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+WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy and warmer today. Mostly fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday. VOLUME II Hurricane Reported Only 800 VISITING IN HARNETT A group of businessmen representing the Wilmington Chamber of Com merce and civic clubs, visited Harnett County in the interests of promoting the Junior Dairy Cattle Show, that will be held in Wilmington October 2 and 3. Shown are, left to right, front row; County Agent T. D. O’Quinn, Dunn chamber of Commerce president, C. E. McLamb and R. W. Montgomery, Hugh Oosterwick and Staley Yarborough, all of Wilmington. (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). Work To Begin Next Week On New Dunn Health Center Ike Encouraged By * Southern - Ovations BY JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent ENROUTE IN DIXIE, (IPU-Shouts of “give ’em hell” and “good luck Ike” greeted Dwight D. Eisenhower today as he carried his fight against the “mess in Washington” across Florida, Alabama and Arkansas. The Republican candidate, mak ing the first GOP presidential drive A in history into the Deep South, promised that the stepped up tem po of his campaign would be main tained. The encouraging shouts to emulate the “give 'em hell' techni que which won for President Tru- j man in 1948 greeted Eisenhower j when he hit Tampa, on the second day of his Southern tour. To a crowd of more than 8,000 in Plant Field, he was introduced Dunn's Tax Rate Is Kept At $1.65 Dunn’s city council last night voted to retain the present $1.65 tax rate, dropped plans for extension of the _ city limits due to the cost, changed the board’s meeting “ night from Mondays to Thursdays, and disposed of a number of other business matters. City Manager A. B. Uzzle scored i a hit, when he reported he had trimmed the budget by $7,682. Commissioners L. L. Coats and j R. G. Tart held out for a five # Defendant Is Acquitted, But Witness Goes To Jail Charges of manslaughter against Hughene Wood were | nol prossed, but the star witness for the defense went to jail charged with perjury, W when the story he told in a civil suit''arising out of ..the fatal accident-failed to con form with his testimony on the stand in Harnett Super ior Court. Highway Patrolman R. B. Leon ard, who investigated the crash near Buie’s Creek that cost the life of Loman Bvans, Negro driver of a car involved in a crash with fU the truck driven by Wood, told the court the result of his investlga-. tion and described the skid marks. The defendant took the stand and told his version. He said he was returning from Wallace and that at Buie’s Creek he saw two TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 for the first time with,the familiar phrase: "I give you the next Presi dent of the United States” by Wil liam C. Cramer of St. Petersburg, GOP candidate for Congress. HITS (CORRUPTION Eisenhower dug back into his memories to recall scandals of the | embalmed beef of the Spanish j American War and reminded his audience that there was a swiss prosecution of the offenders on that occasion. (Continued On Page 41 I cent reduction in the present $.65 rate, while commissioners B. A. j Bracey and J. V. Bass recommen j ded accepting the budget as correc t Continued On Page Three) colored boys and some dogs, chas- I ing a cat. Wood said he started slowing down, keeping alert. 'As he applied hi» brakes to avoid the dogs, he said, the car driven by the victim, hit his truck, throwing the heavy vehicle to the left across the road. The impact almost knocked him out, Wood testified. The car was going 70 or 75 miles per hour, the witness said, and car and truck interlocked when they came to a halt. He said he man aged to ease the truck back about eight feet and then with the help of the two colored boys, tried to get Loman out of the wrecked auto mobile, b«t without tools was un able to do so. Then, he said, he went to a nearby service station and made sure medical help and an ambulance were on the way. DENIED STATEMENT On cross examination he denied the patrolman’s statement that he (Sire B aihj JXtmrfr Front—Work to Begin Chairman Lofton A. Tart j of the Harnett County Board of Commissioners announc ed this mornihg that con jstruction will get underway rtexr Weerori ffie'neW Dlfflft Health Center. The project, which will cost ap- I proximately $35,000, will replace Dunn’s outmoded health center and provide modern and adequate fac ilities. Dr. John Ferrell, secretary of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, wrote Chairman Tart that he wants actual construction of the building to be started not later than September 1 or 12th. Chairman Tart said this morning that it would be started immed iately, or as soon as contractors (Continued On Page 3) Prince’s Store Air-Conditioned Prince’s Department Store in Dunn has been completely air conditioned and is now one of the coolest and most comfortable shop ping centers in this section. Engineers of the McLamb Supply Company have just finished in stallation of a large, modern Curtis air-conditioning system which as sures cool comfort in every nook and corner of this large department store. Hugh W. Prince, manager of Prince’s, said today that he is well pleased with the new air-condi tioning system and said he was particularly gratified to hear the comments of customers. PROGRESSIVE FIRM Installment. of air-conditioning (Continued On Page 3) had slid 100 feet and said he slid but 8 feet. He denied crossing the center line unUl the collision for ced him over. 4 Then Elijah Ryals, a passenger in the death car took the stand. He told the court that the driver of the death car had been running “90 miles an hour” and that he had asked him to slow down before the fatal crash. He said that at the time of the collision, the truck was driving with its left wheels on the white line and was going “25 or 30 miles per hour.” “You brought suit and got paid off, didn’t you?” asked Solicitor Jack Hooks as he started cross-ex amination. The witness admitted that this was so. “Can you write your name?” the solicitor asked and when the re ply was affirmative, he produced a legal paper and asked Ryals if he (Ceotlnwed an page -three) DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER, 3, 1952 Harnett Board Wrestles With Road Problems : Read matters, which al- : ways claim a large share of | the county commissioners attention, returned in full! force yesterday as the com- j missioners wrested with the I problem of how to give j every community its equit- I able share of the nine miles | of new roads which'has been allocated Harnett County bv the State Highway De- I partment. L. A. Tart, chairman said that the allocation of nine miles of new roads was effective as of July 1, j the start of the fiscal year, but that during July and August some I work already in the construction ! stage has been finished which means j that the commissioners now have even less than nine miles to appor- j tion. “We will just have to select the j roads which seem the most needed j by the most people” said the com- j missioner who frankly told peti- I tioners yesterday there was little! 1 the county fathers could do with new petitions except file them. | Long standing requests already filed j would consume the nine miles j many times. Any road not previously worked j and kept up by the state highway j department, when added to the ; system is considered a new road. I THE REQUESTS Additional road petitions re ceived yesterday as the board met in regular session included the following: 1. Request for gravel surface, that j certain road in Averasboro Town- j ship which runs from US 301 Westward to ACLRR then North- i wOTd to paved toad extending from ! 32#...t A&iMrMMoqe on the Gainey’s Badge, distance of 3-4 mile. 1. Request for paving or sur face treatment of a road in Neil’s Creek township which runs from 421 at Edgerton Station via Wade Stewart to Lloyd property and Blackman property at end of road a distance of 1.22 miles. 3. Request to widen and straighten a road in Grove township which runs from highway 421, starting at Jakeman’s Service Station to Bond Road 25 and known as Erwin Chapel Church roatj, a distance of 1.2 miles. 4. Request to grade that certain road in Averasboro Township which runs from Dunn-Goats road to home of Robert Tripp to the state maintained road leading to Dunn known as Pig Pen road, a distance of 550 yards. Board members spent a major portion of the afternoon session pouring over the audit of the coun tv finances just completed by the Thurman Ennis accounting firm. Daniel Matthews of the firm was present to give the commissioners detailed break downs on county finances which the auditing firm (Continued On Page Three) Young Thief Given 4-5 Years In Pen “You didn’t appreciate the chance Judge Hatch gave you when he placed you on probation,” Judge Susie Sharpe told 19-year-old Robert Temple as she imposed a four to five year sentence for breaking and entering in Harnett Superior Court. Young Temple had been found guilty at ti'--? 'March term of court in the burglary of the Highway Auto Seat Cover Co., in East Erwin. His appearance yesterday was to face charges of breaking and enter ing the store operated by Mrs. Mike Rose in East Erwin, Mrs. Rose told of seeing the de fendant enter the store from her bed in the kitchen at the rear of the store building. She said the defendant had pried loose the BULLETINS MANILA, Philippines OP)—The bodies of a town Mayor and a policeman kidnaped by .an armed band of men be lieved to be Communist huks were found riddled with bullets today 30 miles from here. FAIRFIELD. Calif. (IP)—Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, who cleaned up Communist prisoner disorders on riot-torn Koje Island, was on his way to a i ew assignment in Texas today. WASHINGTON, OP)—The Weaiher Bureau today fore (Continued On rage Three) To Speak Here v min m mm n j ■ M U I SECRETARY LIE Trygve Lie To Speak In Dunn Trygve Lie, secretary general of j the United Nations, haß accepted, an invitation to address the Dunn 1 Information Clinic “sometime in 1953,” butp officials of tjie organization' are asking film to 1 move up tne date to November of this year, • Mr. Lie’s acceptance was receiv ed today by J. Shepard Bryan, pres ident of the clinic, and Jim Mc- Millen, moderator and founder of the clinic. The invitation to the UN official was personally extended by John Foster Dulles, noted foreign af fairs advisor on behalf of the Dunn clinic. Mr. Dulles earlier had accepted an invitation to speak here some time after the November election. He became interested in the clin ic and agreed to invite his friend, Mr. Lie, to speak here also. In his letter of acceptance, Mr. Lie advised clinic officials that his 1953 Itinerary had not been completed, but that he would be “delighted to include Dunn” in his schedule. MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT At a meeting of the clinic’s board of directors last night, the group voted to send Mr. Lie an urgent request to move up the date to November of this year on the day (Continued Or. Parr Three' heavy wire and screen guarding the window with a pocket knife and raised the window. “He way-laid my oldest son and watied until he had gone upstairs,” Mrs. Rose declared,” then he night-latched the doors of the store so we couldn’t get in.” She said she could hear the defendant “jerking out drawers" in the store, but that Mike, Jr., could not hear this because “there was so much (Continued On Page 3) FIVE CENTS PER COPY Miles Weather Bureau Says This One Is “Humdinger” MIAMI, (IP)—A hurricane with winds up to 140 miles an hour thundered across Shipping lanes in the Atlan- ; tic today only 800 miles east j of Miami. The weather bureau in an 11 a. m. advisory said the storm is moving on a northwesterly course toward the mainland at 12 to 14 miles per hour. “It is attended by winds of 115 miles an hour near the center and gusts of an estimated 140 miles per hour,” forecasters said. “Ship ping in the path of the hurricane should exercise caution." Winds of hurricane force ex tended 75 miles out from the “eye" in the northern semi-circle. Its location was pinpointed at Latitude 24.2 north, Longitude 67.5 west. MAY INTENSITFY "Continued movement toward the northwest is expected for the next 12 hours with possible intensifica tion,” the advisory said. The storm was lumbering out of waters that had spawned two hur ricanes in one week with a forward I speed of about 12 miles per hour, i the advisory said. “Little change in course or speed ! of movement is expected in the j next 12 hours,” the early advisory ! said, "but there should be a further increase in speed of maximum winds. “Shipping in the storm’s path should exercise caution.” The weather bureau said this estimate was based on reports from widely scattered places, as there had been no new flights of hurri cane hunter planes into the vortex. The hurricane sprang to life as Hurricane “Able;” died over New England after it had climaxed its unwrtain, wavering career with a traVagteW' sweep up uktlanttc seaboard. This is a really bad hurricane,” commented weather forecaster | Cecil Gentry. “It was a baby yes- i terday. Today it’s a humdinger.” But at the same time the weatherman noted a chance that the hurricane might be “lured” from its curving, westward path by a low-pressure area far to the north. This might pull it away from the mainland. New Teachers On Job Today When 12,000 Harnett County School children reported today to i the classroom for the first time since May, they were greeted by 79 new teachers. Only a few of the instructors are new to the teaching profession but new to their respective school or grade for the first time. County Superintendent of Schools Glenn T. Proffitt told the county board of education at its regular meeting Monday, that despite the teacher shortage, every vacancy in the county has been filled. New teachers, nominated by the prin cipal and elected by the district committee have been approved by the county superintendent. On Monday the county board of edu cation also added its approval. County schools with their new teachers include the following: ! Anderson Creek, Joe Hawley, | Mrs. Leslie Stephenson. B. B. Par (Continued On Page 4) Erwin Workers To On Union Vote Procedure^ At the regular weekly meeting of Erwin Local 254 last night, a motion was passed calling for soecial meetings to be held on Thursday, September 4th in the union hall in Erwin for Erwin workers to decide whether or not they want to split up the chain and conduct separate elections in the three mills in Dur ham, Cooleemee and Erwin. The motion stipulated that all Erwin, North Carolina, employees would be eligible to vote—regard less of whether they are UTW-AFL members, TWUA-CIO members— or not members of either union. Discussion will be limited to brief statements by representatives of all of the three groups and an Im (Continued On Page 3) From Miami OLD LANDMARK GOING OUT OF BUSINESS A large crowd was on hand this morning as the “M" System, one of Dunn’s oldest and largest independent grocers, opened a “Going-out-of business sale.” James Snipes, who owns the business in partnership with his brother, John Snipes, is pictured here a, he adjusted one of the placards announcing that ail prices have been reduced. The merchandise is going at cost. A number of well-known local citizens • are shown in this picture. The Snipes brothers are planning a new business venture, which will be announced later. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart).' Harnett Man HelA In "Gang" Slaying ATHENS, Ga. OP) Police , Chief Clarence Roberts said today i Athens police have arrested three I men wanted for murder in Gulfport j Miss. He identified the men as Albert Kitchen Puckett, 39 Lillington, N. C., William Alvin Wetzel, 25, Kansas City, Mo., and Jimmy Ka i nath Holman, 30, Dallas, Tex. Roberts said he had information I several days ago the three men j were coming to Athens. Early yes \ terday, he said, four Athens police men caught them. Hooper Addresses Buies Creek Club | The election of a treasurer, re ports on progress of plans for a better community, and an address by Dr. Glenn T. Hooper of Dunn ! were the chief items before the: Buie’s Creek Civic Club at its reg ular dinner last night. John D. Follette was proposed as j club treasurer by Dr. A. Paul Bag- j jby of the nominating committee. The election was unanimous. Fol- j I lett will assume the new duties Conn Predicts Victory Today GREENSBORO. Lewis M. Conn, acting North Carolina State Director for the UTW!-AFofL pointed out today that the first test in a government sponsored National Labor Relations Board el ection in the South between the United Textile Workers of America, AFofL and the CIO Textile Work ers Union would take place today at the North Carolina Finishing I Company at Salisbury, j Conn was very hopeful for a . UTW-AFofL victory, but frankly ~ admitted that the results of the . election—either way, would in all probability have a great deal of in i fluence on the 22 other pending I NLRB elections between the two . unions in mills throughout (j, e state and in Danville, Virginia. (Centiaimd On Page 3) Dunn Stores Open All Day Wednesdays No. 192 , HAD LOADED PISTOLS 1 Roberts said the three had two loaded .38 calibre German pistols and extra ammunition. They were held for investigation until a check could be made to establish their ; identities. , | Roberts said Sheriff Bd McCon nell of Harrison County, Miss., ! telegraphed that the men were wanted for murder in Gulfport. In Gulfport. McDonnell said he and New Orleans detectives will come here to question the three in (Continued On Page Three) in addition to those of secretary which he already holds. Various members of the club who have been participating in the ere- 5 ation of a recreation park beside , Kivett's Pond reported the wotk nearing completion. The latest quisition is an outdoor grill bui& by Wade Stewart. Dr. Hooper was introduced by G. T. Proffit, superintendent of schools. (Continued on Page Three) Textile Class 1 Set At Erwin 1 County School T. Proffitt said today that wMßjj thing is in readiness for the Mn vocational textile classes in totajp' fixing that «re being offerodJU year for the first time in Bring The new classes are a cobpeiatiSwe venture of the State and county schools and the Erwin Mills. Js| Under the present arraaCjMf|H the Erwin Mills will provide WM classroom, the necessary maebjaH and materials for the tostraenß and will pay fifty cents aaJM ■ —.’T #3 ’* t
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