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HEADY FOR COOKING SCHOOL Mrs. Katherine Stafford, internationally-known home econo
mist who will conduct the Piggly Wiggly cooking school for five days next week at the Dunn Armory
is pictured here at Wellons Mercantile Co. looking over the Hotpoint range she’ll use. Looking on
are Billy Wellons. left, and Vernon Cooley, right, official of Piggly Wiggly. It will be the largest event
‘of its kind ever held here. More than SISOO worth of prizes will be awarded. .Classes will be held each
afternoon, Monday through Friday, from 1:30 to 3:30. IDaiiy Record photo by T. M. Stewart).
.Piggly-Wiggly Cooking School
To Open Here Monday At 1:30
Hours Are Set For
'Erwin Labor Vote
A total of 1364 employees of Erwin Mills voted yester
day in favor of changing the starting time of the first
shift from 6:30 A. M. to 6:00 A. M.
Tbe pollute was done by .tWe
Company two dajs^
the mills with payroll sheets, re
*' cording the opinions of 1949 em- i
ployes on the job. /
Mr. E. H. Bost, Manager, ex- :
plained that the Company was
planning to operate three eight- i
hour shifts a day. At present the I
Truman Not Sorry
*He Fired Caudle
WASHINGTON, (IP)—President Truman said today
that he had never been sorry that he fired T. Lamar Cau
dle as assistant attorney general.
Caudle had testified earlier this
week that he had been told that
Mr. Truman changed his mind and
regretted firing him. The White
'A House at the time said there was
r “no truth” to the testimony.
DENIES CLIQUE
Mr. Truman also said that he
had never heard of a White House
“clique” as brought up in Caudle’s
testimony before House subcom
mittee investigating the Justice De
partment.
Caudle had quoted former Atty.
Gen. J. Howard McGrath as saying
that McGrath had enough informa
tion about the White House “to
blow the place sky high.”
Mr. Truman said that he does
Legless Man Is Evicted
From Harnett's County Home
f By LOIS BYRD
Record Staff Writer
Claude Brvant. 62-vear
old Harnett County man
without feet but fitted with
artificial legs, today was
seeking a place to live fol
lowing his dismissal from
the Hamet County Home.
Bryant, who had been at the
county institution for little .more
>£ than a year was ordered by the
county commissioners to vacate the
home by September 8. The unani
mous action was passed on Sep
tember 2 by the commissioners on
recommendation of Miss Wilma
Williams, county welfare officer.
Meantime, contrary opinions were
given the press as to Bryant’s abili
ty to become self-supporting. On
one side were citizens of the Sum
merville community which adjoins
the county home and on the other
9 was the county welfare superin
tendent.
HAS TEMPORARY HOME
T. A. Sherman of the Summer
ville Community who said he rep
resented the views of "seven to
eight of my neighbors” reported
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third shift is on a 6% hour basis.
Improved market conditions and
competition, he said, ki
the prime factor in the proposed
change.
Since the starting time of the
first affects the hours of the other
two shifts, Mr. Bost said that the
Company felt it was important to
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I not have the slightest idea what
| McGrath was talking about if he
j did say that he had information
to blow the White House sky-high.
Mr. Truman said McGrath did not
take him into his oonfidence on the
matter.
CLIQUE BLAMED
Caudle said McGrath blamed the
ouster of both of them on a “White
House clique.”
Mr. Truman told a news con
ference that he had heard several
names for members of his present
staff but he believes that clique
is a new one. Meanwhile, House
investigation left it up to McGrath
to explain or deny his reported
claim of explosive information.
Bryant was at the home of Frank i
Yow temporarily. j
“Yes, I employed Bryant' to tie
tobacco,” said Sherman, “But that
summer work is nearly over and I
do not think he can earn a living
at odd jobs. He has absolutely no
relatives that we know about. No
one seems to want to take him in.
“I told Bryant when I employed
him if it was going to be prejudi
cial to his staying at the county
home he could not work. He said
he wanted the money for cigarettes.
Any man is happier with money in
his pocket. If the county home is
not for a man without any feet,
who is it for? I know the place is
not that crowded.” h
On the other hand. Miss Williams
said that Bryant is capable of mak
tng a living and that his dismissal
is in line with the county commis
sioners policy not to keep anyone
at the home who can earn a living
elsewhere.
NO FREE HOTEL
“The county is. not running a free
hotel,” Miss Williams said. “That is
exactly what Bryant was using the
place for, to eat, sleep and go to
> LUllngton and travel up and down
the road between times."
The Daily Record
Piggly Wiggly’s free cook
ing school, featuring food,
fun and frolic and more
than $1,500 in free prizes,
will open here Monday af
ternoon in the Dunn Armory
for five days. Piggly Wiggly
is sponsoring the school in
cooperation with Wellon s
Mercantile Co.,* local Hot
point dealer.
It will be the biggest event of its
kind ever held in this section and
several thousand housewives are
expected to attend the two-hour
classes during the week. ’
The school will be conducted by
Mrs. Katherine Stafford of Little
Rock, Arkansas, internationally -
known home economist and repre
sentative of Homemakers’ Service
in New York.
Mrs. Stafford is one of the na
tion’s best known home econo
mists, has the distinction of hav
ing conducted the first cooking
school ever shown on and
has appeared before audiences
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Eleven Harnett
Men Inducted
Eleven men were inducted into
the army Wednesday from Harnett
County, it has been announced by
Miss Helen Hoffman, clerk to the
Harnett County Draft Board.
They are:
John D. Byrd, Coats; Clarence
Miller Hicks, New York; James S.
Farthing, Jr., Dunn; Lynwood H.
Sills, Dunn: Waymon Grant Step
henson. Ullington Rt. 1; Charles
Edward Lee, Chalybeate Springs;
Colon Thomas Fore, Fuquay Rt. 2;
James Hoover Maynard, Dunn Rt.
1; Allen D. Morrison, Jr., Erwin;
Ernest Franklin Ryals Jr., Coats,
Rt. 1.
There is a pre-induction call for
50 men on October 2, and another
pre-induction call. for 50 ment on
October 15. There is an induction
call for 19 men on October 27.
Both parties to the argument
agreed on one point. Bryant is very
intelligent, probably irritated by the
infirmities of many much older and
less intelligent residents of the
home.
Case records in the welfare de
partment show that Bryant, then
a resident of the Franklin Cross
Roads section of the Neil’s Creek
community, was found last Decem
ber intoxicated with his legs froz
en. Amputation of both feet be
tween the knee and the feet were
necessary. The operations were per
formed at Dunn Hospital.
Asked as to who paid for the op
erations, Miss Williams said,
“Frankly, I doubt if the hospital
has gotten any money.”
While Bryant was recuperating
from this experience, he was taken
to the county home. Then Miss Wil
liams reported the federal rehabili
tation division was persuaded to
accent him.
“This agency would never have
taken him,” she said “unless skill
ed Investigators thought he could
become self-supporting. That is the
purpose of this division."
Bryant was sent to Duke Hospital,
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER, 25, 1952
Lewis Is Denied jury Trial Here
Truman Favors
Accounting
By Officials
WASHINGTON, (U>i—Pre
sident Truman said today
he still believes congress
men and top government of
ficials should make public
their entire financial status.
Mr. Truman made the statement
at a news conference at which lie
refused to comment on the expense
fund of Sen. Richard M. Nixon.
However, he suggested that re
porters read a message he sent to
Congress on Sept. 27. 1951. He still
feels that way, he said.
In that message. Mr. Truman
recommended that Congress enact
legislation “requiring official in
all branches of the government to
place on the public record each
year full information concerning
their incomes from all sources, pub
lic and private.”
Mr. Truman said in the mes
sage he believed that would be an
important step in "assuring the in
tegrity of the public service and in
protecting government officials
against false and unfounded charg
es of improper conduct.”
WON’T PREDICT
Mr. Truman also refused to pre
dict the outcome of the November
elections, saying he is no pollster
and no prophet.
A reporter noted that the Amer
ican Medical Association recently
disbanded its special group to di
rect a campaign against Mr. Tru
man’s compulsory health insur
ance plan.
AMA claimed it won its fight,
but Mr. Truman said today he
thought the association had given
up instead of winning.
DEFENDS WIFE ON PAYROLL
Mr. Truman defended his action
in -placing Mrs. Truman on his of
fice payroll while he was a senator.
Hr 'Said it was exceedingly difficul*
foe-a senator to live in Washing
ton on the salary and that Mrs.
Truman helped pay the board bills
by working in bis office.
Reporters asked numerous Ques
tions about the Nixon fund inci
dent. But Mr. Truman replied no
comment to all of them. He told
a reporter that he would have to
wait and see whether his views
on the matter are aired during
his forth-coming campaign trip
which begins Saturday night.
He said he never had any special
expense fund as Nixon did. Then
jhe said that he, like Sen. John J.
Sparkman, the Democratic vice
president nominee, had his wife on
his Senate office payroll.
The President refused comment
on the fund that Gov. Adlai E. Ste
venson, Democratic presidential
candidate, used to supplement the
salaries of some top Illinois offi
cials.
Homecoming Event
Set For Dunn High
Guyton Smith, President of the i
Senior Class of Dunn High School,
announced today that Home Com
ing this year will be bigger and I
better than ever. Home Coming is |
an annual event sponsored each
year by the Senior Class. Its pur
pose is to interest the Alumni of
Dunn High in the activities of their
alma mater and to promote better
relations between the Alumni and
the students.
Home Coming this year will con
sist of four parts, the Alumni Day
chapel program tomorrow morning
at 10:00 at the High School, the
Home Coming parade which starts ,
tomorrow afternoon at 4:00, the
Home Coming football game - be
tween Dunn High and Whiteville
High will begin at 8:00 tomorrow
night in the Ball Park, and the
big Home Coming Dance which
BtTVXETINS
DURHAM, (IP) —The Mount Hope Finishing Co., which
moved its plant to North Carolina from Massachusetts
after labor troubles, has asked the National Labor Relat
ions Board for a re-hearing of its case before a different
trial examiner.
SYDNEY, Australia (IP) —Costal watchers scanned the
skies off western Australia today for the blast of Britain’s
secret new atomic weapon in the lonely Monte Bello Is
lands.
WASHINGTON (IP)—The Public Health Service today
reported 4,190 new eases of polio last week, an increase of
158 cases over the 4,032 of the previous week.
WASHINGTON, (IF)—House investigators left it up to
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J. O. WEST EMMETT EDGERTON O. W. GODWIN, SR.
Local Leaders To Ride With Ike
Three prominent local
citizens will ride and dine
with General Dwight Eisen
hower tomorrow morning
when the Republican presi
dential candidate comes to
North Carolina for an ad
dress in Charlotte.
Harnett Republican Chairman J.
O. West, Oliver W. Godwin, Sr., and
Emmett C. Edgerton, Sr., have been
invited to join the Eisenhower train
in Salisblry and accompany the
General into Charlotte.
They will also have breakfast
with the presidential candidate.
The three local Republican lead
ers left Dunn this afternoon for
Charlotte to attend a mammoth
Eisenhower Rally to be held in
Charlotte tonight.
They will board the Eisenhower
train Friday morning at 6:30 o'-
clock. along with other State Re
publican leaders and of the
Derrmcrats-For-Eisenhower afgani
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General Eisenhower will confer
' with the group during the ride in
to Charlotte and they will then
join the General’s to
Memorial Stadium, where the ad
dress will be delivered at 8:15
o’clock.
The address will be broadcast
over Radio Station WPTF at Ra
leigh and over a number of other
stations.
“We naturally, are very pleased to
have this opportunity to meet with
the next President of the United
States,” said Chairman West this
morning.
Taking a rap at Democratic Can
didate Adlai Stevenson. Chairman
West declared: “The Democrats, as
usual, are taking North Carolina
for granted and don’t even bother
to bring their candidate here. But
they’re in for a • big surprise.” He
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| will begin immediately after the
ball game.
This year, the Alumni Day Chao
-1 el program will be given by the
j Speech Class, under the direction
of Mrs. Roy Dixon, in cooperation
with the Senior Class and in co
ordination with “Better School
Spirit Week.” The Speech Class
undertook, as it’s project in con
nection with Home Coming, pro
moting better school spirit among
the teachers and students. Each day
this week it has taken a new pro
ject. Monday was designated as
“School Song Day,” and the stu
dents sang the school song at the
beginning of every period. Tuesday
was “Wearing of the Green” day.
At the beginning of first period,
each student was given a green
and white ribbon and asked to wear
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Adlais Advisers
Want Trumans Aid
SPRINGFIELD, 111., (IP)—Gcv. Adlai E. Stevenson’s
advisers looked today to President Truman to take up the
campaign battle cry now that the Illinois governor has
drawn the blueprint.
The Stevenson camp hope that
Mr. Truman : a master of the
j whistle-stop technique, will come
into the election fray swinging free
ly and directly at Dwight D. Eisen
hower, the Republican nominee to
whom the President once offered
the Democratic nomination.
Meantime, Stevenson was stand
ing firm on his decision not to drag
inti) the public limelight his fund
o Belt) surpleme at sala/’es for to j
adnnnistiantors. - < ' »• •.
“If I have anything to say, I’ll !
Ike Is Emphasizing
Thievery Charges
1 ABOARD GOP SPECIAL, (IP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower
resumed his assaults on administration “thievery” today
after the dramatic meeting last night in which he “ex
onerated” Sen. Richard M. Nixon of wrongdoing.
As the Republican presidential
nominee resumed the whistle-stop
trail, elated GOP leaders said the
Eisenhower - Nixon ticket had
emerged “stronger than ever” from
the furor over the senator’s private
ly endowed political expense fund.
Eisenhower said he will talk in
Baltimore tonight about the neces
sitv of arraying “superior force”
against the Communists and of
using this force “intelligently and
economically.”
The GOP nominee carried his
campaign into Maryland for the
first time. The state gave its nine
eiectora. votes to Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey in 1948.
CALLS FOR CLEANUP
At Cumberland, Md.. a crowd
estimated at about 6.000 heard the
candidate accusp the Democratic
administration of imperilling the
constitution and of tolerating tax
scandals which necessitate “a
cleanun from ton to bottom.”
Eisenhower denounced President
Truman's seizure of the steel mills
and said it is “time to rise up”
against an administration which
“thinks it is all powerful” and
against offmials who are "too big
for th»ir britches.”
“We’re in fine shane excent poli
tically.” he said at Kevser, W. Va.
“We have got a national leadership
which has not performed well for
the past seven years.”
That is one reason the nation Is
locked in the cold war with Russia.
Eisenhower said, adding that “this
administration has not given us a
urogram in which we have confi
dence—confidence that it Will lead
toward ncaro”
LEADERS JOYFUL
Republican leaders were joyful
•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RAT.EIGH (IP Central North
Carolina live poultry: Frvers or
brokers steady, snnnlies generally
plentiful. dem an( j f a | r; heavy hens
steady, supplies adeouate. demand
good. Prices Pt form no to 10 a.
m. Frvers or b-oilorg 214-3 noimds
29' heaw hens 23-26 mostly 24-25.
Eggs steady simplte* short., de
mand good. Prices p«|d producers
and handlers FOB local grading
stations: A large 57, A medium 50,
B large 49.
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say it,” the Democratic presidenti
al nominee said yesterday in re
jecting Sen. Richard M. Nixon’s de
mand that Stevenson report his fi
nances to the nation as Nixon did
Tuesday.
Mr. Truman for the most part
stayed out of the campaign spot
light in September in conformance
with an understanding reached,
sho-tly after Stevenson fwas nomi-[
n.,i d at MLy.
I ilw# general i under-I
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over the decision to keep Nixon on
the ticket.
The Republican presidential can
didate told a cheering audience in
Wheeling Stadium that Nixon had
“complete vindicated” himself by
baring his personal finances to the
whole nation in a radio-television
brodacast Tuesday night.
Asserting that Nixon had been
subjected to “a very unfair and
vicious attack,” Eisenhower told the
crowd of 8,000 persons:
“So far as I am concerned, he
has not only vindicated himself but
he has acted as a man of courage
and honor and ... stands higher
than ever.”
“Let there be no doubt about
it chairman Arthur Summerfield
said. “America has taken Dick Nix
on t oits heart. Every Republican
is proud to have him on the ticket.”
Nixon, who had flown here from
the West Coast in response to a
summons from Eisenhower, stepped
smiling to the speaker’s rostrum
after receiving Eisenhower’s bless
ing.
“GREATEST MOMENT”
“This is probably the greatest
moment of my life,” the 39-year
old California senator who had
been wondering, only 24 hours ago,
whether his big chance for political
glory was going out the window
forever.
Nixon renewed his promise to
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Woman Held For
Killing Children
EUTAW, Ala. (W Officers jail
ed a 27-year-old Negro woman !
here today in connection with the
vicious slaying of three children
in the Mount Hebron community
and the abduction of a baby.
The dead children's baby sister
was found unharmed when officers
arrested Mattie Smarr at her home
in Birmingham. She is a sister of
the children’s father, a sharecrop
per at Mount Hebron.
The woman was brought here
and jailed on a murder charge.
Sheriff Prank Lee said she told
arresting officers that the three
month old baby, Cora Mae Posey,'
Dunn Stores
Open All Day
Wednesdays
No. 208
Recorder Again
Defies Ruling
By Higher Court
BY LOUIS DEARBORN
Record Staff Writer
Judge H. Paul Strickland,
in Citv Court this morning
again denied the request of
a defendant for trial by
jurv in his court and order
ed the case held until a dec
ision is returned on the caseS
sent to the Supreme Court
for a ruling by Solicitor
Jack Hooks.
The request was made by At
torney J. Robert Young, who was
defending W. R. (Turk) Lewis
against charges of drunkenness,
disorderly conduct, resisting arrest
and assault on an officer, contain
ed in a warrant sworn out by Cor
poral Francis Hall.
Hall and a brother officer, Gar
land L. Stone, have been bound
over to Superior Court on charges
of assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill, inflicing ser
ous bodily injuries not resulting in
death, after a hearing Monday
night in which Lewis was the pros
ecuting witness, before magistrate
A. B. Adams.
Judge Strickland has been un
der fire from attorneys in town
for taking similar action with sev
eral other cases since the two cases
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Local Jurist
Is Misquoted
Magistrate A. B. Adams
lias been incompletely quot- .
ed concerning a hearing
given Cijy Policemen Fran
cis Hall an# G. L. Stone
herb Mortday nigh*. "
He was quoted so incompletely ■ '
that a false meaning was given to
his statement and left the wrong
, Impression with the public.
The half-true statement quoted
Mr. Adams as saying he doubted the
! two officers were “guilty of the
charge” without giving the judge’s
complete statement.
He said he doubted there was suf
ficient evidence to convict them
of intent to kill, but found ample
probable cause on that charge and
j also on a charge of assault with
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Bost Stresses
Vote Importance
In answer to the question that
a number of his neighbors have
been asking him concerning the
election to be held next Wednes
i day in the Erwin Mills to deter
mine which, if am - , union the em
| plcyps desire to represent them, or
whether they nrpfer no union. Man
ager E. H. Bost issued a letter out
lining t.he situation.
The letter outlines the struggle g
between two factions, the TWUA jj
Dresident, Fmil Rieve and Vice- -
Dresident Geo-ge Balrtanzi writh
Baldanzi and his followers splitting l
with the CIO affiliate and joining J
ja rival union. UTW-AFL.
The letter relates that the Na- 'I
1 tional Labor Relations Board fin- |
ally set the date for an election «
in which Erwin employes will have 3
a three-way choice. They may vote
for either of the two Unions or
thev can vote for no union, if they (d
decide they want neither.
He points out that the election n
is important to the people of Er- J
win and expresses the hope that |
every Erwin employe will cast a
vote. This, he feels, is the only
way to settle the matter in the f;
; best interests of the group as a
whole. ,J
■ SJ
was “given to her by a man.” He
! said she made no other state- 1
ment.
A fifth child, Lucy Poaey, H, irj j
mained in critical condition at if
Demopolish hospital with
fractures from a beating with a:f(
blunt instrument.
Willie and Alberta Posey retura- J
ed from the cotton fields late
day to find two of their
drowned in a creek, a third t&m
focated with his head thmstiMo
a mud bank, and Lucy be^M^H
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