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; ~. i ... w tii iltomnL Partly cloody and mod tonight and Wednesday, fal lowed by showers in west pertlen TOLUMN B mwffiM .- -HHMnj * * / »gp HAMS STAGE DEMONSTRATION CONTACT The newly formed Radio Amateur Chib staged a demonstration at Its last meeting with Lyn Williams using his set to club secretary Charlie Hildreth §_tor a two-way conversation. Shown gathered around Williams’ set are, left to right; RusseU Basesford, Carr, Tommy Wood, Williams, station W4WDN, John R. Jenkins,-president Ted Burwell, station wd Bib Wells. Hildreth left a few minutes before the picture was taken to carry on his part of the teat over his station, W4PEQ. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn). , Ten To Attend \ Legion Meeting ■ >Ten members of the Dunn Post of the Dunn Post of the American .Jjpglon will attend the annual "Go- Oetters" Banquet to be held at Breece Landing tonight. It was Reported today by Kle Hudson, ■embesahtn chairman - ifithe Go-Getters is dr halted to Legionnaires who have T Brought In ten or more members firing the past calendar year, prior to January of this year. ,At the meeting tonight, posts from all districts of the Second Division wnl be represented, and the speaker!; for the event will be officials of state and national prom loe*d°* attend from the Taa- Is in the midst (Coattnnad on page tsrei Add Newcomer To Theatre Staff ,1 Jbhn (Mick) Sttingfe'loW of ' Chester, 8. C. has joined the staff of Stewart-Kyerette Enterprise in Bunn, it was announced today by James Yates, manager of Dunn'S three theatres, t - - >; . Mr. BtrlngfdkMr has just join ed the Stewart-Bverette chain and is here to. receive training in the company’s operating procedures. He’s a native of .Chester, gradu ated from Chester High School and the University of South Carolina. t#Re Jfas connected wfth theatres “la Charleston and Chester, 8. C. and Concord, N. 0. before joining the local organisation. Mr. StringfeUow married the for mer Miss Bars' James of Chester fleW, 8. C. They have one son, J«hn Mixon StringfeUow, in Mr. StringfeUow is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, the VEW aijd the National Exchange Chib. have been go- Wfe to the polls today id uhusuallv BN Humbrrs and officials, predict Wt more than 900 of the town’* ISO registered voters will cast -their Wot before the polls close. Sf’hrce candidate, for Mayor, two gAW whom have held this office be- Jthe the top y J. R Barefootjaxe opposed by Wty Job. opposition with the tour incumbents seeking 1 - EE A ' E% a ♦~d ~ 4 in SHi I i W Aitr p am - si is - 8119 Dr. Carroll Will Address NCEAHere Dr. Charles CarroU of Raleigh, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will deliver the address at the annual banquet of the Har nett County chapter of the North Carolina Education Association Friday night at 7 o’clock In the Dunn High School Cafeteria. Plans for the annual event were announced today by Jeff Denny of Dunn, president of the county or ganisation, who will preside. This will be Dr. Carroll's first appearance In Harnett since he titfiooion ~lto/e/5L_ Namel 4 Candidates LilUngtop voters, preparing to -i hold a town election on May 4, to day Were offered a choice of tour candidates for mayor and ten men from which to choose a five mem ber town council. All were nominated from the floor last night at the courthouse In the biennial convention which attracted around 40 voters. Candidates for mayor include; Joel Layton, Jr.„ Dewey Johnson, J3hn Womble, and Casey S. fowler. Board members will be chosen from the following list: E. R. Davis, Sidney G. Howell, W. H. (Billy) Byrd, O. M. Norwood, Jr., Mere dlth S. Sen ter, Selwyn O’Quinn, Duncan Ray, Fred Holloway and Grady Johnson. Billy Byrd and Johnson, both absent, were the only two members of the present town board to be renominated. Large number of candidates promises a sprightly pre-election campaign. If the mass meeting is 1 any indication, good humor' wUI 1 prevail. - ' LOVING DECLINES Mayor C. 8. Loving, county seat’s long term mayor, who declined to 1 serve, opened the meeting. Hender son Steele Was named chalrnian, and Frank Steele in turn served at secretary. Tint candidate nominated was Joel Layton, Jr., whose name was -placed th nomination by R. S. Tay lor. Then Walter Lee Johnson Angier Lions Club To Be Re-Activated mm , ■ gM ,= . - jL ; L 1 Tfi’Bfl Cata PiiTb IV VC vVIV villa riiiillir'issiiliiii to th* must wmrysier corporation vehicles has been- very favorable reports Dewey Whlttenton, -head of W, De Soto riymoutn dealership. was appointed to the office last year. He will be introduced by County Superintendent Glenn T. Proffitt Installation of new officers will take place during tne year. Torrev Johnson, principal of the Buie’s Creek school, wiH take over suc ceeding Denny. There will be special entertain ment for the banquet. Principal A. B. Johnson and members of the Dunn school faculty will serve a* hosts. * claiming the town “needs a Mg man as mayor” nominating “my neighbor Charlie Loving.” The name of H. H. Hamilton, school principal and present town clerk, was also placed in nomination. Withdrawals started, with Loving and Hamilton firmly declining. Johnson suggested withdrawing, but Walter Lee Johnson who had nom inated him said, “We don’t want a mayor who wants the Job. That’s the best reason to keep you on” and Johnson let his name stand. Chairman Steele called for nom inations to replace the withdrawals. John Womble in turn nominated Casey 8. Fowler, who was absent; and S. G. Howell nominated John Womble. With that, the cry came to close the nominations. Only discussion of ti£ night came over whether with drawals could be made or not. Howell made a motion that candidates not will ing to serve withdraw on the spot so the convention could name others in their places, tfac Norwood offered an amendment specifying that candidates, not present, could have one week to withdraw. The amended motion carried. Names withdrawn' Nominees for counollmen who withdrew after being nominated were Frank Lewis, (me time mem ber of the board and Paul Phelps, present member. Both argued they had served the. v terms and it was 'rmitlmml on page two Friday night the Angler Lions Club will be re-activated and re ceive a new charter at a banquet to be held in the Angier Hign School cafeterlan at 7:30 p. m, Waite Howard, member of the Dunn Lions Club wtjl be Master of Cere monies. The overall program will be under the direction of the Godwin Uons dub, sponsor of the Angier club DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 7, 1953 Red Concessions Speed Parley 1 Merciful Death Cones To Youth Found Starving WASHINGTON (ffl Mer ciful death came to 16-year old Eddie Murphy today af ter years of slow starvation. The last spark of life flickered out of his shriveled 44-pound body just three days after his destitute grandmother took Eddie to a hos pital because “it looked like he was going to die.” During those three days, Eddie never had it so good—real nourish ment. a nice clean bed and clean white sheets, and the best of medi cal care from doctors who used all their scientific ability to pull Ed die through. But this morning, he died sud denly. ; “He just didn’t .have enough re serve powtt -to keep going,” hos pital Supt. Philip A. E. Stubbing said. The coroner’s office asked police to make a routine investigation of the circumstances which, over a period of years, led to Eddie’s death. Eddie starved silently almost in the shadow of the Capitol, not far from the White House. It was only when “it looked like he was going to die” that his grandmother, Mrs. Ora Murphy, took him to Gallinger Hospital and the city suddenly became aware of the squalor and misery in the tall frame house on I Street SE. WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT • “You wouldn’t believe it was Washington, a police woman said. Eleven persons—Murphys and re latives—were sleeping In four beds. The outside toilet was clogged. The kitchen was Uttered with Junk. The main pieces of furniture were a dirty davenport and rocker. ”1 never aaked nobody tor no hslp,”?Mrs. Murphy said. “I dene the mt i could. : ~ She tried to'makoertd* meet with w ApO” monthly pension, $35 of which went for rent. Eddie is only four feet four in ches tall and has suffered with convulsions since birth. He never was able to stand for more than 30 minutes at a time. “I tried to tend Eddie as best I could since his mother JuUa up and went off to Philadelphia,” Mrs. Murphy said. “I wrote her that Ed (Continued On rage Six) STATE NEWS BRIEFS CHARLOTTE, N. C. (IF) Lonzo H. Ramage, magazine route chief fo|r Keystone Reader Service of Jackson, Miss., goes on trial here In federal court tomorrow on charg es of beating a crippled salesman and holding him in virtual slavery. Ramage, indicted by a federal grand jury at Statesville, N. C., March 18, is charged with forcing sqlqaman William E. Brown, 19, of Columbia, IS. C, to “remain In his employment . . . under threats of 6f violence anti personal a^tse.” CHARLOTTE <W—Pickets march ed before the Oakhurst plant of Hudson hosiery mills here today but management said it had no idea what the strike was all about. Some 225 workers left their machines yes terday and set up picket Urns. Fritz Seifert, president of the firm, said he had received no notification of demand! and “we don’t know what it’s all about.” SHELBY OFI Three Black Mountain Negroes, a girl and two men were killed when their car plunged down an embankment just west of Smoky Run bridge near here yesterday. Highway patrolman D. L. Owens said the three were attempting to pass another car on U. S. 74 wnen their automobile went out of control and skidded down the embankment, striking a telephone pole. BULLETINS confessed five staying*, came year-old since they met briefly ■■ ————*m—^m*mmm—mmmmmm WASHINGTON W> The AFL and CIO. giant rivals . « , I _ .>• t;, ~, " I V . '?•* I f m l B immmm (fry m » fCNI Jh § jj uL' Yg WK NEW JAYtEE OFFICERS Shown are the officer* elected to serve for the coming year by the Dunn r °ir- i'T e . rC<!^t* the i-v. r T ,, t r »•*«>*. President-elect TUy Lowe is shown atandirg. Seated are, left to right; Bob Leak, secretary-elect and state director; Worthy Vannoy, 2nd and Hubert P«»y, flrrtvlee presldent-elert. The new officers will be installed In Mmj. Bill Biggs is retiring as president after serving two successful terms. (Daily Record Photo). Assembly Works At Own Expense RALEIGH OS North Caro lina’s lawmakers Wait to work to day at their own expense after learning last night they had been cut oft at the pockets. Members of the General Aesam that from now ott “there's no mow ■money for you.” Prior to Dougfitoh's announce ment clearing up the law, some legislators believed they would be paid for 90 legislative days, but Dough ton said thd law is passed on a seven-day, calendar week. Today Is the 78th legislative day of the current session. Only 85 legislators showed up for the House session last night as others apparently continued a long weekend. The Senate made good progress, passing 18 of the 13 bills on lta calendar and then twiddled ita thumbs waiting for the House to send It something to work on. By voice vote and with only a few loud “no’s”, the lower cham ber passed and sent to the Senate a hotly-disputed bQI to put tighter regulations around the sale of dy namite. NO OPPOSITION Rep. Joe Fowler Jr., Burry coun ty, overcame all opposition for bis (Continued an gag* two) Maxwell Speaks At Revival Here The Rev. Forrest Maxwell, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Erwin, Is conducting revival ser vices this week at the Branch Sun day School on North Clinton Ave nue. ? A capacity crowd was present for the opening sermon on Sunday night and a large crowd was on hand again last night. Bill Cobb and Leek Coats, head of the church group, said today they were well pleased with the success of the evangelistic services. Music is in charge of Jean Marks. i The public is cordially Invited to fatewjkfr- Maxwell during theoe Operated as a mission of the FlrsV Baptist Church, the Branch Sun day School now has s membership of 113 and is showing rapid growth and prograta. FIVE CENTS PER COPY Jaycees Elect New OfDirectors V • i • ■ IgP Members of the Dunn Junior Chamber of Commerce last night elected, Roy Lowe as their presi dent f<k the coining .year. MrAowe, one el Dunn’s most tapuMH young business men. waa artF tißHe an outstanding record. He received honorable mention In last year* contest for Dunn’s “Man Dr. Eld ridge May Seek Mayor's Post There were no new filers at 2 p. m. this afternoon In Dunn’s city election, but there were Indications that there’ll be plenty of candidates filing before the books close Sat urday at noon. Despite the absence of filers, there was plenty of activity. One important political conference was held here last night by a group j seeking to oust the incumbents and another meeting was scheduled for today. A spokesman for the group told reporters that they would have an announcement lata In the week “and poaribly a slate of candi dates.” No reporters were present '*t the meeting. There are reports that this group —composed of some of the cttyY leading business men will put out a complete ticket of top bus iness men here. None of them have been identified in politics before. This, In effect, would give the town a complete chanee since a Hoey Invited To Deliver Address V. S. Senator Clyde R. Hoey has been Invited to speak at the dedication of the new Carter Gymnasium at Campbell College oß poe3dent Leslie H. Campbell telephoned Senator Haey at his today to extend Senator Hoey advised Mr. Campbell that he would be de lighted to deliver the address,- provided affairs to Washington with hb office today mMif'n pected to advtaa Mr. Campbell this afternoon or tinimnn whether er not he can make the addrota. > ‘ • yjV| RALBIOH m°ff- 9 't'v-- Uunberton. Marion: at 3MQ tor good and choice MS -340 lb. barrow* and gilta. Mount Olive, Oolds hMber at 30.00. Kinston: Steady at 10.73. ' FOULTHhY 1 , 1 * 7 . • .’VW- ’ ■ rtfoaMj v-y ■ - - Q-<~ - I* THE RECORD |H GETS RESULTS Os ThagYbar.'' Mr.-ffilggs automatically becomes Chairman ,of the board of direc , HubWt Stay was elected first vice - president; Vannoy was elee ■^4® er V4< vice president and treas- Lgak was fleeted Directors elected tar IT one-year (Continued on Pare Tool mayor and two new commissioners could outvote the two commis sioners whose terms have not ex pired oh any issue. “We’re going to cut out some of (Continued on page two) Hgj|v-. ':A s \ljgg , \ ," I, - f —ntTrsl Reds Agree On Three Points In Prisoner Swap PANMUNJOM, Korea (ff)-* The Communists agreed to-' day to voluntary repatria tion of all ailing war prison ers. It was the greatest Com munist concession of the two-year-old truce talks and could lead to an early end of the Korea war. The Communists agreed to th# voluntary return of even prisoners suffering minor disabilities. This went beyond the Geneva Conven tion covering prisoner return *— th# United Nations goal In the long truce talks. If the Reds are willing to apply, the same principle of voluntary re patriation to all prisoners of war, the way will be cleared to resume.' full-dress armistice talks leadlpg to ' a possible end of the three-year-old war. The United Nations truce team announced the Red agreement aft- ' er morning and afternoon meet ings with the Communists in this i truce village. It was the second day of renewed talks. MEET TONIGHT Another meeting will be held at 9 p. m. es.t., Tuesday. ,' Rear Admiral John C. Daniel,' 1 ’ chief U. N. negotiator, said the Al (Continued On Page Six) Billy McAriah Wins Title In Easter ParatSs 'William A. (BWy)-McArtan of\ Dunn and Washington, D. C, He earned the title Sunday the capitol. Mr. McArtan was one of sev era! winners in various categorise k participating, in radio and tele- I vision programs on Sunday allelfiS noon and Monday night. He received as an award a taft)9 gift certificate from one of the nation’s foremost phov 1 tographers. Mr. McArtan is the son of and Mrs. J. W. McArtan of Dtata 1 and holds a position in (ha enter traffic department of the Atlantic Coast Lin# Railroad In Washington. , -T
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