Street. These are the first of several buildings to be erected in the new shopping area, which provides plenty of parking spare and many other convenient features. Both Piggly Wiggly and Waigreen’s will hold their grand opening on Thursday morning and big crowds are expected during the three-day opening event. Oliver W. Godwin was the general contractor for this modernistic, glass-fronted, air-conditioned building. This picture was made before installation of the glass doors and before windows had been uncovered. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). New Shopping Center Opens Tomorrow Thousands of people are expected here for the three flay grand opening of the new Piggly Wiggly Food Store and Thomas Walgreen Agency Drug Store in the town’s newest and most beautiful shopping center. The stores will open Thursday Complete details will be found in morning at 9:30 o’clock in the ot * ler sections of today's issue of handsome new building erected by Daily Record. Alfred Blalock and Dr W. W. Stan- , Oliver W. Godwin, one of the field at the eprner of East Broad -* cnc)W o contractor* in Eastern Street anfl *fc»rth Magnol'a Ave nue kn the site of the old And- | rejvs estate. N One of th‘e largest and most 1 ■beautiful buildings to be fmcart'ih this section, the stricture is mfcd-j <n even' respect and, com-I pletoly air-conditioned. Both stores hav» modern'st’o. all-glass fronts. Oliver O. Godwin was the gen eral contractor f"r t"e >orge struc ture. wh’."h w'll nrovide citiz-po a convenient •d'npp'ng center with plenty of facilities for parking. OFFICIALS TO ATTEND City arid chamber of commerce officia’s will he nn baud fe r the formal cumin" rej-e-mn'es Th"ra day mo-nine Mover Bn'nh W. Hen na, ohamhor President Olar-nde E. McTamb. and Chamhe" Mgn. aeer Norman Suttles will speak briefly. Brief talks whl aim ne made hy Henry H. Milner president and gen eral manager of the Milner coup of Pigelv Wieelv Stores, and by J. Thomas, owner and operator of Thomas Walgreen Aeency Drug Store and bv Jeff Justice, repres entative of the Walgreen organiza tion. Mr. Blalock and Dr. Stanfield are also expected to annear on the brief nrem-am. The exercises will be very tv-ipS as a ho<*o c-owd is . expected to be cn hand and evr-t to enter • l "' centers. OTHERS PI ANvpn ' The b’'l'dings pr-v-sod for Wnl- Areen *and P l<7rr lr the Tirst'of several h"fninv' to he er»c --• ted bv Dr ’Stanfield and Mr. Bla lock in, thp re"’ sbcuT'" center. Others may be constructed later this year. Both of these fi-rns hare arran ged for gala onenines. with many free prizes, gifts and souvenirs. Jtrwin Lions To Aid Dunn's Pool Project Erwin lions, at their meeting last night at Johnson’s Restaurant In Dunn, agreed - to give the hill- ' est cooperation to the Dunn ohde clubs in the promotion of s soft ball game to be h eld jjav 23. The i steams will be made uo of members i tof the Dunn ch‘bs against a team sponsored bv *he Erwin club. i Present at the meeting, to apt-! line the prelect, were Norman But tles, Manager and C E McLamb. President Qf the Dunn Chamber of Commerce. together with Jack chairman oMh* steer- | te“^athan tl CaSy, L SxSS:; TELEPHONES: Sll7 • 3118 - 3119 Carolina, handled the conetruction i 61 this bufdliyg and a number of ! tub-oonthuttosa were lemßfoygd. John D. Smith Dies Suddenly In New Mexico John Dewey Smith, age 25, pf Alberquerque, MeXiCo, died Wednesday at 1 p.m. at his home suddenly. • Services wijl be held Saturday, May 10th at the Hatcher-Skinner Funeral Home. Services will be con ducted by the Rev. J. W. Lynch of Fayetteville. Burial Will be *n Greenwood Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. J. D. Smith of the home, one sister. Miss Jewel Smith of Fayetteville, a half sister, Mrs. William Moore of Wilmlhgton and his grand mother, Mrs. J. V. Smith of Dur ham. if • • The body will arrive Thursday . and -will remain at the Funeral Home until the services Saturday afternoon. ' Smith' was a native of Harnett County, attended Dunn High School and enlisted in .the Merchant Mar ine in Starch. 043? He served for one year and was honorably dis charged with a medical discharge i He returned to Fayetteville and worked with Gregory Cleaners and made his home with bis sister, Mies Jewel Smith until he moved to Alberquerque, New Mexico. NEW CAB TO Be qfvfN A new PlvmoutJg automobile is to be given away to the holder of the U’ckv Heket op the nhrht of the ra me. The ear wIU be display ed in Brwlrt LilUngton, Coats. An eier and other Harnett towns dur hjo the next two weeks and tickets will be sold from the car. , ! Lion Roy Cameron wss presen ted with * kev award by Lion Richard C. Webb and an award for 100 pereent attendance hy Sec- j retety-Tressmwr Lo^Deartwrn^ , Woodall. . (Eke llailtj Jlururd Sanford To Address Harnett Democrats Terry Sanford, prominent young Fayetteville attorn ey and political leadtftand immediate past State president of North Carolina Yobng Uemocrats, will address Har nett Count* Dem®ftrat.< in their ."biennial convention on SatontjtS' May ltth' aV li am. In the county courthouse hi i4i|rngtbft: ' r - *— Local Church Plaits Revival 1 ReVIVal seryices will begin at the Divine Street Methodist Church next Sunday rndming. May 11th and continue through May 18th. Drt Da M. Hargett, evangelist of the Methodist Church, Louisville. Kentucky, will be the guest preach er. Dr. Hargett, who until recently was pastor of the Fourth Ave. Me thodist Church. Louisville, Kv., comes to the local church with splendid recommendations. He has served as a very effective pastor in many of Methodism’s largest chur ches, holding appointments in Kan sas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Okla., and Fourth Ave., Louisville, Ky. Kentucky’s largest' Methodist Church, for nine years. ■ Bishop William T. Watkins, res ident bishop of the Louisville Ar a a lays of Dr. Hargett, “He is an un usual preacher and has across all the years been highly successful in evangelistic efforts. He has evan gelistic ’gifts which make him high ly effective in a most wholesome way in this kind of work.” Dr. Harry Denman, executive sec retary of the Board of Evangelism of th« Methodist Church, aayk: “Dr. Hargett is one of the out standing pulpit men of America. Immediately, when he announced that he was going to evangelistic work. he hsd hundreds of invita tions,and I know he will do a good Job whosever he goes." Services wttl be held at, Divine St. Church ftt H am. and 7:45 p. m. on SuAdUk and at 7:45 o.m. Oach night next week. Day services beginning Tuesday, will be held At 7:38 pm. The early morning hour Is set .so that school children and business men and women can at tend. The song service will begin at 7:45 p.m. each night. The nub ile is invited to attend all of these services. . < The membership and evangelism committee for the congregation is composed of the following: Thai Pope. Chairman; L. C. Langston. M«" B. Barker, John Bn ! pes, bin. Preston Parker, A. P. Adcox. W.. C. Fowler, Mrs. Sexton Lee, Miss NeU Creel, Mrs. Ira Lee and yitt, Chatks Sifbsmith. ThLs com ' v DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 7, 1952 Selection of Mr. Sanford as the keynoter was announced this mor ning by Harnett Democratic Chair ' man W. A. (Bill) Johnson, who will preside over the county convention. Mr. Johnson said he felt extrem ely fortunate in securing Mr. San ford as the keynoter. He is an ex cellent speaker and a man with a distinguished background of ser vice in the Democratic Party. Harnett Democrats will also name officers and transact other busi ness matters at this session. Mrs. George Arthur Jackson of Dunn is vice chairman, Henderson Steele of LilUngton IS secretary, and Venable Baggett of LilUngton is treasurer. BIG CROWD EXPECTED Chairman Johnson said today (Continued on page seven) BULLETINS NEW YQlfcK (IP) The Columbia Broadcasting sy stem invited all presidential hopefuls today to enroll in its new television “school" for political officeseekers.* CANNES, France (IP) Busy Norwegian actress Ran di Kolstad said today she will start work in Oslo tomor row in a film entitled “I Want a Divorce” and a play. “Do You Want a Baby?” In real life, I don’t want a divorce but I do want a baby,” blonde, 26-year-old Randi said. N|W YORK (IP) An operations supervisor at Idle wild Airport became impatient yesterday when an in coming airliner stalled on a runway for almost eight minutes. “You’re cleared, come on in,” the supervisor said (Continued On Page two) Religious Revival Is Sweeping Nation (Editor’s note: The last few years have seen a great upsurge es religious fnsHng and interest in Ike United States. It is .still growing. How great to it and why has It come about* Following to the AIM of three dispatches at-1 tempting to aw sore this sptHtmrt, awakeafitg with statistics and ex plain why Americans are tnrnlng ft rain to the church.) I VaTSwoc x | PIHNh 'vßlflhff Cn respondent. tigtous reival that began as k ripple during the war vears is running at flood tide in America today. ■ Bible isles are booming. An esti mated 12,000,000 BUtos ajuJ Testa UDC To Hold Annual Service Mrs. H. W. Prince, president of the Chicora Chapter of the Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy I has announced the following Mem | orial Day Service to be held at ' the Chicora Cemetery Saturday, i May 10th at three o'clock. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend the impressive ceremonies. Mrs. N. M. Johnson is chairmap of arrangements. \ Fo'llowgae is • the schedule: ) Music, The Dunn Rand. Dixie, The Dunn Band (Mr. W. S. Burrage, Director). Song. The National Anthem, by the assenfblage. Introduction, Mrs. H. W. Prince. Invocation, Rev. Ernest P. Russell. Pledge of allegiance to the Un ited States Flag. Salute to the Con federate Flag (Mrs. Guy T. Har dee, leader). “I salute the Con federate flag with affection, rev erence and undying remembrance." Welcome.' Mrs. N. M. Johnson. Introduction of the speaker. Mr. J. Shepherd Bryan .(Master of Cer emonies) . Address, Dr. J. A. Ellis. Medley, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Over There, Now is The Hour. Presentation xif' the Colors, By the American Legion (Dunn Post 'Continued on Pare Twoi mfents Bill be sold this year alone. The American Bible Society’s dis tribution has doubled in a decade. During that same decade the pop ulation increased only 145 per cent, j CHURCHES GROWING 1 The churches are growing tiwee as fast as the country. During the , last quarter-century church mem , bership went up 50.8 per cent, pop j ulatten 28.6. I Bishop IpKon J. Sheen gets 4,500 tin letter a week from his televis ion program. Billy Oriham, the evangelist, in the last year preached to audienc es totaling more than 2.000,000 Newspapers are blossoming with reugtous features. At least two newspapers have begun printing ’ (Continued on page seven) FIVE CENTS PER COPY Jackson Says Manning Sore About Aikens Police Chief George Ar thur Jackson, veteran of 28 I years service with the Dunn I Police Department, was fi’ied without notice this morning by City Manager Oliver O. Manning “for his own good and for the good of the cit izens.” Sergeant Alton A. Cobb was promoted to suc ceed Jackson as chief and will assume his new duties Thursday morning. The city manager called Chief Jackson into his of fice this morning shortly af ter 9 o’clock and ordered him to turn in his badge and keys at the end of the day. Chief Jackson has served the Dunn police force for a total of 28 years, 24 of them as chief, and is one of the best known law en forcement officers in the State. In a lengthy statment to the press, City Manager Manning took cognizance of Chief Jackson's •‘many faithful years of service,” but expressed belief that younger and more active man should be em ployed and that Chief Jackson should retire under the Officei’s Retirement Fund. Under this fund. Chief Jackson will receive only SSO a month com pensation. The office of chief heie EX-CHIEF JACKSON pays $291.50 a month. Chief Jack son is 58 years old. Firing of Chief Jackson this mor ning came as the culmination of repeated efforts of the city man ager and of several- members of the board to oust him from office. Chief Jackson, who told Man ning that it would be up to the city board to filPlire him, his indi (Continned On Page two) Drafting Plans For Courthouse Preliminary plans for a proposed new Harnett County courthouse are being drafted by Raleigh architect W. M. Weber. A resolution asking Weber to sub mit plans for a new courthouse was adopted earlier this week by the commissioners. Vote to employ this architect was unanimous. The resolution plainly stated that all plans would be subject to the voters of Harnett County “approv ing the financing of the construct ion” by the issuance of bonds or ctherwise. The commissioners went on re cord in the resolution as saying that a new courthouse should be erected. The present structure was described as “inadequate, lacking in -Continued On Page Twel ♦MARKETS* i ■ _ EGGS AND POULTRY RALEIGH (IP Eggs and live poultry markets: Central North Carolina live poul try: Fryers and steady to weak, supplies plentiful, demand, only fair; heavy hens steady to weak, supplies plentiful, demand fair. Prices paid producers FOB farm: Fryers and broilers 20-23; heavy hens 20-30, mostly 22-23. Eggs steady, supplies plentiful, demand fair. Prices paid produc ers and* handlers FOB local grad (Continued on Page Berea) POLICE CHIEF ALTON COBB New Chief Begins Duties Tomorrow ' Alton A. Cobb, former Angier Chief of Police, who is being promoted from jto Chief of the Dunn Poliao- Department, said'this morning that he will ■ do hi? best to fulfill jhis obligations of s)f IjWrtiTirpt lit to the citizens of Dunn. ~~ -*F~" " / “I will need a lot of cooperation on the part of the citizens of Dunn,” be remarked.” and in return, I can promise them the fullest coopera tion of the Department.” The new Police Chief, who will take Over the reins of the Police Department Thursday morning was asked to take the position by City Manager Oliver O. Mann'ng •ad Ms "or Ralnh Hanna. Ousted Chief, G. A. Jackson, Cobb said had declared that he would like to see him as a successor, if he were r et!red. He said Mavor Hanna asked him on Monday if he would accept Chief Cobb this morning em phasized that he has ne"er asked for or souvht the office of chief. “I want the people to know that I didn’t try to get the Chief’s job,” he said. In September, he will have been with the Dunn DeDartment for two years, having come here from Anerier at the request of Chief Jackson. He is a native of Harnett, born near Angier. and was educated in 'he An»ier Schools. He served for *hree years as Aneier Chief of Police, and to run succes sftil’y far Constable, a position he he’d for four years. He is marred to the former •nnip Jane Jackson of near Angier •nd the couple ha-e (wo children, i boy. Alton Earl. 13 years old (Continued On Page Two) Sen. Russell Defeats Kefauver In Florida MIAMI (IP)—Sen. Richard B. Russell gave Sen. Estes Kefauver his first presiden tial preference primary set lack today. The returns from "esterday’s “popularity contest" voting however, far from the 2 to i vic tory forecast by some Russell sup porters. Returns from 1,469 of the state’s 1.683 precincts gave R"*se'l 290,417 votes and Kefauver 254 488. Kefauver said he' believes his showing indicates “I will be nom inated at CMnago on an early bal lot.” Had not the Florida gover nor. two senators and the state’s House delegation taken such an act ive part on Russell’s behalf, the Tennessean said, “I believe I would have been able to win by a vote of 2 to IS ATLANTIC UFOOTMTONDIDAira said. "The majority .jessed op The Record • Gets Results Barney Wilkes Takes His Life Barney B. Wilkes, 52, well-known farmer of Dunn. Ropte 5, com mitted suicide at his home Tuesday afternoon about 1:30 o’clock He was rushed to the Dunn Hospital with | a .22 calibre bullet wound in his temple. Dut was dead on arrival’ j Members of the family, who heard the gun burst and rushed to his side, said he took the ’rrfl* j and went outside beside the house I and shot himself. | He was found bv his sister, Mrs. j loia Bryant and his mother, Mrs. (Continued 'On Page two) Welborn Wholesale Firm Buralarized The Welborn Wholesale Company on East Edverton Street was the scene of an attemnted burglary which is under investigation i3y the Dunn Police Department. Although t h e burglars managed to prv off both locks on the 'fqor ito the office, they were either ! scared off or gave up the. attempt without managing to effect an en try. position to the idea of svrrendfce ing any of the sovereignty of this nation to the new proposed govern ment." 1 -'(MtSfiß T n the pre-election campedgn'nz Kefauver pointed out that he wauj ‘j h"t one of numerous sensVojy.- fV; ■ rh’dinv S*n. Walt-r F. OeMWVjit. Geo--"ia who endorsed Atlantic PAk. ion in orlnoMe. Tt was Pen. G«orv» SmaU’ers (D-Fla.i Who predated that Ru%t ■ sell would sweep K«fawvAf I r rtWite# < bv a two to one margin he’ ed to make a strene bid Russell’s 1-ad. which’ he:JlsSifjl bed about mtdnivht. started climb ing wh»n the rural section of west Florida, made up largely of V porting 3 votes. ' e ° rgmnS ’ 8 “ r P 1 NO. 108
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