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BULLETINS
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SEOUL, Korea, lll’i—Seven Okinawa-based Superfort
resses, braving stormy skies and radar-controlled anti
aircraft fire, early today blasted an 1,110-acre supply and
storage area at Pyongyang, North Korean capital.
PANMI'NJOM, Korea (IPi— Truce negotiations were
recessed today for the fifth consecutive week after the
Communists demanded that the United Nations stop “per
secuting’ - and “slaughtering” prisoners of war.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., dPi—The armed forces
toddy launched a thud all-out hunt for six airmen missing
since their B-17 bomber was shot down by mistake in sec
ret offshore target practice.
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Tighe E. Woods said today he'll
consult America’s housewives. in his new job as price
stabilizer.
WASHINGTON, (IPi —The Agriculture Department
yesterday announced the appointment of Edward J. Over
by as deputy director of the department’s cotton branch.
JOHANNESBURG, (IP* —The high court of parliament
paved the way today for removal of 1,000,000 non-wliite
voters from South Africa's electoral rolls.
CHICAGO, (IP) —Fifty-four persons fled last night from
a $15,000 hotel fire which injured five persons. The fire
broke out in the Columbia Hotel and spread so quickly
that moments after the alarm was sounded flames were
shooting from first and third-floor windows in the three
story brick building.
WASHINGTON, OP)—The FBI added to its list of “10
most wanted” criminals today a onetime respected family
man who murdered his wife and two young sons without
apparent motive and later shot a policeman. James Eddie
Diggs, 39-year-old Negro, replaced John Thomas Hill, a
murdev suspect captured at Hamtramck, Mich., Aug. 10.
SOUTH BOSTON, Va., HP) —William Tuck, chairman of
the state Democratic Central Committee and former gov
ernor, said today he will avoid taking sides when the com
mittee meets in Richmand tomorrow to decide whether
to support the national presidential nominee.
WASHINGTON, (IP) —House investigators disagreed
along partisan lines today on whether the Justice Depart
ment obstructed a federal grand jury inquiry into St. Louis
tax scandals. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating R-NY., said a House
subcommittee had uncovered an “abuse” of the judicial
system in the alleged attempt by certain Justice Depart
ment officials to biock the jury’s investigation.
UN Has Lost 1,572
Planes; Reds 644
TOKYO, (IP)—The United Nations have lost at least
1,572 planes in the Korean war while destroying 644
Communist aircrart, it was disclosed today.
The figures included U. S. Air
Force. Navy, Marine and foreign
piloted planes. Actual losses in
cluding behind-the-lines accidents
are higher.
Among U. N. air units, only the
Navy included accidental losses. And"!
there is no way of estimating ac
cidental losses of the Communists.
OPERATES MORE PLANES
U. N. officers say Allied losses
are higher than the enemy’s be- j
cause the U. N. operates more i
planes over wider territory. They
are exposed constantly to ground
fire both over the front lines and
Our Mr. Nichols
Tangles With TV
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (IP) I almost
set television back to the days of
the seven-inch screen. It wasn’t
exactly my fault.
I was invited to appear as a
■’distinguished guest" among other
"distinguished guests" on a TV
show known as "Inga’s Angle.” It
was filmed and set to sound with
the Wardman Park swimming pool
as the background.
‘l’ll give you a jack-knife by half
gainer account of what happened.
WNBW-TV advertised the show
as a summer preview of furs, and
the guests, most of whom didn’t
know a mink-dyed chipmunk from
the real thing, were supposed to
play experts and say some cute
things calculated to interest the
ladies in expensive wraps.
A Mr. Dewey Zirkin, who makes
a living buying and selling furs
sat beside the lovely, blond Inga,
who flashed her big blue eyes
SELL YOUR TOBACCO ON THE
DUNN TOBACCO MARKET
vnemrev DRvrrc dfcv 4f"iit7Tr i v i
u,... rftiiua ot»»i Milt vice
on bombing missions deep in North
Korea.
Practically all the Red losses are
in air combat north of. the battle
, line.
CASUALTIES UP
WASHINGTON (IPI American
j battle casualties in Korea now to
tal 116,252, an increase of 879 over
last week’s summary, the Defense
'j Department announced today.
’ The casualties include these whose
inext of kin W’ere notified through
last Friday. They do not include all
casualties since it takes one to
■I tjn-ee weeks to notify next of kin.
cameraw’ise and kept up a running ;
comment on the furs as they were
modeled by shapely young ladies.
The ladies wore the garments over
bathing suits.
Zirkin. with a little prompting |
from Inga, cut loose with the ex- ;
citing information that fur styles;
| are about the same as last year, j
but added:
PRICES LOWER
“We would like you to know that 1
the prices are going to be lower
j this time.’ ’
j He didn’t say how much lower.’
| Then he mentioned that Congress ;
’ butted into the fur industry by j
| passing a rule that you’ve now got (
■to call a mink a mink and not a
| dyed something or other. The fur- ;
| rier have to say what animal shed !
its coat to make a coat for milady
and say it right there on the label. !
I once covered a hearing on that I
label business when one witness j
brought out that the hide of the ]
lowly bunny rabbit was dyed and 1
State Briefs
<Continued from "»« iwll
Miller, once saved from the gas
chamber by a zero-hour court or
der.
DURHAM HP Lovely Janet
Shore of Fayetteville has been sel
ected Miss Carolina League of
1952 at contests in seven league
parks. Ti e league office here an
nounced that Miss Shore won the
| honor by one-half vote over Shir
| ley Gravett of Danville. The 22-
| year-old beauty attends Eastern
j Carolina College where she has
j been a cheerleader.
j RALEIGH IIP Average prices
j held steady on both the Eastern
(and Border Belt flue-cured tobacco
! markets yesterday, but volume ran
| ged from heavy on the Border Belt
; to extremely light on most Eastern
| markets.
Prices, ranged from $67 per hun
dred for good lemon lugs to s3l
for low orange primings on the
Eastern belt, the federal and state
departments of agriculture report
ed.
RALEIGH HP The state is try
ing to buy a 300-foot strip of Lake
Waccamaw water front for the first
of a series of fishermen’s access
areas planned by the Wildlife Re
sources Commission, Executive Dir
ector Clyde P. Patton said today.
RALEIGH (IP Sen. Clyde R.
Hoey will address the annual joint
meeting of the Farmers Cooperative
Exchange and the N. C. Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association
here Sept. 9, M. G. Mann, general
manager of the two groups said
today.
Radio Writers
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called to testify regarding the
charges. They refused to answer
many questions as to whether they
were Communist Party members
and regarding their alleged pro-
Red activities and affiliations on
grounds of possible self-incrimina
lion.
The allegations of “booming’’
pro-Communists and ousting anti-
Reds were made before the sub
committee by Ruth Adams Knight
and Welbourn E. Kelley, veteran
radio free lance writers and leaders
of the "anti-Communist” Guild
faction.
Pressed for details, Miss Knight
referred to the Columbia Broad
casting System program, Studio
One. She told the subcommittee on
April 28, 1951, , that Joseph Liss,
•well known as a left wing sym
pathizer,” was employed as a J
writer on the show more than any
one Use. k .
•’Until a rfecent housedleafljaftf
she said then, “it was pretty gen
erally conceded that almost any
thing at Columbia Broadcasting Co.
was going to be very difficult for
a writer who was not sympathetic
to the left wing.”
She added that the situation had
been corrected.
Hurricane
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the south side.
Norton said another bad weather
front is hovering over the Atlantic
east of Jacksonville, Fa., north to
Chesapeake Bay. Small craft warn
ings of 35 mile an hour winds or
more were hoisted from Hatteras
on the North Carolina coast to
Chesapeake Bay.
passed off as. about everything but
the very valuable chincilla.
After the TV show had been
going about 10 minutes, the
cameras switched to our pool-side
table.
Each “distinguished guest” had
been supplied in advance with a
couple of questions. We were sup
posed to make up the answers
ourselves.
The first two fellows, one an ad
miral and the other a dealer in
Alaskan furs, did all right. The
Alaskan caught a passel of giggles
1 when he put parka around his head
and looked something like a seal
j about to kick off into deep water.
Then it came my turn.
"I understand," Inga said, “that
you are going to be a judge in the
Miss America contest, Mr. N,’’
i That tripped me. I am no judge.
' Then she fumbled around and
: pulled cut a question from some
j body else’s list.
I had already written down the
answers to my questions and I had
; to hem and haw a bit. Then she
asked me if I thought a girl’s best
friend was her fur coat. That
| wasn’t my question, either. I could
I not answer it. Inga thanked me
i and passed onto the next witness
, while I quietly passed out 9£ the
1 picture. About time, too.
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
READYING FOR OPENING Billy Wellons, far right, and two of his employes became furniture
movers today in order to get ready for the big opening tomorrow of the new furniture department
They are shown arranging freshly uncrated, new furniture in the Wellons Mercantile Company, part
of a big new stock they have just received. Bought right, the new items will present unusual savings
opportunities to Wellons customers. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn).
Resisting Arrest
Cases Disposed Os
Judge M. O. Lee of the Harnett
Recorder’s Court meted out stiff
sentences Tuesday to men convict
: ed of resisting arrest as he indicat-
J ed he intended to back up law en
i forcement officers in the perfor
j mance ot their duties.
Douglas Wilkes, of Dunn entered
a guilty plea to public drunkenness
and resisting arrest. Patrolman
David Matthews testified that in
search for another offender he en
countered Wilkes in the mid after
noon with the car ditched and the
driver drunk. The patrolman said
that when tie tried to take Wilkes
into custody he jerked loose, ran,
and when overtaken struck at the
officer and hit him on the arm.,
Wilkes drew ou ciays on the roads
suspended two years on condition
he violate no law, remain sober and
j pav sou fine and costs.
Willie Baker, also of Dunn, was ,
found guilty of public drunkenness
| and resisting arrest. He was sen
tenced to 30 days in jail. Baxer was
j arrested Saturday on 15-A by Pat- i
| rotmajn HermaJl who said 1 he !
noticed the car weaving across the
road.
Ward Said Baker swung at him ;
several times but that he dodged ;
ra» blows. Tne officer said that only i
when a passing motorist came to
ms am was ne able to handcuff
Baker. The defendant told the!
Markets j
i Continued from cage one I
HOGS
RALEIGH —-(IP) Hog markets: |
Mount Olive, Warsaw, Benson, j
Kinston, Rocky Mount, Lumberton,
Marion, Fayetteville, Florence, Clin- j
1 ton, Rich Square: Steady on good j
and choice 180-240 lb barrows and
gilts at 20.75.
Tarboro, Hamilton, Dunn, Wilson, j
; New Bern, Goldsboro, Wilmington-,
Washington Jacksonville Smith- I
rfield: Slightly weaker at 20.50. |
Many Entries
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i anywhere in the four counties is)
| eligible to exhibit in the . swine
! category. A total of 5240 Has been
appropriated for premiums in this
class.
Providing there are a minimum
of eight entries in the beef cattle
class, awards will total $l6O. In this’
class, anyone who resides in the
four county area or who has a
i farm in the counties on which beef
! animals arc kept is eligible.
I The premium list offers cash
awards for ail types of field crops,
j corn, soybeans, cowpeas, peanuts,
| cotton, tobacco, hay and similar
I exhiibits, horticulture. canning
cakes, cookies an dcandy, clothing,
j house furnishings : and handiwork,
cooking by 4-H and FHA members,
canned foods by 4-H members,
, clothing by 4-H membe-s. table and
bed linens and handicrafts.
Chairman West urges that ex
hibitors get their displays ready
as soon as possible. There will be
plenty of award money, he assures.
judge he was too drunk to remem
ber anything of the incident. Baker
has appealed a six months road
sentence for assault received in the
Dunn Recorder’s Court.
In other actions, drivers who en- I
tered pleas to driving drunk and j
were fined SIOO and costs were: '
Vernon Wade Weeks, Hugh King i
and Fred Moore. Similar charges I
against Lloyd Cooke and James |
Diffy were continued until Sept
ember 9.
Archie Prentiss Underwood,
charged with driving drunk, was |
cleared of that charge but en- I
tered guilty piea of public drunk- j
enness, after Patrolman Bill Grady
J testified he took Underwood and a
woman companion to the hospital
following a wreck and “that Un
derwood was so drunk he fell off
the hospital bed twice in the em
i ergency room.”
The officer said that when he
went to the wreck scene some men, j
j he could not identify, were holdnig I
| Underwood. However, he could not j
say which Os? the? two persons was j
driving the car, which had over
turned against a "telephone pole.
Junior McLean was found guilty j
iof stealing a Masonic ring from |
J Mrs. H. D. Byrd of Bunnlevel and |
drew 60 days on the roads.
| Leon Honeycutt enterecj guilty
plea to assault on his wife, was
♦ given 60 days on roads, suspended
j two years on condition he not as
| sault or abuse his wife and pay the
| costs.
! Charlie Junior Williams, found
I guilty of assault on a female, was 1
' taxed with the costs
I June Williams, found guilty of
i disorderly conduct at the store of
|W. B. Byrd in Bunnlevel and
! threatened assault on the propriet
| or was given 60 days in jail.
Thurman Walker, first accused
. of breaking and entering and as
] sault on Marcella Moore, entered
j a plea of guilty to assault on a
female, a plea the state accepted.
I He drew 90 days on the roads, sus
pended two years on condition he
I stay away from. the prosecuting
witness’ heme, pay $25 fine and
costs.
John and Elizabeth Johnson,
Negro couple, found guilty of en
. gaging in an affray, had judgment
1 suspended 12 months on condition
they remain of good behavior' and
pay costs
Jasper Massey of Angier, .was
found guilty of assault on Art
Reams, who was not present. Judg
ment was suspended 12 months on
condition he not violate any law
Two men were found guilty of
driving without driver’s license.
They were Lloyd Stewart, who paid
$25 fine and costs and Llovd Fair
cloth who was let off with co'ts
for the same offense after the
| judge was informed Faircloth had
ten children to support.
Earl Gregory entered guilty plea
to careless and reckless driving
cheree and prayer for judgment was
continued 12 months on condition
he not drive in reckless manner,
pay $25 and costs.
James E. McNeill, charged with
i parking car at night cn wrong side
of highway where an automobile
collided with it, was found guilty.
! Judgment was suspended 12 mon
: thß on condition he not violate the
News Shorts
'Continued From Page One.
a "magnificent job” of unifying
the Republican Party.
Dewey and a group of New York
state legislators and officials con-,
ferred with the Republican presi
dential nominee for about an hour
this morning.
Robbers
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Court Tuesday after the robbery
I victim testified Gaudiner was not
the man who took his wallet con
| taining $46.
| The robbery took place on Aug
| ust 7 along a rural road off high
way 210 between Fayetteville and
I Lillington, after Johnson, a teen- )
! age youth of the Anderson Creek {
community had hitched a ride to I
Fayetteville with the strangers. /
Johnson said Gaudiner and the
latter’s two small children were in
the car when it stopped along the
roadside, but that Gaudiner was
not the man who hit him with a
bottle.
Lesley Dayis. who is still at large,
1 was the second man named in the
i original warrant charging highway
[robbery. , , . .
] Gaudiner has ,J hls P'ayer for ludg*
|ment continued on condition he not
( molest Johnson and pay half the
costs.
Owners Are
(Continued trnm page one)
the action is voluntary on their part
when they find themselves on the
edge of the city limits. “Then,” he
I said, “they file a petition asking
i to be included.”
This, he said, has been the pro
, ceedure since 1947, when an act
1 of thelegislature allowing the towns
to take in any property they wish-
I ed was abolished. Since he had been
| in office, he declared, he knew of
ino one who had been invited to
I come In.
Both Sam and Bob Baer said
| they would be perfectly willjng to
I come in if the town would provide
I facilities in the section. “We are
I certainly not trying to hold back
j the growth of the town,” Sam Baer
said.
The Baers charged “politics” and
and said that when, at one time,
they were Interested in coming
in, the town wanted to charge
them for the expense of running
a six inch water line out General
Lee Avenue. The cost would have
run SBOO for one side of the street
or $1,600 for both.
They took the position that the
town should provide these facili
rrrtor vehicles law and ppy $l5O
damages into court for use of Wil
lie Hobbs, owner of damaged ve
hicle. The accident happened near
| Olivia.
Joseph Edward Wicker entered
I guilty plea to failure to yield right
jcf way. Prayer for judgment was
! continued 90 days on condition he
inot Violate the motor vehicle law
1 and pay costs. He was involved in
fa wreck with a pickup truck near
' Angler.
i James K. Cottle, found guilty of
| failure to stop at a stpp sign, was
> taxed costs.
! Robert L. Moore, found guilty of
I speeding 50 miles an hour in a 35
I mile an hour zone, was taxed the
[costs.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27, 1952.
Bensons Pageant j
To Open Thursday
The first official performance of
‘The Kingdom” will be at 8 p.m.
on Thursday, August 28, in Ben
son, N. C. This outdoor pageant will
be presented in the Benson Sing
ing Grove every Thursday and Fri
day evening through September 26.
“The Kingdom” presents In pag
eant form the story of the growing
of tobacco and its influence on the
people of North Carolina from the
time of Sir Walter Raleigh to the
present day.
The whole production has been a
community effort by the town of
Benson. A combined volunteer choir
of all the churches provides the
musical background. The actors for
the speaking parts have been sel
ected from the merchants, students,
secretaries, farmers, and other
members of the community. The
properties have been designed and
constructed by community workers,
and the stage crews will be com
posed of town citizens.
JOINT PRESENTATION
The production is a joint presen
tation of the Benson Senior and
Junior Chamber of Commerce. All
Ruth Love Williams
Honored At Party
! Mrs. Beaulah Mae Mclntyre,
Miss Mary Louise Wade and Mrs.
Pearl Callahan entertained for
bride elect, Miss Ruth Love Wil
liams on Thursday night. The
party was held in the Godwin
Club Building.
White gladioli, asters, tuberoses
and pine formed a lovely setting
for the affair.
Miss Williams was presented a
corsage of tuberoses. Her mother,
Mrs. R. J.' Williams was also re
membered with a corsage of tube
roses. The hostesses also gave Miss
Williams sterling silver candle hol
ders.
The banquet table was covered
with an Irish linen cloth, was cen
tered with white flowers with sil
ver candelabra being used on either
side.
Mrs. T. G. Braxton presided
i at the punch bowl, where she ser
| ved lime ice punch and Miss Beu
' lah Mclntyre and Miss Barbara
Graham served nuts and mints.
Bridal cakes in diamond shades
were also served.
Mrs. Pearl Callahan presided at
the bridal book. Musical selections
were furnished during the evening
by Mrs. T. G. Braxton and Mrs.
Emmette Graham.
A bride’s contest was', conducted.
,«Foety. guest* qpl'.ed Wring the
evening.
T.E.L. Class Has
Meeting With Mrs.
G. W. Henry Tues.
The J. E. L. Class of the First
Baptist” Church met on Tuesday
night at the home of Mrs. G. W.
Henry.
Mrs. Allen H. A. Lee was in charge
of the program and gave two in
teresting readings. Mrs. J O. West,
president, presided over the meet
. ing.
I A card of thanks from a Camp
: bell College student which the
class helped was read and the sec
retary’s report given.
During the social hour, the host
ess served delicious refreshments.
Those present for the meeting
were- Mrs. Mary Hawley. Mrs. T.
A. Thornton, Mrs. R. A. Strickland,
Mrs. Lewis Strickland. Mrs. C. H.
Jernigan, Miss Kate Wiggins, Mrs.
J. O. West, Mrs. G. W. Henry, Mrs.
Leslie Parker, Mrs. I>. M. Thomas,
Mrs. M, B. Bales, Mrs. Archie
Burns, Mrs. G. W. Naylor, Mrs.
Locke Campbell, Mrs. Allen H. A.
A. B. Adams. Mrs. M. L. Jackson,
' Lee and the following guests: Mrs.
j Mrs. Mae Draughon, and Miss Min-
I nie Guy.
BIRTHS
I Mr. and Mrs. Oneil ‘Young of
Route 2, Benson announce the birth
of a son, Ricky Oneil ,on August
] 15 in Pittman’s Hospital in Fay
letteville. Mrs. Young is the former
• Reba Barefoot of Dunn.
ties at Its ow*n expense before ask
ing the property owners in the
section to come In.
I "I wouldn’t want to come in un-
I less these facilities were provided
at town expense,” Sam Baer de
clared. “I certainly am not going
to pay to expand someone else’s
property.”
"the remaining property owner
In the “island”, James Snipes, was
out of town and could not be con
t tacted.
work and talent has been donated
and all proceeds will be divided
between the two organizations, to
be used for civic enterprises.
The Benson Singing Grove has
been completely altered for the
event. The stage has been changed
to support flags and wings, and
special seats have been construct
ed to accommodate the ado
The total production will demand
the united efforts of more than 150
persons.
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2 Fertilizers
I DUNN fcx service;
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