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CARL GOERCH
Goerch To Address
Wellons Employees
Approximately 250 employees and a large number
of special guests are expected to attend the annual Christ
mas banquet of Wellons Gandy Company to be held here
Friday night at 7: 30 in the high school gymnasium.
Bill Marshburn, sales manager of
the cotnpany. who is directing ar
rangements, said today that every
anc>‘the best
ant?'in the company's history is
expected. Mr. Marshburn will seiye
as the toastmaster.
Speaker for the event will be Cad
Goerch of Raleigh, popular radio
commentator and noted after -
dinner speaker. Mr. Goerch is one
of the State's most entertaining
speakers.
The Invocation will be given by
the Rev. J. W. Wellons of . Micro.
l, Mad Dog" Killer
Buried Secretly
JOPLIN, Mp. IIP) Badman
Billy Cook, -the "mad dog” killer
of six persons, was buried Wednes
day, night in secret, quiet cere
monies in a graveyard named
♦eace.”
The simple, dignified rites were
ordered by the executed murder
er’s relatives after they called off
the "Roman holiday' funeral which
had been planned in the little town
of Comanche, Okla.
Thousands of thrill seekers had
Jostled and crowded each other in
Comanche for a look at the young
gunman's body. His funeral ser
vice was to have been broadcast
fly a loud speaker system so all of
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NEW TRACTOR GOES ON DISPLAY The new DMA M John Deere tractor was recently placed
A. an display at the Johnson Cotton Company's Farm ImpSSaaent showrooms on North Fayetteville
V Avenue and immediately attracted favorable attention from the many fanners who dropped fa at
the shewrooms. With more power by 15 percent and many other admrtastnents, tM mm marhfae Is the
most completely modern on the market. Shown “trying it on for stae" fa Jaby_McLood, a farmer from
Route 1 Coats, who termed It the best maohlne he HaiNlNr am. (Swßheeri Photo by tank
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father of Johnnie Wellons, owner
and president of the big candy
company. .
'Mi. Marshburn. will give the.
welcome, and Mr. Goerch vty be
introduced by Attorney I. R. Will
iams.
A brief talk will be made by
Billy Wellons, and Johnnie Wellons
will deliver his annual message to
: his employees.
;i TO PRESENT AWARD
1 An Efficiency Award to the
’ ‘ employee voted by other employees
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the out-of-town visitors could hear.
The Cook family preferred to
bury their erring son in private.
THREE MOURNERS
The killer’s old Sunday school
teacher, the Rev. Dow Booe, said
a brief five-minute service at
graveside. The only mourners were
Cook's 75-year old father, his oldest
sister. Mrs. Bertha Massengil, and
a sister-in-law, Mrs. J. C. Steven
son.
A plainclothes policeman sat in
a parked car near the cemetery
to keep meddlers away.
The relatives had Cook’s body
returned here from Comanche
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Ike Confers With Civil Defense Group
Truman Favors
Buildup Os
Military Power
WASHINGTON (IP! Pre
sident Truman said last
night that only through a
continuing buildup of mili
tary strength can America
have peace.
•‘Our aim is peace," the Presi
dent said. "But we cannot have
peace by being weak, or by falling
behind in the technical race.
"We can have peace only if wc .
have strength-strength so great
that would-be aggressors will give
up their designs of conquest, and'
agree to live'peaceably in the world
with their neighbors, and abide by
the principles of the United
Nations.”
SPOKE AT DINNER
Mr. Truman spoke at a dinner
of the Aero Club of Washington
celebrating the 49th anniversary of
the first powered flight by the
Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk,
N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903.
The dinner, attended by 1,200
aviation leaders, capped a day of
ceremonies opening a year - long
celebration of the 50th anniversary
of the air age.
At Kitty Hawk, jet planes
zoomed at supersonic speeds
across the sand dunes where
the Wright biplane stayed aloft for
a mere 12 seconds.
Mr. Truman's advocacy of a
continued military buildup was his
second apparent warning in as
many days to the incoming Repub
lican administration against any
slashes in military appropriations.
President-elect Eisenhower cam
paigned on a promise. to trim
government spending, including
the military.
The President praised the avia
tion. . industry soy . its "phenomenal
•AWfe’Vwiit
j.ological advances” which, .re
said, have added "a lot to the
strength and security of the United
States.”
Post Office
Rush Begins
In order to take some of the
Christmas pressure off the regular
mail carriers in Dunn, and assure
on-time deliveries of Christmas
mail and packages, Postmaster
Ralph Wade has added eight extra
carriers to the Post Office force
here for the Christmas rush.
Most of the extra helpers are
young men home from college on
their Christmas vacations, who are
using this means of making a little
extra cash for their own Christ
mas shopping. Most of those on the
eligible list were unavailable.
OFFICE IS JAMMED .
The Post Office is jam-ptfcked
- with mail and parcels, and all of
t the extra help will be needed in
■ order to clear the flood of mailbe
fore the Post Office closes for a
i two-day interval Christmas Eve.
■ Postmaster Wade announced that
the Post Office will remain open all
■ day this Saturday, as an added ser
■ vice to Dunn residents. This is done
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1952
BELK’S ENTERTAINS EMPLOYEES Employees of Belk’s Department Store were guests at a
dinner party last night at Johnson’s Restaurant. A full program was offered with Sam Bundy. Principal
of the Farmville Schools and former District Governor of Kiwanis. Shown are those at the speaker's
table, left to right; Sam Bundy, the speaker; Woodrow Turlington, assistant Manager; and Manager
Marvin Raynor. (Daily Reeord photo by T. M. Stewart.).
Adhsoft Has Faith In Ike
. PARIS (IP) Secretary of
State Dean Acheson urged j
the North Atlantic Treaty j
Council today to have “fuil '
confidence” that the incom- ;
ing administ ion of Presi
■ lent-elect I _ v . hhower will
support it in defending Eu
rope against Communist ag
gression.
“I said to the council that we
wish to recommend our successors,”
Acheson said at a press conference.
“I said that we knew them
. . . and that we have full con
fidence they will carry on as we
tried to do and that they will have
the same devotion and loyalty to
the great Atlantic organization. And
t asked them to give their full con
fidence to our successors.”
HIS SWAN SONG
It was Acheson’s “swan song” to
the NATO which he helped to or
ganize—the final meeting he will
attend as secretary of state.
At the final meeting, the coun
cil ordered its military chiefs to
sharply reduced 1953 larger
goals for western defense by Feb.
28, emphasizing quality rather than
quantity.
The real result of the NATO meet
ing was that the defense goals set
by the Allies when Eisenhower was
supreme commander have been
scrapped and that Ridgway. his
successor, must wcrk on a “bar
gain basement" basis.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON (IP) Catholic tempers flared and dip
lomats predicted a new strain in U. S.-Yugoslav relations
today because of Marshal Tito’s abruot diplomatic break
with the Vat : cen. Mserr. Thomas J. McCarthy of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference charged Yugoslavia is no
different from Russia in its “ruthless” attempt to destroy
organized religion.
CINCINNATI. O. (IP) A Cincinnati policeman was
Assailant Let Off
With Only $25 Fine
Another of the series of assault
knd robbery cases in Dunn was tried
in Dunn Recorder’s Court this mor
ning and the alleged assailant, Lind
berg Ryals. given a suspended sen
sence by Judge H. Paul Strickland.
Ryals was charged with assault
ing C. L. Baker and taking the
sym of $3 from his person. He drew
M daye, suspended IS month* on
SNrmsat *f wa and costs. Hwi* to
fosafa oa good behavior. Polls* said
Nationwide Health
Program Proposed
I Last Minute
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News Shorfs
CHICAGO UP Blood transfus
ions were given the Brodie twins
today after an unprecedented oper
-1 ation to separate them at the skull,
, but doctors feared that one might
i die.
Doctors said It was a drama of
“survival of the the fittest," with
one of the 15-month-old twins pro
! gressing satisfactorily and the other
feared doomed to die within hours.
NEW YORK IIP) Federal Judge
i Edward Dimock refused today to in
-1 vestigate a dismissel juror’s charge
! that the jury hearing the conspir
i acy of 13 seetond-string Commun
| ists already had made up its mind
| to convict the Reds.
! WASHINGTON IIP President
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Rvals had been tried previously on
whiskey charges.
Ellen Carr Warren, charged with
speeding, was taxed «s)sts .with pray
er for judgment continued.
Alron Di Drampton, charged with
having no operators licehse. was
given a fine of $25 and costa with
prayer for judgment continued six
months.
Ztnddr McLean, cbefrUJd w»th
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WASHINGTON (IP) Pre- j
sident Trumans Health Com-1
mission today proposed a 1
nationwide program of state
managed health care for all.
The federal government would fi
nance medical care for the poor
and aged and would help in a lim
ited way to pay for the general
program.
But it would be up to the states
and to cooperating local govern
ments and private groups to set
up a care-fcr-all program and
make it work.
The most practical way of .fi
nancing universal medical and hos
pital care, the commission said,
would be through expanded insur
ance systems lik? the private plans
now operating.
Federal, state, and local govern
ments would contribute.
REJECTS COMPULSORY PLAN
In presenting its findings, reach
ed after a year of study, the 15 -
member commission shoved aside
President Truman’s compulsory
health insurance proposal.
It said this plan, called “social
ized medicine” by organized doc
tors. bad generated too much con
troversy for sober consideration
now. It put it aside for possible
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•MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH (W Central North
Carolina live poultry:
Fryers or b-o 'ers about steady
supplies plentifi 1, demand fair to
slow: heavy hens steady, supplies
adequate to plentiful, demand gen
erally fair. Prices at farm up to
10 a.m. today: F ver* and broilers
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Trams!! Accused
Os Ceivsßg lip
Service Only .
NEW YORK (IP' A group
of state civil defense leaders
told President-elect Eisen
hower today that President
Truman has paid only “lip
service" to the civil defense
program.
While Eisenhower, after receiv
ing the counsel of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, pushed ahead with his
deeds-not-words Korean war poli
cy, the state defense directors told
him that if war were to come to
morrow the country would not be
ready to meet the civil defense
needs.
The substance of the groups con- .
ference with the President-elect
was reported in a press conference
by Lt. Gen. Henry L. Larsen of
Denver. Colo., president of the
National Association of State Civil j
Defense Directors.
The group of nine which con
ferred with Eisenhower comprises
the executive committee of the |
national association.
PLEDGES SUPPORT
Larsen said that the president- j
elect had promised them “the ful- \
lest support" in selecting "the best
qualified person" to head the fed- i
eral Civil Defense Administration
and in bringing all agencies of
government into the civil defense
program.
Larsen said they told Eisenhower
the program must have "something
more, than lip service and token
aporopriation."
“Are you implying the admin
istration has given only lip service
to civil defense?" he was asteu.
1 "We have not received the poai
, tive and effective support of tile
J program which it must have.” 1-t
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More FoV Death'
Than For Health
WASHINGTON (IP The Pres
ident’s commission on the health
| needs of the nation reported to
day that Americans spent more
last year to commemorate deaih
! than on medical research to delay
! it.
About $180,000,000 was spent on
medical research. This, the com
mission said, was “only three-ten
ths of one percent of th° nation’s
I budget, and was less than the
amount sp°nt on monuments and
tombstones.”
States Woodmen
To Fete Orphans
E. C. Hood, District Manager of
the Dunn area of the Woodmen of
the World, has announced that
the W. O. W. of North Carolina
will entertain the bovs and girls
of the Dunn Free Will Baptist
Orphanage and the Falcon Or
phanage December 23 at a Christ
mas party to be held in the Gram
mar School of Dunn. This will be |
one of many such parties held
throughout N. C. by the Wood
men. as they have, for several
New Falcon Pastor
Likes Tar Heelia
Rev. W. W. Thomas, the new pastor of the Culbreth
Memorial Church in Falcon, has spent all of his nine,
years in the pastorial field, serving churches in North Car
olina, although he is a native of St. Augustine, Florida.
This is, however, the first church
he has served where it was not
necessary to start a building pro
gram immediately on his arrival.
The new church, which Mr. Thom
as has taken over, recently com
pleted an exoansive rebuilding
program, 'and the Culbreth Mem
orial Church is a model semi
rural church.
“It’s certainly a pleasure to come
into such a splendid new church,”
he admits ” I owe a personal debt
of gratitude to Mr. Berry (his pre
decessor at Falcon) for his work in
making it possible.”
Mr. Thomas comes to Falcon
1 from a successful period as pastor
of the Pentecostal Holiness 'Church
at Scotland Neck. During his stay
there, the congregation was in
creased and a successful church
building program completed.
Prior to his assignment at Scot
land Neck, he was pastor of the
(Dentin ae* On rage Twej
The Record
Gets Results
NO. 9
Stores To Stay
Open Until 9
Beginning Sat.
Starting Saturday and continu
ing through Christmas Eve, stores
in Dunn Mill remain open until
9:00 p. m. each night, it was an
nounced today hv Chamber of
Commerce .'Manager Norman Sut
tles.
Stores will remain onen until
this hour, Saturday. Monday. T
Tuesday and Wednesday. Decem
ber 20th. 22nd. 23rd and 24th. for
the benefit of last minute Christ
mas shoppers.
Dunn Drug Stores already are
remaining open until 9 p. m.
ev»ry night.
The stores will remain closed on
Christmas Day and on Fridav. De
cember 2Sth. and will reopen for
regular business hours on Satur
day. December 27.
Another Trial
Is Compromised
Another jury trial in Dunn Re
corder’s Court on drunken driving
jc-ha'ves ended with the acceptance
of a plea of guilty to a lesser charge
; yesterdav.
j The jury had been questioned
I and accepted bv both sides when de
fense attorney D. C. Wilson and
! Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan went
' into a huddle. After another ron
: ference with Judge H. Paul Strick
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Party Is Held
Bv Belk Staff
I In a hilarious address entitled
j "Do You Believe In Santa Claus"
! Sam Bundv. Principal of Schools
:in j Farmville and Past District
j Gtwernor of Kiwanis. entertained
employees of Belk's Dfpart
pHTent Store and their husbands or
I wives at Johnson's Restaurant
last night.
The occasion was the annual
Christmas partv. given each year
j by Belk’s for its employees, shortly
, before Christmas. A total of 85
: persons were guests at the party.
Marvin Ravnor. Manager of
Belk’s, presided and introduced the
: speaker. Special music was pre
sented by Miss Louise Brown at
the piano.
The event concluded with the
I pvrha"’“<' of gifts among the group
and with group singing of Christ
mas Carols.
years, entertained over two thou
sand North Carolina children st
ationed in N. C. orphanages at
Christmas parties.
CARTER TO SPEAK
Hood stated that the special
speaker for the event will be Dr.
Wm. Howard Carter, President of
the Carter Bible College, Golds
boro. Dr. Carter delivered the
Christmas address last year and
the boys and girls this year ex-
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