Newspapers / The Daily Record (Dunn, … / Feb. 17, 1953, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Daily Record (Dunn, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
+WEATHER+ Fair and colder. Much colder to night. Wednesday fair and ooKL With “Prestone” Anti-Freeze Tou’re eat. you’re safe, you’re sura VOLUMN3 -jg. SMI « B B B A I a MHMMBPMI'i r * Teachers Hear Miss Montague Miss Palsy Montague, In a talk taade last week to elementary teach ers in Dunn and Coats, said "There must be a genuine determination on the' pan of all teachers to do a a better Job.” Miss Montague, who is assistant educatl ;nal supervisor in the State Department of Public Instruction’s division of instructional services, spoke to teachers from Dunn, Maple Grove and Mary Stewart scohols on Thursday. She visited Coats on ' Friday. '. , Miss Montague was in the county to accreditation ,ar.d school teach^ list in evaluating schools. ,“We all need yearly self-evalu afion, improvement in the practice or human relationships and more cooperation within our schools,” she said. *■ “What goes on in a class room,” she said, “is the most important thing that happens at school as far as rating a school is concerned." She challenged teachers constantly •Jg to improve the caliber of the ln (Continueri On Pare Three) Two Accidents Are Reported Two minor accidents with heavy damages, were reported happening wj| Friday afternoon and Friday night by Patrolman David Matthews of the State Highway Patrol. The first accident happened a round 3:30 Friday afternoon on Highway * 301, south of the city. * Three cars were involved in the ' crash. . ; They were a Dodge operated by Mrs. H. O. Harris, 29 year old school teacher pf Benson, a ’SO Buick operated by Eugene Weln traub of New York and a ’47 Ply (W) mouth operated by Carnell H. Johnson of Route one, Benson. All three vehicles were goirtg South on 301 when the head car (Continued On Page Four) : ;f|J| ■ill TELEPHONES: 3117 • Sllß • 8119 / r _ 1 ■ "I 1 . •■■■ City Attorney Has Proposal On Juries City Attorney I. R. Williams has . offered a new proposal for clarl-1 fying the law on holding jury trials In the Dunn Recorder's court. The issue has been storming here .ever since last summer when city Judge H. Paul Strickland, declar ing the law is not clear, refused to allow Jury trials. Later, the judge Hodges Is Speaker At LHlington ~€tatr Brandon Hodges of Raleigh, state treasurer, in ail. address bust night to the and Professional Women’sHlub advised Harnett County cittMns to “mix manufacturing with your farming economy in such away as not to harm agriculture.” V, For a number of Hears, Hodges has been an unofficial liaison man for the State of Nortfif CurcHna in attracting big industries to the' state and has had wide experience in this field in his horhe town of Asheville and other parts of West ern Carolina. Approximately », MBtagton bus — ; («W,y ;IjC Mrs. Pridgen Has Charge Os Service The Worltfjpey of Prayer Service will be observed Friday afternoon at four o'clock in Dunn at the First Presbyterian Church it was announ ced today by Mrs. B. C. Pridgen. Hie day will be observed in co operation with the General Depart ment of United Church women of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.B.A. World Day of Prayer is observed in conneotlon with the first Friday in Lent. Theme for this year is “Walk As Children of Light’’—Eph esians 5:8. The public is cordially invited to attend this service. ' '■ i ini.,, -■■■■. She Jlecnrd : rescinded his action. I Attorney Williams made it clear todav that he favors jury trials, but agreed that something probab ly ought to be done about the pro cedure for drawing jurors. COMING BEFORE COUNCIL Meanwhile, Mayor Ralph E. (Continued on page two) iness men and women joined the clubjgroup for the discussion. mi« Adelaide Shaw, club president, pre “d# and Miss Lids Byrd, club ne jp service chairman, introduced thfspjjilpr. An open forum foll- Bpeakiag without benefit of notes. ; ',gHodjws painted a compre hensive state’s pre r sent ststd, jry. He pointed (Continued ' - « nage two) Last Minute News Shorts WASHINGTON (If) Atty. Gem. Herbert Brownell Jr. told a House committee today that the admin . (stration will not be prepared until next week to commit itself on tide lands legislation. - , NEW YORK (IB Former army Sgt. John David Proveo was sen tenced te life imprisonment today for treason while he waa a prison er of war undo* the Japanese. Fed eral Judge Gregory Noonan passed sentence on the 35-year-old San Francisco native. A federal Jury last Wednesday found Provoo guilty of four overt acts of treason. (Continued on page two) DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 President Talks To Newsmen President Says Policy On Farm Supports Sound WASHINGTON OP) Pre sident Eisenhowef today dis claimed Republican respon sibility for falling farm pri ces and said lifting of con trols would help solve the problem. The now Republican President, in his first news conference, re newed his campaign pledge to sees a prosperous agriculture with free and independent farmers. He pledged that every step his administration takes in regard to farm problems, would be on that basis—freedom of farmers from any stifling government controls. • Tackling the subject of falling farm prices as the first item of his news conference, Mr. Eisen hower said the whole farm problem is serious but the question of fallng beef prices is one of immediate concern. i He rejected the idea that the problem was a creation of the new Republican administration. He said beef prices have been falling for two years. He described the farm .problem and a lot of others facing the ad ministration as inherited problems. He said the Republicans have had little time to do anything more than study them. BEEF PRICES OFF Mr. Eisenhower said beef prices of more than $43 per hundred pounds in January, 1952.. had drop ped to s3l in November of that year and continued to fall until (Continued On Page two) Bili Introduced - To Free Firemen Harnett Representative Carson Gregory last night introduced a bill in the General Assembly which would, exempt members of Dunn's volunteer fire department from jury duty. The bill was referred to the Judiciary committee. Quick ap proval is expected. Mayor Ralph Hanna, who is also fire chief, requested the bill. He pointed out that the department has only 24 members and that all are needed in the event of a serious fire. !rt Upholds rs Blackout YORK (IB A State Su- Court justice today upheld Gerteral Sessions Judge Francis J. Vafente’s order excluding the press aid public from the Minot F. Jelke v(«e trial. injustice Benjamin F. Schreiber de lad the petitions of two news ser vices, a news syndicate, and five New York newspapers to overrule Valente’s order excluding the press and public from the compulsory prostitution trial for the duration of the state’s case. Justice Schreiber ruled that Val ente's order violated no statutory or constitutional right of the news ser vices and newspapers and added that “the order was one which he had the power to make.” Justice Schreiber said the only question before him rar determin ation was whether the trial court had the power to make the exclus ion order. He said papers submitted by the district attorrev. representing Judce Vplente. established that Valente’s i cpectstion that trial testimony (CspHnoml on page two) BULLETINS app<« camps during World*War] motionTfor - -3»— PLANNING GOLF ACTIVITIES Pictured here are some of the officials and committee chairmen of Chicora Country Club who met last night at Johnson’s Restaurant to plan for the spring and summer seasons. Left to right are, seated, Earl McD. Westbrook, Bill Mile,. Dr. Charlie Byrd and Willard Mixon; Handing, Johnnie Purdle, President Guyton Smith, Golf Pro Hal Jernigan- John Dalrymple Frank Belote, Secretary-treasurer Earl Jones, and E. W. Smith. (Dally Record Photo). 1 _____ Tourneys Planned At Chicora Officers, directors and commit tees of the Chicora Country Club, at a dinner meeting held here last night at Johnson’s Restaurant, heard reports of progress and ap proved a list of projects for the spring and summer seasons. , presided in the, General Lee Room, and at teiKled by a large group of men and women golf enthusiasts. Hie Chicora Country Club was organized here just a year ago and members are now enjoying one of the finest nine-hole golf courses in the State. The course was built at a cost of over $30,000. Plans are now underway for the construction of a modern club building. This project, however, is still In the planning stages. The board of directors last night, enthusiastically approved a list ts tournaments and special events proposed by Chairman James Snipes of the Tournament and Publicity Committee. TOURNAMENTS SLATED These plans call for a spring handicap tournament in April for club members; a dub Get-Together in July, a Championship Tourna ment jn September, and a number of other events to be announced later. Committee chairmen who re ported last night Included: Mr. Snipes, Bill Miley. chairman of the greens committee; Henry Sand lin, chairman of the building eom (Continued on page tws) Apply Now For Street Paving Residents of Dunn who are living on unpaved streets may apply for paving at ony time during the next two weeks it was announced today by City Manager A. B. Uzsle, Jr. Guy Towne, representative of the F. D. Cline Paving Company, will be at the Cottondale Hotel from tomorrow on through the next* two weeks, and the paving will be start ed within the two week period. Mr. ■ Uzzie said that any residents, desiring paving, should get in touch either .with him or with this rep- Erwin Pastor Accepts WesternHarnettGaU The Rev. R. M. Phillips of Er win recently accepted the call to serve the Presbyterian churches of Summerville, Cape Fear and Ce dar Rock. Summerville, one of tte most his toric churches in Eastern North Carolina, is three miles West Os Lillington on the Sanford highway. Cedar Rock is located on the River Road four miles West of Lillington. Cape Fear church stands around two miles North of the county seat on the highway to Angler. The Rev. and Mrs. Phillips will make their home in Lillington in Amvet Leader Asks For Public Hearing Paul Hester- of Dunn, State com mander of North Carolina AMVETS, today called on each post in the State to send a spokesman to the public hearing to be held by the General Assembly on February 26th on the propceed Veterans’ Bonus BUI. ’ At the same time. Commander Hester gave assurance that there would tie no Veterans March such as the one which took place during the last General Assembly. “We do not believe." declared Commander Hester, “that such a mass demonstration is necessary. We have carried the issue to vet erans and other citizens across the State and more and more of them now feel that they are entitled to a vote.” ORDERLY AND DIGNIFIED Commander Hester said the pre sentation by the AMVETS and other veterans’ group*, before the General Assembly would be an orderly and dignified affair. “After. aU." he, said, “we aren’t mad at anybody. We have no axe to grind. All we want is for the peo ple of North Carolina to have the right to vote on this or on any other public issue.” RAUHGH Ml _ Ho* markets- FIVE CENTS PER COPY the new J. C. Hobbs apartment. Officials of the three churches who have been without regular pas tors for some time said they were delighted with the prospects Qf hav ing the services of a regular min ister. Cedar Rock has been without a. preacher since the Rev. T. A. Gui ton resigned in October, 1051. Sum merville, reorganized four years ago after being discontinued for a num ber of years, has had no regular pastor since that time. All three churches have been ser ved by students from Presbyterian theological seminaries. Mr. Hester, who is scheduled to lead off the parade of speakers favoring a referendum, reminded today that the AMVETS have not at any time gone on record as fav oring the payment of a bonus, such as has been paid by other States. He pointed out that the organ ization has a mandate from the 1951 AMVETS State convention favoring a referendum. “But,” reminded Commander) Hester, “We are not trying to tell anybody ho* they should vote. We believe in the right of free expres sion and thihk that the citizens of North Carolina are just as en (Continued on gage two) DunnPharmacyNow 1 Rexall Drug Stc C. O. Warren, owner of Dunn H Pharmacy, announced today that he has been granted a Rexa!l Drug)] Company franchise which entities'] him to sell Rexall products in Dunn, j THE RECORD GETS RESULTS Declares Reds -ij Have Supply Os 1 Atomic Weapons 1 By MERRIMAN SMITH ' I United Press White Housed WASHINGTON (IP) Pre- 1 sident Eisenhower said to- | day that it is absolutely true ’ that Russia has the atom j He also told his first news con ference that he is definitely op-, i posed to cutting taxes until the budget is balanced. The President's first meeting with || Wash inton reporters attracted art il overflow crowd. Calmly, deliberat ely, he discussed four major sub-C t; jecis- farm prices, taxes, price con- J| trols and tne atom bpmb—and them flirew’ the meeting open for ques-ftjj tions. * » He reassured American of his administration's b kt-ei- amie.iiltural prices a.' possible He promised by the present price umil December, 1954, when|»Mm| 1)1 ts. meantime studying pI(H the best possible substitute. 1 'V'JH His statement on Russian ion of the atom bomb was ■«. suit of an interview in President Truman expresse<^^ ! sg&fl that the Soviet Union had th*B-.T“ f'i’j Mr. Eisenhower prefaced remarks by reading briefly Hj.*•s*•« recent statement by k 4 >’{l chairman of the Atomic Commission. Dean in this said that the USSR had produced i fissionable materials in quantity and yll that it was a simple step once the*4’’’l materials were produced to make k fj bomb. Dean flatly that Russia S had exploded three bombs and there 'was no doubt that the Soviet ricn possessed a supply of MtMMHH of evidence at his command leiKliagJ lo agree with Dean and that 1 far as he was concerned, toe chairman’s statement was absoluttffy | lContinued On Page tWOI ’if Way Clear For 1 Budget Message! RALEIGH apt The Joint Ap propriations Committee cleared toe-li! way today for consideration Os Goy, Ji| sage as other parts of UmatMrijilH legislative program continued hh|M smoothly through the General A&SM sembly. I Senate Finance Chairman Larkins of Trenton said the Jd(9M|9 Appropriations Committee “hopes tfcjSg conclude its hearings” at S p.m.' .|| today from heads of state agctwtgEM who feel their departments are mg short-changed in the budget re commendations. '.-’jp* ’I Meanwhile. Sens. Adam J. VfhiQitggm good of Louisburg introduced other in their series of htgMMH The latest one. backed by the | vovemor would set ud a program of drivers' training and safety edu cation in the state’s public achCojig The Education Department would | eet an annual $33«.720 to administer it. Board if Education to apporti<M&j nel necessary to organize and^jJJHj NO. 50
The Daily Record (Dunn, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 17, 1953, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75