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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy today, tonight and Thurs day with widely scattered thunder showers. t Warmer Thursday. VOLUME II Tobacco Filling Up Dunn Warehouses I ,jfc~ __. JUt :' -V TOBACCO ARRIVES ON DUNN MARKET—Typical of the tobacco piled in the warehouses on the Dunn Tobacco Market awaiting the opening day to morrow is the leaf shown in the baskets in this pic ture. Admiring the leaf are, left to right: Jesse Denning, Benson; Gene Mangum, Angler; Melvin Lee, Benson; P. T. Hodges, Fuquay Springs; and Lonnie Matthews, Liliington Route 1. “We’re no tobacco experts, but we’ll do until they get here, one of them told the photographer.” (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart). ’Policeman Guilty Os Assault Night Policeman W. F. Nipper, of Liliington, veteran police of ficer, yesterday in Harnett Re l corder's Court entered a plea of j •.guilty to charges of simple assault |ppn , 0.-—C. » Nipper’s plea was accepted by the State, which had first charged the officer with assault with a deadly weapon. Judge M. O. Lee taxed the policeman with costs and ordered him not to molest Thomas in any way for three months. t Both men took the stand and told straightforward stories of the incident which occurred on the night of June IS near the Town Hall. Their stories were substan m tially the same, but they differed " as to whether Thomas was hit In the car or outside. GOING INTO DRIVEWAY Thomas said that in going into the driveway near his house he hit the policeman lightly with the bnmoer of his car. “Os course I would not have hurt him for a thousand dollars.” said Thornes who said he failed to see the officer walking in the dark. Then he related how Nipper, ap parent'v angered, hit him in the • eye, inflicting severe bruises before on Page Two l Dunn Festival Arrangements To Be Completed Tonight ' ~ * T ~ States Democrats I In Session Today RALEIGH, (IPL—The state Democratic Executive Com . mittee met here today to plan top-level strategy for the W fall elections and to name three and possibly four of the slate of 14 Democratic electors. John Folger of Mount Airy, one tary of State Thad Eure. Folger of the two' electors-at-ldrge, re-1 said he had not been previously signed today in a letter to Secre-j (Continued On P»ge Four, Government Deficit £ Below Predictions WASHINGTON, (IP)—President Truman reported to day that congressional economieing and the slowdown in defense spending caused by the steel strike will keep the government from going as far into the red this year as he originally figured. In a mid-year budget review, he Here’s how Mr. 'Truman’s new _ said government spending in sis- estimates stack up bwlde those- he •# cal 1953 will be $8,400,000,000 less made when he presented the budget than he estimated last January, to Congress eight months ago: tax revenues' will run ♦3,300.000,000 NEW ESTIMATE less, and the federal deficit will be income 100,700.000,000 $4,100,000,000 smaller. (Continued On Page Ms) * * • TELEPHONES: 3117 ■ 3118 - 3119 | Company Plans Harnett Lines UtHitfeW Commission gave the Heins Telephone Co. of Sanford permission today to borrow up to $985,000* from the Rural Electri fication Administration and to increase its rates after a proposed expansion program is substan tially completed. The company asked authority for the loan to finance extension of its lines and facilities to rural areas of Lee, Harnett, Chatham and neighboring counties and to , install an automatic dial system j in exchanges at Sanford, Jones boro, Broadway and Olivia. Mrs. Thompson Resigns Post Mrs. C. I. Thompson has ten dered her resignation as Home Eco nomics teacher at the Dunn High School, it was announced today by Principal A. B. Johnson. No reason for the resignation was given. She will be replaced on the tea rmitlniied On Page two> Dunn's Tobacco Market Will Open August 21 (Lkv jtoilg fXttrtrfr Services Set For War Hera Funeral services will' be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Lee’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church for Private WUliam Eli Godwin, 20, son of Mr. and Mjra. Bradley C. Godwin of Dunn, Route 5. Private Godwin was killed In act ion in Korea on February 13th, 1961, one of the first Korean cas ualties reported from this section, j Details of how he met his death in action have never been receiv ed by the family. The young scjdier was a native of Sampson County and attended Plain View School. He was associated with his father in farming until he entered the Army October 21, 1949, He was a member of the Dunn Na tional Guard up until the time he enlisted. He received his training at Fort Bragg and Fort Jackson. Overseas, he was assigned to field artillery of the Second Division. The body will arrive in Dunn (Continued On Paw two’ general meeting of all the committees, appointed by the Dunn Chamber of Commerce, to supervise the various facets of the big all- I day Town and Country Fes tival Saturday, will be held tonight at 7:30, it was an nounced today by Chamber Manager Norman Suttles. The get-together of all com mittees was slated in order that all of the overall plans for the event can be integrated, and. a welt rounded program completely, fill ed in. . Any last minute suggestions for the success of the event will be acted upon. Meanwhile the list of prises is mounting, with other merchants volunteering offerings, Since the schedule of awards will depend on the number of prizes, this will be the last detail to be worked out. Additions to the prize list are: fi. Baer and Sons, furniture de partment, a set of dishes, clothing department, a hat; Hockfield Hosi- I Continued On Page 41 ♦MARKETS* HOGS RALEIGH —W— Hog markets: 1 Rich Square, Siler City, Clinton, I Washington, Wilmington, Jackaon -1 vllle: steady at 22.00 for good.and choice 180-240 lb barrows and gilts. Whlteville, Dunn, Mount Olive, Wilson, New Bern, Goldsboro, lOwHml mb Page Twa) DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1952 Truman, Adlai Denounced By Leader In La. BATON RQGUE, La.. (IP)— A States Rights leader sharu ened dissension before a cru cial session of the Democrat ic State Central Committee today with acid denunciat ions of the narty’s “diaboli cal” national leadership. Leander Perez, a key man of the 1948 States Rights revolt, was re liably quoted as charging President Truman and Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson with having a “dia bolical scheme to get control of the nation.’’ Perez launched his violent at tack as the controlling -committee prepared to make the official choice of what course Louisiana Demo crats will take In the presidential race. The 100-man committee was to meet this afternoon to decide whe ther to award its cherished “roos ter” symbol to Stevenson and Sen. John Sparkman on the Louisiana ballot. Most observers thought it would. THIRD TICKET TALKED A committee leader told United Press following a secret conclave last night that Perez declared that “if this party is successful nothing short of violation of the constitu tion will result.” William J. Erickson, committee vice chairman, disclosed a resolu tion would be offered to shunt Ste venson to a third ticket, so Demo crats could vote only for congress ional and local candidates under the rooster emblem. This would allow Democrats to Yoi far qwnsa j?. EWenJwwez; on the Republican ticket in the pres idential race. Gov. Robert F. Kennon said h$ Would make no recommendation about pledging the electors but will ask the committee to condemn plat form planks concerning the Fair Employment Practices Commission the filibuster and tidelands. Mother Right - It Was Her Boy SILVER SPRINGS. Md. —HP)— Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Thomas were sitting in their living room last night when an excited man ran in from the street and said he had to use their telephone. He dialed police headquarters and reported that a teen-age boy > was lying dead in the street, near the foot of a tree. Mrs. Thomas listened In silent horror as the visitor described the boy. “That sounds like my son!” she screamed. Her husband ran out of the house and confirmed their leiy Fourteen-year-old Stanley Thom (Gen tinned On Page two' Stevenson Taking Four-Day Vacation MINOCQUA, Wis. (IP)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson loafed today on the wooded shores of Lake Minocqua where he was taking a brief holiday before returning to the exhaust ing routine of a presidential campaign. But it was understood that the Democratic nominee planned t o draft some campaign speeches dur ing the four-day holiday. For that purpose he carried a heavy file of ; material to Minocqua with him. He was quartered in a large sum- 1 mer home of natural pine logs as the guest of a friend, Dr. Clark W. PlnnerudJ. CAN’T KEEP UP WITH HIM 'Stevenson promised a news con ference today at 1 p., m. EBT for reporters who arrived here grum BULLETINS PANMUNJOM, Korea, OA—The United Nations ad mitted one violation of the Panmunjom neutral zone and denied another today in the only contact between Korean delegations. * v - WASHINGTON, (If) —Western Power relations with Communist Yugoslavia have taken a slight turn (or the worsfe because of a dispute over economic and military aid, it was learned today. HARTSKLLE, Ala. (g>—This tiny opßMUUnity near the . .v-V |bL J J™! y .JPfeJSIMIIn MflraL Jm * -NEW AND RETIRING OFFICERS John Allen McLeod of Dunn was elected president of the Barnett County Bar Association last night succeed ing Retiring President Neill McK. Salmon of Lill 'Wiffton. Pictured here are the new and retiring officers. Left to right are: Everette L. Doffermyre, Renamed rice president; President-elect McLeod; Archie Taylor, new secretary-treasurer; Retiring President Salmon, and J. Shepard Bryan, retiring secretary-treasurer. (Daily Record photo by Bill Biggs). Harnett Bar Names McLeod; Endorses Courthouse Issue \ Association, in its annual organizational meeting here last night, elected John Allen McLeod, prominent DuAn attorney, as president for the coming year hnd adopted a resolution favoring issu ance of $490,000 bonds for construction of a badly needed county courthouse. Retiring President Neill McK. Salmon of Liliington presided over the meeting, held in the General Lee Room of Johnson’s Restaurant. Mr. McLeod,' who has been act ive in the association since it was formed and Is a prominent civic and church leader here, was elec ted by acclamation, as were the other officers. Everette L. Doffermyre of Dunn was re-elected as vice president of the organization and Archie Tay lor of Liliington was elected secre tary-treasurer, succeeding J. Shep ard Bryan of Dunn. ELECTION SEPTEMBER 6 The matter of erecting a new courthouse, to be voted on by cit izens of the county September 6, (Continued On Page two! bling about their inability to keep pace with the governor, who flew here in an Illinois state airplane. Stevenson arrived shortly after noon yesterday, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Ernest L. Ives, his secretary, Carol Evans, and a dis tant cousin, William E. Stevenson, president of Oberlki College. The governor Intends to leave Friday for the more torrid summer climate of his state capital at Springfield, 111., *o go back to work on campaign plans. •jUI- -fan ■'“ \ ’' <%w- Ike Will Denounce Leftist Movements DENVER, (IP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican presidential candidate, headed for Boise, Ida., today with i a speech in his pocket charging the Democrats witih hid ing the same old socialistic ideas behind new faces. The ' GOP presidential nominee planned to confer at the Idaho 1 capital during the afternoon with the Republican governors of 10 western states. His first frankly ; political speech since his nomina- 1 tion for the presidency was slated for delivery from the statehouse I steps at 7:15 p. m. EST. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Eisen- | turner's executive assistant, gave reporters a preview of what the for- ] mer five-star general—in process I of launching what he has promis ed will be a fighting campaign will say from the capitol steps. “General Elsenhower will de nounce attempts of leftist political groups to monoplize agreed social gains and to claim that their is the only way to achieve them," Van denberg said. NEW FACES OLD SCHEMES “The present administration, the READY FOR THE GRAND OPENING One of the features of the opr ulng of tin new Goodyear agency at Pnrdie Equipment Company here tomorrow will be a Goodyear tire safe-A^iaiMJjgMggijH are shown here before a display they have Just finished setting np emphasising tide event. MfWg the display are, left to right: Norwood Carroll, Gerald Mann, Scott Ferrell and loon Sexton, Manager Johnnie Wilbourne extends a hearty invitation to_afl of the Pnrdie customers to attend tIM fftia o*S| tag of the new. department. (Daily Record photo by Lonis Dearborn). 'V FIVE CENT’S FEE COPY general will charge, is running this ' year with new faces but will con tinue to offer schemes like the Brannan farm Plan, socialized med ! icine, and bigger and more cen- I tralized government as its only j solution to some of the pressing j that confront America to iday. | “The general will say that some ; goals on which Americans today 1 are agreed—employment at good | wages, adequate security for' old | age, better education, better hous i ing, protection of the rights of la bor, protection of the right to earn 'and save, stable agriculture—can be won only if America chooses a course squarely down the middle of the road, rejecting both the ex ■ treme right and the extreme left.” J TO START SLUGGING I Vandenberg’s statement clearly (Continued On Page Four) The Record Gets Results No. 182 Heavy Sales Expected On Opening Day Rains this afternoon slow ed the flow of tobacco into the warehouses here, but in spite of the weather a fair amount of leaf was displayed an warehouse floors await ing the opening of the Dunn i Tobacco Market tomorrow. Employes of nil warehouses have moved the tobacco into place as rapidly as possible, in order to make room for thp expected flood of leaf in case of a clearing ill % the weather. All warehouses will .5 receive tobacco throughout the night. Most warehousemen, however, are reconciled to a late start in the marketing here, not only on ac count of the weather, but because the crop in this section is some what later than usual. Many farm ers are just getting in their crop. Promptly at nine tomorrow mor ning the chant of the auctioneer will usher in the fifth season of the tobacco market here and pro bably the most successful since the market opened. Four years of contact with the operators of the warehouses here have proved to farmers of this sec tion that prices and selling facil ities on the Dunn market are as good as any in this section, and most of those who sold so success fully last year will be back again. DEFER MEETING Due to the inability of most of the members of the Dunn Tobacco .Board of Trade to be present at i a meeting this afternoon, it waa ?. Eastern Marts -4 Ready To Open By UNITED PRESS Truckloads of golden flue-cured I tobacco moved in mile-long stream* t today toward 16 eastern belt mar kets in preparation for tomorrow's 1 opening of the world’s largest sales ' belt. Eastern North Carolina tobacco growers selling in the belt hoped s for prices topping the season aver ■ age thus far in the border beR of e North and South Carolina. For ‘ 78,869 673 pound sold through Mon " dav the average price was $5386. v Eastern belt markets include; = Clinton. Dunn. Farmville. Golds boro, Greenville, N. C., Kinston. Robersonville, Reeky Mount. Smith e field, Tarboro, Wallace, Washlng y j ton. Wendell, Williamston, Wilson and Windsor. 1 i DEMAND WEAKER V RALEIGH —OP Demand weak): | n ened yesterday on the North and e South Carolina border belt flue a cured tobacco market, the U. S. e and North Carolina Departments r, of Agriculture reported today. The report said declines were ! from $1 to £5 per hundred pounds, y i but that most drops were from $1 ; 'Continued On Pace two) f -Vi
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