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+WEATHER+ Partly cloudy and slightly cooler today and tonight. Wednesday part ly cloudy and slightly wanner. With “Pmtone" Anti-Freeze TouTe sat, you're safe, you’re sure. VOLUMN 3 h| K. u j* &*>, ~*sw* ?.,. 3 *j&fe4>-. *■&*■ V V>- ~- " i unj in 'i fnr ''' ~ r ' »<j§f /^'■'■• : ' SI ■■’disiSll IhSimU 1 h # * I JB '" ; V / ■ MASONS HONOR RETIRING SECRETARY Charles R. Storey, who is retiring as secretary of the «i Dunn Masonic Lodge after 14 years of faithful, efficient and outstanding service, was honored by the lodge last night. Past Master Herman Neighbors, right, is shown here as he presented Mr. Storey, center, a beautiful Gold watch in appreciation of his services. Looking on is Master Fred M. Byerly. In his i 4 years of continuous service, Mr. Storey has missed only eight or ten meetings. And he missed on those occasions only because of unavoidable conflicts. (Daily Record Photo). Masons Honor Ex-Secretary Dunn Masons took the occasion of their annual in stallation rites last night to pay honor to one of the lodge’s oldest and most faithful officials. Charles R. Storey, who is re tiring as secretary of the lodge after 14 consecutive years of ser vice,, was paid high tribute by his fraternal brothers and then pre-i seated a beautiful gold Elgin watch lor his services, .1 The presentation was made by Herman Neighbors,, former master of the lodge, who praised Mr. Storey's long, efficient and faith ful service. Chaplain Cites Need Os Greater Efforts ; “The Chaplaincy is a great thing and I love it, “Major Augustus. Trimble Noland told the Erwin Lions Club last night. “1 wish more men of God would take Up this calling. The! men in the services today will make up the church of toiiiorrbw, and if they have no chance of religious expres sion, thfe churches at home wjll suffer:’’ Chaplain Noland gave up a career with Liggett-Myers Tobacco Com pany in 1935 to enter the ministry. JHe was commissioned in the Chap lain Corps in 1940. During World i War 11, he was in Normandy and the Bulge, and he has recenUy re turned from nine months in Korea at, the Sixth Corps Field Hospital. At present he is at Raleigh as ' v ' -v ' ,/>. v v ■ jH X, >-». . T> 1 gm CHAPLAIN SPEAKS TO ERWIN LIONS Major Augustus T. Noland, Chaplain for the North Caro lina Military District, loft, wma guest speaker a* the mooting lam night of the burin Uons Ciub. He urged the cooperation of pastor, and church members tn keeping up the morale of our fighting forces through fMnuai tetters and church isntads Shawn with him are program chairman. Dr. D, C. S 3 eSS/Md**NoMeH aeemnpdbed the Chaplain, (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn), TELEPHONES: 3117 ■ 3118 - 3119 During the 14 years Mr. Storey has served the lodge as secretary, he has missed only eight or ten meetings. He was forced to miss Sn those due to conflicts i with spepial city council meetings > since he< is city clerif here. The watch presented to Mr. 1 Storey was appropriately engraved, . giving the length of his service. Mr. Storey asked to be relieved (Continued on page two) Military District Chaplain, where his duties are mainly concerned with procurement of Chaplains In North Carolina. A Georgia native, ihe makes his home in Claremont, California. “I am not trying to throw bou quets,” he began, “but I think the Corps of Chaplains is the finest i Con tinned On Page two) atm Bailu Jiecnrd Plane Reported Lost In West “ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah 111 A civilian C-46 trans port plane with 41 persons, 37 of them servicemen, a board was reported missing today in southeastern Idaho or western Wyoming. The airway traffic control cen ter at the Salt Lake City airport said the craft, owned and oper ated by the Associated Air Trans port Co. and under contract to the Air Force, last reported at 3:58 a. m. over Malad, Ida., about 100 miles north of Salt Lake City. It was due at Cheyenne Wyo.. at 5:50; a. m. for a refuel stop before continuing to an eastern destination. Weather over the area was des cribed as heavily overcast. There were unusually violent winds blow ing aloft. The plane took off late last night from Boeing Field at Seattle, Wash. In addition to the service men passengers, the plane carried a crew of four. DUNN, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1953 Truman Voices War Warning Assembly Opens At Noon Today On Busy Session RALEIGH (IP) The 1953 session of the North Caro lina General Assembly open ed the doors at noon today for three months of what promises—so far to be a harmonious and busy session of lawmaking. The first day of activity was expected to be short. House and Senate members were expected to elect as a matter of course the of ficers nominated in a Democratic caucus last night. Some members expected a move to further increase salary raises ap proved by the 1949 General As sembly for eight elected officials with the beginning of new terms tomorrow. I n short caucuses last night Democratic members of the Senate nominated Sen. Edwin Pate of Lou rinburg as Senate president pro tem and House members nominated Rep. E. T. Bost Jr., Sanford, as House speaker. House members put up Miss An nie Cooper of Raleigh as principal clerk; Rep. C. Wayland Spruill of Bertie as sergeant-at-arms, and Ralph Monger Jr., Canford, as House reading clerk. TAYLOR CLERK In the Senate nominees S. Ray Byerly as principal clerk: James M. White as reading clerk, and William A. Taylor of Buie’s Creek, as sergeant-at-arms. The real festivities come tomor row with the inauguration of Wil liam B. Umstead of Durham as North Carolina's new governor and no heavy law-making'was expect ed before next week. Residing, officers rtkf woK House* 1 must draw their lists of committee (Continued on page two) Murderer Gets Term lu Prison Bailey Lee McNeill, Negro farmer, who shot and killed his wife at their home near Anderson Creek on Decem ber 19 and seriously wound ed John Lewis Murchison at the same time, yesterday was sentenced by Judge Paul Fri zelle to a total of 40 years in State Prison. McNeill entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree of his wife; Rachel Mae McNeill. On the second count of asssault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, his plea was no contest. The homicide charge drew a sen tence of 30 years. The court added ten additional years for the shoot ing of Murchison; a 20-year-old rel ative, who stayed in the home. McNeill, who had declined to tes tify in his own behalf, seemed daz ed by the heavy prison sentence. Court appointed attorneys J. R. Hood and A. R. Taylor said he was reluctant to talk about the killing. HAD KILLED BEFORE Evidence had been introduced by. the state to show that several years ago McNeill had killed a man named Sidney Elliott and served time in state prison for the crime. Motive for the shooting of the wife advanced by the state and the defense were as different as day and night. The state claimed a silly dispute over a record player flared into a violent quarrel climaxed bv the killing. The defense contended that Bailey, affcar “words” with his wife over a record player, went for a walk. Lawyers said he told them he returned to find his 28- year-old wife of four years in bed with Murchison. They reported the defendant told them he lost his head, shot his wife first and then fired at Murchison. Deputy Ken Matthews was the only state witness. He said when he arrived at the McNeill home at iCoattatt-d on nose two) BULLETINS NEW YORK «P) Police said today they have nabbed the fruitcake bandit Alongo Curry, 28, admitted he was the gunman who held up a woman in the Manhattan, garment district last Dee. 26 and ran off with a brown paper package she was carrying. Curry Mid he believed the package contained a large payroll. It contained a Christmas fruit cake. PORTLAND, Ore. (V) City ConunMoner William Bowes let habit get the be*t of him. He reM to make a motion in city council meeting Tuesday lid begin by (OiwtteeidM yem we > ■■& r 1 IS'^SIP GET LEGISLATIVE POSTS Three from Harnett will hold legislatie posts in Raleigh when the new General Assembly goes into its work for 1953. Shown above they are, left to right, L. M. Chaffin of Lillhigton, former State Senator, who is serving as enrolling clerk; Miss Kitty Taylor of Dunn, assist ant to the Senate calender clerk; and William A. (Billy) Taylor of Buie’s Creek, sergeant-at-arms of the Senate (Daily Record Photos). Leder Brothers Are Planning Huge Remodeling Project Leder Brothers Department Store in Dunn is being completely remodeled to make it one of the most modern and most complete stores in this section of the State, it was announced this morning by manager John Weddle. Workmen have already begun the task and the remodeling program ahould be finished by the last the month. Complete new fixtures of the ' most beautiful and most modem sdeetgn'kfe being instalMi 'ttudußh— out the -store to afford better dis play of the big. complete stock of merchandise carried by Leder Bro thers. l The complete modernization pro gram will also include a complete departmental change and the var ious departments will be shifted and re-aTranged to afford shoppers the greatest convenience and ease in shopping. Mr. Herman Leder, president of the big and popular Eastern Caro lina chain, announced a desire when he took over the store, formerly Fleishman's, to make it one of the finest in the area and immediately took action to that effect. The remodeling program was de layed, however, by the manufac ture of the special counters, show Three From Harnett Work With Assembly Opening of the 1953 session of the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly today found three Harnett County citizens holding key administrative positions with the governing body. Former State Senator L. M. Chaffin of Lillington is serving as chief enrolling clerk, William A. (Billy) Taylor of Dunn is sergeant at-arms of the Senate, and Miss Kitty Taylor of Dunn is assistant Senate calendar clerk. Mr. Chaffin, who was selected by Legless Man Seeks New Boarding Home Clarence Leon Bryant, 63 year old legless man, formerly at the county home, today had S4O of county money in his pocket and was seeking a boarding place and gainful employment. Bryant, unable to qualify either by age or disability for a county or state welfare grant to enable him to pay his way at the Corne lius Harnett Boarding home, for mOfM ■{ ' *9% > ttfF' ■%&£ " V'v f' j cases and other fixtures. They were built by Morrison Furniture and Equipment Company of Statesville. This is one of the South’s best known fixture manufacturing con reins v Mh-Weddlehrtkl-today that spec ial emphasis Is being placed on the large ladies ready-to-wear de partment upstairs. No expense oi effort is being spared in this or the other department. Leder Brothers carries and fea tures nationally-advertised mer chandise for men, women and child ren and every department is being expanded. Leder Brothers purchased the store formerly operated as Fleish man’s here last August and since that time Leder Brothers has eh joyed a splendid reception and an ever-increasing volume of business. Remodeling of the Dunn store is in keeping with the policy of Mr. Leder to make his stores the fin est in the towns in which they are located. Secretary of State Thad Eure, ser ; ved as Superior Court Clerk in . Harnett for many years and is one ■ of the country’s best known lea : ders. : Miss Taylor is the daughter of Former Mayor and Mrs. Herbert r (Continued On Page Four) merly the county home, was order ed to leave. Earlier in the fat- when county commissioners had authority over the home, he was ordered to leavr on recommendation of Miss Wilme Williams, welfare superintendent who has insisted Bryant, fitted with artificial limbs, is able t/ work for a living. However after his eviction, resi dents of the Summerville Com munity complained to commission ers and had Bryant returned to the home. He has no relatives. “I am just as glad to get away from that group as they are to have me go," Bryant told commis sioners referring to John Mason (Continued On Page Four) •MARKETS* RALEIGH —flfi— Hog markets: Rocky Mount: Steady on good and choice 180-MO lb barrows and gilts a$ 18.75. Smithfleld: Steady at IRSO-18.75. (Csnttnasd On Page 4) FIVE CENTS PEK COPY > iJifii ' : Ci SIP W-„> #-:•< „#. i Jpfvß B iflH ® Kills Self To Evade A Trial James Wilbur Norris, 32- year-old Duun, Route 2 saw mill eifiplw»jnee, won’t Uaastp \d stand trial for drunken driv ing in the’Dunn Recorder’s Court tomorrow. He told his wife and friends that he wouldn’t be there when the case was called and said “My wor ries will be over in a few days.” Norris committed suicide about 1 o’clock this morning at his home. Mrs. Norris told Harnett Coroner Grover C. Henderson her husband had been drinking for sometime and lgst Saturday was arrested on a drunken driving charge. He was scheduled to be tried (Continued On Page 4) Gregory Backs New Governor Harnett Representative Carson Gregory, who today began his second term as a member of the North Caro lina legislature, says he will give his full support and co operation to Governor Wil liam B. Umstead and his pro gram. “Except for one or two things,” (Contlnned on page two) Mrs. Katie Lee Dies After Long Illness ■ Mrs. Katie Ennis Lee, 60, member of one of Harnett’s oldest families, died Tuesday night at 8:40 o’clock at her home at 310 North King Avenue in Dunn. Ghe had been in ill health for the past five years and seriously ill for sometime. Funeral services will be held i Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home. The Rev. Richard Rhea Gammon, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, and the Rev. Er nest P. Russell, pastor of the Fi-st Baptist Church, will officiate. Bor al will be in Greenwood Ceme tery. Mrs. Lee, native of Harnett Co”n ty, was a daughter of the late Ma rion and Dollie Ennis. Sh» was a nember of the First Presbyterian Church and as long as health pe-- ■nitted she was active in the var ious affairs of the church. LIVED HERE MANY YEARS Mrs. Lee had lived in Dunn prac tically all of her life, except for a brief stay in Salisbury, and was one of the older residents of the town. Surviving are her husband, Thad Lee of Dunn; one son. Unwood Lee, principal of the Colemin School; three daughters. Mrs. Ed Welborn of Dunn. Mrs. Jimmy Cannady of the home, and Mrs. Herman Perry of Soring Lake; one brother, Edward Ennis of Dunn, Route 3; two sisters, Miss Florence THE RECORD GETS RESULTS NO. 21 War Now Would Mean Utter Ruin He Tells Stalin WASHINGTON (IP) Pres ident Truman solemnly war ned Russian Premier Josef Stalin today that the United States has developed a hy drogen superbomb that would mean “ruin for your regime and your homeland’' in case of World War 111. In his farewell State of the Union message to Congress, Mr. Truman said the recent H-bomb tests at Eniwotok ushered in a ‘new era of destructive power," and man is now "capable of creating ex plosions of a new order of magni tude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nag asaki.” "There is something I would say to Stalin." Mr. Human said. “You claim belief in Lenin’s prophecy that one stage in the development of Communist society would be war between your world and ourg. "But war has changed its shape and its dimension. It cannot now be a stage in the development of anything save ruin for your regime and your homeland.” WORSE WEAPONS He predicted even more terrible atomic weapons than H-bombs— with "unforseeabie peaks of des tructive power.” In any future war. Mr. Truman said, tribe.is of people could be killed and great cities demolished with one bomb. The “very structure” of this civiliza tion would be destroyed. Mr. Truman devoted the major part of his 11,000 word message to (Continued on page two) ViOOQIYIM SllWr District Meeting Members of the Woodmen of the World from Harnett, Sampson, Lee, Johnston, - Cumberland and Wayne counties will meet here in the Dunn Armory Thursday, January 8, for a special af ternoon and night session, with Dr. Herbert B. Kenne dy, National Medical Direct or of the Woodmen of the World, Omaha. The afternoon session will begin at 4:30 when candidates from sev eral Woodmen Camps will be ob ligated under the supervision of the Erwin Degree Team, regarded as one of the best in Eastern Caro lina. Following the initiatory work the group will be entertained at a dutch barbecue dinner. Follow ing the dinner. Dr. Kennedy, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Omaha, will deliver a special fraternal address. Officer* of some 15 or 20 camps Will be in stalled to their respective office for the coming year by Col. Nick On Page twe> 3 ■*»****»> ■■ V, .«*,. swaag Ennis of Dunn and Mrs. Jetaftt Whittington of Dunn. Route *; seven grandchildren.
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