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GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS -<- Harry Fisher and James Bunting, two employes of Benjamin
and Johnes, sent here from Newark, N. J. are shown set tint up the machinery for the new plant which
IS scheduled to begin operating here on May Ist The machinery shown is in the store building vacated
by Thomas and Warren’s furniture store. In addition to the 96 machines in this section, an additional
32 machines will be installed in the adjoining store. The last of the machines should arrive here by
April XI. (Daily Record photo by Louis Dearborn).
New Industry To Be Ready
For Operation By May Ist
Ben j amine and Johnes
Dunn’s new industry, will-be
ready to go into operation
about May Ist, It was report
ed at a special breakfast
meeting held in
Restaurant this morning, by
Chamber of Commerce Man
ager Norman Suttles.
Workmen from the main plant
at Newark, N. J., were busy setting
up machine* this morning and the
Anal load of machinery is due to
atriye here on 27, Suttles said.
tfco-malpmacsn contains six rows.
wifFurfnachlnes on each row^anp
be used for packing, offices fed
stock rooms.
On the first day of operation.
Suttles said, the plant will hire
abodt 15 women. After these are
tralhad, which will take a few days,
more will be employed, a few at a
time. Those trained will in turn
train the new arrivals, so that by
this method, a minimum of super
vision wtn.be needed.
When the plant goes into full op
eration,, it will employ between 126
and 160 womeh, with a weekly pay
roll of about $6,000. Suttles pointed
out that this will have a direct
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Bridge Wreck Kills
Four / Injures Six
OLD HUNDRED, N. C. (If) Four
persons were killed and sl\ in
jured .today in a Utree-car high
way amashup on an overhead rail
road bridge near this Scotland
Govntg town. ..
■Killed Avere two high school stu
defiti-Jejaroute, from WhitevUle to.
t fOT a Beta club convwt
fiort. mother of one of the stiW
Legislature Still
Has Plenty To Do
RALEIGH <0! A proposed
constitutional amendment to ..pay
state legislators a flat SI4BO par
session instead of by the day fell
two votes short of approval on fin
al reading hi the Senate today.
The vote was 28 to 8 for pas
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v a am A
Bat lit fi| t»ritrA
dents and William Atkinson of Ker
nersville, N. C., occupant of an
other car.
The highway patrol identified
the dead as:
Jack Greer, Jr., 17, of Whiteville:'
Mrs. Jack Greer, Whiteviltt; Jo
s Ann Mansard, 17, of Whiteville
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sage of the bill, but 30 votes are
required for Senate approval of a
constitutional amendment. If paw
it would have been submitted to
the voters.
The House Education Committee
meanwhile deferred a vote until
Tuesday on a bill affecting school
consolidation policies of the State
Board Qf Education, designed to
carry out the governor's request to
consider the “human element” in
consolidation of small schools.
Sponsors of the measure told the
committee some rewriting is ne
cessary. They planned to confer
with the attorney general’s office
about a list of 17 questions sub
mitted by the Board of Education.
COLLEGE BILL
The same committee approved a
bill to authorize county or city ad
ministrative units to Jointly estab
lish community colleges which
would offer vocational and semi
professional courses up to two
years. *
~ The community colleges bill was
termed “useful" by State Supt. of
Public Instruction Charles R. Car
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Dunn Lions To
Sponsor Troop
After seeing a program presented
by a groljp of Girl Scouts under
the direction of their leader, Mrs.
Nathan Canady at their meeting
last night, the members of the
punn Lions Club voted to act as
sponsoring organization for the
trcop, Troop 24.
The girls, in short talks based
oa various phases of their activities,
gave the members a thorough brief
ing on not only their troop work,
but on what scouting means to
each member. '
’.'Tbe program opened with the re
andU^sethbyr^rtSrSiam?oN
lowed by the Girl Scouts Laws and
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DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10, 1953
Hall is Elected GOP Chairman
Communists Ask
Resumption Os
Full Peace Talks
PANMUNJOM, Korea (IPV—
The Communists today for
mally proposed resumption
of full-dress Korean armis
tice talks and (submitted
modified suggestions on re
patriation of unwifimg Red
prisoners —■ the is&e which
deadlocked the truce talks
seven months ago.
The Reds made their; formal of
fer—previously made by Red Chi
nese Premier Chou: Eh-lai in a
propaganda broadcast—ln a letter
today to U. N. chief negotiator Lt.
Gen. William H. Harrison.
The letter was broadcast by Peip
ing radio shortly after both sides
had agreed at today’s meeting on
sick and wounded prisoners to a
10-point plan for the return of the
ailing captives.
The formal signing of the ex
change of ailing prisoners agree
ment now is expected at a- meeting
Saturday at 11 a.m. (9 p. m. EST
Friday) at Panmunjom.
The Red letter handed to the
Allies at today’s meeting in this
“truce village” was signed by North
Korean Gen. Nam 11, chief Com
munist truce negotiator. The Allies
said the “very important” note was
forwarded by teletype to Gen. Mark
Clark’s Tokyo headquarters.
TO NEUTRAL NATION
Peping radio said the letter again
put forth the Reds’ suggestion that
prisoners who refuse to return to
their' homelands would be turned ,
over to a neutral nation.
Nam’s letter said these prisoners
would be given explanations that .
would erase their “apprehensions."
The United Nations has offered
to repatriate 81,500 Communist pri
soner* Who want to go homk The
otMr 46,600 said they woulaStorc-
ULSf*-
Trtis offer was first/ made sev
eral weeks ago by Chou On April
6, General Clark, U. N. Far East 1
commander, asked for . a “detaileld
statement of suggestions” from the 1
Reds.
Nam’s letter did Trot give this, i
It merely repeated the offer and
said the place for detailed discuss- i
ions was at the conference table
Itself. It did not propose, as Chou
had, that the talks be resumed
immediately.
The letter again insisted there
was no such thing as a prisoner
who does not want to return home. i
But it admitted ' that some pri
soners might be “apprehensive” be
cause of Allied, “oppression” and
"lntimidation.7
But in a neutral country, the
Reds believed, these prisoners might
be more amenable to returning to .
(Continued on Pare 8)
Vets Fighting
Economy Moves
WASHINGTON (07 ’ The big
vetefarts organisations were hit
ting the ceiling today at congress
ional proposals to do some econo- 1
mizing on the mutl—milUon-dollar '
veterans benefit program.
They were girding specially for
a fight against moves by Reps.
John Phillips (R-Cal.) and OUn E.
Teague (D-Tex.) to put stricter
limits on free hospital care for vet
erans whose ailments are not due
to military service.
Phillips, chairman of an appro
priations subcommittee handling
funds for the'Veterans Admlnistra- ■
tion, has charged that hundreds of i
such veterans who could pay for
private medical care are’getting it
free, instead, at VA hospitals.
House members, more seriously
than at any time since World War
n, are looking this year for ways
to' save on veterans outlays, both
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HIIAI
SEOUL, Korea (IP Chii
hell with Eisenhower” today
dislodge American Marines Ire
munjom truce site. The Comm
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pooies inrougn iiie ~
totoOhio early today.
YrASHINGTON (IB Rn
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NEW VEW OFFICERS Pictured here are the new officers of Ine William McLeod Post of Veterans
of Foreign Wars who took office here last night. Left to right are, rested; William Signor, quartermaster;
Commander Harry Thompson; Belvin Strickland, junior vice commander; standing George Franklin
Blalock, post advocate, who had charge of the installation rites; William Lanoe Blake, chapjlain; Donald
B Melcber, adjutant and athletic director; A. L. Poarch, trustee; and BUly Wade, senior vice com
mander. (Daily Record Photo).
Stop Hog Sales
In Drastic Move
RALEIGH (U 1— AU public sales
of hogs and pigs in North Caro
lina were halted today as state
agriculture ofiteials took drastic
steps to stamp out spread of
the hog disease vesicular exanth
ema.
Invoking Kls emergency powers;
livestock sanitary laws,
kales
shin down uhtll Monday. Only
healthy swine now on hand may
be moved by the livestock mar
kets.
The disease, one cause of which
i 3 believed to be the feeding of
raw garbage, is threatening the
state’s $66,000,000 swine industry.
The second suspected outbreak in
a week was discovered near Char
lotte yesterday.
Ballentine decided to resort to
the stringent measures after a
three-hour conference late yester
day with veterinarian H. J.
Rollins, representatives of the swine
industry, and State College live
stock specialists.
In addition to the quarantine
and shut-down of sales, hog buyers
were directed tp. begin a system of
checking on the sources and health
Rrf all swine handled by them when
markets reopen next week.
Operators of livestock markets,
bog buying slaughter
houses, packing plants and other
dealers will be required to obtain
from each person offering hogs for
sale a sworn statement that he has
owned the animals for at least 30
days, that they have not been fed
raw garbage and that they are
free from vesicular exanthema. He
must also furnish his address, li
cense number and vehicle descript
loa
Drunk Drivers
Get SIOO Fines
Drunkenness topped the list cf
cases on the docket at yesterday’s
session of Dunn Recorder’s Court.
There were It cases of public
drunkenness; and six drunken driv
ers were tried before Judge H.
Paul Strickland. Solicitor J. Shep
ard Bryan prosecuted.
Jackie M. Bass, Carleton Ray
Moon, W. K. LittreU, James Paul
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Wtws
inese-loudspeakers blared “to
*s the Communists tiVd to
am Carson Hill near the Pan
nunists lobbed artillery shells
resandjblew bugles and whis
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Thompson Elected
CommanderßyVFW
Harry L. Thompson, the new post
: commander, and other new officers
of the William McLeod Poet of
Veteran* of Foreign Wars were in
stalled in an lmpresshfe ceremony
held: last night at the club rooms
, on west Broad Street;
Odette Franklin Blalock, a for
i Commander Thompson accepted
his assignment with « pledge to,
carry forward the aims and pur
poses of the organization with a
conviction that progress originates
i on the post level. ;H* has Just
completed his third terra as Adjut
* ana Quartermaster with an out
standing record,
i OTHER OFFICERS
Other officers, installed were:
William F. Wade, senior vice com
» mander; Belvin L. Strickland, jun
, ior vice commander, William Signor,
- Quartermaster; Donald B. Melcher,
Adjutant and Athletic director;
George F. Blalock, poet advocate;
Big Welcome Awaits
Rev. Ira Langston
’ Dunn citizens today were plan
ning a big welcome for a home
town boy who has reached the top
in the ministry.
i The Rev. Ira Langston, pastor
of the famous Park Avenue Christ
ian Church in New York City, will
fly back to his hometown Sunday
afternoon and on Sunday night will
begin a one-week revival in Hood
Memorial Christian Church the
church in which he was ordained
back in 1932.
It will be a homecoming for the
noted young minister and a special
welcome service for him will be
held immediately after the services
on Sunday night •
Dr. George Cuthrell, pastor of
the church, said today that every
thing Is in readiness for the evan
gelist campaign.
“We are all happy*and thrilled
that Ira has agreed to come back
to his home church for a revival,’’
declared Dr. Cuthrell today. The
church has been inviting' him lor
several years, but the Rev. Mr.
Langston Is in great demand end
couldn’t fit it into his schedule.
The service Sunday night will be
held at 7:30 o’clock, but services
through the rest of the week will
be held at 7:« o’clock.
Langston’s father, the Rev. J. W.
Langston, was pastor of the Dunn
church when he was ordained bore.
♦MARKETS*
- HR Central North
Carolina live poultry :
Dr. Oscar R. Pearce Jr., surgeon;
and William Lance Blake, chap
lain. Post trustees are A. L. Potrch,
Roy (JkJJrown and James McDonald
LangdJh.
Ootnmander Thompson is a
World War n veteran with threes;,
years overseas service in the China-
Hiu'jfih-India ’Theatre. He was a,
the 813 th Field ArtiUei T
at the time Lord LbUls Mo&'rrtbatt
>, ten was In command of this area.
He is a native of Butler, Pa. and
came to Dunn eight years ago after
his marriage to the former Miss
, Emma Smith, daughter of Mr. and
l Mrs. Marion Smith of Dunn.
IN ENGLAND
Mrs, Ralph Maxwell has receiv
ed news from her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Bain of Mullins, S. C.,
that, they have landed in South
hampton, England, where a tour
of the continent will begin. In June
they are expected to return to
England for the coronation.
The young minister is now presi
dent of the East Midtown Min
isters’ Association. in Nep York
and one of the founders and past
president of the Committee for a
Foundation for Cereral Palsy, and
is now honorary president of the
Cerebral Palsy Society of New Yorx.
ON RADIO AND TV
In great demand for personal ap
pearances, the Rev. Mr. Langston
also preaches regularly over the
radio and television network under
the auspices of the National Coun
cil of Churchra.
He is a member of the Board of
Trustees of Ward College, Argen
tina; editor of "The Forward,” a
church publication; and Is a
frequent contributor to Brotherhood
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Five - Countv Tfefl
Ring Is Rounded U ;
deputies In a rtwndup^whlch^re-
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THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
GOP Jim Farley If
Has Backing Os
Party Leaders §9
WASHINGTON <W For-
mer Rep. Leonard W. Hall M
of New York today was elec- I
ted Republican National |
chairman and promised R-J|
hard-hitting, winning 1954 §
congressional election cam- 1
paign.
Hall was named unanimously
the Republican national committee^
He had the solid backing of Pfesl- 41
dent Eisenhower and Republican
congressional leaders.
His was the only name offered
and election of the 52-year-old ex- ‘ '
congressman from Oyster Bay, N.
Y , was a mere formality. '
His name was offered by com
mitteeman J. Russell Sprague oil
New York with an explanation that "
Mr. Eisenhower left the choice
“completely and wholly in the pro
vince of this committee" and was
sure it would show "good judg- -3
ment.”
The “old pro” of Republican i
politics indicated he would give up |
his $28,000-a-year judgeship in *
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LEONARD W. HALL
New York Surrogate Court to
vote full time to whipping
GOP organization into shape f#?||
next year’s congressional election m
campaign.
A scrappy politician who VMhH
the respect of his colleagues dogjls
ing his six years as head of tbo 4
GOP Congressional
Committee, Hall was the'
lar choice of House RepubitcawSH
who started booming hi*
dacy as soon as C. Wesley
of Kansas announced on MandLfif JI
that he was resigning as nq^a|M>|; : J
chairman. * f
Roberts quit after a Kansas
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Saturday Deadline
In Dunn Election 1
Saturday Is the last day fas’
filing and registering in DWM*ja|.|
city election. f
Candidates for office nw4 4WW
before 12 noon at the office of thn »
city clerk. * 'v|9H
Citizens may register tn.. vsß|,S|
anytime up to 6 p. m. tomorro#
night in the fire station. Re*s|g*|
trsr Ammie Hudson will have Dm
books there all day. a
There were no new fliers
but there were indie stiMtn ihti ,
there will be some
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