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ALL OVER FOR THE SEASON Saturday saw banters, regretfully cleaning their guns and putting
aside their hunting tugs for another year. Here LHUngton sharpshooters Billy Ray Matthews left
and Lemuel Hamilton, right, take a loving look at their last bag of the season. The dogs, Jake, the
pointer and Jeff, the setter will miss the fun too. The two dugs brought In many birds from the briars
while the season lasted. (Dally Record photo by T. M, Stewart).
V
Ike loins In
Early Morning
Prayer Service
WASHINGTON (IP) Pre
sident Eisrinhower today
joined members of Congress
In early morning prayers for
guflttartfcfer of his administra*
tion. . , /
iast'SimSy
formally joined for the
first time, attended a prayer break
fnst given by a group of senators
and congressmen who have been
meeting weekly for years to pray
together.
The President treated the oc
casion as he would a church ser
vice, there, was “no fanfare."
Mr. Eisenhower spoke briefly,
comparing the confused world situ
ation today with the problems faced
| by the founding fathers In 1775 and
1776.
He said that what was true at
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Catch Two Men
At Still Site ,
Federal ATU, agents and Cum*
I, berland County ABC officers ar
-9 rested two men “right on the job”
in a raid conducted near the Har
nett-Cumberland County line.
Two men were caught operating
the illegal distillery, Chester C.
Williams. 34. Negro, of Unden, Rt.
1, and' William T. Jernigan, 28. Os
Erwin. Route 1.
Jernigan and Williams were ar
raigned before U. 8. Commissioner
T. Hon at Fayetteville and bound
over to the next term of U. 8. Dls
£ trict COurt In Raleigh. They were
T released under SSOO bond each.
The officers confiscated a 600-
gallon submarine type tttll which
Cooking Classes To
Be Conducted Here
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Hundreds of housewives are ex
pected to be present tonight and
tomorrow night when Mrs. Allene
Miptz,’ home economist for the Car
olina Power and Light Company,
conducts cooking classes at Sears
Catalog Sales Office in Dunn.
Lamm, manage/of the local store, [
located on East Broad Street. J
l*-. The class tonight at 7:S0jglll be :
I i'or andjteclaM Frl-
TYif»re will be a doo~ mm aacb I
nteht and ate free refreshmenU.
TELEPHONES; *lll . Mt - Slit
State Farm Bureau
Names New Officers
CHARLOTTE IW The North
Carolina Farm Bureau Federation
closed its I,7th annual meeting here
yesterday, with election of new offi
-1 cere, adoption of a long Ust of
' resolutions and a review of what
{arm policy will be like under a
Republican administration.
* -dray'riuf Ahoskie as
, Flake Shaw of Greensboro was
choeen executive vice president and
secretary, and vice presidents
named were M..A. Mxwgan, Smith
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Evidence Being Heard
In Gravel Pit Death
introduction et evidence began
today h) Harnett Superior Court in
a .$50,008* . personal' damage suit
growing oUt of the Heaty a year ago
of a tour-yeaT-oM boy who was
drowned in a gravel pH near Baers
villa.' ■/ ? t , ' 'f- v- . ■: \
Selection of a Jury w*s completed
late yesterday in the baas which
is being heard before judge Paul
Frizzelle. *. .■
Plaintiffs in the action are Mel
vin Brown, father of the dead boy.
1 who 4 suing Superior Stone Com
pany of Raleigh, owners of the grav
el pit, for alleged negligence on
their property .
E. L. Doffennyle, Duma attorney,
assisted by Alien, Allen and Allen
of Richmond, Va.. represents the
Browns. Lawyers for the Stone
Company are Neil MeKay Salmon
was in operation, 400 gallons of
mash and 28 one-half gallons of
i non-tax-pald whiskey.
Deputy Sheriff J. E. Ammons of
Cumberland satiated the ATU and
ABC officers.
I
fatly ]toan)
field; A. D. Williams, Wilson, and
Zeno Ponder, Madison County.
Rep. Harold D. Cooley of Nash
ville, who introduced principal spea
ker Rep. Clifford R. Hope (R.Kans).
was honored as “Man of the Year”
by Progressive Farmer magazine.
Hope is replacing Cooley as <nir
tnaantftiJeWguse Agriculture Cotr,-
TO'•STAID Y SUPPORT
Hope called for. a review and re
study of the 1938 price iupport law
(Oawthmad « sage uni
and Qlenn Hooper Jr., of Lining
ton and the firm of Joyner afi
Howison and Garland Midyette of
Raleigh. I
Voluntary non-suits, taken late
yesterday in a pair of cross act
ions, ended a domestic tangle be
tween Durwood A. Young and'Jos
ephine Sanders Young over the
custody of their two minor child
ren.
Attorneys for Young, who was
seeking divorce from bed and board,
i said the well-known Angler man
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Legislature Today
Both homes convene at 12 noon.
Honae Judiciary 2 Committee
9:38 a. m.
Home Judiciary 1 Committee
18:88 a. m.
Home Education Committee
18:88 a. m.
Senate Judiciary 1 Committee
8:88 a. m.
Senate Conservation and Dev
elopment Committee 18 a. m.
Senate Committee on Counties,
Citleo and Towns 11 a. m.
Senate Public Utilities Com
mute 11 a. m.
Joint Appropriations Commu
te* 2:88 p. m.
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DUNN, N, C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 5, 1953
Asks Germany To Ratify Pact!
Assembly Hears
Hospital Pleas j
For More Money
RALEIGH (If) The General As
sembly’s Joint Appropriations Com
mittee braced itself today for pleas
frdm mental institutions for about
$4,000,000 more than was reeotn
menderd by the Advisory Budget
Commission.
Rep.esentatlves of the University
of North Carolina, North Carolina
State College and the Woman’s col
lege at Greensboro appeared before
the committee yesterday and asked
for $5 365.442 more .than was rec
ommended .
They urged that appropriations
for operations of the three units
plus the division of health affairs
at Chapel Hill be expanded by more
than $2,200,000 and stressed Use need
for "emergency” permanent im
provements making up the remain
der.
Officials suggested that in the
event lawmakers saw fit to approve
a bond issue to finance permanent
improvements for state institutions
the consolidated university would
need $6,616,000 to meet Its needs.
Rep. John W. Umstead of Orange
County, head .of the House Com
mittee on Mental Institutions, has
i indicated he will back requests from
those groups even though it should
mean new taxes.
ALL ASK MORE
The state hospital at Raleigh, for
instance, was recommended for
$6,069,515 bpt requested $8,083,639.
The hospital asked for
1 $6,386,575 for the biennium' and
was put down for $5,454,042, while
the hospital at Goldsboro wanted
S, 750,145 and was recommended
I $3,186,706.
’ TChe hearings will continue through
. the (next two weeks.
Meanwhile, Gov. William B. Um
. ’WriEd's legislative program appear
" -wrtirbe gatfterin&’ momentum with
the legislators apparently inclined
. to follow his suggestions,
r , His 1 request for a bill to re
. organzle the State Highway Ca*n
. mission came into both House and
i Senate yesterday.
Also introduced was a bill to
crack down on narcotics law viola
tions.
Its sponsor, Sen. George L. Hund
ley of Davidson, said it would pro
vide Jail sentences of up to 10 years
for narcotics violations. •
R. M. Hauss. executive director
of the Allied Church League, said
; that legislators Interested in intro
ducing a liquor referendum bill, arc
waiting to confer with Umstead be
fore taking any action.
Brooks Accepts
Sampson Pulpits
The Rev. J. W. Brooks, returned
, missionary from Africa and form
-1 er superintendent of the, Falcon
Orphanage, has accepted a call to
the pastorates of the Goshen and
St. Matthew Pentecostal Holiness
, churches in Sampson County.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks served for
many years on the mission field in
Africa and returned several years
ago. He served for several years
as superintendent of the orphanage
at Falcon and left to accept a pas
torate in Canada.
The minister is well known in
the Dunn-Falcon area and has a
great host of friends throughout
this section.
Harnett Coroner
Has Busv Month'
Harnett Coroner Grover C. Hen
derson had a busy time In Janu
ary.
He investigated a total of seven
cases. Among the seven were two
highway fatalities. 1 homicide, 1
suicide, and deaths of three per
sons who died without a physician
in attendance.
Coroner Henderson also conduc
ted one inquest during the month.
“for personal reasons.”
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SELLING DANCE TICKETS Jack Hexnmingw ay. ticket chairman for the Washington Birthday
Ball to L held at the Dunn Armory on Saturday night, is shown making a' sale to BUI Biggs as J. N.
Stephenson, and A. B. Johnson look on. Featuring R uss Olsen’s Orchestra ,the dance is sponsored by the
Denn Lions Club and the proceeds will be used for contemplated civic projects on schedule for this
, outstanding service club. (Dally Record Photo).
Wage (tatrols
To Be Scrapped
WASHINGTON <W V»-|
ges in all industries wiybe
decontrolled within the next
48 hours unless the White
House vetoes present plans
of government stabilization
officials it was learned to
day.
Informed sources said orders
also are in the works-agaln sub
ject to presidential approval - to
lift price ceilings by the end of
this week on cattle, all kinds of
meat, restaurant meals, household
textiles, children’s clothing and
numerous other department store
items. Most of them are now sell
ing weU below ceilings.
Price Stabilizer Joseph Freehlll
announced Wednesday that con
trols will be taken off meats at
all levels and a "number” of other
commodities this week, probably
Friday, in line with President Ei
senhower’s poUcy for an orderly
end to price-wage curbs by April'
30.
i Informed sources said the stabill
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School Clinics
Set For March
Pre-school clinics will be con
, ducted In Harnett Ccfunty in the
month of March for aU children
; who will be six years old before
next October and are planning to
enter the wibllc schools.
Purpose of the clinics is to give
the children a physical examination
before they start their school ca
reer 4nd to get them acquainted
with the setting-of the school and
with the teacher. Clinics are con
- ducted jointly under auspices of the
county health and education de
i pertinents.
> Parents will be asked to bring
birth certificates of their children
With them when they accompany
> the children to tile clinic.
During the first week of March
■ clinics will be held at Angler,
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Sea'Begins Retreat
Bom Dutch Low land
AMSTERDAM (W The sea
began to retreat from Holland’s
flooded lowlands today. But dan
ger still threatened.
Thousands or boats, planes and
Amphibious vehicles working to res
cue thousands of persons whose
lives were in peril In areas where
dikes were being further under
mined.
Revised figures gave a total Os j
1,770 persons .killed in the Hurri- I
cane-driven flood that hit the j
Netherlands, Great Britain, Bel
gium, Germany and France. ■
Judge FrizzeNe Says
B 8 Would Help Court
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle of Snow
. Hill said today that if the bill now
In the legislature proposing to in
crease the number of superior court
judges becomes law it will greatly
increase the efficiency of the courts.
The veteran jurist, who is pre-'
siding over a civil term in Lil
lington this week and next, pointed
out that certainly in this district
and in practically evety other in
Eastern North Carolina the “court
dockets are freighted with so many
cases it is not possible to clear
them.” ’ i
Outstanding Values Seen For Bargain DaysJ
Bargain Days gat off with a
bang in Dunn this morning and
the town was filled with shoppers
who are here taking advantage of
the sensational bargains being of
fered by Dunn stores.
The three-day shopping event will
continue through Saturday night
A fair-steed crowd was on hand
when stores opened this morning
and the size of the crowd was in
creasing throughout the day.
Chairman Dave Klmmel of the
Retail Merchants Committee made
a quick survey Just before noon
today and reported that buying was
‘There’s no question about it”
'll.
Bargain Days ■
Thursday 1
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
It was Hared thattne final totai
would be more than 2,600 after the
many persons missing were ac
counted for.
_ Latest death.toll figures were:
m'tiuaiiands 1,320, Great Britain
423, BelglSln 30, Oermany 7.
WATER FALLING ’
Water levels were falling on both
Isides of the North Sea; after a
i night of gales which threatened
] fresh disaster for the flooded areas
I of Holland and Britain.
But the retreating seas tore new
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“With this condition constantly
before him, the conscientious judge,”
Frizzelle said, “hesitates to take
the time he would like on many
cases. Anyone familiar with the
court dockets in Eastern North Car
- olina will agree this measure has
long been needed."
But Judge Frizzelle would not
venture any guess as to the bill’s
prospect of passing. He only cited
the fact that many people do not
realize that a Judge is called on
to hear motions, special pleadings
and many “extras” besides his reg
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ers of quick, efficient and court
eous service and several of the stores
said they had to call in still other
clerks.
There was some rear that short
age of money this year cut
down sales, but Chairman Kimmel
pointed out: "They’ve got the money
for the things they want to buy
and they’re buying up the bar
gains.”
Most of the town’s merchants
are participating and customers are
finding bargains on merchandise
NO."SS
Dulles Appeals |
For Speed Up On a
European Army 1
BONN, Germany (IB -Ml
| Secretary of State John Fos- 1
ter Dulles appealed urgently a
to the West German govern? a
ment today to ratify the 1
pact which will bring Ger- v|
man troops into a six-natioja j
European army.
Dulles said that the organization; H
of a powerful and united Western J
Europe will lead ultimately to the §1
peaceful unification of Germany it- ."1
self.
But Germany was unable to give
any specific pledges. The govern*
ment first must overcome the op- ''l
position of the powerful Socialist >1
party to rearmament In addition, 1
it will be at least another six weeks
to two months before the supreme <5
court in Karlsruhe gives a ruling
on whether rearmament is coiMti»
tutional at all.
One of Dullels conference# 1
today was with Socialist leaders. |§
His expression of hope that Ger- 5
many may be unified as pointed to- j
ward removing their opposition to %
rearmament.
Arriving here from London, ,i3s
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Mrs. Hockaday j
Paid Tribute
In Resolution : M
Lillington’s community
es the American War Mothers to- %
flay released resolutions of gppre- ’4
Ration drawn by the
Mothers, Mrs. Hockaday
her home as a regular mcMUgjH
place for the group for BH§*
years after the chapter was organ- J
The text of the resolution ■l/o'%
lows:
MARSH HOCKADAY
whereas Tout H
has called Lena Marsh Hockaday, 'i
one of our most beloved and UgeftH '' i m
Chapter members to be With Him;- JS
WHEREAS. We offer gratefb&Jl
thanks to our Lord for her co«UIN§»
cration. efficient and faithful ii§§9
vices: for her companionship
friendship which she shared so.;f|
generously with the members o§ our -l
Chapter, her Church, her entire a
communitv: therefore, be it
RESOLVED. That the LilHndMfH
Community Chapter American sijlag
Mothers memorialize her by #Mfsm|
ing to emulate her example in glr»sa
ing themselves more faithfully to m
Him whom she loved and to fiKgH
work to which she gave herself ailß
generously: and be It >,
RESOLVED. That her hosts opfi
friends who feel „uch a deep wnij
friend express to her family aaijgg
love and sympathy: and be It fui#i
RESOLVED, That a copy
resolutions be sent to the family;
to the two county papers, and tttwlfl
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There is plenty of
and will be plenty all three #39
Merchants have agreed to put oSS
new stock every day during tSUi
sale so that those who come mSk
won’t be disappointed."
STATE NEWS
sponsors of a bill In the lnillliffll
to make narcotics law
a felonv under state law. Sen. Wfi.