+W EAT HER* ’, Partly cloudy and slightly cooler today and tonight. Wednesday part ly cloudy and slightly wanner. With “Prestone” Anti-Freeze Yoa're set, you’re safe, you’re sure. VOLUMN 3 vat /’ «* - -,- f - ' v “"i „,, ~*'-<,r^.' NEW ASSISTANT HOME AGENT s- Miss Margaret Ray of Boone is the new assistant home demonstration agent for Harnett County. A native of Boone, she attended Bera College in Bera, Ky. and was graduated last June from Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone. Miss Lela Huntley, home agent, has been without aj an assistant for the past six months. Yesterday she introduced Miss * Ray home demonstration club leader at the county council meeting in Llllington. (Daily Record Photo by T. M. Stewart). Teachers Map Plans For New L^gi§fatiq^ When the United Forces for Education carry their re quests to the 1953 legislature they w&nt their program to be supported by an informed public opinion amoftg the home folks, not just among members of the General As sembly. That was the opinion voiced sev- i e:al times Friday in the conference between Representative Carson Gregory and Harnett school leaders held in the county education build ing in Llllington. Gregory promised' School forces his support of the major part of their program,.. The meeting was called by M. O. Phillips of Coats, chairman of the legislative committee of the Har nett County Unit of the North Car- - One Man Crime Wave Given *.Seventeen Years In Prison Henry Roberts, 20-year-old Negro ex-convict, and Dunn’s one man crime wave was given sentences totalling 17 years in prison by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle in Harnett County Superior Court yesterday. "There is no reason in the world and the second one. for the courts to be patient with | On the first count in on* Indict you,” he told the defendant. Turn- , ment the Negro was given ten 4>ng to the spectators, he said, “This years. On the %econd count in the man could have been sentenced to same indictment he drew two years, 130 years on each indictment and to run.concurrently. On the second he would have been older than indictment he was given a five year Methuselah by the time his term sentence, to begin at the expiration was up.” y of the proceeding sentences. The judge took into consideration ENDS (CRIME WAVE the fpct that the defendant had Corporal K. M. Fail of the Dunn been convicted only once before Police Department told the court, and had served two years for that. “When we got Henry it put an end The thirteen counts to which to the wave of robberies in Dunn,” Roberts had pleaded guilty had been Roberts pleaded guilty to burg incorporated into two bills of in- larzing Pope-Mixon Co., Farmer’s jjdictment by the Grand Jury. The Supply Co., J. R. Cannady’s Store, iirst bill contained two counts, 1 (Continued on page two) Kitchen Bootleger Faces New Charges Roy Cameron of Lillington, Route 3, Harnett Coun ty's kitchen bootlegger, has been released from prison just in time to stand trial in Chatham County for breaking, entering and larceny. • And since going to prison, Cam- D - , t eron was convicted on November DQfQTOOT LUITIDOI 17th on a charge of arson and ap- .... pealed a 3-6 year prison sentence CO. GfitS CnQftor to Supreme Court. , secretary of Stota Thad Euro l .State Paroles Commissioner N. has granted * charter of lneorpar ' F. Randsdell said Cameron’s sen-1 ation to Barefoot Lumber Co., Inc. tence of six to eight months in at Benson to deal in timber and prison wasn’t commuted as any wool of all kinds, reward to Cameron. Authorised capital stock of He pointed out that Cameron’s *150,000 was listed, With subecrib \ sentence would .have been com- ed stock a* *4OO. pie ted on Saturday of this week but The incosporatom aro_Csrocm K prison officials agreed to let him Barefoot and Floyd B. <* lout five days early ip order to Benson and *** Mae Barefoot of \ (CMtteaad On Page two) Dunn. TELEPHONES: 3117 • 3118 - 3119 olina Education Association. "We need to sell our public schools to their owners, the people who pay for them” Phillips told the group as he stressed the fact that Har nett teachers are not Interested in high pressuring legislators solely for a salary raise, but are interes ted in pointing up the more urgent educational needs now present in North Carolina. (Continued on page two) (Ete JUaiiij J 'Xttotfr Old Alliance In Congress To Keep Filibuster WASHINGTON (IP! An old alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats was poised today to smash a new attempt to put teeth in the Senate’s anti-filibuster rule. The attempt was launched by a motion offered by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. M.) less than an hour after the 83rd Congress con vened last Saturday. By argreement, debate on the An derson motion was postponed until mid-afternoon today - when the Senate returns from its joint ses sion with the House to count the presidential electoral votes. HOPE FOR VOTE Senate Republican Leader Rob ert A. Taft told reporters that he hopes to bring the issue to a vote late Wednesday. The Anderson motion, calling on the Senate to adopt new rules, rejects the historic theory that the Senate is a continuing body and need not adopt new rules at the opening of each Congress. Southern Democrats, who are concerned about protecting then right to filibuster against “civil rights” bills, conceded the Ander son motion no more than 25 to 30 votes. And backers of the-proposal (Continued on page two, Ike Will Hold Press Meetings NEW YORK (IP) Hugh Baillie, president of the U nited Press, said today after a conversation with Presi dent-elect Eisenhower that Eisenhower will hold press conferences as president. Baillie conferred for half an hour with Eisenhower in a general dis cussion of press coverage qf the new administration. j they also talked .nvwc. “ÜBfljJd days” of World War.ll wßen Elsenhower was commander of Allied forces in Europe. “I think I can say that when he gets to Washington there will be press conferences,” Baillie said in an interview after the meeting. There had been some newspaper reports that Eisenhower was being strongly urged to abandon the tra ditional White House press con ferences in favor of regular radio and television reports to the nation along the line of the late President Roosevelt's fireside chats. “Will they be regular press con ferences?" Baiine was asked. “I can’t say.” Baillie replied. "Will there be questions and ans (Continued on page two) TB Campaign To Re-Open Today Harnett County’s campaign to find unknown cases of tuberculosis will be launched again today—January 6th. The X-ray program will con tinue for four weeks, until Janu ary 31st, X-ray officials announc ed. Tour, mobile X-ray units made 6528 pictures during the 9 working days last month before the Christ mas holidays. This leaves approxi mately 24,000 Harnett County citi zens un-X-rayed. . “We cannot be satisfied with less than 100 per cent in our campaign to X-ray every adult in the county," Dr. Hunter, county health officer, said. “That means every one, even those who look and feel the pic ture of health.” (Continned On Page Three) County Board Visits Schools Harnett County’s Board of Edu cation, out to see first hand about the county’s school needs, Monday visited Dunn and Erwin and con ferred with local district school .committeeman. On Tuesday they were slated to inspect Angler, Buie’s Creek and Coats schools. County Superintendent G. T. Proffitt said the-conferences with local school boards will substitute for the usual First Mbnday meeting of the county board of education. Every school In the county will be visited before the board makes recommendations for long range DUNN, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 6, 1953 Ike And Churchill Hold Talk 1 ■ §m w Mr BULLETINS MEMPHIS, Tenn. (IP) Jewell Guinn got off with a s2l fine for loitering when he explained to the judge that he was returning from the wake of a friend, O. B. Pickett. However, after hearing the next case on the docket, the judge called Guintf back and hiked the fine to ssl. The defendant in the second case was O. B. Pickett. LOS ANGELES (IP) Busty Brown, a 21-year-old mo del, won a divorce Monday when she testified that her hus band Victor E. Shaheen, 22, slapped her when she won a beauty contest and was named “Miss Anatomy.” VANCOUVER, B. C. (IP) Mrs. K. H. Henry toM her husband that the fiery invasion of the moon they were watching on their television was so realistic she could smell the smoke. Minutes lafw firemen carried out the charred TV set that had caught fire from defective wiring. NEWBURYPORT, Masr. OP) The nation’s oldest ac tive banker, Henry Bailey Little, 102, declined reelection as president of -/. : ’, . *•«:'t Propose High School For Dunn And Erwin A senior high school between Dunn and Erwin to serve both towns and to relieve congestion at schools in each town was proposed at a joint meeting of the Harnett Coun ty Board of Education and the Dunn School Board here yesterday. Principal A. B. Johnson of the taken out of the Dunn and Erwin Dunn district said after the meet- | Schools and enrolled in the dew lng that the proposal was well re- j Senior High School, ceived by members of both the ] This new school, it was pointed county and local boards. j out. could offer many more courses Under the proposal, 10th. Ith jin vocational guidance and a wider and 12th grade students would be ' (Continued on page two) Teen-Age Club Will Soon Have Canteen Dunn’s Teen-Age Club will soon have a canteen in Dunn’s City Park, it was announced today by A. B. John son, president of the City Recreation Commission. The *Dunn Junior Chamber of Commerce last night presented Mr. Johnson a check for *643 and spec ified that the sum be used for the canteen. The *543 came as the Jaycees’ share of the proceeds from the play "Shooting Stars,” recently staged by the organization. : Previously, the Jaycees had rais ed *225 to be used for a cement floor by the Teen-Agers until funds could be raised to finish the building. President Bill Biggs of the Jay cees said today that the contract ’tor pouring the floor has already been let to Rupert Wade and that the roof will be added, making the canteen ready for use about the last of February. The presentation to Mr. John son was made last night by Hubert Peay, who was chairman of the “Shooting Star” production. On behalf of the recreation com mission and the Teen-Age Club, Mr. Johnson expressed appreciation to the Jaycees for their assistance and interest in promoting better rec reational facilities for young people of the town. The meeting was held ir. the showrooms of Auto Sales and Service Co. The canteen can be used for a meeting place, for dancing nhd other entertainment programs of the teen agers of the community. Congressmen fHfcn Prayer Sessions WASHINGTON HP Some mem bers of the 83rd Congress plan to meet one morning each week for “prayer breakfasts,” it was learned today. The special prayer session, spon sored by the National Committee for Christian Leadership, will begin tomorrow when some 40 senators are expected to assemble in the Sen ate dining room to discuss the ap plication of religious principles to national problems. FIVE CENTS PEK COPY Both Beeline To Reveal Nature 91 Cosiferensa Topic NEW YORK (IP) Presi dent-elect Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill declined today to reveal the nature of then first talks at Bernard Bar uch’s residence on East 6Gth Street. Since Churchill is leaving Thurs day for Washington and a confer ence with President Truman, he and Eisenhower were expected to resume their informal conversa tions either this afternoon or Wed nesday. Unless the two “old friends” had made a date for a secret break fast. there was no. likelihood that they w’ould meet again during the mnrnine as Eisenhower had a full schedule until 12:30 p. m. Gen. Milton G. Eaker. superin tendent of the Valley Forge. Pa. Military Academy was listed as the first morping visitor at Eisenhow er's Commodore Hotel headquar ters, followed by A. Lingan War ren. president of Safeway Stores. Eisenhower planned. too. to spend more than an hour before noon with Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press Associations. Eisenhower and Baillie’s friend ship began nine years ago when the general was commander of all Allied forces in the North African theater of operations and the U. P. Dresident was at the front report ing the war. Following his conference with Baillie. Eisenhower scheduled meetings with two men who will serve in his cabinet - incoming Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Secretary of Commerce designate Sinclair Weeks. o;wo hours Elsenhower spent almost’ two hours alone with Churchill at Ba ruch's apartment Monday and re turned later for dinner with the elder statesman’s distinguished guests. James Hagerty, Eisenhower’s press secretary, tipped off report ers that the President-elect would not issue a statement on what he (Continued On Page tvni Bunn Matrons Hurt In Accident Mrs. Grover Mitchell and Mrs. Russell Fowler were injured in an automobile accident on Sunday af ternoon when the car in which they were riding was hit by a car driven by Harvey McPhail, Dunn Negro. Mrs. Fowler was takjen to the Dunn Hospital for treatment of a head wound and Mrs. Mitchell was badly shaken up in the crash which damaged both coils considerably. Mrs. Fowler was able to return to her home on Monday. The Mitchell baby was also in the car driven by his mother, but was uninjured. McPhail was booked by Dunn po lice on a charge of drunken driving. Mrs. Matthews Made Assistant To Clerk Mrs. Elizabeth Fuquay Matthews of Llllington who has served as acting clerk of the court of Harnett County dur ing the year Clerk Robert Morgan was in the Navy will have a new jqb and a new title. County commissioners yesterday on recommendation of Clerk Mor-, gan named Mrs. Matthews as the ( county’p first assistant cleirk of ; court. j Morgan told the board that un- ( der the law a deputy clerk of court • cannot perform many legal duties i reserved by statute for the clerk > or his qualified assistant Majorit-. of N. C. counties have one or more j assistant clerks. Appointment of Mrs. Matthews as assistant clerk was approved by Judge Clawson Williams, resident superior court judge of the djptric f , the clerk reported. PUBLIC GAINS The public stands to gain under the new arrangement, Morcran said. If he is tied up in court, the assis tant clerk can take care of many matters that previously may have had to wait for his personal hand ling. “Surely, If Mrs. Matthews can serve as acting clerk, she is well 1 qualified to serve a* assistant,” Morgan said. Commissioners seemed in hearty agreement, but only hitch was the salary to be paid the office. Morgan recommended that due to the responsibility of the office, Mrs. THE RECORD GETS RESULTS NO. 20 Lost Evidence Delays A Trial A missing knife point, a vital piece ol evidence in the case of Jesse Bill Ragland, caused a delay in his trial and a frantic search abort the floor until it was found yesterday. The knife point, found in the window of the burgled W. A. Tucker store, and allegedly from the de fendant knife, was being handled by Solicitor Jack Hooks, when the prosecutor dropped it. It was the sole pie-e of evidence tying Ragland in with the crime and chairs were hurriedly moved tack from the counsel table while everyone started looking for the bit of steel. It was soon so .nd. how ever. and trial resumed. Tyndall Rites Te Be Tuesday Henry Ed Tyndall. 79 better known as “Uncle Ed Tyndall” died Monday night at 8:30 o'clock at the home of his son. Janies Tyndall, in Erwin. Mr. Tyndall had been in ill hcaltlT , for sometime. Funeral services will be held Wed nesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Church of God in Erwin. The Rev. R. W. Tetter, pastor, and the Rev. Floyd A. Bcger, pastor of the Fay etteville Church of God. will offici ate. The body will lie in state at the ■ church for one hour prior to the services. Burial will be in the Rose (Continued on page two) Rosenbergs Get Another Chance -lIEW YORK m FederfS ‘ Judge Irving R. Kaufman signs today a formal order providing a stay of execution for convicted atom spies Ju lius and Ethel Rosenberg. Kaufman granted the stav Mon day on aDplication of Emanuel H. Bloch, attorney for the husband and w’ife espionage team. The cou- Dle had been scheduled to die in Sing Sing Prison’s electric chair Jan 14. The stay of execution was sought tc permit Blcfch to applv to Pres ident Truman for executive clem ency for the Rosenberes. It will re main in effect until five days af ter the apneal. a new date for exe cution must be set by Kaufman. The stay order precludes any further legal maneuverine by Bloch, since the government will not con sider an appeal for executive clem ency if a case still is pending in anv court. However, if the appeal were de nied. Bloch could co resin to the U. S. Court of Anoeiis and ask for a stay of ex. ion pending another apreal to tie it. S. Su preme Court. The apoeals court Monday denied “without preiudice” a request for a stary. The Supreme Court twice previously has refused to intervene. Matthews be given a substantial ,iaise over the $240 monthly she, 1 drew as deputy clerk before Mor gan’s departure. In his absence, as t (Continued on page two)