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STARTING THE TOBACCO SEASON IN HARNETT The group shown here are busy grading the tobacco on the farm of Williford
Barefoot on Dunn Route 2. The two boys in the left background ar e sons of Mr. and Mrs. 0. V. Lee, tenants on the farm. At the grading _
bench are, left to right; Let ha Lee, 14 and Shirley Bass, 14, both students at Plainview School, Mrs. Lee, and an unidentified youngster;
standing is G. V. Lee, Jr. The Lees have four acres of tobacco and s el! most of their crop, with the exception of a few sand lugs, which
they carry to border belt markets, on the Dunn Tobacco Market. M rs. Lee told the photographer that their corn dried in the field during
the heat wave. Their garden also succumbed to the drought, the first year they have not been succssful in this respect. A turnip patch
v a, *d a few collards were all that survived. However, their tobacco is a good average for the section and should bring a food price on
the market here. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). . }
Council Hears Routine Matters
* With no items scheduled
on, the agenda /or t&e n»eeV-,.
ing of the v t(jwn board last
Alight, it had only the petit
ions of citizens to consider,
and the meeting adjourned
at 9:30 p. m. the earliest ad- ,
journment in several
months.
Eugene Johnson of the Dun n j
Furniture Company asked that
somethine be done about the park
ing situation in the alley ad<oin
4ng the coninanv’s r>vemi«“s. Cars. ]
le said, are being left 'n the al'ev j
for hours at a t.’me and it is prac
tically impossible to us» the alley ,
for loadine and unloading
"It has become so bad that we ,
are asked to brine merchandise ,
around to the Rai’read Avenue
side of the bmldine ” he declared
"The onjv solution T can see is to ,
give everybody who narks there
for ot,ho r than r>“cessarv loading .
and unloading a ticket ” he said. J ,
\ C’tv Attorney T. R Williams | ,
ypointed out. that there is an ord- I
inance orohibiting narking in al- ;
leys but added that it was not. now } 1
in t.be book. 'We a-e having the i
ordinances Drinted and brought up j
to date,” he said, “and as soon as
thev are nr»nared. we will he in I
ft hotter nneifinn to enfn-ee tSysl." I ‘
PROTEST HIGH CHARGES 1
Worth Vannoy. Bruce Bvrd and ]
Robert A. Pave appeared and ask- |
ed the board to consider some
means whereby they would npt !
jMrnve to nav an excessive charge
lor the paving in front of their .
homes. r
Vannoy. snokesman for the groun. ‘
said the three, together with Rev. 1
Bane Underwood, lived on a circle •
and that the cost of paving would
be nearlv twice as much for them
as for other Dunn residents. !
“Paving for mv nex* dcor neigh- •
bor will cost onlv $62” Vennnv 1
declared, “while mv cost will be j 1
$118.” He suggested that since the i
m circle passed the traffic in a dis- 1
” ferent direction, it might be eon- |
sidered an intersection, and thus 1
the town could absorb the addit- ■
ional cost.
He was told to see contractor j
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School Committees
'**Selected By Board
Local committees which will
work with the University of North j
Carolina and the Kellog Foundat- j
ion in a long range program of,
school improvement and leader
ship development were named last
night Iff the county board of edu
cation. i
Harnett is one of eight counties
ip North Carolina selected to par
ticipate in the program. Others
are Duplin, Orange, Rockingham,
Alamance, Durhaia, Bladen and
Rutherford. The cooperative pro
ject will continue for four years.
A grant of $45,000 has been given
TELEPHONES: 3117 - 3118 - 3119
Mldmsr Totaled
$55,650 In July
Permits for building calling for the expenditure of an
estimated $555,650 were issued during the month of July
according to the report of J. E. Norris, Building Inspector:
Biggest item will be the store
building being erected on East
Broad Street by George Franklin
Blalock and Dr. W. W. Stanfield,
which calls for $30,000.
$12,500 will be spent by the God
win Building Supply Company in
building on North Fayetteville
Avenue. Johnson Cotton Co., plans
to build a building costing $5,000 on
South Railroad Avenue.
Other building permits include;
Leroy Bostic on South Fayette
ville Street, $3,000; Tom Shaw,
East Harnett Street, $1,500; and
Paul C. Hood, East Edgerton Street,
$1,500.
801 l Weevil Damage
Reported Gaining
801 l weevil infestation is on the
increase in Harnett County, County
Agent C. R. Ammons reported this
morning, and he said the next ten
days to two weeks would be a
highly 'Critical period.
The increase indicates that farm
ers are reaching the home stretch
in the control program, he pointed
out, and they must persist in their
efforts in order to avoid a bad crop
loss.
i In the spot check yesterday, the
| farm of J. A. Wilkins. Fuquay
1 Springs Route 2, showed an infesta
tion of 96. per cent. The farm of
IC. TT. Kelly, Ullingtbn Route 1,
showed 5 % percent.
Hardy yrrd’s farm at Bunnlevel,
the School of Education at the
University from the Kellog Foun
dation to furnish trained person
nel who will confer with local com
mittees and put some of their
suggestions into practice In the
schools. Purpose of the project is
to back up with concrete examples
the slogan that “Better schools
make be ter communities."
Names of local comittee members,
follow;
Anderson Ckeek, E. H. Hill.
Dunn, Mrs. Anna C. Bryan, L.
A. O-JTurUngtop,
3b? Bailu, Jltmrfr
PLUMBING INSPECTIONS
[ Plumbing inspections were re
, ported as follows;
Bill WOcdall, East Broad Street;
i Harold Jernigan, North King
: Ave., Nathan Cannady, North Mag
i nolia; B. H. Hoggard, South Ellis
i Ave., John Snipes, West Cumber
' land St., C. L. Tart, Greenwood
; St., Bob Baer, North General Lee
• Ave.; Paul Hood, East Edgerton
, St.; Letlow Matthews, Townsend
l St., W. D. Borrow, Old Coats Road;
, and Dr. Holt, West Cumberland
I St.
shows 20 percent infestation; that
of Mack Tucker. Dunn Route 4, 27 (
percent; and Robert Elliott, Dunn .
Route 4, 96 percent.
On the farm of M. E. Thornton, j
who has been keeping up a care- ■
ful control program, the infesta
tion was 19 per cent, the highest '
it has been on his land this year.
The highest infestation discov
ered yesterday was on the farm
of Mr Blackmon on Dunn Route 4,
where the infestation was 97 per
cent This Mr.. Ammons cites as a 1
good control guide, since this land
was not treated this year.
7 : i
Defense Pact
Is Drafted
HONOLULU (W The United
States, Australia and New Zealand
moved ahead of schecjule today in j
their conferences to establish a sol |
Id defense perimeter against ag
gression In the Pacific.
Top diplomatic representatives of
the three nations, pioneering in a
historic pact, hurried through the
first day of executive sessions yes
terday by adopting a three-point
agenda and agreeing to set up a
security council which will' meet
annually.
Foreign ministers of the ANZTJS
, countries agreed that the coun
cil also would be strengthened by
interim conferences between their
aides and deputies.
The Jnaugural »*«>.«< the
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DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 1952
Truman Votes
In Missouri
, ..INDEPENDENCE, Mo., IIPI
—-Prartaeht .Truman voted
today in Missouri’s primanr
election and ended his 10-
day vacation at the Little
White House in Independ
ence.
Mr. Truman’s DC-6 Independ
ence took off for Washington from
Fairfax Airport in Kansas City,
Kan., at 8:59 a. m. EOT. He was
due in the capital between 12:45
and 2:15 p. m. EST.
Mrs. Truman remained in In
dependence with her 90-year-old
mother who is ill.
The president and Mrs. Tru
man entered the voting booth at
Memorial Hall, about a block from
their famous house on Delaware
Street, at 8:01 a. m. EST. Three
minutes later they handed their
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Ike Tells Negroes
Hes Against FEPC
DENVER, D. Eisenhower will fly to Los
Angeles today to make his first speech since winning the
Republican presidential nomination.
His associates said the speech, to
be delivered tonight before the 53rd
annua] encampment of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars at about 9 p. m.
EST, would be non-political In
nature.
But It was apparent that anything
the GOP nominee says will he con
struct as having political slgnifi-
Ance.
TO RECEIVE MEDAL
The VFW will award Eisenhower
its first annual Bernard M. Baruch
medal. This award is to be pre
sented each year to the person who
“thas made the greatest contribution
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, (IP! —Lt. Gen. Alexander R. Bolling,
Army Intelligence -chief since August, 1950, will become
commanding general of the 3rd Army with headquarters
at Ft. McPherson, Ga., sometime this month. The Army
said Maj. Gen. William A. Beiderlinden, acting commaiM
ing general of the 3rd Army since last May, will return to
his duties as its deputy commander. Bolling served in
Europe in both World Wars I and 11. He is a native of
Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The Red Cross issued an urgent
appeal today for at least 100 graduate nurses to work in
areas stricken with poliomyelitis. Miss Ann Magnussen,
National Director of Red Cross nursing services, said the
emergency need for nurses has not been so great since
1949, when polio reached epidemic proportions in certain
states. #§
> GRAULHET, France, (IP)—Cave wall drawings made by
(Cwami te ram tmi
Rain-Starved N. Carolina
To Be Made Disaster Area
Phones Sought
By Anderson
Creek Section
The meeting held at the
Andersen Creek School Fri
day night to discuss the in
stallation of telephones in
that area nas resulted in a
complete canvass of the
irea by a group of citizens,
to arrange right-of-ways and
take applications for phone
service, it was revealed this
morning by County Agent
0. R. Ammons.
The County Agent said that the
telephone company is i-eady to
swing into action as soon as the
work of arranging the right -of
-ways for the lines is concluded.
There should be applications for
between 100 and 125 phones, Am
mons estimates.
At the meeting Friday, the ter
ritory was divided into sections,
and a resident of each section
volunteered to canvass a portion
of the territory.
TO MAKE CANVAS
The sections, and those who will
make the canvas are as follows;
Lillington to Little River, George
Souders; Little River to Butts
Service Station, Raymond Moss;
the service station to Cambro Farm
Service, Roy Butts; Cambro to
D. L. Hill’s, Robert Lasiter; HU’S
to Parker Service Station, includ
ing the Anderson Creek School
section,' L. ,JL Clark; Parkeri-tft
Edison Haynes home, and Leslie
Matthews - Service Station, Robert
Lasiter; thence to the county line,
Bruce Howard.
Bob Warren will canvass the
spur at Flat Branch Presbyterian
Church, and Cariiss Lanier will
handle this work on the spur that
runs off the highway near his
home. Two other spurs near their
homes will be handled by Troy
Saunders and James McArtan.
Lewis Is Ready
To Call Strike
WASHINGTON —Ob— John
L. Lewis was set today to shut
down all major branches of the
coal industry simultaneously at
midnight, Sept. 30 unless the op
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to the cause of American unity and
world peace.”
Eisenhower’s brief speech will be
in response to this presentation.
The Republican presidential can
didate’s schedule called for him to
leave here at 12 p. m. EOT and
to arrive at the Los Angeles airport
at 5:30 p. m. EST. •
After delivering his speech, Ei
senhower will fly directly back to
Denver.
The former five star general got
a taste yesterday of some of the
tough political problems that lie
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TWUA GETS BIG CHECK Hardy Johnson, vice-president of
the Erwin Local Union 250 of the TexUle Workers Union of Am
erica, (CIO) Is shown handing a check for $5,749 to Mrs. Wilma
O’Brian at the First Citizens Bank here for deposit to the TWUA
account. The check represents the first payment of dues collected
from Erwin Mills workers by the company that has been paid into
the local treasury since the disaffiliation several weeks ago. (Daily
Record photo by Louis Dearborn).
Adlai Going After
Farm State Ballots
SPRINGFIELD, 11., (IF—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson shift
ed his attention today to farm policy and the farm vote
after answering charges that his presidential campaign
bore a left-wing stamp.
One of the visitors scheduled to
drop in at the Illinois executive !
mansion today was Secretary of
Agriculture Charles F. Brannan,
who asked for appointment with [
Stevenson.
It was Brannan who was credited |
with calling the plays which en
abled President Truman to make
unexpected inroads into Republican
strength In the Midwestern farm j
belt in the presidential campaign j
four years ago.
Brannan also brought forth the |
“Brannan Plan” for farm subsidy i
payments, but Congress never ap
proved it.
HAS NO FARM RECORD |
Although he is governor of one
of the richest farm states, Steven
son has not built himself a detail
ed record on federal farm legisla
tion. He has ■ indicated approval of
the government price support pro
gram.
At a news conference last week,
he said he liked the farm plank
in the Democratic party platform
“very much” bQt he did not am
plify.
The farm plank applauded the
action of Congress this year in
tempararily setting price supports
at 90 per cent of parity on basic
crops instead of the sliding scale
formulas in effect for the last four
years.
Another visitor on Stevenson’s
appointment list today was Clark
Clifford, a Washington attorney
who was once President Truman’s
personal counsel. .
TO RUN OWN SHOW
At a news conference yesterday.
•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH IW Today’s egg
and live poultry markets;
Central North Carolina live poul
try; Fryers and broilers steady,
supplies adequate to plentiful, de
mand fair. Heavy hens steady,
supplies adequate to plentiful, de
mand generally slow. Prices at
farm up to 10 a. m. Fryers an
broilers 2 1-2-3 lbs 30, heavy hens.
30-22. Mostly 20-31. i
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Stevenson again made it clear that
h$ intends to run his own show
for the political campaign. He dis
missed as “nonsense” Republican
charges that the “left-wing” of the
Democratic party has taken over
the campaign.
“I have been my own master
thus far and will continue to do
so,” he said.
Stevenson disclosed that a dozen
or more men have been “proposed
and discussed” for the chairman
ship of the Democratic National
Committee.
He named two of those on the
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School At Coats
Having Hard Luck
Bad luck seems to be playing tag
with the Coats school judging
from a report made last night to
the county board of education.
Water, flowing from uncapped
shower pipes, recently flooded the
newly laid hardwood floor of the
new gymnasium. Water buckled the
floorings, ruined the doors and
caused damage estimated at a
round $4,000. The gymnasium was
due to be ready for the opening
of the fall term.
FIRE BREAKS OUT
• Fire, found on the first floor of
the old school building, last Thurs
day did wound S3OO damages be
fore it was put out by (ire extin
guishers. Loss was covered by in
surance.
G. T. Proffitt, county school sup
erintendent, said he was told that
smoke poured out of the window
on the opposite side of the build
ing from where the blase was
finally located beside a radiator.
But in efforts to enter building
glass doors in the basement were
broken and a hole chopped in the
flow before the fire was found.
Proffitt said investigation has
dismissed defective wiring as the
The Record
Gets Results
NO. 171
Drought Loans
Available To
Needy Farmers
WASHINGTON, <lP>—Fed
eral officials promiser} “dis
aster area’’ status to rain
starved North Carolina to
day and indicated Louisia
na and Rhode Island soon
may join the fast-growing
list of states eligible for
emergency loans.
The entire states of Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mis
sissippi, South Carolina, Maine and
Massachusetts, 44 counties of Mis
souri and 27 counties in Arkan
sas previously had been labeled
disaster areas.
The designation allows the Agri
culture Department’s Farmers
Home Administration to make
emergency loans to farmers in the
area who have suffered crop and
livestock losses, and who are un
able to get private credit to buy
seed, feed and other items needed
to keep their farms going.
MEETING SCHEDULED
To set up machinery for quick
processing of the drought loans, the
culture Department invited
Southern farm leaders to a meeting
in Atlanta tomorrow.
A similar meeting probably will
be launched later in New England,
where farm officials have reported
widespread “confusion” about what
sort of loans are available to far
mers, and how they are to be han
dled.
HEAVY TOBACCO LOSS
North : Carolina asked yWMRUy
that lt be added to the list, on the
basis of a two-months drought that
has burned up $100,000,000 worth
of tobacco and an equal value of
cither crops. Federal officials
promptly agreed to include the Tar
Heel state.
Louisiana farm officials were in.
vited to the Atlanta conference—
a strong hint that state was due for
"disaster area” treatment. J
Agriculture Department officials
said they also were prepared to
act ‘‘immediately’’ if syid when
President Truman authorizes the
use of federal emergency funds to
ship feed into the parched South
ern states where pastures are
“burned to a crisp” and hay crops
are ruined. ’’
Tennessee Governor Gordon R.
Browning has requested such ac
• Continued on Page Two)
Priest Visitors
Praise Dunn
Father Francis A. McCarthy,
i Pastor of the Sacred Heart Catho
| lie Church here was host on Sun
day, August 3, to seven visiting
| priests from Eastern North Caro
lina. All of them arrived Sunday
afternoon for a special supper
which was prepared by the parish
oners of the local church. Father
Edward Gilbert State Superinten
dent of the Parochial School System
■Con tinned Dn Pae* Two)
cause of the blaze. He said it ap- *
peared likely a workman had prob
ably left a cigarette stub which f«B
into the hole beside the radiator'
and later ignited.
LARGER LOSS COVERS? ’ '
Larger loss to the gymnasium R
covered by builders risk insurance t
Proffitt said. R. M. Turlington of
Lillington, the contractor,
filed for collection charging negh- ;
gence on the part of McLqatiM
heating company of Dunn iflg
leaving a water vaive open in tk»"
flow.
The cement floor, into whtoß
the maple flooring was recoMsAi
was covered with building poRMi”
This was ruined and must be
moved and replaced. New doaK
will be hung and a new hardwood
floor installed.
SON IS BORN "Jl
Mr. and Mrs. Billy B. Smith
Greensboro announce the birth iol
a son, Dewey Franklin, on AUtt
ust 2 at St. Leo’s Hospital q
Greensboro. Mrs. Smith is the.lßj'. -
mer Elizabeth Whittenton, dangMP
tter of Mr. Dewey
Dunn. s;’