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SMITH HONORED BY INSURANCE COMPANY - Emmet* Urderwood, left, manager of the Ra
|hL' ,e, * h Dl,trM of **« New York Life Insurance Co. is shown here as he presented A. B. Smith, Jr, of
Dunn, general agent of the company ,a piacque ter leading all the agents of the Raleigh branch in
pata-for life Insurance daring 195*. Although Mr. Smith didn’t Join the company until late in February,
be l»d all tlie other agents and set an all-time record for the branch. In recognition of his achieve
ment, he lx receiving a free trip to St Petersburg, Fla. April IS-IMU to a company meeting. (Dally
Ktcord Fhoto.)
Army Moves To
r£id Segregation
WASHINGTON <W The Army,
prodded by President Elsenhower,
moved today to end racial segre
gation at schools on Army nosts.
The White House said that by
the fall term all schools operated
by the Army would be on a “com
pletely Integrated basis.” A spokes
man said the only ones now seg
regated whffll are financed entlfely
military officials are studying ways
to end segregation in mgdte qt>-
erated by states on Aniyihstol-
The President sent a memoran
dum to Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson saying that if
segregation is not ended in state
operated schools - on federally
owned property “other arrange
ments. ..will be considered.”
m Ffresidential press secretary
w James C. Hagerty said that one
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Erwin PTA To
Sponsor Show
Plans for an entertainment by
a group of entertainers from Cen
tral Prison in Raleigh, sponsored
w ' by the Erwin Parent-Teachers As
sociation, were announced last night
at a meeting of the PTA by Presi
dent I. W. Whittington.
The date set for the program is
May A Proceeds of the entertain
ment will be used for PTA projects.
The talented prisoners have been
putting on similar programs
throughout the state.
The group was given an idea of
y the visual education program at the
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9 Divorce Cases
35 Others Slated
Nine divorce oases and 85 other
litigations are scheduled for trial
at the two-weeks civil session of
Harnett Superior Court which will
convene on Monday. March 80.
The calendar was released. today
byaupertbr Court Clerk Robert
AfTtiw Aivorce aiong T.ith
Hester AppointedT o
VA Advisory Group
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Paul Hester of pusin. State Com
mander of the Amvets, was appoin
ted to represent that Otfanisation
as a member of the Yeteranf Ad
ministration Voluntary Service "Ad
vistory Committee, it was announ
ced today.
The firsb meeting of the group
wUI be held at the new hospital
in Durhani ph MarchM’at 1:00
P. m. and will be primarily con
cerned with the opening of the
new hospital.' scheduled tpr April
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The dedk&ttop Os this latest ad
, dltion to the veteran teahttallsa
tion program in state will be
conducted , by Oqil R. Gray, Jr..
Administrator of Veteran Affairs.
Hester, who has beep in AM
VBTB Sir-c* I MB, has been » lad
ing figure in all Os the organisa
tions activities in the state. He was
Host Commander of Durham Post
r Number 13. arid organised the Dunn
; Post when be came has* in Jacu
tCvattmmd »n paer two)
Following is a list of those seek
ing a divorce:
Mamie Byrd Stewart from James
Biward Stewart; Pearl W. Ryals
from Harold Ryals; Tsmmy O. Ar
nold from Bonnie Carolyn Arnold;
Durwood A.. Young from VTgt'nr
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DUNN, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1953
Bar Newsmen At
Meeting Held To
Discuss Budget
RALEIGH (IP) The Gen
eral Assembly’s Joint Ap- .
propriations subcommittee, '
which must pass on items
making up the state’s mam
moth proposed budget, was
indefinitely adjourned today
after being faced with re
fusal by 12 newsmen to leave
the group’s secret sessions.
Co-Chairman Carl Venters of On
slow County said he would get the
committee together today and find
out when they desire to meet
again.
Newsmen Refused to leave yes
terday. afternoon when the com
mittee voted to go -into executive
session. The subcommittee adjour
ned for a night meeting but at that
one the number of reporters on
hand was doubled and the group
promptly adjourned again.
“Personally, I will have to be
carried out,” said Lynn Nisbet of
the Association of Afternoon Dail
ies when the subcommittee tried to
exclude reporters. \
"You are carrying on the affairs
of the people of North Carolina.
We have an obligation to the people
whose money you are spending,” he
said.
He was joined by Woodrow Price
of the Raleigh News and Observer
who added that “I just think I’m
going to have O be carried out if
you insist on your move.”
Sen. Hamilton Hobgood of Frank
lin responded that “I don’t feel
like carrying anybody out. I’ve got
a cold. Can’t we just go on and
proceed?”
OPPOSES SECRECY
Rep. John Umstead, of Orange,
brother of the governor, also op- -
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Asklegistaturr
To Unmask Klan
RALEIGH (W A Wan-fighting
prosecutor asked today that the
legislature unmask the Ku Klux
Klan and bring all similar organi
sations into the open to prevent 1
secret terrorism and violence moti
vated either by malice or by mis- .
taken good intentions.
Solicitor Clifton L. Moore of Bur
gaw. who headed the prosecution
which convicted klansmen in more
than 80 cases of terrorism in Col
umbus County last year, was the
principal witness supporting the an
ti-klan bill.
As written, the measure elso
would bring the Communist party
in North Carolina into the open.
Authors of the measure said it
has been revised to remove objec
tions raised by the Masonic order,
American Legion and other frater
nal groups and societies.
They emphasised that the bill
would not- make a secret society
"unlawful as such” but is aimed
only at those groups organized- to
circumvent the law.
It would outlaw wearing of masks
to conceal identity, prohibit cross
burnings or other intimidating dem
onstrations, and would require that
the meeting place, purposes and of
ficers of such societies be made
known.
It would give the Council of
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♦MARKETS*
HOGS
RALEIGH (VI Hog markets:
Rocky Mount, Fayetteville, Flor
ence: Steady at 19.50 for good and
choice 180-340 lb. barrows and gilts.
Siler City, Tarboro, Smithfield,
Clinton, Rich Square: 35 cents
higher at 19.50.
Mount Olive, Dunn. Goldsboro,.
Wilson, WUmlngtr/i, Washington,
New Bern, Jacksonville, Kinston,
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BULLETINS
LONDON (Ift One of today's visitors to Bucking*
ham Palace was to be Winthrop Aldrich, newly appointed
American ambassador to England, who will convey to the
royal family the “deep personal* sympathy” of President
Eisenhower for the death of dowager Queen Mary. “Queen
Mary was a good and great queen,” Mr. Eisenhower’s mes
sage said. “Free peoples the world over will mourn her loss.’
WASHINGTON (IP> - Dairy state congressmen cheered
Agrhjtfltnre Secretary Ena T. Benson today for slapping
embargoes on imports of dried whole milk, dried butter
milk, and dried cream. Rep. August U. Anderson ft-Mism.,
said the action should have been taken “long ago’Mby the
Democrats. '
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B. AND J. OFFICIALS - Pictured here are tw* offleWs of
Benjamin nod Johne*. Inc., one es the ■nDsn’ls jhat-known man
ufacturers of ladies’ foundation garments, wWMi is now esteb-
Uahlnr a plant in Dunn. At the Mt W 8m Toffee, president of
the company and «4 thg tight is ttten YMbiSHii. treesnrjg. The ,
- Picture was made eereral weeks ago when they came It Dunn to
inopeet the site 9ow4hHr plant. Boeord Photo.)
wow immtivgm
At Spivey’s Comer
Dr. Wm. Howard Carter, Presi
dent of the William Carter Bible
College, Goldsboro, and Head Camp
officer of the Woodmen of the
.World, and Hiram Melvin, Junior
Past Head Consul of the Woodmen
of North Carolina, will be the vis
iting fraternal dignitaries of the
Spivey’s Corner Woodmen at the
World annual Ladies’ Night dinner
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Dyer Bound Over In Stolen
Goods Case; Others Cleared
Five of six Dunn defendants
charged with conspiracy and re
ceiving stolen merchandise were ac
quitted at a preliminary hearing
held last night before Mayor Scott
Berkley in Goldsboro.
The sixth defendant, Donald
Dyer, local taxi operator, was bound
over to Wayne Superior Court un
der $2,000 bond on chargee of re
ceiving stolen good#, Dyer was ab
solved on the conspiracy charge.
Acquitted at the hearing last
night were: Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Warren, operator of Warren’s Grill;
Willis Gray, operator of Gray’s Grill
between Dunn and Erwin; Ted
Grav, service station operator; and
B O. Porter, local restaurant oper
ator.
Mayor Barklev uooeld the con
tention of their defense counsel
that the State had felled to make
out a case against them showing
conspiracy. -
None 0 < the six defendants took
the witness stand, but relied up
on the weakness of the Mate’s ease.
The defendants were arrested
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
meeting Friday night, March 27.
at 7 o’clock in the Shady Grove
Community building,- it was: an
nounced today by Bratson Jackson,
official of the Spiveys Corner Camp
and N. C. Head Camp Auditor.
The two Woodmen officials .are
expected to arrive in, the conv
munity in the late afternoon for
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here on. March 11 by SBI agents
and Goldsboro detectives after 3
employees of Colonial Stores at
Goldsboro reportedly admitted steal
tag the merchandise and selling !t
to them.
Detective Chief A. F; Garter es
Goldsboro testified and told of his
investigation. He said the merchan-
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Machinery Is Being\
Unloaded Here Now
Benjamin and Johnes, Inc. of Newark, New Jersey, 'i|
one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of ladies’ foun-
datipn garments, today w’as unloading machinery and e- ...
quipment in Dunn for establishment of its fifth large L \
plant.
The company manufactures the
famous line of Bien Jolie founda
tion garments.
Official announcement that the
town is getting this new industry
was made Jointly today by Presi
dent Henry H. of the
Chamber of Commerce and Clar
ence E. McLamb. chairman of the
chamber's industrial, committee.
Arrival of the equipment late yes
terday afternoon —whffch definite
ly assured Dunn of a thriving new
industry which will employ more
than 300 people—climaxes about
three months of hard work and ne
gotiations on the part of the cham
ber and officials of the company.
Dunn was selected as the site
earlier this year when S. Yaffee,
president of the company, and Mil
es Friedman, treasurer of the com
pany, personally visited Dunn.
They were scheduled to inspect
several other sites, but liked Dunn
so well that they called off the
other visits.
Benjamin and Johnes manufact
ures corsettefs. girdles, brassieres
and other ladies' foundation gar
ments. ,
Its home plant is located at 42
Warren, Newark, New Jersey and
its selling and buying offices are lo
cated at 159 Madison Avenue in
New York,
Other plants are located in New
ark, Dow York state and two in
Scranteß, Pa.
Delay In announcing Dunn as the
site was due to lengthy negotiations
over teaspankry quarters and other
“Ttds is the day kre’ve been wait
ing Iw,” declared Chairman Mc
> Lamb today in making the an-.
neunoanaeat. “WfSater thlg Is just
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still more Industries and wql-e go
ing after them.”
IN BAER BUILDING
y Temporary quarters of \ the com
pany Will be. located in the Baer
building on South Clinton’ Avenue.
Later, a modem new building will
- be erected. The permanent build
-1 lpg will have’ about 20,000 square
feet of floor space and will be air
- conditioned and completely modem
1 in .every respeet.
In order to provide quarters for
: the hew industry, two business
firms, Thomas and Warren’ Furnl
; tUre Go. and Dunn Wholesale Gro
cery moved to new locations.' Chair
dise was stolen from the store by
Elmo Keen, assistant manager of
the store, Billy Matthews, manager
of the -produoe department and
Harold Cash well, a store employee.
He said they had confessed the
crime and that Cash well had con
fessed selling the merchandise to
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THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
man McLamb expressed gratitude to
these two firms for their splendid , :
spirit of cooperation.
He also expressed appreciation to J
O. W. Godwin, Dunn contractor,' ’
for providing a new building. for
the wholesale firm.
At the beginning, the firm will /
employ only about 125 people but $
will employ over 300 when full
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Britons Mourn 1
Dowager Queen |
Mary’s Death
LONDON API Britain
went into mourning for the iv
dewager Queen Mary tbday M
but Queen Elizabeth, grief- I
stricken at the loss of her
grandmother, went ahead i
with plans for her own cor-.'-JS
onation on June 2.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill ta
led the young sovereign’s subject*-
in their mourning for Queen Mgtar.-.Sjg
"She looked a queen,” ChurcMljß
said in eulogizing Mary in
House of Commons. “She acted": a
queen. Her death leaves a void in :> -
our hearts and in the life of the '
nation— a void it will be hard 'to' “
The gallant old queen, to wbqftl .'.ki
ftbe responsibilities of royalty
ways came first, had made kxifyn S
in which she slowly grew weaker ;
in M Marlborough
House. She died at d0:20 p. m. <st2o J
p. m. KST) yesterday.
Queen Elizabeth consulted oiTic- I
ials of her court today on funefal |
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Music Group To 1
Seek Members
Fayetteville Civic Music As- .
This is a non-profit, cooperatihwtM
organization which will bring to .
Eastern Carolina excellent concerts -.j
by artists and musical’ -"irrnlijjifj
tions of national and internatiHHfl
reputation. Admission to these con- i
certs is by membership card only,
the association by paying the amount 2?
membership week. After SaturtS^3
are accepted for Hie year. No tick- i
son will be selected and announced
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