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NORTH CAROLINA Partly
cloudy with little change in tem
perature today, tonight and Sat
urday, except not so warm in
North and East portions Saturday.
Widely scattered thundershowers in
North and West portions
VOLUME II
Taft Offers To Compromise Texas Dispute With Ike
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PREVIEW OF SEARS* NEW BUILDING JIERE Construction will pet underway here soon in the new Blalock-Stanfield shopping
center of a beautiful new building for Seat? Catalog Sales Office and it'll be one of the company’# finest in Eastern Carolina. This picture
fives you an idea,as to what the interior will’look like, although just one corner is shown here. The new Sears’ building will be of the
most modern type design and architecture. Mrs. Beulah lawi*b is manager of the Dunn Store, which has enjoyed rapid growth
since it was established hare. The new store will adjoin Thomas' Walgreen Agency Drug Store.
' Storm AFI
Election Dare
A C.T, 0., Textile Workers Union
ol America official described as
“silly” a challenge from the Af.L.
for the T.W.U.A. to agree to allow
elections to decide which union
. would represent Erwin Mills textile
I workers.
Herbert S. Williams, a C. 1.0.,
T.W.UA. vice-president who is in
Durham, was asked to sign an
agreement to hold elections at Er
win Mills’ plants in four cities and
towns and to waive hearings at
which the A.F.L. must prove a
“schism” exists in the C. I. O
ranks.
Williams said that “it would be
silly” for his group to consent, to
the elections. He said that existing
I T.W.U.A. contracts with Erwin
Mills prevent such an agreement.
The contracts run until Oct. 1 of
this year, and Williams said he
thought an election at Erwin Mills'
plants could not be held until short
ly before the contracts expire.
Business agents for the A.F.L.
representing Erwin Mills’ employ
ees here and in Cooleemee and Er
win, said yesterday they sent Wil
liams the agreement to sign. Er
win’s Neuse plant also Is involved
k in the dispute between the C. 1.0.
and the A.F.L.
National Labor Relations Board
hearings are required by law as a
forerunner to an election on a
switch of unions. The hearings can
be waived, however, if both unions
and the company agree to elec
tions.
“We will wait to see what the
unions decide before we make our
decision,” Dr. Frank deVyver, a
vice-president and personnel direc- t
% tor of Erwin Mills, said last night
m when asked what the company
1 would do In regard to elections. !
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Harnett Had Fewer
* Accidents In June
Harnett County’s highway acci
dent and death toll showed con
siderable improvement during the
month, although fatalities for the
first six months doubled those of
* the same period last year,
i The report was made today by
) Corporal Rommie Williamson.
1 head of the highway patrol forces
D to imrtng >U June, Corporal William-
In June of 1961, there were 88
accidents, 16 injuries and one kill
ed.
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{•itothoiise Hearing Is Set
For Monday Morning At 10
Tar Heels Spend Fourth
Trying To Beat The Heat
BY UNITED PRESS
Tar Heels holiday-bound took to
the mountains, the seashore—or
Just to the icebox today as they
went alt out to beat the heat and
enjoy a long Fourth of July week
end.
Public officials stressed safety to
cut the traditional high loss of life
during the festive period. Fireworks
—except with a license—may not
be used| The state’s ABC stores
were closed, but reported a brisk
pre-closing rush yesterday.
One holiday hazard, crowded
highways and reckless drivers, is
expected to extract the largest toll.
Highway patrol headquarters in
Raleigh began tabulation of high
way accidents every four hours in
the hope of increasing public aware
ness of increased danger on the
road.
Highway officials said the state’}
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Harnett's Teacher
Quota Announced
• The totaj of regular school teach- |
ers in Harnett County for the
1962-53 school year will be 386, it
! was announced by Superatendent
I of Schools, Glenn T. Proffitt. This
During the first six months Os
last year, there were 178 accidents
in Harnett, 106 Injuries and six
highway deaths. ;
DOZEN KILLED THIS YEAR
During the first six months of
this year, however,, there were X 66
accidents, 93 Injuries and 13 high
way deaths.
June was the second month of
this year that there were oh high
way fatalities in Harnett.
Corporal Williamson said he was
riMS-WST .*“*
(Ike flaikjJtecurd
total deaths on the highway since
the first of the year may pass 500
today. It was 497 when the special
counting began.
The weatherman promised fair
and warmer weather today, with
scattered showers in the western
part of the state. He said widely
scattered thundershowers tomor
row may break up a few picnics.
Banks and many business houses
are closed for a four-day holiday.
VARIED ACTIVITIES
For holiday amusement , Tar
Heels had the choice of varied pro
grams over the state.
In Raleigh thousands were ex
pected to jam the new Southland
Speedway for the 200-mile AAA
national championship auto race.
North Carolina’s fifth open air
drama “Thunderland”, • opens at
Asheville tonight. At Brevard the
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| represents a gain of nine teachers
over last year.
Total enrollment In the schools
of the county will probably be
about 13,000, Mr. Proffitt estimat
es. Increased enrollment plus a cut
In teacher load, accounts for the I
additional teachers. I
Only one white school, Ander
son Creek, will lose a teacher. Ne
gro Schools will lose two teach
ers, but will have a net gain of
three overall, so that based on
the number, the Negro schools will
come out with a larger percent
age of gain.
Dunn will gain two elsmehtary
and one high school teacher. Ben
haven will gain one elementary
teacher. Coats will get one addition
al high school ond one elementary
teacher. Lillington will get one ad
ditional high school teacher.
Harnett Connty Training School
will gain one high school teacher;
Shawtown will get one elementary
and two high school teachers;
Gentry will lose one elementary
teacher; and the small Negro
schools one elementary will be ad
ded’ and one lost.
Hie addition of the three new
teachers in the Dunn Schools will
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DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1952
The Harriett County Board
of Commissioners will con
duct a hearing Monday mor
ning at 10 o’clock to decide
whether or not to call an
election to vote on the is
suance of $490,000 in bonds
for erection of a new courts
house in Lillington.
Chairman Lofton A. Tart said
today that if most citizens appear
to want the election that it will
be called; otherwise It will not be
held.
Plans for a new courthouse tc
replace Harnett’s present and an
cient dilapidated structure have al
ready been drawn by William
Weber of Raleigh.
SENTIMENT DIVIDED
Sentiment on the courthouse if
divided, although all citizens agree
on the need.
Many hold the view that now Is
not the proper time to undertake
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American Jets Have
Year's Biggest Day
SEOUL, Korea (IP) American F-86 Sabre jets shot
down 12 Communist jet fighters, probably shot down
another and damaged six more today to hand the Red
air force its worst defeat in a single day this year.
More than 70 Shooting Star and
Thunder Jet American fighters
were pounding targets along the
Yalu River as a Fourth of July
[ gesture to the Reds when 115 MIGs
1 came up off their sanctuary north
l of the river at Antung.
I As the MIGs circled in fast to-
I ward the fighter bombers, they
■ 'were Jumped by 95 Sabres which
| ’ had been watching from 40,000 feet
I for just such a move.
The downed MlGs* were shot out
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, (IP—The House overwhelmingly ap
proved, 332 to 1, a new GI Bill of Rights for Korean war
veterans. It needs Senate approval to go to the White
House.
DANVILLE, Va., (IP)—Peggy Lennox, IMS winner of
a Florida-to-Canada women’s air race, crash-landed her
plane today in an attempt to win the 1,200-mile race
Platform Os
Republicans
Being Shaped
CHICAGO (IP) The 1952
Republican platform was
shaping up today as a bitter
attack on alleged fumbling
by the Democrats at home
and abroad and a promise
things will be better if the
voters go GOP in November.
With final drafting still to be
done, the platform builders have
hewed out in rough form most of
the planks to be presented next
week to the Republican convention
as the party's basic campaign doc
ument.
The work is going on behind
closed doors and for the most part
under cloak of secrecy. However,
on the basks of available Informa
tion. some of the main planks are
expected to look like this-
COMMUNISM—The G. O. P. is
“shocked and disgusted” that the
administration “condones, defends
and protects” Reds in government
and other key spots. Anti-Com
munist laws, state and federal,
must be tightened and enforced.
HITS CORRUPTION
CORRUPTION lt’s time to
crack down on the chlselers and
grafters. The way to do it is elect
Republicans. Congressional com
mittees who exposed these things
should be commended and their
work encouraged.
TAXES Democrats have boost
ed them to disastrous levels. Re
publicans, if elected, promise a I
progressive reduction. The budget
Will be cut and balanced.
CONTROLS Get rid of them
wherever possible. In Democratic
hands they have stoked the fires
of inflation. Price and wage ceil
ings under present conditions are
a JVu> and should be junked
’ CIVIL Enact a fg_-
eras FEPC on a non-compulsory
basis. Let states take more initiat
ive In assuring civil rights.
LABOR Taft-Hartley law is
sound; revisions should be made as
needed, give fair shake to both
management and labor.
, FOREIGN POLICY—The De-
mocrats have been out-maneuvered
by the Russians consistently since
World s War 11, starting with Yalta
and Tehran. Vacillating policy in
Far East gave China to Reds and
led to attack on Korea. The GOP
will stand firm against Communists
at home and abroad. It will contin
ue support of allies in their stand
against aggression, but with more
strings attached, to assure that
they help themselves.
DEFENSE —The administration
dropped the ball in dismantling
) world’s greatest military machine
1 after World War 11. Resulting
weakness sparked Red aggression
■ around the world. GOP will build
• well-rounded defense, with empha
sis on air power. Total military
spending will be held to levels na
tion can support without wrecking
economy.
i If you decide to use weed contro'
before seeding, wait at least one
- week or until after a heavy rain
’ has diluted the chemical In the
soil. Then sow the seed.
of the skies or sent scuttling back
to base in II different dogfights
on the Korean side of the Yalu.
TARGET NOT KNOWN
The sth Air Force was myster
ious about the nature of the target
but said it was Just south of the
Yalu River and about 20 miles
southeast of the Suiho power plant,
which was attacked on June 23.
The attacks started at noon when
two wings of Thunder jets roared
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PROPHET AZEL Pictured here is Prophet Azel G. Manning, j
74, in one of the last photographs ever made of him. He was casting |
his vote in Benson’s city election a year ago. “Os course I know who’ll
be elected,” Prophet Azel insisted to a reporter as he dropped in
his ballot. The Lord and King Azel decided that a long time ago,”
declared the self-styled prophet. He died yesterday and was buried
today in Banner’s Chapel Cemetery. He was one of the . great
characters of Eastern Carolina. (Daily Record Photo by T. M.
Stewart.) . \
Prdphet Azel Ends
Earthly Crusade
By HOOVER ADAMS
The Lord’s “Right-Hand Man” is dead.
They buried King Azel G. Manning, 74-year-old self
styled, self-appointed prophet of the Lord this afternoon in
a little country cemetery out from Benson.
After 28 years of preaching and ;
crusading throughout 128 states,
‘The Boss” called Prophet Azel [
home yesterday morning. Death ' 1
came at Duke Hospital, where he i
had been a patient for sometime.
“I’m afraid that old rupture and ]
cancer is going to lay me low,” he
confided to friends a few days
before his death. i
“But old Azel will rise again,” he ;
admonished. t
HE WAS READY
He said he had a message from '
the Lord a few weeks ago advising
him that his worldly mission was
ending.
“The Lord says to me,” related
Prophet Azel, “King Azel, you have
done a wonderful work. You have
served long and faithfully. You
have won the fight, you have won
the victory. It’s time for you to
come home.”
For more than a quarter of a
century, the man who came out of
the cabbage fields of Johnston
County has been a familiar figure
through Eastern Carolina and in
many other States in which he has
taken his crusade.
Azel crusaded night and day
against sin. He had grave misgiv
ings against the modern genera
tion, even against the modern
preaching.
“OLD-TIMEY” PREACHER
“I’m an old-timey preacher,” he
reminded, “and I'm proud of it.
Religion doesn’t change. Some of
these modem preachers try to put
a new angle to it, but they just
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Church Os God
Ticket Named
NASHVILLE (IP) Bishop
Homer A. Tomlinson, general over
seer of one faction of the Church
of God, was nominated today as s
"Third Party Church of God” can
didate for president.
Bishop Tomlinson was nominated
by Bishop Willie L Bass, Fayette
ville. N. C-, who in turn was nom
inated for vice president. They will
give their acceptance speeches to
morrow.
The nominations highlighted to
day’s sessions of the Tomlinson
group's 47th annual assembly which
' becan here Wednesday »<d will
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Harnett Church
Plans Event
Buie’s Creek Baptist Church on
Sunday will celebrate its annua)
homecoming day and a welcome
service for its new pastor, the Rev
Weldon Johnson. The church has
extended a cordial invitation to al l
its members, former members, and
friends to attend the service and
the picnic lunch which will follow
It.
B. P. Marshanks will make the
announcements and will recognize
the visitors; Rev. A- Paul Bagby
will address the congregation on
“Our College. Our Community, and
Our Church.”
The full program follows: 9:45
Sunday School. 11:00. Worship
Service: Prelude: Call to Worship;
Doxology; Invocation: Lord’s Pray
er; Hymn No. 244: Interlude, An
nouncements by Mr. Marshbanks;
Responsive Reading, Selection 84;
Prayer and Choral Response: Hvmn
No, 249: Offertory; Special Music:
Address bv Dr. Jaabv; Pastor’s
Message: Hymn No. 210: Benedic
tion and Response; Postlude.
Just Like Christmas
Eve OnßargainDays
Shoppers swarmed through the i
stores in Dunn yesterday seeking
the items advertised by the local
merchants for the annual “Bar
gain Days” sponsored by the Dunn
Chamber of Commerce.
They were not disappointed. Bar
gains galore In all categories, were
on display and racked up on the
shelves. Soon after the opening
yesterday morning, bundle-laden
men and women began appearing
along Broad Street, and the shop
ping rush continued all day. ‘
1 Today the weary clerks get a
one day respite before the big day
i Sates. I C^S^teman r^St*B^e
Bargain Days
Continue Thru
Saturday
NO. 150
Herbert Hoover
Urges Rivals
To Settle Issue
CHICAGO (IP) Sen. Rob
! ert A. Taft offered to com
| promise the party-splitting
j row over Texas delegates to
day with a plan to take 22
' of 38 seats and give Gen.
1 Dwight D. Eisenhower .16.
There was no likelihood that
the Eisenhower managers would
accept.
Taft made his proposal in a letter
to Chairman Guy George Gabgfel
son of the Republican national
committee as the committee started
hearings on the conflicting claims
of the two Texas rival delegations
In earlier contests this week, the
Taft steamroller has rolled over
the Eisenhower forces and the
national committee has allotted all
but a handful of the disputed dele
gates to Taft. The Eisenhower
managers have promised to fight
I these contests in the convention
I credentials committee and onto the
I convention floor.
MAY HURT CHANCES
I The climactic Texas row is
j threatening to jeopardize Republi
can prospects for victory in Novem
| ber before the presidential nominee
j is even chosen. Concern over this
I possibility was reported to be one
I factor in Taft’s offer to compromise
] However, an Eisenhower head-.
quarters spokesman reminded that
j Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the
I Eisenhower campaign manager
| “has said all along that there.will
| be no compromise.”
“I’m sure he will stick to that
decision,” he added.
Taft's proposal came after form
er President Herbert Hoover had
intervened in the pre - convention
ttittle by urging the national com
ittje to setit “ap amicable aad
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RALEIGH, (IE The Fourth
of July holiday bloodshed box
score as compiled by the North
Carolina highway patrol:
Deaths by 12 noon— -4.
Injured over holiday—4l.
Accidents over holiday—39.
Killed to date this year—Ml.
Congress About
Ready To Adjourn
WASHINGTON, «B— Congress
rolled today toward a Saturday ad
journment, but Senate Republican
Leader Styles Bridges will try to
keeD the lawmakers on call in case
of a break In the ste»l strike.
Bridges said he would move to
recess the Senate sublect to call
of the leaders, instead of quitting
for keeps until the next Congress
convenes in January. He said this
would allow Congress to return
after the polities) conventions of
the strike bv 650 000 CIO steel
workers is not settled “at a reason
able date."
However. Senate rl’mocretic
I eader Ernest W. McFarland to'd
: the Senate vesterdav he saw no
reason whv it would not adjourn
sine die tomorrow. He said his
ariiournment plans would not be.
affected by President Truman’s
statement, vesterdav that he seee
no reason to use the Taft-Hartley
law to end th« strike despite Con
gress’ “request” to do so.
Most Senate sources forecast de
feat for Bridges’ plan. They noted
that, many work-wearv members of
both House and Senate want to be
home campaigning after the con
ventions. i 7
i “It looked like Christmas ErejM
commented Alabaster, from J(p7
vantage point In front of his store,
as he watched the crowd of (hoo
pers on Broad Street “It would W .
Interesting If we could get a
port from all the stores on thtiO
sa'es today.”
For those who were unable to
make it Thursday, the Record bast i
been assured that there will be
equally good values llaturday. This,
plus the fact teat the stork wlli
remain open later than Ttumda&
gives shoppers more time to take